aquariusman

I Google'd and came across http://www.midomi.com/. Maybe give it a try?

I've heard of a site where you clap the rhythm of a song and you are told what said song is. Never used it myself, and I don't remember the name, but just in case it jogs anyone's memory.

I'm still waiting for you to explain to me why you think said parts of the book are good. Also, being a best seller doesn't mean a book is a best seller. You've even agreed, with classics as an example, that popularity or reputation does not guarantee quality. Abstinence doesn't really mean much. If he is immortal or has a ridiculously long life span, 90 years to him would be at most a decade to us.

Wait, so you'll be able to make a Dragon platebody before you can make the majority of useful Rune equipment? I call shenanigans. Also, who cares about the price, it's a brand-new item that has been wanted for years, of course it's going to have a ridiculous price the first days-weeks it comes out.

Try this.

I need examples of these good characters you claim exist, because in the first book, which should be the book that creates the bases for these good characters, the characters are either ignored by Bella, or in the case of Bella and Edward, quite typical of a teen-fiction book. Angst-filled teenage girl meets wonderboy, who has a deep, dark secret. That story is repeated often in teen-fiction (Although really it should be teen-girl-fiction). So that is essentially Twilight's plot, and total character development, in one sentence, while the book is 400 pages long. Also, the descriptions of scenery are average, I cannot see any real theme built into the book, and the only literary style I saw SM use was purple prose and useless, lengthy descriptions of actions and objects that did not contribute to any other aforementioned elements. On top of that, every plot usually gets more exciting near the end, because that is when the climax and a turning point come. However, there was very little that contributed to the plot overall during the rest of the book.

I pretty much did exactly that when I realized some of my friends were essentially starting to do the same. If you play sports, hang out with your teammates. Just find people who share something with you, and start talking to them. Just remember not to forget about the people who you think are still your friends. Like I said I did the same before and I'm much happier than I was because I don't worry about my friends any more.

I don't care much, but when pressured I'll be making a list consisting of books and CD's. Books: A Song of Fire and Ice (All books) The Wheel of Time (10 and up) Artemis Fowl (Latest two) Pendragon (6 and up) CD's: The Flatliners - The Great Awake; Destroy to Create NOFX - Wolves in Wolves Clothing Rise Against - Appeal to Reason Protest the Hero - Kezia; Fortress Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb Tool - Ænema

That's still pretty much the same thing, if you have all your music in one folder. Right click the folder and select Properties.

Put out those flames before you start a fire. I really don't see how this can be continued any further without either flaming, or someone contesting that there is a plot to Twilight.

We just got the first snows, AND SKIING HERE I COME. I badly want at least 2 feet of snow for the entire winter, because then I'd be able to ski in my backyard with my friends.

"Let's play carpenter. You get hammered and and then I nail you" "Now."

I'm in a prep course for IB, which isn't anything special or challenging to me. In fact, for me the transition from regular school to the Grade 9 prep was flawless. Found nothing out of the ordinary, at best I hate it because I was stuck with the same group of kids, instead of being able to be with the majority of my friends. However, now I've found out what the program truly entails, and this is something that should we should have been told before applying. I have almost absolutely no options for my courses. I must take ToK, Extended Essay, Math, French, English, Economics, a Science, and then either an Arts or extra Science. My only problem with this is that I want to be able to take all 3 Sciences, plus a Design and Drafting course. In total, for Grades 11 & 12, I have ONE option in Grade 12. This year I had none. So basically it's the choice that I hate, because there isn't much. Another thing I don't like is that I'm essentially giving up a major part of high school in my eyes, the social. I might as well be segregated from all the other students in the school since I only have one class this semester that is with students not enrolled in this IB prep course. Now, this limit of choice is because I am the second "Generation" of IB prep students, the program started three years ago. The problem is that there are only a total of 60 students in my grade, which at best makes 3 classes. If it wasn't for this, I would be continuing on to the actual program, I wouldn't mind being able to have one or more transferable credits granted to me for First year university.

My original argument was that Twilight has no major element that makes it a good book; no plot, theme, character, style or setting. We side tracked a little, but I still hold true to my argument. Also, my point about Edward being both over protective and a danger to Bella is that his being over protective is futile, and in fact counter-productive to his intentions. I had explicitly stated that his actions were counter productive. Although, re-reading my post I can see that this isn't as clear as I hoped for.

