aquariusman

To get you on a technicality, the spin of the Earth is actually slowing. To point out another technicality, kids are actually maturing earlier, or at least girls/women are. It is suspected/due to female birth control hormones being present in increasing levels in water supplies. This makes girls mature earlier, and men mature later. Also, I'd say the reason kids/teens (I fall under the teens category) are "growing up" faster is because we often idolize our elders, so we imitate them. This means that we want to have sex, we want to do drugs, we want to be as skinnier than we can be, we want to be able to do what we want, have what we want, whenever we want. Most of these are present because our greatest source of information is the media, who show all of these things. Basically, it's all because kids are inevitably being exposed to things that are meant for more mature audiences, and sometimes it can't be helped, no matter how protective a parent is. And a kid having a cellphone isn't growing up too fast, it's just the kid wanting a cell phone and getting it. I personally don't get what the deal is with having a cell phone, I make do without one (Admittedly, that is only because my other friends have cellphones). To get you on a technicality, the hormones are found in milk from injections cows get to grow faster, but the same idea still applies. Kids that are really young just have cell phones for a competition, to see who is the 'coolest.' But if you have no need for one, whats the point? As another technicality, because of location, for my area the water-supply contamination still applies because Lake Ontario is pretty damn filthy.

Trying it now, thanks for the help. After waiting for it to convert 1 episode for 3 or 4 hours, I'm not sure if it's working. Also, I've decided to not download them, so problem not solved, but there's no longer a problem.

To make a long post short, I hate you Microsoft After finishing the M$ conference mid-post, I got mad enough to delete the entire thing and say this: Microsoft is lucky that they have Live and games like COD4, Gears of War and Halo 3 to keep them afloat, because I haven't seen anything done by Microsoft that is making me want to keep my console. I am very close to selling my console, buying a PS3, and leaving the 360 in these horrible moments I spent watching M$ just advertise their less-than-average products. Also I hated the rep. from Enix because you can barely understand him. Don't use the lead guy just because he is the lead guy, use someone who isn't hard to understand or doesn't sound as if English is a fifth language. That conference has me disappointed greatly in M$, and they're lucky that they have 6 new games that will keep me with their system, along with Live. Fallout 3, GoW 2, Banjo-Kazooie N&B, Fable 2, Guitar Hero and Rock Band. I know that GH and RB are available for PS3, but I already have a total of 5 instruments between the three games I own, and there is no way I am re-buying the games and instruments. The 360 should have been shipped with Wireless, or put the Wireless Adapter at $20, so that I'd actually be willing to buy it.

Decided not to go ahead with it. A lock would be nice.

To get you on a technicality, the spin of the Earth is actually slowing. To point out another technicality, kids are actually maturing earlier, or at least girls/women are. It is suspected/due to female birth control hormones being present in increasing levels in water supplies. This makes girls mature earlier, and men mature later. Also, I'd say the reason kids/teens (I fall under the teens category) are "growing up" faster is because we often idolize our elders, so we imitate them. This means that we want to have sex, we want to do drugs, we want to be as skinnier than we can be, we want to be able to do what we want, have what we want, whenever we want. Most of these are present because our greatest source of information is the media, who show all of these things. Basically, it's all because kids are inevitably being exposed to things that are meant for more mature audiences, and sometimes it can't be helped, no matter how protective a parent is. And a kid having a cellphone isn't growing up too fast, it's just the kid wanting a cell phone and getting it. I personally don't get what the deal is with having a cell phone, I make do without one (Admittedly, that is only because my other friends have cellphones).

Agreed. The Olympics should be all about the athletes and competition, not who did what and let's try to make a difference. I have a feeling the entire reason the hosting country changes every year is to dispell a feeling of being able to connect the Olympics to a certain country, although history already does that. The take over of Tibet was over 40 years ago (Amiright?), now is not the time to bring it up, and try to ruin the greatest sporting event in the World. I am personally against the take over of Tibet, but that doesn't mean I'm going to Boycott the Olympics.

Actually, I have a feeling they will only go after people who upload many copyrighted videos, AKA the big ducks. Watching a video, how have I broken a law? I watched a copyrighted video, I didn't distribute it, I didn't claim it as my own, I didn't use it for commercial purposes, I didn't do anything but watch and enjoy it. If they went against the people who actually uploaded the videos, nothing would be wrong. They did something that is clearly illegal by distsibuting copyrighted material. It's like someone buying a pirated movie. The person who sold the movie can be charged, I think the person who bought it can be charged, if they knew it was pirated. Anyone else who watched the movie with the buyer cannot be, even if they knew it was pirated, because they didn't support pirating movies. In Youtube's case, there is no buyer, just supplier and viewer. Go ahead, look through my viewing history. If you can find that I uploaded copyrighted videos, then you have the wrong person, I have not uploaded any videos of any kind. If you find that I watched copyrighted videos, so what? It's not like I sent out links or distributed the videos. Like this video said, I don't know what is behind a link until I open it. This post was based on my own logic, and the video in the OP, not knowledge of copyright laws.

