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  1. 'Wounded and hunted down' suggests past perfect, How can he do anything if he has already been hunted down. 'hunted' is better. Also starting a clause with a capitalized 'But'. How is this. Officer Brian Reaper faces his darkest night, wounded and hunted, but as the heart of the evil looms closer, nothing is as it seems.
  2. Where are you getting this, is this a new development,and who is reporting it. There aren't any journalist inside Gaza except Hamas media and a smattering of 'independents'. Mostly people with video cameras looking to make a buck.
  3. What about shooting knowing without a shadow of a doubt that you will kill both the guy you are aiming at, and the guy standing next to him. Collateral damage. You can't escape the need to judge each situation responsibly by using a silly label like 'collateral damage'. At what point does a military engagement become a war crime. 2 civilians to 1 militant killed, 10 to 1, 1000 to 1.
  4. so why are they firing from schools to begin with? The UN officials who were there say they were certain there were no Hamas firing from the position. What likely happened is that the IDF forces took mortar fire, and guesstimated a direction. The spokesperson back in Israel then says that Hamas were firing from there, which is predictable bull****, a lot of that going on from both sides. Like Hamas media making the most of the wounded and dead children that their actions helped bring about indirectly.
  5. I really hate the autoplay and auto indexing features, It slows your computer to a crawl whenever there is a disk in the drive and you enter windows explorer by spinning up the drive all the time. On top of the slowdowns it's noisy and uses power for no reason at all. If there is a way to get rid of it I would like to know.
  6. What about shooting knowing without a shadow of a doubt that you will kill both the guy you are aiming at, and the guy standing next to him.
  7. Yes, it's true about the talks Clinton moderated between Barak and Arafat, I forgot about that.
  8. Unlimited ammo, WTF.
  9. And again, it doesn't matter who's fault it is to the civilians trapped there. Hamas is not a likely partner for peace, but peace means negotiating with your enemy, not your friends. Hamas' stated goal of the destruction of the state of Israel does not make talking pointless, Hamas hardly believes it can achieve that anyway. Israel has shown very little will to change anything when they had Abbas, or even Arafat, to negotiate with. What is needed is a victory for Palestinian moderates, not to make another generation of suicide bombers out of the civilians on the receiving end of Israel's retaliation.
  10. My last Radeon card had a GPU recover function that kept driver conflicts from forcing a boot via power off button, which is what can destroy the HDD, doesn't happen that often, but often enough that you don't want to power off that way. My new box is less haphazardly put together and the soft reset button actually works, regardless of the reason for the computer locking up. Had a couple of 'red screens of death' when I ran wxp 64 bit.
  11. They started negotiating with Shin Fein, that turned out pretty well. Yes, you do negotiate with organizations that have a terrorist militant wing, with the carrot and the stick.
  12. Are squirrels that bad. I mean it's not like they eat the house from the inside out like mice or termites.
  13. The list goes on, I think only countries with specific constitutions or policies like Germany and Sweden etc, have not contributed to UNFOR in Afghanistan, it's a very wide range.
  14. 9 times. Were you going for a record... Yes an organization that sponsors suicide bombings is first and foremost a terrorist organization, and it's important to insist on that label, but obviously it's a lot more as well. They may be the ones Israel will have to negotiate with in future. I'm not so sure anyone believes it's possible to eradicate the state of Israel, Hamas included.
  15. It might not be a software error, the powerloss could have damaged sectors or files on your HDD
  16. you're right, his voice was waaaay over-acted. drove me nuts. did they really kill that guy, or is there an expectation for that character to appear in the future? i'm not up on current comic trivia so i don't know how it all plays out. personally, i hated the way they ended it, at least, the "twist" that could have easily been explained in a thousand other, much more obvious, ways than it was. of course, comics are about on the same level as soap operas in terms of the intelligence that goes into their stories (you really have to try hard to suspend your disbelief) so i can't complain. i enjoyed the movie, however. we rented it last night, btw. i won't be getting it on blu-ray. saving to get the matrix trilogy, hehe (well, it's only $64 through amazon). taks I just watched Batman begins, and you can tell he is really trying hard and failing to adopt a sufficiently coarse and cool voice, it just sounds silly. It sortof makes sense that Batman would use a voice modulator, in any case it's bad, but an improvement none the less.
  17. They have the war on drugs to supply them with a workforce, the war on terror is not terribly yieldy (is that a word) in this respect.
  18. I can't think of one example where the UN has handled anything remotely successfully. Commitments are patchy, command structures bloated and sluggish, attention spans butterfly thin. And that's before you factor in the inherently creaky mechanisms of UN mandates. Until we can come up with a better global forum for dealing with global issues, it's the only game in town. The WHO and the UNCHR have had some notable successes, such as eradicating smallpox, and one other easily treated pandemic, what was it again... some time in the 50s. That's not to say it could not have been achieved more efficiently, but it's a good example of why you need a global forum.
  19. The only was to use the face gen system well was to get your avatar into a neuteral light area outside the prison and use the SHOW RACE MENU console command to bring up the face editor. Bummer for console users. But doing that would also reset certain parameters in your game, potentially ruining quests. They put an extra option for changing your hair and face in game in F03, but lo and behold if the face surgery option isn't in dark rather than natural light as well.
  20. How about 'move'
  21. It doesn't mess with grammar at all. It might fool a spell checker into using too many commas though.
  22. Hercules and Xena are 'awesome' ... You learn something new every day.
  23. I dunno, compared to what. Animation is pretty basic but world and structural artwork is really rather good. The shape tool you are supposed to use to create your char takes years to get the hang of, at least they have provided a few semi decent premade faces. Interestingly they made exactly the same mistake as in Oblivion. After you have spent 30mins fine tuning your appearance you step out into the light and realize the tone in your face doesn't match that of your body.
  24. Yes, but you can't escape the question of whether it is worth it. IDF estimates 80% of casualties have been Hamas, that could add up to 1 Israeli civilian casualty per 10 Palestinian, in this particular chapter, it doesn't matter to the humanitarian discussion who is to blame, those who care about human life should simply demand restraint when civilians are at risk.
  25. And how would you accomplish that. Magic... Trying to assassinate them one by one has not been terribly successful at anything other than broadening their support base.
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