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I tried cooking ramen the other day and I ended up burning myself when I poured the hot water.
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I'm new here, but it looked to me like you could get a top-level domain name such as http://www.mysitename.com/, but you can only get it on Xisto for free for a year if you spend 250 credits. Otherwise you have to spend about $8.
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The age of electronic books has not come yet, and even when it does, you will still have to pay for them. If you are looking to save money, I would look at various websites such as EBay and Amazon.
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I like cats. They're cute, friendly, and loving.
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Fantasy Lovers come and discuss your favourites
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You guys should check out the Broken Sky series. It's my all time favorite fantasy series! The author is Chris Wooding. I have some more of his books, but I haven't read them yet. Anyways, this series has everything! Topics range from revenge to hatred to racism, and themes include parallel worlds, spirit stones, creatures that can move through mirrors and wild monsters such as the Keriags, a giant insectoid species.The books begin with Ryushi and Kia, twins who have been given powerful spirit stones at birth. They live on a wyvern breeding farm until one day, the empire attacks and destroys their entire village. It turns out that their father was a leader in the rebellion, which Ryushi and Kia end up joining. Most people have spirit stones, which can allow their users to power machines, see the future, move earth into shapes such as golems, which is Kia's power, or even shape the air into a beam of pure energy, which is Ryushi's power.Unfortunately, the books have been out of print for several years, so you would either need to find them in a library, or get them through Ebay or Amazon. However, there have been reprints of the books within the last year or so, but they're only out in the UK. One might actually be able to find them on Amazon.uk. -
I'm a Christian and I'd like to comment on what you said. First, I'll say that you have everything backwards. There is another version of the Crusades happening, but it's not SOME Christians, it's SOME Muslims. These Muslims are called jihadists, and if you wikipedia it, you'll find that it basically is another version of the Crusades. We are attacking not out of some desire to Christianize the Middle East, but out of a desire to defend ourselves against this new version of the Crusades. Here are some points about your article.1. The Crusades: If you examine them, there is a striking parallel between them and the Jews of Jesus' day: both were looking to earthly politics for answers. Many Jews denied Jesus as Christ because they were expecting the Messiah to be a great political leader, and not someone to save them from their sins. Likewise, the Crusades seem to be about reclaiming God's land on earth through political means. Both seem to be good ideas of what a Christian should not do. There have been times when God 'crusaded' for the Jews and the focus was on political battles, such as in the books of Joshua and Judges. During these times, the emphasis was on the Jews' survival, and God Himself made known that that was His plan through many miracles, even speaking directly to many of Israel's leaders.2. Creationism in schools: I am sick and tired of having evolution crammed down my throat. It is a controversial hypothesis that has NOT been proven, and it is anathema to me that many schools teach it as a scientific fact, as definitive as gravity. That being said, I admit it is the leading scientific theory, and I have no problems with it being taught in schools. I just wish that science books would mention the hypothesis of Creationism, even just as a side note, that some people do not believe humans evolved from microorganisms, and they are not idiots merely because they go against the scientific norm. I would even be happy if schools would simply teach that there are some big unresolved issues with evolution and that it has not been proven, whereas most science books instead have a line that says something to the extent of: Evolution is a changing theory, and it is not definitive, but the basic principles have been scientifically proven and it's just the details that we are not sure about. This is a lie!3. The war in Iraq: I'm guessing you've forgotten about a time when the United States was attacked, with no provoking. We were hit hard, our economy was sent reeling, and many people of our nation were killed, while they were doing nothing more than working at their jobs. Then, a little later, we hear that more of our enemies have possession of nuclear weapons. Immediately we start fearing that another attack, 1000 times worse than 9-11, could happen, an attack that could turn our country, the most powerful country in the world, into a third world county overnight. What do we do? Anything we can to survive. I'm not saying it was the right thing to do, I'm not even saying Iraq was related in any way to 9-11. What I am saying is that we started the war because we were scared for our lives, not because Bush wanted oil, money, and power, and not because he wanted to Christianize the region.4. The idea of Christians against Muslims: The reason this war is being fought mainly against Muslims is not SOME Christians, but SOME Muslims. Some Muslims interpret the Koran to mean that anyone who is not a Muslim and who will not convert should be killed. This is one of the main reasons we we've been under fire from Islamic countries such as Iran and Iraq, and terrorists such as those who did 9-11. These 'jihadists' have their own versions of the Crusades going, and this Christian nation is only attacking out of defense.
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I'd recommend a scripting language called AutoIt for beginners (and pros). The official website is https://www.autoitscript.com/site/. It's a little known programming language, but it's very powerful for everyday computer tasks and it's pretty easy to use. One of the best things about it is that to use it, all you have to do after you install the program is right-click the desktop, click new, and select AutoIt Script. You can also right click the .au3 file and click compile to get a .exe that pretty much anyone should be able to run. Compared to other programming languages I've used, where I've had to spend hours figuring out how to make a .exe, this is quick and painless. The installer will also install a help shortcut, found under start, all programs. AutoIt's help file is very well organized, compared to languages like C or Java, where you really need a book to understand how to program in the language. One last interesting note is that AutoIt has no variable types, instead it takes care of everything behind the scenes. This is another reason why it's a good language for someone who has little programming experience.Now where the language gets really interesting for beginners and pros alike is its basic functions. AutoIt has several basic functions that simulate the mouse and the keyboard. There are also basic functions that tell you if a given window is open. So, for example, if you move a bunch of fonts into your main font directory, and some of them are duplicates, windows has the annoying feature that it will pop a message box everytime it finds a duplicate asking if you want to replace the file, pausing everything until you respond. With AutoIt, you can create a program like this:While 1 If(WinActive("Insert message box name here")) Then Send("{ENTER}") Sleep(100)WEndLet the program run, and it should answer all of those annoying message boxes for you! P.S. I actually created this program once for my poor mom, who, while moving fonts, all of a sudden found herself answering hundreds of message boxes