They're taking felons and gangmembers now. However this is no slur on the military, I have much respect for those who serve there. The leadership of this country is mis-using the military, and I am quite sure our men and resources will be stretched into Iran. Standards drop, and those who normally wouldn't make the cut are being welcomed in. Hence my cynical crack about the poor and dumb finally having the ability to 'contribute' to the nation...
...through life, son! Unfortunately, a large portion of my fellow citizens are doing their best to pack on the fat, reduce the quality of education, and push their religion into government.
*shrug*
They can always join the military! With Lil'Bush making noise about Iran, we'll have a deep need for people to die in the desert for Haliburton and Exxon!
I have a 1Gig AthlonMP 2800+ system with an old Radeon 9800 card and the game is quite playable. You can't use super-high graphic detail, and might have to choose your world size so that it fits in your available RAM, but it can be done!
I turn the graphics quality way down, but it is cool to zoom into your city and see all the things you built, etc..
Your sad little dreams of the 'sky daddy' are the most robust example of 'groupthink' I can recall!
Also hilarious, is that you bash 'leftists' for their 'groupthink'. Leftists are progressives...and since you obviously see the world in black and white, you must be a rightist...or conservative. Conservatives don't like change...they want things to stay the same way they've always been and the same way everybody already does them...which is GROUPTHINK!
If someone said "Your wallet or your life", I'd probably just give them the wallet. Most people wouldn't make such a statement without having their means of killing me ready to go, and I likely wouldn't be expecting a threat so I would have no chance of getting the drop on the mugger. Not wanting to risk my life for a few hundred bucks...he can have the waller.
You seem to think handing over a wallet with a few cancellable credit cards and money that can be earned is worth taking the life of another person. I do not.
Respond to words with words, to actions with actions.
You totally missed the point. Too easy: it was once legal to own black people. In 20 years we will say "it was once legal to kill someone just because you *thought* he was going to harm you.".
In the moment you might have a point, but in the long-term pre-emptive strikes work against you. Now the rest of the world/society/town knows that you might just attack them because you *think* they are up to something. This will affect how they discuss issues with you, and you might well become MORE exposed to a pre-emptive strike from one of many other people!
However, it is clearly apparent that my government (we) loves sending my tax money there. I realize that they aren't going to change their minds, so I advocate restraint.
I don't give a shit about one pissant ME country wanting to destroy another pissant ME country. I don't want my nation to right the world's wrongs. I guess if you care for being the world's policeman, this is a good argument. Me, I'm pretty isolationist...if Iran attacks Israel, THEN we can get involved. Otherwise, this is like 'thoughtcrime'.
Iran funds and trains terrorists? You mean like Osama Bin Laden, a terrorist in the 1980s who was going to take down the soviet-sponsored Afghan gov't?
If Hezbollah or Hamas got an ICBM that could reach the USA, then I'd be concerned. But they don't. They can't even reach Europe right now. I know those two groups have no love for the USA, but they are hardly Al-Quieda! They have more regional goals.
When you take the big picture...thinking about what OTHER things this country blows money on...I'm having a hard time buying your argument.
Then again, when I go out to shop and hear the people around me conversing, I am convinced that they would accept a 50% increase in cancer rates if only the price of gas and ring-dings would drop 50%!
eBay has really taken a dump over the last few years. I quit using it back in 2003 I think. Too much sniping, and losers over-paying. I suppose if you want a rarity, eBay is still good...but as a tool to save money over buying from a more traditional retail outfit online...I'm not seeing the value anymore.
And now they got this! If I owned eBay stock, I'd be thinking about selling.
No. That's absurd. This is a natural consequences of the US insistence of tighter border security and increased information sharing in a post 9/11 world. (OK, collectively we're a little pissed with the Bush administration, but that's not the point here.)
That sounds nice, but when Mexicans are still flowing over our Southern border, you don't see some kind of double-standard when Canada gets stricter checks?
The USA has a long history of leaning on other nations to get what the USA wants. Other nations would accept the imposition, because it meant more money.
It seems that in these post 9/11 times, money alone is not enough for some nations, and they are leaning back.
Perhaps my government will re-think it's aggresive foreign policies...
I suppose illegal alien groundskeepers and contractors make out pretty well, as do the luxury car and boat makers. What's that I feel trickeling down my neck?
More expensive CFLs have a more even spectrum, as I stated. The topic is consumers replacing incandescent lightbulbs with CFLs. Your average 60-watt incandescent isn't going to produce a spectrum like the fancy lamp you linked to, so why bother comparing? That fancy bulb also cost $15.00 and can't be used in grandma's faux-tiffany lamp because it's the wrong formfactor and the wrong voltage!
The guy planted a bomb...all he has to do is send the torturers on a wild goose chase until the bomb goes off. You assume that the person values his own life over that of the cause. I submit that he values the cause over his own life. Just like a soldier willingly rushes into harm's way in the name of his government, believing what he is doing is right.
Oh man the nasty mutants they show on TV are just fine, but a nipple is no good? To be fair, TLC is not broadcast TV but it is obvious the double-standard traveled from broadcast to non-premium cable.
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They're taking felons and gangmembers now. However this is no slur on the military, I have much respect for those who serve there. The leadership of this country is mis-using the military, and I am quite sure our men and resources will be stretched into Iran. Standards drop, and those who normally wouldn't make the cut are being welcomed in. Hence my cynical crack about the poor and dumb finally having the ability to 'contribute' to the nation...
...through life, son! Unfortunately, a large portion of my fellow citizens are doing their best to pack on the fat, reduce the quality of education, and push their religion into government.
