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If you fancy a dip in this pool, you'll need a head for heights - it's 55 storeys up. But swimming to the edge won't be quite as risky as it looks. While the water in the infinity pool seems to end in a sheer drop, it actually spills into a catchment area where it is pumped back into the main pool. At three times the length of an Olympic pool and 650ft up, it is the largest outdoor pool in the world at that height. It features in the impressive, boat-shaped 'SkyPark' perched atop the three towers that make up the world's most expensive hotel, the £4billion Marina Bay Sands development in Singapore. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/24/article-1289194-0A2C913D000005DC-353_964x478.jpg Don't look down: A guest swims in the infinity pool of the Skypark that tops the Marina Bay Sands hotel towers - 55 storeys over the city of Singapore yesterday http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/24/article-1289194-0A2C9449000005DC-36_964x512.jpg To infinity... and beyond! The pool stretches 150 metres, three times the length of an Olympic swimming pool http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/24/article-1289194-0A28EEFA000005DC-393_964x447.jpg The view over the side: An artist's impression shows the Skypark that tops the Marina Bay Sands hotel towers, including the infinity pool The hotel, which has 2,560 rooms costing from £350 a night, was officially opened yesterday with a concert by Diana Ross. The Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, estimated to have cost £2billion when it opened in 2004, was previously the world's most expensive hotel. But with its indoor canal, opulent art, casino, outdoor plaza, convention centre, theatre, crystal pavilion and museum shaped like a lotus flower, the Marina Bay Sands has taken its crown. More... Branson reveals plans for live television broadcasts at 30,000ftMargate lighthouse to get a makeover using colours of local football teamHoliday firm launches Michael Jackson tours as anniversary of his death looms The infinity pool on the roof is in the 'SkyPark' which spans the three towers of the hotel. The platform itself is longer than the Eiffel tower laid down and is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Infinity pools give the effect that the water extends to the horizon. In reality, the water spills over the edge into a catchment below, and is then pumped back into the pool. The pools have two circulation systems. The first functions like that of a regular pool, filtering and heating the water in the main pool. The second filters the water in the catch basin and returns it to the upper pool. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/24/article-1289194-0A2A47F3000005DC-515_964x479.jpg The resort from across the bay. The three towers were based on a deck of cards, according to designer Moshe Safdie http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/24/article-1289194-0A294613000005DC-659_964x619.jpg A skydiver parachutes pass the Singapore Flyer and Marina Bay Sands casino resort as part of the venue's opening celebrations yesterday http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/24/article-1289194-0A296DB5000005DC-952_470x423.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/24/article-1289194-0A29882E000005DC-805_470x423.jpg Extreme: Left, relay teams scale one of the towers in a race commemorating the opening yesterday. Right, a newly-wed couple enjoy a canal ride inside the resort's shopping centre The Marina Sands resort was designed by architect Moshe Safdie who based it on a deck of cards. Inside shoppers can ride along an indoor canal in Sampan boats styled on traditional Chinese vessels from the 17th century. The owners have also commissioned five well-known artists to create works of art to 'integrate' with the buildings. Among these is a 40m-long Antony Gormley sculpture made from 16,100 steel rods. The whole thing weighs 14.8 tons and it took 60 people to assemble it in the hotel. Artist Chongbin Zheng created Rising Forest which is 83 three metre high pots with trees in them. The pots were so big the artist had to build a customised kiln the size of a small building to make them in. Last night, the world's most expensive hotel was given a launch party befitting it. Singing legend Diana Ross performed for 2,500 VIPs in the resort's Grand Ballroom and pop singer Kelly Rowland headlined an outdoor concert. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/24/article-1289194-0A28EB1E000005DC-34_470x423.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/24/article-1289194-0A28DC18000005DC-391_470x423.jpg Money-maker: Left, the entrance to the casino, which costs nearly £50 to get in and is attracting 25,000 visitors each day. Right, a man looks through a steel web art structure in one of the towers Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1289194/Marina-Bay-Sands-resort-opens-Singapore.html#ixzz1TCq9hT3i

Holy shit, planking in mid air, you're badass.

So, we've all heard about the massacar and the bombing in Norway. Now let's see what sort of accommodations our fine, fine Anders will be enjoying for the next 21 years (max sentence in Norway) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4beUC3-ckw So, what did we learn to day kids? Go to Norway, kill 90+ people and bomb a government building, and you get to live on an island resort for 21 years on the governments dime, more specifically, the tax payers dime, more specifically the same tax payers who's kids you murdered. Isn't Norway great?

And then he could fix the time paradox ******* omnipotence, how does it work?

