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I can't say that I can see any way that warezing isn't stealing. In many cases, most people don't care. I think it'd be amusing to know how many people here failed the Windows Geniune Advantage test.

Forging money is an interesting point. I suppose whatever you buy is legitimately morally owned unless whoever you gave the money to is unable to pass it on. Then it's theft. Doesn't mean that forgery isn't a problem. Forge in moderation, fellas. Well, 'cept for IDs.

On the subject of music downloads: I don't bother with illegal copies because the quality is so poor, nor with legal copies of the same lousy quality but with the added bonus of DRM making it impossible to ever play what you paid for. Half the songwriters and singers whose CDs I do buy are probably dead anyway, and the other half get about 1% of the cost or something piss-taking. It's not a good system, but there's nothing else really.

Like the ZIP idea. Hide the pass or a hint in the maps!

Being a narcologist would be tr?s interessant.

Erik Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1

YES! P228 DOES BEAT ALL OTHER PISTOLS. FINALLY SOMEONE WHO SHARES MY OPINION. SCREW DEAGLES LETS HAVE A KEG PARTY!

Hey, same.

Incidentally...

You can probably just use a cycler_sprite with the Sprite field set to the model path.

Try covering all of the cylinders with clip brushes, which are just non-entity brushes covered with the CLIP texture.

You're so busy that you never think?

Good God, so many cylinders!

Don't really know what else. My Russian teachers are buying me some Ukranian kiddy books, though.

I do. Something which often occurs to me is "what happens to your consciousness when you go to sleep?"; it's like teleportation. Is the person rebuilt at the end the same person at the start? Surely not: just a clone. How can consciousness be transferred?

Will I still be me tommorow, or will I end tonight, with biologically the same person living on tommorow, unbeknownst to everyone who knows me, a clone. Did this me start when I woke up, my memories from thousands of previous identical beings?

Something not to consider too carefully, as it may result in insomnia :).

Foo Fighters - Over and Out

and he abused it (like Seventh.)

Sorry?

Maths > God.

Oh, it was intended for pepper's education. Glad it made it clear to you if you needed it, though.

Give threads proper titles and check the links page.

Yes. You should always give people a way to sneak around behind campers, if they're all at one place, like that exit.

The stairway is strange. Hard to tell whether I'm looking up or down.

Look at Leak-Free on the Links page.

Not enough space or bandwidth.

Well if you're not over eighteen, surely you live at home and can get your parents to enter on your behalf?

how long do you play satch?

That should either be "how long do you play for" or, what I think you're trying to say, "how long have you played for". Just a tip. "How long do you play for" means "how long do you spend practising" rather than "when did you start".

He's a dingoer.

Have you tried what Zeg said?

Yeah... there's a reason why it's labelled "beta"...

Um, I imagine even the VS .NET Express has a compiler... surely you can actually run what you write?

There isn't one.

1. you can't
2. already has them

Bit of a schizophrenic, eh WCD?

Are you talking about a CS func_vehicle?

Some code arguing with some other code. Could be drivers, Windows, anything.

I don't tend to read very much anymore, I used to read in bed, but not anymore really, since I have read all my books I own currently.

Ditto and amen.

BF2 pwns.

Definitely. Spirit can probably do it.

a .nav file isn't a botroute file

Heh, too much HL mappin' eh?

Well done, laddy.

It's covered in parts of the Compiling Introduced tutorial.

I thoroughly enjoy playing the piano and learning Russian. I walk about five miles a day, which I like. Don't really have time for that much else at the moment. If I try to do much else, everything else suffers.

Israel in their fight with Palestinians

Let's not forget some of the reasons they're fighting.

but you also have to realise that anyone who is remotely religious would not use it this way

Yes, but they do. Just because some monks wrote that it was a bad thing doesn't mean people will listen to that bit. A lot of people are very greedy and unpleasant. I guess that's where half-arsed religion gets us.

Please move discussion on the Source competition to the official Competition 18 thread.

Hm, I think that that ramp draws away from the similarity a little.

I wouldn't say I only believe what I see, since that excludes most modern science, but science has achieved far more than religion for humanity.

I'm pretty sure that great genetic diversity thanks to travel, improved life expectancy with modern medicine, and just how many people there are in the world show that homo sapiens is pretty successful biologically, and I would hardly say that religion contributed particularly to any of those parts.

