Everything posted by Gorgon
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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
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.
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Nvidia Killed my computer!
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.
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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
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.
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What you did today
Are squirrels that bad. I mean it's not like they eat the house from the inside out like mice or termites.
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Australia to Resettle Guantanamo Detainees
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.
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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
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.
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Nvidia Killed my computer!
It might not be a software error, the powerloss could have damaged sectors or files on your HDD
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Movies you have seen recently
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.
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Australia to Resettle Guantanamo Detainees
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.
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Australia to Resettle Guantanamo Detainees
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.
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Fallout 3
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.
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New word competition
How about 'move'
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New word competition
It doesn't mess with grammar at all. It might fool a spell checker into using too many commas though.
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Why do game devs and filmakers always feel the need to butcher original material?
Hercules and Xena are 'awesome' ... You learn something new every day.
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Fallout 3
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.
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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
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.
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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
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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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
1) Strange answer. Who said that the well-being of the people of the Gaza strip Israel's concern? Why not also Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Africa, Europe and America as well? Who decides on whose responsibility to feed people from another state? It's their concern obviously because they are the ones bombing the place, and they decide what comes in and out of Gaza, or were you asking whether Israel should care about human rights at all. I don't know how to answer that. Doesn't Gaza grow any food of their own? Has Israel killed all sheep, pigs, cattle and burnt their crops of fruits and vegetables as well? The conflict has killed off most of the economy in Gaza long ago, it's more like a giant refugee camp managed by Israel than the Palestinian seat of government. Why is hypocricy in banning a terrorist organization? Shouldn't there be consequences for electing a party that has a foreign policy to destroy other states? Or are the palestinians a special case? Elections don't mean anything if another country decides what parties people are allowed to vote for, in any case Hamas was not banned from the election, they won, as I'm sure you were aware. I have already explained what consequences that election had.
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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
1) The palestinians in Gaza (not the West Bank) elect a party that wishes for the destruction of Israel, why is Israel still obliged to have to supply them with food, electricity and water? Because otherwise they would starve. Human rights and all that, I'm sure you must have heard of it. Anyway the money doesn't come from Israel, and all non essential aid was cut to the bone after Hamas was elected. The US, EU, UN, they all responded by cutting off funding, so that Hamas couldn't pay out any wages. No one likes Hamas, but there is a certain sense of hypocrisy to the whole experience. First the international community tells the Palestinians that if they get behind the democratic process they will be rewarded, then the Palestinians go out and vote, only to lose all their funding because we didn't like who they voted for. 3) Why is it that violence against the Isreali "understandable, but not forgivable", but violence against Hamas "Unforgivable state terrorism"? Shouldn't violence be condemned, whoever using it? Should peace-negotiations start with condemnation of one part only? That's not a question, it's a misrepresentation.
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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
I think it's likely we are in for another round of bulldozing. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01...gaza/index.html
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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
The holocaust doesn't excuse anything any longer, but there have never been 4000 movies excusing anything because of the Holocaust either. I can't think of a single one.
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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
Not only political suicide, but actual murder. Remember Yitzhak Rabin. Too many people are dead set on continuing this mess in perpetuity.
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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
Shut up Cartman
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Recent Isareli military action in Gaza
What we need is a UNFOR squad in robot suits, not 'shoot me I'm in blue helmets' to patrol the world's hotspots.
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DO NOT buy a new Geforce 8800GT
This is business 101. If you have an 'inferior' product, re brand and rename. Throw so many names in the mix no one will be able to remember anything other than Nvidia.