No if you negated his power the reality would fall apart because he would be holding it together.

Omnipotence can do anything, is immune to everything and knows everything, so he could see who has that ability and use power erasure/negation on him. And even if it could be negated you had better hope you aren't in a reality that he's holding together because you'd be ****** otherwise.

I rerolled, this is pretty badass Memory Manipulation. Like that alien had in torchwood and the doctor. Wait a second... What if he was a timelord? Holy ******* shit, he said he was trapped in the void, and that's where all the other timelords are, I blew my own mind.

Isaiah Mustafa , the "I'm on a horse" guy from the hilarious Old Spice commercials, will be the voice of the next unfortunate Carmine character. Regarding the new cast member, Cliffy B said, â€The cast just keeps getting sexier and sexier.†http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

It's in alpha. This is the E3 demo, not the finale game.

Check halomods, if they're still up. If not wait for peaches I'm guessing he'll know where to find a download, or you could try google.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d91BIBgU-ao

I doubt it'll be a new console, probably some charity related thing.

http://whois.domaintools.com/microsoft-sony.com http://whois.domaintools.com/sony-microsoft.com Thoughts?

Yeah iALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/poop-burger-1-650x312.png Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces. Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of protein because of all the bacteria. The researchers then extracted those proteins, combined them with a reaction enhancer and put it in an exploder which created the artificial steak. The “meat†is 63% proteins, 25% carbohydrates, 3% lipids and 9% minerals. The researchers color the poop meat red with food coloring and enhance the flavor with soy protein. Initial tests have people saying it even tastes like beef. Inhabitat notes that “the meatpacking industry causes 18 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, mostly due to the release of methane from animals.†Livestock also consume huge amounts of resources and space in efforts to feed ourselves as well as the controversy over cruelty to animals. Ikeda’s recycled poop burger would reduce waste and emissions, not to mention obliterating Dante’s circle for gluttons. The scientists hope to price it the same as actual meat, but at the moment the excrement steaks are ten to twenty times the price they should be thanks to the cost of research. Professor Ikeda understands the psychological barriers that need to be surmounted knowing that your food is made from human feces. They hope that once the research is complete, people will be able to overlook that ugly detail in favor of perks like environmental responsibility, cost and the fact that the meat will have fewer calories.

