NickTheGrip

Ferret "I want to see plans", "I want to see actions". See, that's what I'm talking about.... that's the POINT. You just don't get it. Your perspective is that the Federal government should be in charge of everything, should utterly CONTROL everything and everyone. That just isn't the way it works in America. Government is ***NOT*** "the boss", the people are. The Federal gov't has strictly limited powers, the STATES have the rest. I understand that may not be your cultural background or how you were raised & educated..... but that being the case, your frame of reference disallows you from understanding. There's certainly nothing wrong with that, but without stepping back and re-examining the factual basis of your understanding of American gov't, it's a moot point to even argue about it. It's like trying to explain what hot, dry, desert sand is like.... to a fish on the bottom of a deep arctic ocean. I'll respectfully try one more time, and that's it. The Constitution of the United States gives a VERY strict and limited role/authority to the Federal Gov't. It is basically granted powers to provide for the common defense, protect our sovereignty, negotiate foreign treaties, mint currency, oversee the states' adherence to the Constitution, and to collect taxes. And that is really about it. Everything else... EVERYTHING ELSE - falls back to the states. 10th Amendment says CLEARLY: (quote) "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Our country is NOT based on a monarchy, dictatorship, a Politburo, communism, socialism, plutocracy, oligarchy, theocracy, or tribalism.... it is based on Federalism - which means it is a collection of individual states, in which the Federal gov't has strictly limited powers, and ALL other powers fall back to the individual STATES and the people. Which means the Federal gov't does **NOT** have the Constitutional authority to tell me which cars I can/ can't drive, what foods I can/can't eat, how much electricity or gas I can/can't use, where I can/can't live, what kind of light bulbs I am allowed to own, force me to buy health insurance, and ten thousand other restrictions that they have NO authority to do. Now arguably, states CAN do most of these things. But what is inarguable, is that the Fedreal gov't can NOT. Individual states are much more under the direct control of the voters, which is WHY such things are allotted to the states - again, reference the 10th Amendment's crystal clear words. The Federal gov't/ Washington DC is basically now 100% controlled by lobbyists, a heavily biased media, immensely wealthy power-brokers, and obedient slavish bureaucrats. Washington DC is a sewer of corruption and lies, and it is tearing the country to shreds. If you put that much power & money into the hands of so few, that's what happens EVERY TIME. Unfortunately, that is human nature. Which is EXACTLY why the Constitution was written the way it was. Yep, those Founding Fathers knew EXACTLY what they were doing, when they wrote the Constitution the very specific way they did. Our point is, that the Federal gov't has WAY superceded it's specifically granted Constitutional powers. The VERY FIRST sentence in the body of the United States Constitution states clearly: (and I QUOTE) "ALL legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives." (unquote) Yet we currently have well over a HUNDRED Federal agencies that..... wait for it..... MAKE FEDERAL LAW. Federal laws that are made/enforced by *un-elected* bureacrats that have virtually NO accountability to voters, that are *appointed* by grinning politicians based on their political debts & cronyism. See the direct contradiction? I'll break it down to simpler terms.... Laws & legislation are being "passed", by entitites OTHER than the Congress, which directly contradicts THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE OF THE CONSTITUTION. You are arguing about what the Federal gov't should/ shouldn't be doing (based on your own personal opinions & feelings).... we are telling you what the Federal gov't CAN/ CAN'T DO LEGALLY (based on the Constitution). The Constitution isn't an emotion or opinion, it is an ink-on-paper legal document. Re-Read the Constitution... I'm sure you have before, but do it again. Better yet, read the Articles of Confederation, which were essays written by the AUTHORS of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights - to clearly and unquestionably explain EXACTLY what they meant, when they wrote our Founding Documents. If you do so, you may understand our point better. If you have a good legal background, you may even end up agreeing. If you don't, then you will simply *never* understand what we are talking about, and will be forced to simply mock & ridicule, instead of making a cogent or contradictory point. You want to hear our "plan", want to see some "actions"? Fine: Our "plan" to get the Federal gov't the fuck out of our personal lives, take back the powers that they have illegally & un-Consitutionally SIEZED for themselves, and force them to honor & respect the crystal-clear intent & legalities of our Founding Documents. The "action" will be to get Obama & socialistic Progressives the hell out of office ASAP (if not sooner). I will go "wash my pussy" now..... but one thing I will NOT do, is wipe my ass with Constitution, nor will I allow anyone else to do so. You missed my point completely These candidates say they want to do things but I want to hear how they plan to do it. It is easy to say "smaller government" but how do they plan to perform that impossible feat - just walk up one day and say "here, it is all yours people - have fun" I don't want them to plan my life, but if someone is coming in to my house to build an addition I don't say "have at it". I want to see how they plan to achieve what they promise. Simply handing over the reins of government to the people would be akin to anarchy. There has to be substance behind the promises, not just empty words

