The Halo rings couldn't destroy the universe together or seperately, their sole purpose was to extinguish the only 'food' source of The Flood, which was life, in the Milky Way galaxy. If any one ring were to be activated, it would send a, iirc, subspace transmission to all the other rings to activate them as well.
The danger from secondhand smoke is so small that it doesn't even exist unless you are sitting an inch from the end of the smoker's cigarette inhaling all the smoke that comes off it. Otherwise, it dissipates in the air to the point where it has almost no effect on anyone with anything less than the kind of asthma that kills you for breathing in a single speck of dust.
That whole EPA report saying that secondhand smoke > primary smoke? Yea, repeatedly proven to be almost entire falsified.
Or you set them on a nearly neverending cycle of crafting gargoyles, complimented by a few wooings of a neighbor to marry and move them in, at which point you set them on the gargoyle crafting fest, and the same with your kid that you eventually have.
Obama is young, charismatic, shouts CHANGECHANGECHANGE as if it means anything, and black. The last part was huge. Young voters flocked to him because he is young, and because they feel bad about what whites did to blacks for centuries, and blacks flocked to him (95+% voted for him, and nearly every single one interviewed says this) because he was black and they wanted to put a black man in the white house. Look at california, blacks voted in droves for him, and then on Prop 8 they voted 75-80% for it, which says to me they don't really care what Obama's stands are, just that he's a black man and they were gonna do anything to get him into the white house.
Republican pollwatchers getting thrown out of polling stations merely for being republicans, black panthers standing outside of polling stations in their full uniforms waving batons, yea, definitely a fair election not even counting the fact that the media tried to bend mccain over and violate him as much as possible with the exception of Fox.
Yes I understand this, but such a result is easily seen due to the empirical evidence of what occurs after a bone marrow transplant in cancer patients. Their entire immune system is rebuilt in the image of the donor's immune system, and if that person has the mutation in HCR5 (wrong?) receptor then voila, the person receiving said donation is now immune to HIV.
This is common sense to anyone with an ounce of common knowledge. There are communities and individuals all over Europe that are naturally immune ot HIV due to a mutation of the receptor on white blood cells that HIV latches onto. Common sense would tell you that hey! remove the infected patient's bone marrow, and give him bone marrow from a person who is immune to HIV. This isn't a discovery at all, it's merely the application of a common procedure in a very sensible way.
I'm an atheist republican, and can say that it's not a matter of not wanting to better their fellow man, it's a matter of bettering yourself, just as your fellow man should do FOR HIMSELF. Donating to charity voluntarily is great, but forced 'donation' via taxation to 'better' your less motivated fellow man in the form of handouts and entitlements is just plain fucked up and goes against the American Dream that Obama claims his plan would actually promote.
AC1's doom was Microsoft selling the rights to Turbine. The instant Turbine got a hold of the rights, the game went downhill. That was the beginning of the end of the epicness of AC. The only thing they've gotten right is their refusal to remove animation breaks from the game which would destroy PVP, which is still the greatest of any MMORPG out there. Other than that, they've decimated the game with upping the level cap, introducing dungeons that produce ridiculous amounts of experience per hour, introducing 9230598280502895 defense/health buffs without corresponding attack buffs, the list goes on and on.
I keep hearing 'ZOMG THE DEREGULATION DID IT FUCK BUSH!!!!!'
but...
Not one person who says these things has been able to point to any deregulation that could have caused this mess, which was in fact created by the democrats pushing in the 90s for this silly notion that it's every persons RIGHT to own a house and if the banks don't make it happen they would facerape the banks to oblivion.
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since you are all such good customers", he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20". Drinks for the ten now cost just $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his "fair share?" They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so: The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings). The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings). The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings). The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings). The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings). The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. "I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got $10!" "Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!" "That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!" "Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!" The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier. David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, University of Georgia
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The only people who wanted to 'investigate' this 'scandal' (she pushed to have a trooper, her brother in law or ex brother in law, i forget which at the time, who fucking tasered his 10 yr old step son, who drove in his cruiser drunk multiple times, and was caught hunting illegally, fired, as well as actually fired the commissioner of whatever organization/department for repeatedly going behind her back to push his own agenda/budget plans and ignoring the budget he had been handed by her) are people trying to attack her. It's such a bullshit case that the only reason it is 'news' or even happening is because of everyone holding up Obama the Messiah as if he's jesus himself.
Semi automatic means the gun fires 1 bullet per pull of the trigger, which is every handgun except revolvers (i may be wrong on revolvers though) and every rifle except bolt action ones or full auto.
We didn't need 'safety' measures for decades/centuries, the only reason accidents occur with guns nowadays is people no longer respect the danger/power of a gun and fuck around with them, as well as do not teach their children that same respect that their parents had taught them. Also, how in the fuck are you supposed to get a gun lock off a gun, find the bullets and load it, while someone is breaking into your house/already broken into it and you're in a state of panic? Gun control is using two hands imo.
