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Sullust

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  1. Originally Posted By: Sylae Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Regardless this makes it sounds like you only support freedom of religion to a certain degree. Freedom of religion is all good and nice, but when these little 'sects' (?) go and start killing people, a line has been crossed. You can't use your rights to infringe upon other people's rights. I only want to touch upon this to make a point; but maybe that's how they feel about abortions. Please lets not turn this into a pro-choice, pro-life debate though.
  2. Roses are red. Violets are Blue. I'm not good at poems, and neither are you.
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    A Riddle

    Originally Posted By: Cairo Jim Oh, bin Laden, hide and seek champion of the world. I think he beats Where's Wally by a long shot. I would assume that Jimmy Hoffa holds that title...
  4. Originally Posted By: Space Between Quote: You're assuming that whoever is guilty also cares about the fates of their fellow classmates, which isn't often the case. I've always thought that the idea was more if somebody else knows who did it, they would provide some incentive for that person to confess, while they wouldn't care otherwise. I suspect being the 'snitch' is much worse than any punishment the teacher would come up with.
  5. A couple of things that came to mind during my eight hour car trip today: i.Windshield Display ii. RFID technology in mile markers (pseudo-gps without satellites). iii. A discrete way to go to the bathroom when in the middle of a traffic jam.
  6. Originally Posted By: Trenton Uchiha, rebel servile. I once shoved a popcorn kernel up my nose...On purpose. Never got it back though. And I thought it would come out the same way my swallowed nickle would, but it dissapeared! A moth flew up my nose once. That was an unpleasant experience...
  7. Originally Posted By: Jewels in Black @Everyone else. Where's my ooohing and ahhhing? I have only a rudimentary understanding of JavaScript and I still managed to make a slideshow. Does nothing impress you anymore? To be honest, it's not that impressive at the moment. Though I do this for a living, so my opinion may be a bit biased. Is there any sort of database on the backend or is this all hard-coded html?
  8. Originally Posted By: Tyranicus It's very hot here in Pennsylvania. It's in the 90s today, and it hasn't been out of the 80s except at night for the last week or so. This is a little warm for this time of the year, but not excessively so. We did have a tornado last week though. That is very rare in this area. I think there were actually three tornadoes, though I was in hiding in my bathtub for most of that unpleasant storm. I'm not a fan of this weather; and tomorrow it's supposed to be even hotter...
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    Left Behind.

    Originally Posted By: Lier Beneath the Silent Skies I pick people that like Pokemon. Screw them. They are actually quite good games. At any rate, if people were being 'saved' I doubt that it would be people you don't like. Well unless you're he-who-must-not-be-named...
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    Left Behind.

