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Ehh this is a touchy claim. McKinley's invasion of the Phillipines skirts the line of invasion (although it was politically executed first and militarily later). Forcible removal of the Cherokees from "Cherokee Nation" in Georgia doesn't exactly fit the bill but it also is an example of unprovoked aggression. The invasion of Panama in 89 by Bush Sr. comes close also, but the evidence is a little sketchy on this issue. Like father, like son, eh? "Defending and promoting democracy..." All that idealism was used to justify this one too. Thankfully we are free of many examples of blatant invasion, and certainly Iraq and Afghanistan stand out as two direct, preemptive invasions, but I don't think they are entirely unprecedented.

Hmm that's clearly a fake image. Even if the L should be that much larger than the rest of the text, it's not in Apple's font, nor is the text ingrained into the menu like the "Mac OS X" text. The other thing is, the text isn't centered like it would be if the L were part of the real image. As it is, the L is too far to the right, and there is less of a margin on the right than there is on the left. You should have cut the Mac OS X text, shifted it left, and then added the L. Looks convincing to the casual viewer though :)

I think this is the solution: Open up iTunes, go to Edit -> Preferences. Then click the Podcasts tab (should be the second one over). Then, go to the "Keep" drop-down menu, and change your settings to "All episodes". I think you're probably on Keep all unplayed episodes right now, which is why you're computer is removing podcasts you've watched. I've posted a couple of pictures to walk you through this: Hope that helps :) EDIT: So basically, once you do this, go to the Podcasts page in iTunes and make sure you still have all the Podcasts you want, and then sync your iPod again, and you should be fine.

Hmm. Thanks. I'll research that. ShapeShifter is what you'll ultimately need to implement the Mac skins, however I think that's an entirely separate issue. These files download as .zips, so I think the other possibility (if it's not an OS conflict) is that you haven't downloaded an unzipping software. These days, in OS X, you're able to just double click files and they'll automatically unzip with some hidden Mac software, however, again, since you have an eMac and it's an earlier build of OS X (unless you've upgraded, in which case my whole theory is out the window), you probably need to download the unzipping software. StuffIt Expander and MacZip are the two that the majority of Mac users I know are comfortable with (not having a Mac myself). I hope that helps you a little bit. We'll know when you post your OS version I suppose.

Have you tried using a different browser? Download and try Firefox - it's better anyway :P. I think, however, your issue is your OS. Most of these skins only work with OS X 10.4+. eMacs haven't been released for a couple of years now, and I figure you have an earlier build of OS X. Can you just double check and tell me which version of OS X you have?

Ah, man that's the thing - check my sig. I played when all of these items were dropped originally. I don't play a lot, and I frequently take breaks of 8 months or more lol so I'm still a noob by most standards, but to put to rest your doubts I have some pictures: Very, very old sig. Notice on top of my head I'm asking, "Do you even have that much?", and the dialog box confirms that I was the one who said this. You'll see that I'm also wearing a blue halloween mask. That's me in the left-middle with the red party hat. Although I don't say anything in this one so it's not quite as compelling, admittedly. I don't say anything in this one, but you'll notice that I'm in the background with the same armor and yellow hat as the sig. This is my last stats before I quit RS1 (for the umpteenth time). You'll notice I'm wearing a Santa Hat. And finally... Just another shot of me with the Santa Hat. And the once-famous Ladykilljoy. As far as the Santa gifts, I remember giving out two to ph34r (who's banned now so what good does that do), and another to Rudewoman (who doesn't play much), but you can try asking them nonetheless. It's not that I'm particularly wealthy, I've just been playing forever, so I saw all of these things come and go.

