For off, calling the USA "warmongers" should be modded flamebait.
And your history and math are wrong. Ike warned of the military industrial complex, not on the use of the military, which he obviously supported, you know, having led the largest invasion in world history. But anti-military types just love to misquote Ike.
The US spends *much less* of its GDP than it did in Ike's time, much less.
The left should be pleased that defense spending as a percentage of the federal budget has steadily declined during the past decades. In the early 1960s the Department of Defense constituted 45 percent of federal spending, whereas this year it will constitute an estimated 17 percent, according to the Office of Management and Budget. Source
As the article points out, the real scandal is the ever-increasing entitlement pending that is going to bankrupt America.
Polls consistently show that members of the armed forces are overwhelmingly Republican. If Republicans are more afraid, why would they join the military where they can get their asses shot off?
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have done so well lately, let's nationalize utilities now. Because government is more efficient than the private sector.
Just what I want, the government, free of any profit or competition concerns that a private company would have, either telling me my energy bill is going up because of some monstrously expensive CO2-curbing technology, or better yet, rationing energy a la Cuba. I guess I'll have to use those mod points later, since there's a brownout right n
That government executive you talk about is employed BY and FOR the people so the people should know everything about what they do at work.
And you will then get leaders who can't get candid advice from their staffers, who will instead pander to the dumb public, rather than telling their bosses what they need to hear. And you'll get bad governors and bad government.
This idea that you have the right to essentially place a YouTube camera in the Oval Office is ludicrous (you don't), and it will lead to playing to the camera, instead of doing their jobs, i.e., the Judge Judy effect.
Oh, and nice mod abuse whoever modded grandparent "flamebait." Who did I flame exactly? Unbelievable.
Maybe if Palin didn't think this was a partisan witchhunt and that she was going to get a fair shake, she'd be more forthcoming. But the fact is it's Obama-supporting Democrats going after her for political reasons.
And oh, BTW, not everyone agrees that you have a right to see your Governor's or your President's work e-mail. There is the concept of executive privilege, that if people can't give an executive candid advice without seeing it posted in Wikileaks, they won't give it. So, you want Barack Obama or John McCain not to be able to get candid advice from their advisors after the election? You really think your political heroes - FDR, Lincoln, Ron Paul, whoever you worship - didn't say things privately that would make them look bad?
This fear that one's private thoughts and actions will be exposed to the public does not lead to better government. It leads to government officials (and future ones) playing it safe, not "thinking outside the box," not joining controversial groups like the ACLU or the Federalist Society, for fear their e-mails will be subpoenaed in some partisan show trial or Senate confirmation hearing.
I have a friend who I used to have fabulous political and legal talks with. But now he is a federal judge, and will no longer commit such thoughts to e-mail, for fear of having to answer to Joe Biden or Chuck Schumer in some future confirmation hearing. That's who we want running government: dumbed-down, play-it-safe, non-controversial thinkers out there, bland vanilla, risk-adverse, PC types. When we get Bush v. Kerry in an election, don't ask why better people don't run for office.
This is all a larger part of a problem Pat Buchanan has recently pinpointed: The criminalization of politics. Now anything a politico does is suddenly indictable. These activities used to be just rough politics as usual, but now they are criminal. Whether it's Watergate or Iran Contra or Lewinsky or firing US Attorneys or blowing intel on WMD (or did you forget the Cuban Missile Crisis?), all things presidents have always done. Now it's all impeachable or indictable or at least show trialable. And have we really gotten better government for it?
It's funny, Slashdotter's howl when, God forbid, an employer wants to read their work e-mail, test them for drugs, or judge them based on their Facebook page. But God forbid an executive wants some private, candid advice.
No, the taxpayers do not deserve bad things to happen to them because those they elect abuse the public trust any more than an abused wife deserves it for marrying the wrong guy. Not like the mayor ran on the platform of anti-First Amendment.
The one silver lining is that if she can prove retaliation, elected officials could lose their qualified immunity from suit, and could be liable personally (and in some cities, a showing of bad faith by an official does not require the city to pay his lawsuits).
City governments do not have printing presses to churn out $20 bills to pay off lawsuits. This is taxpayer money, and as one of those taxpayers sick of property tax assessments and hearing how broke my city is - and as someone who has helped defend such lawsuits for my local city attorney's office - I can tell you first hand that city governments are far too free wheeling with other people's money when it comes to paying off lawsuits. It really is disgusting how they will settle suits rather than stand up and fight and risk taking any political positions.
