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Senate passes bill making it a crime to harm a fetus

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: Ever wonder where a national health care system would take us? The above is pretty close to what could and probably would happen. After all, if the government is going to pay for your healthcare, then the only way to make it affordable is to track what you eat and advise you what you can and cannot eat in order to stay healthy. And if they are going to track that, then they probably should track everything else you do as well. It keeps the healthcare affordable, since the rest of us are all paying for your choices... That is funny and scary the same time. The sad thing is we are only a few steps away from a system like that.

Is the real motive behind Dick Clarke's American Bandstanding to help the Kerry Campaign for the Democrats to insure that a Democrat gets voted as president? Makes ya wonder. The timing is all important to this question. If I gather from my searches, he started a year ago just as the democratic party was getting into swing for it's push for presidents. And that the book would be just in time to help whomever would be chosen. Just in his timing he is suspect. Why didn't he start writing this book right after 9/11? Again makes ya wonder. Love him or hate him Limbaugh makes sense: History Does Not Bear Out Clarke quote: You know, this is just the amazing thing. How many times had Al-Qaeda via bin Laden acted when Richard Clarke meant something in the counterterrorism force, and we never once went after bin Laden. In fact, bin Laden was offered to us at least twice from Sudan, recall? When Richard Clarke was there. And we said no, the Clinton administration said no because there are lawyers in the justice department, i.e., Janet Reno advised against it, "we don't have enough evidence to hold him" or some other concoction. All this talk, you should have done this, you should have done that - he was in the White House for nine months when all this happened, you guys were in there eight years, Mr. Clarke, with event after event after event, terrorist attack after terrorist attack after terrorist attack, and you are the ones that strengthened bin Laden by not pursuing him, by not retaliating and in fact by caving to him in Somalia. [ 03-25-2004, 11:21 AM: Message edited by: LostInSpace ]

quote:Originally posted by $iLk: I use Milkshape 3D for modelling... it has plugins for all kinds of exports. And if you really want you can use GMAX which is free and a few plugins allow you to export to known formats for imports into other software. Thanks for the info, I know about Gmax and have played around it some time ago. Milkshape haven't tried yet. I haven't gotten around yet to modeling (which I really want to get to) and my options are still open as to what I use that'll all depend on when I start modeling (and I don't mean the cat walk circuit either ) and see what program suits my tastes.

So far I haven't found out what the name XNA stands for so I made up my own Xtreme Nerd Application

My Mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. "Just wait until your father gets home." My Mother taught me about RECEIVING. "You are going to get it when we get home!" My Mother taught me to MEET A CHALLENGE. "What were you thinking? Answer me when I talk to you ... Don't talk back to me!" My Mother taught me LOGIC. "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me." My Mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE. "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."

quote:Originally posted by ProXimity: Anyone else pick this up?!? Haven't picked it up yet but have played the demo. I really like the gameplay as well as the eye candy. I played the demo for hours just going back and doing things differently.

quote:Originally posted by $iLk: What is it like a development suite? Compiler, rendering engine, etc.? It's basically a game development tool that will help you create games across the different platforms instead of say Making a Pc game and then having to convert the code for the game to play on the Xbox. Including: "XNA dramatically improves the way games are produced, helping contain skyrocketing development costs by reducing the amount of time developers spend writing mundane, repetitive boilerplate code for complex new hardware." "In addition, the move will fuel a whole new wave of compelling, cross-platform input devices from peripheral manufacturers." Read the FAQ on the site. Q: What does Microsoft XNA offer developers? A: Microsoft XNA lets developers spend less time constructing and more time focusing on game creation. Microsoft XNA will: - Enable developers to turn innovation into impact - Help contain skyrocketing development costs - Open up cross-device development opportunities - Make it easier to make blockbuster games because Microsoft XNA is based on familiar development tools - Allow game developers to focus on game design and spend less time fighting hardware complexity - Enable life-like graphics, sound and movement - Enable developers to design for Windows and Xbox simultaneously" Of course, I don't see any mention on how much this thing is going to cost.

