highlanders

No, if the world was all made of men, this race would have gone extinct thousands of years ago. Hm no, in my example the human race would have found a new way to reproduce without women. In fact, women wouldn't have existed in the first place. I didn't take the time to explain since it's just a stupid example. My my, aren't you concerned.

It's interesting, how in 2007, many men are still so much convinced they are better than women. The women does the swell thing: give back the money, yet there is still people who'll find a way to disagree with it because it's "weak" to be nice. "Men have balls" or ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅMoral dilemmas are for losersÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬ÃâÃ

Several videos here: http://www.gamekult.com/tout/jeux/fiche ... video.html According to the reviews, it's an excellent game, but has two weaknesses: camera angles, and a short life span. 10 hours to complete the storyline, and around 20 hours to collect absolutely everything and finish the game. That's a bummer. But you can start it over every once in a while.

None of them seem to deserve it.

I guess the only way to know is to send a query to Jagex.

Get 70 defence, and let the armour and food take care of your defence. When it comes down to melee, strength and attack are superior to defence, though defence is useful to have in many situations. But in the end of the day, defence is useless if you don't have offense.

Doing exercise in the cold burns up to twice more calories because your body has to burn fat to maintain its' temperature.

I'd go to a lot of places. Quickly, I'd say Egypt, Africa, France, UK, Italy, and Russia.

Be logical, if they introduced additional rares in the public place, people would massively complain and riot. But sneakily, nobody would even notice.

When someone stands up quickly from a sitting or lying position, the blood rushes into the legs, and for a short period of time the brain is deprived from the needed amount of blood which causes dizzyness, your sight becomes blurry and you start feeling the beggining of a fainting. I know what it is, I was once operated, and for the few months after, each time I would stand up I would start feeling the beggining of a fainting. It went away as my body recovered. Normal individuals feel this mildly, it's normal, but never so bad that they actually fall and hit their head. The only health problem I know of that could exacerbate those symptoms would be low blood pressure(hypotension). Taking your pressure is pretty easy, where I live they can take your blood pressure at the pharmacy. I suggest you try verifying that before anything else.

Ask for firemaking to get some improvements instead, it needs it badly. Firemaking is almost completely useless. And meanwhile, Jagex is making a ton of pointless updates instead of fixing it.

