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a pet cat. :P no wait. i hate cats irl. and in rs. how about... my net worth. it'd be awesome to be worth 20m+ irl.

Didn't know things changed regarding that - gold ore wasn't easy to get in bulk a year or perhaps two back, but I see that it is now. Seems gold ore is the way to go now indeed, making smithing quite a bit cheaper then what it used to cost. Yeah that's right, I remember, steel bars was the way to go. Would be interesting to find out when the switch happened and why, dou you have records of gold ores prices by any chance? haha i know why it happened, but i'm not telling :-# let's just say it has something to do with fairy rings.... :-w and i'm surprised nobody mentioned range training with chinchompas.... :-k

Don't quote me on this, but I believe modern psychology can usually "fix" (for lack of a better term) one's morals. Yes, it's impossible to stop these acts from happening. But, with a lack of weapons, these acts would be far less damaging. :) Modern psychology is a crock of [cabbage]. I have my set of beliefs alright, and even if they differ from yours, they're not as wrong as yours. Society has been known to be wrong many times. Look at history. Sometimes majority isn't always right. Case and point: The Western world. so then you're saying that "western" society is "wrong" because thier beliefs are different than yours? :-k

now i don't know what i'm missing... :? i guess i just got confused by your sentence structure? Maybe i stuck a period in there instead of a comma. #-o haha. i quoted you! yeah, i have no idea about what psychology can or can't do, i always assumed it was a load of crap. but you still won't be able to convince me that taking away the right to own guns will prevent criminals(who excel at breaking the law) or mentally-disturbed persons(who feel a compelling need to kill as many people as possible) from obtaining illegal(possibly more dangerous) weapons. unless you somehow eliminated every single weapon on the planet, and prevented any more from ever being created. :shock: not a very feasible solution. but what if my country was politically corrupt, encouraged crime, and generally went against my beliefs? does that make me mentally ill? which brings me back to the question, who's morals are "right"? the ones that benefit society as a whole? depends on your definition of "benefit society" i'm not trying to say that i don't agree with you here, but just trying to bring this argument up before someone comes out with "OMG i hate my government, and how dare you call me mentally ill!"

so then in this case it would be impossible to stop tragic acts like this from happening because you will never convince these people that thier morals or beliefs are wrong. and who are you to tell them that they're wrong? unless you want to say that some people need to be opressed for the good of society, in which case the entire foundation of the US would have to be overturned. i think my head just exploded. :? i didn't mean to be sarcastic, i'm just trying to say that i AM considering other people's opinions, or "looking outside the square" as you put it.

if you couldn't tell from the rest of my posts on the 3 topics that encompass this subject, i've been running every possible solution that anyone's come up with through my mind. i'm as confused as anyone as to why something like this has to happen, what motivates a person to do something like this, why it couldn't have been caught and stopped sooner. after nearly a week of reading news articles, listening to the opinions of others, i've come up with a solution that i believe would help the problem. just because i choose to defend my argument doesn't make me narrow-minded, nor does it mean that i'm not considering the opinions of others when they argue that my solution wouldn't work. so keep in mind that when i argue with you, i need to have read and considered your argument before i can counter it with my own.

you've pretty much got it. since the equation for universal gravitation is GmM/r^2, r being the distance between the 2 objects, as distance goes to infinity, the force goes to 0, but since you can never actually reach an infinite distance, the graviational force is technically always present. when calculating escape velocity required to exit the earth's atmosphere, for example, distance is taken to be infinite.

