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GamePolitics has confirmed with her staff that Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D, seen at left) signed HB1381 into law last night. Under terms of the legislation, it takes effect immediately. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Roy Burrell (D) and drafted by controversial Miami attorney and anti-game activist Jack Thompson, defines violent video games as "harmful to minors" in much the same way as pornography. God help us. Meanwhile, I see quite a few people screaming that allowing the government to get involved in that net-neutrality issue is bad. But it's okay with this?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Blu-ray, one of two much-hyped high-definition DVD formats, debuts next week, but the launch is expected to be muted amid device delays and consumer confusion, industry analysts said on Thursday. But Sony has delayed shipping its set-top Blu-ray player from July until August and Pioneer Corp. has also postponed the North American launch of its Blu-ray player to this fall from June, cutting its price to $1,500 from $1,800.

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. said after the bell Thursday that Chairman will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Is this good or bad? I'm not quite sure.

Yup, I agreee. I miss the sharware days. I wonder how they overlooked you.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/06/12/you...ng_rig_for_720/ I noticed this on p3. A look at the water cooling block, beneath which the Pentium D 805 is housed. To the immediate right, you'll see a passively-cooled ATI 1600 graphics card, which is adequate for non-gamers. ...wtf is he talking about? An X1600 card is nothing to turn your nose up at. Ah, he said the 1600 was passive cooled. Just big heat sinks. I think he was referring to the passive cooling not being good for gamers but just regular applications as opposed to the 1600 itself. Poor wording on his part though.

quote:Originally posted by cutterjohn: I just hope that this doesn't drive AMD out of [the CPU] business or implies that K8L may be earlier than expected and with better performance than I think it will be able to put up from what I've seen of the design direction. AMD is in for a world of hurt. What makes you think this would drive AMD out of the CPU business? I've spoken to a few stock people and they say Intel is the one that's been hurting for some time now not AMD. If anything, this might make a lot of people who wouldn't ordinarily buy an AMD do so. This is the way the freemarket is suppose work when it's done properly. The consumer benefits.

Heh, this doesn't bode well for Intel. I heard last night on the news that Intel plans on dropping their prices to recapture the market share. Yep, positively a price war is brewing.

Slate: Why You Should Care About Network Neutrality?

quote:Originally posted by Papi: So... one more grazy finnish guy, LOL!!! There's a lot of us! I particularly liked the water bottle option.

Well the bill passed. I'm pretty disgusted right now that congress ignore the voters and sided with the lobbyist. Like I expected otherwise. The bill still has to pass the senate.

Cnet: The software maker this month plans to update the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications program so that it only checks in with Microsoft once every two weeks, instead of after each boot-up, a company representative said Friday. By year's end, the tool will stop pinging Microsoft altogether, the representative said.

Very cool: guy straps mini turbine engines on! Crazy, but cool. Don't pay attention to the description, the guy jumped from a hot air ballon not a plane.

quote:Originally posted by Prez: Greed is such an ugly thing. I hope the phone and cable companies are dissapointed. Greedy bastards. You think that makes you mad have a read about this which ties in nicely to the lobbying of those companies to get this toll issue passed: WASHINGTON - The stench of scandal on Capitol Hill is getting stronger five months after lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to influence-peddling charges, but a lobbying overhaul has yet to see the light of day. The Senate passed its version at the end of March and the House bill was approved in early May. In the month since, the House has not taken the next step, naming negotiators for talks with the Senate on a compromise bill.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Well, this head of an NPC from their latest engine, looks darn impressive don't you think? Oh heck yea. Some more screenshots over here Head over here for a video clip of the game in action Looks like we will need to go SLI.

Washington Post: Congress is about to cast a historic vote on the future of the Internet. It will decide whether the Internet remains a free and open technology fostering innovation, economic growth and democratic communication, or instead becomes the property of cable and phone companies that can put toll booths at every on-ramp and exit on the information superhighway. I was going to post this in technology but felt it was more political.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: LMAO! This never gets old! Yeah that one is very classic. I don't like the fact that web sites keep putting their water marks on these clips when the original is available all over the net without it.

Personaly, I'm kinda of split on taken alive or dead. Unless they could put him in a prison for comedians gone bad where he would spend the rest of his lving days behing bars listening to bad comedy routines, just the thought of stand up night in the mess hall brrrrrr, I don't think it would be worth it. Best to have done with him and deal with the consequences of it. In fact, either way one is pooped on this issue. Take him alive and his followers would stop at nothing doing things to force his release or kill him and you make him a martyr and his followers will stop at nothing to join him. Nutters I tell you just simply nutters.

Yahoo news: 2 minutes ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Only a matter of time before we mop up the rest.

I open them up and personally destroy every little bit of it from the inside having fun while playing around with the platers too.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Boll sues BloodRayne distributor Sad but that drama unfolding is better than anything he's come out with on film.

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: It's actually 6606, not 666, besides which that prophesy was talking about ceasar Nero, so it's already been fulfilled, so 666 is no longer important in any way, shape or form. sorry.... You do know how to take the silly fun out of things don't ya.

Some were predicting doom and gloom because of the war etc.... Well: Dollar rises against major currencies

That's right music industry, keep giving more ammo for people to pirate your products. Actually, by the time they get done with all these laws, even the most unwitting of us will perform acts of piracy without even knowing it.

I am so going to love this one: LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Marijuana smoking does not increase a person's risk of developing lung cancer, according to the findings of a new study at the University of California Los Angeles that surprised even the researchers quote: Previous studies showed marijuana tar contained about 50 percent more of the chemicals linked to lung cancer, compared with tobacco tar, Tashkin said. In addition, smoking a marijuana joint deposits four times more tar in the lungs than smoking an equivalent amount of tobacco. "Marijuana is packed more loosely than tobacco, so there's less filtration through the rod of the cigarette, so more particles will be inhaled," Tashkin said in a statement. "And marijuana smokers typically smoke differently than tobacco smokers -- they hold their breath about four times longer, allowing more time for extra fine particles to deposit in the lung."Yup, and cigs still cause cancer while pot doesn't? They better think twice and revise their stance about cigarettes. quote: He theorized that tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, a chemical in marijuana smoke that produces its psychotropic effect, may encourage aging, damaged cells to die off before they become cancerous. Hansen-Flaschen also cautioned a cancer-marijuana link could emerge as baby boomers age and there may be smaller population groups, based on genetics or other factors, still at risk for marijuana-related cancers.They still can't give it up let alone give up the funding money so let's concoct some other theories to keep the research money flowing.