    Good morning fellow sinners.
  11. Apparently eight years (to the day) since 'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED'...
  12. Originally Posted By: Dantius Here's the problem. While I can understand this kind of "set our own affairs in order first" type of thinking, the fact is, the percentage of people in the US in real, serious need of food, that would stave if they did not receive aid, is vastly in terms of number and percent than numbers in other countries. North Korea, for instance, is a country where millions would literally starve to death if we stopped sending them food aid. Farm subsidies < millions dead. For proof of the fact that millions can die in a famine, just look at the Holodomor- a famine created in Ukraine by the orders of Josef Stalin. It killed more people than the entire Holocaust, a much more widely known genocide (12 million was the figure I read, versus 11 for the Holocaust), but instead of bothering with death camps and gas, Stalin simply cut off food. It's a terrible way to die, and mass casualties are very plausible. This is probably going to come off as horribly cruel; but isn't helping starving people now only going to create many more starving people later? In the short-term you'll be helping these people survive. In the long-term you're just contributing to an ever growing population which will only further stress the food supply and in turn lead to even more people starving.
  13. I've clearly forgotten how to join an AIM chat...
  14. We're only reaching the end of America Part i. I hope you're well prepared for America Part ii. There will be a brief intermission and snacks in the lobby.
  15. Originally Posted By: VCH This topic was about Harry Potter from the beginning. Heh, it's true. I recently saw the first part of Deathly Hallows. It rekindled my deep desire for magic to exist. However, after 10 minutes of staring at a coin trying to make it fall over with my mind I've given up again. Perhaps at 25 it's time to finally just throw in the towel on magic...
  16. Originally Posted By: Impudent Strumpet! And I never got to take Hermione out for a drink! Emma Watson does exist though. Originally Posted By: Dintiradan The difference between magic and your pseudomagic is that magic doesn't risk turning the entire world into grey goo. I think this is only a problem if you allow the nanomachines to self-replicate. We can probably keep them 'dumb' enough to prevent that. Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Also, "real world" magic and spells would probably involve patents, licenses, and DRM. There would be competing nanomachine vendors having different implementations. So any given magic user would only have a license with one vendor, be it Illusions Incorporated or the Black Magic Company. You haven't installed the iLevitate App on your iMagic yet? I also suspect an EMP device would act very effectively as an 'anti-magic' field.
  17. As some of you are already aware, magic does not exist. If you were not aware, I apologize for crushing your hopes. This is not to say that all is lost; rather, I think we may be able to find a solution through technology to implement 'pseudo'-magic. Basically I envision using nanomachines, as well as a control device to manipulate the machines in the desired manner. We'll need alot of nanomachines to accomplish this feat. Ideally they could generate themselves; however, barring that a suitable device could be constructed to disperse them into the atmosphere. This global collection of airbourne nanomachines will be referred to as mana. The control device actually involves two separate mechanisms, your brain and a wand. The reason for this is to prevent you from doing harmful 'pseudo'-magic in your sleep. When held the wand interprets 'simple' commands from your brain and translates them into instructions the mana can interpret. I'll start with something simple that everyone would find useful, moving distant objects. Spell: Telekinesis 1. The wand is aimed at the desired object. 2. A sufficient amount of mana surrounds the object. 3. A 'follow' command is issued by your brain and interpreted by the wand. 4. The mana moves the object in accordance with the movement of your wand until the 'stop' command is issued. 'closer' and 'further' commands may be given to indicate that the object should be moved closer or further to the user. Thoughts? Comments? Additional spell implementations?
  18. I think what you are looking for is an MMORPG not an RPG.
  19. Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Originally Posted By: The Mystic Unfortunately, it does. However, the best birth control and family planning methods can be summed up in one word: abstinence. Except it doesn't work. Most people will eventually have sex anyway, and if all they've ever learned is abstinence they'll be unprepared for it. Much better to educate people and let them make their own decisions. Dikiyoba. In that sense, being gay is a superior form of birth control than abstinence. I propose we start teaching this in our schools
  20. You don't seem like the most pleasant person in the world...
  21. I don't mind paying taxes. What I hate is having to fill out forms every year to tell the government information they should already know.
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    48÷2(9+3)=?

    Originally Posted By: Venom Uh, how does your calculator get 2 from that equation? Maybe the parser treats it as a function call. It makes more sense if you look at it as 48 ÷ f(9+3) where f(x) = 2 * x.
  23. http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/12/stephen-colberts-not-factual-hashtagging/?hpt=C2 It was a remark seemingly made for late-night TV comics: Sen. Jon Kyl's claim that abortion is "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does." When the actual figure turned out to be 3 percent, his office released a statement clarifying that Kyl's figure was "not intended to be a factual statement."
  24. Originally Posted By: VCH Why not? Performing worse means something, doesn't it? I see no reason why a school with special needs shouldn't receive special funding. Wouldn't this just encourage them to continue performing at a lower level? Originally Posted By: Lilith counterpoint: in the real world, you can't know that you want an answer until you're capable of recognising that there's a question It's been my experience that people know they want an answer, they just don't know the correct way to get Google to tell it to them.
  25. Well it was Morgoth's hand-weapon; but for humans it's a bit unwieldy.
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