meh, the more i hear about this, the more i want to blame school shootings on bad parenting/lack of parenting. i try to read as many news articles and get as much information on this as i can, because as hard as i try, i can't think of a good reason to go off and kill 32 people and then commit suicide. that just doesn't sound like a lot of fun to me. then i found this, and it made me realize something. this is a quote from the letter he sent to nbc, and i've only seen it on one article. "You pick out the Weak and the Defenseless and turbo-(expletive deleted) us for your own pleasure and put on faces of devout Christians in front of your parents and strangers," it read. "You drink your vodka, share needles and go on your escapades on Saturday night and go to church on Sunday morning." as soon as i saw this i realized something. i know people like this. i can't stand people like this. but why don't i kill people? because my parents taught me to deal with things like this. my parents taught me from a young age that people are hypocrites, and nothing can be done about it. more can be accomplished by ignoring those people and not letting thier hypocracy ruin my life. cho's parents were not bad, they didn't abuse him, or neglect him, from everything i've read, they were simply overwhelmed by american culture. they didn't know how to deal with it, so they couldn't effectively raise thier supposedly autistic child. i know i would have a hell of a time rasing a child in korea, but it would be a hard enough time to raise a child with health issues in america, much less in an unfamiliar country.....

well, you've got to take into account the fact that the gravitational force has 3 variables, the mass of the 2 objects and the distance between them.... so if you were inches away from the most massive black hole in the universe, the tidal force of gravity would pull the atoms you're made of apart.

did you even read my post? not every "angy and irrational-thinking" student would be allowed to have a weapon. it would be a long drawn-out process to obtain a liscense. and i don't even mean at high schools, you would still have to be of legal age to carry a gun. next time try reading the WHOLE post please. #-o I did read your WHOLE post. :roll: It's worth pointing out that it had no mention of any legal process whatsoever, you simply stated that armed students/teachers would have helped. Something tells me you have little experience with major high schools or universities. :-k When fights break out the last thing you want is a teacher/student with a gun. let me quote my original post. if you're trying to suggest that i'm uneducated, you should probably rethink your argument. i graduated high school with a 4.0 and i'm currently maintaining a 3.7 in my sophomore year of a mechanical engineering degree. yes there was the minor fight in high school, but those were usually the type of people who drop out and work at mcdonalds for the rest of thier lives. in college, you don't have NEARLY as many irrational-thinking people, and those type of people shouldn't and wouldn't be allowed to have a weapon. prove that you're responsible, and you can aquire a liscense. once again, you are bringing up the argument that guns shoot themselves. GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. the problem in most all school shootings like this is that the shooters were neglected, often picked on, and if/when they tried to get help, they were rejected. people need to be more aware of potential dangers, and try to help people in need. well, the legal age to own a handgun in america is 21. it's amazing what 3 years and a year or two of college does to your mentality. i've been in college for 2 years, and i have yet to see a fight over "who can lift the most weight" or "who gets the most girls." actually, i have yet to see a single act of physical violence. at least the other people who insulted my opinion at least attempted to provide a reason why they believed it was stupid. you, however, contributed nothing.

did you even read my post? not every "angy and irrational-thinking" student would be allowed to have a weapon. it would be a long drawn-out process to obtain a liscense. and i don't even mean at high schools, you would still have to be of legal age to carry a gun. next time try reading the WHOLE post please. #-o

wow. do you ever read the news or refresh facts before you post? i don't even know where to begin with this..... how about the ridiculous statement that american troops have killed more people than saddam. hello? he was a dictator. do you know what a dictator does? well, let me refresh you. they KILL everyone who opposes them, otherwise it's not a dictatorship. in addition to having every political opponent executed, he systematically slaughtered thousands of Kurds by testing chemical weapons on them. not to mention the wars that he's waged, resulting in the deaths of MILLIONS of innocents. try thinking before you post at least.

with parents like this, it's no wonder our society's youth is [bleep]ed.

