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Do you mean report or add reputation?
Add reputation, ofcourse. He made a funny.
How do I report someone every day for a year?
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Combine both ideas: Strawberry Cheesecake!
If we had CP I would + rep you every day for a year.
But we're talking about gifts for him :P.
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82% of the blast to Hiroshima and 93% of the Nagasaki blast hit military targets only.
Do you mean military target as in actually hitting the target, or hitting military personell? If you mean 82% of the bombings killed military forces, then you are very wrong... It's probably a misunderstanding.
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360 premium (with the new Falcon chip, yay)
Assassins Creed
Call of Duty 4
$500 with tax.
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The best gift you could give him doesn't cost anything :wink: :wink:
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I bought a 360 a couple days ago, and since my old router broke, I need to buy a new one to get on xbox live (I'll probably buy one tomorrow.) In the meantime, it made me make an offline profile, and I've been playing Assassins Creed on it.
Question: Once I hook back up to xbox live using my original xbox gamertag, will my online profile take over in Assassins Creed, or do I still need to use my offline profile to access the saved game?
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I need to transfer over my old xbox live profile. Will I still have all the online time credit (I had a 12 month card) on my 360 that I had on my old xbox, or do I loose it all? And do I need my old Xbox to transfer it over, or are my name and pass sufficient?
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Side Note: I think you should put the word "ever" in the title, because I'm sure many people will think this is another 360/ps3 flame war thread.
I'm going to go with PS1/N64 tie, and obviously GB pocket, because I grew up on Mega Man Legends, Ocarina of Time, and Pokemon Red, along with a bunch of Zelda for GameBoy. Kickass games.
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They really need to start writing this "Unspoken rules of Man" down. I can't keep up with 'em.
They have a whole facebook group called Man Law about it with 100+ rules. http://hs.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2213557603
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I'm going to go ahead and interject a question among the civilian/military debate: Do you then object to the fire bombings of japan, and any other civilian area bombings?
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...I'm not a fanboy, I've never owned a Halo game nor Microsoft console in my life. My friend got me into the online play...
Well, if thats the case, I recommend that you get Halo 3. Or rent halo 1 and 2, beat the single player, and buy halo 3 if your a story junkie, or so you wont be lost if you decide to play single-player. I think its definitely one of the best fps experiences ever. It's certainly not my favorite shooter or one of the most innovative games, but it's definitely a fine-tuned, well-rounded shooter game that's very enjoyable and worth your time (and money).
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My AP history teacher, a super-genius, proved why the bombings were unnecessary after our class debates. He used chronological events, etc. to prove a few points and he really was undeniably correct, with a perfect argument. I have it written down somewhere... but I don't feel like looking for it. Like Reb said, the few that wanted to discuss it already did.
Sounds interesting :-k . If it's already typed up, I'd love to it if you could PM it to me if you find it. If not, don't waste your energy on it, especially if it's long :P .
It took him half the class to go through it :P. He used dates chronologically to prove the bomb was not necessary at the time, and how the judgment came to be. It was quite impressive, Ill see if i can find it.
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No biggie; some douche rolled his car in front of my driving back from work one day though. [wagon] ricers and their inability to keep control of their rubbish.
Yay, a fellow ricer hater.
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My AP history teacher, a super-genius, proved why the bombings were unnecessary after our class debates. He used chronological events, etc. to prove a few points and he really was undeniably correct, with a perfect argument. I have it written down somewhere... but I don't feel like looking for it. Like Reb said, the few that wanted to discuss it already did.
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Touche. :)
I dont get how that makes sense in this thread.
It doesn't.
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Actually it's quite beneficial to the economy. The friday after thanksgiving marks the first day of the shopping season so stores lower prices greatly and they get loaded, I mean really loaded with shoppers.
black friday. some stores are opening at 4 tomorrow.
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It must suck having Thanksgiving and Christmas so close together.
...Why? You don't get presents for thanksgiving, so your not loosing anything? Also its great because we get a few days off this week, and then in 3 more weeks we have winter break.
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Touche. :)
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Just going to add: I read in the news the other day that ps3 sales doubled per week when the price cut came out. So much for Sony's "Everyone will buy our system cause its so great no matter what the price is" attitude. And no, I'm not a fanboy, but when I read some quotes from Sony a while back before the ps3's release, their cockyness didn't exactly make me like them...
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My English class is taking us on a field trip to see the movie. = )
Why? It has almost no educational value since it only remotely follows the plot. I just finished this for my British Literature class, and I laughed when my friend told me how ridiculously contorted it is. I guess, as other people already said, its Hollywood, what do you expect?
