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At 3/30/09 07:42 PM, Earfetish wrote: a god that doesn't care is the stupidest definition of God at all, just call yourself atheist

But being an atheist would imply that I'm under the impression that the universe is a pointless accident that occured strickly by chance and the fact that the laws of physics exist, are stable, and managed to create life is just a whole lotta good luck.

Although I firmly believe the science behind the creation of the universe and understand the genius of science, I don't believe that's it's all just pointless luck.

closed-minded is being closed-minded towards atheism, give some decent definition of the universe and I might have respect, organised religion is dumb tho

I like to think of science as the field of studying Gods art. Like a man in a painting trying to figure out who he is... he can find out he's paint, made up of individual ink drops, made up of molocules and atoms thrown about on a canvas and claim... "there is no proof of creator in this ink"... but, oh how wrong he is.

I don't claim to have any answers. I don't even really care in what you personally believe... if the best way you can live your life is by denying religion and your going your own way then more power to you, but I find it very strange that you would be so *EAGER to insult all people religious and all religions in the world based on the idea that we all worship Jesus or deny the existance of dinosaurs.

In doing so, you become the very person you hate... close minded, angry, and unwilling to hear other points of view or take in all aspects of the story before making your decision.

At 3/30/09 01:57 PM, Halvgoeden wrote: Space travel is complex. Even if light-speed travel were possible blah blah blah

We don't need to go light speed to reach the moon or mars. We have many years before we need move past that and who knows where we'll be technology wise by then... look at how fast things advance over the years. What wasn't possibly 50 years ago not only exists now, but small enough to fall through a hole in your pocket. Add 500 years of human advancement to that and God only knows where we'll stand.

At this point, I would think the sky's the limit. If you can think it, we can probably build it... eventually.

300 years ago the idea of a robot or the internet would have been mindblowing and simply uncomprehensable. Now days, it's common life... the problems of today, might not be shit by the time we need to actually face them.

Regardless, we can reach the moon and we can reach Mars. Resources and living area is scarce on Earth so lets expand... it would be stupid not to.

I'll grant you governments could still maintain order, but fragmentation would be inevitable.

So what? It's not like this is the first time mankind has faced something like this? The distance is greater, but the mentality is no diffrent then the colonization of Earth. Remember, there was a time when the idea of leaving the landmass you where born on was unthinkable. The idea that other contents existed... impossible. Now days, we fly from America to Japan in just a few hours... no worries.

It would be better if we could learn to use what we have efficiently instead of getting used to the idea of "moving on to the next place."

Why can't we do both?

This mentality is temporary because it will always lead to the same problems: overpopulation and lack of resources

Staying on one planet and refusing to find more resources and space results in the exact same problem except a whole hell of a lot sooner.

("You require more Vespene Gas")

You need to learn to expand your base and stop playing the Big Money maps... :)

At 3/30/09 11:36 AM, Earfetish wrote: It's because there's no God and religious people haven't thought about their shit at all.

This is a foolish statement... it doesn't account for the wide variety of beliefs that fall beween "omnipotent, personal God" and "no God at all" nor do you have any proof to indicate that religious people are religious only because they haven't considered the alternative.

You seem egar to be close minded...

At 3/30/09 12:38 PM, Halvgoeden wrote: Our civilization is only doomed to repeat its failures if we opt for this temporary fix.

Why would it be temporary? Space is infinite and there's almost an endless supply of material out there waiting to be harvested. We'd probably never drain every rock in space of all it's valuable sources... and by the time we get close, we'd probably have devloped alternative energy sources and would no longer need to harvest these things...

Besides, I'm more worried about room. We give birth more then we die... we'll soon need to extra planetary space or it's going to get real crowded here.

And this isn't taking into account any of the scientific advancements mankind gains in trying to do these things (IE: Helpful by-products like velcro) or the things we'll learn or the new materials we'll encounter on our travels.

Lack of plate armor

My wife always knew I was cheating on her... made the option of cheating pointless

Dog never found anything good

Stores only had one of each item

Shopping no longer told you what you currently owned causing me to accidentially buy the same thing multiple times... this feature was in the original, why was it removed?

It takes 2 seconds to get fat, 98 lifetimes to lose the weight

The bread-crumb trail was hard to see, sometimes tooke me in circles, and made strange turns from the path needlessly

Enemies still block too much

The world is not open-ended... it's just like it was in Fable I, but larger.

Being evil sucked... you looked nothing like the commercials and box art promised.

At 3/29/09 09:49 PM, zNelson24 wrote: Dont forget a massive orchard of servers. An entire MMO community cant be put on a single server without it going off like a bomb (and then you have to maintain those servers, secure them from crackers, pay the monthly $1500 T3 internet bill, etc).

Going this route...

You need a room to put them all in... (IE: You have to pay rent somewhere) and some form of government regulated business to handle all of the profits the game makes. You can't just open a company like you can a lemonaid stand... you have paperwork you have to fill out, tax forms to file, and business regulations to abide by.