LtLaszlo - Happy Birthday, Chute, Phrog, Harkle and you other idiots!! Happy Birthday to all of you!! Have a great day! +1

I have still yet to hear anything on how they will actually fix anything. All I hear is "Obama must go" Wait, I know, lets give all the money to the "job creators" because they have done a hell of a job so far creating those positions (pity most of them are in other countries.) I have yet to see where giving tax breaks to the rich and allowing the kind of loopholes us working stiffs could never use actually helps us. I am all for a flat tax - Tax everyone the same, get rid of the IRS for normal people, and dump all the loopholes and such. When I hear some credible ideas I will be more than happy to listen. I hear "smaller government" but nothing more of how or what I hear "lower taxes", yeah, but on who? I hear a lot of......................nothing really. The problem is, it is very difficult to unseat a sitting president. It's like the home field advantage. In recent memory (if it serves me correctly), only Carter and Bush Sr. were one-termers. (I don't count Nixon or Ford, or Kennedy - I am talking about actual presidencies that were complete and re-election was sought.) If you want to sway the moderates like Pete and I, which is who would win the election for you, you need to say something worth listening to. Something tangible, something credible, something people can believe in. Not the simple rhetoric of hate and pettiness. Until then I am firmly on the fence. I hate Obama and despise a lot of what he has done. He is way too far left for my taste, but I see an equally great evil on the far right and Bachmann and Perry, to name a couple, sit firmly in that niche. If that's what I have to choose between - Obama and Bachmann or Perry - shit, I have no idea who to go with. It's like deciding between being shot or stabbed

PimpedOutPete I do find this amusing to say the least... Ferret has it right. Do you conservatives vote for whom you like or who has a chance to win?.. You vote for Bachman, Perry or Paul.. You get four more years of Obama. Moderates like myself cant stomach the thought of any of them in the White House.. You vote for a moderate?.. You have a 50/50 chance and a horse race. Obama has killed the US ecomony but im not sure if it would have been any better with a republican... No one knows.. As a self-proclaimed "moderate" also who has voted for both sides in the past, I have to agree with POP. The only one I disagree with is Ron Paul. If either Bachmann or Perry is the republican candidate there is no way I can vote for them. I am a somewhat religious person, but expecting the weather and the country's economic problems to be solved by having a prayer gathering is the most asinine thing I have ever heard. And Bachmann has yet to say a single thing about how she would handle the issues - all she says is "one term president" over and over and the masses are just feeding on it when there is no substance to her message. Give me someone who will bring the people together and I will vote for them. Give me someone as right-wing as Obama is left-wing and there is no way I will give them my support. We don't need yet another dramatic pendulum swing from far-left to far-right. When this country has achieved things it is through compromise and cooperation not confrontation and beligerence.

I am not from Texas, but most of what I have heard so far has not been very flattering. I know a couple of people who relocated to Texas and they said that, while it is true that he has created a lot of jobs, most of them seem to be of the minimum wage type. He has also cut the education budget drastically, and failed miserably at balancing the budget. Also his secessionist speeches will work against him. Do you want a guy who wanted to secede from the US to run the US...hmmmmm I also would be interested to hear what our Texans say. To be honest I would also like to hear from the Minnesota contingent about Pawlenty and Bachmann. Here in Michigan they are painting Bachmann as even more crazy than Palin so it would be interesting to hear the people she has been representing. Actually my congressman (if I can call him that without throwing up in my mouth a little) has made even more of a mockery of the presidential primary than most. He is that guitar toting fool McCotter and is the most worthless unit ever born. Of course, the area he represents is 95% Republican so he never gets challenged. I hope he does this time.

Labob Now now don't look at it as semihomeless look at it like you having a long camping adventure. And life could be much much worse. You could have Unchileno as a boyfriend or Storm crow ( they have hairy butts and smell like fishing toads) Hmm, so how exactly does a "fishing Toad" smell I wonder, and how do you know? - LOL

I have an XFX Radeon HD 6950. It is awesome. Problem is, I am not sure what you consider too expensive. This one costs around $250 from places like New Egg In fact most new high-end video cards support DirectX 11. Anything as new as or newer than a Radeon 5870/5850 should support it. All Radeon 57XX cardss and above support 11. On the Nvidia side, A good value for '11' supported cards would be the NVida GTX460. It still might be a little high at around $180 (NewEgg again) Again, all GTX400 series support '11'. The GTX200s and below do not. All in all, you are looking at around $150+ minimum for DirectX 11 supported card This is the cheapest I could find http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133326 For a card like that, you will they reccomend a 400W supply (I think that is far too low, depending on what else you run). I would suggest at least 650W/750W or higher. You will also need a minimum 38A, 12V rail on it and it takes 2 6-pin power leads to run it. Hope that helps

Congrats and welcome to the nut house

Best of luck Janey. I sincerely hope it works out for you

LOL

SgtHarryWeezer About damned time, you worthless son of a Macedonian whore..... feel the love!!!!!