First I said it was arguably the best. I can back up my statement. I would like for you to give me a list of better Constitutions as well and they can't have been based off the US Constitution. Facts about the US Constitution. Since its creation some two hundred years ago, over one hundred countries around the world have used it as a model for their own. It is the oldest written constitution of its type in effect in the world. The US Constitution broke the mold of Old Europe. It was the foundational text that influenced most of the free societies of the world today. It is one of the most groundbreaking documents ever penned. I would put it up there with the Magna Carta. I mean come on... you are going to sit there and call it American ÃÆÃâÃâüber-attitude when over 100 countries have copied it in some form? Are you sure you aren't just being anti American? Have you even studied the American Constitution and it's impact on history? obviously another anti-american, they seem to be plentiful on this forum, yet none of them seem to be able to give any reason why they hate ALL americans, other than our attitude. yeah, because EVERY american has the same attitude, and you're not being hypocritical at all for bringing OUR attitude up, when you can't seem to lose your own. :roll: anyway, the only good point she makes is that his mental records SHOULD have shown up on his background check, and i'm sure the store that sold him the gun will have hell to pay for that.

yes, he was mentally-ill, but he wasn't just an exchange student, he moved here as a child, went to middle and high school here, but hadn't become a citizen yet, for some reason... he was definitely picked on in middle school for the way he spoke, possibly in high school(testaments by former classmates), which leads me to believe he's had this planned for a lot longer than just a few months. i haven't found anything relating to video games at all, the police don't seem to think that it's even a relevant idea to consider. I don't play CS.

tbh, i'm starting to think that allowing concealed weapons on a college campus(by liscensed, trained citizens only) would actually help the situation rather than hurt it. of course, they would have to be highly regulated, i.e. having to take a college level course on gun safety, and aquire a liscense with a thorough background check. had only one person in that VT classroom had a gun other than the killer, he might not have killed anyone, or the death toll would have been far lower, at the very least. hypothetically, of course.

lol, gotta love rush limbaugh, he's always good for a laugh or two. :lol:

send me your name and address in a pm and the cops will be at your house tonight, questioning you, and possibly preventing another senseless tradgedy. and how sick is your friend that she thinks killing a bunch of innocent people is cool? You know, some police, expecially it coming from a teenager, will take it as a joke and he can get in trouble for supposedly "joking with the police" if he has no evidence. They won't take it serious without evidence. i think at this point in time, everything is serious. several people have been arrested for making false threats, and schools in 10+ states have been locked down/closed due to threats in the past 3 days. there's even an example in here where a post on an online forum shut down a school and lead to police action against the poster. nobody is taking this lightly anymore. school closings if you dont wanna read it, here is just one example.

send me your name and address in a pm and the cops will be at your house tonight, questioning you, and possibly preventing another senseless tradgedy. and how sick is your friend that she thinks killing a bunch of innocent people is cool?

So someone's going to get high, dress up like hitlar and have a watergun shootout in his backyard, nice. Honostly though, that's crazy that it's Hitlar's birthday and Columbine shooting day are the same. the columbine shooters probably picked that day for one of those 2 reasons, i'd assume.

taken from reno's police website, here. call it now. it's anonymous so no one even has to know who you are. if you don't, you're practically as bad as the killer. :shock:

this is the WRONG attitude to have. and tbh, if something happens and the police found out that you knew something, you might very well BE arrested, at the rate things are going now. If i knew who you are/where you lived, i'd have already contacted the police.

For not telling? I don't even know who the person is or their name. All I know is they're a boy, heavily armed, and ... I guess that they're pulling a Massacre tomorrow. for making jokes/false threats. if you go to the police now, all you have on your conscience is that you put an idiotic joker behind bars, but if you don't, and this turns out to be real...... -.-

ebay's turned into a horrible place now, you can't find anyone selling anything worthwile anymore. i found one person selling the microfilm of yamaha's parts catalog on cd, that can be found for free on yamaha's website.

It was NBC. I get picked on everyday, but I make enough friends to where I don't care anymore. Of course I get pencils lodged in my head, my sweatshirt full of paperclips, or punched until my arm is dead, but I just ignore them and talk to my friends while people are being immature, but you don't see me pulling a massacre. are you joking? call the police right now! it's not something to joke about, not now, not ever. they've already arrested several people for pulling [cabbage] like this.