A flaw in the way Web-based e-mail services Yahoo Mail and Hotmail filter messages left users open to attack via specially crafted online scripts, a security specialist said Tuesday.

quote:Originally posted by Kartoffel: Treason? Yeah right. Noone took it seriously at the convention. He was disgusted enough with it at that point, to resign, so how WAS he supposed to know the people who brought it up would do it a year later anyways? Simple. He couldent have known. Kerry was NOT involved with the actual conspiracy! This is a perfect example of how low the right-wingers will go in an attempt to discredit Kerry You mean like the same way the Left-wing is trying to pin the whole blame of 9/11 on Bush? OOO OOO he knew it would happen but didn't do anything about it! The same standards can be applied to Kerry. He was at that meeting and knew what was being planned and did nothing. What because he's a democrat he should not be held to same standards.

quote:Originally posted by Darkling: There are a couple of open source projects going on in space shooters now, here's a few of them: http://openparsec.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/xpilotgame/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/vegastrike/ Vegastrike in particular looks like it has a lot o potential, it's something of a Privateer knock off and they're currently working on a MP version. Yeah I posted about that in Current or upcoming games. That's what kinda tweaked my interest into going back and programing. Anyway, any of you interested in using OGRE make sure you go to their forums and read about setting up OGRE to compile correctly in C++ here's an example OGRE FAQ. I didn't at first. Thought ya just had to unzip ogre and use it's OGRE.H hah if only. I wound up getting can't open some other OGRE H file and a "hash" error. I just went line by line into setting up all the proper directories also had to download and unzip a file called STLport and then set up the directories to that also and needed to shift around some *.DLL's. Well in the end I just completed getting OGRE to work right tonight. Egads this is only the begining what have gotten myself into now .

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: When in doubt, vote Nader!!! Oh yeah that's the guy the democrats cry is only in it to steal the white house from them. Who said it was theirs in the first place. Assailed by Democrats, Nader hits trail, fights back quote:WASHINGTON -- Ralph Nader yesterday sought to tamp down bubbling criticism of his newly announced Independent presidential bid, which some Democrats have characterized as an ego-quest that will harm their chances of winning back the White House.The last time I checked this was still America and anyone has the right to run for office. What gives the Democrats the right to cry like that!? Is this all the Democrats know how to do, cry about Bush, cry about Nader or cry about everything it seems.

Well looks like a few still keep trying to slip into the Dreamcatchers UC tech forum. A new one now called Smokified. He keeps trying and I agree with SC why is he even still on the board. MFS_INT failed to obtain:RESLIB1A.RES!!!! . Here's more examples My game manual has vanished into thin air. Is there a site where I can download one? or this Hi, I was wondering if anyone has a complete save game for Universal Combat? This was someone called Reno asking for someone's save game files. Why he just doesn't take a deep breath and start again (like I've done with many games I made boo boos on) I'll never know.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: quote:Originally posted by LostInSpace: [qb] The question is am I suppose to install this summer release on top of the original install Yes thanks for the response. quote:btw, have u checked the LINKS section of this website? You could spend the good part of an entire day going through game dev stuff. I'll do just that. Ah, what's another day into what I've already spent digging up the best open source files I needed. I didn't expect this to be a simple process anyway. Actually, it will be quite cool and a great learning experience to see what I can come up with using the open source approach. [ 03-22-2004, 11:29 PM: Message edited by: LostInSpace ]

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: The reason why POTC sucked. Sound familiar? PA!: How did Sea Dogs 2 become POTC? Akella: Oh, it's a long story. I'll tell you the short one. Disney liked our game, got in touch with Bethesda Softworks, and finally they came to us, saying that Sea Dogs II MUST be transformed into the Pirates of the Caribbean . It was a quite an experience, and we obtained more audience, but to tell the truth, most of the team hated the idea of this kind of metamorphosis. You know, the game was almost finished.. Thanks for that link SC. Oh yes sounds quite familiar. players started to get more involved and cried for a patch for they were largely ignored have only to resort to the hugely successful modders who not only managed to fix many of the bugs with the aid of patches released for the russian version but to re-enable many of the features turned off. I was wonder what was going on with patches and stuff for the game. I gave up going to the official site for lack of it. I just checked the games official site now and still the same site it was when the game first came out. PA!: Will Bethsoft be a publishing your next Pirate adventure? Akella: No, I don't think so. Ahhh, another Publisher satisfied customer. Anyway, I like that Mickey Mouse pirate flag they posted with the article . [ 03-22-2004, 12:42 PM: Message edited by: LostInSpace ]

