There are ALOT more games out there than on that list. And trying to get a game working on Cedega (that was Transgaming right?) was an experience I'd rather have done without. Endless frustration, and why? Just install it on Windows, and it works. With linux, hours of time wasted and not even getting it to work. I even paid for transgaming support.
Linux isn't ready for MOST user's desktops, sorry. I wish the zealots could accept it.
It actually wasn't the gaming aspect that caused me to switch back. It was the KDE environment, which over time, became quite a bit more flaky. Windows XP on the other hand, has gotten more and more stable.
No, they didn't take care of it very well, because it only happened because of a lot of yelling and threat of a lawsuit.
What the contract said doesn't really matter, because they signed it in bad faith, by insisting it would be ready by a certain date when they KNEW AT THAT TIME IT COULD NOT BE. We told them repeatedly we would wait if they couldn't get the countertop in there on time.
But feel free to continue to shop there if you think that's a good experience; hopefully you won't have the joy of tying to cook christmas dinner without ANY countertop at all.
The 'content' included a link, which said America would be in Civil War 2 starting in 2004 - 2008. My reply was that 'no, the events aren't suprisingly like those in the link.'
Big part about not allowing gay marriage is there would be an istant boom of loads and loads of gay weddings for months, in celebration, creating an increase in demand for healthcare and other benefits given to married couples. These programs were not built with the projected hundreds of thousands of 'instant' gay marriages in mind, and its not a good time for us to be experimenting (pun intended!).
This is the biggest load of shit I've ever read. Gays are a minority, their impact would be negligible. And FWIW, you DO have to pay for healthcare. Its not different that if there was a sudden upswing in heterosexual marrages. What difference does it really make if two people are insured under the same policy or seperate ones?
Exactly, and the reason is to protect minorities from the whims of the majority. The fact that a gay marriage ban is supported by a majority is SUPPOSED to be irrelevent.
I don't prefer he follow the mininority, I prefer he stop trying to take their rights from them.
Also, he banned any funding on fetal stem cell research which didn't use the existing lines; those lines have proven to be mostly useless now because of contamination, and he STILL refuses to allow funding.
His opening of funding for current lines is a token measure at best. Federal funding should be allowed on stem cells, period.
Until Bush, we were well on our way to removing some purely Christian values from the law. Under Bush, we have some of the most strict FCC requirements, impedment to science, gay marriage ban amendments being thrown around. That is, we seem to now be stepping backwards, where before Bush we were moving forward.
While it is possible for AIDS/HIV to spread through non-sexual contact, are you seriously suggesting it would be a world-wide health issue of this magnitude if you could only get it through, say, blood transfusion.
No, I was saying that there are OTHER diseases, such as flu, ebola, smallpox, malaria, etc. that spread just fine without needing use to have sex to do so. I wasn't talking about HIV for the statement to which you are responding.
The Catholic church doesn't understand basic human needs. You may as well try a rabbit (or any other sexual creature) to not have sex. Think it would work? No, it won't, because the church tries to pretend we are something more than we really are.
The fact is if the pope hadn't said condom use was unacceptable, many of the people in Africa would have used condoms, and we wouldn't have the spread of AIDS.
My problem with the church is that it brainwashes people into thinking some of our most basic needs are evil, and then turns around and says NOT to be safe KNOWING that people will have sex and it will help spread a lethal disease.
Lets not forget the Catholic church is THE richest entity in the world; do you know how much land, goal, etc. it owns. If there ever was a waste of money, its building yet another church, yet another statue of some guy on a cross, and trying to keep pedofiles hidden within their ranks. What a great use of money that organization makes.
Well, you really don't have to worry. If you call MS, they'll likely give you a different product key. If you really did end up buying pirated software, they'll give you a free license if you turn in the company you bought the computer from.
In the end, you could always file a suit, but don't join a class action. That way MS will likely not even send a lawyer, you'll win, and get money out of them.
Yes, it is, just like people do what its Walmart, Home Depot or other large store that likes to stick poles up your ass.
I bought a countertop / cabinets from the Home Depot; long story short, they lied outright telling us how quickly everything could be done (knowing the countertop people were 2 MONTHS behind on orders). We ended up getting corporate involved and not only did they refund use fully for the countertop (we installed the cabinets ourselves) they gave us EXTRA to be able to go to another place. We didn't get it in time for Christmas, but the local company knew exactly when they'd be able to get the counter installed.
While we were in the store waiting for the reversal on the credit card, we told our story to a contractor. We said we'd never be back; he said, well, thats just how it is nowadays, you'll be back. We haven't been.
No, since a war implies people killing each other on a massive scale, which hasn't happened in the US (nor is it likely to, I don't know of many people wanting to start shooting yet).
althought it wouldn't suprise me if Bush lead America to destruction..
