LostInSpace

quote:Originally posted by Scrivener: Hahahahahaha. That's rather ingenious, actually. I'd see that movie. I was torn when I saw that. If done the right way, it could be good.

quote:Originally posted by Race Bannon IV: Why? Id rather see Titanic 2 the surface!

That was quite cool indeed. Still needs some more time to perfect though IMO.

Good job well done Jaq. Jag's wife, "What do you mean!? I'm the one who did all the work noob!" As for the hospital, yeah that was kind of uber paranoia in their part. Do you happen to know how often the pediatric department gets sued. That could be another reason other than soaking the insurance companies. You may find this interesting: Home Finder: Most the 4,500 doctors licensed in Nevada have never been sued, public records show. The state has some of the most stringent doctor licensing requirements in the nation, and even critics of the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners agree that Nevada has some of the best physicians in the country.

File is back in the link.

quote:Originally posted by Scrivener: I'm getting a 404 Not Found. Oh yeah I took it down for a little bit. I needed the server space.

quote:Originally posted by The Black Ghost: "What's at steak?" I like mine medium-rare... "Line of duty death benefits for his family. Funny, cigarettes cause lung cancer but that the 911 contaminated air couldn't. Again, what a bunch of hypocrites." What??? I had just gotten up from sleep and had food on my mind. STAKE dang it.

Oh jeez the baby was born. I forgot to check up on this thread. Congrats Jag.

There is another thing that's got me irked. I don't know how many of you are aware of the fight over whether the 911 post twin tower collapse emergency worker illnesses and sometimes death are attributed to that event. I don't have a link for this new one that a coroner has for the first time written down that it was. Now the local NY goverment is coming out swinging saying no it wasn't. What's at steak? Line of duty death benefits for his family. Funny, cigarettes cause lung cancer but that the 911 contaminated air couldn't. Again, what a bunch of hypocrites.

quote:Originally posted by The Black Ghost: Now what were all you people saying about no-smoking laws never going to be passed? To the contrary. I've never said that. Been battling that for a few years now. In this case, it's not the passing of the law that's at issue but why they are leaving the casinos out. Hypocrites. Typical, the government thinks they can bully the little guy and they do and no one stands up for them but when it comes to the big and powerful it's hands off.

What Are The Possibilities of This? BTW: You'll need the latest flash plugin if you don't have it already and it's a 15mb stream so 56k beware.

quote:Originally posted by $iLk: What is the penalty for smoking in a prohibited place and why is this a bigger issue for you than flagrant violations of the Constitution leading to pre-emptive wars and $Trillions of debt wracked up by the administration? Because it's the little issues like this that allow the big issues to occur, IMO. Besides, I don't consider this issue any smaller than the debt issue which has been going on for years and years and years. Long before the current administration.

WNBC: Judge Rules N.J. Smoking Ban Should Go Into Effect Saturday When is this crap going to stop already? quote:Thomas Jefferson understood that we'd need a revolution every 20 years or so to keep government in check.

quote:Originally posted by Race Bannon IV: Stick to magic. Why? Who better to reveal the truth to illusions than the illusion makers themselves.

Thanks for the clip. Anyway, Mable Murray and Jackie Mason for the win in that clip. I so love those guys. No matter what show of theirs I watch, they always take the BS out of BS. This gun control is on the same level as the smoking ban laws. Just more laws for the government to control it's citizens and not the other way around. Sheeple need to wake up. I'll have more to add as this thread unfolds.

Basically, The defraggers unloads everything that's not used and then it squeeze the RAM together, just like a normal disk defragger.

quote:Originally posted by ShoHashi: LostInSpace: Is it running pretty decent on your rig as you have it posted in your profile? That's my old rig. Can't seem to upgrade the content yet. Got's to pick up UCAWA. Anyway here's the current rig: CPU:AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1GHz HT 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 Motherboard:ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 ATX AMD Motherboard (AGP 4/8x/PCIE) Memory:pqi TURBO 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Video: ATI 9600xt 128mb 4/8x Hard Drive:Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L200S0 200GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 With the ATI9600xt and no AA and everything maxed out on the game setting with an 800x600 resolution, it runs good. There is some slow down outside of Skingrad out by the grape vinyard but still good. Looking into getting a PCI-E within a week or two. Just gotta look into which is the best one for little money.

