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This card. Ordered it today. I was going to wait for the 7300GT with GDDR3 memory to come out in Portugal, but I was tired of waiting. No more onboard graphics card for me. And this gamepad. Just 11 euros, and will allow me to play Guilty Gear properly. By the way, for anyone who's thinking of getting a bigger computer monitor just for gaming, don't do it, unless: a) Your current monitor has gone to meet its maker; b) You can poop money; The problem is that larger monitors are always added pressure for you to upgrade the rest of your hardware. 1024x768 looks a lot better in a 17" CRT monitor than in 20"LCD, which means you won't feel the need to upgrade your hardware for a much longer time. In fact, the only reason I have a 17" CRT now, is because my 15" CRT went dead last year.

That wasn't the strategy in the beginning of BG1. In fact, the following strategy was used: Magic missile on the bear to get its attention and then run in circles while Imoen pelts it with arrows.

I'll wait for this to show up on a portuguese server or for the actual game to be released, whichever comes first.

You mean as opposed to that annoying adult as Anakin? The kid was like 8 or 9, what's Heyden's excuse? George Lucas is his excuse. Hayden isn't as bad as he appeared to be in Star Wars.

My hobby is stalking. :ph34r:

While I agree more or less wholeheartedly with the first part of your post, I have to say that, from my point of view, the role of human morality in practical affairs is mostly bugger all. In my opinion, it's all about shifts in power. In the case of slavery in the US, for example, the increasing industrialization in the north shifted power and influence towards those states at the expense of the southern states. This change, associated with a traditional rivalry between the north and south, urged people in power to support the abolition of slavery. Another example of such change would be the fight for women's rights all over the world. The suffragists and the feminists would never have gotten anywhere if it wasn't for the two World Wars. In fact I'd say amorality has been the biggest driving force of human prosperity, at least since the reformation, and probably even before it. What seems to me interesting about this is that industrial and economic progress seems to invariably lead to moral progress, as well. So, in my view, morality isn't necessary to progress, but the inverse is true. P.S.: 3rd world countries are mostly not industrialized. And working in sweatshops isn't slavery. It's pretty close to it, but not quite.

I wrote racism but was thinking slavery. Sorry. :">

Miami Vice. It was good fun. As usual Michael Mann directs some kick ass action scenes, and Gong Li is all kinds of awesome even underused in an action flick.

Racism wasn't outlawed because people suddenly started to hate it. It was outlawed because industrialization made it obsolete.

When I saw it, it didn't seem particularly hilarious, I just felt the ending was somewhat lacking. Of course, the last time I saw the original version I must've been at most, 15 years old so I'm not sure what I would think of it if I saw it today.

Yes, I have. It's happier. I'd say the Director's Cut is better, although, apparently Ridley Scott wasn't completely happy with it, either. There will be another Director's cut released sometime in the future.

We agree, then.

I thought you weren't a big Blade Runner fan, though.

Ah. That was silly. :">

Rutger Hauer's one magnificent actor, the sets are mind-blowing, I believe PKD really liked it, last great Ridley Scott movie? PKD?

Are you talking about the Mozart effect?

No it's not. It's reacting to the mother's physiology. You could have a mother that doesn't give a crap about a potentially stressful situation, and one that becomes a basketcase. In both cases the "surroundings" are exactly the same, but the effect on the fetus is very different. The "brain" isn't reacting to anything. It's just being fed whatever the mother feeds it. The mother is part of the surroundings, even if she affects the fetus in a more direct way than usual. And it's not just a question of the immediate reaction of the fetus. It's about how it affects the baby's growth in the long run.

Don't forget that blacks in Africa also suffer from repression, slavery and tribal bigotry. The difference is that in Africa everything is done by their fellow blacks. All in all, it's a nice world we live in, filled with nice people.

Because the embryo is a living being right from the start, regardless of the development of the nervous system. As such, if you were to draw a line regarding abortion, it should be at the moment of conception. I'm in favour of abortion, by the way.

you presuppose that everyone that votes is an idiot. the contrary is probably true. tak Everyone is in some way or another, an idiot. Everyone.

Ironically, if it wasn't for slavery, most African-Americans would be in Africa today dying by the bucketload.

You either put it at the moment of conception or not at all. I think.

Lost Vikings was quite awesome too.

If it's just being affected by the mother's physiology, the brain of the fetus is still reacting in some way to the surroundings.

I believe it's all indirect evidence so far, but I could be wrong. One example, would be a grown man who was afraid of his father who had, apparently, always been a good and understanding parent. Turns out that the father was under a lot stress and constantly throwing tantrums around the time the mother was pregnant.