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Same happens to me all the time.

^No it's actually at -16 points and it's a lot. I just don't think I deserve such a hard punishment for simply not knowing that posting news articles is not allowed in here.

^I just said in the above post that I had -21 points plus and then a couple positive points from these posts on top of that but its still negative.So is there any chance you could drop these negative points so I could have a stable account fo a couple weeks without being suspended every other day so I could redirect my forum users to a new host? Do I need to PM admins with this since I didnt get a response so far and my forum is going down the drain.

I always linked to the original site so there shouldnt be any problems with the law. It's just a news articles, not copyrighted materials. Unless you rip it and make money off it its legal to discuss news with the exact quotations, here in US anyways.

Admins, please have some decency and remove my negative credits so I would have time to redirect my forum users to a new host. I have -21 right now.

I know another forum where the members have just become like a group of close friends, if you will. Pretty much everything there has been discussed and now they just hang around jabbering on about this and that. It used to be a very crowded forum and you rarely see anyone stop by.I see nothing wrong with posting news articles but if thats not acceptable here then I'll look somewhere else. All I ask is to give me enough credits for a couple of weeks so I could redirect all my forum members to a new host. It took me a lot of effort to advertise my forum so please respect that and dont suspend my account for 2 weeks, after that you can delete it.

^But I only made them to get out of debt. Please don't tell me that I'm digging myself in even deeper. I have a lot of work put into my site which I havent finished yet but I dont want to loose whats already done. Please give me one month to backup all my stuff and find a new host.

I've been going through my posts just now and I'm pretty sure my recent topics were not deleted. Ususally I post whole topics and not short replies that can be considered as spam. Somebody please clarify for me why this keeps happening because I need my hosting account for a few more months to finish doing what I'm doing.PS I couldnt find the Edit button so please dont give me a negative rep for double posting.

This is the second time it happened to me. Just yesterday I had around +10 hosting credits and now its -28 and my account is suspended. Please help.

The ingredients and additives in cigarettes when burned, create toxic, harmful chemical compounds. There are over 4000 chemicals in cigarette smoke, and more than 40 of them are known carcinogens. Smokers inhale some pretty disgusting things with every puff: Tar yes, the same thing they use to pave streets and driveways. Ever notice how smoker?s teeth are yellow? Tar is responsible for that. Hydrogen Cyanide This chemical is used to kill rats.Of course no one would willingly inhale this chemical which, under the name of Zyklon B, was used as a genocidal agent during World War II, but smokers do it multiple times with every cigarette they light. Because hydrogen cyanide is present in second hand smoke, nonsmokers are also at risk. Hydrogen cyanide at room temperature is a volatile, colorless-to-blue liquid (also called hydrocyanidic acid). It rapidly becomes a gas that can produce death in minutes if breathed. Benzene This chemical is used in manufacturing gasoline. Acetone It?s in nail polish remover and it?s in cigarettes. Yum! Formaldehyde This is what they use to preserve dead bodies. It?s also used as an industrial fungicide, is a disinfectant, and is used in glues and adhesives. It is classified as a human carcinogen (cancer-causing substance) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and as a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(EPA). According to an article in the American Journal of Public Health from November of 1982, formaldehyde in sidestream cigarette smoke is evident in concentrations of up to three orders of magnitude above occupational limits, which readily accounts for eye and nasal irritation. "Low-tar" cigarettes appear at least as irritating as other cigarettes. More than half the irritant is associated with the particulate phase of the smoke, permitting deposition throughout the entire respiratory tract and raising the issue of whether formaldehyde in smoke is associated with bronchial cancer(1). Ammonia We use this chemical to clean our houses. The process of using ammonia to boost the impact of nicotine on the user is called "free-basing." Similar to the chemical process of free-basing cocaine, the end result is an enhanced effect of the drug. Nicotine exists in two forms, acid and base. When ammonia is added, it reacts with the acid form of nicotine in a cigarette and converts it to the base form. The base form vaporizes more easily from the smoke particles into a gas phase. As a gas, nicotine will deposit directly on lung tissue and begin to circulate immediately throughout the body. Carbon Monoxide It?s in car exhaust, and it?s in cigarette smoke. It's a colorless,odorless gas that is produced as a result of incomplete burning of carbon-containing fuels. Exposure to CO reduces the blood's ability to carry oxygen. Cigarette smoke can contain high levels of CO, as well as 200 other known poisons. Breathing low levels of CO can cause: fatigue increased chest pain in people with chronic heart disease In otherwise healthy people, breathing higher levels of carbon monoxide causes flu-like symptoms such as: headaches dizziness weakness sleepiness nausea vomiting confusion disorientation ...after reading this...do you still want a cigarette?