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Thanks to both of you for your help, I wish my tv supported HDMI :(
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I'm planning on getting a xbox 360 soon, but the HD compatability is bothering me: will it work on my tv? I have a few questions.
Note: I HAVE AN HD TV! I know this because my cable box is hooked up to High Def and I get HD channels, but I have 2 different ports:
1. Apparently, after looking at pictures online, I have:
2 HD composite/component ports, One is already occupied by my tv(http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xb ... nthdcable/), and
1 VGA HD port (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360vgahdcable/).
My question is: Which one should I use? Which one provides better picture quality, etc.
2. I don't think my tv supports HDMI 1.2 because I can't find a port that fits it. Is this type of input better and is there any way to buy a conversion cable for my tv?
3. How do I find out what types of HD my tv supports? 780, 1080, etc. and what does that all mean?
Thanks for any help.
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[hide]As I said it's good to hear both sides of the story and make up your own mind.
I encourage you to at least look at some of the information on sites like this before hiding under your bed and waiting for the end of the earth as you have been told by some.
And did you know from http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/op ... 1641212007
THERE is a beautiful congruency about Al Gore receiving the Nobel Peace Prize 24 hours after a High Court judge had declared it illegal to screen his 'man-made' climate change propaganda film An Inconvenient Truth in schools, unless accompanied by contradictory information to correct its scientific falsehoods. The judge identified nine scientific errors that would mislead pupils.Whose side of the story is that? You're being fed crap. That's no one's side. That's a fools position. Exactly the same as Al Gore's 'An inconvenient half truth'. As for your ICECAP web site, I don't see anything particularly out of line with the data I've seen. They don't deny that the climate is changing, they don't deny that man plays a role and they do suggest that solar variations play a role, which is all true. They are skeptical of man's dominant position in global warming, which I dispute, and I'll look for what literature they have to back up their position.
He's hardly on the side of Bush and the like who believe Global Warming doesn't actually exist, and even if it did, it's not down to humansOk maybe you can explain how humans caused Global warming on Mars?
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
Global warming hits Mars too: study
Or just Google "Global Warming Myths" and you'll have plenty else to think about.
Haha. This is too good. I've presented an exhaustive post 3 times now on these forums which details that exact problem, debunks it and uses the exact article you cited to do so, among other articles and scientific papers. Did you even read into this article? It's about a (note, one) global warming skeptic who believes that mars' warming hints at the sun being the cause when it then goes on to present the mainstream's position as to why this is not necessarily the case. In my exhaustive post, I also cited a swag of papers which detail the fact that the sun can not possibly account for the most recent warming trends.
Did you even read your second article either? It details albedo variations causing the change in mars' climate in a positive feedback system that requires no change in solar output. Interestingly, it mentions an article I've cited before in a previous post which is the catalyst for the article you cited.
If you're interested in the post I mentioned I've presented 3 times before:
[hide]General Reading:
EPICA Ice Core data aligns with previous Vostok Ice Core data to reconstruct CO2 concentration and align it with temperature changes over the past 700,000+ years.
Articles:
The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) recovered two deep ice cores from East Antarctica. One of the cores, located at Dome Concordia (Dome C) (75ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâð06'S, 123ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâð21'E, altitude of 3233 m above sea level, and mean annual accumulation rate of 25.0 kg mÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ2 yearÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ1), is the only ice core covering at least eight glacial cycles (1), four cycles longer than previously available from ice cores. This has allowed us to reconstruct the record of the concentration of atmospheric CO2 much further back in time than was possible before. Here, we report results from the interval between 390 and 650 kyr B.P. (kyr B.P. is thousand years before the present, i.e., before A.D. 1950).The Dome C CO2 record [mean sampling resolution of 731 years; details about the methods and the sampling are given in (16)] is plotted in Fig. 1, together with the D record (Antarctic temperature proxy) of Dome C (18) [both records are shown on the EDC2 time scale (1)], a stack of benthic d18O records from globally distributed sites (19), and a high-resolution benthic 18O record from Ocean Drilling Project (ODP) site 980 (55ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâð29'N, 14ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâð42'W) (19ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ22). There is an excellent overall correlation between D and benthic 18O, a proxy of global ice volume (19).See figure 1 in detail. Notice the strong correlation of CO2 concentration and 'delta D' - a temperature proxy. Also notice the correlation of CO2 concentration and 'delta O-18 (isotope of oxygen)' - a proxy of ice volume. Also notice the maximum CO2 concentration for this 260,000 year period was found to be around 290ppm.
