Meso

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  1. American Football. I know this is like complete blasphemy, and one may get burnt alive for saying such a thing in the U.S, but I love sports and have tried to get into 'Football' (the fake one, not the real original one with the round ball). But the game is just completely boring and frustrating. Stop/Start/Stop/Start/Stop/Start... JUST GET SOME FLUID ACTION FOR 5 MINUTES. I think there's also more adverts during the games than there is actual play, and the play that does happen it's people standing around getting into position for 3/4 of the game with 1/4 action.
  2. We can take a look at what we can do here. Unfortunately those individuals who don't bother to specify information on their ads are unlikely to go into detail even when guidelines are implemented. But I'll look at perhaps adding it to the current listing guidelines.
  3. Remember, I was Christian for most of my life - I know this very well. Yet even then, why are you trying to attribute everyone's life to YOUR belief system. Surely just because you believe in a God that made those rules, you can't expect everyone else who doesn't believe in that God, to live by YOUR God's rules? Even if you're so convinced by your God that you think everyone else is wrong. Shouldn't your conviction be strong enough so that you're living your life for your God, as God so intended you do. As opposed to trying to get everyone else to follow him when you yourself haven't even perfected it. So long as a Christian is still committing sins (as every one does), they should not be looking at preventing others from committing their sins. Taking a quote directly out of your own book, wouldn't your actions be going completely against the words "Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone".
  4. Good choice ;) I've always been a Yamaha fan. When I turned 16 I got a TZR125RR, the Italian import model. As a kid, I have a memory of my father taking me on his R1 at 220km/h when the R1 was released. Though I have also always had a soft spot for the Kawasaki Ninja.
  5. You must be a troll, right? That's the only possible reason I can think of that anyone would say something like that... I can think of an equally valid reason why it isn't a choice. There is no God, and sins are man made concepts. You know what else that 'Good Lord' considered bad? Sleeping in the same bed as women when they're menstruating. Yet I don't see you trying to enforce that? Why not? Is it another case of pick and choose which of Gods words to follow? It's nothing like someone who smokes or drinks. The lack of basic logic in your arguments just keeps pointing towards blatant trolling, as I can't believe anyone would seriously write this type of stuff? It's like a Fox News spoof or something. You know what a choice is right? It's when you have two options and you pick to go with one of them. When in your life has your sexual preferences ever been a choice? At what stage in your life did you go "Well, I think I will find girls attractive". When did you ever say "Well, hmmm I think I'll choose to find blondes attractive". Go read some science journals and you'll see that attraction is by large defined by factors outside of our control. (Or is science evil and reading research means that you're not trusting the almighty Lord?!) And even if, EVEN IF I were to say "Sure, it's a choice and therefore gays need to change". Then why is it that you still sin? Why do you make that choice? If you believe in a God that wants you not to sin, why is it that you're focusing more on what other people's sexual orientation is, when you're unable to control your own choices to commit sins. Surely if everything is a choice and ones 'incorrect' choices mean that they're living wrong - you should be focusing solely on fixing your choices to commit various other sins in the bible. Many of which you're probably not even aware of due to lack of knowledge of the scriptures. I hope you have never used contraceptives then, or had sex for pleasure. Because that is unnatural and a man made intervention for a process that is there in order to create children. That is how the process works 'correctly', by interfering with that process to prevent pregnancy, you're not using the process properly at all and are no better than the gays you seem to love criticising.
  6. Thanks for the input. I've added the company and their googles.
  7. Thanks for letting us know, this should be resolved now.
  8. A very true point, haha. But then I would also need to cancel all my e-mail accounts, uninstall my IM programs and never use the telephone again ;)
  9. Apart from needing a Facebook account to manage the Dropzone.com Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/dropzoneskydiving) I am very active on Facebook. I use it to post a lot of my photography. It's also a great way to meet like-minded people, and is essentially no different than any forum. The only information people get is the information you give them. And unless you're posting about crimes you commit - it doesn't have too much threat. With the privacy settings offered you can either turn it into a private platform and share only with your friends. Or you can use it as a public platform and make your posts visible to anyone. Personally, I will dial my privacy settings with each post depending on the content. If I am sharing an opinion that may raise eyebrows, I tend to keep it private between friends. But if I'm posting photography, I will set it public. You can create lists for people, which works like Google's circles in a way. And when you make a post and don't want that list to see it - you can just set that in the custom privacy area on the post. With a little bit of poking around you'll be able to dial your account to be as secure as you want it to be for how you use it.
  10. Hey, Seller scammers are in it for the money directly, while buyers obviously have a few different agendas depending on the scammer. Some may actually hope to achieve being sent the gear, so they can then resell it. Since some of them pay via what seem like reliable avenues, and then only after a couple of days once the item has been sent, will the money payment be flagged as illegitimate and reversed.
