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I am very curious to hear what you think of that XP Monte. I have sunk countless hours into MTW2 but to tell the truth it has never appealed to me as much as RTW did. But I am VERY psyched about Empire TW coming out next year. And I'm with Hurlshot, if they were to remake Shogun I'd buy it is a second.

Probably can. The first thing I teach them is not to fight. Desi was easy. She is easily the smartest dog I've ever known. Sammi, has been a lot tougher. It took a few weeks just to get her to stop attacking me. She is pretty calm now.

My dogs playing From left to right: Cosmo (rescued from Broward Animal Control) Zoe (Katrina Rescue) Gator (Broward again), Ollie (stray in Palm Beach), Macy (found wandering downtown Ft Lauderdale), Cheyenne (found wandering on the side of I-95 in Ft Lauderdale), Tommy (Ollie's brother, found together) and Desiree (rescued from a fighting ring in the Micosookie Reservation). And my avatar is Sammi. She was rescued from a fighting operation in Miami last year. She was in bad shape when I got her. Now she is doing great and is finally losing her aggression.

Ditto what Taks Meta and Sand said. I had that same problem with Oblivion and my new NVIDIA 8800. I replaced the 400W PS with a 600W and its been fine ever since.

Good thing we are around. Without us lice and roaches will go extinct and feral cats will take over. BTW, that part about birds not nesting in radio towers is BS and I can tell you that for a fact. That tower light does not bother them in the least.

The country was founded on the principles of Federalisim. That means the government with the most power over your life should be the one that is closest to you and the one you have the most influence over. To my thinking that is the State government. Since the days of FDR the federal government has been usurping more and more power that the 10th amendment forbids it to have. And nothing is ever done about it because it would be politically unpopular. I have no problem with social welfare per se but I do have a problem when Uncle Sam asks me to ante up my taxes to pay for things like Welfare, Food Stamps, etc. The constitution does not empower the federal government to do these things. If the State of Florida asked me to pay for it because there was no such federal program I would not have a problem with it. To quote Reagan "The government that can do anything for you can also take everything from you." Amen to that. Like I said, it is two equally bad choices.

In my Calc 1 & 2 classes I only showed up on test days and got an A in both of them. But i worked full time and earned my degree at night so I had an excuse! I also did that in my DC Circuits I class and even though I had an average test score of 97% over the three tests and final i got a B for the class because the instructor gave 10% of the final grade based on "class participation". He gave me a 0 on that and I finished the class with an 87. I think that is one of the reasons I hated most of my instructors. Plus I had a feeling they did not have a real understanding of what they were teaching beyond an academic sense.

I could not care less what his sexual preference is Mkreku. What really galls me is that he tried to use his status as a senator to bully his way out of trouble. Thinking about US politics is really discouraging right now. I can't vote for Democrats because they are socialists and they are the opposite of every value this country was founded on. I can't vote for Republicans because they are corruptred down to their very core. The Libertarians cannot mount an effective campaign because they can't get past the whole drug thing. The Greens are communists. No one has ever heard of the Constitution party. The Reform party died as soon as it started. No matter where you turn you are screwed. That is why we end up voting for the candidates who scare us the least.

I don't have the link but I read on CNN.com while he was being arrested he pulled his senate ID and told the cops "What do you think of that?" I guess he thought that would get him out of it. That really galls me. As if elected office came with a "get-out-of-jail-free card". And you guys wonder why I'm in favor of term limits.

I'm working on a new project and I have not been to class or gotten a good nights sleep since taking it over. I'm redesigning the microwave network for the West Central and South West Florida markets. It currently has 64 DS3s spread over 200 hops and it connects 3 switches and 117 cell base stations. We are eliminating a number of the hubs so I need to figure out a way to provide T1 transport to those 117 sites and 3 switches while cutting those 64 DS3s down to 28, and rerouting to accomedate for the hubs we are shutting down. And on top of that, I can only use assets at hand. No landline T1s, no new microwave radios. And of course, I am on this project alone. And I just found out today that we will relinquish our 10 GHz spectrum license at the end of the year so that leaves me with just five 6 GHz channels to work with and the FCC requires us to maintain N+2 channel spacing. This is...STRESS! Pixies, best of luck in your degree choice. But as Enoch said, keep your mind open and leave yourself an out to switch if you change your mind.

