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I felt this was relevant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhEJ8gm8aL4&fmt=22&fb_source=message

Please tell Oracle that.

Isn't Gorth from Denmark, anyway? Or was it Sweden. Attacking Australia (although you do raise some good points about the genocide the British committed against the aborigines) seems a rather ineffectual and childish strategy. Then again, the modern Australian is also rather ineffectual and childish (how anybody could in good conscious support that Tony Abbott faecal stain is beyond me), so there is a certain perverse symmetry at work.

Sooooooomewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

There's no such a thing as consistent, long-term sustainability in economics. Everything changes, and with it, politicians have to adept. This is something they completely and utterly fail. They, and their cronies and masters, just want to uphold the status-quo, and that's exactly why we don't have nice things in this world. Adapt, or be doomed to repeat history. Ding ding, we have a winner!

This feature is only available in Life 2.0.

Um, it's THEIR money. Where the smeg else are they going to build it? In Australia for all the Australians to enjoy? :headbang: "Naaah, we can't try to make this a great place to be, because this is a bad place to be!" Well, frankly, yes. Might just as well build a massive butter palace on the slopes of Montserrat. Maybe Britain should just let itself devolve into ghettos, in case you get too prosperous and Portugal invades.

You can't get a more damning assessment of the failure of the war on drugs than the 2011 report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Commission_on_Drug_Policy

I've just recently decided to get back into IRC. It's pretty beautiful what channels you can find to suit your interests.

Oh, but yeah, the programme you want is Pidgin, Gorth. It uses all protocols. So you log in to one programme and can talk to all your MSN, Facebook, Google+, ICE, etc friends from what seems to be one account. It's also free and open source. Linky: http://www.pidgin.im/ Supported chat networks: AIM Bonjour Gadu-Gadu Google Talk Groupwise ICQ IRC MSN MXit MySpaceIM SILC SIMPLE Sametime XMPP Yahoo! Zephyr

Google+ is great, and it has video chat built in.

I've got two hard drives in RAID 0. But I want to dual-boot to Ubuntu Linux and that's really difficult with a RAID array. So I was going to un-RAID it anyway. Given that, I could just split the two hard drives between the two computers, yeah? So no HD cost. Why did you suggest an SSD for her? I know HD I/O is a performance bottleneck, but is an SSD worth it in this case? 8 gig of RAM sounds nice and cheap. Might upgrade my own comp to 8 gig while I'm at it. I don't think she needs an optical disc drive because we use Steam and similar digital stores. Can always buy an external if we get desperate. So that narrows it down to the following, yes? PSU CPU (agreed - quad core is a desirable bare minimum) Graphics RAM MoBo Case For murky ethical reasons, I avoid Intel products (I know they're good at what they do, but I hate their anti-competitive practices), and buy AMD. This applies to graphics cards too, and I should have mentioned this originally. Sorry! Thanks for your help so far man! I'm checking out MSY now, but I'd still really appreciate any further advice!

It's an easy assumption to make though. But also a really lazy and stupid one. Agreed.

Is that yours? How do you handle dust and moisture? If they even cause any problems at all?

Hi guys, I would like your expertise on my options for getting my girlfriend a desktop computer. She currently has a laptop that is failry ****ty. I mean, we'll keep it so she can use it at university next year, but it causes neck problems (partly because she doesn't have a desk) and she can't play games with me on it, besides Age of Empires 2, and I'm a bit sick of that. So. She's getting a desktop PC. It needs to meet these requirements: * As cheap as possible (ideally around the $500 mark, but I can go up to maybe $700 max - the AUD is above parity with the USD, so feel free to work in USD). * At least 4 Gigabytes of RAM * Discrete graphics card absolutely REQUIRED - the faster the better, but cost must be minimised * Hard drive space irrelevant - we store our music and videos on a network attached storage device can stream them wirelessly * Processor speed also largely irrelevant - everything is multicore these days and in the 3 gigahertz range, which will be plenty for our purposes I am not averse to building it myself (in fact, it'd be fun), but if that is the case, can you suggest the specific components I should go for? Muchas gracias, cheerio!

Diablo 3 is designed to work on low-end systems, so you're good to go!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading

Wow, you really have no clue how the Internet (or electricity) works.

Um, it's THEIR money. Where the smeg else are they going to build it? In Australia for all the Australians to enjoy? :headbang: "Naaah, we can't try to make this a great place to be, because this is a bad place to be!"

All too true.

Any time period when humans weren't ****ing this planet into oblivion is fairly appealing.

I just wouldn't do it. I'd take the laptop. But then, a laptop is perfectly fine for coding and Good Old Games. Maybe you've got some high-end games that don't run on your laptop that you really want to play overseas? =P I mean, who cares if the laptop's battery is ailing or the laptop is heavy? Take the battery out and plug the laptop into mains, and as for heavy... not as heavy as your desktop, I suspect. Maybe use this as an excuse to reformat the lappy (usually fixes the 'ailing' problem) haha.

Cheers. It's a shame the media companies people actually pay attention to aren't as professional as CSM. I mean, a lot of the most **** things about Murdoch's dirty News Corp empire would be resolved if they actually bothered to check their facts instead of printing lies. And most of the remaining problems could then be solved by them being ethical (like the CSM so consistently is) instead of deliberately and wilfully biasing their stories to push a political agenda. Oh, and in case people don't click Wals's link: the story appears to have been utterly fabricated by a member of Mubarak's dictatorship, then picked up by lots of news outlets world-wide that are happy to believe everything bad they read about Muslims.

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I was about to say that it's not really equal rights, since men can't get it up when they are dead, but then I guess that's what rigor mortis is for.