One of the most popular rock stars in Romania was killed in an car accident a month ago by an US marine who was driving drunk. But now after the investigation has started US embassy sent the marine away in US before the investigation was concluded. There is a lot of frustation here toward US regarding this incident. Teo Peter, the founding member of the famous Compact band, was killed Saturday morning at 4.30 in a car accident in downtown Bucharest, according to the police. The taxi that was taking 50-year-old Teo Peter home from a music festival was struck violently by a Ford Expedition car belonging to the U.S. Embassy. The accident took place at the intersection between Dacia Boulevard and Polish Street. The cab was smashed and pushed on to the sidewalk. Although the emergency services soon arrived at the scene, they were unable to save Peter's life. The taxi driver, 28-year-old Marian Chivu, suffered several injuries and was taken to the hospital. His condition is now stable, according to medical source. The car belonging to the U.S. Embassy was driven by a U.S. marine, Robert Christopher, an employee of the U.S. Embassy, according to several private TV stations. Eye witnesses said the American driver seemed to be responsible for the crash, as he was driving too fast and did not give way to the cab driver. Police sources said the Embassy's employee had been drinking and was not able to avoid the collision with the taxi. The General Police Department in Bucharest said the 31-year-old American did not pay attention to traffic signs. According to Bucharest Police, the breathalyzer test showed the American driver had a 0.09 milligrams alcohol level in his blood, where as, under Romanian law, drivers are not allowed to drink at all. When police saw the breathalyzer results, they tried to take the marine to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine to perform a blood test, but he refused, saying the institute does not use the "medical instruments offered by the embassy," according to the police press release. Link

BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) -- A dime struck in 1894 at the San Francisco mint was auctioned Monday for $1,322,500, the most ever paid for a United States dime, experts said.The winning bidder took part in the sale by phone and was not identified.The coin, described as being in nearly pristine condition, was one of only 24 dimes made that year at the San Francisco mint, whose director had requested them as gifts for visiting bankers.Just 10 of the dimes are believed to remain.The coin was consigned to the auction by Bradley Hirst of Richmond, Indiana, who bought it for $825,000 six years ago, according to John Feigenbaum, president of David Lawrence Rare Coins of Virginia Beach, Virginia, the auctioneer.

DO NOT COPY PASTE ARTICLES You are only destroying your account not the earth.. This one costed you 15 hosting credits in penalty on top of the hosting credits you lost when I deleted the content. Nils

Politicows A bovine guide to political theory Feudalism : You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. Fascism : You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk. Pure socialism : You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else?s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need. Pure communism : You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you share the milk. Bureaucratic socialism : You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else?s cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and as much eggs as the regulations say you should need. Russian communism : You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. Pure democracy : You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk. Representative democracy; You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk. American democracy : The government promises you two cows if you vote for it. After the election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow features. Capitalism : You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Hong Kong capitalism : You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using the letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt-equity swap with associated general offer so that you will get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows? milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the feng shui is bad. Totalitarism : You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned. Anarchism : You have two cows. Either you sell the mil kat a fair price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows. Dictatorship : You have two cows. The government takes bot hand shoots you. Surrealism : You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

"filth and blasphemy." Anyone else find that disgusting? "Threatening to protest outside the cancer charities' offices" Yet another example of a fundamentalist religous group taking on the role of moral gaurdians and trying to dictate what "its" people should or should not be doing.

