archimage_a

You want the lazy? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE LAZY!!! [hide] [/hide]

Errr...Not that I, in any way, consider the education system in America to be sub par... But: Great Britain has existed for thousands, if not millions of years... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Great_Britain The United States of America, in its current form, by comparison, has existed for a scant 52 years, 12 days, 59 minutes, 37 seconds (Date Hawaii was accepted into the Union, thus marking the 'New' United States) So, ummm... yeah. As for your claim of multi-culturalism...Pretty sure people actually have to be considered citizens of a country before you can take credit for their achievements.

Person A(Me) posts something. Person B(Retech) posts something belittling about Person A's thing. Person A(Me) posts something belittling the belittlement. Person B(Retech) doesn't post. Person C(Sephi) posts, implying person B is shamed into not posting.

Lets leave musical critiques to countries that have composers born before 1689. :grin:

Actually, guilty secret, I tend to have a dozen windows open...More often than not 2 paint, three notepads, one gallery, between 3-5 folders...IE8(Sometimes a few tabs), Steam chat, Skype, MSN chat (I talk to people, not just in the tray)...very occassionally Hamachi Chat, a game from time to time...Windows media player, VLC media player (usually simultanously, different track lists for different conversations/activities). Other programs like calculator make apperances for a few hours. Generally its more that I don't close them down more than I actually use them. Unrelated note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UskIUBMyHs Start at 35 seconds. Reminds me a lot of "Welcome to Rapture" or "The Ocean on his Shoulders", both seriously good tunes in their own right, though far too short. Fav bit is about 3:12 to the end...epic use of piano and violin

This. I may have a few open when I am wikisurfing or something...But generally I have no greater than 2 open at any one time...

http://tools.digitalightbulb.com/pbcalc.html You have 25 points to spend Racial bonuses don't count towards the points +1 level(not point) at level 4

My thoughts on that... Probably not. Though if it WAS raining food then there might be. Hard to say before it happens =)

1) A linguistics professor was lecturing to her class one day. "In English," she said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah . . .right." 2) They can hold all the peace talks they want, but there will never be peace in the Middle East. Billions of years from now, when Earth is hurtling toward the Sun and there is nothing left alive on the planet except a few microorganisms, the microorganisms living in the Middle East will be bitter enemies. 3) No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. 4) Funny noises are not funny. On an unrelated, and irrelevant, note: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 China has more English speakers than the United States. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. All Polar Bears are left handed. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness.' People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy. If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around. If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then...To make sure it's still there.

Well, the argument has already been won. It would be pointless to continue the discussion, since his arguments convince no one here. And since he is using his own set of rational none of our arguments will work either.

You mean the one passed by the UN, and the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights? "Adopted by General Assembly resolution 46/119 of 17 December 1991" I can see how you might think that the International Governing Body doesn't decide International Law. I would also point out that Lei is not an international citizen, she is a citizen of a state in America...where non-international law rules. So, in actuality, your law isn't international, since it isn't observed everywhere. Unless you want to claim that international law doesn't need to be observed to be actioned, it only needs to be accepted, in which case "Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care" is international law, since it is ratified by the UN. As such your argument is contradictory.

Mather, I draw your attention to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectioning#Containment_of_danger And "Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care" Not seeking to get involved in the argument...Fact is that it is Lei's choice...But just pointing out that Human Rights are not violated.

Just pointing out my disagreement with Human Rights. Also pointing out that David Cameron might do the only good thing a Tory Government has ever done in rejecting them.

Human Rights. It is your right to be forced to obey these rights. :rolleyes:

It is possible that you start at point 1, where there is only 1 universe, and then 'infinate' univeres spawned from that. Infinate is used as a 'really large' not actually infinate, because there is a finite number of combinations possible. What would be simpler and more efficent is that all the possible universes existed and every infinate of a second we progress from one to another, creating the illusion of time passing....But that is probably several dozen arguments so lets just leave it there.