Indeed, which is why he clings to his belief about some entity in the clouds that loves us and gave us free will, but will burn us for eternity if we don't do everything he tells us.
Calling the wiretaps illegal is just fact. Here's a quick lesson; the government, in investigating ANY crime, may not perform a search (which is what a wiretap is) without a warrant. The NSA doesn't have a warrant, therefore the wiretaps are in violation of the law. An investigation will just tell us how widespread these illegal actions have become, since I believe the President already admitted that he was doing warrantless wiretaps on American citizens.
Its suprising because it goes against the idea of checks and balances. Not that Bush has any respect for the Constitution at all; he's more included to setup a Christian run state than anything else.
Turning the device off IS a function of the device. Just about every other electrical device has an on / off switch, especially if it has batteries. People have learned to turn off the device to save battery. In fact, I'd rather shut it off then let it run for another few minutes, which are just wasting battery life.
Prior to 1996, RPGs were niche titles outside of Japan anyhow.
Um, way wrong. Everyone it seemed was waiting for FF2 to come out. Dragon Warrior and FF1 on the NES were pretty popular as well. I'm sure there are others, but its been so long since I played any NES game, I've forgotten other examples.
the obvious solution the spread of AIDS does seem to be "stop having sex outside of marriage"
No, the obvious solution is to use condoms, but the idiot Catholic church said condom use is Evil(tm), and the desperate people listening to the church followed. The result is that HIV is spreading like wildfire all over Africa and some parts of Asia.
Its amazing to me that we'll have people use disease to back up thier so-called morals, nevermind the fact that most disease spreads other ways besides through sexual contact.
America is the biggest convenience-led culture in global history. Just look at the obesity levels compared to the rest of the world.
Is it? That doesn't explain why obesity levels are rising at an alarming rate in other Western countries too (and many non-Western countries as well), such as Australia. Google for world wide obesity and you'll see.
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There are ALOT more games out there than on that list. And trying to get a game working on Cedega (that was Transgaming right?) was an experience I'd rather have done without. Endless frustration, and why? Just install it on Windows, and it works. With linux, hours of time wasted and not even getting it to work. I even paid for transgaming support.
Linux isn't ready for MOST user's desktops, sorry. I wish the zealots could accept it.
It actually wasn't the gaming aspect that caused me to switch back. It was the KDE environment, which over time, became quite a bit more flaky. Windows XP on the other hand, has gotten more and more stable.
Fine, go install Linux on all your families computers, and then leave it at that. See what happens when they want a program that only runs on Windows.
No, they didn't take care of it very well, because it only happened because of a lot of yelling and threat of a lawsuit.
What the contract said doesn't really matter, because they signed it in bad faith, by insisting it would be ready by a certain date when they KNEW AT THAT TIME IT COULD NOT BE. We told them repeatedly we would wait if they couldn't get the countertop in there on time.
But feel free to continue to shop there if you think that's a good experience; hopefully you won't have the joy of tying to cook christmas dinner without ANY countertop at all.
The 'content' included a link, which said America would be in Civil War 2 starting in 2004 - 2008. My reply was that 'no, the events aren't suprisingly like those in the link.'
Supporting passage please?
Big part about not allowing gay marriage is there would be an istant boom of loads and loads of gay weddings for months, in celebration, creating an increase in demand for healthcare and other benefits given to married couples. These programs were not built with the projected hundreds of thousands of 'instant' gay marriages in mind, and its not a good time for us to be experimenting (pun intended!).
This is the biggest load of shit I've ever read. Gays are a minority, their impact would be negligible. And FWIW, you DO have to pay for healthcare. Its not different that if there was a sudden upswing in heterosexual marrages. What difference does it really make if two people are insured under the same policy or seperate ones?
Frankly (and unfortunately) homosexuality will always be a fringe cause
I don't believe this to be true; homosexuality was pretty common in ancient rome, for example.
We do live in a representative republic
Exactly, and the reason is to protect minorities from the whims of the majority. The fact that a gay marriage ban is supported by a majority is SUPPOSED to be irrelevent.
I don't prefer he follow the mininority, I prefer he stop trying to take their rights from them.
Also, he banned any funding on fetal stem cell research which didn't use the existing lines; those lines have proven to be mostly useless now because of contamination, and he STILL refuses to allow funding.
His opening of funding for current lines is a token measure at best. Federal funding should be allowed on stem cells, period.
Until Bush, we were well on our way to removing some purely Christian values from the law. Under Bush, we have some of the most strict FCC requirements, impedment to science, gay marriage ban amendments being thrown around. That is, we seem to now be stepping backwards, where before Bush we were moving forward.