Uncle Sam wants you. He needs you. He'll bribe you to sign up. He'll strong-arm you to re-enlist. And if that's not enough, he's got a plan to draft you. In the three decades since the Vietnam War, the "all-volunteer Army" has become a bedrock principle of the American military. "It's a magnificent force," Vice President *BLEEP* Cheney declared during the election campaign last fall, "because those serving are ones who signed up to serve." But with the Army and Marines perilously overextended by the war in Iraq, that volunteer foundation is starting to crack. The "weekend warriors" of the Army Reserve and the National Guard now make up almost half the fighting force on the front lines, and young officers in the Reserve are retiring in droves. The Pentagon, which can barely attract enough recruits to maintain current troop levels, has involuntarily extended the enlistments of as many as 100,000 soldiers. Desperate for troops, the Army has lowered its standards to let in twenty-five percent more high school dropouts, and the Marines are now offering as much as $30,000 to anyone who re-enlists. To understand the scope of the crisis, consider this: The United States is pouring nearly as much money into incentives for new recruits -- almost $300 million -- as it is into international tsunami relief. "The Army's maxed out here," says retired Gen. Merrill McPeak, who served as Air Force chief of staff under the first President Bush. "The Defense Department and the president seem to be still operating off the rosy scenario that this will be over soon, that this pain is temporary and therefore we'll just grit our teeth, hunker down and get out on the other side of this. That's a bad assumption." The Bush administration has sworn up and down that it will never reinstate a draft. During the campaign last year, the president dismissed the idea as nothing more than "rumors on the Internets" and declared, "We're not going to have a draft -- period." Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in an Op-Ed blaming "conspiracy mongers" for "attempting to scare and mislead young Americans," insisted that "the idea of reinstating the draft has never been debated, endorsed, discussed, theorized, pondered or even whispered by anyone in the Bush administration." That assertion is demonstrably false. According to an internal Selective Service memo made public under the Freedom of Information Act, the agency's acting director met with two of Rumsfeld's undersecretaries in February 2003 precisely to debate, discuss and ponder a return to the draft. The memo duly notes the administration's aversion to a draft but adds, "Defense manpower officials concede there are critical shortages of military personnel with certain special skills, such as medical personnel, linguists, computer network engineers, etc." The potentially prohibitive cost of "attracting and retaining such personnel for military service," the memo adds, has led "some officials to conclude that, while a conventional draft may never be needed, a draft of men and women possessing these critical skills may be warranted in a future crisis." This new draft, it suggests, could be invoked to meet the needs of both the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security. The memo then proposes, in detail, that the Selective Service be "re-engineered" to cover all Americans -- "men and (for the first time) women" -- ages eighteen to thirty-four. In addition to name, date of birth and Social Security number, young adults would have to provide the agency with details of their specialized skills on an ongoing basis until they passed out of draft jeopardy at age thirty-five. Testifying before Congress two weeks after the meeting, acting director of Selective Service Lewis Brodsky acknowledged that "consultations with senior Defense manpower officials" have spurred the agency to shift its preparations away from a full-scale, Vietnam-style draft of untrained men "to a draft of smaller numbers of critical-skills personnel." Richard Flahavan, spokesman for Selective Service, tells Rolling Stone that preparing for a skills-based draft is "in fact what we have been doing." For starters, the agency has updated a plan to draft nurses and doctors. But that's not all. "Our thinking was that if we could run a health-care draft in the future," Flahavan says, "then with some very slight tinkering we could change that skill to plumbers or linguists or electrical engineers or whatever the military was short." In other words, if Uncle Sam decides he needs people with your skills, Selective Service has the means to draft you -- and quick. But experts on military manpower say the focus on drafting personnel with special skills misses the larger point. The Army needs more soldiers, not just more doctors and linguists. "What you've got now is a real shortage of grunts -- guys who can actually carry bayonets," says McPeak. A wholesale draft may be necessary, he adds, "to deal with the situation we've got ourselves into. We've got to have a bigger Army." Michael O'Hanlon, a military-manpower scholar at the Brookings Institute, believes a return to a full-blown draft will become "unavoidable" if the United States is forced into another war. "Let's say North Korea strikes a deal with Al Qaeda to sell them a nuclear weapon or something," he says. "I frankly don't see how you could fight two wars at the same time with the all-volunteer approach." If a second Korean War should break out, the United States has reportedly committed to deploying a force of nearly 700,000 to defend South Korea -- almost half of America's entire military. The politics of the draft are radioactive: Polls show that less than twenty percent of Americans favor forced military service. But conscription has some unlikely champions, including veterans and critics of the administration who are opposed to Bush's war in Iraq. Reinstating the draft, they say, would force every level of society to participate in military service, rather than placing a disproportionate burden on minorities and the working class. African-Americans, who make up roughly thirteen percent of the civilian population, account for twenty-two percent of the armed forces. And the Defense Department acknowledges that recruits are drawn "primarily from families in the middle and lower-middle socioeconomic strata." A societywide draft would also make it more difficult for politicians to commit troops to battle without popular approval. "The folks making the decisions are committing other people's lives to a war effort that they're not making any sacrifices for," says Charles Sheehan-Miles, who fought in the first Gulf War and now serves as director of Veterans for Common Sense. Under the current all-volunteer system, fewer than a dozen members of Congress have children in the military. Charlie Moskos, a professor of military sociology at Northwestern University, says the volunteer system also limits the political fallout of unpopular wars. "Without a draft, there's really no antiwar movement," Moskos says. Nearly sixty percent of Americans believe the war in Iraq was a mistake, he notes, but they have no immediate self-interest in taking to the streets because "we're willing to pay people to die for us. It doesn't reflect very well on the character of our society." Even military recruiters agree that the only way to persuade average Americans to make long-term sacrifices in war is for the children of the elite to put their lives on the line. In a recent meeting with military recruiters, Moskos discussed the crisis in enlistment. "I asked them would they prefer to have their advertising budget tripled or have Jenna Bush join the Army," he says. "They unanimously chose the Jenna option." One of the few politicians willing to openly advocate a return to the draft is Rep. Charles Rangel, a Democrat from New York, who argues that the current system places an immoral burden on America's underprivileged. "It shouldn't be just the poor and the working poor who find their way into harm's way," he says. In the days leading up to the Iraq war, Rangel introduced a bill to reinstate the draft -- with absolutely no deferments. "If the kids and grandkids of the president and the Cabinet and the Pentagon were vulnerable to going to Iraq, we never would have gone -- no question in my mind," he says. "The closer this thing comes home to Americans, the quicker we'll be out of Iraq." But instead of exploring how to share the burden more fairly, the military is cooking up new ways to take advantage of the economically disadvantaged. Rangel says military recruiters have confided in him that they're targeting inner cities and rural areas with high unemployment. In December, the National Guard nearly doubled its enlistment bonus to $10,000, and the Army is trying to attract urban youth with a marketing campaign called "Taking It to the Streets," which features a pimped-out yellow Hummer and a basketball exhibition replete with free throwback jerseys. President Bush has also signed an executive order allowing legal immigrants to apply for citizenship immediately -- rather than wait five years -- if they volunteer for active duty. "It's so completely unethical and immoral to induce people that have limited education and limited job ability to have to put themselves in harm's way for ten, twenty or thirty thousand dollars," Rangel says. "Just how broke do you have to be to take advantage of these incentives?" Seducing soldiers with cold cash also unnerves military commanders. "We must consider the point at which we confuse 'volunteer to become an American soldier' with 'mercenary,' " Lt. Gen. James Helmly, the commander of the Army Reserve, wrote in a memo to senior Army leadership in December. The Reserve, Helmly warns, "is rapidly degenerating into a broken force." The Army National Guard is also in trouble: It missed its recruitment goals of 56,000 by more than 5,000 in fiscal year 2004 and is already 2,000 soldiers short in fiscal 2005. To keep enough boots on the ground, the Pentagon has stopped asking volunteer soldiers to extend their service -- and started demanding it. Using a little-known provision called "stop loss," the military is forcing reservists and guardsmen to remain on active duty indefinitely. "This is an 'all-volunteer Army' with footnotes," says McPeak. "And it's the footnotes that are being held in Iraq against their wishes. If that's not a back-door draft, tell me what is." David Qualls, who joined the Arkansas National Guard for a year, is one of 40,000 troops in Iraq who have been informed that their enlistment has been extended until December 24th, 2031. "I've served five months past my one-year obligation," says Qualls, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the military with breach of contract. "It's time to let me go back to my life. It's a question of fairness, and not only for myself. This is for the thousands of other people that are involuntarily extended in Iraq. Let us go home." The Army insists that most "stop-lossed" soldiers will be held on the front lines for no longer than eighteen months. But Jules Lobel, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who is representing eight National Guardsmen in a lawsuit challenging the extensions, says the 2031 date is being used to strong-arm volunteers into re-enlisting. According to Lobel, the military is telling soldiers, "We're giving you a chance to voluntarily re-enlist -- and if you don't do it, we'll screw you. And the first way we'll screw you is to put you in until 2031." But threatening volunteers, military experts warn, could be the quickest way to ensure a return to the draft. According to O'Hanlon at the Brookings Institute, such "callousness" may make it impossible to recruit new soldiers -- no matter how much money you throw at them. And if bigger sign-up bonuses and more aggressive recruitment tactics don't do the trick, says Helmly of the Army Reserve, it could "force the nation into an argument" about reinstating the draft. In the end, it may simply come down to a matter of math. In January, Bush told America's soldiers that "much more will be asked of you" in his second term, even as he openly threatened Iran with military action. Another war, critics warn, would push the all-volunteer force to its breaking point. "This damn thing is just an explosion that's about to happen," says Rangel. Bush officials "can say all they want that they don't want the draft, but there's not going to be that many more buttons to push." Source