So you're saying that because tazers and stunning technology have been around for so long that they cannot kill? I'm guessing that you did not hear about a fairly recent (6 months or so) incident involving a Polish man being tazered. Long story short, he died, and he was not tazered more than once. If the bracelets are meant to incapacitate the wearer, than they would need to be the equivalent of tazers in voltage. The only way we can make electricity safer is by reducing our contact with it, the voltages we use in everyday life, and how much of it we use. There is no way to raise or lower our bodies' restistence to electricity, meaning that the amount that is lethal, or incapacitating, remains the same. A tazer with the same effects in 20 years will almost definitely use the same voltage, the only changes that occur will be because we have come across a greater understanding of our bodies and their resistence to electricity. Another problem with these bracelets: What happens when someone requires their wrists to be bandaged? There is one way to avoid the bracelet. If they put it on your ankle, just use a paraplegic and damage their wrists so that they require bandages. If they put it on that person's ankle, and if my understanding of tazers is correct, then the person will not feel the effects of the bracelet. Or you could make a bomb that uses the bracelets output as a detonator. The bracelets just have too many flaws, both in practicality and regarding our rights. If they are implemented, they will make airports lose business and cost us money and comfort, without improving security. On the issue of surveillence. How can a government suspect someone of terrorism, yet not have enough evidence to justify a wire tap warrant? If there isn't enough evidence, put them on personal surveillence. This would be better than a wiretap, and in my opinion less intrusive on privacy. If that's more costly, then I guess America shouldn't have spent that $1 trillion on the War on Terror and other things, which has resulted in the death of more innocents and U.S. soldiers than 9/11 and any other acts of terrorism against the United States (Were there any others?). Not only that, but what has been accomplished? Sadam Hussein was tried and hung for war crimes. That is a worthy goal, but the results have been less than appealing. Saddam's dominance over Iran kept the conflicting forces from openly fighting. Now that he is gone, there is a power clash going on. There are more examples of America's good intentions with this war, with less than good results. I don't care if there is a threat of terrorism, there always is. Give evidence that I may be a terrorist, and I will accept any form of surveillence you want to put me under, for I am no terrorist, putting me under that surveillence will only waste your time and tax payers' money. On the topic of tax, America could use a tax hike. They are already Billions of dollars in debt to China, because of the war, yet tax rates are the same. There is a reason GWB Jr. has created this huge defeceipt (SP?), he won't raise taxes. Taxes are neccesary for a country to function properly within the expectations of it's citizens. If you want uniersal health care,expect to be paying for it with your taxes. Better education? More tax money gone. Better roads? Again, tax money. Anything you want the goverment to do, you will have to pay for.

At least with Halo they made improvements that couldn't be patched in/provided with DLC (More specifically regarding Online Multiplayer, Halo:CE didn't have it, Halo 2 needed improvements, and I can't find any flaws with the current online multiplayer, despite the fact that I prefer COD4 online) . I like the way that they are making Rock Band 2 compatible with Rock Band 1 instruments/DLC and vice-versa, but they could always just release the set list as new DLC, release new instruments, patch in online World Tour. I really do not see the point of releasing a new game, if only to make it available for those who don't use Live.

My plans have changed for pretty much every weekend for the rest of the summer, so I doubt I will be able to go to most of the events now. If anyone needs help with ANY Halo 3 campaign achievements, I'm always willing to help. I've come to love the campaign for Halo.

I would consider myself a slightly xenophobic person, not a racist. If I was called racist, I would ask that person why they think that, and if they made good points, I'll probably agree with them. I won't get offended, unless they intentionally point me out in a crowd of people I respect.

Letting someone has a gun is pretty stupid. It will just give them courage and opportunity to do crime. Having a gun will only deter crime if you visibly carry the gun, and I don't think it is all that socially acceptable to do that. And if they shoot before you know they're there, what use is that gun? The way I see it, I'd be much more willing to shoot someone who is armed with a gun than someone just standing there holding nothing. Also, blitz tactic (This is a situation used by the attacker). You rush the other person, prevent them from drawing their gun, confiscate their gun. Now look what's happened, the criminal has two guns to use, all thanks to your insistence that guns, which are pretty much the backbone of crime, prevent crime. What about highschool shootings, I don't think most of those were done with blackmarket weapon, I think those were either bought by the shooter, or stolen from daddy's gun cabinet. As much as I'd like to see the population of the planet drop, I'd like to do it with as little artificial death as possible. Give me an example where guns save lives.

Nice job not having any sources our quoting the article. um your welcome but this isnt my thread, it belonged to someone else before the rollback, but thanks anyway for being an [wagon] \ If it belonged to someone else before the rollback, how is your OP dated in February? And if it was from before the rollback, why are we still talking about? I don't see how every "shocking" news story from the United States is relevant or even news worthy. Is there much conversation beyond that his parents are obvious idiots?

