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  1. biscuitrat
    Its regular shape, and the small of the movie logo, does the movie no justice. Try to showcase the grandeur of the movie; don't cut off Leonidas' head, first. Secondly, you don't need any of that text on there. If you want text, try taking a quote from the movie like "Then we will fight in the shade" or "Persians, come and get them!" or something cool like that. And make sure you don't do anything weird to the text! Make it fit in to the sig, even if you have to make the sig bigger to accomplish that. 300 deserves a little more than that.Nice work, but keep working on it.
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    The sides of the header don't really go well at all, and you need to work on the gloss you used for your header image, I think. It looks dusty now :POther than that, the template isn't very impressive. It's the same as any other red forum template, with the same number of gradients. It's also a little wide for comfortable reading, but I guess it works. It's a better forum theme than many I've seen (and I've seen bajillions).
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    Jhaslip has the right idea; go for a nice semantic XHTML layout (copy the code, don't worry about the terminology) and have a blast
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    Blizzard's a little wrapped up in World Of Warcraft right now, which is why they haven't really worked on Starcraft: Ghost. Hellgate: London was rumored to be a preview of what could be expected in Diablo 3.On the topic of Diablo, it's an MMORPG...it's the same as WOW in that respect. I loved my Diablo days; I never ran into scammers or cheats...a few butts, yes, but all in the name of annoyance and short-term humor. Besides that, the world seemed so diverse. WOW throws you right into the game, and makes you truly feel as if you're a part of something, but Diablo made you a part of a legend. From the imaginative monsters to the diverse terrain, to the quests and the fun of talking to the guards, and having a stash, Diablo definitely deserves to be a trilogy (if you count D2 and D2: Lord Of Destruction in one). I have no predictions for how it'll be, but it'll be good -- the fan following is too great to just give up.
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    I can't reach my account right now because it's suspended (I have an installation of CuteNews running), and I've found two things. If you have a default stylesheet, it'll usually override CuteNews' styles; if not, look for the following code: <style type="text/css"><!--@import url(http://cutephp.com/site-files/main.css);@import url(http://cutephp.com/site-files/ffb/getff.css);--></style> And follow the path from your individual site (check under a directory called templates or site, or something like that.) If you can't find it still, look through all directories until you see a .css file. Once you find it, look for something that says the following: a:link , a:visited {color:#345360;text-decoration: none;}a:hover , a:focus{text-decoration: underline;} And edit the color with your favorite hexadecimal color code. Just in case you're not familiar with the values, :link is a normal link, :visited is one you've clicked on, :hover is the hover effect, and :focus is what happens when you're holding your mouse down on a link. Best of luck. Remember that I'm using the demo file; I'll verify this once I get my stupid site up
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    I'm going to introduce you to something called CSS. In a basic HTML page, find the following tags: [b]<head> </head>[/b] In between them, write the following: <style type="text/css">body {background: #000 url(thelocationofyourfile) repeat-y;} Now, your entire body will have this background image, and it will repeat down the y-axis...that is, up and down. The color code in front of it makes sure that any part of the background that isn't covered by the background image will be that color...in this case, the color is black, because that is the predominant color of your page. This is a FAR better way to integrate a design. I strongly encourage you to start learning CSS; it'll change the way you look at things so much, and it's so easy
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    Although "Cingular is now the new at&t"... But yeah, the iPhone isn't out yet, and they still have a lot to add before it's perfect. But from the demos I saw, it looks great...if you can afford it. Me, I like my old beat-up Ericsson. I can break it (not that I would, I love it), and it'll only cost $10 to replace And then there's my iPod to keep me company. I never really understood the purpose of having an all-in-one. I'd rather have the best of all three for less, but then again, I'm strange like that.
