Calax

Well I discovered that my system wasn't overloading on memory (although some games running with firefox can create a memory hazard), but rather an auto update had screwed the C++ runtime stuff, so re-installed that and updated my drivers for my graphics card and I'm dandy. That said, yeah I've got the 32. I could probably upgrade cheaply to the 64 through a friend and school (his program has a much cheaper computer upgrades because it's all about tech) and then get the motherboard upgrade et al.

Ok, so recently I upgraded my system from XP to Win 7. Only problem is that it started eating so much memory it's been booting me from games for using to much. Thus I have decided to put in a new motherboard because i can fit more memory in (right now I'm stuck at 4 gigs) and was looking for recomendations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZznKWNBqzUY You're peter Tale.

I never said it would. The smaller states (population wise) would never allow it because it would cut into their possible ability to effect the outcomes of elections (which hasn't mattered in any way shape or form). But still it's a completely obsolete system that entirely negates the popular vote in what is supposed to be a popularity contest.

I think ultimately this is the biggest reason that not everything can be limited by constitution

Paris was the only major area that wasn't touched on by HR no? I mean area 51 but that was more just a hazard area. Would make sense to have stuff set there.

But how much property damage.

Uh, one would think that fostering infrastructure along certain lines would be covered by "Regulating commerce" in a sense.

It wouldn't have been such a big issue if the heavier weapons didn't take MASSIVE chunks of ammo to fire one shot, and left you feeling like you had a VERY limited ammo pool overall. You could be maxed out on ammo, only to find yourself with one bullet left after a single firefight if you used the wrong weapon.

That's rather.... bipolar of you. As it is the Feds did put in a federal infrastructure and have supported various infrastructures under all sorts of government administrations. Times have changed what worked or was needed in the colonial times is sometimes no longer needed. Electoral college is a perfect example. But due to the nature of how hard it is to change the constitution on something that is controversial from the beginning you will rarely ever see it changed in general, it's why they allowed for the passing of laws rather than forcing everything to go through the amendment process.

*reads the article* well... that gives so little information on the thing that mr madison veto'd that it could be "we want a federal transit system that runs from inside a slaves rear to mount vernon!"

I love entirely unsourced garbage... makes me imagine a planet I throw my trash at and have it be used. As to the issue of the transition between an authoritarian regime and a democratic one, I think that if you're going to have that happen, it has to be in steps. Unless an outside force wants to play imperial owner for a long time (100 years?) they have to be able to set up a style of government that can be curtailed as demanded by it's majority classes. I mean, most democracies rise from a rather brutal bloody war, and then have LOOOONG periods where they have to re-organize their government, and root out the inherent corruption with a new ruling class. Much of the Japanese issues were taken care of by the fact that the civil government was mostly kept similar to it's previous incarnation, but where the power lay had been nudged, but in most of the ones that are being "set up" by the US it's in places where the previous political system was so entirely different that they can't deal with the new power structure on their own and if the support of their "benefactor" is removed, it'll just become a complete pile of chaos. I always find it funny when people say "we're bringing democracy to ______!" when that nation has so existed in a bottle under an authoritarian government they don't know how to LIVE in any other real ways. It's like people expect to walk in, kill the leader, and immediately see the entire area re-organize itself in all of 30 seconds into a proper constitutional republic as found in the "best" parts of the world. As Iraq and Afganistan has shown us, that doesn't happen. And if people paid attention to their history books, they would have seen it didn't work that way 400 years ago either (the fall of the British Monarchy under Charles I and the subsequent Republic that failed so badly it got politely ejected by the parliament of Charles II... except the navigation acts). for the tl;dr version: If you want to kill a government and replace it with an entirely different structure, you have to build yourself an empire and expect a LOOOONG wait.

I believe your sig encapsulates my response in it's entirety.

Those aren't for real final fantasy games... they're on XIII still. Those adverts are for Final Fantasy XXVII

Went out last night for drinks with hallmates... I am the sober one, and thus I was catching one member as she tried to challenge another guy to who was drunker. And an hour later our door opened and the last two of use came in, one being pushed by a bartender and we got to learn that basically the guy had drunk so much he'd been cut off... twice... at different bars.

Actually, later on you don't even need a weapon your Typhoon augment just rips anything apart. I think I'm basically at the end (according to my achieves I've got basically only the "ending" one left), and honestly I found the entire game to be... lacking the conspiracy that Deus Ex is supposed to have in it. I mean there's one there, but it's not really relevant as much as it would have been previously. I still loved the various little nods to the events of the first game (Tracer Tong has emails, Versalife on medical stuff, you meet one of the founding members of the NSF if you look at it right).

Yeah, the boost could have been at a different time to be more advantageous, like announcing that they got him say... the night before the election.

Found out that my school is doing a "survive the zombie apocolypse" lecture and a mythbusters lecture.

I think the killing bin laden will come back up in the election when the republican candidates will say that Obama has done nothing in the war on terror etc.

and it took you what 800 for the Irish?

It's being projected as rolling up the east coast and gathering steam. It's currently a Cat 2/3 and is expected to hit Cat 4 before landfall last I knew.

Wait... the Sheep lovers are HOSTILE!?

The one thing that's frustrating me right now is that by this point (in terms of hours) in DX1 I was up to my eyeballs in MIB/MJ12/Illuminati stuff... I've just got corporate espianoge. Do like finding the little nods to other games though (versalife shows up on medical boxes for example). As to the melee issue, I wouldn't mind it so much if I could "put em up!" and beat somebody down with my fists as well as the standard takedowns. I mean the guy is running around with a pair of sledgehammers on his arms and he's not getting into fistfights with all those idiot gangbangers?

I think it's missing a continent.

Note to remember Earthquakes are measured in magnitudes rather than just a standard unit...... so yeah, the difference between a 3 and a 4 vs a 5 and a 6 is going to be immense.