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Over half a million registered members [22 March 2006]
Last night we achieved yet another milestone when 500,000th member registered to our site. As it was only just over a year ago when we had our 250,000th member, the growth of our userbase has been just phenomenal over the last year or so. [ more ]
drd did not tell ye,all 250,000 joined the Consoles board..
have no fear,Nephilim and ddp are here..with there red buttons.
Nephilim Consoles Board Newbie Killing Red Button
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andmerr
Inactive
22 Mar 2006 1:16 PM
gee didnt know creaky had such big breastricles or is he the short fat thingy
Lethal_B
Moderator
19 Apr 2006 1:38 PM
Quote:drd did not tell ye,all 250,000 joined the Consoles board..
People are discovering that when you buy any product that is subject to "activation", you haven't really bought anything.
ireland
Inactive
18 Aug 2007 2:13 PM
TYPE IN a command and see what happens... sit, roll over, down, stand, sing, dance, shake, fetch, play dead etc. and...it's also very cute if you type in a command that's not recognized...!!
Make sure you type in "Kiss" too, but do it last.
LOCOENG
pass the word around ye all have a place to post
with out worrying about a mod jumping ye rear ends..
i been here since 200-2 i do not think i banned over 50...those i banned were posting cracks or advertisement or foul or obscene language..
gurnard
Senior Member
18 Aug 2007 6:02 PM
hi ireland :)
had an e'mail pop up.did'nt realise how long ago the last post on here was. time has certainly gone by.
better say hullo to LOCO as well i suppose.
hullo LOCO :)
ireland
Inactive
18 Aug 2007 6:13 PM
hello gurnard
i have to go to the dollar store,
enjoy the thread..
LOCOENG
Moderator
18 Aug 2007 8:53 PM
What say you Geoff? Thought I'd pop in here and give ireland some support...
@ireland
If they won't come via your own links they probably won't come...I don't get around nearly as much as I used to, but I'll check in here from time to time.
Does Pathological Shyness Make for School Shooters?
August 19, 2007 08:55:14 AM PST
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
Yahoo! Health: Anxiety News
SATURDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDay News) -- What motivates some teens to gun down fellow students in the hallways or grounds of their schools?
Perhaps a characteristic called "cynical shyness." This is an extreme form of shyness affecting mostly males that can lead to violent behavior such as that seen at Columbine, Colo., or, most recently, Virginia Tech, according to researchers who were to present their findings Saturday evening at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting, in San Francisco.
"Cynically shy people are shy people who are motivated toward moving to others, and then they are rejected," said Bernardo Carducci, lead author of the study and director of the Shyness Research Institute at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany.
"In addition to feelings of anxiety about social situations, cynically shy people, who are a small subclass of shy people, also have feelings of anger and hostility toward others and that comes from this sense of disconnect," Carducci explained. "Shyness has more in common with extroversion than with introversion. Shy people truly want to be with others, so they make the effort, but when they are rejected or ostracized, they disconnect. Once you disconnect, it's very easy to start being angry and hate other people. It's you against them, and they become what I call a cult of one. Once you start thinking 'it's me versus them,' then it becomes easy to start hurting these people."
Eventually, the new research may help identify the likely perpetrators of such crimes before they happen, the study authors said.
"It would be great if we could better characterize people who might be likely to do something violent," said Dr. Jane Ripperger-Suhler, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and a psychiatrist with Scott & White Mental Health Center in Temple. "Right now, our ability to predict violence is not very good at all, so people overreact to a lot of things because of a fear of something happening. For years, we were under-reacting. It would be nice if psychologists could help us characterize who would be more likely to be a school shooter."
But it's important not to stigmatize shy kids, other experts emphasized.
"Shyness is not inherently a good or bad thing," said Heather Henderson, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Miami. "But one thing we know about shyness in boys, particularly in North America, they seem to be particularly at risk for maladaptive outcomes. We expect boys to be more outgoing and assertive. Boys are particularly sensitive and are exposed to cues from other people that shyness is not a good thing."
According to the study authors, there are a number of subtypes of shyness, cynical shyness being just one.
For the study, Carducci and a co-author examined news accounts and background information on seven high school shooting cases involving eight teen shooters between 1995 and 2004. Those individuals were:
* Jeffrey Weise -- 16, killed seven people at Red Lake High School in Minnesota as well as his grandfather and grandfather's girlfriend in 2005;
* Jamie Rouse -- 17, killed one student and one teacher at Richland High School in Tennessee in 1995;
* Luke Woodham -- 17, killed two people at Pearl High School in Mississippi in 1997;
* Barry Loukaitis -- 14, killed three at Frontier Junior High in Washington state in 1996;
* Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold -- 18 and 17 years old, they killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999;
* Michael Carneal -- 14, killed three girls at Heath High School in Kentucky in 1997;
* Kip Kinkel -- 15, killed his parents and two classmates at Thurston High School in Oregon in 1998.
Weise, the two Columbine killers and Kinkel had a "cynically shy score" of 10 (on a scale of 10). Rouse, Woodham and Loukaitis had scores of 8, and Carneal had a score of 6, the researchers said.