You might want an account or two and a lawyer or 8 to handle the legal stuff for you.

Plus, you have to make sure you build everything from the ground-up yourself or you purchase the rights to use the required tools.

Most companies take in investors and file for loans to start up the business, might want to get some presentations ready and have enough equity to offer up to the bank in exchange for a decent sized loan. I think you need a house or a car... and a few years of good credit... I don't think the bank takes baseball cards or "IOUs"... especially in this economy.

The advantages of mastering space travel and planatary colonization far outweighs the advantages of not doing so.

After all, we could use the new sources of natural resources as well as the room to expand our population.

I would think, our civilization is doomed if we don't.

Does said movie contain electorlites?

I have anxiety first, and this as a second-hand side effect.

I get real worried that everything is going to kill me. So when I leave have to walk around the house and unplug the lamps and things from the walls... so nothing happens while I'm gone.

I rarely cook, but when I do, I check to make sure the stove is off like a million times before I finally go to sleep. Same with the doors... I've woken up in the middle of the night and gone down stairs to make sure the doors where locked.

I don't really consider it a problem... it's more like an annoyance. If I wanted to, I could probably fight it but I usually don't because it eases my anxiety knowing that I did check...

I think everybody has it, really... it's just a question of how bad. People are always obsessive about something...their hair, their nails, digging out all the dirt in the pyramids in Super Mario Bros 2... as long as it doesn't effect your life in a bad way, don't consider it a problem. All the doctors will do is get you addicted to a pill you probably don't need to take that comes with worse side effects then the original disorder. These are usually expensive, and often times addictive. Modern medicne not really worth it these days...

I'll do it for you... how much pot you got left to give me?

At 3/27/09 04:03 PM, evan210 wrote: it depends on what type of spider.

No idea... a black one. He came to me and I just never killed him... I never kill any of the bugs in my house, I don't like to kill things. (I know, I'm a pussy... it's cool). This has happened before, but he's one of few that actually stayed around for a long time. Me and Conroy where hanging out this time last year... he made it through the nice weather, suffreered through the cold wth me, and then I killed him right before mating season. :(

He was a decent sized black thing... always hanging out with his dope ass black legs ready to strike... picture a black widdow... but without the red marking on the back.

Not sure what mod got a stick up their ass and deleted my topic... but I promise I'm serious.

I had a pet spider and I accidentally killed it this morning when I droped my car keys on his face.

I feel pretty bad about the whole thing... this was a daily part of my life, I wouldn't enter or leave my house without seeing him... and then I fucking crushed him.

That sucks... he was alive... he was a living, breathing, thinking (sort of) thing that trusted me not to harm him after a bond we built up over a few months time. And then I do this to him... I murder him when I accidentally drop my massive keys on his head? That sucks.

When I go home tonight, he won't be there... I know he's not a dog.. but I still took care of him, he was still my pet. I named him Conroy...

I guess a lot of people would find it odd to be sad over the death of a 'bug' but I don't care... fuck you for being insensative and just generally selfish if that's how you feel. Conroy and I, we had a bond... and I betrayed him by taking his life. That's fucked up... I feel kinda bad about the whole thing.

I didn't mean to do it, but still... saying "I'm sorry" isn't going to give him his life back... now what do I do? Spekku?

At 3/27/09 12:28 PM, HeartbreakHoldout wrote:

At 3/27/09 11:50 AM, phsychopath wrote: Last night I read a copy of the Necronomicon that I bought from the store. Inside I found a incantation near the end of the book stating that most men on Earth have at least one spiritual parasite which start's off twice as big as the average man.

That doesn't make any goddamn sense. "Most" people can't have something that is above average. Learn maths you fucking spiritualist morons!

What? Let's say the average man is 6 foot tall. The spiritual parasite is twice as big as that when it first spawns. So the average parasite is, on average, 12 feet tall when it's born inside a man... which means a newborn baby might have a 12 foot tall spirtual parasite inside of it.

But not always... there's no rule that says the parasite has to be this big. So it's possible a 7 foot tall man has a 2 foot tall spirtual parasite. After all, these are averages, not exact figures. Because the average size is twice the size of an average man, and the average man (the majority of us) have a parasite that's at least the average size, so it's safe to say that the majority (or most) of the male population has a spiritual parasite inside of them thats at least 12 foot tall.

or "most men on Earth have at least one spiritual parasite which start's off twice as big as the average man"

Maybe you should learn maths? It makes sense to me.

People have been killing in mass numbers since the birth of civilization.

I don't think the vikings, romans, nazis, serial killers, etc... played video games. Mass killings aren't anything new, they're just new to the press.

Besides that, millions and millions of video games are sold year round. A small handfull go on a rampage... if these rampages where caused by the games, there would be millions of them a year, not just 3 or 4.

I'm not saying 3 or 4 is ok... but there has to be another cause, probably a few of them, that combined, make for a dangerous person. Putting all the blame on one source is just foolish and isn't going to resolve anything.