[hide=Wall Street firms see recession nearing] NEW YORK (Reuters) - The economy might be edging toward a recession in the wake of mortgage-related credit woes plaguing the financial markets, bankers and analysts said on Monday. "I think that the risk of a recession is greater than people realize," James Dunne, chief executive of Sandler O'Neil & Partners, said at the Reuters Finance Summit in New York. With home prices dropping, more people about to lose their homes due to unaffordable mortgages and sharply higher oil prices, the economy could be on the brink of slowing down, they said. "I think there is a serious risk to the economy," Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, told the summit. Charles Peabody, partner at New York-based research firm Portales Partners LLC, said the Fed may have to take more aggressive action and drop the benchmark fed funds rate in an effort to prevent a Japanese-style economic stagnation, which eventually evolved into a deflationary recession. "We're moving into a recession, and over time -- the length of which is difficult to predict -- there is going to be a lot more credit problems," he said. Preliminary data released by the U.S. government last week showed that the gross domestic product grew by 3.9 percent in the third quarter, compared with 3.8 percent in the previous quarter and 0.6 percent in the first three months of this year. Last week the Fed announced at the end of a two-day meeting of its policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee that it was reducing its federal funds rate a quarter percentage point to 4.5 percent, citing its expectation that "economic expansion will likely slow in the near term" because of the housing sector's problems. The Fed noted that growth was "solid" in the third quarter and said it thought financial-market strains were easing, but still opted for some insurance to add stimulus. When asked where the U.S. economy is headed over the next year or so, John Duffy, chairman and CEO of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, said at the summit: "In the toilet." With the recent data and Fed moves, Wall Street firms believe the Fed will be forced to reduce interest rates on loans to banks to 3 percent, or even as low as 1 percent, at least over the next year. Duffy said Fed action alone will not cure what ails the U.S. economy and financial institutions, which are experiencing a liquidity squeeze in the markets for credit and other financial products. "I don't think they (the Fed) have a silver bullet,' he told Reuters. (Reporting by John Poirier) http://today.reuters.com/news/articlene ... CONOMY.xml[/hide] [hide=Worst crisis in 30 years says Hutton] The worst crisis I've seen in 30 years The latest financial downturn is the final nail in the coffin of the conservative free-market world-view Will Hutton Sunday November 4, 2007 The Observer I have been following the financial markets for more than 30 years. Crises have come and gone, but the one unfolding since August and which intensified last week is the most serious. It is not just that its impact is cascading around the world because of the new interconnectedness of global finance, it is that the authorities, particularly in Britain and America, have lost control and do not have the means to regain it as quickly as we might hope. With an oil price approaching $100 a barrel, we are in an uncharted and dangerous place. After more than 15 years of extraordinarily benevolent economic conditions worldwide - cheap oil, cheap money, growing trade, the Asia boom, rising house prices - things are unravelling at bewildering speed. The system might be able to handle one shock; it is undoubtedly too fragile to handle so many simultaneously. The epicentre is the hegemonic London and New York financial system. No longer are these discrete financial markets; financial deregulation and the global ambitions of American and European banks have made them intertwined. They are one system that operates around the same principles, copying each other's methods, making the same mistakes and exposing themselves to each other's risks. Thus the collapse of the American housing market, the explosive growth of American home repossessions and the discovery that 'structured investment vehicles' (SIVs), the toxic newfangled financial instruments that own as much as $350bn of valueless mortgages, are not American problems. They are ours too. The recent departure of the CEOs of two of the biggest investment banks - UBS and Merrill Lynch - after unexpected losses and loan write-offs running into many billions of dollars is not just an American problem, it's ours. It is also our problem that Credit Suisse last week announced more billions of write-offs, and Citigroup was rumoured to be following suit with even bigger losses. When banks take hits as big as this, it hurts their capacity to lend, because prudence demands they have up to eight dollars or pounds of their own capital to support every hundred dollars or pounds that they lend. If they don't, they have to lend less - and that is called a credit crunch. This crunch is already upon us - hence the massive selling of bank shares at the end of last week and the extraordinary news that the taxpayer, one way or another, now has supplied ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã40bn to the stricken mortgage lender Northern Rock, a sum that could climb to ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã50bn by Christmas. Stunningly, that represents 5 per cent of GDP. The bank got into trouble because it thought, under the chairmanship of free-market fundamentalist Viscount Ridley, that it could escape trivial matters like having savers' deposits to finance its adventurous lending. Instead, it could copy the Americans and sell SIVs to banks in London - most of them the same banks that bought from New York - and it could steal a march on its competitors. But in the London/New York financial system, when things went wrong in the US they immediately went wrong for Northern Rock in Britain. The banks announcing those epic write-offs no longer wanted to buy Northern Rock's loans - and neither did anybody else. The Bank and Treasury hoped to get by with masterly inactivity, but instead, as we know, there was a run on the bank. The government had to step in by guaranteeing ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã20bn of small savers' deposits - but also, we now learn, by supplying ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã30bn of finance that the financial system will no longer supply itself. This is testimony to the degree of fear that characterises today's credit crunch - and it bodes ill. What is worse, the Ridleyite maxims that got Northern Rock into trouble have also disabled the rescue, protracting rather than limiting the crisis. What should have happened, of course, is that when the Bank of England found that it could not find a secret buyer for Northern Rock in the summer, it should have done what it did in the 1974 secondary banking crisis. It should have taken Northern Rock into the Bank of England's ownership. Individual depositors and the City institutions alike would have been quickly reassured, and when the crisis passed the bank could have been sold back into the private sector. But in 2007, the Ridley view of how to run a bank is also the authorities' view of how to respond to a crisis. There is a prohibition on even short-term public ownership. In a free-market fundamentalist world, this, like regulation, is regarded as wrong. Instead, the most expensive and riskier route has been taken so that Northern Rock remains part of the problem rather than the solution. For when a central bank supplies rescue finance on this epic scale, it has wider implications. In effect it is printing money to bail out Northern Rock; good for the financial system, but bad for the rest of us because it will make it harder for the Bank to cut interest rates. Already the British property market is in trouble. Given the absurd prices it is all too possible that we could follow the American market, with huge bad debts and mortgage repossessions. The way Northern Rock has been rescued will make it hard for the Bank to cut interest rates and revive the property market, while remaining wedded to its inflation target. And if there are more Northern Rocks rescued in the same way, the dilemma will get worse. Last week David Cameron proudly pronounced that the Tories were winning the battle of ideas. He could not be more wrong. The credit crunch is testimony to the exhaustion of a conservative free-market world-view. To get through this crisis, the American and British governments are going to have to think what hitherto has been unthinkable. Already the Americans are cutting interest rates careless of the inflationary consequences. Britain may have to follow suit. Both governments will have to devise new forms of regulation and control. Banks may have to be taken into public ownership. For 30 years we have been suckered into thinking that public authority has no business intervening in the wealth-generating, free-market financial system. This is the year when reality resurfaced with a vengeance. [email protected] http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnis ... e_continue [/hide]