Cynically shy people tend to be male and want to relate to other people but just don't know how. As a result, they get rejected, and feelings of hurt gradually turn into intense rage, the study authors said.
This seems to be an extreme version of the frustrations other shy people often face.
"We often misinterpret why people are shy," Henderson said. "If you walk by somebody and avoid eye contact, you interpret that as they don't want to interact, but I think often it's completely the opposite. They really do want to interact and don't know how.
"It's important for parents and teachers to start at a young age, before the person is walking down the high school corridor ready to shoot, not to interpret their behavior as not wanting to interact," Henderson continued. "If we flip our interpretations, people may respond differently. As a field, we need to understand prospectively what's happening, so we can start identifying kids at a very young age, what would drive a shy kid into this pattern. We don't want the message to be 'shyness will lead to shooting.' "
gurnard
Senior Member
19 Aug 2007 3:45 PM
LOCO :)
Your j/king he doesn't need help or support when he's in full swing....more like sedation LOL
ireland
Inactive
19 Aug 2007 4:20 PM
A married Irishman went into the confessional and said to his priest, "I
almost had an affair with another woman."
The priest said, "What do you mean, almost?"
The Irishman said, "Well, we got undressed & rubbed together, but then I
stopped." The priest said, "Rubbing together is the same as putting it in.
You're not to see that woman again. For your penance, say five Hail Mary's
and put $50 in the poor box."
The Irishman left the confessional, said his prayers, and then walked over
to the poor box. He paused for a moment and then started to leave.
The priest, who was watching, quickly ran over to him saying, "I saw that.
You didn't put any money in the poor box!"
The Irishman replied, "Yah, but I rubbed the $50 on the box, and according
to you, that's the same as putting it in!"
There once was a religious young woman who went to Confession. Upon entering
the confessional, she said, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned."
The priest said, "Confess your sins and be forgiven."
The young woman said, "Last night my boyfriend made mad passionate love to
me seven times."
The priest thought long and hard and then said, "Squeeze seven lemons into a
glass and then drink the juice."
The young woman asked, "Will this cleanse me of my sins?"
The priest said, "No, but it will wipe that smile off of your face."
ireland
Inactive
19 Aug 2007 10:02 PM
ye ibobphone users got a win
AT&T Arbitration Clause Ruled Unconscionable
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday August 19, @05:34PM
from the new-contracts-just-ask-to-surrender-all-rights dept.
The Courts Businesses
Tech.Luver writes to tell us the Consumerist is reporting that a small clause in AT&T contracts has been ruled "unconscionable" by the 9th circuit court of appeals. The clause in question stated that if you use AT&T service you surrender your right to class action lawsuits and instead have to participate in mandatory binding arbitration.
Cingular's Class Arbitration Waiver Ruled "Unconscionable" By 9th Circuit Court Of Appeals
Like many many companies, Cingular has a little thing in their contracts saying that if you use their service, you void your right to a class action lawsuit and instead have to go through "mandatory binding arbitration," which is basically an extra-judicial corporate court exempt from many of the basic rules and laws and procedures and rights of real court. Well, today, that clause was ruled "unconscionable" by the 9th Circuit Court Of Appeals. Therefore, lawsuits can proceed against Cingular and go to real court, not monkey court. Hooray!
jaybo
i is here and i is testing out a new burner a hp-dvd 1040e external..did 3 movies at 4x 8x and 16x so far no problems
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ireland
Inactive
22 Aug 2007 9:07 PM
He said...
My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night she used me to time
an egg.
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she
won't drink from my glass!
Last night my wife met me at the front door. She was wearing a sexy
negligee. The only trouble was, she was coming home.
A girl phoned me and said, "Come on over. There's nobody home. "I went over.
Nobody was home!
A hooker once told me she had a headache.
I went to a massage parlor. It was self service.
If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
I was making love to this girl and she started crying. I said, "Are you
going to hate yourself in the morning?" She said, "No, I hate myself now."
I knew a girl so ugly that she was known as a two-bagger. That's when you
put a bag over your head in case the bag over her head comes off.
I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.
My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the
roaches hang themselves.
I'm so ugly I stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.
The other day I came home and a guy was jogging, naked. I asked him, "Why?"
He said, "Because you came home early."
My wife's such a bad cook, the dog begs for Alka-Seltzer.
I know I'm not sexy. When I put my underwear on I can hear the
Fruit-of-the-Loom guys giggling.
My wife is such a bad cook, in my house we pray after the meal.
My wife likes to talk on the phone during sex; she called me from Chicago
last night.
My family was so poor that if I hadn't been born a boy, I wouldn't have had
anything to play with.
ireland
Inactive
23 Aug 2007 12:23 PM
Black and White
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)
You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
Pull a chair up to the TV set,
"Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet."
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread Mayo on the same cutting
board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food
poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw
sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown
paper bag, not in ice packed coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a
pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a
pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE. And risked permanent injury with a pair of high
top Ked's (only worn in gym)instead of having cross-training athletic shoes
with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any
injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we
are now.