Okay, maybe Catholicism with its anti-contraceptive stuff, but I doubt that's really made much difference.

Whoa, sweet. It actually reminds me of Venice. Is it based on the real thing?

For my part, I'd just like to make it clear that I certainly don't look down on the religious as a whole. Several of my good friends are religious. I just dislike what religion primarily brings: conflict.

We have nothing to blame but ourselves. Everything we do is our choice...nothing makes us do it.

Uh, but humans make religion. I'm sure you're not saying that human behaviour is completely random, so being religious certainly influences peoples' choices.

They were written out because they looked bad most of the time. If you have a very old version, you can turn them on again... I think they were taken out in 1.0.2.0.

Hi, Jeremy. Not seen you for a bit :). Nice for some relative, uh, sanity.

Superior Might prevails, period.

No, that's nonsense. The average life expectancies of developed countries aren't eighty-odd because of fighting. Moron. No, too generous. Troll.

rowley, you're a psychopath. I actually feel sorry for America, having you there with free access to firearms.

Through translations aswell, true meanings are lost.

Yeah, like "young girl Mary" becoming "virgin Mary". C'mon, it's so blatantly obviously what it originally said. So God creates men and women, capable of reproducing, and then skips it. Plus he makes some men and women want to have sex with their own sex. Are you criticising your suppos?d creator?

Not even according to the 10 commandments did I commit any sins upon birth. Also, care to clarify those 'sins'?

Aaah, but, you see, God gave you these sins so that he could absolve you of them when you leave the world he spent precious time creating and spend eternity elsewhere, meaning that you spent 0% of your time there. Gee, great thinking.

If so many people didn't kill and harass so many others about it, it would be laughable.

I hate religion.

He means reinstalled Windows, not rebooted.

Find out what graphics card you have and install the appropriate drivers.

rowleybob: what the fuck? You don't seriously believe that, right? You're just trying to piss people off.

Bonus points for the person who finds out who said that.

Marx, wasn't it?

Yep, Google agrees.

Got a great Randy Newman song about him.

References plz... And use full context seventh.

Uh, I didn't say that.

You guys have just said a bunch of things, and again, did not base them on anything.

Sorry, the arguers against are the ones who are making arguments with no base?

Wrong. That's opinion.

Isn't that a little of a contradiction? I agree with you, though.

one of them is a man of science. He believes only what he can observe with his senses, or what can be measured.
I took two objects and placed them in front of him. I asked him if he believed that there are some kind of force pulling the two objects together. He obvious said yes, as it is gravity. well, you cannot measure gravity, only predict it through inspecific tests. How then can you believe in one force rather than another, if you can see neither nor?

So you're saying "instead of using the senses you have to usefully record events and predict similar things, make stuff up!". Very sensible.

Quotes aside. Religion was, I imagine (I'm talking about way back) founded by fear and ignorance. Sun worshippers, etc. to whom the sun was, reasonably, one of the most powerful, and, I suppose, strangest things they could see. People have watched it for thousands of years, travelled across the world, and found it different in ways which show such and such. Using reason and observation, science describes as much as we can find and examine.

Religion, on the other hand, has no logical foundation in what we see of the world. It's just fear, and, with many, greed and lust for power on the part of those who found them. In the middle ages, the religious in command could control and take from everybody by threatening them with God's wrath.

When religions disagree, what happens? There is no base to argue on, nothing that either party can point out to the other in the source, because they're all made up, with good intentions or otherwise, with no grounds. Then there are wars, genocide. When scientists disagree, what happens? Good ones will discuss what they have found with their peers, who can look at what the proposer has based their discovery on. Correct it, revise it, compare and contrast it to what we see and what we have seen.

This could have been better-organised, I know, but I'm in a little of a hurry. I expect this thread will still be around sometime when I can be more orderly.

Post-scripts on religion (mostly Christianity):

1. Why are religious people averse to death, natural or otherwise, when they believe that there is an all-forgiving god waiting to bring them to eternal bliss?

2. Those who put forward religion as 'people being nice to each other': is it really necessary to ignore massive advances in human knowledge and threaten everyone with burning for eternity just for people to be kind to each other? No, it isn't.