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    The image isn't loading for me. Remember that you can stylize anything about the layout, so use your own creativity. It won't really be your site if someone else advises you how to design it.Just a question: is your keyboard broken? You have gaps between the "it" and "s" of "its" a few times. Remember that "Its" is possessive and "It's" is a contraction for "It is". Best of luck
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    I hate that people throw their lives away by drinking when they're really young. Same thing with drugs. I don't understand the absolute fascination with alcohol, but efforts to stop it from going out of hand are very ineffective. Posters won't stop people from drinking. My peers, myself included, are still immature. To put alcohol in the hands of these children who are just getting into high school and college is an absolute travesty. We're still children, like it or not. Just because you can drink even a little bit does not make you an adult. It makes you stupid. Wait until you can handle it. I get incensed by any mention of teen car accidents involving drunken drivers because it's like...that could have been prevented so easily. You didn't have to drink OR drive, and yet, you get into your car and you kill people. It's not a personal thing either. It's a moral thing. How could you possibly do that?Ugh, also, the smell of alcohol makes me nauseous. I think that factors in at all. I don't think we should raise the drinking age because 21 is when you get out of college. If we practice moderation and make sure younger kids don't get their hands on substances while we can control it, society will be all the more better for it.
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    Web design without HTML? That's an oxymoron, I think. PHP is a script so, as long as your files are named something.php, the script will work (unless you wrote it wrong). If you don't know anything, learn PHP from http://php.net/, and learn HTML from http://www.lissaexplains.com/ or http://www.w3schools.com/. Best of luck
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    I'm assuming you mean for code. If I have something that's lined, I use Notepad because of the "Go to line" ability. If it's something like HTML or CSS, I just edit it directly from my FTP. You don't always need a fancy program to make fancy things is what I've learned. I mean, code is code. Code can come out of Dreamweaver and your heart and still be the same except for one thing. If you do it yourself, you feel so much better about it, but then you can also take the hits for when the code screws up. You know what's going on and how to fix it. For those of you who are relying on templates and pre-made layouts for your websites, start dissecting them and teaching yourself so eventually, you can make something on your own and be that much happier for it.
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    Okay, as far as plagiarism goes, copying work is most definitely not the same as copying writing. A teacher has a responsibility to make you practice English, and study guides are fair game. I mean, they make you study, don't they? I don't actually remember reading this book, but the title sounds familiar, so let's give it a go. 1) Why does Speare load the first chapter with so many important characters? Are all the principal characters well-drawn? It sounds to me like she wants to introduce them all, to throw you right into the middle of Puritan New England. Because Kit is travelling over the ocean, she's being thrown into the chaos of having to live a new land, with all these people she doesn't know. Maybe Speare wants you to try to adjust alongside Kit, for experience maybe? Your teacher also wants to know if Kit and the other very recurrent characters are portrayed very well so you can clearly see where they fall on certain issues, and predict how they're going to act. For example, you'll know which characters are prone to get angry, which are always sad, and which characters are the optimistic ones that lead the story forwards. Can you distinguish that about the characters? Does Kit react to situations the same way that a sixteen year-old today would? - Is Kit like a modern teenager, or is she obedient and dependent? Look for her traits, and think about how they relate to how your older brother, sister, friend, cousin, etc. would act. I'm 16, but then again, I haven't read the book! What might readers conclude about outcasts in this Puritan society? About the society's tolerance? How significant is group pressure in Puritan society? How are people who deviate from Puritanism treated? How receptive is the society to new changes, challenges, religions and races? Do individual people get a say, or do various groups gang up on other groups of people when they feel they're right and the other people are wrong? Basically: how are people who aren't part of the Puritan society treated? What moral questions arise from the book? - She's probably looking for you to contrast tolerance and goodness in a Puritan society compared with what we believe is right. Then, ask yourself questions like "Why are they doing this? Where does this get them?". Make those questions specific ("Why did the guy push the dog off the boat if the dog wasn't doing anything to him? [DID NOT HAPPEN; Example]") and relevant to what's going on in the book. Try to answer those questions for your own comprehension. What significance do you find in the characters' names? - Some people are named after what they look like or how they act. Can you see any of this naming system in the book? What tension exists between Kit and Nat? Cite examples of increasing and diminishing tension. - I'm guessing there's romantic tension here from what I read. Give examples of times when they grow closer together, and times where they fall apart or become accustomed to whatever they're doing that's causing the tension in the first place. Explain Kit's process of maturation in the novel. - How does Kit eventually grow up, basically? How is her character different at the end from the beginning? Your teacher wants you to describe how she changed as a person over the course of the novel...not necessarily what happened to her, but how she acts at the end of the novel compared to the beginning, because very few novels go backwards. You can assume that Kit learned some stuff throughout the novel (otherwise, it's pretty pointless), so use that to help you. I don't even know if any of this makes sense. I think I asked more questions than you were initially given, but I hope this clarifies what each question is asking for. If it doesn't, sorry, I tried
