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Should be interesting to see how this one plays out.

Link quote:By Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - The growing popularity of the Internet could lead to a rise in suicide pacts in which several people kill themselves together, a leading psychiatrist in Britain said on Friday. Four men in Japan were found dead last month in what police suspect was the latest in a series of such pacts that have claimed dozens of lives in the past two years. Sundararajan Rajagopal, a psychiatrist at St Thomas's Hospital in London, fears it could be the first sign of a growing trend because the Web gives people access to others who think along the same lines. "I don't know whether the Internet will lead to an increase in the total number of people dying from suicide but it could shift a disproportionate number of people into suicide pacts, he told Reuters. "The Internet is something that could be a factor in both individual suicides, as well as suicide pacts." The pacts in Japan seemed to have been arranged by strangers who met on the Internet and planned to kill themselves via special suicide Web sites. They could be just isolated events in a country which had previously been shown to have the highest rate of suicide pacts, said Rajagopal. "Alternatively, they might herald a new disturbing trend in suicide pacts, with more such incidents, involving strangers meeting over the Internet, becoming increasingly common, he added in an editorial in the British Medical Journal. If that is the case, it could mean that more young people who may have committed suicide on their own, could join other people to take their lives together. Suicide pacts account for less than one percent of all suicides in England and Wales. Usually they involve people well known to each other who decide to kill themselves together in the same way. Methods used in suicide pacts tend to be less violent than in single suicides. Poisoning by exhaust fumes from a vehicle is most common. In the United States and England, suicide pacts are most common among spouses. In Japan it tends to be between lovers and in India between friends, according to Rajagopal. There is also a rare psychiatric disorder called folie a deux, in which two people who share the same delusional beliefs take their own lives. It is more common among sisters who are single. Alcohol and drug abuse tend to be less common in people who commit suicide pacts than in single suicides. Rajagopal urged doctors and psychiatrists to be vigilant against the small but not insignificant risk of suicide pacts. "While assessing risk, one may specifically ask whether a depressed patient uses the Internet to obtain information about suicide," he added in the journal.

quote:But I did read on Anandtech that the Nvidia chipset did do better than then VIA in some instancesI have read that. It seems to me though the difference was not really noticeable.

I shop frequently with newegg. Never had a problem with them. Both Mobo's are about the same. I quess if I where to choose I would pick the Nvidia based board b/c of the active cooling of the chipset (boards with this tend to be a bit more stable). edit: www.zipzoomfly.com is a place where I have found some good deals.

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Government to watch every corner in country by 2020 quote:BEIJING - China plans to launch more than 100 satellites before 2020 to watch every corner of the country, state-run China Central Television quoted a government official as saying on Tuesday. A "large surveying network" would be set up to monitor water reserves, forests, farmland, city construction and "various activities of society," a government official said, without elaborating. "The aim is that, at any time and any place, we can obtain necessary data on any event through watching the Earth from space," said Shao Liqin, an official with the Ministry of Science and Technology. China regularly sends research satellites into orbit, and in October last year became the third nation successfully to put a man in space when a single astronaut orbited Earth 14 times. Last month, the retrievable chamber of China's 20th recoverable satellite returned to Earth with a bang, crashing through the roof of a house.

I would have to agree, but sadly at the rate things are going, Wally World will be the last company standing.

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quote:It means there's something fundamentally wrong with youlol, ok but it just never taste's good though.

