An otherwise good response was ruined by your signature, which exhibits the same kind of meddling ignorance you just preached against. In your own words, "A person's life is there [sic] own." That life includes the parent poster's political affiliations....or are you too cowardly to live in a free country, where he can disagree with you.
No, it exhibits nothing of the sort. It's a question of self defense rather than any interest in deciding how others live their lives provided those lives aren't lived in aggression against me and my fellow citizens. Once that line is crossed as it was long ago then it's a completely different story.
Political affiliations have nothing to do with it. Declaring war against the constitution which is the foundation of my nation is part of the issue. Raping the bill of rights is part the issue. Attempting to amend the constitution for the first time in history to discriminate against a specific group out of blind ignorant hatred is part of the issue.
These aren't issues of political affiliation. They are the acts of traitors who despise the fundamental basis of this country and have actively declared war on it.
I suppose you promote a policy of appeasement? That works really well as we've seen throughout history.
Even if you are Christian, it actually states in Matthew (if I recall correctly) that people should not pray asking for anything. But since I'm atheist, I really don't care to seek the actual passage though I'm sure someone else will.
It actually states absolutely that you can pray for anything at all and it absolutely will be granted. Pray for a pony right now. If you don't get it, then Jesus was lying.
That's always one of those passages that the Christians say you hcan't take literally even though there is nothing at all to indicate that other than the simple fact that it doesn't work;-)
Any strict mathematical proof is based on the assumption that the axioms we use are correct. We choose to put our faith in those because they seem to work. We tried and they held. We tasted and they were good. Without trying or tasting we wouldn't know.
Not true.
The axioms are true because "we" decided that they should be. It's not a question of having faith in the axioms, it's a question of definition. Different axioms lead to different mathematics. i.e. incorporating Euclid's parallel conjecture leads to Standard Euclidian geometry. Rejecting it leads to different geometries.
Sometimes these choices are made based on what seems to match our observable world, sometimes they're made purely for aesthetic reasons. I.e. they make for "prettier" mathematics.
And how is that different from the other side wanting to prevent people from believing,
Nobody is making any attempts whatsoever to use the law against believers in any way.
to force gay marrige on a community,
This isn't happenning in any way. It turns out that the constitution doesn't allow this kind of discrimination and so a bunch of asshats jumped up to pass a bunch of discriminatory laws and are even attempting to amend the constitution because they are too cowardly to live in a free country.
to help assisted suicide?
A person's life is there own. It's again, as always, the other side trying to shove their morality on others. If I want to kill myself and want to get help doing it how could that possibly be any of your business? It isn't. Not in any way.
The only difference is which side you agree with.
Not at all. This is a blatantly false statement. The difference is that one side is consistently trying to limit other people's freedom because they are too cowardly to live in a free country.
If it's "your side" then it's good to force your ideas and beliefs on the community, if it's the "other side" then it's a bad thing.
There is a deep fundamental difference between choosing to live your life according to your own beliefs and forcing your beliefs on others. Every single example the OP gave was of cowards trying to shove their beliefs down other people's throats. Every nonsense counter example you made up is not happening in any way.
Nice try though.
If you want to believe some hokey retarded old nonsense, knock yourself out. If you don't want to marry somebody of the same sex, don't. If you want to uselessly suffer through a terminal illness draining your savings into the medical industry instead of leaving it to your family, that's your choice and nobody is saying otherwise.
Nobody is trying to force you into anything. They're only trying to prevent you from sticking your nose into their business. That's the only issue.
Sadly, that whole "Pyro-arsonist joins the local fire department thing" has happened so many times its a cliche. It's so common that when I joined a volunteer department I had to have a background check. I've heard of two cases in five years within 50 files. Apparently, Pyro's love firefighters too.
About overclocking and unlocking pipelines, they're quite different things. Overclocking means just upping the clock frequency. Unlocking pipelines usually involves flashing the BIOS, since it has to activate a piece of silicon that the normal BIOS disables.
I figured that was probably the case. Someone else posted that OCing would unlock pipelines. Seemed unlikely.
You probably also realize that, as in anything that's used for bragging rights and willy waving, there's a lot of creative exaggeration involved. While I like to think that most people won't outright lie, there's a lot of conveniently forgetting to mention inconvenient details. Such as that it does work at that frequency for 10 minutes in a benchmark, but it severely overheats after playing a game for 1-2 hours. Or that while in one game it may run perfectly well at that frequency, in another one it doesn't work at that frequency at all. Etc. I.e., take any numbers in such claims with a grain of salt.
Good advice as well. I OCd my Opteron, but only by 100MHz and just because the BIOS made it so easy. So far so stable.