Man you think it's bad now... Back in '01, there were these three guys who used to be at the mine southwest of Varrock every day spewing racist ideology. Chat filters sucked then - there were ways to say what you wanted to say no matter what. Female characters were haggled more because everyone secretly suspected that they were guys planning to steal some money and items from everyone (as indeed happened to many wealthy players). If only RS had prenup, eh? :lol: But wow this is something else... I didn't think people would actively discriminate on the basis of race/gender in a role-playing game... Maybe in those two cases the shaftees were dressed like lower level players? :? That's bizarre, really. :shock:

No tutorial island when I started lol. "Check the second trade window carefully, and try to avoid lag during trades. Don't sell all the Christmas Crackers you picked up for 17 gp #-o. Keep the yellow party hat, and the two red ones, and the green one, and the white one. Keep the Halloween Masks. Even the ugly green one. Don't hand out Santa Hats as gifts - you will sincerely, sincerely regret it." "Don't log in using your friends' computers - they're all using keyloggers to steal your goods." "Quit as fast as possible." :(

I got one from a random event but I gave it to someone because I thought it wasn't worth anything (based on Sunli's reply regarding a similar thread). Then, someone near me said wow you just gave her a spinach roll that was like 2 million, and everyone around wholeheartedly agrees. I am very confused :? (*Note: I haven't played in about 2 years so yeah I'm a little out of the loop on... oh... just about everything?) Thanks EDIT: I've also heard you can get it from the Taverly Dragonstone Chest, and if so, how often do you get that?

Basically, I've been doing a little bit of playing again after almost 2 years, and, needless to say, the sticker-shock is yet to wear off. How did this absurd inflation happen? :shock: (I have some theories of my own, dealing mostly with rare drops that Jagex introduced into the members world and the tremendous increase in RuneScape's population via advertising on Miniclip, and I have always wondered that RuneScape didn't have runaway inflation since shops and monsters are constantly minting new money... until now :-# .... but if someone who has been playing through this period and has witnessed the devaluing of the gold piece would care to offer a more in-depth explanation, I would be greatly obliged.)

Hey guys, sorry I've been gone so long -- I just read Armaneth's PM, apparently I'm Missing-In-Action? I have a story plot which fits that theme, but I'm not sure I should post it, since I'm also NOT sure as to whether or not I'm still part of this... If I'm not no problem, I accept the consequence to my inactivity, but if I am, let me know, I have an interesting plot shift to add :). EDIT: Finished reading *whew.. took awhile*, and also found that I hadn't exactly been kicked out.. So.. I'll post anyway, I'll delete if I'm out though. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Alduineth! Save yourself, GO!" "Father, I'll handle them, you go!" "Alduineth! GO NOW! You must!" Thunder cracked the sky in two, and Alduineth bolted awake. He shivered, the dreams were recurring more often, a horrible nightmare reminding him of his failure. Quietly, and with pain from his cracked ribs, he rose, walking across the cave floor to find Wynsor, huddled in a corner, weeping silently. There was nothing he could do to comfort him, but as he thought of it, Alduineth was overcome with a deep hate for the Black Knights that had done it -- killed his father, mercilessly, hacking him to bits after he had died valiantly, giving Alduineth and Wynsor a chance to escape. Alduineth stared out at the night, wondering. He thought he had long overcome the sorrow of his father's death; it had been nearly three months ago, but his mind always went back to that fateful night. He shifted his thoughts quickly away from the painful memories, and wondered of the Legion, and the men and women he had met so briefly in Draynor Village. They were the ones, he knew, they were the ones to form once more the legendary Legion of Guthix. I must find them again thought Alduineth. He knew the task would be immense, to locate the chosen few, but he would do it -- he had to. For his father. That morning he and Wynsor set out, the first step on a long journey to ending the evils which plagued Geilenor. ----------------------------------------------- No time lol, didn't get to the plot twist, but I'll leave it at that.[/i]

Hmm... It seems a little against your style -- you normally seem to emphasize the foreground more than the background, but this sig is oriented neither way, which gives it a bland feel. The border could do with some brightening (lighter silver, maybe nearly white even, some metal texture effects wouldn't hurt either), and the left side of the sig definitely needs a foreground design. Then it would just shout "I'm Stk's work!" Sorry.. Don't mean to be harsh, just giving some suggestions..