Well, Ico, other universes can have other laws, that is true...But if you view it as ALL of creation, aka everything...Then it either has to have: 1) Infinate energy to feed the creation of new universes. 2) All the universes have to already exist, and have an allocated amount of energy (which is immense, but those universes never exceed that amount since everything is already predetermined.) We can't premise that universes themselves generate energy (unless we accept the first point that there is infinate energy at the top of the chain, in which case it becomes moot) because it would be like a Computer running itself faster than it could actually run. Like if you had a 2 gallon pool and you put 4 gallons of water in, then the water would overflow. Now, my personal belief is that there is not infinate energy...Largely because I don't believe in infinty...as a mathmatical concept it is valid, but in terms of the practical....meta-verse...it doesn't make any sense, as anything that was infinate would deny the existance of anything else.

Luke von Alaric-1180-1191 [hide] By November Heinrich von Allenbaumberg had been forced to recant, but the Kingdom of Navarra have already retaken El Bierzo as Halsten was forced to march south to reinforce James of Mar's Old army. In central Europe Lorraine and Zeeland announce their independance, while Siracuse simply lapse into independance in March 1181. The loss of Siracuse is taken up by Ravenna as an excuse to break free from the Holy Roman Empire, a term seen less and less on offical documents. In late June Luke's Army had crossed Europe, from Lubeck to Limosine and laid seige to the Castle de Hauteville. In Iberia Halsten had finally broken through the fortifications at Sevillia and forced the King of Leon and Castille to surrender the crown of Leon. A third army, raised from the now Vassel of Porto soon retakes El Bizero and the King of Navarra is forced to yield his crown as well. Slowly the rebellious counts fall into line, Troyes and Lorraine followed by the annexure of Istria. But not all was well, Charles de Cornouaille had died with no heirs, and his Dukedom of Britanny and Apulia had passed to the Count of Meath -Charles de Nevers - who had been in the service of the King of France at the time, though had soon broken free and was not winning the war. Knowing that if France folded his claim would be considered weaker, Luke's army marches to Nantes in December 81. The battle is hard, but Charles de Nevers was defeated and as the new year rolled on it looked as though Britanny would soon fold back into Germany again. But, over the winter the Army of Britanny had its ranks swollen by fresh troops, and the Battle of Rennes was extremely one sided. This defeat, along with a list of other slights is used by Istvan Csak as grounds for independance, which is granted with gritted teeth and a string of conquests to take his mind off of things. This is met with renewed hostilities at Leece, in Southern Italy, though is ignored as an irrelevance. Brunswich and Bavaria, seeing Bohemond de Hauteville, King of England, as a preferable King, start a war with Scotland to further weaken Luke's position. But, sure enough Germany wades into the war in aid of its vassels. While Boldizsar of Evreux leads the push into Britanny, through Rennes, the Duchy of Porto leaves the Empire. A matter largely unimportant in the grand scheme of things. And then, in late November 1182 Acfred finally dies, leaving the French Throne to the Kingdom of Germany. This, of course, happens at the worst possible time and the armies of Brianny are thrown into disarray as chaos reighs. Several celebratory conquests in Nantes later, the Duke of Lancaster and Barcelona joins the Kingdom...matters entirely unrelated of course...and the old traitors in Westfriesland return...But, unfortunately, by late January 83 the garrison at Nantes had not been reinforced and after fighting to a man Luke is forced to flee...finding the disarray to have spread across the entire Kingdom, making new troops a rare commodity. The situation grows worse when the newly appointed Duke of Dauphine, controller of a large portion of the old French Royal Demense, declares independance over not being invited to certain 'members only' parties. Another year of fighting with few troops drags on before negotiations with Genoa are finally agreed on, transfering several provinces from the Imperial Demense to them, for a total of 10 years. Another six months pass and gradually Britanny is worn down, but the battles will probably last another serveral years and so, eager to push light away from the debatcle a Crusade is called and rewards posted to encourage people to take up the challange. In the short term attention was refocused, but with just a few thousand poorly armed and poorly trained peasant soliders against the well trained and well dug in Muslims army, the Crusade soon stalled and seeming in capable of defeating a mere Arab rabble, the Kingdom of Croatia invaded. Sensing the end of Germany Halland in Scandinavia and Benevento in Italy broke with Germany. But the with with Britanny rumbled on for another year, marking the forth that a large Duchy had survived the onslaught of Germany, the King of Kings, but with the end finally in sight Germany gave Britanny a final chance to avoid destruction, and they thankfully took it. Britanny was once again a German Vassal. With the troops freed and the chaos abaing, Croatia began to fall back and the German offensive took Steiermark before the end of September 85. Forcalquier, having somewhat missed the bus on revolution, declared independance and was swiftly put down by Genoa. Croatia, unprepared for such resistance soon surrended Steinmark and the Duchy of Lesser Poland, and the peace of late 1185 turned into the restoration of 1186, with Trapini and Dauphine both returning to the fold. But the restoration took a turn for the worse on May the Forth. Genoa was never going to win the war...Abelino, Governor of Genoa had, for a long time, been considered crazed...the Imperial Demense bordering as it does, even when Trent came to their assistance in December. While the innevitable battle raged in the South, in the North England called for Germany's aid in bringing the state of Anjou back under control. Germany, of course, through itself at Anjou and soon had taken it...much to England's displeasure. With the European issues resolved the crusade was begun in earnest, from December 1187 to September the eleventh 1188, Germany fought towards Jerusalem...But then everything changed. The Crusader army stuck south to intercept the rising Egyptian army, but is entirely outmatched and for the second time the Crusades sit dead in the water. In Iberia the other Crusader heartland all sides withdraw. For the Muslims there is nothing to strike at, for Germany the Crusade was a secondary concern, and for England there was nothing to strike at. Thus the main fighting occured in Eastern Germany and the rim of the Kingdom, against the Pagans, rather than the Muslims...and the occassional Englishman. Viviers, Arques, Rostock, Bordeux, Cagliari, Angouleme, Blois, Orleans, all these felt the German Sword and all these became part of the Kingdom. As though fought, though, Luke conquered and the vassals rebelled, Plauen, Evrex and the Duchy of Toulouse...and throughout Luke commanded with Great Skill, but also Great Energy, his meat grinder tactics decimating armies...but eventually his ways caught up with him when his shoulder was paralysed by an arrow. But still he served, he through his energy into adminstration and the rule of law, while still masterminding the wars, still 'conquering' still educating his son, George...and then all the insanity caught up with him as well. Yet he carried on. Fits of insanity tightly controlled by some God given strength, enduring through the whole of 1190, which brought more revolts, more battles until, finally, in mid July George von Alaric came of age, and the Grand Duchy of Holstein was recreated. Then insanity took hold... Though some good came out of it too. But his most significant contribution was to write the "Declaration of the League of Nations" a document that widely reiterated the Holy Roman Empire, but took the power away from the Church, and concentrated in the hands of the Grand Duchies...Britanny, Alsace, Holstien, Bavaria, Dauphine and Toulouse(Currently independant). Then, one day, he just went out into the the forest and never came back. After several weeks the Duchies met and elected George the new Emperor of the League of Nations. [/hide]

