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  1. I saw Slumdog Millionaire and Where The Wild Things Are the other day. Slumdog Millionaire is generally pretty bad with the generic love overcomes all plot, the bad acting and generic direction. Danny Boyle really is capable of the best and worst. I can't believe it got so many awards. I was going to say this was the worst Best Film Oscar winner since Shakespeare in Love, but I actually think Shakespeare in Love was better. Where The Wild things Are was a nice children's movie, I guess. I was expecting more, though. The only things that stood out were the art direction, and the cinematography.
  2. The alternative timeline really is about redemption, missed opportunities and general wish fulfilment. Now Ben will have an opportunity to achieve redemption with Locke after doing the same with his daughter. Meanwhile, in the real world: "In Reyes we trust!"
  3. So you left Black Francis lyrics, instead.

    :)

  4. It should. Although with Yahoo you have to pay money.
  5. And now Cycloneman has nothing else to live for.
  6. An act of God strikes down a plane full of counter-revolutionaries, and you claim that it's a great tragedy? This is divine judgment. So you're a Marxist
  7. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

    How you doing?

  8. What would be the point? Google gives you infinite storage space and the e-mails stored on their servers are never ever going away. And I can also be helpful: Use Gmail's settings to activate POP, then follow the instructions there to configure the mail client of your choice to get your e-mails. Finally, do the archiving through said mail client.
  9. Anyone is good at genocide with enough tech difference and unwavering dedication. Counter intelligence requires a lot of finesse, though.
  10. It can be defeated, just not by conventional warfare, alone. Basically there are two options: full scale genocide or excellent counter intelligence work. The British used to be very good at the second option.
  11. Recent history doesnt seem to bear this out. Every example I provided had the "complete support of the general population" (who wants to be conquered?) yet they all got their asses handed to them. The North and South American Indians outnumbered their conquerers millions to one, had home field advantage, had logistical and supply advantage and still lost. Why did they lose? Because they were out gunned. That and a little problem with smallpox. The wars between American Indians and European colonizers were conventional warfare, not irregular warfare.
  12. Actually, if you're fighting an irregular war you need, at least, to take out ten of their numbers for every 1 of yours who dies, to have a decent chance of winning the war. Although, if the irregulars have the complete support of the general population, you might as well call it quits and throw in the towel right at the start. Whether they are well armed or not doesn't really matter. They can do all the damage they need with home made bombs, AK47s and RPGs. 20th century irregular warfare is hell for conventional armies.
  13. Of course he does. Nobody ever said he didn't. Actually, acording to the Gospel of St. John, God is the Logos so I'd argue that God can't exist outside of logic.
  14. If you're not sure, run memtest, instead like Purkake suggested.
  15. Test it with different RAM sticks.
  16. Everything was green, the texture work was pretty bad, faces were atrocious, animations were atrocious. Basically, it showed it was based on Oblivion's engine, which, visually was pretty bad even if it benefited from having new tech at the time it was released.
  17. This is all talk about history you know. Obviously I have no problem with individual Englishmen. Also, be aware that in Portugal everyone is taught in school how we and the English have been the best of friends forever and ever without many details. Never mentioned are the dowry of huge strategical value in an idiotic royal marriage, or the completely unbalanced trade agreements of wine for cotton. Or the Port wine monopoly production practically offered to the English. Or the completely disregard of any respect for their Portuguese friends in the scramble for Africa. Again, though, Portuguese leadership has almost always been composed of incompetent twits. The last proper leader the Portuguese had was almost 300 years ago.
  18. I really, really wanted to give this a go but the Windows 7 requirement blocked that desire.
  19. Democracy? Optimal performance? Hah!
  20. Considering that UK has screwed around with many nations I only think its fair that it gets screwed over from time to time. With love from the nation UK is pushing towards bankruptcy. I'm not clear where you are writing from? Kampuchea? Admittedly, he could be writing from about any former British colony in the world. Or from Portugal. Portugal has a treaty with England which is actually the oldest standing international agreement in the world. The problem is that the treaty is actually a one way street where Portugal has been consistently getting shafted by the British for 800 years. The only mitigating factor is that the Portuguese are blundering idiots.
  21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEOnbiiRHUs The zenith of the music video art.
  22. I'm not saying I'm ok with it. Evidently, I'm not a democracy.
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