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Firstly, Australia is still a British Commonwealth country, and the largest proportion of landholders (by a significant margin) are British. Secondly, your point is specious. Why would the status of another country have any bearing on the independence of the USA ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Because Austrailia broke away after we did, therefore if they be taking rebelling states back into the fold Austrailia would likely be the first. Especially since their military is a 100 Fighting Kangaroos. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My point was that Australia never left. The Governor General, who is appointed by the Queen, shall be Her Majesty's representative in the Commonwealth. ... After receiving their Commission, the Governor-General makes an Oath of Allegiance and an Oath of Office to Her Majesty and issues a Proclamation assuming office. Formally, the Governor-General's appointment is at Her Majesty's pleasure. ... The Governor-General has many important constitutional, official and ceremonial duties to perform. For example, the Governor-General: dissolves the Parliament and issues writs for new elections; commissions the Prime Minister and appoints other Ministers after elections; gives assent to laws when they have been passed by the two Houses of Parliament - the Senate and the House of Representatives; acts on the advice of Ministers through the Executive Council to issue Regulations and proclamations under existing laws; appoint Federal judges; ambassadors and high commissioners to overseas countries and other senior government officials; issue Royal Commissions of enquiry; exercise the prerogative of mercy; and authorises many other executive decisions by Ministers such as raising government loans or approving treaties with foreign governments. The Governor-General is the Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Defence Force ... Oath of Office

OH NOOESS!!1!! ITSA CASCADE RESONANCE OVERFLOW!!11!!!!!11!eleven!!one!!1

She's a model, anyway, so cameras don't bother her.

... When knights say "Ni!" to old ladies ...

They're waiting for :alanschu: ...

Well, under the auspices of "known thine enemy", I might appraise myself of Voloisms. I don't know if I could stomache large quantities of it, though ...

Nope, fortunately she has better things to do (and she isn't a Star Wars fan). But she does have her own website. And no, I'm not going to tell.

That's wierd! now I read the bit in PC Format where I took the stats from, it doesn't tally with my recall: it says nothing about the "Intel only". Oh, well, I have no express love of Intel. Here's the AMD best of breed: AMD nVidia nForce 4 Gigabit ethernet, SATA, in Ultra and SLI configs; OR AMD SiS 755 The first full-fat choice for Athlon 64 enthusiasts. Boasts the most comprehensive overclocking features, including adjustable clock speeds for PCI and AGP buses. Performance is second to none and includes SATA support, but only 100Mbps ethernet. (I'll just check this month's PC Gamer in case what I read was in there ...) Edit: Hmm, didn't find it there, but I did come across an asrticle stating that the best of the dual core CPUs is the Athlon 64 X2 (which is upgradeable from the Athlon 64 939-pin CPU). How quisquous! Here is the PC Gamer Best of Breed: [*]Athlon FX-55 (

I might. What is he teaching?

You have to be kidding me! The AMD 64 FX series trounces the P4 series for gaming. And the multicore FX line is coming out in a few months which may be a quantum leap in processing power. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wanted to post the AMD 64FX. I did. Unfortunately, the nVidia 7800 GTX SLI currently only works on the Intel chipset. If I read the trend correctly, it seems that all gaming (computing) is going multi-threaded, anyway, so it will be an unavoidable necessity for every game developer ...

No, because I played the original Doom, and Doom 2 and Doom 3. And they were as near as, damnit, the same tired and boring story. I.e. NONE.

Sounds good. Post a link to the website.

Uhh no. :"> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, now you have a mission. (And, if I don't miss my guess, a ready cameraman volunteer ...)

Yep, and puddles are deeper than salt pans. I still would rather swim in the ocean.

You mean you want to be the "Right (wo)man in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time", rather than another "Chosen One" . Me too.

... Whereas the story of Doom 3 was sooooooooo deep.

... For the first hour. Then it's just annoying. "Oh, look. A big pile of ammunition and a new gun. I think I'll go and pick it up ..."

Drakron = :'( Ultima V status

You misunderestimate me. I was defending your explanation.

Okay! (I'll just say that the computer made me do it. :D )

Spellmar truly is everywhere ... :ph34r:

No. I have to live in the town. So does my eighteen-year-old daughter. I don't want the sad drunken yobs, the miserable urchins who must prostitute themselves so, and the green light for every other failing nightclub (and nightclub owners from other areas) to open up more of them. Pole-dancing clubs don't interest me in the slightest.

That's just silly if you're saying Doom 3 is the same game as Doom 1/2. They play nothing alike - Doom 1/2 are extremely fast, storyless, chaotic action games and Doom 3 is a straight up visceral horror game with a sprinkle of HL-type story. They couldn't feel more different. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> When I say "same game" I mean "same story". Mutants from Hell, kill 'em all. The same spawn. Quake 2 was single player. Quake 3 was MP.

Wasn't there a tv series about that? I remember some guy with a futuristic ray-gun thing, and a group of people running around different alternate universes and zipping between them trying to get back to their own Bermuda ...