Not sure if this topic should go in the this thread or Rubbish pit but since it is about games I'll give it a shot here. Okay, I'm going to get my feet wet again. Back in the ol' DOS days I use to be pretty good at programing in Borland's Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. Damn, I even bought every new release that came out. I even made an online game called Wheel of Bogus Bucks (okay okay contain your laughter) yes an offtake on Wheel Of Fortune® for a local BBS here in NY. I think I still have a copy of it in my dusty disk archives. I had an idea for a game that I wrote down the plans for on paper (and still have) but then windows came out and I dropped programing altogether. Don't know why, I think it was the fact that I needed to buy windows then another version of Turbo C for windows (I had at the time migrated from Pascal to C by then) that put me off. Enough of the historical tale, we'll lately, I've been getting the urge to go back and give a try and finaly get the game programed by using Open Source where I don't have to spend a dime. There's some fairly nifty programs out there too and all free! Anyway, after spending a couple of days searching SourceForge.net and other sources, I came up with this and have installed. ATI SDK (just in case I need it. I haven't downloaded Nvidia's SDK but since I don't own an Nvidia card I thought it would be kinda useless to even get it) DirectX9.0 SDK Open_AL SDK (I wanted EAX SDK but creative wants you to fill out a 2 page request form and mail it to them. Open_Al will suit just fine for now) C++ compiler OGRE 3d (this is not a game engine but a Graphics Engine and is really sweet I ran the demos for it and wow click on the top menu WHAT IS OGRE to see why they just created a graphics engine.) Blender (model creation) From here the rest is up to me. Anyway, the reason I'm posting this is to pick your guy's brains a bit. Not for ideas and coding help per say but more for install issues. Like this one: I installed the complete DirectX9.0b SDK and there's a DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2003) C++. I installed 9.0b into the default directory C:DXSDK. When I went to install the summer update, the default directory was set at C:DX90SDK so I did just that. The question is am I suppose to install this summer release on top of the original install or is it suppose to stand along side of the original install. There's no mention on where the summer install is suppose to go from the DirectX web site or in the readme's that came with it and I can't seem to find any info on any site. It could be that my eyes have failed me once again. I would appreciate any insight you guy's have on this. [ 03-22-2004, 02:56 AM: Message edited by: LostInSpace ]

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: Clinton did his darndest to screw the economy up, raise taxes, add Beauracracy, add BS restrictions on business. Sell secrets to the chinese, disgrace the oval office..... etc, etc ad nauseum. Yup flash in the pan economics. Or is the better phrase Voodoo economics? townhall.com ".........Reagan, alas, was wrong. Instead, Reaganomics got redefined. In the early '80s, it may have been synonymous with economic failure. Later, in the face of a roaring economy in the mid and late '80s, Reaganomics came to mean greed, materialism and indifference to the poor and downtrodden. The press became fixated on income inequality, "junk bonds" and the "go-go" culture of Wall Street. Fast-forward to the 1990s. According to almost every measure, the Clinton economy was "worse" than the Reagan economy, if you go by these standards. Income inequality increased. More junk bonds were sold in 1993 alone than from 1982 to 1986 (when Mike Milken was the "Junk Bond King"). And don't even get me started about the go-go Wall Street culture created on Clinton's watch - a culture that brought us all of the accounting scandals, Enron, day-trading, etc., which have been unfairly laid at the feet of the Bush administration. And yet, we're told Bill Clinton's economic success was the greatest accomplishment of the Democratic Party since FDR. As my friend and colleague Rich Lowry notes in his outstanding new book, "Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years," this is all nonsense on stilts."....... "Presidents like to claim they "create jobs." Well they do - a few thousand of them, mostly around Washington, D.C. But they don't create millions of jobs in the private sector, at least not with any precision or in a way that can be replicated by flipping some job-creation switch. Even the New Deal was largely ineffective until the onset of WWII. What creates economic growth are billions of decisions all over the world, made according to a timeline that only vaguely coincides with the political calendar. It now looks like the economy's about to take off again. President Bush will surely claim more credit than he deserves. President Bush's tax cuts were in, my book, a good idea. But they surely didn't restructure the U.S. economy. All of this is the real "voodoo" economics. And by all of this, I mean the nonsense spewed by Democrats and Republicans alike about the economy. Not only does this voodoo economics ascribe powers to presidents they don't have, but it allows the personality of the president to color the morality of material progress. When President Reagan was in office, wealth creation was evil. When Clinton was in office, it was good."