While it is possible for AIDS/HIV to spread through non-sexual contact, are you seriously suggesting it would be a world-wide health issue of this magnitude if you could only get it through, say, blood transfusion.
No, I was saying that there are OTHER diseases, such as flu, ebola, smallpox, malaria, etc. that spread just fine without needing use to have sex to do so. I wasn't talking about HIV for the statement to which you are responding.
The Catholic church doesn't understand basic human needs. You may as well try a rabbit (or any other sexual creature) to not have sex. Think it would work? No, it won't, because the church tries to pretend we are something more than we really are.
The fact is if the pope hadn't said condom use was unacceptable, many of the people in Africa would have used condoms, and we wouldn't have the spread of AIDS.
My problem with the church is that it brainwashes people into thinking some of our most basic needs are evil, and then turns around and says NOT to be safe KNOWING that people will have sex and it will help spread a lethal disease.
Lets not forget the Catholic church is THE richest entity in the world; do you know how much land, goal, etc. it owns. If there ever was a waste of money, its building yet another church, yet another statue of some guy on a cross, and trying to keep pedofiles hidden within their ranks. What a great use of money that organization makes.
Please explain how that is Americas fault, if the people of YOUR country decide they'd rather eat at McDs.
And if the McDs work like they do here, they are actually OWNED by your countrymen, and pay franchising fees for use of the logo etc.
Please, I've tried Linux on the desktop, its no where close to 'being there' as an average user desktop OS. Especially if you're a gamer.
Well, you really don't have to worry. If you call MS, they'll likely give you a different product key. If you really did end up buying pirated software, they'll give you a free license if you turn in the company you bought the computer from.
In the end, you could always file a suit, but don't join a class action. That way MS will likely not even send a lawyer, you'll win, and get money out of them.
Yes, it is, just like people do what its Walmart, Home Depot or other large store that likes to stick poles up your ass.
I bought a countertop / cabinets from the Home Depot; long story short, they lied outright telling us how quickly everything could be done (knowing the countertop people were 2 MONTHS behind on orders). We ended up getting corporate involved and not only did they refund use fully for the countertop (we installed the cabinets ourselves) they gave us EXTRA to be able to go to another place. We didn't get it in time for Christmas, but the local company knew exactly when they'd be able to get the counter installed.
While we were in the store waiting for the reversal on the credit card, we told our story to a contractor. We said we'd never be back; he said, well, thats just how it is nowadays, you'll be back. We haven't been.
No, since a war implies people killing each other on a massive scale, which hasn't happened in the US (nor is it likely to, I don't know of many people wanting to start shooting yet).
althought it wouldn't suprise me if Bush lead America to destruction..
Indeed, which is why he clings to his belief about some entity in the clouds that loves us and gave us free will, but will burn us for eternity if we don't do everything he tells us.
Calling the wiretaps illegal is just fact. Here's a quick lesson; the government, in investigating ANY crime, may not perform a search (which is what a wiretap is) without a warrant. The NSA doesn't have a warrant, therefore the wiretaps are in violation of the law. An investigation will just tell us how widespread these illegal actions have become, since I believe the President already admitted that he was doing warrantless wiretaps on American citizens.
Its suprising because it goes against the idea of checks and balances. Not that Bush has any respect for the Constitution at all; he's more included to setup a Christian run state than anything else.
No, only Congress could do that, and they have to do it when they feel it needs to be done, there's no need to wait until later.
Turning the device off IS a function of the device. Just about every other electrical device has an on / off switch, especially if it has batteries. People have learned to turn off the device to save battery. In fact, I'd rather shut it off then let it run for another few minutes, which are just wasting battery life.
Prior to 1996, RPGs were niche titles outside of Japan anyhow.
Um, way wrong. Everyone it seemed was waiting for FF2 to come out. Dragon Warrior and FF1 on the NES were pretty popular as well. I'm sure there are others, but its been so long since I played any NES game, I've forgotten other examples.
the obvious solution the spread of AIDS does seem to be "stop having sex outside of marriage"
No, the obvious solution is to use condoms, but the idiot Catholic church said condom use is Evil(tm), and the desperate people listening to the church followed. The result is that HIV is spreading like wildfire all over Africa and some parts of Asia.
Its amazing to me that we'll have people use disease to back up thier so-called morals, nevermind the fact that most disease spreads other ways besides through sexual contact.
America is the biggest convenience-led culture in global history. Just look at the obesity levels compared to the rest of the world.
Is it? That doesn't explain why obesity levels are rising at an alarming rate in other Western countries too (and many non-Western countries as well), such as Australia. Google for world wide obesity and you'll see.