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    Bill Gates did NOT send you an e-mail, not on the personal level. This is a newsletter, which he sends to everyone who subscribes anyway. I know it looks cool to get mail from the big guy himself, but this is far different from Steve Jobs, who replies personally to several e-mails from faithful e-mailers. This looks more like it would be some sort of random presentation because it has predictions on future technologies and generic figures to bolster Microsoft after Vista (which I still consider a flop). And on another note, he also only signs the e-mail with his name. No "sincerely", no "thank you", no "I LOVE YOU SO MUCH MMMMUAH". It's his name and he's done. Now you might look at it this way: Bill Gates did write the thing, but he didn't write it with you specifically in mind. If you want to dwell over that, think of any newsletter from any company. They'll all be administrated by someone fairly high up because no one wants to hear from the IT guy or the marketing guy. They want to hear from people they know. So Bill Gates is representing Microsoft here, the same way that any other CEO would represent their company to the public. A newsletter is not a means for personal intimate communication; it's simply a newsletter. To inform you and hold you to the company, nothing more.
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    I seriously can't believe that this is representative of the quality of Xisto forum posts. It's extremely disgusting, and while it's all in the name of science, the integrity of this forum is based on not asking such questions. To anyone who answered, grats, I think, for not really caring about what the post is about and just going with it. To those who haven't, bravo! There's some dignity left among us! Okay, think of all the food you've ever eaten. Green, red, orange, white, yellow, brown, pink, etc: when you mix it all together, it turns into a brown mass. Of course, poo had chemicals and bacteria in it too, but this is a simple color experiment. If you mix any group of colors together, you're guaranteed to get brown unless you work at it, and finally get black. However, true black is impossible to find, and so is true white, because there's no way of discerning that level of purity with lighting issues, consistency, etc. Your body's excretory system has two sorts of functions: one that adds water, and one that removes it, and consequently, two ways to get it out. So if you want to know why poo isn't more like pee, there you go. Liquids = pee; solids = poo. Liquids = soluble waste; poo = insoluble waste (don't try to find ways to prove me wrong on this - any further is going to make me go crazy. Although your results are definitely...interesting, I guess.
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    I fell asleep during the first two movies, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. The movies suck the life out of the books, the talent that JK Rowling has for storytelling. Sure, the effects are nice, but it just amplifies the angst of the entire series.Ah, the angst. The girl troubles, the hormones, the anger, the sulking, the "WHY WON'T YOU TALK TO ME, HARRY?!", the shameless egotism, the unnecessary deaths. Thank you, Rowling, I get it. I'm a teen, I know what it's like. However, I'm not a whiny little boy who's curled into a ball at the slightest memory of something that went wrong. I'm not the person who everyone knows and loves for nothing. Harry doesn't even have a purpose. The books can be divided into these scenes:1) Summer - angst, hating families, OMG GINNY'S HAWT, and thoughts of Quidditch. Birthday presents.2) Getting on the Express and getting to school3) The Sorting Hat, beginning classes, notations of how no teacher has changed (except for those who are about to have their lives go drastically wrong)4) Class troubles - Malfoy fights5) GIRL TROUBLES AND QUIDDITCH - how Harry saves the day while being a bumbling pile of tard.6) There's trouble afoot! Quickly, to the WizMobile!7) Nananananananananananananananana!8) Training begins to fight the trouble9) Girl troubles pause training10) Middle of the year = Girl troubles HALT everything11) Skip, skip skip, trouble is resolved, people die without having to, the kids save the day.People make the argument that Rowling's storytelling is better than her writing. I disagree. Her writing is more entertaining to me than digesting the story. I've read all 6 books (only read the 5th one twice, and the 6th one once because they're so aeguhu), and as they get darker and darker, Harry goes a little more insane and starts to resemble one of my acquaintances who has about every mental disorder known to man. So the interesting part will be his resulting madness and how it relates to him finally saving the day, or dying because of it.As much as the progression bothers me, I don't want Harry to die because that just completely ends the series. That's it. The Boy That Lived? WRONG, guess again! It gives you no reason to read the series again, not even for enjoyment. Thanks. JK.