I have a random question if you'd care to answer. My old computer had a 5500FX PCI 128MB. It worked fine for most things. Civ4 ran like crap on it. I ended up getting the same card but AGP and 256MB from a friend. That fixed all the problems. How much would you estimate was the VRAM, and how much was the PCI to AGP?
To illustrate the impact, switching to HDR rendering instead of FSAA actually raised frame rates in those areas with lots of grass. (But, allas, I can't play without FSAA any more.)
I do fully appreciate your response and all those big like.... word... thingies you used... Do you maybe have a retard enabled link to what you were saying;-)?
I'm not an expert gamer. I was saving up for..like..half my system before my work bought me what I have now;-)
To configure the way the grass is rendered you have to go into the oblivion.ini file and manually do the changes, and yes, it will significantly affect performance - even on a high-end rig.
Oh Jebus, the pink..it hurts Right, look at the keyboard while you type...
Everything I said before was based solely upon the GUI config settings. I read some later posts here and will check your link.
At the end, the game suggests in a clever fashion what class might be well-suited for you based on your actions up to that point.
I don't know that it has much if anything to do with your actions. I fired one arrow the entire time and that was when the tutorial told me to. Class recommendation? Archer. My skills might have been aligned that way, but not my actions.
As someone who actually has Oblivion and a pretty high end system, including a 7800 GTX, I can also tell you why: because us with high-end bastards pull the graphics details sliders to the max, while those low-end guys know how to be sane and tweak it.
I only have a 6800GT and max settings; everything works smoothly with no slowdown. Opteron 175, XP-64 edition, 2GB RAM.
Too bad it doesn't support my operating system. I have some awesome hardware on my linux box, as well.
It installs and runs under Cedega. When you try to start a new game it loads 100% and then locks. It's a big priority for them to get it running, so hopefully it won't be long. Civ4 only took them a few weeks and it works perfectly for me.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination" (Leviticus 18:22).
Your Levitical sig, makes you look like an ignorant, religiously crazed, fool who is probably terrified deep down that he may be gay. You are, of course, free to be any or all of those things, but of them I personally think gay is the more honorable and respectable by far.
Heh, and in the context he has it it also seems to ban everything but hot lesbo action since the women can't do men either.
Sincerely, also an abomination but not for the same reasons;-)
3. It's interesting to hear that you wouldn't sleep with a woman until you've married her. May I take it you don't test-drive cars until after you've purchased them?
While I get what you're saying, you should really try to think of an analogy which does not include the word "purchase" in it...
So, when I get swordfish steak, can I assume that man's ability to perform genetic engineering has now grown so great that bovine gill structures exist?
Well either that, or bullfighting is about to get way more interesting;-)
I'm not a "taxation is theft" anarchocapitalist, but I do not lean on the left with anything.
I think you make some very good points all in all. Obviously, it's not for me to tell you what you think, but I'm suspecting you're not entirely clear on what the left is if you don't think you lean that way on anything. Heck, here's a pretty simple example that shows that most people have some left leanings:
Do you think it was a good idea to outlaw slavery? If so, you're on the left on that issue.
I'm for the most part a classical Liberal with moderate left-leanings. I have moderate left leanings largely for the exact reasons that you gave for having issues with the Libertarian Party and the anarcho-capitalists. I feel that there is some need in some circumstances for the government to keep the field level. That's left by definition. Being on the right means that you think the government should be used to slant the field farther against the weakest. Being in the middle, i.e. a pure classical Liberal with no leanings whatsoever to either side is close to what the anarcho-capitalists/Libertarians are.
I suspect you're far more toward the left than you think although nowhere near being an extremist on that side in any way. Every argument you made against the LP And the ACs (heh) was an argument purely from the left.
They're there now. This one is just too awesome. I hope you got a mention in the credits for Carmageddon. That was clearly a direct ripoff with some fancied up graphics;-)
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An otherwise good response was ruined by your signature, which exhibits the same kind of meddling ignorance you just preached against. In your own words, "A person's life is there [sic] own." That life includes the parent poster's political affiliations. ...or are you too cowardly to live in a free country, where he can disagree with you.
No, it exhibits nothing of the sort. It's a question of self defense rather than any interest in deciding how others live their lives provided those lives aren't lived in aggression against me and my fellow citizens. Once that line is crossed as it was long ago then it's a completely different story.
Political affiliations have nothing to do with it. Declaring war against the constitution which is the foundation of my nation is part of the issue.
Raping the bill of rights is part the issue.
Attempting to amend the constitution for the first time in history to discriminate against a specific group out of blind ignorant hatred is part of the issue.
These aren't issues of political affiliation. They are the acts of traitors who despise the fundamental basis of this country and have actively declared war on it.