I got a kick out of watching this thread unfold. ROFLMAO. Thanks for a great comedy moment.

quote:Originally posted by Cmdr. WeeGee: I can't stop playing. Its kinda prone to crash though, which is getting a tad bit annoying. Still, it crashes and then it gets opened right back up. Its dumbed down a little more than Morrowind was, but still its an amazing RPG. Same here. That's why I've been scarce around these parts. I got Gothic 2 the gold edition with the night of raven add on and now Oblivion. So much game and not enough time. I've racked up about 24 hours game time and am at level 10 just going about my business without even completing anything major except for a few side quests and going through mines and caves. The graphics are excellent as is the game play. The AI is a tad quirky but liveable. For example, you'll be fighting and any NPC that is along with you will just waltz right in front of you as you are about to lay in another blow to the enemy and state as you hit him "Hey, I'm on your side". You are also correct about the crashes. In the begining however, it wasn't as bad as it now since racking up a lot of inventory and quest goals. It's gotten more frequent now. But, it's such a good game, I can deal with it. I also notice that if you save and reload a lot it also makes the game crash at some point. BTW: Did I mention this game is kick arse. You just won't believe the vistas that unfold before your eyes.

when one decides to convert from it: CNN: KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Senior Muslim clerics are demanding that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that if the government caves in to Western pressure and frees him, they will incite people to "pull him into pieces."

I think I remember that picture from his new avy from one of the game developer gatherings pictures that were posted somewhere. But yea, it's a bit disorienting because of the tilt.

Yeah, I probably should have gone for the dual core also. But I'm sure the prices will be even lower for them in a few months and with my new motherboard, which has been working like a charm with a ton of hours on it already, I don't need to upgrade that along with the CPU. Didn't think I would need the dual core but I've been doing a lot of stuff on this computer lately that it would come in handy.

Sure, now that the deal has been killed, they say this: CNN/Fortune: What will the Dubai debacle cost us? quote: Now that DP World has given up, the action will likely move behind closed doors, far away from the media attention that made the controversy such a hot topic, especially on the cable gab-fests (including those on CNN, the parent of CNNMoney.com). Companies like Boeing are likely to work their contacts in the region, and try to patch things up. And former Bush administration economist and American Enterprise Institute Fellow Phillip Swagel says the Gulf states should send emissaries to meet with outspoken port deal opponents like New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton and explain to them the economic power of the Gulf region. Not a bad idea but whether Schumer, Clinton and other politicians understand the economic consequences of their public statements, rather than the political benefits, is another matter.

This is what I'm talking about: CNN/AP:Dana Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her "Superman" husband, Christopher Reeve, through his decade of near-total paralysis, has died of lung cancer. Dana Reeve wasn't a smoker but she announced in August that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Like I've said, don't believe the government or any nanny propaganda about smoking. All the nannies around the world are probably cheesed off they can't attribute this cancer death to smoking. Cigarettes have gotten a bad rap because of the medical community and those nannies. You go to a doctor, you're diagnosed with cancer the first question they ask you is "do you smoke?". If you answer yes, "rejoice, we have a quick and easy cause!". If you answer no, "Duh! Ah to hell with it all there goes our agenda!". But rest assured, I'm sure the nannies are going to scour her past to see if she was exposed to second hand smoke somewhere in her past instead of finding a real cause: Genetics. Stop being such sheeple. The government should start employing the same propaganda technique they've use on smokers and start using it to combat the terrorist. It was just a month or so ago that the government announced that the terrorists are winning the propaganda war.

You know what I find amazing. This entire port story has simply dried up on any NYC news outlets. Not even one word about this letter and you know how they are like picking up stories from other news outlets. The only thing I saw was a few days ago on UP9, which is based in New Jersey, about our own security. I actually cringed at the report. Sure, show the entire world the gaps in our port security. Well, New York's anyway. As for the bamdwagoning politicians and news media about the port, not a single word since this letter. Even CNN seems to have dropped this story. It's as if it didn't exist. They just can't admit that they hyped up the wrong story. But they did succeed in their goal, helping to drop Bush's apporval rating while this supposed fiasco unfolded.