Acinonyx

Is that because they are using the transplant on the lower portion of her face or because a face transplant would never make you take on the appearance of the donor? The latter, I think. Because a person's underlying jaw and bone structure is different from anothers, the superficial tissue is never going to look the same on any two people. Yes, I've heard this before.

sorry i had to make a topic about this but i've been scouring the entire internet looking for an answer. is there a formula like method for finding the vertex of a quartic equation's graph? like for a quadratic, it's (-b/2a) for the x value. im doing an extra credit problem from my pre-calculus class and i need to know this. since i dont want anyone to give me the answer, i'm not going to post the problem here. thanks! acinonyx

chuck the raw meat, the toy horse, and the jug of water. basically, throw away the stuff you can get very easily and may not be immediately of use.

Congratulations, kid, the Advil company just scored a huge profit off of that post that you just made. Haven't read the thread, have you? The Indians weren't Nazi's, Hitler was a grimy klepto who stole the symbol from them. It was a sacred symbol, a religious symbol. But the Nazis corrupted it, defiled it, perverted it. And it's not the native americans. The Indians are the people who live on the subcontinent of India in Asia. They're named for the Indus river that runs through there. The Native Americans were originally called Indians because Chris Colombus was a directionless twit, he thought he landed on Asian when it was actually America. True Indians are the people of India. it was a good thing you got to him first. i might have used some pretty colorful language replying to hist post. (to jackattack) first of all, you didn't read my post. second of all, you just struck my biggest pet peeve of all...native americans are different from indians. native americans are from america. indians are from india. we are in the 21st century. get it through your head.

Ooh I've been there :D The statues there are incredible... I remember seeing the swastika repeating in a pattern, on the trim of a rooftop. EDIT: This the same place? http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4521/img1533et1.jpg (too big to post :P) yeah, that might have been it. i think those two gray things in the center might have been removed though. hmm.

I went to a huge Buddhist temple in Vancouver recently when I was vacationing there...it turns out they actually use the swastika too though they call it something else, I believe. It also looks slightly different. Note that Buddhism actually originated in India and moved further east to China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. It's very intriguing to find how symbols travel and evolve as they move from culture to culture.

I play women's lacrosse, shoot air rifles, play soccer, and I'm about to start a badminton club in my school. I also like cricket, though I don't play it.

Ooo...sorry, I think I forgot to mention this. Hitler believed that having Aryan heritage was noble and that the Jews, who did not have this heritage, did not deserve to live in his land. Something like that.

Before I start, I'd like everyone to know (especially those that do not live in North America/Europe) that this is a somewhat delicate religious/political subject. As always, I'd appreciate it if you were to read through my entire post before making a particularly strong comment. I'll try not to make it too long. As far as I know, these are my words entirely...no outside info sources. Please do tell me if you know any of this to be wrong. So, to start off, I'm a Hindu (Indian nationality) living outside my native country, India. My family and I are pretty devout - we go to temples, worship, perform rituals...all that good stuff. Recently, we bought a new minivan and as is custom, we drove it to the temple to be inaugurated and "blessed" with long life. The truth is, while modern Hindu's do not put too much faith in rituals such as these, they do it as per tradition and to see that their culture doesn't die off. So when our car's inaugurating ritual was done, we decided to go out to eat for dinner. My dad parked the van in a well lit place so he could keep an eye on it while we were in the restaurant. When we had finished and came out, we were surprised to see some random people standing around our car, staring at us with disbelief and perhaps disgust. Just then, we noticed that the priest at the temple had drawn a large swastika on our car's hood with turmeric paste, as is customary. Some people even came up and asked us if we were pro-Nazi and were trying to make some sort of statement. It took us quite a bit of time to explain to everyone that the Swastika is in fact a very sacred symbol in Hinduism, and is painted on houses, cars, doorsteps...everywhere in order to bring luck and happiness. We were very surprised to see how the Swastika had garnered such negative feelings from people in the United States when in India, it was so auspicious. So why is it that the same symbol that is sacred to Hindus is looked down upon by Westerners? Coincidence? Nope. The Swastika is originally Hindu. It's ours. It's origins lie with the invasion of India by the Europeans several thousand years ago, when they brought religion, culture, and new ideas to the subcontinent and its residents, known as the A r y a n people (sorry, i have to go around the censor). It was here that the ancient language Sanskrit was born...it actually came from the roots of Latin and other romance languages. This is why many of the words in Sanskrit and Latin sound similar. Along with language, the Christian invaders brought the Cross, which eventually evolved into the Swastika after a long period of time. It became a part of Hinduism and has been ever since. But during World War II, the Swastika was claimed by Adolf Hitler, who used it to represent Nazism, an autocracy with extreme opposition to other religions (like Judaism). He put this symbol on his flags and it became widely feared as the symbol of Hitler and his ruthless Nazis. This passed on to the rest of the world, including North America where the feeling of hatred towards Hitler and the Nazis is still harbored, perhaps by Holocaust victims and their descendants. So that's my point. If you ever spot a Swastika around, on a car, in front of a house, on a wall, don't immediately mistake it as a Nazi anti-Semitic symbol. Be aware that the Hindu Swastika has a rich history and is in fact very sacred on the other side of the globe (if you live in the Western Hemisphere). And more generally, I'd like to address the fact that symbols or words can have a much deeper meaning than what is apparent...the Swastika is just one small example. EDIT: I just realized that it might be useful to show the traditional symbol used by Hindus:

thats what gave me the idea :) but it would definitely be a lot more useful on the rants forum. makes sense, no?