We've got enough fiscal problems without you throwing around other people's money like it is free.
These city politicos look like dipwads, but how does giving this woman a cash windfall at taxpayer expense hurt them? Take my word for it, the *taxpayer* money the average city pays out on junk lawsuits is the real rights being trampled daily.
We supported his illegal invasion of Iran and rejected his illegal invasion of Kuwait.
I love when liberals say this. SO WHICH ONE IS RIGHT GODDAMMIT? The cold-hearted realism of propping up dictators (JFK did that one) and arming both sides of the Iran-Iraq war, or rather, the idealistic, spreading of democracy of the current Iraq war?
Let me guess, you were against the pre-war sanctions as well, since all the libs (who claim Saddam was "contained" so we shouldn't have invaded) were actually against that at the time, claiming "humanitarian" reasons (as the Iraqis suffered while Saddam enjoyed the UN's brilliant Oil-for-Palaces Program, simultaneously cutting out the tongues of those who dared speak out against him, and raping daughters of dissidents in front of their parents, and throwing enemies off of roofs and into tree shredders feet first). LOL, humanitarian, the same libs who would have left Saddam in power to torture, mutilate, and murder his enemies.
You have to pick one of the above, not just be a baby and cross your arms and stomp your feet and shriek "see, you did different things!" So which one would you do? Pick a foreign policy.
Sounds like your choice is "do nothing," the standard UN policy on any evil in the world.
We took a stable, secular country and turned into a cesspit of religiously-motivated civil war.
Stable, because the Thomas Jeffersons and James Madisons of Iraq were thrown into tree shredders, feet first by Saddam. Yeah, one thing Iraq had was stability, except when Saddam was invading other countries like Iran or Kuwait.
Imposing democracy is tyranny. Period. Bush is a tyrant.
Yes, up is down, criticizing your country is patriotism, black is white, "imposing" democracy is evil. Got it. Absolute nonsense. Typical lefties, got it all backwards. How dare we "impose" democracy on Saddam, clearly the chosen government of the people of Iraq. Saddam took power by force you idiot. It's not like the Iraqis just handed power over to him for life. He was a dictator that ruled through terror, aka, a tyrant. We turned the country over to them, and now they can pick their own leaders, and speak freely without being tortured and murdered. But you prefer "stability." Easy for you to say, you humanitarian idealist, you.
Anyone who believes in "spreading" democracy is a tyrant.
Yeah, Saddam was the good guy, Bush is the tyrant. And Truman and Reagan were tyrants too. Anyone who lets the people choose their leaders is a tyrant, got it.
You can disagree with the war, fine. But when you start calling someone a "tyrant" because you disagree with them (as opposed to a dictator that rules by terror), you are a moonbat. Tell me someone as crazy as you is sterile. Please.
Ross Denton: Hello, hello, I'm Ross Denton, head of public relations for the Two Mile nuclear facility. First, I'd like to welcome all members off the press to Two Mile Island. I hope you enjoy your stay here and that you'll come back again real soon. Now, there will be box lunches at air cooling tower #1 after the briefing, and later the buses will take you back to the motel for a special screening of the Jane Fonda film, "Barbarella".
Male Reporter #1: What about the accident here at the plant?
Ross Denton: That what? Oh yes, yes, the accident. Uh, let me give you a little uh, technical, uh, background here. [ shows a diagram of a nuclear reactor pointing to nuclear energy, pointing to a toaster. ] This is a nuclear reactor. Now, the nuclear fuel here is used to generate energy here, which is sent to your homes to make toast.
Male Reporter #2: But what about the accident?
Ross Denton: I was getting to that. Sometime yesterday afternoon we experienced what we like to call a surprise. And, well, we had to release some radioactive steam.
Female Reporter #1: Well, how much radiation are we being exposed to right now?
Ross Denton: Well, I'm sure all of us here have been to the doctor and had our chest x-ray, haven't we? Well, it's just like that, only it's as if the doctor had to give you the chest x-ray over, and over, and over again. Or, it's like falling asleep under a sun lamp for a week or two! Or, it's like drying your hair in a microwave oven! And to give you some idea of how little danger there actually is, President Carter will be here tomorrow. Now, gentlemen, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yes, I'm sorry I have to cut this press conference short, but now I'd like to hand the stage over to the Two Mile players! They're a pro-nuclear mime troope, and they're going to perform a little skit for you, kids!