So that's why since the gun ban violent crime has skyrocketed? Home invasions, specifically those that occur when the dwelling has people in it, were up over 50% almost overnight (figuratively speaking)
If only steel didn't lose >50% of it's strength at the temperature of the inferno inside the towers.
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Asheron's Call had numerous world altering events such as the elemental invasion in I believe 02 during the gaerlan arc, and there was SUPPOSED to be a massive quest in the Dark Majesty expansion where you could drain the huge lake on the plateau but it proved to be too hard to do and keep teh expansion on schedule.
Increases in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere, through all data we have from ice core samples, lag temperature increases by decades to centuries as all that CO2 is locked in the oceans and is released when they warm up. It is not an active cause of global warming, but merely a symptom/visible effect.
Asheron's Call had twitch based combat wherein you could manually dodge (throw the tracking off) for missile attacks (arrows/crossbow bolts) and magic bolts. The gameplay was extremely fast and fluid and lent itself to allowing a skilled player being able to take on multiple opponents with ease if he knew what he was doing.
It worked amazingly in Asheron's Call for numerous storyline climaxes, or plot changing events. The Shard of the Herald event where players had to choose to either defend or attack the last of six soul crystals which if destroyed would release Bael'Zharon, a monster so epicly badass that he nearly destroyed an entire civilization of mages 100x as advanced as the magics available to player characters. Most storylines had such major pvp events as the culmination of whether the story goes one way or the other. It very nearly happened one time where the devs had to come up last second with a new storyline to go with but at the very very last second things went the way the original storyline writing had it written down as.
You know those girls in fashion ads with miniskirts/dresses/bikinis on that every guy who doesn't love cock are actually just entering puberty (10-14) right? No real woman can fit into a lot of those things due to their hips getting wider. Once a guy hears the age they go 'omg i wouldnt fuck that' but they are still thinking 'id fuck the living shit out of her.'
Do you even know what waterboarding is? I doubt so because you said it's basically drowning. They attempt to force a drowning RESPONSE from your body which causes and adrenaline rush and intense state of fear/vulnerability in the person receiving it. My friends and I have done it to each other to see what it's all about, and it's not bad at fucking all if you have any willpower/brains.
IMO, Instant Runoff Voting is the way to go. Everyone gets to set a score to each candidate (aka, they pick their first second etc choices) and in the end it all gets added up and whoever has the highest overall score wins.
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The Halo rings couldn't destroy the universe together or seperately, their sole purpose was to extinguish the only 'food' source of The Flood, which was life, in the Milky Way galaxy. If any one ring were to be activated, it would send a, iirc, subspace transmission to all the other rings to activate them as well.
The danger from secondhand smoke is so small that it doesn't even exist unless you are sitting an inch from the end of the smoker's cigarette inhaling all the smoke that comes off it. Otherwise, it dissipates in the air to the point where it has almost no effect on anyone with anything less than the kind of asthma that kills you for breathing in a single speck of dust.
That whole EPA report saying that secondhand smoke > primary smoke? Yea, repeatedly proven to be almost entire falsified.
Or you set them on a nearly neverending cycle of crafting gargoyles, complimented by a few wooings of a neighbor to marry and move them in, at which point you set them on the gargoyle crafting fest, and the same with your kid that you eventually have.
Obama is young, charismatic, shouts CHANGECHANGECHANGE as if it means anything, and black. The last part was huge. Young voters flocked to him because he is young, and because they feel bad about what whites did to blacks for centuries, and blacks flocked to him (95+% voted for him, and nearly every single one interviewed says this) because he was black and they wanted to put a black man in the white house. Look at california, blacks voted in droves for him, and then on Prop 8 they voted 75-80% for it, which says to me they don't really care what Obama's stands are, just that he's a black man and they were gonna do anything to get him into the white house.
Republican pollwatchers getting thrown out of polling stations merely for being republicans, black panthers standing outside of polling stations in their full uniforms waving batons, yea, definitely a fair election not even counting the fact that the media tried to bend mccain over and violate him as much as possible with the exception of Fox.
Yes I understand this, but such a result is easily seen due to the empirical evidence of what occurs after a bone marrow transplant in cancer patients. Their entire immune system is rebuilt in the image of the donor's immune system, and if that person has the mutation in HCR5 (wrong?) receptor then voila, the person receiving said donation is now immune to HIV.
This is common sense to anyone with an ounce of common knowledge. There are communities and individuals all over Europe that are naturally immune ot HIV due to a mutation of the receptor on white blood cells that HIV latches onto. Common sense would tell you that hey! remove the infected patient's bone marrow, and give him bone marrow from a person who is immune to HIV. This isn't a discovery at all, it's merely the application of a common procedure in a very sensible way.