Link quote:By JOANN LOVIGLIO, Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA - How's this for thinking outside the box: a cafe with jammies-clad servers pouring cereal day and night, topping it off with everything from fruit to malted milk balls, and serving it in "bowls" resembling Chinese takeout containers. It's all cereal. Seriously. Cereality Cereal Bar & Cafe, which opened its first sit-down cafe Wednesday on the University of Pennsylvania campus, is a sugarcoated ÔÇö and tongue-in-cheek ÔÇö homage to what your mother always told you was the most important meal of the day. But she probably never dished out bowls of Froot Loops and Cap'n Crunch topped with Pop Rocks. Behind glass-door kitchen-style cabinets at Cereality are 30 varieties of brand-name cold cereal. Customers order from "cereologists," whose most popular mix is two 8-ounce scoops with one of 36 toppings, plus regular, flavored or soy milk for $2.95. Also offered are cereal bars and made-to-order cereal smoothies and yogurt blends. Though some of the choices sound like a sugar overdose or a dental disaster to the uninitiated (or to those long past their college years), they're not all that indulgent. "This is great because you can try all different kinds and not have to buy the whole box," said Penn freshman Erica Denhoff, 18, as she munched on a healthy concoction of Quaker Oat Squares, Corn Chex and yogurt flax bark with skim milk. "I'm on the track team. ... I eat cereal for breakfast and for a snack if I need energy." Co-founders David Roth and Rick Bacher opened the first Cereality, a 200-square-foot kiosk in Arizona State University's student union, last year. Besides the 1,500-square-foot Philadelphia cafe in the middle of Penn's retail district, the Boulder, Colo.-based company wants to open more than a dozen Cerealities next year on campuses, hospital lobbies, airports and office buildings. "We don't see this as (solely) a college concept, we see this as being relevant to the 95 percent of the American public that eats cereal," Roth said. If college students ÔÇö "the most cynical market we can go after" ÔÇö like it, Roth's confident that office workers and travelers will like it too. Cereality also offers its own combos with names reminiscent of Ben and Jerry's ice creams. John Merz, a 27-year-old Penn employee, was bowled over by Devil Made Me Do It ÔÇö an ambrosial elixir of Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms, chocolate crunchies and malt balls, topped with milk. "I'm always on a sugar high, so this doesn't make that much of a difference," he said with a laugh that sounded sugar-influenced despite his assertion. "You're eating candy with milk on it!" chided his co-worker Caroline Couture, 42. After polishing off her Banana Brown Betty with hot oatmeal, bananas, molasses sugar and streusel topping, she said that she'd be having a salad for lunch ÔÇö but that she'd visit Cereality again. "We're all still kids, really," she said. "A lot of the foods you loved in childhood you still love as an adult." In Philadelphia, customers can eat Apple Jacks and stretch out on a couch (Mom might not approve, but it's OK here), watch cartoons on a flat-screen TV or check their e-mail via free Wi-Fi access. Like build-your-own salad bars with fattening and healthy foods side by side, "I think this is something that's as good or as bad as you want it to be," said Jeanne Goldberg of Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. American Dietetic Association spokeswoman Gail Frank agreed that cereals can be a good fast food because they're high in fiber and loaded with vitamins and minerals ÔÇö as long as customers keep their sweet tooths in check and pick healthier toppings like nuts and fruit. Between bites of hot oatmeal with cranberries and almonds, Penn junior Alpha Mengistu, 20, said Cereality offered more than a quick carb- and sugar-load. "I think this would be a good place for a date," she said. "You could learn a lot about a person by what cereal they choose." what does it mean if you don't like cereal?

Just my 2 cents. Most newer hard drives are fast enough that defragmenting them is really not necessary, unless you are using very disk intensive programs like many games, databases, etc. I still defrag (mainly out of habit) my drives based on how heavily I use them like how often i'm deleting files, installing new programs, etc all of which increases the fragmentation of a drive. For my higher use drives I mostly defrag them every two months or so for lower use drives I defrag them around 10 months or so. To prevent the swap file or page file from fragmenting you can set it to a fixed size. This however requires you to know how big of a page file to set it to, which is mostly a trial and error process. hope this helps

Looks good!

