Fatherpeteus

Hehe nono - That was mommy grabbing the bucket! Great thing about moms - They always find the bucket for you.

lol @ how he literally runs crying (well, honking?) for his mommy!

Sooo glad I clicked the link

Curse of DOOMGUARD!

I was going to say - Insurance has been around for a long time! From Wikipedia: History of insurance In some sense we can say that insurance appears simultaneously with the appearance of human society. We know of two types of economies in human societies: money economies (with markets, money, financial instruments and so on) and non-money or natural economies (without money, markets, financial instruments and so on). The second type is a more ancient form than the first. In such an economy and community, we can see insurance in the form of people helping each other. For example, if a house burns down, the members of the community help build a new one. Should the same thing happen to one's neighbour, the other neighbours must help. Otherwise, neighbours will not receive help in the future. This type of insurance has survived to the present day in some countries where modern money economy with its financial instruments is not widespread (for example countries in the territory of the former Soviet Union). Turning to insurance in the modern sense (i.e., insurance in a modern money economy, in which insurance is part of the financial sphere), early methods of transferring or distributing risk were practised by Chinese and Babylonian traders as long ago as the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC, respectively. Chinese merchants travelling treacherous river rapids would redistribute their wares across many vessels to limit the loss due to any single vessel's capsizing. The Babylonians developed a system which was recorded in the famous Code of Hammurabi, c. 1750 BC, and practised by early Mediterranean sailing merchants. If a merchant received a loan to fund his shipment, he would pay the lender an additional sum in exchange for the lender's guarantee to cancel the loan should the shipment be stolen. Achaemenian monarchs of Iran were the first to insure their people and made it official by registering the insuring process in governmental notary offices. The insurance tradition was performed each year in Norouz (beginning of the Iranian New Year); the heads of different ethnic groups as well as others willing to take part, presented gifts to the monarch. The most important gift was presented during a special ceremony. When a gift was worth more than 10,000 Derrik (Achaemenian gold coin) the issue was registered in a special office. This was advantageous to those who presented such special gifts. For others, the presents were fairly assessed by the confidants of the court. Then the assessment was registered in special offices. The purpose of registering was that whenever the person who presented the gift registered by the court was in trouble, the monarch and the court would help him. Jahez, a historian and writer, writes in one of his books on ancient Iran: "[W]henever the owner of the present is in trouble or wants to construct a building, set up a feast, have his children married, etc. the one in charge of this in the court would check the registration. If the registered amount exceeded 10,000 Derrik, he or she would receive an amount of twice as much."[1] A thousand years later, the inhabitants of Rhodes invented the concept of the 'general average'. Merchants whose goods were being shipped together would pay a proportionally divided premium which would be used to reimburse any merchant whose goods were jettisoned during storm or sinkage. Some cool stuff there

Yes. It makes me sad. Then I think about the fact that Feral Druids don't need to respec 41 points into an inferior tree to get Shadowstep... And that makes me want to retire my rogue. This is basically like giving rogues Shadowstep as a base trained spell...But for Druids. Umm... Did I misread that, or did Priests get a mass CC that puts a whole room to sleep for 20 seconds? Oh, wait... When it breaks they all break? How odd!

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I was distracted by Liz Hurley's cleavage on the right...

To put it a different way - As I've heard it, AIG was effectively insuring the (greedy fools) who were issuing the sub-prime mortgages. As for what consumer would get into such a mortgage - As a shell-shocked employee said as he carried his belongings out the door of Lehman Bros. yesterday... "We were just helping people realise the American Dream!" gfg.

WoW never sells out here, and traditionally Future Shop has it on release day for $10 cheaper. I'll procrastinate... Until 9am the day of!

I'ma finger Dangerdave. Now there's a terrorist if I ever saw one - Go get 'im boys!!

