I can relate Blue. I've just had to shell out £500 for a new base unit after frying my PSU and corrupting the Boot Sector of my new 180Gb HDD whilst installing a new CPU.

So I now have a dead:
- Athlon XP 3200+
- 180 Gb 7200rpm 8Mb Hitachi HDD
- ASUS A7N8X mobo
- Antec 430W truepower PSU

Which smells much like you described...

I've just had to shell out £500 for a new base unit after frying my PSU and corrupting the Boot Sector of my new 180Gb HDD whilst installing a new CPU.

Ouch, that had to suck. Worst I ever did was fry a P100 & mobo. Mind you, that was the state of the art at the time.

My old tv, one day it started behaving very oddly... when the on-screen display was showing (any amount of it, even just the time or channel) it was fine, but as soon as that 'layer' was gone, my entire screen except for a 1 inch border around the edges, would be completely black. I could use it for watching DVDs, but for regular tv, it was out of commission. Very strange.

As for Deadwood, last week's episode was quite, uh, revealing about our buddy Al Swearengen. I was reading about the show the past week and discovered that the guy who plays Al, Ian McShane, is over 60! That guy looks like he's going to live forever.

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COMON ENGLAND!!!

Only a few more hours to wait now..



I predict a 1-0 England with Scholes the scorer.

Any other predictions?

:p

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I give it 22-0, all in Frances corner.

Ok, So I do not watch football/soccer, and I am just being an ass



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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040621-650695,00.html

I got chills when reading this part...

"We love the idea," says Tim Anderson, an executive director of the Minneapolis?St. Paul International Airport. "It helps move us away from treating everyone the same and searching for the needle in the haystack."

Umm...I thuoght the whole idea of this country was to treat everyone the same...



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Wow, a 1-0 game! I'm sure you're in for hours of excitement!

Blue, if you can't tivo deadwood you can always grab the torrent. I believe I see the newest Deadwood episodes pop up on supr late sunday night. I haven't actually watched Deadwood yet though.

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BAH! flewt madness. i sez keep the game! well if it must be sold, i hope someone who will appreciate it buys it. surely some uber l33t blues regular will not let this pass up two of my most treasured games: radiant silvergun and panzer dragoon saga.

"Croc under car"

It was a gator, not a croc.

Hey Blue, if you feel adventurous you might want to invest in a Hauppage video card and set up a machine with MythTV as a homemade digital recorder.

A Tivo-like unit from our local digital TV provider is 500 bucks for two years, so I'd rather use my extra machine to build one, and spend the 160US on a decent card.

Umm...I thuoght the whole idea of this country was to treat everyone the same...

Yeah, but in this case treating everyone the same means treating everyone like a potential terrorist.

As someone who's had this kind of background check to work at a nuclear reservation I've always thought something like this would be a good idea but thought the cost would be prohibitive. If I traveled a lot and the fee wasn't too steep I would do this in a second.

Now I'm not advocating mandatory background checks, I'm just saying that an option like this that might lead to a "fast lane" through airports (if, in fact, that were really possible) would be something I'd be for.





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I predict a 1-0 England with Scholes the scorer.
Can I have some of what your smoking

Seriously I am all for being confident but all this hysteria over the France game is getting out of control. Just look at the French Midfield and Forwards, for god sake. They probably have the best Midfield in Europe at the moment and one of the best strikers in the world.
Look the England centre backs King and Campbell, they have no pace and Henry is going run rings round them, Also look at who England has in goal

I predict 2-1 to France

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Yeah, well, I predict 42-1-2 Autralia because the Aussies are the toughest motherfuckers on the planet.

Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, "Whoops! Where'd my job go?" I QUIT.

Yeah, but in this case treating everyone the same means treating everyone like a potential terrorist.

But isn't that the only way we're going to catch those guys?

I think it might also create an "us vs. them" mentality between normal US citizens. You'd have those who willingly agreed to share their information with the government (AND pay a yearly fee) and those that chose not to.

And why wouldn't you (not you in particular, but any traveler) share everything with the government? Do you have something to hide? If you don't sing up, you might be a terrorist. Tell grandma she better take her shoes and jacket off, and prepair to have her bags searched. She didn't sign up, so she must have SOMETHING to hide.

The moment we start lumping average people into certain groups ("This guy signed up, so he's probably ok. But that guy in the other line? He looks shifty."), it becomes a very slippery slope...

And guess what Joe Terrorist is going to do? In order to get his wares onto the plane, he's either going to sign up with false information and slip through (in YOUR line, no less!), or he's going to figure out how to falsify the id cards and slip through (in YOUR line again!)...if he has a choice between a high security line and a medium security line, guess which one he's going to want to try and get in?


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The moment we start lumping average people into certain groups ("This guy signed up, so he's probably ok. But that guy in the other line? He looks shifty."), it becomes a very slippery slope...

This isn't just a case of "signing up", these background checks are very thorough - and yes, you'd better not have anything to hide if you choose to have this done.

I think it might also create an "us vs. them" mentality between normal US citizens. You'd have those who willingly agreed to share their information with the government (AND pay a yearly fee) and those that chose not to.

Another thing you have to consider is that this isn't new, there are probably tens of thousands of occupations that already require background checks like these and I for one am glad of it. Think of all the people who work in nuclear plants, labs, and other potential disaster sites who have to be as trustworthy as possible.

And guess what Joe Terrorist is going to do? In order to get his wares onto the plane, he's either going to sign up with false information and slip through (in YOUR line, no less!), or he's going to figure out how to falsify the id cards and slip through (in YOUR line again!)...if he has a choice between a high security line and a medium security line, guess which one he's going to want to try and get in?

There's not really any such thing as "signing up with false information", I mean you could, but when you give them everything you have right down to your birth certificate they then assume it's all false anyway and start digging. These things can take weeks - just for one person - and that's why I still think the cost would be quite high to have this done. This is also why I wouldn't think everyone would be expected, or even wanted, to sign up to have this done.


In the end, what does it matter anyway? So I get on the plane first... the thing still isn't taking off until they finish strip searching you and grandma anyway.


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What is this "game" supposed to do?

What is this "game" supposed to do?

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..Well, in the first screen, you have to quickly grow fruit on the cactus, which gets the turtle's attention causing it to move up, revealing what becomes a hot-air balloon...

The second screen has me totally stumped though.. anyone got a hint?

Haha, what second screen? I can't even get the first screen to do anything.

Ok, finished it now -- pretty cool little game (would it have killed them to add co-op though?)! There's a secret-text hint in my previous post about solving the first screen -- It's your usual adventure game pixel-hunt, so whenever your cursor becomes a hand, you can do something..

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god damn french.

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MeatFarts,
You may have to go a bit Sam Fisher on the 2nd screen. Look to moving one of the characters around the tree and clicking everything on the left side of the screen to get a better idea of what works.

There are only 3 screens... But sadly, I enjoyed it.