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Sorry about the sloppiness of the above post but my computer was bogging down and the edit page would not load. I had to log off and do a reboot but that did not clear up the load up of the BC page. So I did a defrag and all seems fine now hence my time ran out for editing.

quote:Originally posted by IceCold: The draft... There's something that would rock the nation more than 9/11. This war is a wonderful diversion from the local issues at home. Millions of people have lost their jobs under Bush's economic plan. The office of homland security, the patriot act, and new regulations limiting personal privacy all employ the war to stay under the public radar. Isn't it interesting that the British government almost gave Blair the boot because the evidence supporting the war was nonexistant? Even though they are british, their government is prive to more classified documents than Joe American can tap. Something is rotten in the State of Denmark. Hey now, now, let's not drag Denmark into this by Howard Hobbs, Ph.D., Economics 1996"The average American thinks the unemployment rate is four times higher than it actually is, according to a new Washington Post survey released Sunday. In fact, many Americans in this election year are looking at themselves in the mirror and asking why they haven't gotten their share in what Clinton is calling 'the strongest economy in 30 years!' When the Clinton White House measures the U.S. economy,Clinton's statistics just don't correlate to the average American's life experience. For example, if unemployment is really at a seven-year low why are millions of American over the age of 40 out of work! For another example,if inflation is really at its lowest level in three decades why is the purchasing power of the Dollar at its lowest level in the past four years? If the federal budget deficit has, in fact, truly declined to about $109 billion this year from $290 billion in 1992 where are the billions of dollars of lost income taxes from the American factories that packed-up and left the country in the last four years? America is curious about president Clinton's rhetoric about the economy. Most Americans think that the president's nose is starting to grow again. The average American actually believes that if Clinton were to tell the truth, the number of jobless would be four times higher than he's been saying during his re-election cycle. Almost 1 in 4 Americans thinks that if president Clinton were to tell the truth, the current unemployment rate would exceed 25 percent. That is the exact percentage of Americans who were estimated to be out of work at the worst of the Great Depression in the 1930's during the Franklin Roosevelt(D) presidency when nearly all of today's social welfare programs ponzi schemes were first 'dreamed-up' and passed by a Democrat Party Congress." And let's not forget that sucking sound that is NAFTA. Congress' Official Estimators "President Clinton has promised to protect Social Security, to reduce the debt to the maximum extent possible, to control spending, and reduce taxes. But, Congress' official estimators show that on all four counts, the President's budget fails. Instead, Clinton's budget raids the Social Security trust fund for $158 billion in five years, it artificially erases the surplus, it lowers the public debt less than doing nothing would, it increases spending, and it raises taxes by $89.7 billion over the 1999-2009 period. Clinton Raids Social Security: According to CBO, Clinton spends $40 billion of the Social Security surplus in his budget's first year (2000) and $158 billion over the first five years (2000-2004)." Any president that took over after Clinton would and will have an uphill battle to recover from these and other disasterous policies. The office of homland security, the patriot act, and new regulations limiting personal privacy all employ the war to stay under the public radar. Yeah there are alot of downsides to these issues but what could he do. Do you have a better plan? And if Bush did nothing and we got hit again with a terrorist attack he'd be condemed for not doing a thing. It's a catch 22 situation. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. "Millions of people have lost their jobs under Bush's economic plan" Are you sure it's Bush's fault. What about the Enron fraud among others or the CEO of Tyco sucking the company dry for his own personal gain and pleasure. Companies claiming downsizing still because of 9/11 so those rich execs can take home more profit. Etc... Etc... Etc.... And let's not forget wallstreet shenanigans like the Martha Stewart insider trading and or after three weeks of mounting criticism of his $140 million compensation package, Richard A. Grasso, the chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, resigned Wednesday evening. Oh no, these things have nothing to do with the shaky economy it's all Bush's fault right... RIGHT!?

quote:Originally posted by q_dragon: At this rate, they are soon going to make profanity illegal, along with 'crap', 'poo', and 'boogers' If they do OMG, what's going to happen to Winnie the Pooh

. quote:Originally posted by q_dragon: Oh no. He italicized expecting... Yeah but it's a promising start