GAH! All right all right! I'll fix it up later tonight or tomorrow.. *Grumbles indistinctly* EDIT: Lol I hope it blends well. Spent an hour and a half just on getting the table into the flow, and then re-layering the whole image so that the character with the santa hat would appear to be behind the table.. The contest was the Rank Contest. Check the General Board. It's over now, otherwise I could have submitted :(

I know the guards are off, I got lazy and didn't want to fix the angle :P Lol anyway, contest ended before I had a chance to finish this up :(. I'm not sure drug trafficking is appropriate on TIF, so I probably shouldn't have gone with that idea, *but* lol, there it is. Comments? I KNOW THE GUARDS ARE OFF! Besides that :P

There once was a girl from Antarctica who loved to explore the discount store in the penguin's backyard for some new socks and shoes but she had no money on her so she decided it would make sense to rob the bank. After thinking about it she decided to get some mischief powder to instead make the people eat food and not to watch the bank. The Haunted bank was built by a old man who glanced very quickly at the wris[bleep]ch he wore on his head... The bank was going to be styled, architecturally, like the Leaning Tower which fell onto a river of hot, boiling fudge. Well, she decided to cross the boiling river, she noticed something. It was a strange man standing in the boiling with a knife to smear some jelly on andrew grower. For some reason he liked it. He then ate my cousin, and I had to beat up Andrew. Then killed paul. However, my pants caught fire and boom went the toilet I then saw cheese flying through my bedroom window with someone riding a pink tricycle with training wheels and a large object floating in his pocket. Then a crusty wrench was dropped from the Twin Towers, which don't exist any more. Then a hot grabbed the wrench and she said "I will eat this like bacon". So she ate some cheese instead. Much to the dislike of her one-armed father who ate children. Thus her father hopped in his batmobile and drove into a wall of demon pigs that had green, rotten, smelly breathes. But suddenly from the top of the father's head, a three word, three d monkey said, "I will poke my s with a chopstick". The monkey jumped out onto the skateboard of his hairy toe. Suddenly, the chainsaw in the devious pub, started magically and began with its tremendous roar to scare the villagers. The antarctic went to the pub to save the moldy cheese that was kept in a lockbox. Then she realized she was bisexual and she yelled: "I want clinton!". She gasped as the toxic fumes tried to choke the smelly monkey, herself and her pet decided to die right there. The said "Oh, yes, I would like some new friends because I always thought that cooking is really really dumb". And after a run in with her nonexistent brother, she did some plastic surgery on her little, inflatable, round, and large unibrow that was growing very rapidly at around 0.0005miles/hour. But the surgery ended up being too expensive, so she died. Then the surgeon felt guilty, so he decided to stab her lifeless body. But he ended up making a bigpile of poopy which he later flung at neighbors general area while walking alight. However, once she saw this akward looking little boy who had a broken head and so she decided to go to the hospital to get a smelly blender! Being poopy, the infamous hotdog ronald ate her burger and then puked on her. Meanwhile in antarctica, the icecream man was flying in his Porsche to his ulgy momma whom everybody thought was really hot! When he arrived, 80 chinese kids were eating some really stinky crap made from snot that a dog had stolen from an old lady who looked like an old shoe. Suddenly, a massive quagmire appeared in Los Angeles, California and Texas. The quagmire was large and very stinky like frog guts and re-fried beans. While this happened, Bobby ate some good pie and drank some camelblood. Until suddenly, he was ambushed by an army of evil monkeys that threw poo on the ground, then ate it. Meanwhile, Superman flew off to rescue some fat jellyfish that Catwoman had stolen from the volcano of turd which was created by the big monkey-donkey-horse. The fat jellyfish found Antarctican-girl and they fell through the cold window of her midget friends potato and together they saved the world from the evil green foot fungus who was very small with spots on his eyes. An orange cheese covererd with fungus is very smelly and very dirty! The orange cheese came straight from hot fiery heck. "Oh my lord!", yelped the little remote control when she poked it with a random stick of wisdom. Out of nowhere, a rabbit appeared, with ninja turtles, and spiderman alone who bit george. Then -spiderman killed himself-, a desparate depressed guy wanted to become a real boy so he could eat strawberry pie, because apple pie was colored like cake in jelly. On another note, the president of communist Duck World was a republican who had a wife that ate 80 chinese kids, who had MSG. This is because his mum got brain cancer from drinking the evil smelly fart potion while listening to Zezima's loser life-story. This caused a N00B-fest straight from Varrock world one after Delrith came, eating genetically modified frogs with smelly butts which stank like a cabbage mixed with tomato and smelly armpits with no friends. Nobody expected to dance in this vile rat infested son of a mother and father with Jerry Lewis. But when everyone jumped on the cart of the furious horse tamer who thought that he was cool, he turned and said to the little girl. "Why must you torment me, because I hate my self and you? Thats ok I like being a transgendered she said. Then she bit me. Then i pushed her into a smelly butt of a fat ogre