*shrug*
They can always join the military! With Lil'Bush making noise about Iran, we'll have a deep need for people to die in the desert for Haliburton and Exxon!
(only partially serious)
Check out civfanatics.com. There is no uber-tuning guide, but there are lots of people making the game work on low-spec machines.
I have a 1Gig AthlonMP 2800+ system with an old Radeon 9800 card and the game is quite playable. You can't use super-high graphic detail, and might have to choose your world size so that it fits in your available RAM, but it can be done!
I turn the graphics quality way down, but it is cool to zoom into your city and see all the things you built, etc..
Your sad little dreams of the 'sky daddy' are the most robust example of 'groupthink' I can recall!
Also hilarious, is that you bash 'leftists' for their 'groupthink'. Leftists are progressives...and since you obviously see the world in black and white, you must be a rightist...or conservative. Conservatives don't like change...they want things to stay the same way they've always been and the same way everybody already does them...which is GROUPTHINK!
If this was a troll, good job.
Turrsts bad, bush good! ook ook!
I recall that many songs that had quite realistic recordings of gun shots in them!
NWA's "gangsta gangsta" isn't the best example, but it's the first I could think of.
If someone said "Your wallet or your life", I'd probably just give them the wallet. Most people wouldn't make such a statement without having their means of killing me ready to go, and I likely wouldn't be expecting a threat so I would have no chance of getting the drop on the mugger. Not wanting to risk my life for a few hundred bucks...he can have the waller.
You seem to think handing over a wallet with a few cancellable credit cards and money that can be earned is worth taking the life of another person. I do not.
Respond to words with words, to actions with actions.
You totally missed the point. Too easy: it was once legal to own black people. In 20 years we will say "it was once legal to kill someone just because you *thought* he was going to harm you.".
In the moment you might have a point, but in the long-term pre-emptive strikes work against you. Now the rest of the world/society/town knows that you might just attack them because you *think* they are up to something. This will affect how they discuss issues with you, and you might well become MORE exposed to a pre-emptive strike from one of many other people!
We can spend money all day and night and it doesn't matter. How else could the President pay for the Iraq war?
However, it is clearly apparent that my government (we) loves sending my tax money there. I realize that they aren't going to change their minds, so I advocate restraint.
Pre-emptive strikes are for the morally bankrupt.
It's called compromise, look into it.
The USA does all the things that Iran is doing...but we still use Iran's actions as a reason for invasion. Gotcha.
I don't give a shit about one pissant ME country wanting to destroy another pissant ME country. I don't want my nation to right the world's wrongs. I guess if you care for being the world's policeman, this is a good argument. Me, I'm pretty isolationist...if Iran attacks Israel, THEN we can get involved. Otherwise, this is like 'thoughtcrime'.
Iran funds and trains terrorists? You mean like Osama Bin Laden, a terrorist in the 1980s who was going to take down the soviet-sponsored Afghan gov't?
If Hezbollah or Hamas got an ICBM that could reach the USA, then I'd be concerned. But they don't. They can't even reach Europe right now. I know those two groups have no love for the USA, but they are hardly Al-Quieda! They have more regional goals.
I just don't buy into the fear-mongering.
Probably because Iran has supported coups in other nations...no...US does that too..
Probably because Iran ignores the Geneva Conventions with regard to prisoners...no..US does that too...
Probably because Iran makes veiled threats to use Nuclear weapons if diplomatic demands are not met...no...US does that too...
I guess you're right!
When you take the big picture...thinking about what OTHER things this country blows money on...I'm having a hard time buying your argument.
Then again, when I go out to shop and hear the people around me conversing, I am convinced that they would accept a 50% increase in cancer rates if only the price of gas and ring-dings would drop 50%!
eBay has really taken a dump over the last few years. I quit using it back in 2003 I think. Too much sniping, and losers over-paying. I suppose if you want a rarity, eBay is still good...but as a tool to save money over buying from a more traditional retail outfit online...I'm not seeing the value anymore.
And now they got this! If I owned eBay stock, I'd be thinking about selling.
That sounds nice, but when Mexicans are still flowing over our Southern border, you don't see some kind of double-standard when Canada gets stricter checks?
The USA has a long history of leaning on other nations to get what the USA wants. Other nations would accept the imposition, because it meant more money.
It seems that in these post 9/11 times, money alone is not enough for some nations, and they are leaning back.
Perhaps my government will re-think it's aggresive foreign policies...
I suppose illegal alien groundskeepers and contractors make out pretty well, as do the luxury car and boat makers. What's that I feel trickeling down my neck?
But not by someone who needs the walker.
Everyone loses when lawyers get rich gaming the system of laws that they created.
More expensive CFLs have a more even spectrum, as I stated. The topic is consumers replacing incandescent lightbulbs with CFLs. Your average 60-watt incandescent isn't going to produce a spectrum like the fancy lamp you linked to, so why bother comparing? That fancy bulb also cost $15.00 and can't be used in grandma's faux-tiffany lamp because it's the wrong formfactor and the wrong voltage!
I guess you're shilling for this company?
The phosphors in the cheapest ones ARE shit. You gotta pay more for better phosphors, tho.
The guy planted a bomb...all he has to do is send the torturers on a wild goose chase until the bomb goes off. You assume that the person values his own life over that of the cause. I submit that he values the cause over his own life. Just like a soldier willingly rushes into harm's way in the name of his government, believing what he is doing is right.
Oh man the nasty mutants they show on TV are just fine, but a nipple is no good? To be fair, TLC is not broadcast TV but it is obvious the double-standard traveled from broadcast to non-premium cable.
Land of the free...what the fuck ever.