***
Ross Denton: Good afternoon, good afternoon, ladies and gentleman of the press. First, as to the president's condition, let me say that the president is feeling certainly "stronger" than he's ever felt. And he would like to be with us right here, in this room if he could. I think now I'll just open the door to questions-
Female Reporter #1: Yes, is it true that the president is 100 feet tall?
I thought the debate wasn't over on Slashdot whether the gas we all exhale - and plants "inhale" - is a pollutant that causes global warming.
Again, I'd like to see some empirical tests of these climate models before we recreate civilization as we know it. Which, of course, will take 1000's of years to prove right or wrong.
Whether temps go up or down, you global warming experts are right. Is there *any* kind of temperature data that you will accept as actually disproving your theories? 2008 is the coldest year since 2000. How many years would it have to go down before you'd call it significant? I sure don't hear this "but it's only short-term change" argument after particularly hot years.
And the climate models are bullshit, since they have not been empirically tested (CO2 emissions have only occurred in significant numbers in the last 50 or so). As you have said yourself, temp change can only really be measured over hundreds or thousands of years. That means your models must be empirically tested (as all theories must be) over hundreds or thousands of years. So get back to me in 4008 after your models have been properly vetted.
We know CO2 soaks up heat and we know there's a lot of CO2 being released.
Well, we know that 2008 is the coldest year since 2000, despite the fact that there is more CO2 in the atmosphere now than there was in 2000. Shouldn't it be hotter, not cooler?
Unless, perhaps, global temperatures are caused by other variables?
For the sake of the country, the people responsible for these raids must be fired (and very possibly sent to prison) for this. This is utterly unacceptable.
Looks like your sweet, innocent protesters were planning some serious criminal shit:
I think of some of the gsmes I have paid good money for, some of which I beta tested, and I couldn't get in contact with anyone on the developmenbt team to give my ideas.
One company that just doesn't get it is Novalogic. Their Black Hawk Down franchise was groundbreaking and had some serious potential, but they just never solicited or even listened to feedback. A potentially great game with some easily-fixed flaws, but they just don't listen.
EA is the same way. All the cheating that still goes on with BF2, and they do nothing. Sad.
ebay.com, search for "Vapochill." Used ones go for about $400.
then you still have to gut your chassis to fit the ginormous cooling.
It's a small hole on the bottom of the case and I'm handy with a Dremel. If you want extreme cooling, you've gotta be willing to do some mods. It's a lot easier than making your rig liquid-tight and filling it with fluid! Then again, you can just leave the side of the case open if you don't want to cut your case.
Plus it's noisy as hell.
Vapochills are a lot quieter than the hairdriers they call fans on modern video cards. I have been using a (heavily modded) Vapochill in my bedroom as my main rig for three years. It has different fan settings, and the compressor is about as quiet as your minifridge's. Have you heard how noisy the fans are on some aftermarket heatsinks?
Now my custom, dual cascade, that's noisy.
It would require substantial improvements in both areas before ever being considered for general use in PCs.
Well I use one on my main rig, as do many people. Besides, the fans help drown out ambient noise and help me sleep. Seriously, on the low fan settings, it's as quiet as any air-cooled rig with a modern video card (I water cool my video cards since *that's* noise I can't handle.)
And get much better performance. All you need to cool on a PC for top performance is the CPU and the northbridge, maybe some of the voltage regulators, and the GPU if you want to overclock that.
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For off, calling the USA "warmongers" should be modded flamebait.
And your history and math are wrong. Ike warned of the military industrial complex, not on the use of the military, which he obviously supported, you know, having led the largest invasion in world history. But anti-military types just love to misquote Ike.
The US spends *much less* of its GDP than it did in Ike's time, much less.
The left should be pleased that defense spending as a percentage of the federal budget has steadily declined during the past decades. In the early 1960s the Department of Defense constituted 45 percent of federal spending, whereas this year it will constitute an estimated 17 percent, according to the Office of Management and Budget. Source
As the article points out, the real scandal is the ever-increasing entitlement pending that is going to bankrupt America.
