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I have an OEM version too and I havent noticed anything wonky.

Solid State Drive. It uses solid memory circuits instead of magnetic discs, resulting in vastly increased speed and reliability. Expensive as hell, though Ive heard that there recently came some new ones that are good and cheap. I have no idea which ones that is. claims raptor are loud I have one working less than a meter from my head right now, I cant hear squat. It doesnt make anymore noise than a regular 7200rpm disk.

Get one of those for storage and a Velociraptor for a system drive.. unless you can afford an SSD

That looks very good, you should be able to find something similar for a lot less.

And the alternative to your fictional example is......he should have never gotten in trouble for the initial shoplifting? Or we should ust let him shoplift so he doesnt eventually escalate to murder? C'mon man, that cant be what youre saying here. Is this the school of though, if we cant beat em, might as well throw open the floodgates? Im not actually saying anything, just showing how irrational people can be and how difficult it is to apply our regular rational solutions to such an irrational reality. Someone does something wrong, so you punish him and rightly so, but instead of admitting he was wrong and accepting the punishment, the criminal feels subjected to a great injustice and seeks revenge. Which is a very common reaction.

You act like punishment is an effective deterrent, its not. It has been proven to be ineffective time and time again. Has the risk of being inrpisoned for life or even executed decreased crime in the past? Nope. And if its not an effective deterrent, then whats the use? Should we make criminals suffer just because some old teophilosophical notion declares that we should, or because we're angry and want to hurt the people who hurt us? I have a purely practical point of view on the matter of crime and punishment. The legal system is there to stop crime from happening, and we must use whatever method works best (within ethical and moral limits) and not waste time and resources on something that doesnt work. And until we have something that we know works, all we can do is lock people away where they cant hurt anyone. A fictional example on the effectiveness of punishment: A young man named Jim is caught shoplifting in a local store, the owner takes him out back and beats the hell out of him. Some weeks later, Jim is drunk and angry, returns to the store at night when its closed, pours gasoline over the back entrance and sets the building on fire. The owner tells the police he thinks its Jim, the police arrests jim and he gets sent to juvy for a couple of years. When he gets out, he is angry and goes to the storeowners house at night and sets it on fire, killing the sleeping storeowner and his family. Jim is arrested and sentenced to death for murder, years later he is executed. kindof pointless, isnt it?

Josef Frietzl is far from harmless and belongs safely locked away in prison or a mental institution for the rest of his life. You cant take chances with psychopaths.

18 years is still a veeeeeeery long time to spend in prison, it wouldnt have made much differance if he'd spent 6 more in there. But maybe it depends on your views on what imprisonment is supposed to be. To me, its primarily locking dangerous people away where they cant hurt anyone and secondarily to try and 'rehabilitate' them so they'll be less dangerous when they're released. IMO, the idea of punishment is antiquated and doesnt really serve any other purpouse than to satisfy our vindictiveness, it certainly doesnt keep people from commiting more crime. Unless its something that renders them physicly unable, like amputation of limbs and so on

In my experience, Steam is absolutely useless if you want a game at release. With ETW they forgot about having the pre-load they promised, AND they delayed the release by 36h for no reason at all.

Well, its the U3 engine so obviously it runs amazingly fast even on ****ty old hardware.

I dont know if its fully public, Ive been a beta tester for ages. And what you say is true, alopng with a whole bag of other annoying flaws

Yes, it's crap.

jason Scott to the rescue http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1961

Ha-ha! I see what you did there.

But its complete fail in that you cant run your own servers, so if you want to play with just some friends, you're screwed. Or you'll have to put up with having 15 strangers in the match aswell.

Did you find Diablo 2 repetitive? Did you find Left 4 Dead repetitive? If there answer to either of those is 'no', you'll probably like it. Diablo - very much so, hated it. L4D - not in the first playthrough. Tried playing a bit with a friend, its EXACTLY like that crappy fps/mmo hybrid that came out a while ago.. Hellgate London except you're in the desert. This **** doesnt belong in the same sentence as L4D, its out of the friggin library.

Did you find Diablo 2 repetitive? Did you find Left 4 Dead repetitive? If there answer to either of those is 'no', you'll probably like it. Diablo - very much so, hated it. L4D - not in the first playthrough.

Is it as repetitive as it seems? Generic randomly-generated maps, same type of quests over-and-over and so on ?

Maybe, I think i was thinking about the autobahn. Well, those blasted jerries are all nutters anyway, can never tell how they spell their rubbish language.

Yes you can, you can be Obersturmbahnf

Id recommend something that doesnt shoutout "sexual predator in the house" as much

Ive had the least problems with Netgear and Linksys network stuff, but Linksys seem slightly better because theyre a subsid of Cisco and so theres alot more stuff available like custom open-source firmware etc. http://www.linksysbycisco.com/EU/en/products/WRT54GL is a really good choice, although there are probably faster models available now

No? Just for the record: that's a pretty inaccurate portrayal of ADHD. >.> <has add and bipolar and usually is enthralled by cutscenes they need to just capture the guys attention, not force him to stay attentive, there's a difference. The guys I know get fidgety unless they get to play and constantly do things. They need to move around, jump and/or shoot things or they get frustrated and lose interest. I tried to get one of them to try Mass Effect but he thought it was too boring, and couldnt get a grip on the story because he spaced out and daydreamed in the cutscenes and dialogues.

I think I just burst half my vital organs laughing p.s the most awesome exam/paper Ive ever seen was this dyslectic kid who managed to write an entire page without using a single real existing word.

I am a horrible procrastinator and completely aware of it, so id go for "unclever SH". Im actually procrastinating writing a job application as I type this.