That was probably right when I tried to log in yesterday - Then I got knocked into some kind of weird disconnection loop. Oh well, fixed now, and I actually won a WSG today! lol

I tried to log in last night around midnight (hadn't been on all day Sun), and timed out to the "suggest a realm" screen. I tried again a couple of hours later, then went to bed. Now 14 hours later, same deal. I can get on to my toons on Windrunner-horde (same account) though. The realm status forum says there was a scheduled restart at 8am, but it doesn't seem to have made any difference to me. Are other people getting on to Skullcrusher OK? (I was expecting to see a thread here from others sharing my problem - meh) If it's just me - Any idea what could cause me to be able to access Windrunner but not Skullcrusher from my account? The account itself seems fine - Weird! ---- lol - Never mind - I just tried again and when I logged in this time instead of going straight to my Skullcrusher (or Windrunner) list of toons, it brought up the realm selection screen... and it let me reconnect to SC. *shrug*

Oh come on now Gynis. Where's the fun in that? You sure know how to spoil a good election/smear campain!

Humans have some other pretty nice racials too though, yaknow. I'm annoyed that the only reason to make my priest a dwarf (fear ward racial) was summarily removed three years after release. WTB a WotLK barber that can respec me into a human, giving +5% spirit (amazing for priests) and +10% rep (frigging amazing for anyone) and perception, in exchange for basically nothing.

What a great idea! I wonder what they do with enchantments on those toys... I noticed the "10% more experience from monsters" on the shoulders - Nice! Was hopeful for a minute that the badges I've accumulated would be useful for this stuff, but I guess there will be a new L80 badge? Back to the plan of liquidating all of my badges for gems to sell before the expansion, I guess

Surely you've seen at your login screen... "A Blizzard employee will never ask you for your password", right? This is a sucker trap. Don't be the next guy spamming the forums with "ZOMG! Somebody 'hacked' my account!"

Dunno, but I hear her teenage daughter puts out...

I'm interested - Will try to be on Father around 8 (after baseball)

Nastia's flexibility is impressive. And no small bit hot!

I'm big into fantasy baseball and football - My ESPN league (9 teams, bunch of local friends) already drafted last Sat! Murvale Bears: QB Peyton Manning (Ind) (My #1 pick 6th overall, injured?! I have non-sucky Matt Schaub (Hou), but get well soon!) RB Steven Jackson (StL) (Holding out still?? I got him 13th overall - Awesome assuming he doesn't idiot away his season) RB Willis McGahee (Bal) (Might need to start Turner or Maroney for one of these fools) WR Andre Johnson (Hou) (Love him!) WR Chad Johnson (Cin) (And Santonio Holmes who might be better) TE Dallas Clark (Ind) K Shane Graham (Cin) (And Phil Dawson who might be better, who knows with kickers?!) D/St Jacsonville (And Seattle who might be better) How can my stars possibly so dinged up already in the preseason?! Good luck with your draft! Good luck to me with my big season-ending ball tournament Saturday!!

Pingpong and badminton are frigging awesome. Did anyone happen to see the men's doubles gold medal game? They get on runs where one side is on the offensive, where the back guy jump-spikes like 6 hits in a row. The guy on the defensive side literally blurs, and somehow the shuttle gets flipped back over the net only to get jump-spiked again. They hit the shuttle literally 200 mph. That's, like, with a 2... Folks in China believe ping-pong lengthens their lives and significantly increases their IQ (due to the exercise but moreso the major demand on reflexes.) I can buy that Someone's gotta explain to me though, how baseball and softball are getting canned from the schedule in 2012, but we still have... Synchronized diving??

We can have carpet races Andrie!

Take a good look at the Badges legs (from the guy near Magisters Terrace) - I don't know about warriors, but the Priest and Tankadin ones are *really* good! Very nice tanking shoulders (better than T4, probably better then T5) drop from the first timed chest in ZA... Just not when my pally is there! ^^ Gruul PuGs are annoying, and the loot isn't as good as ZA

That is all.