Either way it was an exceedingly stupid thing for the AG to say. True, the Suspension Clause does give the government oblique authority to disregard HC it in times of "Rebellion" and "Invasion". But 5 times in US History the congress or President has attempted to intrude upon it and the Supreme Court has knocked them down every time, as recently as last year. Now the prisoners in Guantanamo are not US citizens and were not taken on US soil. Additionally the country they were taken in was not a Geneva signitory and the organization they were fighting in (Al-Queda) certainly was not. To me that means they are SOL. But despite that they have been decently treated, much better than a captive in their hands would have been.

Correct! Hmmm Taks, I thought we went through the whole Habeas Corpus thing with evertone already?

I have only three bits of advice Pixies. 1) Complete every degree you want to earn at once. Because it really sucks to do it in your mid 30's. 2) If you are considering Electronics Engineering as a major, reconsider. The pay is not comesurate with the stress levels. 3) Over indulging in malt beverages like Bacardi Silver (or Zima when i did it) results in utterly debilitating hangovers that last three days. Stick to beer.

I guessing he will get 6 months in prision and the max on fines. Far better than he deserves. The question is does the NFL impose a lifetime ban on him? I'd say an emphatic YES. But I will admit I am very biased because I know first hand how brutal, despicable, and inhumane dog fighting really is.

That is exactly correct. As is Hurlshot when we pointed out that Bush will be gone in a little over a year. Not enough time at all with obligations in Iraq and Afghanistan already. I would not worry about it.

Good point! Thats probably a fair assesment too. I have pretty narrow tastes when it comes to games.

Actually, when you look at all of the broad field of video games, I agree with Ebert. As far a quality is concerned at least. Video games are just simple trashy fun. Playing them will not make you smarter, more cultured and they will not broaden your mind or experience. Reading good books can do those things. Even seeing good movies I guess. Video games are just a simple, fun, and unusually engrossing distraction and sometimes even stress reliever. I think comparing video games to more classical forms of entertainment does them a disservice anyway. It really is a very different form of entertainment produced by a very different industry. You can hold up Torment as an example of great writing (as every other poster does in another thread on this same forum) but it really is the exception. There are flashes of brilliance in a few games from time to time but by and large, the work of game writers cannot be credibly compared with Hemingway, Jack London, Tolstoy, Martin, Matheson, Kipling (all my favs) or the like. But all of those writers only had to write one story at a time from one perspective. When they were writing NWN2 they had to write 3-4 different responses for the player, some of which altered available choices and writing later in the game. You end up writing the same story four or five different ways simultaneously when you are a game writer. That is not a level playing field to be on and be compared to a great fiction writer. A video game cannot shock you like Tarentino can, of move you like Ron Maxwell can, or thrill you like Spielberg can. But those guys all have a lot bigger budgets to work with too. Give Josh and Chris a Spielberg-esqe budget, staff, and creative authority over a title of his own design and maybe he could give the great directors a run for their money in quality. In terms of "quality" it is unfair to compare movies to books. It is equally unfair to compare video games to either. In terms of entertainment value, I have spent several hundred happy hours playing Baldur's Gate and all of it's expansions and sequels. I've never spent so long or gotten so much enjoyment from a book or a movie.

Woah...I must have missed something here. You were able to help her? How? It just goes to show, you can play Torment a dozen times and still miss a detail here and there.

Well, its either Democrat or Republican for the most part and I don't want to see a single Republican holding a public office.. If there is an Independent that looks like he or she have the possibility of winning then I may vote that way, but I will vote against Republican down the line. If history has taught us anything it's that bad things happen when one party or the other holds all the cards. Better to have congress split whoever is in the White House.

You know Gorgon, you do say some off the wall things from time to time but are you seriously suggesting that if Hamas does a few good things it mitigates this: Hamas Terrorist Attacks Dec 2001 to Jan 2006? If you think it does then I simply do not understand you. Or were you making a joke and I didn't get it?

Of course you know I'm olny picking on you because you have not been around much lately.

And Germany don't forget.

Those bullets haven't been fired. They are still in the cartridge. I'm going to assume there was some accompanying text with the picture, in which case I ignored it, focusing solely on the picture. As such, I didn't see anything inherently wrong with the picture... The caption claimed those bullets hit the womans house. The only way that could have happened would be if someone threw them. Like Tale said.

Great link!