Well done Harry, that is refreshingly mediocre to say the least Get a life - LOL

We went through this before. The British people are damned strong. That little country used to rule 1/3 of the world. We had riots in '85 in the exact same location (Tottenham) and also in Brixton (also a suburn of London). Brixton has rioted on three separate occasions. '81, '85, '95 I believe. Trust me, infusing the British society with firearms is the absolute last thing you want to do. When I left the UK I was proud of the fact that our police had no reason to carry guns, although I know that has changed a lot now. Back then only Special Branch and such carried them. Things will return to normal soon. They always do. That's one of the strengths of the British people, their ability to bounce back. Hell, all my mother had to do to fix the problems of the world was put the kettle on and make "a spot of tea"

Sad, but not far from the truth Maybe I am being a little over sensitive these days with all the drama, but I personally think item #1 could be removed and the joke would still be funny. That one makes me feel somewhat uncomfortable, but that's just me

I will be in there tonight Joe. Lets try her out - woohoo Love the admin group here. They actually listen to the "unwashed masses" unlike a lot of places I used to play Thanks for the hard work. I know its a pain in the ass messing with the maps and such

Thats some cool shit right there - nice "photoshopping" whoever did them

Jeez Mule, what do you want to do, FPS gaming or launch the frikin space shuttle - LOL

I would say that is totally legit. The key proves you purchased the game. All you are doing is recovering the DVDs for it. In doing so you are not robbing the game developers of a single dime. IMHO

Ferret IMHO Keep a couple of the stock classics, like Carentan & Toujane, or Matmata. I have played Yuko MMXXXIII, it was the most popular/requested map in my previous run&gun clan server. It would be a pretty brutal spawn-kill map for DM, but some sadists here like that kind of thing. Keep Wow Cheesy I liked Killhouse with shotties. City Under Siege looks interesting. ----------------------------------------- I've also played Cologne, Rat Room, Toybox2, they are pretty good. And we used to have a "Pirate Cove" map that most peeps seemed to like. ----------------------------------------- Kill that terrible Lesbian Emily Map Don't care for Humberstone, or the Maze Map. -------------------------------------- For everyone, I'd suggest mostly medium-sized maps, and offset any huge sniper maps with smaller, fast-action maps. I'm honestly not a big pistols-only fan (can't bash well with those tiny little things) but I really like shotties and used to enjoy TRUE bolt-action rifles for "sniper maps". We had one "sniper" set-up map, where each spawn we'd get a bolt rifle with 10 shots (not semi-auto, but single-loading), 2 nades, and a pistol with one clip (but could pick up ammo). I don't know if you can turn the bolt rifles down to single-shots on our mod or do that kind of set-up, but snipers & "skill" players really liked that. Just my humble thoughts. And just like everyone else says and MEANS..... pass along our thanks to Dawgy..... what he said

Mule Well the weekend is over was a $500 well spent put a dent in my PC upgrade but well worth it! The PC upgrade can wait. It will be there forever. These moments with your kids can never be repeated, so I think it was a good decision on your part Mule

Nice looking rig there TSW. Enjoy

Bigmeandean yes nick it would handle it but WOW just up graded all their servers to HD 3D so you need a pretty good card for that! WOW is what my radio 5875 went down on make sure you get one with at least 1 gb of memory! You can get by with less but hell lag a lot then! as far as recommending a card let our fellow mwmbers that know something about that do that! Sorry Dean, I didn't realize I didn't know what I was talking about. I will try to be more careful in the future I must be an idiot BTW, The 9800GT will support it only as long as it has driver version 275.33 or better installed The others are "not supported" but might work. Here is a link to the graphics cards that support WOW in its current form http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&tag=wowsupportedvideo&rhtml=true

I got an old 9800GT laying around doing nothing if you want it. Not sure if it would play WOW but it handled all levels of COD just fine so I think it would be ok Otherwise you can pick up something like a 1GB GTS250 for less than a benjamin or a 1GB GTS450 for about 20 more

Not technically true Cobra. You can install XP on a machine with 7 already on it, but there are a lot more steps to follow. My computer has both and it had 7 on it first. Just follow the step by step in the link I gave you 1/2 a ton and you should be ok

After you load XP you need to "fix" your bootloader Using your Windows 7 installation disc, boot to the command prompt at startup Type in these comands below, and press enter after each one. bootrec /FixMbr bootrec /FixBoot bootrec /RebuildBcd Exit the command prompt and restart the computer. At this point, Windows 7 should boot up the same way before trying to install XP. Next in XP, make sure you have the following programs installed .net framework 2.0 or better (32 or 64 bit depending upon your XP installation Download and install EASYBCD Run EASYBCD (its what I use) Here is a link to the procedure http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html Hope that helps