Polls consistently show that members of the armed forces are overwhelmingly Republican. If Republicans are more afraid, why would they join the military where they can get their asses shot off?
Here on Slashdot.
Great pic. I've long said that the difference between a man and a woman is:
A 6', 120-lbs supermodel walks down the beach and thinks her ass is fat.
A fat, hairy guy in a speedo walks down the beach and thinks, "I'm a sexy beast."
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have done so well lately, let's nationalize utilities now. Because government is more efficient than the private sector.
Just what I want, the government, free of any profit or competition concerns that a private company would have, either telling me my energy bill is going up because of some monstrously expensive CO2-curbing technology, or better yet, rationing energy a la Cuba. I guess I'll have to use those mod points later, since there's a brownout right n
The vast majority of people -- and yes, creative people -- use PCs.
Apparently they couldn't find any of those creative PC people to do the ad:
Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' ad images made on Macs.
That government executive you talk about is employed BY and FOR the people so the people should know everything about what they do at work.
And you will then get leaders who can't get candid advice from their staffers, who will instead pander to the dumb public, rather than telling their bosses what they need to hear. And you'll get bad governors and bad government.
This idea that you have the right to essentially place a YouTube camera in the Oval Office is ludicrous (you don't), and it will lead to playing to the camera, instead of doing their jobs, i.e., the Judge Judy effect.
Oh, and nice mod abuse whoever modded grandparent "flamebait." Who did I flame exactly? Unbelievable.
Maybe if Palin didn't think this was a partisan witchhunt and that she was going to get a fair shake, she'd be more forthcoming. But the fact is it's Obama-supporting Democrats going after her for political reasons.
And oh, BTW, not everyone agrees that you have a right to see your Governor's or your President's work e-mail. There is the concept of executive privilege, that if people can't give an executive candid advice without seeing it posted in Wikileaks, they won't give it. So, you want Barack Obama or John McCain not to be able to get candid advice from their advisors after the election? You really think your political heroes - FDR, Lincoln, Ron Paul, whoever you worship - didn't say things privately that would make them look bad?
This fear that one's private thoughts and actions will be exposed to the public does not lead to better government. It leads to government officials (and future ones) playing it safe, not "thinking outside the box," not joining controversial groups like the ACLU or the Federalist Society, for fear their e-mails will be subpoenaed in some partisan show trial or Senate confirmation hearing.
I have a friend who I used to have fabulous political and legal talks with. But now he is a federal judge, and will no longer commit such thoughts to e-mail, for fear of having to answer to Joe Biden or Chuck Schumer in some future confirmation hearing. That's who we want running government: dumbed-down, play-it-safe, non-controversial thinkers out there, bland vanilla, risk-adverse, PC types. When we get Bush v. Kerry in an election, don't ask why better people don't run for office.
This is all a larger part of a problem Pat Buchanan has recently pinpointed: The criminalization of politics. Now anything a politico does is suddenly indictable. These activities used to be just rough politics as usual, but now they are criminal. Whether it's Watergate or Iran Contra or Lewinsky or firing US Attorneys or blowing intel on WMD (or did you forget the Cuban Missile Crisis?), all things presidents have always done. Now it's all impeachable or indictable or at least show trialable. And have we really gotten better government for it?
It's funny, Slashdotter's howl when, God forbid, an employer wants to read their work e-mail, test them for drugs, or judge them based on their Facebook page. But God forbid an executive wants some private, candid advice.
No, the taxpayers do not deserve bad things to happen to them because those they elect abuse the public trust any more than an abused wife deserves it for marrying the wrong guy. Not like the mayor ran on the platform of anti-First Amendment.
The one silver lining is that if she can prove retaliation, elected officials could lose their qualified immunity from suit, and could be liable personally (and in some cities, a showing of bad faith by an official does not require the city to pay his lawsuits).
Now there's a result we could both agree on.
City governments do not have printing presses to churn out $20 bills to pay off lawsuits. This is taxpayer money, and as one of those taxpayers sick of property tax assessments and hearing how broke my city is - and as someone who has helped defend such lawsuits for my local city attorney's office - I can tell you first hand that city governments are far too free wheeling with other people's money when it comes to paying off lawsuits. It really is disgusting how they will settle suits rather than stand up and fight and risk taking any political positions.