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: If they don't have a date, it auto-cancels the pre-orders. They are going to be getting a new ship date later this week, as I am expecting to go Gold next week. My eyes!!! My eyes!!! They must be deceiving me again tell me I do read expecting to go Gold next week!! Damn, I really hope I don't need glasses .

quote:Originally posted by IceCold: Clinton sent strikes into Iraq as well if you can remember. That country has been a political booster for the last three Presidents. Those attacks had nothing to do with Al-Queda's first attack on the twin towers. If you remember, he ordered those strikes on the eve of his Impeachment hearings. Why is that I wonder? (sarcasm). Do I smell wag the dog. I think the impeachment proceedings actually made him put down that cigar finally and had nothing to do with Iraq or terrorism at all. I wouldn't say Iraq is a policitcal booster per say but more a political diversonary tactic. But I do agree, in most part, with you on that aspect. And don't forget Clinton had plenty of opportunity to take out Osama Bin Laden previous to those Iraq attacks ask yourself why didn't he. quote:Originally posted by IceCold: Osama hates Husein, that was evident for years because Saddam was a secular ruler. Islam was not Iraq's state religon. Osama viewed them as infedels and heretics hence no alliance was ever forged between them prior to the invasion.If you believe that 100%, then you need to take a seat and listen for a bit. What's the best way to divert attention away from any secret alliance or any suspicion of it? You pretend to hate each other. Nowhere in any physical evidence or in all those documents they found in Afganistan hint at any planned terrorist attack on Iraq so tell me where's the hatred? quote:Originally posted by IceCold: Why didn't the US attack North Korea? Heck, why was North Korea swept aside in favor of Iraq? The difference was capability. Since the North Koreans had Nuclear capability the US couldn't risk an invasion. China, Japan, and especially south Korea would be at risk of either Nuclear strikes or fallout. The invasion of Iraq is the opening move in a more detailed strategy that had nothing to do with the Iraqi governmentI think the attack on Iraq was more a message to the rest of the miscreants in the world. "We got you in our smart bomb sights". Have you noticed that North Korea seems to have simmered down from it's bolstering since then. And now that the CIA has been released from it previous bonds, I think we can see more covert actions being taken on these other countries than all out confrontation. I can see it now, our operatives in North Korea reprograming whatever missles they got so if we decide to do anything about North Korea and they decide to launch those nuclear missles they just might find them landing back down on 'em.

quote:Originally posted by dennymala: Well..... I might seem unpopular to you and all the US people even if I assure you that I have nothing personal or nor a dislike for americans or the US but I must say what I think on that..... telling lies just to hit your liking it's not my way, so I hope you would appreciate my honesty and try not to have a dislike with me:Shoot away, I'm always critizing my own government too. I have nothing against that at all. Keeps everyone on their toes. And don't fool yourself about lying all politicians around the entire planet do the same thing. So it's not just indigenous to the U.S. . quote:Originally posted by dennymala: 1. The weapons of mass destruction that Saddam had and used on the curds militians and civilians several times was provided by the NATO and the RUSSIAN BLOCK years ago.... so your governement might know what kind stuff he had. Sure Saddam was a crap, but there no way you can justify a war in IRAQ to "free the people of IRAQ" and doing nothing for other oppressed countries."Weapons he had" is the key word here. No telling what kind of dirty weapons Saddam had aquired from either France and Germany or anywhere else from that matter. "free the people" I wish Europe shared those sentiments during WWII instead of the U.S. having to get dragged into that crappy conflict and saving Europe's a$$es from the oppression and death from Hilter. quote:Originally posted by dennymala: 2. The US was not "responsible" dor leaving Saddam on his own, that the way it works, the US is not the police of the world and any nation is free to have an own governement and do what they want, like it or not. The US is responsible of having used IRAQ when it was useful agains IRAN, of have it supplied with weapons, technology, knowledge and military training. That's all.U.S. IRAQ history pay special attention to this: "1979 also marks the year Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq; prior to that he had been vice president, and a member of the ruling Ba'ath party (which itself had been helped into power in 1963 with CIA assistance)." quote:Originally posted by dennymala: 3. I doesn't want to judge your politicians and governor (we had the same crap here in ITALY) but Clinton granted a period of almost peace and stability in foreign relationship that was surely a good result of his politics.... even if he cares about playing with his cigar and even terrorism had a slow down during his governement..... so I think that the terrible event involving the Twin Towers and the Pentagon was more the effect of the aggressive politics of Bush that the relax of Clinton. Umm when do you think these attacks were planned? During the Clinton administration!! That's when. Terrorism didn't slow down it took years for this elaborate scheme to unfold all while Clinton played with his cigar. And who was in office when the first attack on the two towers occured Clinton that's who. And what did Clinton do in response, play with his cigar that's what. So don't tell us about Clinton and his peacfull years. He was just too scared to do anything about it.

