Gorgon

I wonder how the priest would react to some vintage slayer.

Or perhaps not, seeing as how my old box is AGP, so the only thing I could possibly salvage is the case and the drives. I have been reading up over at Tom's Hardware Guide to get current before I decide anything. So far what I have come up with is that I want a good value for money CPU that will deliver enough juice not to hamper the purchase of a a high end graphics card ready for SLI, I could then get the other card when I have the money. I remember hearing that windows could not make use of more than 2 or was it 4 gigs of ram. Well, surely other programs can, no ?. I'm kinda toying with the idea of 8 gigs of system ram because I like to use art programs, and much of their smooth operation depends on keeping huge files open while you work on them. I have no thoughts on boards, but everything other than CPU, Ram, PS and GFX Card is on a minimum budget. Don't care about sound cards or optical storage, a 500 gig standard HD is pretty cheap these days, and solid state drives aren't quite there yet. If you had to build something like that yourself, what would be good value ?. I'm even open to pre-assembled rigs, friend of mine said certain companies are getting so competitive it might not even be worth the hassle putting it together yourself.

This is what happens when the govt mandates you install a secret torture chamber in every home. Remember the Belgian child rape/ torture cases. Same deal with mandatory bomb shelters. Some rule dating back to cold war concerns. Anyway the father should be institutionalised for the rest of his natural life. So the children won't have to worry about seeing him again.

yawn

Missed the rope 3 times,gave up. I guess the Bossman will be living happily ever after in his hall of square tile. A result, I'd say.

Welsh

Too much weed will do that.

It's 'Ros-bjer' with an 'O' sound as in 'other'

The Latter. Sounds like an ordinary last name, or possibly one of those nicknames you are never going to shake.

As long as we are imagining things how about the classic Rambo scenario where you save a woman from a gang of punks, and deliver snappy one liners while doing it.

Mine is Paul Reiser from that movie, because of the inspiring crisis management quote that is my sig.

I'm drawing a blank, but then I'm a boring person.

Thats why he has a cover version for practically every song he ever wrote. The songs are great, but his individual skill isn't that fantastic. If you can get used to the folksy nasal droning he comes off really well in good company.

You should be forced to listen to Blond on Blond. Dylan is a superb songwriter, also the only case I can think of where you can actually listen and think about the words the first time you hear it.

You can never have too many apostrophes and consonant clusters.

Children should not be forcibly removed unless there is evidence of abuse or neglect, mostly because the alternatives are so poor. I have some first hand experience here. A member of my extended family was some decades ago an alcoholic and was at that time unquestionably an unstable influence in bringing up two children, long story short social services got involved and decided that the children should be removed. The following months the children lived underground on the run with their parents until a deal could be struck where the rest of our clan promised to take on responsibility for their well being. This is not even the first time I've heard of it, it seems to happen on a regular basis. Children placed in foster homes run away all the time as well.

The Black Power movement has blacksploitation and James Brown so it wins hands down though.

Black pride is an obvious counter movement, that said, had the dice fallen another way and Africa developed faster there is no indication that the plantations would not have been manned by white slaves. Bigotry is not limited to the majority.

I'm afraid the much quoted idea that 'free speech is not a license to slander', is not terribly accurate. In a sense it is, everyone from the crackpots to the neo Nazis are allowed to spread their gospel and no 'holy cow' is exempt from being attacked. All as long as it is part of a public debate or some manner of generalized expression of ideas and beliefs. If it's not free, then it isn't. There are no two ways about it, you must allow the good with the bad.

Peni

Many things go bump in the night, Minsc and Boo bump back.

If you ever have to buy laptops en masse it might be worth considering going very low tech. No cutting edge graphics means less load on the battery, swap the vista installation for Linux for a litte extra performance if you are comfortable juggling between OSes. What is the Plural of OS anyway.

This is why I don't even want a laptop. Friend o mine has a 3000 quid mac laptop with a battery life of just 4 hours. Bloody useless.

Ohh bugger off and quit misrepresenting me. He was there, he refused to leave, these facts are not in doubt, I am correct in assuming this am I not. The rest is on all of you. I was just commenting on how bloody odd it is for an American to be a prisoner of conscience in Vietnam.

Finals are usually boring.