See figure 3. Again, notice the correlation of CO2 concentration and temperature. Also notice the maximum CO2 concentration for this 400,000 year period was found to be around 290-300ppm.The recent completion of drilling at Vostok station in East Antarctica has allowed the extension of the ice record ofatmospheric composition and climate to the past four glacialÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâinterglacial cycles. The succession of changes through
each climate cycle and termination was similar, and atmospheric and climate properties oscillated between stable
bounds.Interglacial periods differed in temporal evolution and duration. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide
and methane correlate well with Antarctic air-temperature throughout the record. Present-day atmospheric burdens of
these two important greenhouse gases seem to have been unprecedented during the past 420,000 years.
Selected climate records are summarized in Figs. 4 and 5, covering the periods from 0 to 350 kyr and from 0 to 100 kyr before the present (B.P.), respectively. The 18O of calcitic foraminifera from deep sea sediments is a proxy indicator for ice volume. The D or 18O of ice from ice cores is a proxy indicator of temperature in the area of the ice core.See figure 4 in detail. Again, notice the strong correlation between temperature and CO2 concentration. Again, notice the maximum CO2 concentration for this 200,000 year period was found to be around 290ppm.
Fig. 3. (Upper) CO2 vs. time before present, as inferred by Etheridge et al. (17) from ice core studies.See figure 3 in detail. Notice the rise in CO2 concentration up to around 340ppm prior to the year 2000, uncharted territory for hundreds of thousands of years.
Notice the current atmospheric CO2 concentrations are in excess of 380ppm.
Notice this summation of CO2 concentrations, in ppm, over the past 400,000 years, in line with the data already presented.
Now, notice the huge deviation from the trend of CO2 concentration from around the year 1800 on; the time of the industrial revolution where masses of CO2 were being pumped into the atmosphere. Connect the dots. I conclude, from this little data gathering exercise, that it is ignorant to claim that CO2 concentration increases have nothing to do with modern warming trends and that human activity has nothing to do with these concentration increases. Ergo, we are contributing to global warming.
This is nothing new. The consensus is that human contributed climate change is supported by the evidence. [6][7]
So what of the argument that Mars is experiencing global warming, therefore it must be the sun and thus the sun is making earth heat up too?
On Mars, the warming seems to be down to dust blowing around and uncovering big patches of black basaltic rock that heat up in the day (see 'Mars hots up'). No change in sunshine required.
[10]Results indicate enhanced wind stress in recently darkened areas and decreased wind stress in brightened areas, producing a positive feedback system in which the albedo changes strengthen the winds that generate the changes. The simulations also predict a net annual global warming of surface air temperatures by 0.65 K, enhancing dust lifting by increasing the likelihood of dust devil generation.Our results suggest that documented albedo changes affect recent climate change and large-scale weather patterns on Mars, and thus albedo variations are a necessary component of future atmospheric and climate studies.
Shifting dust storms on Mars might be contributing to global warming there that is shrinking the planet's southern polar ice caps, scientists say.Computer simulations similar to those used to predict weather here on Earth show that the bright, windblown dust and sand particles affects Mars' albedo-the amount of sunlight reflected from the planet's surface.
The research, detailed in the April 5 issue of the journal Nature, suggests these albedo variations play an important role in the climate of Mars. It could also potentially explain how global dust storms are triggered on the red planet.
The researchers think they are on the right track because the computer model predicts a build-up of heat in the atmosphere above Mars' southern hemisphere that is roughly equal to the amount of energy necessary to account for the diminishment of the planet's southern polar ice caps that has been observed in recent years.Scientists have struggled to explain the shrinkage and have blamed it on everything from fluctuations in the Sun's output to natural variations in the planet's orbit and tilt.
"We haven't really had a really good explanation for this in the past," Geissler said. "We found that this mechanism could contribute or possibly explain the rapid sublimation of the south polar cap."
So, according to these sources, albedo variations, which are the determinant of sunlight reflection back into space, are changing due to dust storms which act somewhat analogously to CO2 and the greenhouse effect - trapping solar radiation within the atmosphere. No excess solar output required.
The conventional theory is that climate changes on Mars can be explained primarily by small alterations in the planet's orbit and tilt, not by changes in the sun."Wobbles in the orbit of Mars are the main cause of its climate change in the current era," Oxford's Wilson explained. (Related: "Don't Blame Sun for Global Warming, Study Says" [september 13, 2006].)
All planets experience a few wobbles as they make their journey around the sun. Earth's wobbles are known as Milankovitch cycles and occur on time scales of between 20,000 and 100,000 years.
These fluctuations change the tilt of Earth's axis and its distance from the sun and are thought to be responsible for the waxing and waning of ice ages on Earth.