A lot of you who have visited the rants forum might have noticed that topics of the same type are constantly being repeated and are in violation of the forum rules. The rules state this: ...but even so, users post topics about these subjects and are constantly being flamed or locked for it. So instead of hurting the person or locking their topic, I suggest that we make a sticky for different scenarios where people can share their stories and not worry about violating the rules. For example: "Sticky: Got hacked or scammed? Share your story" or "Sticky: Got banned unfairly? Tell us the details" This way, those who don't want to read rants about such topics can easily avoid them, and those who want to share their story/read other stories can easliy access them through the stickies.

also remember that Jagex tends to ban perfectly usable English at times...words like "Fletching" or "thats" super cautious? no. overly sensitive? yes.

About what ranging level should be sufficient to dominate lessers? I generally use steel or mithril arrows.

I want to make the most out of my visits to Karamja and get as much experience as possible before I get bored of slashing Lessers. I'm f2p and currently use a rune scimitar (slash) against them but was wondering if there is a better way to kill them. I'm looking to hit more often (hit less 0s) and deal more damage in a smaller amount of time. Any advice?

You obviously put a lot of time and effort into that...it's flawless. I really hope Jagex will accept this idea.

banned for finger dancing. \

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I just read about this new thing in the morning newspaper called World of DateCraft (a variation of World of Warcraft, for those of you who haven't heard of it). So, it's supposed to be like an online multiplayer fantasy game (much like Runescape) except you actually try to hook up and date people, much like regular online dating programs. The newspaper article said that this would be advantageous for the average computer nerds to find soulmates, and perhaps more females would be attracted to online multiplayer gaming. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think it will work well? Have any more information to share?

Yeah, it's better. Know why? Because it caters to f2p as well!!!! What will you do without your beloved f2p players?

I'm not sure if this counts, but I've "invested" in noobs before. A long time ago in RSC, I made friends with a new player and gave him a lot of my old stuff that I didn't need. A long time later, after I had been playing on and off, my friend has become a super rich and high level player. He fortunately remembers how I've helped him in the past and gives me tons of stuff. It was great.

Agreed...its those kinds of movies that really scare me. I don't get spooked by trick or treating on halloween...that's for fun. I get scared by things that are definitely freaky and realistic enough.

Have fun...Runescape is mega addicting. But don't let it occupy all of your time. Go outside and get a little fresh air now and then.

I don't think I've always hated horror movies. I've watched The Sixth Sense when I was about eight years old and it didn't scare me much. But as I grew older, I started to actually UNDERSTAND the horror movies I watched and therefore even after the movie was over, they would keep replaying in my head and cause me to stay up at night. As a result, I've been avoiding horror movies as much as possible though some have been unavoidable, like the ones I would watch at a friend's slumber party or something. One such movie was Signs, directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Don't get me wrong, Signs is a great movie...but I hated it right after I watched it the first time because I just could not get it out of my head for weeks to come. I was constantly afraid of being assaulted by aliens and had a hard time sleeping at night. Later on, however, I realized that the movies that really scare me are the ones that connect with science in some way...like Signs. Why? I'm guessing it's because it makes the film more believable when you base it on solid fact with proof behind it. When the director makes this connection, it make the film more believable (making you think it could happen to you) and therefore frightening you even more. :ohnoes: So in this area, psychological thrillers REALLY scare me. I recently saw an Indian movie about a guy suffering from split personalities...and this kind of thing is true. Though I know that the guy in the movie was exaggerated a lot, it scared me to know that this sort of thing can really happen to anyone who faced some sort of trauma. The movies that had ghosts in them do still scare me, but not so much because they're not necessarily connected to science in some way. This makes them less believable. __________ So...sorry I wandered off my point in a ton of different ways....but here is my question to you readers: What in a movie scares you the most? Are you like me - scared of psychological/sci-fi horror flicks...or the traditional ghost/haunted house/zombies/vampires sort of thing (Sorry if I'm stereotyping by grouping all those together)? And please add any of your thoughts on anything I said...I'm trying to make this as general a discussion as possible. I really want to know what you think!

are sceptres tradable?

so, forgive my ignorance, but how exactly do you get the sceptre?