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I don't know much about the game, but I was rather amazed at the prices for some of these 'unique' cards. The turnover must be better than cocaine, and all you need is a laser printer and a laminator.

The framework for this project, called I-SWARM (intelligent small-world autonomous robots for micro-manipulation) Ok people, your task today is to come up with a compound noun that forms s.w.a.r.m. as an acronym. Looks interesting though.

Does every damn post have to be an in depth analysis. A cadre of buxom bodyguards is worth mentioning for its own sake.

Khadafi wants to avoid sanctions and not be known mostly for harboring terrorists. He is not any kind of Islamic extremist, more just plain crazy. He survived two US bombing runs on his house and has an elite palace guard consisting entirely of buxom young women. That last part is always worth a giggle.

I think it's entirely possible that this was part of the price for getting Khadafi on 'our team'.

Appreciate the info, I might possibly be too technically inept for it to be of any use, we'll see once I have the replacement cooler.

Oblivion was good for one playthrough, still plenty of boring places, like the oblivion gates. Shivering Isles was much better.

You wuss, that's perfectly natural.

Watching from work, can't change the settings.

Amen brother

Bizzare. He gets ferried around an industrial wasteland with no cars and few people and taken to 'see the sights' by the official handlers. At one point he plays ping pong and snooker with a giggling ginsing tea salesgirl at one of the venues, she hasen't seen a customer in months.

mw2 can't ne mechwarrior 2 because there already is one. Too bad.

If we are using the American native (no pun intended) definition of socialism it includes things like the wellfare state established in england after WW2. That has nothing to do with controlling the means of production, rather the idea is mutually agreeing to a larger degree of redistribution. The nanny state takes care of you from the cradle to the grave. It works just fine, it's not 'broken', or 'bound to fail' it's just a different way of life than you are used to.

I am looking forward to a new Stalker game, I like them and their atmosphere. One big 'but' though. I have never played a stalker game that was not a buggy crash ridden mess.

I agree that Anarchism is the best form of government. The problem is that the larger the entity, the less room there is for direct democracy. Anarchism is not equipped to handle a whole nation. Communism can be democratic though. There are plenty of communist parties who owe their existence to the voters, in the former Soviet republics for instance.

Ahh thanks. The installation looks a bit complicated, especially since they don't offer technical drawings for all the different cards. How do I know what a voltage regulator looks like. Looks like quite a fun little project nonetheless.

I understand the charge is espionage and murder. There was some mention that they were security contractors, that is to say mercenaries, is this just fabrication. I can't see them working for the Norwegian government though. I mean they aren't exactly known for their adventurous foreign policy, If the Congo(ese ?) were out for money you would think they would demand something that Norway could actually pay. I think there must be good political capital in a high profile case about espionage. Colonial aggression is an easy sell for the locals.

Ah yes, developments since the top of the thread though. What I have now is an arctic cooler 7. It was quite cheap and it works perfectly. The problem is the fan on my radeon 4850.

Oil money, low population. Like one of the Arab emirates.

Yeah that's pretty good, but look at this

So there are replacement (well one would hope superior) cooling units out there guaranteed to work on my card ? I assume this kind of operation would void the warranty as well. I could, I suppose, just send the card back, but I just know that would take forever and a day. I would need a set of tiny screwdrivers as well. I don't have anything like that lying around. Although buying new tools is always nice.

And yet another definition would be 'one of the two teams you were forced to be on during the cold war'

It's pretty nice to have a big government tit to suck on during an economic depression though. We are increasing parts of the public sector to keep people in jobs, all despite a record deficit. It's ok though, we saved up enough to keep the silliness up several years more.

So after some trial and error it turns out that it's the fan on my radeon 4850 that is making the howling noise. No sound when it's doing virus scan on quick mode (100% CPU load) How hard is it to replace the stock fan on one of these things. I don't have a lot of modder's savvy.

Someone should create another thread called "great games no one has ever heard of which have now gone freeware".