Sadly I missed this one, b/c when it came out it looked like it was not going to be a good movie. I was mistaken.

here is a link to it http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parad...skycutter40.wmv

quote:The only reason why they didn't do that is because it would need a third CPU (right?) The DS has two processors one for GBA emulation and one for the DS standard games.ahh, hadn't thought of that. That would make sense. quote:Um, I havn't really counted or timed it, however I charged it for about an hour and it lasted me all night till I went to bed (From about 1300hrs to 21:00hrs. I didn't know how the battery icon worked then, so I couldn't guage it any better than that.Hey that's cool, was just looking for a ball park figure anyways

quote:Originally posted by Freyar: That is a negative jamotto, Original GBC or GameBoy games do not work with this device.Thanks! mmm, wonder why? the GBC games worked with the Advance and the Advance and DS are fully compatible with each other. I figured then the DS would work with Game Boy Color games. quote:On the otherhand however, I do have one. It's one of the best devices I have ever had my hands on. The touch screen is awesome, and I abosolutely love the re-creation of the N64 Mario they set as a launch title. Currently have 37 stars and counting!How much battery time do you get?

Very true, Got to watch the feet can't even go bare footed. The eyes also tend to go first as well.

Link quote:By Karen Pallarito HealthDay Reporter SATURDAY, Nov. 27 -- As a diabetes educator, Mary Austin sometimes counsels diabetic patients who are acutely aware of how the disease, over time, can ravage the human body, from the eyes down to the feet. "If any family member or close friend had diabetes, somehow the horror stories come out," said Austin, president of the American Association of Diabetes Educators, whose members teach patients to manage their diabetes on a daily basis. Others, though, are terribly uninformed about the risks, as Austin, a former renal dietician, has witnessed. "I can count the times that I had patients say over and over, 'I had no idea that the diabetes could cause my kidneys to fail like this,'" she recalled. Exacerbated by the nation's obesity epidemic, diabetes is now the sixth-leading cause of death in United States and is rapidly becoming a public health nightmare. The number of U.S. adults who've been diagnosed with diabetes, including pregnant women with gestational diabetes, has increased 61 percent since 1991 and is projected to more than double by 2050, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of the 18.2 million Americans who currently suffer from diabetes, 5.2 million don't even know they have it, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports. Almost all of the undiagnosed cases are people who suffer from type 2 diabetes, a condition in which the body fails to use insulin properly. And, increasingly, it's afflicting people at younger and younger ages -- even children and teens. Type 2 diabetes usually can be controlled through diet and exercise, but sometimes people require medication or insulin. With type 1 diabetes, which is far less common, the pancreas no longer makes insulin, so patients must inject insulin or use an insulin pump. When people don't manage their diabetes, glucose and fats remain in the blood, eventually damaging vital organs, according to the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The condition can lead to terrible complications: Heart disease and stroke cause about 65 percent of deaths among people with diabetes. About 42,813 people with diabetes develop kidney failure each year, and more than 100,000 are treated for this condition. Some 82,000 people have diabetes-related leg, foot or toe amputations each year. Between 12,000 and 24,000 people become blind because of diabetic eye disease. About 18,000 women with pre-existing diabetes and another 135,000 women with gestational diabetes who give birth each year face serious complications such as stillbirth, congenital malformations and the need for a Caesarean section. About 10,000 to 30,000 people with diabetes die of complications from flu or pneumonia each year. "This is the kind of disease where vigilance is demanded," said Andrew J. Karter, a research scientist with Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., who has studied the relationship between genetics and risk for diabetic complications. Karter's study, published in 2002 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (news - web sites), found no one racial group is more affected by diabetic complications than another. Whites had the greatest risk of heart attack as a diabetes-related complication, while other groups were more likely to suffer from end-stage renal disease. Genetics likely play a role in the development of complications, but non-genetic factors such as health behaviors and quality health care are also clearly important, Karter said. "So regardless of their genetic makeup, patients with diabetes who carefully manage their health can reduce the risk of long-term complications," he said. Diabetes patients could learn a lot about how to avoid serious complications by meeting with a diabetes educator for self-management training, Austin said. Medicare, in fact, covers up to 10 hours of initial training in a year, and two hours of follow-up training each subsequent year, according to the National Diabetes Education Program. Patients only need a referral from their physician or a qualified health practitioner who is treating the beneficiary for diabetes. Yet few Americans who suffer from this chronic condition are getting the benefit of such services. "They're not getting referred for it," Austin said. According to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (news, bio, voting record), a Texas Republican and co-sponsor of a bill that would allow certified diabetes educators to authorize self-management services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates that only 30 percent of beneficiaries are using the benefit. Keeping diabetes in control can require difficult lifestyle changes, and that's why having an advocate can help. "You don't have to have diabetes on your own," Austin said she tells patients. Even people who don't have access to a diabetes educator can help themselves. For starters, the National Institutes of Health (news - web sites) and the American Diabetes Association advise people to know the "ABCs" of diabetes: "A" stands for hemoglobin A1c, a test that measures a person's average blood glucose during the past three months. The goal is an A1c below seven, which equates to an average blood glucose of 150. "B" is for blood pressure. It's best to keep it below 130 over 80. "C" is for cholesterol. Keep low-density lipoprotein, the "bad" kind of cholesterol that can clog your arteries, below 100.Visit the National Diabetes Education Program to learn more about diabetes prevention and control.

