Gorgon

Gorgon did you read my last post? Guns have never been LESS available in the US than they are today. As I pointed out, 30 years ago any 18 year old could walk into a department store, buy a gun and ammo and load it there on the spot and shoot everyone in sight. But it just did not happn. By blaming it all on the guns you are pinning a fairly recent social phenomenon on an inanimte object that has been readily available to anyone who wanted it for hundreds of years. A gun never killed anyone sitting on a shelf. it is the hand and mind that wields it that is dangerous. If I were to seriously pose the argument that video game violence put the impulses in the shooters head therefore video games are to blame you would laugh at me. You would no doubt argue that video games are inanimate objects that are enjoyed by countless thousands of people who would never hurt a fly. How does that exact same argument not work on guns? I own several and I would not hurt a fly. Ohh guns are not the only problem, far from it, there must be more catalysts at work here, but they are not completely removed from the context as you seem to want to believe, and if availablilty is 'less' but still 'more' than almost everywhere else it doesen't really help that much.

Ohh were back to that bit of nonsense again. Yes, i'm sure the school massacres would have been done with sharpened kiwis regardless. After all a gun is just a tool.

I can't fathom how you all can keep up this collective self hypnosis, and keep repeating in all earnest how the easy availability of guns is not at all connected to the shooting sprees in your schools. Denial is a powerful thing indeed.

They don't make games for true nerds anymore, not after the soccermoms started playing WOW.

Very old news

And theres all those people who have never recieved any kind of professional help for their condition. Being stamped as 'crazy' in some manner of federal database is a strong incentive to stay away.

About 'passive' pedophiles, sexuality and sex drive may not be supressed permanently, and if the only way to act out your sexuality is to violate children there is always going to be a chance that it will happen for real.

1) Give everyone a gun, empower the individual. Fear and survival instinct will nurture people, and the status quo will make people think twice before pulling a weapon. I'm sure the suicidal nutjobs will suddenly start caring about their own survival once they see everyone else has a gun. It would make the gunfights more fair though, but the effects of mandatory gun ownership are incalcuable. Domestic disturbances and drunken brawls would likely wind up like the wild west. I apologise for being unclear. I am rather tired today.* I mean that if we took proper care of people who needed psychiatric care then many of these incidents wouldn't happen. Indeed I would allege that doing so woud prevent more incidents than full gun banning. Not to mention the human benefit of properly caring for loons. Well obviously it would help, but what do you propose practically, the resources needed would have to come from an already dismally ineffective public health care system. A gun ban is a practical solution, but it's not a sacrifice the US is ready to make. So really it's off the table as well.

I don\t understand how a border guard can demand the password. If that happened to me I think I would conveniently forget. In this case i'm glad they found him out though.

^^ Took longer to become repetative, but it happened just the same. I got pretty far, but I didn't bother finishing it. No standard shooter can hold my attention for very long.

I can't say I ever liked Doom. I started playing games for the Amiga, and only moved on to PC when they stopped making them and people were getting Vodoo cards for their 350 mhz pentiums.

Too bad the only fantasy game i'm interested in is going to come out on a POS engine.

Grace Park as Lt. Sandra Telfair, I think the bad guys have scorpions for logos, so she must be with the heroes - in Red Alert or C&C, is there any difference. The games themselves were never the apex of RTS. Just peek at the homeworld or warhammer 4k series to see how it's done.

No hookers are confirmed i'd say.

I just played through stalker, was all jazzed up about the climax at Prepryat and Chernobyl saving the world and all that and then my character decides on a whim that he would rather have a rain of gold coins. Bit of an odd experience. Nice atmosphere though.

Heres something used to great effect by shops : upon triggering of the alarm a smoke machine is also automatically triggered, filling the air and making visibility nill. Now the robbers cant coordinate and make effective use of the time they have before the cops show up.

I don't know what it's like in England, but here the best response times from a security firm or the police are never enough to stop determined professionals robbing the well off neighbourhoods. Video surveilance might help identify the intruder after the fact, but advertising it might also make your house more attractive in the first place.

Yup, he definitely missed the genuine mean streak from the books and instead was more of a stock 'dwarf with scottish accent' type deal.

The chief Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad, Brigadier General Qassim al-Moussawi, claimed the female bombers had Down's syndrome and that the explosives were detonated by remote control, indicating they may not have been willing attackers in what could be a new method by suspected Sunni insurgents to subvert stepped-up security measures. Remote control sounds somewhat unlikely, without having any great understanding of preferred tactics, the deal usually is that the suicide bomber navigates to a crowded area and detonates himself. Radio controlled devices could achieve the same without a human carrier, in a car or a bag.

Yeah but did you see the plants up close, theyre all warped. It\s creepy.

Probably lung cancer

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Whats Gaiden anyway

It says AMD already incorporates some of these features, so concievably an AMD based board would not be obsolete inside of 12 months.

mmm, I'm seriously considering forking out a respectable ammount for a new box, im still on AGPx8, maybe in a month or two there will be a viable product. When is nvidia hitting back ?