I suppose you promote a policy of appeasement? That works really well as we've seen throughout history.
You assume I play the Americans in Civ.
Doh! Right, you could have conquered it. My bad.
If we assume that G_d angers when you pray to 'Him' with a different name, we must assume a Saddist G_d.
;-)
If you don't know for a fact that he's a sadist, you haven't read the bible
Even if you are Christian, it actually states in Matthew (if I recall correctly) that people should not pray asking for anything. But since I'm atheist, I really don't care to seek the actual passage though I'm sure someone else will.
;-)
It actually states absolutely that you can pray for anything at all and it absolutely will be granted.
Pray for a pony right now. If you don't get it, then Jesus was lying.
That's always one of those passages that the Christians say you hcan't take literally even though there is nothing at all to indicate that other than the simple fact that it doesn't work
Any strict mathematical proof is based on the assumption that the axioms we use are correct. We choose to put our faith in those because they seem to work. We tried and they held. We tasted and they were good. Without trying or tasting we wouldn't know.
Not true.
The axioms are true because "we" decided that they should be. It's not a question of having faith in the axioms, it's a question of definition. Different axioms lead to different mathematics.
i.e. incorporating Euclid's parallel conjecture leads to Standard Euclidian geometry. Rejecting it leads to different geometries.
Sometimes these choices are made based on what seems to match our observable world, sometimes they're made purely for aesthetic reasons. I.e. they make for "prettier" mathematics.
And how is that different from the other side wanting to prevent people from believing,
Nobody is making any attempts whatsoever to use the law against believers in any way.
to force gay marrige on a community,
This isn't happenning in any way. It turns out that the constitution doesn't allow this kind of discrimination and so a bunch of asshats jumped up to pass a bunch of discriminatory laws and are even attempting to amend the constitution because they are too cowardly to live in a free country.
to help assisted suicide?
A person's life is there own. It's again, as always, the other side trying to shove their morality on others. If I want to kill myself and want to get help doing it how could that possibly be any of your business? It isn't. Not in any way.
The only difference is which side you agree with.
Not at all. This is a blatantly false statement. The difference is that one side is consistently trying to limit other people's freedom because they are too cowardly to live in a free country.
If it's "your side" then it's good to force your ideas and beliefs on the community, if it's the "other side" then it's a bad thing.
There is a deep fundamental difference between choosing to live your life according to your own beliefs and forcing your beliefs on others. Every single example the OP gave was of cowards trying to shove their beliefs down other people's throats. Every nonsense counter example you made up is not happening in any way.
Nice try though.
If you want to believe some hokey retarded old nonsense, knock yourself out.
If you don't want to marry somebody of the same sex, don't.
If you want to uselessly suffer through a terminal illness draining your savings into the medical industry instead of leaving it to your family, that's your choice and nobody is saying otherwise.
Nobody is trying to force you into anything. They're only trying to prevent you from sticking your nose into their business. That's the only issue.
Sadly, that whole "Pyro-arsonist joins the local fire department thing" has happened so many times its a cliche. It's so common that when I joined a volunteer department I had to have a background check. I've heard of two cases in five years within 50 files. Apparently, Pyro's love firefighters too.
Oh Jebus, that really sucks, dude.
Well, I may be a geek, but I'm also a firefighter. EVERYONE loves firefighters. 'nuff said.
;-)
Well, not pyromaniacs. They probably don't like you at all. Other than that though, yes, everybody loves firefighters
About overclocking and unlocking pipelines, they're quite different things. Overclocking means just upping the clock frequency. Unlocking pipelines usually involves flashing the BIOS, since it has to activate a piece of silicon that the normal BIOS disables.
I figured that was probably the case. Someone else posted that OCing would unlock pipelines. Seemed unlikely.
You probably also realize that, as in anything that's used for bragging rights and willy waving, there's a lot of creative exaggeration involved. While I like to think that most people won't outright lie, there's a lot of conveniently forgetting to mention inconvenient details. Such as that it does work at that frequency for 10 minutes in a benchmark, but it severely overheats after playing a game for 1-2 hours. Or that while in one game it may run perfectly well at that frequency, in another one it doesn't work at that frequency at all. Etc. I.e., take any numbers in such claims with a grain of salt.
Good advice as well.
I OCd my Opteron, but only by 100MHz and just because the BIOS made it so easy. So far so stable.
I have a random question if you'd care to answer.
My old computer had a 5500FX PCI 128MB. It worked fine for most things. Civ4 ran like crap on it. I ended up getting the same card but AGP and 256MB from a friend.
That fixed all the problems.
How much would you estimate was the VRAM, and how much was the PCI to AGP?
