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This girl only has half a brain. Her left hemisphere didn't grow when was was in the womb. She functions normally (intelligent, charming, witty) except she sees both her fields of vision out of only one eye (instead of only one field of vision out of only one eye like people whose brain hemispheres are separated). http://www.physorg.com/news167324813.html It's pretty amazing.

Hey, don't steal my signature!

a) buy USB extension cord(s) for the device(s) that draw the most power (e.g. camera) b) plug the rest into one (or two) hub(s) connected to the BACK USB socket (for maximum power and speed - front is usually ****) No way to guarantee what I or anybody else suggests will work, personal recommendation or not, because we don't have exactly the same setup as her. Sorry. You have to test it yourself, or step her through the process.

The difference between anarchists and Libertarians is small. The difference between Objectivists and anarchists is smaller.

What do you mean?

There is no reason to suspect that this dynamic would change were governments to suddenly atrophy. Laotians would still be starving and Americans would still be itching for things to buy, and the same deals would be struck - Laos denigrates itself for the US' table scraps. Having come from a free market, the conditions that the feeble third world and the lumbering first world would be in would in fact be natural, harmonious states. Such a notion that poverty (rare among white men comparitive to other groups, oddly enough) is a natural and desirable thing and that every man is out for himself can be generously described as social darwinism, another rather common conservative idea. Anyway, back to Ayn Rand. She's been a disaster for pop culture, I'll say that much. Not only has she led directly to the sad and rapid decline of comics whiz Steve Ditko (now best known as the inspiration for Watchmen's Rorschach) but she inspired the music of Rush. Also her followers tend to write some hilarious dear John letters. Witness!

I believe 1% of humanity is good, 10% wll be good if watched closely, and 89% are total bastards. Give a person a chance he or she will more than likely screw you over. I think your world view is jaded by the fact that you yourself are a bastard, though.

I'm a 'urination' fan, myself.

Thanks for a woefully useless post devoid of any substance.

tl;dr thanks for the essay

****. OH great, they HAVE added it to the filter list. Utterly moronic.

Isn't the government usually in control of public services?

While Gorgon went about it a bit rudely, I agree that threatening to censor the word '****' seems a bit overzealous as it would suggest words like 'crap' are next. Off-topic ahoy!

Are they still connectionless? It's part of my memories too, but that was 10 years ago. Broadband penetration is a bit better now, even in the U.S. EDIT: It's also worth mentioning that South Korea has incredible broadband penetration. The basement still is, yes. I have bad experiences with LAN parties with internet anyway. At some point everyone just starts playing some stupid MMO. Kind of defeats the point. You have poor LAN parties. Over here people play Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament, DOTA (lots of DOTA), Warcraft 3 normal. Call of Duty, etc. And the LAN party gets big enough that you have multiple groups playing multiple games. Admittedly when it's just my comp sci class in the ocmp labs all we do is play DotA non-stop.

It is? Let me check... yes.

**** isn't a swear word! OK, so... in Australia, Scotland and Southern England it just mainly means 'fool' while in America and Northern English it's equivalent to the c-word? I'm so confused! It's a hilarious word I often use endearingly, how can it be offensive? *goes and looks up where Northern England is*

Go away! Stop looking at me!!!

Obama will almost certainly have two terms - however, it's plausible the Republicans will win 2016 even if Dems are still doing well, as happened in 2000. a) the American public is extremely conservative about presidents, even when they suck pretty badly (though there is a breaking point), b) Obama is still polling around the same level now of favourability as he was when he was elected (i.e. really high), c) the American economy will be on the road to recovery by 2012 even under the worst case scenarios, d) whether or not Obama (or even a Democrat) is elected President again or not has little bearing on the House and Senate where these healthcare bills come from.

That certainly doesn't happen in any of the other 30 or so Western countries with universal healthcare, and I doubt America is that messed up that it would end up passing such laws. In reality, when people try to ban things they deem 'bad', whether marijuana, video games, alcohol, fast food, porn on the internet, etc, it's generally because of the wishes of a group of naive parents or religious nuts who want to "protect the children", not because of some argument about a more efficient healthcare system.

All these things are actually worse in Oblivion, which is one of the reason I'm so disenchanted with the game.

I notice the article you linked to didn't mention piracy at all. Programmers don't have a magic 'include LAN support' button. They didn't include LAN because they didn't want to spend the time and effort to develop and support it on top of the time and effort they're putting into Bnet. Well you'd be wrong, sorry, because Blizzard has actually repeatedly mentioned this is about fighting piracy. Also, adding LAN supporting is stupidly easy if you've added battle.net support, it almost is a magic button. Look up posts by Bashiok which refer to Blizzard removing LAN to 'fight piracy'.

I actually invited a few Twilight fans to my last Masquerade pen-and-paper game, I had found them in one of the common areas of my university and decided to have some fun, with fairly predictable results as the first play character undead they encountered

I'm too tried too muster up any anger over the naivety of her economics. Suffice to say, be thankful that in the modern day most people recognise life is actually a fine balance between the public and private and tipping that balance strongly either way usually ends badly.

So ****ing stupid. Blizzard doesn't NEED to worry about pirates. People love them. So many people buy their games. And so many people WANT to play on b.net and PREFER it. If there was one thing Blizzard could do to make my doubt whether I'll buy Diablo 3, this is it.

I actually invited a few Twilight fans to my last Masquerade pen-and-paper game, I had found them in one of the common areas of my university and decided to have some fun, with fairly predictable results as the first play character undead they encountered