I loved all the types of teas I've tasted so far.

Tell me something I don't know. :wink: Runescape has faults but it does has a long lasting appeal, unlike many games. There is always something to do.

I was imagining it was going to be something much different. I don't like what it turned out to be instead. Just a way to be assisted without the dangers of being swindled. It isn't of any use to older players, who already know better than trading with untrustworthy individuals.

[hide] When the ranting and raving has devolved to mass-spamming and the thread is going so fast that rational people can't discuss issues without their threads getting lost, then it has become chaos and anarchy. And it has. [/hide] Such threads are locked, like on any forum. As long as things are under control, it is not anarchy, nor chaos.

I think the author rated the game pretty fairly. Most of you got so little general mmorpg experience apart from Runescape that you have very little insight to compare. The combat system is non-intuitive. An intuitive combat system uses hotkeys, keyboard keys, aswell as the mouse, and when you play it feels natural to do so. With Runescape, this is completely lacking, all we have is the mouse. Runescape isn't a bad game, but it is what it is. You cannot expect people to give it amazing scores in things it is not good at. It's not because your a fanboy and that in your mind Runescape is worth 10 on 10 that it is how much the game is worth in an objective matter.

As I said, it is mere silliness and stupidity, not chaos and anarchy as the author of this topic claimed.

Lots of fanboys in denial here. I agree with all the author's ratings except lasting appeal, which deserves more points.

People make the RSOF for worse than it actually is. How many people making such claims actually check the forums to be sure it's the case? I do. And what I see is silly. Silly rants, silly suggestions, etc, but nowhere near total chaos and anarchy.

Most of the companies don't. They make little publicities to make people believe otherwise because it helps their image, but it's not true. It shows in their customer support, quality of their products, the provenance of their products, how they threat their employees, etc.

Reading a book does not make one more intelligent. It just makes one split out ideas and concepts that are not his own, but the book's.

Teachers should show both sides of the issue, and make the children write an essay about which side they have chosen to support and for which reasons, it would promote some individual thinking. Unfortunately, teachers are rarely neutral or intelligent enough to remain neutral with controversial issues, and their opinions rub on the students. Kids often hear only the opinions of their parents on controversial issues, a neutral learning environment would help them form an opinion with broader perspectives.

Tsk tsk tsk

Yes, why not. Rants & debate club forums have nothing in common anyway, so it makes no sense they're in the same section.