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    A few questions:1) Can I see this page in action?2) How big are these images we're talking about?3) Instead of having separate states for your images, why not roll them into one? Make one file that has all three states next to each other, side to side, or top to bottom. Then, just set the margin/padding necessary to show the new states. I can explain this more when I'm not trying to recover 13 credits I lost for no reason. I'm not really rational right now!Lemme know!
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    It sounds like something I've read but neither my memory nor Google can solve this. I would suggest asking your friend and maybe triggering his/her memory about what the book looked like, etc. That might help!
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    The idea of a god stems from the realization that we're very tiny insignificant things; we're not any specific milestone. We were an accident. Of course, people don't like thinking that. Look, it's fire! It must have been a spirit watching over us! OH SWEET, THE WHEEL! Stop messing with the natural forces!The creation theory has several gaps. 1) Time: The earth is not only a few thousand years old. We wouldn't have dinosaurs then. But of course, if you don't believe in radiocarbon dating, that's...peachy.2) "Necessity" for morality: Religions enforce morality, but they don't create it. Little kids learn from their parents and people around them. The pack mentality. 3) The "guardian spirit": So you think there's someone who, while playing dollhouse with the human race (and the ANIMALS and the PLANTS and the BACTERIA - we're talking quadrillions or more), can spend time with each individual person? By that theory, murderers should be struck down for even thinking of committing a crime. We wouldn't need law enforcement - we'd have a spirit watching over us, of course!I'm not an atheist, but I'm very liberal in my beliefs. What I do is what I do by myself. My gods didn't do it for me, like some people want to think. I have a religion still because I feel there's an optimism in religion, a hope, and miracles do happen that you just can't explain. But for practical reasons, no, it's not a viable source of history, science, or anything but the growth of civilizations. As if that's not significant!Evolution, on the other hand, can be backed up in numerous ways. Evolution has more than just written evidence - it had physical evidence. The theory of Pangaea is extremely strong - species on some continents are the same as species on other continents with the same climate, and an interlocking coastline? To everyone who wants to disprove evolution, please have some evidence first. Belief is not physical evidence.As for the creation of the world...there's the Law Of Conservation of Mass, so I'm guessing whirly particles from a black hole became stuck in some planet's orbit and whirled into a molten rock. Over time, life, water, everything came about. Creation can't explain that or the presence of other planets without invoking a deus ex machina (literally) to jump that hurdle for it. In essence, there is fact and then there is religion.