I love this part of it most of all "He said he wanted the ascetic to undergo experiments at NASA, as Jani's supposed feat could come in handy for astronauts". Why bother with that when they can round up six of these guys and stick them in space suits. I'm sure there must be more like him in India. With that on a mission to Mars we've solved the food and human waste problem and the personal interaction dilema (going insane on each other) as for the air supply I know alot of these meditation types can lower their body systems to a point where they don't need that much oxygen (you don't need to worry about hybernation) the only thing that is left is exposure to radiation on this long trip.

1. I really don't think we needed the excuse of weapons of mass destruction in the first place. That was just a$$ kissing to the world circus. The entire planet knew what a creep Saddam was. So it does not matter if he had them now because we all know he would have them in the future. 2. The US was responsible for leaving Saddam alone and dealing with him for all those years because it suited us in the cold war with russia. Even though the intelligence community knew what he was like. So it was more than justifiable that we take care of this mess ourselves. 3. Take for example Clinton. He'd rather play with his cigar than take the opportunity to take out Osama Bin Laden. Look at the consequences of that. We got no Twin Towers!!! Clinton reminds me of good ol' Nero who fiddled while Rome burned.

quote:Originally posted by Hellbinder: OMG... I even passed on Dues ex 2 Keep passing that one up and wait a few months for the price drop because it's been consoled! It's been dumbed down from its predecessor and its fonts are console (in other words big text!). I cranked out the original Deus Ex from my game rack and played it again just to get the taste of the demo out of my head. As for UC, and in the immortal words of Yoda, "Patience, patience you must learn patience".

We should all have a moment of prayer for Takvah who is just a lonely pitiful soul desperate for attention by any means necessary.

Believe it or not: Not eaten for 68 years

For all you adventure fans, Sam and Max are coming back Sam&Max: Freelance Police

We'll looks like there's alot of heat surrounding Deus ex 2 for the pc demo. GameSpot News VideoGameLife. I hate to admit but I agree with the critics of the demo if it's any preview of how full game is going to be for the PC forget it. And it's all too true, sadly, that the majority of the games coming out have been designed with the console in mind first and PC second. I dunno what can we PC gamers can do about this state of affairs.

Okay, now now, I think verbal sensitivity has gone too far. What's next redubing all movies to remove all these refrences too. I can see it now, Empire Strikes back redub take 1: Darth Vader (in a communication to the Emperor):"What is your bidding my precious". Return of the Jedi redub take 1: Darth Vader (talking to his son luke before taken to the Emperor): "I must obey my precious" (shivers) need I say more .

quote:Originally posted by Grayfox: and you wonder why they they call it "dark friday"???As far as I know, it's referred to as black friday. And before you guys get your knickers in a bunch it is referrring to retail store earnings put in the black(accountants use black ink in their ledgers to denote profit) and not red(accountants use red ink to denote loss) and has nothing to do with phrases like "Master" and "Slave". Sorry I couldn't resist taking a jab at that. Hah, as I type this the incident is being reported now on CNN. If I had my way, I'd rename it to Stampede Friday.