We've got enough fiscal problems without you throwing around other people's money like it is free.
These city politicos look like dipwads, but how does giving this woman a cash windfall at taxpayer expense hurt them? Take my word for it, the *taxpayer* money the average city pays out on junk lawsuits is the real rights being trampled daily.
We supported his illegal invasion of Iran and rejected his illegal invasion of Kuwait.
I love when liberals say this. SO WHICH ONE IS RIGHT GODDAMMIT? The cold-hearted realism of propping up dictators (JFK did that one) and arming both sides of the Iran-Iraq war, or rather, the idealistic, spreading of democracy of the current Iraq war?
Let me guess, you were against the pre-war sanctions as well, since all the libs (who claim Saddam was "contained" so we shouldn't have invaded) were actually against that at the time, claiming "humanitarian" reasons (as the Iraqis suffered while Saddam enjoyed the UN's brilliant Oil-for-Palaces Program, simultaneously cutting out the tongues of those who dared speak out against him, and raping daughters of dissidents in front of their parents, and throwing enemies off of roofs and into tree shredders feet first). LOL, humanitarian, the same libs who would have left Saddam in power to torture, mutilate, and murder his enemies.
You have to pick one of the above, not just be a baby and cross your arms and stomp your feet and shriek "see, you did different things!" So which one would you do? Pick a foreign policy.
Sounds like your choice is "do nothing," the standard UN policy on any evil in the world.
Amazing nobody has suggested cutting the friggin' tax. Funny how that is considered radical and crazy.
We took a stable, secular country and turned into a cesspit of religiously-motivated civil war.
Stable, because the Thomas Jeffersons and James Madisons of Iraq were thrown into tree shredders, feet first by Saddam. Yeah, one thing Iraq had was stability, except when Saddam was invading other countries like Iran or Kuwait.
Imposing democracy is tyranny. Period. Bush is a tyrant.
Yes, up is down, criticizing your country is patriotism, black is white, "imposing" democracy is evil. Got it. Absolute nonsense. Typical lefties, got it all backwards. How dare we "impose" democracy on Saddam, clearly the chosen government of the people of Iraq. Saddam took power by force you idiot. It's not like the Iraqis just handed power over to him for life. He was a dictator that ruled through terror, aka, a tyrant. We turned the country over to them, and now they can pick their own leaders, and speak freely without being tortured and murdered. But you prefer "stability." Easy for you to say, you humanitarian idealist, you.
Anyone who believes in "spreading" democracy is a tyrant.
Yeah, Saddam was the good guy, Bush is the tyrant. And Truman and Reagan were tyrants too. Anyone who lets the people choose their leaders is a tyrant, got it.
You can disagree with the war, fine. But when you start calling someone a "tyrant" because you disagree with them (as opposed to a dictator that rules by terror), you are a moonbat. Tell me someone as crazy as you is sterile. Please.
your kid's blood.
Hat tip: Moe Howard.
Ross Denton: Hello, hello, I'm Ross Denton, head of public relations for the Two Mile nuclear facility. First, I'd like to welcome all members off the press to Two Mile Island. I hope you enjoy your stay here and that you'll come back again real soon. Now, there will be box lunches at air cooling tower #1 after the briefing, and later the buses will take you back to the motel for a special screening of the Jane Fonda film, "Barbarella".
Male Reporter #1: What about the accident here at the plant?
Ross Denton: That what? Oh yes, yes, the accident. Uh, let me give you a little uh, technical, uh, background here. [ shows a diagram of a nuclear reactor pointing to nuclear energy, pointing to a toaster. ] This is a nuclear reactor. Now, the nuclear fuel here is used to generate energy here, which is sent to your homes to make toast.
Male Reporter #2: But what about the accident?
Ross Denton: I was getting to that. Sometime yesterday afternoon we experienced what we like to call a surprise. And, well, we had to release some radioactive steam.
Female Reporter #1: Well, how much radiation are we being exposed to right now?
Ross Denton: Well, I'm sure all of us here have been to the doctor and had our chest x-ray, haven't we? Well, it's just like that, only it's as if the doctor had to give you the chest x-ray over, and over, and over again. Or, it's like falling asleep under a sun lamp for a week or two! Or, it's like drying your hair in a microwave oven! And to give you some idea of how little danger there actually is, President Carter will be here tomorrow. Now, gentlemen, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yes, I'm sorry I have to cut this press conference short, but now I'd like to hand the stage over to the Two Mile players! They're a pro-nuclear mime troope, and they're going to perform a little skit for you, kids!