Best way I know of, since I am not familiar with a Zen, is to plug in your Zen, then go to My Computer and Right-Click the drive representing your Zen and select properties. Also, if a program comes with Zens for loading music and other files, I would expect it to tell you.

Dreamtongirl, I have not read any other books in the Twilight series other than the first. I do not plan on it. I have not criticized the later books in anyway, because while I do agree with N0M that you don't need to read the books to debate about them, it definitely helps. I'm also going to drop the whole poor use of pronouns, because it was just something I was pointing out that can confuse some people. Now, to me your points concerning New Moon mean nothing to me. There is still not even one line in Twilight in which Bella is injured, enough to be considered serious, as a direct result of her clumsiness. We are claiming that Edward is over protective, and that usually means that Edward is hurting Bella overall (Whether it be socially, emotionally or physically). You see, if Edward being near Bella puts her life in danger, then I think we can say that because he is over protective, always being near her, he is actually being counter-productive. So while anyone who reads the book will acknowledge that Edward is a danger to Bella, it still underlines the point made about Edward being over-protective. I don't tell off the fan girls of Twilight because it makes me feel big, or because I enjoy it. I do it because they aggravate me to no end always chirping about how wonderful an author Stephanie Meyers is, and how well written the book was. I think you agree with me and others that Twilight is not a good book, like Nadril so kindly pointed out. To reply to you on "Go read classics.": just because something is considered a classic does not make it good. I do, however, read books that I cconsider lassics: Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Wheel of Time series, Frankenstein and others.

That's something I've always wondered, why would someone who does the same, simple task, every 30 seconds, get paid $22+ and hour? Unions have gone out of control with always pushing for further wage increases every time a strike ends. It's even worse for schools. Just recently the TA's at my brother's university went on strike, meaning that classes are post-poned until the strike ends. I'm pretty sure the strike has been going on 2-3 weeks now, even though they could have just as easily started negotiations during the summer. But no, they had to wait until well after the course refund date, more than halfway through the first semester. They are holding my brother's school hostage, and are asking for a 50% wage increase over the next 3 years, more job security, and I'm pretty sure there was mention of benefits. I know not the conditions they were working in before.

The van isn't an example of Edward saving Bella from her clumsiness, it's him saving her from an out-of-control van. It's essentially what introduced him to her, and made her realize that something other than being anti-social is up with him. Still, name any place in the book where Bella's own clumsiness puts her in danger. Then name the times Edward has put her in danger: if you go by Edward's point of view, that is every single moment they are together. I remember 3 times when Edward actually saved Bella. The van, whe Bella was followed by the four men, and then the whole deal with the other vampires (His fault by the way). Now, the van and men are actually completely unrealted incidents of misfortune. The vampires could also be considered bad timing, or just Edward's fault. Also, his brother and sister must be very bad at tracking if Bella managed to escape in a washroom. Also, I knew you weren't calling Justin an abusive boyfriend, I was making a joke on your poor use of pronouns. Why read it if I'm going to trash it? Curiosity killed the cat. I also mentioned before that while I was reading the book, I actually liked it. However, my brain was screaming when I bothered to try and think of the book as a novel and not a bed time story. Oh, and if the annoying fan girls at my school are pissing me off with their drooling over the book, I feel obligated to make them realize that the book does not deserve to be called a piece of literature.

I do not like you one bit sir. If hitler killed (lets say 50million) Chistians, how would you feel? :shame: I'm still waiting for someone to pick up on the reference. I'm no idiot, of course I think Hitler was an horrible person. Maybe if people didn't use any punctuation around here...

For anything under 30GB, I'd stay away from Apple, mainly because of cost. The only reason I have the iPod Classic 80GB is because it was actually the cheapest thing I could find with over 20GB capacity that I trusted not to break. Zen probably is the way to go, but I can't speak for any of them due to lack of experience. Oh, and the 2G Nano might be good if you could find it cheap. 4GB capacity, nice and small and mine was a tank. Dropped it in puddles, on tile, concrete, hardwood, and almost any surface from about a metre and a half, the only time I did damage was when I had to cut something on top of the screen, so I got a deep scratch on the side of the screen. So look out for a new Zen or old Ipod Nano G1/2.