Flunking gym was not an option... Even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be
much harder than gym.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and
staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we
had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed
to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station,
Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
Oh yeah... And where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that
bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction
sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out t he 48-cent bottle of
Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did)
and then we got our butt spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49
bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor
for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn't act up at the neighbor's h ouse either because if we did, we got
our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.
I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on
the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she
could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for
being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were
from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?
We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were
obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that
the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?
LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T- SORRY FOR
WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING
Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are
very often the Best.
ireland
Inactive
25 Aug 2007 4:55 PM
Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage, problems galore
By Ken Fisher | Published: August 25, 2007 - 11:44AM CT
Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista were writing to say that they could not validate their installations using WGA, and one user even said that his installation was invalidated by the service.
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* Windows Genuine Advantage for dummies
We contacted our sources at Microsoft, who told us off the record that the company is aware of a major WGA server outage affecting users across the globe. The Windows Genuine Advantage support forum has exploded with complaints, as a result, and Phil Liu, WGA project manager, says that he won't sleep until the problem is fixed. Windows Vista and XP are affected, 32- and 64-bit versions.
Microsoft is telling users who are affected that they should "try again" later, with some support techs telling readers that Microsoft is aiming to have a fix in place by Tuesday, August 28. That would mean the outage will last more than three days, given that it started last night (and may have started earlier; we're hearing reports of some users running into this earlier in the week, on limited bases).
Reader Aaron Woolf tells us he was unable to validate patches for installation on a developer's copy of Vista pulled from MSDN. He writes, "My legitimate MSDN-acquired Vista Ultimate, which has been running, activated and validated for several months, now fails WGA." Others have reported similar difficulties.
[color=Yellow]How does this affect you?
If you use Windows, do your best to avoid anything that requires a ping to WGA. That means you should stay away from patches and add-ons until the coast is clear. WGA will not reach out across the Internet and deactivate your copy of Windows, but you should avoid talking to a WGA server for any reason.[/color]
For those of you doing installations and upgrades this weekend, we recommend that you avoid activation at this time. Remember that you can run Windows legally for 30 days without activating.
[color=Yellow]If you attempt a validation and it fails, your install may be marked as non-genuine, which could lead to several annoyances. First things first, do not reboot a Windows machine that has been marked as non-genuine. Once you do so, you will lose functionality and the Aero interface. It would be best to wait until this problem has been resolved.[/color]
The cause
Right now we don't have official word on a cause, but one source with familiarity with WGA tells us that the issue may be caused by updates to the service that were required after Microsoft expanded the number of activations keys available for Windows XP. However, the sense we get from Phil Liu is that Microsoft is pretty much in the dark right now.
"My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night she used me to time
an egg."
Yep, I heard about that!!
LOL!!
{:o)
ireland
Inactive
28 Aug 2007 8:47 PM
"It's that time of year to take our annual senior citizen test."
Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As
we grow older, it's important to keep mentally alert. If you don't use it,
you
lose it! Below is a very private way to gauge your loss or non-loss of
intelligence.
There are only 5 questions, so don't get all excited and confused yet.
Take the test presented here to determine if you're losing it or not.
The spaces between the question and answers below are there so you don't see
the
correct answers until you've made your answer.
OK, relax, clear your mind and begin.
1. What do you put in a toaster?
Answer: "bread." If you said "toast," maybe you should give up now and
do something else. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, bread, go to
Question
2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk." What do cows drink?
Answer: Cows drink water. If you said "milk," maybe you shouldn't even
attempt to answer the next question. Your brain is apparently over-stressed
and
may even overheat.
Content yourself with reading more appropriate literature such as Auto
World. However, if you said "water", proceed to question 3.
3. If a red house is made from red bricks, and a blue house is made
from blue bricks, and a pink house is made from pink bricks, and a black
house
is made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from?
Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said "green bricks,"
why are you still reading this?
If you said "glass," go on to Question 4.
4. It's twenty years ago, and a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over
Germany (If you will recall , Germany at the time was politically divided
into
West Germany and East Germany ) Anyway, during the flight, TWO engines fail.
The
pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also failing, decides on
a
crash landing procedure. Unfortunately the engine fails before he can do so
and
the plane fatally crashes smack in the middle of "no man's land" between
East
Germany and West Germany Where would you bury the survivors? East Germany,
West Germany, or no man's land"?
Answer: You don't bury survivors.
If you said ANYTHING else, you're in real bad shape and for your own
sake you must stop. If you said, "You don't bury survivors", proceed to the
next
question.
5. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from London to
Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, six
people get off the bus and nine people get on. In Swindon , two people get
off
and four get on. In Cardiff, 11 people get off and 16 people get on. In
Swansea,
three people get off and five people get on. In Carmathen, six people get
off
and three get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven. What was the n ame of
the
bus driver?
Answer: Oh, for crying out loud!
Don't you remember your own name? Or have you forgotten it was YOU
driving the BUS!!
Now pass this along to all your friends and pray they do better than
you.
PS: 95% of people fail most of the questions! !!
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it.
You
have to catch up with it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
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