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    The "10-Year-Goals" remind me too much of Lenin and Stalin's Five Year Plans in name. I'm not sure anyone really listened to this State Of The Union address seriously. Bush can't restore himself in the eyes of the ~70% of people who don't approve of him. The pressing issue was when the "War" in Iraq would end (sorry, I consider a war to be something where two armies or two significant forces are against each other, not when the United States is accomplishing the senior Bush's dream by weeding out a country and fighting with a small (in comparison with the Army) cluster of insurgents), and of course, domestic changes at home. When Bush says "to guard America against all evil", I really don't quite get it. Terrorism only went up after the "War" started. Before then, terrorism in the United States was a purely domestic affair. My view is that, in the first Gulf War, Bush Sr. angered terrorists enough that they probably chose an iconic moment to screw us over. But does that really mean that we have to take on another country, abandoning entirely our purpose for going to war at all (finding Osama)? I think Bush's method of redemption was through these economic, environmental, and healthcare plans. I didn't read past the first page of the State Of The Union transcript, but I have a feeling that it won't be enough of an answer to the question of why we've spent so much time concentrating on the Middle East? Why not sooner? Thanks for trying, Bush. Thanks for trying. Complete transcript: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16672456/page/2/
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    So I lost about 13 credits without paying attention to spam? That doesn't sound right :/
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    I don't think it's fake. I say this because it's illogical that after all the money NASA spent on the moon-landing, they still faked it. Also, do you think any of the astronauts would have faked the operation willingly? They'd just trained how long for this...just to act? Also, I'm pretty sure that the video of the "fake" is a fake itself. The only way that he could fall that hard is if he was on Earth, as was previously mentioned. There's no wind in space, so the flag was starched. Notice that it doesn't change in photographs.The only significant argument as to why they would have faked it is that America wanted to win the space race. But we weren't necessarily far behind. In 1961, Alan Shepard orbited the earth. Yuri Gagarin did that only a few years before. America had the economic advantage, since Russia was still being rebuilt after World War II. So I think it's logical that within eight years, America was able to go from orbiting the Earth to landing on the moon. We had the power and the motivation to do it. Aside from the Korean and Vietnam wars, there were really no other significant interruptions to the "Space Age".
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    Okay...I think you mean "should euthanasia be legal?", not suicide. Because the last time I checked, people who commit suicide don't get put on trial because of it. Because they're dead. Attempted suicide warrants emotional and mental support, but not judicial proceedings. Suicide's definitely legal because it's not punishable, but it's still a societal black mark. I feel that euthanasia should be legal in terminal cases. After all, if a person can't really go on and they're in pain every moment of their lives, who's to say that they can't unplug themselves from life support? Now, I don't believe that Jack Kevorkian was justified either. The "helping people die" without their family's support seems cruel. The best solution would be to convince families that euthanasia was an option and let them make the the choice together. It hurts to see people in pain, so seeing them go in peace is necessary for healing.
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    We were put on this earth to not say that we were put on this earth to eat cows...to even think that is absurd. For example, my culture reveres (but does not worship!) the cow. So your statement is automatically untrue. Brilliant people come from upbringing and education, not diet. Sure, a good diet will improve your brain's capacity, but that doesn't make you any better at IQ tests, especially if you can't solve problems or see patterns to save your life. I've had a Mensa book since I was little and I don't think I've ever finished it.Then again...I haven't picked it up in about 5 years. I might as well give that a spin and challenge one of my omnivorous friends to an IQ-Off!
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    He's a brilliant man trapped in a crippled body. He wants to at least do it once before whatever he has (ALS?) absolutely consumes him. I mean, he can't talk without mechanical assistance, he's practically hooked up to every kind of machine ever. Someone convince me that that isn't absolutely depressing to be so intelligent and yet dependent on technology like that. I mean, let's look at it this way. He doesn't have many years left. There's nothing wrong with him taking this chance. Stephen has researched space his entire life. It's unknown and beautiful. At least before he dies miserably on Earth (probably from being unplugged), he'll want to witness it. My one "fear" is that he won't survive in Space because the conditions are so hard, and when you're barely getting by on earth, how can you live out there? But he's going to undergo training on the Vomit Comet very soon is what I've heard. Here's to you, Stephen. Maybe this will be peace for you at last.
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    I agree with the above. A vacuum, for me, implies a space that is completely empty and devoid of something. Dictionary.com merely refines this definition. Because water is matter, there's really no way that it could exist in a vacuum where nothing can exist, least of all matter. The idea of a vacuum is strange by itself - something that contains nothing - but I'll have to stick with the above.
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