I'm pretty sure these are Paintshop Pro sigs. :)

There once was a girl from Antarctica who loved to explore the discount store in the penguin's backyard for some new socks and shoes but she had no money on her so she decided it would make sense to rob the bank. After thinking about it she decided to get some mischief powder to instead make the people eat food and not to watch the bank. The Haunted bank was built by a old man who glanced very quickly at the wris[bleep]ch he wore on his head... The bank was going to be styled, architecturally, like the Leaning Tower which fell onto a river of hot, boiling fudge. Well, she decided to cross the boiling river, she noticed something. It was a strange man standing in the boiling with a knife to smear some jelly on andrew grower. For some reason he liked it. He then ate my cousin, and I had to beat up Andrew. Then killed paul. However, my pants caught fire and boom went the toilet I then saw cheese flying through my bedroom window with someone riding a pink tricycle with training wheels and a large object floating in his pocket. Then a crusty wrench was dropped from the Twin Towers, which don't exist any more. Then a hot grabbed the wrench and she said "I will eat this like bacon". So she ate some cheese instead. Much to the dislike of her one-armed father who ate children. Thus her father hopped in his batmobile and drove into a wall of demon pigs that had green, rotten, smelly breathes. But suddenly from the top of the father's head, a three word, three d monkey said, "I will poke my s with a chopstick". The monkey jumped out onto the skateboard of his hairy toe. Suddenly, the chainsaw in the devious pub, started magically and began with its tremendous roar to scare the villagers. The antarctic went to the pub to save the moldy cheese that was kept in a lockbox. Then she realized she was bisexual and she yelled: "I want clinton!". She gasped as the toxic fumes tried to choke the smelly monkey, herself and her pet decided to die right there. The said "Oh, yes, I would like some new friends because I always thought that cooking is really really dumb". And after a run in with her nonexistent brother, she did some plastic surgery on her little, inflatable, round, and large unibrow that was growing very rapidly at around 0.0005miles/hour. But the surgery ended up being too expensive, so she died. Then the surgeon felt guilty, so he decided to stab her lifeless body. But he ended up making a bigpile of poopy which he later flung at neighbors general area while walking alight. However, once she saw this akward looking little boy who had a broken head and so she decided to go to the hospital to get a smelly blender! Being poopy, the infamous hotdog ronald ate her burger and then puked on her. Meanwhile in antarctica, the icecream man was flying in his Porsche to his ulgy momma whom everybody thought was really hot! When he arrived, 80 chinese kids were eating some really stinky crap made from snot that a dog had stolen from an old lady who looked like an old shoe. Suddenly, a massive quagmire appeared in Los Angeles, California and Texas. The quagmire was large and very stinky like frog guts and re-fried beans. While this happened, Bobby ate some good pie and drank some camelblood. Until suddenly, he was ambushed by an army of evil monkeys that threw poo on the ground, then ate it. Meanwhile, Superman flew off to rescue some fat jellyfish that Catwoman had stolen from the volcano of turd which was created by the big monkey-donkey-horse. The fat jellyfish found Antarctican-girl and they fell through the cold window of her midget friends potato and together they saved the world from the evil green foot fungus who was very small with spots on his eyes. An orange cheese covererd with fungus is very smelly and very dirty! The orange cheese came straight from hot fiery heck. "Oh my lord!", yelped the little remote control when she poked it with a random stick of wisdom. Out of nowhere, a rabbit appeared, with ninja turtles, and spiderman alone who bit george. Then -spiderman killed himself-, a desparate depressed guy wanted to become a real boy so he could eat strawberry pie, because apple pie was colored like cake in jelly. On another note, the president of communist Duck World was a republican who had a wife that ate 80 chinese kids, who had MSG. This is because his mum got brain cancer from drinking the evil smelly fart potion while listening to Zezima's loser life-story. This caused a N00B-fest straight from Varrock world one after Delrith came, eating genetically modified frogs with smelly butts which stank like a cabbage mixed with tomato and smelly armpits with no friends. Nobody expected to dance in this vile rat infested son of a mother and father with Jerry Lewis. But when everyone jumped on the cart of the furious horse tamer who thought that he was cool, he turned and said to the little girl. "Why must you torment me, because I hate my self and you? Thats ok I like being a transgendered Hmm.. not sure if that's appropriate :P