What really bothers me is why video games get the blame. The first mass killings I remember started back in the 80s... when postal workers where shooting up their work places and killing their managers. Hence the term "going postal". I think it's safe to say there weren't caused by video games since A) games weren't violent yet and B) the shooters where older in a time when older adults didn't play games... yet they still happened.

How can a problem that started before video games be caused by video games?

Simple answer, it can't. Games may be an influence but so can all forms of media... including music and the public news that reports the crime. There are also social situations to take into account as well as metal stabability of the attacker and heriditary problems. Murder isn't just going to dissapear because Valve can no longer sell L4D... we've been murdering each other since the day one... even caveman remains have been found with head wounds caused by man-made weapons. Such is life.

Punishing the millions of innocent people who did nothing wrong is only going to anger the masses and possibly spur further violence. Besides that, these type of laws remove the freedom of choiec and expression from the public and put them souly into the hands of the government. We'll soon all wake in a world where we're no longer free to make our own decisions... everything we write, speak, and create has to be approved... thus the public only sees and hears what the government lets us see and hear. This, is not a healthy plan for society... I promise, no good comes from any of this.

Viva la revolucion.... at the cost of many, many, lives.

nobody. Mysterion is a seperate character himself... he has no other identity.

Honestly, I thought it was pretty boring... been there, done that, type of mentality.

Galaxy wasn't much diffrent from Sunshine which was pretty much a rehash of 64. The waggle controls didn't help... I was so tired of having to beat off my controller to throw a turtle shell I gave up half-way through the game.

Where, exactly, in the waggle does he release the shell? I tossed so many shells into a wall because of that... I could never get the timing perfect... which sucks, because this a problem that doesn't exist when you link an even to a simple button push.

Bee Mario was cool though, I guess. I didn't despise it, but I didn't see anything new or exciting in it. To me... Bee Mario was just like Mario with the Jet Waterpack equiped... but with a diffrent graphical display.

I like how MJ walks right past the hot blond in the background in order to snatch up the little kids... who, after being seen by MJ, run away on blue Segways.

Version 1.

I found version 2 to be unrewarding... I clicked things and words appeared. Very uninspiring. The second one made me feel like I did a good job because bottles flew through the air when I got it right.

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At 3/24/09 04:50 AM, maximuspower wrote: No, then we all get HIV from some hooker. Seriously, worst idea ever.

if we weren't waising all our time, money, and energy on war and hate we would have probably already found a cure...

At 3/23/09 05:36 PM, Foolmoron wrote: Legalizing weed will cause it to be picked up by all the major tobacco companies who will do to it what they did to tobacco cigarettes a looong time ago (fill it with a bunch of tar and fillers and make it horrible) then sell it for twice as much as you used to buy it for.

But hey at least it's legal

This, I agree with. legalizing it would be bad... they should just decriminalize it and then everybody wins. It's still against the law so nobody says it's "ok" but getting caught is little more then a fine so smokers don't have to live in fear or prision rape for willing participating in a harmless crime with zero victems.

At 3/23/09 05:01 PM, WilliWowza wrote: They'll never air and just use your money to buy more drugs.

So what, that's what I'm gonna use it for. Worst case scenario, I help buy a fellow smoker a bag. No harm, no foul.

I'm donating

Since when have Linkin Park had fans?

At 3/2/09 08:15 PM, joabos wrote: They could get much more money out of this by rising the price'

Poor people need things too. Sometimes, it's not about you or the prospect of getting rich...

At 3/22/09 10:58 PM, StCyril wrote: Tim and Eric, showcasing thier "Awesome Show Great Job."

Best show on TV... you just don't get the joke.

At 3/23/09 04:41 AM, Werge9 wrote: He probably just had some sort of bodily defect or something.

I hear his body was mostly water... bad news when someone shoots you with electricity.

At least you don't live in a village made out of trash.

I remember my first MMO.

Hello World Online was awesome... too bad I couldn't afforde to keep any servers running.

At 3/20/09 02:38 PM, Jercurpac wrote: I just hopped off of the couch like a little child waking up on a quiet Christmas morn' and over to my Xbox to download it.

Watch out, if Metallica find out about this... they'll sue you.

I need to schedual a regular backup for SQLServer and / or MSDE.... I know how to do it manually but I'm trying to do it programmably.

I can set up a Schedualed Task in windows but I'd rather not... I know for sure I can go into Enterprise Manager and set up a schedualed Backup... I assume this sets up a Task in Windows.

Ideally, I'd like my code to run a SQL procedure that sets up a schedualed task. This would trigger SQL to do it's thing to set up the task in windows appropriatly.

Does anyone know how to do that? I've searched google and nothing has come up as far as schedualing goes... it's all just one time backup code.

Does anyone know how to do this, or know of anything that I might search for to help turn up better results?

Sorry, I know I can't spell worth shit...