A Minnesota hacker prosecutors described as a “depraved criminal†was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbors’ lives into a living nightmare. Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly hacked into his next-door neighbors’ Wi-Fi network in 2009, and used it to try and frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds of professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mail to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden . His motive was to get back at his new neighbors after they told the police he’d kissed their 4-year-old son on the lips. “Barry Ardolf has demonstrated by his conduct that he is a dangerous man. When he became angry at his neighbors, he vented his anger in a bizarre and calculated campaign of terror against them,†(.pdf) prosecutor Timothy Rank said in a court filing. “And he did not wage this campaign in the light of day, but rather used his computer hacking skills to strike at his victims while hiding in the shadows. “Over months and months, he inflicted unfathomable psychic damage, making the victims feel vulnerable in their own home, while avoiding detection.†Ardolf’s attorney, Kevin O’Brien, said in a telephone interview that “it was a lengthy sentence for a first-time offender.†The defendant also forfeited his house and computer gear. Ardolf had no criminal record, but an investigation revealed that he’d also hijacked the Wi-Fi of other neighbors, and terrorized them as well. A father of two, Ardolf had turned down a 2-year plea agreement last year to charges related to the Biden e-mail. After that, the authorities piled on more charges, including identity theft and two kiddie-porn accusations carrying lifetime sex-offender registration requirements. He pleaded guilty to them all last year. The bizarre tale began in 2009 when Matt and Bethany Kostolnik moved in the house next door to Ardolf, who at the time was a Medronic computer technician living in the Minneapolis suburb of Blaine. On their first day at their new home, the Kostolnik’s then-4-year-old son wandered near Ardolf’s house. While carrying him back next door, Ardolf allegedly kissed the boy on the lips. “We’ve just moved next door to a pedophile,†Mrs. Kostolnik told her husband. The couple reported Ardolf to the police, angering their creepy new neighbor. “I decided to ‘get even’ by launching computer attacks against him,†Ardolf later wrote in a letter to the judge. Rank, the prosecutor, put it not so mildly: “It was apparently this incident which caused the defendant to begin a calculated campaign to terrorize his neighbors, doing whatever he could to destroy the careers and professional reputations of Matt and Bethany Kostolnik, to damage the Kostolniks’ marriage, and to generally wreak havoc on their lives,†he said. Ardolf downloaded Wi-Fi hacking software and spent two weeks cracking the Kostolnik’s WEP encryption. Then he used their own Wi-Fi network to create a fake MySpace page for the husband, where he posted a picture of a pubescent girl having sex with two young boys. Under the “about me†section, he wrote: “I bet my coworker that since I’m a lawyer and a darn great one that I could get away with putting up porn on my site here. I bet that all I have to do is say that there is plausible deniability since anybody could have put this on my site. Like someone hacked my page and added porn without my knowledge. This is reasonable doubt. I’m a darn good lawyer and I can get away with doing anything!†He then e-mailed the same child porn to one of the husband’s co-workers, and sent flirtatious e-mail to women in Mr. Kostolnik’s office. “You are such a fox,†read one of the e-mails. He sent the message’s through the husband’s genuine e-mail account. After the husband explained to his law office superiors that he had no idea what was happening, his bosses hired a law firm that examined his network and discovered that an “unknown†device had access to it. With Kostolnik’s permission, they installed a packet sniffer on his network to try and get to the bottom of the incidents. Then, in May 2009, the Secret Service showed up at Kostolnik’s office to ask about several threatening e-mails sent from his Yahoo account, and traced to his IP address, that were addressed to Biden and other politicians. The subject line of one e-mail read: “This is a terrorist threat! Take this seriously.†“I swear to God I’m going to kill you!,†part of the message to Biden said. A forensics computer investigator working for Kostolnik’s law firm examined the packet logs, and found the e-mail sessions sending the threats. In the data surrounding the threatening traffic, they found traffic containing Ardolf’s name and Comcast account . The FBI got a search warrant for Ardolf’s house and computer, and found reams of evidence, including copies of data swiped from the Kostolniks’ computer, and hacking manuals with titles such as Cracking WEP Using Backtrack: A Beginner’s Guide; Tutorial: Simple WEP Crack Aircracking and Cracking WEP with BackTrack 3 — Step-by-Step instructions. They also found handwritten notes laying out Ardolf’s revenge plans, and a cache of postal mail that Ardolf had apparently stolen from the Kostolniks’ mailbox and stashed under his bed. “One of the manuals had Ardolf’s handwriting on it and another had the unique identifying ID for the Kostolniks’ router typed into it,†Rank, the prosector, wrote. Also discovered in Ardolf’s possession was the pornographic image posted on MySpace and sent to the husband’s co-worker, and evidence that he’d secretly staged a similar harassment campaign against a neighbor at Ardolf’s previous home in Brooklyn Park, another Minneapolis suburb. Among other things, he sent that family a postal-mail message consisting of a one-page, color print-out of the family’s “TurboTax†return with personally identifying information, in addition to several skull images. “I told you about a year ago that you should be very afraid. I can destroy you at will, you sorry-ass excuse for a human,†the letter said. The Brooklyn Park family told the FBI they believed Ardolf was upset that their personal care attendants, who looked after their two disabled twin daughters, parked their car in front of his house.

It starts right after John leaves, but I agree it would have been cool to fight with John.

http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Random I got Omnipotence on my first go, **** yes.

I only got about part way through Onyx I knew that the entrance was inside of the planet. And that the planet it's self was artificial, created by the forerunners for the shield world.

I meant the Shield world. It's on Onyx, in more specifically.

I'm hoping it's Onyx that you find. Because Fred, Linda, Kelly, Lucy, Tom, Jun (presumably) and Halsey are on Onyx. And I'd like to see those guys make an in game appearance. Also the campaign would probably end up being something like reach, in that you'd be working with other Spartans instead of being on your own. John could take on the role of Carter, it'd be interesting to see him plan something.It'd be cool if you played as Fred who is basically John.

Same, EA's pretty much ****** Bioware, they were one of my favorite devs, and they shut down Pandemic about six months after buying them. I'm giving bioware one last shot with ME3 if they **** that like they did DA2, I'm out.

"The key question for me in managing the studio and the creatives is 'what is Halo?,' making sure Halo lives up to what I think gamers fell in love with [playing Combat Evolved]... What does that mean? Playing Master Chief. We kind of lost our way a little bit, I’ll say. And that’s why I wanted to make sure that at the unveiling of Halo 4, you knew you were playing Master Chief, that John was back. Because Master Chief is the John Wayne character of that universe, and that’s who you want to play." So, what do you guys think? I don't really think John is a necessary part of Halo, he's important yes, but he's played that role. I think they should move on to a new protagonist. It just makes sense, new developer, new story, new character. I'm also not incredibly attached to John, he never shows a personality, besides the occasional one liner. He has a better one in the books, it'd be interesting if that showed up in the games.