Here, another suggestion for the changing climate on Mars is put forth - periodical planetary orbital wobbles and tilts akin to Milankovitch cycles on earth - the orbital and tilt shifts which are suggested control the ice ages.
Now, for the idea that the sun alone causes climate change:
[13]There is considerable evidence for solar influence on the EarthÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s pre-industrial climate and the Sun may well have been a factor in post-industrial climate change in the first half of the last century. Here we show that over the past 20 years, all the trends in the Sun that could have had an influence on the EarthÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s climate have been in the opposite direction to that required to explain the observed rise in global mean temperatures.
[14]Variations in the SunÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s total energy output (luminosity) are caused by changing dark (sunspot) and bright structures on the solar disk during the 11-year sunspot cycle. The variations measured from spacecraft since 1978 are too small to have contributed appreciably to accelerated global warming over the past 30 years. In this Review, we show that detailed analysis of these small output variations has greatly advanced our understanding of solar luminosity change, and this new understanding indicates that brightening of the Sun is unlikely to have had a significant influence on global warming since the seventeenth century.
[15]This is consistent with a causal relationship between the two and supports, but by no means proves, the view that the Sun has had an important, possibly even dominant influence on our climate in the past. Other contributors to climate variability are volcanic activity, the internal variability of the Earth's atmosphere and man-made greenhouse gases. After 1980, however, the Earth's temperature exhibits a remarkably steep rise, while the Sun's irradiance displays at the most a weak secular trend. Hence the Sun cannot be the dominant source of this latest temperature increase, with man-made greenhouse gases being the likely dominant alternative.
[/hide]The observed temperature rise over the most recent 30 and 100 years is larger than the trend in the solar forcing simulation during the same period, indicating a strong likelihood that, if the model forcing and response is realistic, other factors have contributed to the observed warming. Since the pattern of the recent observed warming agrees better with the greenhouse warming pattern than with the solar variability response, it is likely that one of these factors is the increase of the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration.
Direct quote from the second article you linked to, regarding why Mars is heating up;Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist SaysGlobal warming hits Mars too: study
Or just Google "Global Warming Myths" and you'll have plenty else to think about.
"The explanation is in the dirt. "
Our global warming is hardly making Mars heat up, but then again, I doubt Martian dust storms is making Earth heating up.
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You aren't getting it. Dust storms on mars are causing 'martian warming', which are completely proven to be non-human related (Due to the lack of humans on mars). (1) Therefore it is proven that global warming can happen without human interference, which suggests that the earth may be undergoing the same effect because the results are proportional (Mars is closer to the sun and is heating up rapidly, Earth is further away but is still heating up, albeit slower).
(2) However, I think that it is now completely impossible to pinpoint the cause of global warming because both sides have valid evidence, and the whole conspiracy theory is too complex to unravel. My question is; why are we arguing amongst each other trying to point the blame? Aren't we supposed to be getting on with inventing fuel which doesn't need crude oil to function, which will run out in the next 50 years? Let's face it, we can't control global warming, we just need to adapt to it until it passes. We may be able to control the CO2, but we need to get our act together in that area anyway. Crude Oil is running out, so let's do something about it.
(1) And where is all the dust on earth aiding to these albedo variations? There is no such effect on planet earth (well, no such change in said effect), yet there is something analagous which is changing - CO2 and other greenhouse gasses participating in the greenhouse effect, warming the planet. Mars' albedo variations are somewhat similar. The dust particles prevent reflection of radiation back out to space and thus dust storms there trap masses of heat.
(2) So, what's the evidence of the other side? The peer reviewed journals? Because I've presented a number which suggest something like solar irradiance flat out can not account for the most recent warming trends - only the greenhouse effect can make up the numbers. As for the conspiracy theory being to hard to unravel, I disagree. It can be summed up by the fact that oil companies don't want to lose profits so they vest interest in fooling people that it's not their product to blame.[/hide]
Marry me?
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Wow, you beat me to both of them :wall:
Anyways, yeah..when DO the falcon consoles come out?
It's supposedly out already; theres pics on multiple sites such as ign of the console compared to the old one with chip size and heatsink and stuff, but to my knowledge microsoft hasn't said anything about it have they? I'm waiting for an official statement.
Should I still get Halo 3 for Chistmas?
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Just beat assassins creed, and I definitely think you should get it, maybe buy halo 3 and assassins creed used?
It's extremely short though, and extremely easy [i only died 2 or so times throughout the whole game]. But it's definitely a new and innovative type of game. Yes, it is repetitive, but the whole type of gameplay is so new you won't mind it. Also the story situation is quite interesting.
You shouldn't miss out on either of the games.
Lol @ halo fanboys trying to assert their game is better when the 2 games are completely different...