I'm an atheist republican, and can say that it's not a matter of not wanting to better their fellow man, it's a matter of bettering yourself, just as your fellow man should do FOR HIMSELF. Donating to charity voluntarily is great, but forced 'donation' via taxation to 'better' your less motivated fellow man in the form of handouts and entitlements is just plain fucked up and goes against the American Dream that Obama claims his plan would actually promote.
AC1's doom was Microsoft selling the rights to Turbine. The instant Turbine got a hold of the rights, the game went downhill. That was the beginning of the end of the epicness of AC. The only thing they've gotten right is their refusal to remove animation breaks from the game which would destroy PVP, which is still the greatest of any MMORPG out there. Other than that, they've decimated the game with upping the level cap, introducing dungeons that produce ridiculous amounts of experience per hour, introducing 9230598280502895 defense/health buffs without corresponding attack buffs, the list goes on and on.
I keep hearing 'ZOMG THE DEREGULATION DID IT FUCK BUSH!!!!!'
but...
Not one person who says these things has been able to point to any deregulation that could have caused this mess, which was in fact created by the democrats pushing in the 90s for this silly notion that it's every persons RIGHT to own a house and if the banks don't make it happen they would facerape the banks to oblivion.
Barstool Economics
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.
"Since you are all such good customers", he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20". Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his "fair share?"
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
"I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got $10!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!"
"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, University of Georgia
The only people who wanted to 'investigate' this 'scandal' (she pushed to have a trooper, her brother in law or ex brother in law, i forget which at the time, who fucking tasered his 10 yr old step son, who drove in his cruiser drunk multiple times, and was caught hunting illegally, fired, as well as actually fired the commissioner of whatever organization/department for repeatedly going behind her back to push his own agenda/budget plans and ignoring the budget he had been handed by her) are people trying to attack her. It's such a bullshit case that the only reason it is 'news' or even happening is because of everyone holding up Obama the Messiah as if he's jesus himself.
Semi automatic means the gun fires 1 bullet per pull of the trigger, which is every handgun except revolvers (i may be wrong on revolvers though) and every rifle except bolt action ones or full auto.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21902 :)
That good old gun ban really did the trick now didn't it
We didn't need 'safety' measures for decades/centuries, the only reason accidents occur with guns nowadays is people no longer respect the danger/power of a gun and fuck around with them, as well as do not teach their children that same respect that their parents had taught them. Also, how in the fuck are you supposed to get a gun lock off a gun, find the bullets and load it, while someone is breaking into your house/already broken into it and you're in a state of panic? Gun control is using two hands imo.
So that's why since the gun ban violent crime has skyrocketed? Home invasions, specifically those that occur when the dwelling has people in it, were up over 50% almost overnight (figuratively speaking)
If only steel didn't lose >50% of it's strength at the temperature of the inferno inside the towers.
Asheron's Call had numerous world altering events such as the elemental invasion in I believe 02 during the gaerlan arc, and there was SUPPOSED to be a massive quest in the Dark Majesty expansion where you could drain the huge lake on the plateau but it proved to be too hard to do and keep teh expansion on schedule.
Increases in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere, through all data we have from ice core samples, lag temperature increases by decades to centuries as all that CO2 is locked in the oceans and is released when they warm up. It is not an active cause of global warming, but merely a symptom/visible effect.
So what exactly does he stand for and what is his message other than "CHANGE!" ?
Asheron's Call had twitch based combat wherein you could manually dodge (throw the tracking off) for missile attacks (arrows/crossbow bolts) and magic bolts. The gameplay was extremely fast and fluid and lent itself to allowing a skilled player being able to take on multiple opponents with ease if he knew what he was doing.
It worked amazingly in Asheron's Call for numerous storyline climaxes, or plot changing events. The Shard of the Herald event where players had to choose to either defend or attack the last of six soul crystals which if destroyed would release Bael'Zharon, a monster so epicly badass that he nearly destroyed an entire civilization of mages 100x as advanced as the magics available to player characters. Most storylines had such major pvp events as the culmination of whether the story goes one way or the other. It very nearly happened one time where the devs had to come up last second with a new storyline to go with but at the very very last second things went the way the original storyline writing had it written down as.
You know those girls in fashion ads with miniskirts/dresses/bikinis on that every guy who doesn't love cock are actually just entering puberty (10-14) right? No real woman can fit into a lot of those things due to their hips getting wider. Once a guy hears the age they go 'omg i wouldnt fuck that' but they are still thinking 'id fuck the living shit out of her.'
Do you even know what waterboarding is? I doubt so because you said it's basically drowning. They attempt to force a drowning RESPONSE from your body which causes and adrenaline rush and intense state of fear/vulnerability in the person receiving it. My friends and I have done it to each other to see what it's all about, and it's not bad at fucking all if you have any willpower/brains.
Just what right do you have to tell someone (ISPs) how they may use their own property?
IMO, Instant Runoff Voting is the way to go. Everyone gets to set a score to each candidate (aka, they pick their first second etc choices) and in the end it all gets added up and whoever has the highest overall score wins.