quote:Originally posted by LostInSpace: Does anyone know how to turn this auto autosave off?I have heard of people doing this quote:you can disable autosaves simply and neatly by simply making the four autosave files (two saves, two screens) read only.but this could also be rubbish.

I went over to a friends house and saw the movie "The Game" staring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn and holy moly this was a great movie! If you have 2 hours go rent this movie.

Link quote:By T.A. BADGER, Associated Press Writer SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Gary Qualls worried a lot after his son went off to war, so he went hunting last week to get his mind off it. When he got home, a letter from Louis was waiting. The young Marine wrote about the Fallujah offensive: "I fear it's a fight for my life. Dad, I need your prayers and advice more than ever." About an hour later, there was a knock on the door. Louis Qualls, of Temple, was killed on Nov. 16 ÔÇö the latest of 12 soldiers and Marines from Texas killed in combat this month, 10 in the province that includes Fallujah. It was an unusually high toll for one state, even in this deadly month of warfare. At least 108 U.S. soldiers and Marines have died in combat in Iraq (news - web sites) this month, 99 of them since Nov. 8, the day American-led forces began a successful offensive to subdue the insurgent stronghold. It has been the second-deadliest month for American troops since the Iraq invasion, surpassed only by last April's 135 deaths. Texas has borne many casualties. Of the 1,230 military members who have died since the beginning of the war, at least 110 were from Texas, or nearly 9 percent. The state has about 7.5 percent of the U.S. population. Among the Texans killed was Army Capt. Sean Sims, a "soldier's soldier" who once had his wife, a schoolteacher, arrange for her students to send cards and presents to a soldier who hadn't gotten any care packages. As Sims' company went door to door in Fallujah on Nov. 13 to clear out pockets of resistance, a reporter from the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader tagged along. "There's always going to be some (insurgents) left," Sims told the reporter. "They'll hide out and snipe at us for two months." Within hours, Sims and another soldier were hit in an ambush. He leaves behind an infant son. "You just don't expect a company commander to be one of those guys that are killed ÔÇö usually they're helping manage the fight," said Army Capt. Patrick Seiber, a former schoolmate in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University. But Sims "was going to be where the action is." Marine Staff Sgt. Gene Ramirez, who grew up in San Antonio, could have opted to not return to the war zone because he had already served there and was his family's only surviving son. His parents ÔÇö his father Pedro also served in the Marines ÔÇö urged him to use that option, but his cousin and fellow Marine Ruben Hernandez Sr. says Ramirez, 28, never would have. "Gene was a hard charger, man, let me tell you," said Hernandez. "There's nothing I could have told him, or his dad or his mom." For Hernandez, whose son Ruben Jr. is a Marine sergeant scheduled to be sent to Iraq early next year, Ramirez's death reverberated on several levels. Not only were they related by blood and uniform, Hernandez was also the recruiter who signed up Ramirez for the Marines back in the mid '90s. "I felt guilty at first ÔÇö 'Maybe if I didn't put him in and had him do something else...'" he said. "Well, he would have gone somewhere else and joined. That's the only thing that I say to myself right now." Shortly before he was killed on Nov. 9, Marine Staff Sgt. Russell Slay wrote a letter to his family. In it the 28-year-old Humble resident, anticipating death, said his goodbyes to his young children. He told his 9-year-old daughter Kinlee that he'll miss her, but that she'll always be his little girl and he'll always watch out for her. To 5-year-old Walker, he offered advice that he hoped would put the boy on a less risky career path. "Be studious, stay in school and stay away from the military," he wrote. "I mean it."