Aww, and I always thought you liked me :(

Interested in the biological structure of bone in various species? They're X-rays man. Not much you can do with them but hope you can slowly kill your enemies with radiation. Or sterility. A few people around here could certainly use a dose of that.... And then there's 99% of /b/ I would want the ability to know a person's point of view when I want to, or be able to share someone's thoughts when they think about me.

And it annoys me when people start talking all that 4chan crap and memes outside of 4chan - eg, Tipit, thanks to a few who think it's pretty cool. It's not. /b/ is a sad place, and you don't want to be associated with it. I agree with that, but I also have to mention that at times there are some incredibly funny pictures there that are new for me. Granted that the over-used memes, gore, trolls, racism and such outweigh all that, it unfortunately is still enough to bring me back when I am bored. Since I'm doing it with Runescape, I figure I may as well try it with /b/. I will not go on /b/ for the rest of the summer.

I just lost. I just lost. I just lost.

Granted, but now you must always be posting, and if you aren't posting, your computer asplodes. I wish for some rockin' music.

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aqwuariusman It's still pronounced the same!

Black letters scrolling down a bright green screen Why did the black-coloured (and supposedly more environmentally friendly) Google fail?

I agree with that. I don't see how the trilogy is anti-religion. Anti-christian/catholic? Yes, but the book still supports theism. I mean, there is no scientific explanation behind Dust, there is no scientific explanation of Daemons, no scientific explanation of the Alethiometer, no explanation of the Subtle Knife. This thing is pure fantasy. I do understand why people got mad at it for being anti-christian. The books went and pretty much out-right said that the Church was corrupt, evil, and based on the lies of an angel (That same angel being viewed as a God and the creator, who in turn was portrayed as corrupt and evil). So the book is controversial, DONT TAKE AWAY FROM BASIC COMPONENTS OF THE BOOKS I mean, this book could have made a great movie, if it was directly translated from paper to film, not diluted so that it lost half it's meaning. Keep the Magisterium having the appearence of the Catholic church, keep the violence and gore of the books (The biggest worries were that the movies promoted the books, which in turn promote anti-catholicism). Keeping the violence and gore would raise the target age, meaning that the book would be better suited for teenagers, and I personally think that us teenagers are pretty much decided on where in general we stand, along with that we know that what we would be seeing in this movie isn't true. Since the target age is raised, that should mean you'd be able to keep more of the basic ideas of the books. I loved the books of His Dark Materials, but will never see the movie adaptations. Like in the Inheritence series, the trailers turned me off based on just how much was changed from these great books to the movies. I think The Wheel of Time will take you a mighty long time to read. I'm into the 8th book, and I think I got the the first book two and a half years ago (I must point out that on average I read casually). There are 11 books, the twelfth and final book is supposedly being written, but I'm not sure how good that will turn out, Robert Jordan died before he started writing it (Fortunately he left detailed notes on it). I think that the total pages in the series is very approximately 8,250 pages, plus the final book. Incredibly detailed series. Just a tip, try to get a good idea of each character before you move on from the description, there are times when reading that I get lost because I can't remember who was who.

Hmm i never knew there was a distinction between f2p attainable and members only achievements. Well i guess if it says you can get it it must be possible somehow. I havn't played zombie dawn in a while so i can't really remember how the score tallies up.. but i'd assume you'd need to complete every f2p lvl with no screwups, losing minimal zombies and completing as fast as possible, also get a perfect score on every bonus level. Or it could just be a little teaser saying "You might be able to get this, you might not, but it'll be a hell of a lot easier if you pay for the game." I mean, it's like how they show the members-only skills, quests, items and emotes on the f2p servers in Runescape (I realize that is probably just to save them some scripting)

I feel no real connection to being born and living in the country I was and am. Sure, we have our ups, but we also have our downs. I recognize fully that I live my life the way I do at the expense of atleast one other person, and I hate it. I wish I could live sustainably. I wish 8 acres of land weren't required to supply me with my degree of lifestyle. I wish someone didn't have to be paid very little so I don't have to pay as much for my goods. I wish a whole lot of things, but without a dramatic shift in my lifestyle, which would also involve dramatically shifting the lifestyles of atleast 4 other people, and require the cooperation of my government, which then changes the lifestyles of several million people. I am spoiled. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was. I am willing to change the way I live if the quality of my life does not dramatically change. I still want to be able to surf the web, have food whenever I want it, not have to worry about money, not have to worry about healthcare, not have to worry for my life, not have to worry, period. Unfortunately, I doubt that is possible on our planet Earth, with our human population. I am going to do whatever I can to make it better for others, granted it stays relatively the same for me. I love my country for what it does for me, I hate it for what it and myself do to others.