Talk about pressing her buttons

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: And here are just two of the ICQ messages that I received from him. Sorry SC but read this and weep Florida Ranks 40. And I think this guy is the sole reason why. NY is in the top 10 .

quote:Originally posted by echo: we found out my Gateway was junk. Jeez, I could have told you that just by you mentioning the name Gateway. My sister has two of 'em both with ME. Now talk about a Gateway to hell. If I was into S&M, I'd buy a Gateway. All those ready built companies like Gateway and Dell talk a good talk and spin a good spin but god only knows what the quality of the components they put into their computers. Like I always tell everyone, put together your own system. You won't regret it. I've built my own for years and other than the OS you have control over the quality of the products you put into your system's case just by checking out reviews of the components from various web sites. Even with the out of the box BCMG, I've never ran into any trouble at all other than having to disable my second display detect in the win98 hardware profile. 95% of all my windows games run with little or not trouble at all the other 5% are DOS but even then it's only the speed of the CPU and not having the old video card VESA that makes most of them unplayable (even with a CPU slow down utility).

quote:Originally posted by $iLk: This is the one thing I can't comprehend. The only time I really get onto my kids is when they are sitting there biting the crap out of each other. They don't quite draw blood, but they leave marks that don't go away for a couple days. It's usually when one of them has gotten hold of a toy the other one wants, or has the pillow the other one wants... and then usually Chad (the oldest) will latch on to Josh's arm or leg until Josh starts crying and runs to me. Chad then runs to one of his favorite hiding spots (face down on the couch in full view/face down on his bed in full view) and then acts like it's a big surprise when I come into the room with a stern voice and a "WHAT DID YOU DO TO JOSH?" on my tongue. When they first came over here from my grandparent's in MS, they were like two animals... for the most part I broke them of it by them knowing they would get in trouble for doing it. But are there any ways to get them to quit besides swatting them on the arm or leg and saying "Don't bite!"? Well, one drastic measure would be to have the teeth extracted. I don't know their ages but if they are very young don't worry about it because it's only their baby teeth and the final set of teeth will grow in eventually. Second and less drastic would be to rub Cod liver oil on both or the main victim of the teeth attack. Trust me there's not a person on this planet that can stand the flavor of Cod liver oil. So the next time either one tries to take a bite they will be met with such a nasty taste that I'd think they'd think not twice but three times before biting again. Well, if you can't stand the smell of fish permeating the house, try this the next one that bites tell him he won't eat for a day and then take everyone out to Mcdonalds, including the perp, and have everyone but him have a good ol' shoveling that food right in front of the perp. Check out this one out Kids Biting maybe that's a better start in to understanding the biting.

quote:Originally posted by Extinct_Reptilia: OK, on the products page for UC, Mr.Smart has determined three types of system requirements: Minimum Requirements Recommended Requirements Ultimate Requirements Now being a gamer, I've always understood that having the Minimum requirements would mean one would lose some of the cool features of the game. The Recommended however, would be the suggest requirements to allow the game to run in full. Now what is this "Ultimate Requirements" all about for UC??? Will I have all the cool features of UC if I only have minimum of the recommended??? I'm just confused here? Someone help me here... It would be nice if you had your system listed. Most likely the UR (Ultimate Requirements) is if you are going to run as dedicated server for Multiplayer. So recommended would be what the majority of us here would fall under.

I dunno how many of you remember this little gem Scorched Earth. It was a simple but very addictive Dos game. I should know, I played for hours and hours on this one. Well, I found someone has made a modern version of it thru the open source link I provided above. This new version is just as good (maybe better) and guess what it's got eye candy now. I've played it for an hour already. Here's the home page for open source developers game Scorched Earth 3D . Also, it is multiplayer.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Those b*stards canned it. Goddamnit!!! I was so looking forward to this one. Damn sounds like they used the same PR script excuse that was used from Sierra when they canned Space Quest 7.

quote:Originally posted by Extinct_Reptilia: Vega strike seems pretty sweet, nice list of features... I never even knew about it!? Makes me wonder what other FREE 3d space sims are out there, besides from freespace2... Does anyone know of some others? OPEN SOURCE GAMES (SourceForge.net) Look at simulations there's quite a few Space Sims there.

quote:Originally posted by almostpilot: For everyone who loves space sims (and your development), take a look : http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ You know, this game is really nice. I downloaded it earlier and I like it. Reminds me of BCMG especially the flight model including the way the distance is displayed. What and idea though a free open source game ( the same idea behind linux) wow! Thanks for the link to this one almostpilot. Another game I never knew about oy. Check this one out guys.