Goodness. I have to say I'm not surprised though, apparently many people who consider themselves 'poor' have satellite TV and eat out every night. Even so, that is pretty sad, that people would value TV more than keeping their house in order.
This is why we should have elected Ron Paul for president and not Obama. *dodges rotten tomatoes*
[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="16" id="1982570"] ... Class rank is one of those things that looks great, but is really meaningless. All 5 children in my family graduated in the top ten of their class, but the needed GPA to get there varied greatly. My older brother graduated 6th two years before I did, and had a GPA a full point lower than mine. I tied for second. ...[/quote] Yeah, which is why I was upset when I found out that I wouldn't be getting
So Luckmann, your 'big contribution' is that you're telling us we shouldn't have to care? That's a rather naive viewpoint. The scientific method wouldn't even work if people didn't argue and cross-experiment to prove each other wrong - you're saying we should all live like cavemen, devoid of scientific progress. Not only that, but issues such as the Holocaust are learned in history courses because history tends to repeat itself if it is forgotten. So yes, it definite
Yeah, I'm tired of talking about global warming. Lets talk about how we can end the world! I'm first going to invent a way to turn uranium into the next illegal drug craze. Then I'm going to commandeer the US military's new Globalhawk spy plane, and retrofit it to drop 50 kiloton Junkies (as opposed to the regular 10-20 kiloton models). Then I'm going to solve a few of the world's problems, as indicated by my to-do list: 1. Present China with the solution to
Well, sarcasm doesn't exactly register through writing. I had no way of knowing if you are one of those people who denies that it happened. Although now that I know what you meant, I have to ask, why don't you make a useful contribution to this thread? For example, by what evidence do you take global warming to be a fact? Or do you merely regurgitate the position of people smarter than yourself, and have no factual knowledge of your own?
Good lord, a Holocaust denier? My estimation of humanity's intelligence has fallen considerably. And Jonnan, I get what you mean - the petition does have issues, and I would certinaly admit that, and I think it is a good point you bring up about those people not publishing why they think global warming isn't a problem. However, it is possible that they actually have, and nobody knows about it or thinks it noteworthy enough to look at it. Suppression of oppos
Yes, a 216 is good enough to receive a National Merit, as that is about what I got on the PSAT (though I only ended up being a semi-finalist for the actual award - still looks good on your transcript). Also, if you add a 0 to the end of your PSAT score, that is supposed to be about where you'll score on the SAT, though I don't know how accurate that really is (I received a 1960 on the SAT, should have been around a 2100 if that was true). The SAT today consists of three sections
So, if it's pretty much any site, you would think that I would have found it. It isn't on Stardock's main page, or Stardock Design, etc. which would make the most sense if it was generic clue. Next time Stardock has a contest I hope they make sure it works better than this one has been.
It probably wouldn't. How would you know which of the people around you have your plate number to the police? And even if you were to shoot them, they can shoot back, which would certainly make me think twice. Anyway, it's a moot point - I was merely using that as an example. If you gave everyone a gun, then petty crimes would soon disappear, because people don't want to get shot, right? Ironically, I've heard that in spite of his favorable stance toward gun co
My mistake, I meant scientists, not necessarily climatologists. The 18,000 scientists I was referring to have all signed what is known as the Oregon Petition - and you're right, now that I look at the information, it seems that I was wrong about the number. It isn't 18,000, it's 31,000. I guess the other site was old. I'm not going to claim that this number is 100% accurate, but I believe it has some merit. Here is Wikipedia's article on the petition: <
I can't figure out number three for the life of me. Making it better than it was before? Not WinCustomize, not the GUIC, not Object Desktop, not an expansion for Sins or GC2, not Stardock Support, blah, blah, blah. Is this thing not working again?
I have to say that I totally agree with everything you've said here Draginol/Frogboy/Brad. I have actually read before that crime in ye olde wild west was actually far lower than it is today, largely in part due to the widespread ownership of guns (not to mention the death penalty - tell the government to rev up that electric chair already!) The government is supposed to protect us, but it can't be everywhere at once. The city I live in has about 250,000 people, and you rar
Finally, someone won. That was horridly inefficient - yet another reason to stick with the first winner.
My thoughts are that the only reason that it isn't done already is the extreme cost of necessary storage space and internet bandwidth. That is why some shows get yanked - they have to make room for other shows. I believe an hour-long DVR-MS (the format Media Center records in) of standard def TV is well over a gigabyte in size. Then you have the higher-def, DVD quality versions which are far larger. A DVD movie, minus the menu and bonus features, is about 6 gigabytes i
It is true that I'm not a climatologist and that my knowledge of physics comes from other people. However, those guys with Ph.D.'s also got their knowledge from other people. Also, I have seen numerous sites which state that there are over 18,000 climatologists who say global warming is a fraud. Also, I know that the government spends billions of dollars funding huge numbers of the climatologists who say global warming is a problem. After all, we have to save the plane
Right, I would be totally fine with it if the time limit was shorter, say, an hour to finish. However, leaving it open all day penalizes the people who actually can and do well on this game (which actually happens to include me this time around). Anyway, do you think we'll ever know who actually won?
You could make it a drawing between the top five people... I still don't like the random drawing thing. And I have to ask: will we ever know who won today?
More fair? The hell if it is. Now those who actually do well on this have a lower chance, and others who did poorly have a greater chance. How is that fair? Are you a socialist? I for one am pretty upset about that, especially since the longer they leave the freaking game running, the lower my chances become. I'm greedy too, you see - and I [i]never[/i] win anything that involves luck. This random drawing thing has totally shot my chances of win
The number of people the chart shows changes every time I restart my browser, except for now, as the Progress Tracker is not showing at all. For instance though: clue #1 showed ~50 people earlier. I restarted my browser. Then it showed ~94 people on clue #1. I restarted my browser. Then it showed ~70 people on clue #1. And so on...
He's editing the raceconfig.xml file in the Program Files/Stardock/TotalGaming/GalCiv2/Twilight/Data/English folder, or applying a mod which edits that file.
I knew exactly what #5 was right away, since I own a copy of Galactic Civilizations II, but I visited the wrong website for it (galciv2.com instead of impulsedriven.com).
I wonder who won today...
Restarted my browser again, now 94 people have seen the 1st clue.
[quote who="Davabled" reply="15" id="1978224"] ... also curious: it's showing that more people got to the 5th clue than finished the 3rd clue. [/quote] I restarted my browser and now the numbers are no longer the same, and now more people have reached the 3rd than the 5th. EDIT: I restarted my browser again, and now once again more people have seen the 5th clue than the 3rd. I am beginning to doubt the accuracy of those numbers. A moment ago, i
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