Indeed there is. A little smoother transition would be cool, but it's pixel art, so it 0wn5. :P Nice job. :)

Nope there isn't. Just like all digital art you can do it any way you wish to. If you browse the Media Board you'll see that there's even a program to make pixel art with now :o. You could make it in Photoshop, you could make it in Paint, you could make it in a lot of programs actually.. Paint is the most basic, yet it seems to be the most flexible. A lot of people draw most of it in Paint and touch it up with other programs. It's up to you :) No one's telling me whether or not you can make more than one house for this :(

You got it down. That's more of the style of sig I was looking for (not that I'm buying lol). The only thing now is that you've got a Word Art text for your name. Lol :P A little contrast in the colors wouldn't hurt though.. A touch of hue perhaps? Or if you know how to (well, you're like the photoshop master), try burning a little, just randomly, in the sig, it'll add a few cool effects, though you wouldn't want to cover up the pixie dust.. Hrrmm.. Just tinker with it until it looks great :) The Word Art name has to go though :P (jk jk)

Lol that's awesome. FF8 is sweet :) Nice job on the menu, but you used cheats didn't you :P (9999 hp lol.. Bah too much Final Fantasy for me..) How much WOULD you sell it for though :?:

Lol. Nice job :) The humor behind it is enough to make the sig uber. :P 9.7/10

Lol well I've got a suggestion (it truly is very nice, though): The middle of the sig, it looks a bit too much like the standard cloud effects in Photoshop, add a little spice to that, or brighten it more, and it should be fine. I'm working on a sig right now, so I don't need it.. Except the background is taking 14 hours to render :shock:

Looks a lot like that one sig you have where the marbles (?) are rolling around a ball on a certain path continuously.. I like it though. Your new Swiffer sig owns all though, because Swiffer owns all. :P

No, he'd start shouting heresy that you said the Lord's name in vain. I've met a few of those. When I was way younger, there was a very nice woman who babysat me, but her husband was racist (he muttered things which will be censored on this board), he though anyone who was not Christian was a pagan, and he hated my guts because my parents helped put food on the table for his family. Anyhow, I once said "Oh my gosh!" and guess what? He grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and started fuming, and said, "We don't say anything even close to the Lord's name in this house. Do you understand?!" I still remember his red face. He was quite a "donkey" to my parents as well. If not for his wife my parents wouldn't have sent me there at all.. But this isn't about people babysitting me.. There are a lot of people who believe something so strongly they are willing to do a lot of "crazy" things for it. That's what always troubles me about terrorists. Do they really believe the United States is the cause of all problems in the world? Bin Laden isn't dumb. Before he was exiled, he went to a top-notch college in Saudi Arabia, studied a lot of things, mainly engineering. He should know that without the United States a lot of the global economy wouldn't exist.. A lot of countries wouldn't get money from exports. Especially China. And if a country with a military that size is angry about not getting exports, and happenstance it is because of the terrorists, the Middle East would become a very unpleasant place. (Assuming the United States was destroyed, let's all hope that doesn't happen..) But now I'm off topic, while answering an off topic thought.. Lol.