quote:Originally posted by Steve Schacher: Breaking out the chart that way, you have Clinton with an average 5.0% and Bush with an average 5.6%. However, Clinton is getting the benefit of averaging with 8 observations to Bush's 3, where each observation has a greater impact on the total (Bush's numbers are weighted .333 while Clinton's are weighted .125). okay point taken but my point was that they are still so close that you can't really say Bush's record is that overly worse or better than Clinton's. In the end, the averages are neck and neck. Looks like we'll have to keep Bush in office for another 4 years to see how he tally's up against Clinton's full record.

quote:Originally posted by Wolferz: Just eat your grass. You mean your suppose to eat it oy I better put this out then.

1993-01-01 7.3 - President William J. Clinton 1994-01-01 6.6 - President William J. Clinton 1995-01-01 5.6 - President William J. Clinton 1996-01-01 5.6 - President William J. Clinton 1997-01-01 5.3 - President William J. Clinton 1998-01-01 4.6 - President William J. Clinton 1999-01-01 4.3 - President William J. Clinton 2000-01-01 4.0 - President William J. Clinton ------------------------------------- 43.3 / 8= 5.4 2001-01-01 4.2 - President George W. Bush 2002-01-01 5.6 - President George W. Bush 2003-01-01 5.8 - President George W. Bush 2004-01-01 5.6 - President George W. Bush ------------------------------------------ 21.2 / 4= 5.3 Clinton's Average Unemployment = 5.4% Bush's Average Unemployment = 5.3% Looking at this, how can anyone say Bush's economy in terms of employment is worse than Clinton's? This is what I mean about not relying on Perception do the math!

quote:Originally posted by Cmdr Chavik: ]But wouldn't you agree that it is the perception of the thing? No not really, if one actually took the time to research an issue a candidate brings up then you would have facts and not perceptions. You also have to take into account the enormous working population growth from either immigration and also high school/College grads throught the entire US population since clinton left office. When you think of the numbers, it amazes me to think how any country can employ that many people no matter how good the economy is. It's just impossible. More and more people will be looking for work in the years to come.

quote:Originally posted by Steve Schacher: I thought about that, but it is a legit news story about a finance technology company (not that anybody is going to read past the headline...). Yah I was just bustin chops. The title is what makes it all the more humorous .

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: I can't believe the Pakistanis are actually doing this. I think it's great. At this point they believe that they may have the 2nd in command, zomowi or some such name. With the amount of time it has taken to fight these guys, he may already have flown the coop, but I am hoping not. Yup, they want to be a world player and in doing so want to show the world that they are tough on terrorism.

Oh boy here we go again USA Today admits reporter plagiarized. If this keeps happening, how can we trust anything we read? Can the liberal media still cast stones at republicans and conservatives? And before anyone brings this up I'll ask it now to save ya the time and trouble: or is this a republican/conservative plot to discredit the liberal media? In other words, are republicans/conservatives planting these guys in there to do just this?

quote:Originally posted by Steve Schacher: From FinanceAsia.com: quote:Misys gives Pecker head job By Nick Lord 05 March 2004 Rudi Pecker assumes position in top slot in Asia. . Umm shouldn't this be in the Laughter topics. This sounds like it's smack out of a Monty Python skit with that name. Oh no...