Well I saw Mather's description and took the title literally...Our plans for Zombies... Solider Zombie, GO!

I see...Insulting people who are not would also be a better idea.

It comes down to this...Do you believe that the First law of Thermodynamics is inviolable. I believe that it is. Thus you cannot magick universes into existance, they either exist or they don't...end of story. As such they must exist has layers which exist side by side. Or you can take the view that the First Law of Thermodynamics is violable. In which you have no problem in say that more and more universes can come into existance. Also it would be better if you didn't send out insults. Not to question your skills as a phsychologist...But I have no idea where you get the idea that I am self loathing...

Couldn't agree more.

Sigh... If I have two sons, which one am I? If you have 1 universe, and there is a choice, then '2' universes are 'created'. The original universe doesn't carry on because there is no original universe to carry on, both are equally valid successors to the universe. Ergo, they can both be seen to have existed before the split, although they are identical. Same way that if I and my imaginary brother were to trace our family history back we could both say we had an identical family history, and yet not be the same person. Your take on the theory(and hell, maybe even the theory itself) is subjective...it views this universe as the correct universe and the other as the 'alternate' one....In actuality neither are the 'Alternate' and neither are the 'Correct'.

I would also like to point out that: 1 Watt hour = 0.85984522785899 Kcalories. We need 2,000 Kcalories per day. So 1.7*0.86=1.462 1.462*24=35.088 Or 1.7544% of the daily intake. Also, Parasites are not diseases, though they may cause them... For instance, George Bush is not a War, though he may cause them.

Well... I can say this 'Believing you are the most sane person out there doesn't help...you realise that you are surrounded by people wielding 2 tonnes of death and you are protected by a sheet of glass and a few inches of metal.