Even more good knowledge I appreciate!
Feel free to point me to TFM I should R but as long as you're willing I'll keep asking.
I knew in general terms what FSAA meant, but HDR is new to me. Why are they mutually exclusive?
Also, somebody else here said that you could open up pipelines by OCing a 6800 is it that simple?
Besides, we all run our system clocks on UTC here don't we?
/etc/localtime. Too late for that now ;-)
Of course, but that's why we have
To illustrate the impact, switching to HDR rendering instead of FSAA actually raised frame rates in those areas with lots of grass. (But, allas, I can't play without FSAA any more.)
.... word... thingies you used... ;-)?
;-)
I do fully appreciate your response and all those big like
Do you maybe have a retard enabled link to what you were saying
I'm not an expert gamer. I was saving up for..like..half my system before my work bought me what I have now
To configure the way the grass is rendered you have to go into the oblivion.ini file and manually do the changes, and yes, it will significantly affect performance - even on a high-end rig.
;-)
Oh Jebus, the pink..it hurts
Right, look at the keyboard while you type...
Everything I said before was based solely upon the GUI config settings. I read some later posts here and will check your link.
Thanks for making me feel less cool
Deer don't attack you in the forest, they run away.
;-)
So do horses if you beat on them long enough
At the end, the game suggests in a clever fashion what class might be well-suited for you based on your actions up to that point.
I don't know that it has much if anything to do with your actions.
I fired one arrow the entire time and that was when the tutorial told me to. Class recommendation? Archer.
My skills might have been aligned that way, but not my actions.
As someone who actually has Oblivion and a pretty high end system, including a 7800 GTX, I can also tell you why: because us with high-end bastards pull the graphics details sliders to the max, while those low-end guys know
how to be sane and tweak it.
I only have a 6800GT and max settings; everything works smoothly with no slowdown. Opteron 175, XP-64 edition, 2GB RAM.
I don't know, every time I save the game then click the "Exit to Desktop", I get a Windows error report prompting me to send the info along.
I get this too, every time. I haven't experienced any other problems.
Too bad it doesn't support my operating system. I have some awesome hardware on my linux box, as well.
It installs and runs under Cedega. When you try to start a new game it loads 100% and then locks. It's a big priority for them to get it running, so hopefully it won't be long. Civ4 only took them a few weeks and it works perfectly for me.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination" (Leviticus 18:22).
;-)
Your Levitical sig, makes you look like an ignorant, religiously crazed, fool who is probably terrified deep down that he may be gay. You are, of course, free to be any or all of those things, but of them I personally think gay is the more honorable and respectable by far.
Heh, and in the context he has it it also seems to ban everything but hot lesbo action since the women can't do men either.
Sincerely, also an abomination but not for the same reasons
3. It's interesting to hear that you wouldn't sleep with a woman until you've married her. May I take it you don't test-drive cars until after you've purchased them?
While I get what you're saying, you should really try to think of an analogy which does not include the word "purchase" in it...
You'd prefer maybe, "driven them off the lot?"
The level of corruption in washington is high! Maybe we should build a Forbidden Palace...
Won't help. Washington is already the capital.
So, when I get swordfish steak, can I assume that man's ability to perform genetic engineering has now grown so great that bovine gill structures exist?
;-)
Well either that, or bullfighting is about to get way more interesting
I'm not a "taxation is theft" anarchocapitalist, but I do not lean on the left with anything.
I think you make some very good points all in all. Obviously, it's not for me to tell you what you think, but I'm suspecting you're not entirely clear on what the left is if you don't think you lean that way on anything.
Heck, here's a pretty simple example that shows that most people have some left leanings:
Do you think it was a good idea to outlaw slavery? If so, you're on the left on that issue.
I'm for the most part a classical Liberal with moderate left-leanings. I have moderate left leanings largely for the exact reasons that you gave for having issues with the Libertarian Party and the anarcho-capitalists. I feel that there is some need in some circumstances for the government to keep the field level. That's left by definition. Being on the right means that you think the government should be used to slant the field farther against the weakest.
Being in the middle, i.e. a pure classical Liberal with no leanings whatsoever to either side is close to what the anarcho-capitalists/Libertarians are.
I suspect you're far more toward the left than you think although nowhere near being an extremist on that side in any way. Every argument you made against the LP And the ACs (heh) was an argument purely from the left.
They're there now. ;-)
This one is just too awesome. I hope you got a mention in the credits for Carmageddon. That was clearly a direct ripoff with some fancied up graphics
But do the 'useful fools' who are protesting really know? I doubt it.
In fact, a lot of them do. Those are exactly the ones who will not be interviewed about the protest.