  11. The following scam has been reported: Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled.
  12. The following scam has been reported: Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled.
  13. The following scam has been reported: Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled.
  14. We have the architecture set up for such a system and we have been looking at it before. We will take a look at the options soon again with regards to this.
  15. Hi, Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we will work at revolving this issue, that was caused when we upgraded the site a while back.
  16. Birds, quite a few hundred of them.
  17. The following scam has been reported: Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled.
  18. The following scam has been reported: Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled.
  19. Mandela's violent actions are not by any means secret, and should be common knowledge. However they were actions that were most definitely warranted under the conditions. The oppressed people of South Africa had tried everything else to get change, they had tried paperwork, they had tried peaceful protests. But if you're held hostage and someone has a knife to your neck, you're not going to stop seeking to escape after asking him nicely. You do what you need to, to escape. And Apartheid was most certainly as life threatening as having a knife to your neck. If you protested and went against the oppression, the police were set on you with violence. I think many people don't understand Apartheid. Even many white South Africans are somehow unable to even conceive what went on. They claim to feel oppressed in today's society, if you feel oppressed today - then you have no idea of real oppression, Apartheid had it. I grew up here in the 80s and early 90s under Apartheid. I had non-white family and we were kicked out of a holiday area because of the colour of my uncle. He was banned from white beaches (vast majority of them), from public rest-rooms and most other white areas. Mandela's and the people's fight was not for some stupid petty personal opinion on wanting to control other's actions. It wasn't something like legalizing weed either. It was a fight for the most basic of human rights, not living in constant oppression, abuse and humiliation. And unfortunately, when your oppressors have a strangle hold, where you can shout all you want, they will block their ears. You can show up in numbers to show them that you will stand for freedom, only to get dogs set on you by police, or shot. Then violence becomes needed for liberation. Violence was not what was wanted, it was the last resort. What made Mandela a great person was not even that he was brave enough to risk his life or life in prison in order to give everyone a voice, but because of how he behaved after that. What separated him from most other men was his understanding and forgiving nature. If people lock you up, take away your rights and kill those around you - when you manage to knock them down, the natural reaction is to kick them in the throat. Mandela instead sought to help those people back up and work together. Even now, the current ANC points blame at the Apartheid government and uses it as an excuse in everything that happens. And they outwardly call out their hatred for those who ran it. Mandela however did no such thing. He just wanted unity between people. It takes a very big man to turn the other cheek in order to try create peace. It's sad however that the current ANC government has completely done a 180 on Mandela's policies. Instead we're now left with a party who has the militant nature of those early ANC days where Mandela was fighting. But they are not fighting for freedom, they're now fighting for complete control of land and resources. It's no longer about unity and sharing, it's about greed and control. With regards to Westboro. Good luck to them, if they really did do it, depending on where they did it. They may be welcomed to the true South Africa, where communities burn thieves alive. Their lives would most certainly be at risk. This isn't the US, no one is going to care about your freedom of speech if they don't like what you're saying. The communities here want to go to jail, since it's better inside than outside.
  20. The following scam has been reported: Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled.
  21. The following scam has been reported: Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled.
  22. Are you still seeing that "Soul Kia" ad? We'll take a look at why it's displaying.
  23. I don't actually think we can consider Saudi Arabia to have a third wave feminist movement. Because the first and second waves never really existed as a strong movement there. I think we can only talk about third wave feminism when both the first and second waves have accomplished something. For example, 'second wave' feminists in some areas were fighting for first wave rights in some areas in the 60s and 70s. Until a woman is allowed to vote, I'd say that they're still fighting for first wave rights.
  24. Agreed, And at first I figured it would most likely remain a tumblr phenomenon. And that the closest it would get to being in my life would be my 'punk' friends who are those middle class white girls who haven't suffered at the hands of any real abuse. I mostly tried to do my best to avoid it, by not going to places like Tumblr. But I active enough on social networks and forums for it to leak into those areas. There used to be a time when there was just one female on my news feed who posted about how she loves her underarm hair and stuff. "Cool", I thought. It was her life and it wasn't affecting anyone else, she was just proud of her body hair. No worries there. But things have gone down hill fast, I now see at least 5 posts a week, from a variety of individuals trying to enlighten others as to why they should feel oppressed, how sexist society is to them because they get hit on without them asking for it. And from what I've been seeing it has been spilling out onto more well respected news sites. Usually opinion pieces, but sometimes the writer of the article somehow manages to get the editor to post a completely bias and ill-researched piece on their so-called progressive views. I think my main grievance with these people who have never experienced any true oppression before in their life, is that there are millions who are actually suffering from REAL issues. Issues that should take priority over how a cartoon character is portrayed in regards to gender roles. It seems completely disrespectful to anyone suffering from actual abuse or oppression.