*** Ross Denton: Good afternoon, good afternoon, ladies and gentleman of the press. First, as to the president's condition, let me say that the president is feeling certainly "stronger" than he's ever felt. And he would like to be with us right here, in this room if he could. I think now I'll just open the door to questions-
Female Reporter #1: Yes, is it true that the president is 100 feet tall?
Ross Denton: Nooooo! Absolutely not!
Male reporter #3: Is the president 90 feet tall?
Ross Denton: No comment.
Mr. Hide-in-the-dark-and-read-Slashdot reminds me of this story: Red-Lace Nightie Portends Another Excruciating Night For Closeted
I thought the debate wasn't over on Slashdot whether the gas we all exhale - and plants "inhale" - is a pollutant that causes global warming.
Again, I'd like to see some empirical tests of these climate models before we recreate civilization as we know it. Which, of course, will take 1000's of years to prove right or wrong.
Should be concentrating on learning, say, the history of Western Civ or the ancients.
Now, I'm off for some more BF2.
Whether temps go up or down, you global warming experts are right. Is there *any* kind of temperature data that you will accept as actually disproving your theories? 2008 is the coldest year since 2000. How many years would it have to go down before you'd call it significant? I sure don't hear this "but it's only short-term change" argument after particularly hot years.
And the climate models are bullshit, since they have not been empirically tested (CO2 emissions have only occurred in significant numbers in the last 50 or so). As you have said yourself, temp change can only really be measured over hundreds or thousands of years. That means your models must be empirically tested (as all theories must be) over hundreds or thousands of years. So get back to me in 4008 after your models have been properly vetted.
We know CO2 soaks up heat and we know there's a lot of CO2 being released.
Well, we know that 2008 is the coldest year since 2000, despite the fact that there is more CO2 in the atmosphere now than there was in 2000. Shouldn't it be hotter, not cooler?
Unless, perhaps, global temperatures are caused by other variables?
For the sake of the country, the people responsible for these raids must be fired (and very possibly sent to prison) for this. This is utterly unacceptable.
Looks like your sweet, innocent protesters were planning some serious criminal shit:
Kidnapping, sabotage was part of anarchists' plan to disrupt convention.
So I'm sure you'll want them to go to prison.
I think of some of the gsmes I have paid good money for, some of which I beta tested, and I couldn't get in contact with anyone on the developmenbt team to give my ideas.
One company that just doesn't get it is Novalogic. Their Black Hawk Down franchise was groundbreaking and had some serious potential, but they just never solicited or even listened to feedback. A potentially great game with some easily-fixed flaws, but they just don't listen.
EA is the same way. All the cheating that still goes on with BF2, and they do nothing. Sad.
Before he has to kiss Bill Gates' ass.
$400 ? I'd love to see a link.
ebay.com, search for "Vapochill." Used ones go for about $400.
then you still have to gut your chassis to fit the ginormous cooling.
It's a small hole on the bottom of the case and I'm handy with a Dremel. If you want extreme cooling, you've gotta be willing to do some mods. It's a lot easier than making your rig liquid-tight and filling it with fluid! Then again, you can just leave the side of the case open if you don't want to cut your case.
Plus it's noisy as hell.
Vapochills are a lot quieter than the hairdriers they call fans on modern video cards. I have been using a (heavily modded) Vapochill in my bedroom as my main rig for three years. It has different fan settings, and the compressor is about as quiet as your minifridge's. Have you heard how noisy the fans are on some aftermarket heatsinks?
Now my custom, dual cascade, that's noisy.
It would require substantial improvements in both areas before ever being considered for general use in PCs.
Well I use one on my main rig, as do many people. Besides, the fans help drown out ambient noise and help me sleep. Seriously, on the low fan settings, it's as quiet as any air-cooled rig with a modern video card (I water cool my video cards since *that's* noise I can't handle.)
And get much better performance. All you need to cool on a PC for top performance is the CPU and the northbridge, maybe some of the voltage regulators, and the GPU if you want to overclock that.