Everything posted by Gorgon
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Sikh question
Sepoys fougth at the battle of Monte Casino, if I remember correctly.
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What you did today
Today I discovered that I must have offended Nurgle, the lord of rot, pestilene and backed up toilets. I've felt ill all morning and my feces is the consistency of chocolate mousse. I must think of a fitting sacrifice.
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Another of my tedious Taliban threads
I've said this before, what we need is a muslim reformation and then a muslim Nietzsche to seal the deal. That should suck the ass-backwardsness and hyperbolic zeal right out Islam, after that they will be avioding the mosques like the plauge, except for wedings and funerals. PS: I reserve the right to be prejudiced against any religion, just understand that I mean religion, not its practitioners.
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Photo caption competition
'I see you brought a lazer pointer mr. Bond.'
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External hard drive
Maybe I made my point already, but the integrity of digitally stored material really depends on reproduction. Leaving aside that I don't really know the particulars of your work, you really don't want to have all your eggs in one basket, these things fail all the time.
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Inventor Unveils $7000 Talking Sex Robot
Perserve tastes. Is this a word ?
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The best mini-tablet/MID/slate/whatever
What I want is one of these which isn't perversely expensive
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The best mini-tablet/MID/slate/whatever
That microsoft toy looks like those day planner thingies people were running around with 8 years ago. Now with finger pointing instead of plastic fiddlestick.
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AvP banned in Australia because the developer refuses to censor it
Those are some geriatric aliens. Playing alien in AVP 1&2 felt like 100 miles an hour, which was one of the key advantages over the other races.
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Avram Grant's wife reacts to Husband's brothel visit
I'm impressed he told his wife.
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External hard drive
For data security a raid configuration would be preferable. Your data would exist on any number of drives simultaneously, and load times improve. One HDD is certainly not enough. I haven't got raid on my desktop but I keep a folder on all my drives with stuff I don't want to lose to a chance failure. Drives are pretty inexpensive nowadays anyways.
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External hard drive
Depends on what case you have, some allow you to pop the drives out with very little hassle, other you need to unscrew everything first. Unless you plan on taking the drive with you regularly there is no need to pay extra for a USB HD.
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Alienware laptop for 800 bucks
Well who cares what it says on the cover if it can deliver what few netbooks can on the cheap. If this was my midlife crisis Alienware I would have chosen a bigger model
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Inventor Unveils $7000 Talking Sex Robot
Anything with a pulse is more attractive than the doll.
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Avram Grant's wife reacts to Husband's brothel visit
Me love you looong time. Ok no more semi racist remarks from now on.
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FO:NV: The Return of Gameplay Mechanics Discussion
The big problem was that the quest markers seemed to stop working propperly while in the metro, showing a way ahead where there was none, pointing the wrong way, etc, which meant lots and lots of wading aimlessly about.
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Media Industry sues ISP because users download
In the old days before rampant movie piracy, waiting 6 months for a movie to finally arrive in the theaters Europe was not uncommon. Now I can't fathom why people would bother downloading something filmed directly off the screen with a camcorder, but apparently enough do that the distributers have been shaken out of their complacancy and generally release movies more or less at the same time. I can't say I'm unhappy with the outcome. I suspect that the same effect is going to happen with TV shows. The producers will realise that they must make their show available or lose out. The end result will benifit the consumer.
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Avram Grant's wife reacts to Husband's brothel visit
"He went to get a Thai massage. No one until now has proved this is a brothel," she said. "Be reasonable; who goes to a brothel in the middle of the day while wearing a Portsmouth uniform when he knows he is a famous person? The place in question is a massage parlour; a place where you get massages. It would be fair to assume that those places offer both massages and 'massages', after all without any discernible legal activity going on they would open themselves up to police or IRS interest.
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Avram Grant's wife reacts to Husband's brothel visit
Maybe she's just relieved not to have to do the deed herself. I take it we are talking about 'massages', not mere massages.
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FO:NV: The Return of Gameplay Mechanics Discussion
The little red riding hood analogy gets a bit tired, but it's a good movie.
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Another of my tedious Taliban threads
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8499578.stm But don't worry we're still definitely the bad guys. George Bush etc etc. Yes, bravo. Now maybe we can have a thread about racism being bad or smoking bad for your health.
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FO:NV: The Return of Gameplay Mechanics Discussion
This is Tactics cannon ?
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Alienware laptop for 800 bucks
NETWORK CARD Integrated 10/100 Network Interface Card That's it. Not very netbook like, a bit of a scam making the rest 'extras' if you ask me.
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China has hissy fit about US arms sales to Taiwan
Well that was back in the 40s, since then the US has had plenty of chance to repeat the experience and has chosen not to. The brittish starved millions of Indians as a result of their policies in India in the 19th ct. How relevant is that in today's world.
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Alienware laptop for 800 bucks
Things to notice. The basic model comes with NO WLan. Comes with NO Optical drive. What exactly can you use a thing like that for ?. has a 8,5 hr battery life, factoring for the usual lies about battery all manufacturers endulge in that would mean 4-5 hour actual battery life. But how do you get it to run reliably. Can you do a network install if the OS needs to be replaced ?. I'm guessing it's an OEM. Maybe you could boot an OS off a USB stick if you got really creative. On the positive side it looks very cheap for something with an alienware sticker on it. How good is the GFX, is there value for money here. Is a screen like that tolerable. 1366x768 sounds a bit oddball, would probably not run very much in native resolution ?. Congratulations! Your system is ready to be built.Software & Services SYSTEM COLOR Alienware M11x, Cosmic Black edit PROCESSOR Intel