With the army desperate for recruits, should college students be packing their bags for Canada?

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has cut daily food rations to 250 grams (8.8 ounce) per person, just half the minimum daily energy requirement, officials from the World Food Program said on Monday. Richard Ragan, the U.N. food agency's country director for North Korea, said the cut from 300 grams per day appeared to be temporary and was not unprecedented in a country where fluctuations in public food distribution have been a regular occurrence. "At this point, it is unclear on the duration of this change," Ragan said in an email to Reuters. The reclusive communist state has suffered from persistent food shortages, although conditions appear to have improved since famine caused by drought and flooding in the mid- and late-1990s were believed to have led to the deaths of a million people. Gerald Bourke, the World Food Program's public affairs officer for Asia, said the cut was likely to be in effect at least until the middle of the year. "That it is this early in the year is of concern," Bourke said. The minimum daily required cereal ration is approximately 500 grams. Despite its best harvest in 10 years, North Korea was again expected to experience food shortages in 2005 and to require external aid, the World Food Program said in November.

I just wanted to know about some of the war heroes from around the world that everyone here knows about. I know of a few, although i can't recall most of their names. There was an American soldier in WW2 that had his left leg pretty much blown off. He was all alone because his buddies were all dead and he managed to kill over 50 Germans by himself and still make it out alive. There was a German in WW2, on the Eastern front that had survived a mass attack by the Russians, and he was the only one to do so in his group. Everyone else was dead. Well, he manned all of the anti-tank canons and took out tank after tank while running from one canon, reloading then firing, then to the next canon and so on. The Russians thought they were up against hundreds of Germans, but no, just one crazy bastard. He held off the tanks for days, until reinforcements came to his aid. He took out somewhere in the area of 40 tanks by himself. For a more recent one, there was an American Marine in Iraq (lost the article so I don't remember his name). He was a Captain leading a group of Humvees through the streets when they were ambushed. Down the street from them was a machine gun nest that was firing like hell, and in the surrounding buildings there were Iraqis with guns. He told all the humvees but his to find cover. He ordered his hummer to charge the machine gun nest. The 50.cal gunner on the top of the hummer killed the machine gun nest, but then the Cpt ordered to ram into the enemy trench, so they did. He went by himelf into the trench armed only with his M-16 and a 45colt. He killed the enemies until his M-16 was out of ammo, then killed as many more as possible with his 45. he then grabbed an enemy AK, killed until it was out, grabbed another and killed more. He then grabbed a dead Iraqi's RPG and peeked around the trench's corner to see a group of Iraqis waiting for him. he popped out around the corner just long enough to blow them all up with a rocket. After all was done, over 25 iraqis lay dead, and another 20 lay wounded. For this he earned the Navy Cross (one step below Medal of Honor). There...Now list ones you know of.

^Yeah its deliberate. Been working only on the forum so far, havent gotten to the other stuff yet. Thanx.

So then perhaps you simply need to refresh your browser then(hit F5)

Could somebody check if my site works now: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I dunno if it just happens to me or everybody.

I'm not saying that all technology is bad per se, some of the new technologies have opened the new horizons and can be very beneficial. If you take computers for instance, they represent a great tool that can be applied to just about any field and can be used for both fun and research purposes. And they provide us with a free medium that allows us to interact with each other on the broader levels without any social boundaries. Even with a modest budget you can create a hit working from the back of your own garage. This is one rare instance when the product can also serve as a tool. I'm all for it. But the issue was concerning the spoiling products that create unnecessary dependancies as well as mind control methods, so I wouldnt go with this technology as far as to creating the Beast computer that is currently being developed by Brits and could separate the man from Jesus entirely with a "Beast Mark" as was prophesised in the holy scriptures. Source

Won't work on the laptops. I suspect new laptops use flash memory because in the manual it says that if you forget the BIOS password there is no way you can reset it yourself and you will need to send your laptop back to the manufacturer.

^Just a general 404 error. The link is in my profile.The problem is with viewing this host and my site hosted on it at the same time. You can view either one selectively but rarely both at the same time. Once you hit one you can't view the other for like 6 hours or so.