This is Wongtong's friend. Argue time. :D Ewuh, Justin isn't good looking. Plus, he can't sing for crap - sounds like a total girl. He isn't an 'Abusive' boyfriend, at all. He's over protective, yes, but his girlfriend is being followed around by a savage vampire desperately wanting to kill her, and most of the time she could probably injure herself, so duh. Course he's gonna be protective, he wants her to survive. That so bad? It is most definitely a bestseller book, actually. And yes, i do have time to read them. Because they DO have plots. But of course you wouldn't know that because you obviously haven't read them, so therefore you have no idea whatsoever you're really talking about. Six posts in a row, and this is the only one I can consider an actual contribution to the thread. There is something called an edit button right beside the quote button. "Ewuh, Justin isn't good looking. Plus, he can't sing for crap - sounds like a total girl. He isn't an 'Abusive' boyfriend, at all. " Wait, when did we say Justin Timberlake was was an abusive boyfriend? Never. I ask of you to proofread, and more importantly be aware of your pronouns. For the actual argument, Edward is completely over protective. Worry over whether your girlfriend is going to trip and snap her pretty little neck is beside the point; I don't think she injured herself at anytime in the book. Also, there are 5 key elements of a book, as far as I'm concerned. Theme, Plot, Setting, Character, Style. I think it is clear that there is no solid Theme in Twilight, at best it's be careful around people who vant to suck your blood. Style. There is nothing above ordinary about SM's Style in the book Twilight, I found it quite boring really. At best you can say her purple prose and overly-detailed descriptions of things completely unimportant to developing any of the other elements Style. Setting comes next, as like I said, there are no beautiful descriptions, wonderful metaphors, sneaky puns, or anything else worth noting to say that Setting stands out as an element of Twilight. Style, Theme, and Setting are crossed out, so surely Plot and Character MUST be prime elements in the story. No, actually, they aren't. The so called "Plot" of this 400-page book is: Girl meets strange boy Strange boy turns out to be vampire. They mess around for 200 pages. Another vampire comes into town and kidnaps girl. Boy and family rescue girl. Happily ever after. I do not think that this plot, spread over 400 pages, is even worthy of a description that long. Most of the book is spent with Bella drooling over Edward's perfection in school, then them just staring at each other, Bella captivated by his perfection, Edward drooling over how good she smells to eat. But Bella and Edward are such wonderful characters! How could you possibly say that Character is not a key contributing element to the book! I can say it, because there is next to no Character development in the book. Halfway through the book, I was predicting every move Bella and Edward made. Not that they made any moves unless they were forced to stop drooling over each other. You see, Bella is a shy, average girl. That's about it. She has good intentions but just wants to have some fun every now and then. That is all there is to Bella's character. Edward on the other hand is a stalker loner boyfriend who's lived for decades. Did I mention he's a vampire? He watches Bella sleep at night, is pretty much her shadow, and she is the only person he talks to outside of his Vampire family. There no point even mentioning the other characters, because they may as well not be mentioned in the book. Bella and Edward are too busy starting into each others' eyes to notice or care about the people around them. So, is there anything that makes Twilight a good book? Yes, I mean I guess it just HAS to be good if every teenage girl is absolutely crazy about it. And teenagers know everything. amirite? Oh yes, and have you read Twilight again? I'd like to know if it's even possible to bear reading it twice.

If you knew very well that your actions may likely lead to the death of another, you should be tried for murder.

[hide=My secret]Anyone who thinks that the "OT eats glass" meme is funny, is an idiot.[/hide] Completely unrelated to above, I also think Hitler was right.

Daft Punk, the Alive 2007 album. Pretty much anything with a good solid bass line. When I'm looking for pump-up music, I focus on the bass, as that's what I found matters. Or something that's just awesome to headbang to.

Viking porn is not a musical lyric quote..Yet.Someone call up the guy who writes for Amon Amarth or similar. Lyrics for Man Machine by Kraftwerk Machine machine machine machine machine machine machine,MA-chine... I am quoting you, thus, it is your duty to create the song. This duty, I place in your hands.