Link quote:By Joal Ryan It's taken 50 years, 29 movies and, owing to one monster-sized tail, who-knows-how-many accidentally knocked over craft-service tables, but Godzilla is finally getting his Hollywood coming-out party. In the coming days, the made-in-Japan leading lizard will ride in a parade, get starred on Hollywood Boulevard and storm the red carpet for a Grauman's Chinese Theatre movie premiere. He'll also say goodbye. Or so it's been said. "It's the latest last movie," says Ed Godziszewski, publisher of Japanese Giants magazine. "It" is Godzilla Final Wars, billed as "the last Godzilla film." Well-versed in kaiju eiga (that's Japanese for "monster movie"), Godziszewski is skeptical that audiences have seen the last of the big guy. "Even when Godzilla is killed in a movie he's never really dead," Godziszewski says. There is no indication that Godzilla breathes his last atomic breath at the end of Final Wars. But there are pledges from his bosses at Japan's Toho Studios that their star is headed for retirement. The move comes as fandom wraps a year spent commemorating Godzilla's golden anniversary. It was 50 years ago this month--on Nov. 3, 1954--that Gojira, a serious-minded, black-and-white horror film about a giant creature who doesn't mind where he steps in Tokyo, opened in Japan. In 1956, the movie was redubbed, recut, recast (see: Raymond Burr) and exported to the United States under its new title: Godzilla, King of the Monsters!. Toho has gone on to produce 28 cult-inspiring films, including Final Wars. In all, Godzilla has starred in 29 films if you count 1998's U.S.-made Godzilla, which most fans frankly don't. As Godziszewski points out, Godzilla has taken breaks before--he's even been killed before--only to return to make life heck for puny humans and assorted atomic freaks of nature. "No matter what happens in the end to conclude the movie, Godzilla will never actually die," Godziszewski says. Tsutomu Kitagawa, however, is emphatic that Godzilla is going away for good this time. Kitagawa is the ultimate Godzilla insider, in that he's been inside the Godzilla suit for five of the last six Japanese-produced films. "[shogo] Tomiyama, the producer, and the staff of the movie are doing their best to make this the best movie because it's the final movie," Kitagawa said this week of Final Wars, through a translator. "They put everything in this movie." Indeed, few parts of the world are safe in Final Wars, with New York, Paris, Shanghai and Sydney all taking hits. Kitagawa will be on hand, and in character, for Monday night's Grauman's Chinese invite-only screening, the first time a Japanese-made Godzilla movie has premiered outside of Japan. (The movie opens for paying customers in Japan on Dec. 4.) Other Godzilla firsts: Monday morning's unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; Sunday night's scheduled appearance (in float form) at the 73rd annual Hollywood Christmas Parade; Thursday's Thanksgiving at Peggy Aiken's house in Sacramento, California. Technically, that last one's a first for Kitagawa, not Godzilla--although how many holiday dinners can a skulking monster possibly have been asked to attend? Stateside for the last week attending a Godzilla film festival in San Francisco, Kitagawa will be at Casa Aiken at the invitation of Keith Aiken, of the Japanese fantasy film and TV site, Henshin!Online (www.henshinonline.com). Peggy Aiken is Keith Aiken's understanding maternal unit. "She said, 'Well, you've been a fan since you were a kid, so I guess it's come to this,' " Aiken said of his mother's reaction to having Godzilla over for dinner. Aiken said the traditional turkey and fixings will be served. After 50 years, and another looming retirement, Godzilla deserves the drumstick.Godzilla retired, NEVER!

Did you go through the Troubleshooting FAQ that is provided with the game? quote: tried setting Pri controller to PIOI would change this back to "DMA if available".

Is that a S&W Model 10 M&P?

There is no leader of the free world.