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  1. Daverino

    Uber-Putin surrenders to Obama's weak chin and furious blinking.

    Putin has renounced his right to invade the Ukraine Pro-Russian rebels agree to ceasefire Peace talks begin in the Ukraine I find this all unbelievable. The limp-wristed American-driven foreign policy of isolating Putin and his supporting oligarchs politically and economically has forced...
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    Presbyterian Church U.S.A recognizes gay marriage

    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/presbyterian-pastors-preside-gay-marriages-24218717 The evolution of marriage from the purchase and sale of one or more women to a man to the loving relationship between two humans continues. Every one of these small steps adds up to bigger strides...
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    Republicans kill Veterans bill in Senate

    http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/veterans-benefits-senate-republicans-104060.html?hp=l3 I suppose they're supposed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. That's tougher for vets that lost a hand or foot from an IED. The main Republican talking point I've heard thus far is that the...
  4. Daverino

    Happy Valentines Day from China

    Got this from Kotaku. http://kotaku.com/nothing-says-love-like-an-ad-that-pressures-women-to-1519765988 Quite simply the most romantic Valentines day advertisement ever. I felt I needed to share.
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    Canadians don't respect the 2nd Amendment

    http://news.yahoo.com/gps-canada-border-gun-160431000.html Cliff notes: 1. Man takes wrong turn 'because of faulty GPS' and ends up at Canadian border crossing 2. Asked if he had a gun 3. Says 'nope' 4. Car gets searched. Gun found. Man says he 'forgot' about loaded .380 in center...
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    Your move, Florida gun owners.

    http://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/UPDATE-Two-Men-Shot-to-Death-by-Homeowner-in-Barboursville-241973841.html?device=phone Two brothers who were inspecting a tract of land they just purchased were shot and killed by their new neighbor who believed they were trespassing. Neighbor believed the...
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    Here we go again: Columbia Mall shooting leaves 3 dead in Maryland

    https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl=dm6xJMwRGH4jJ0MqtejKeR2m_d2_M&authuser=0&topic=h&siidp=44aaa532f68d7802dad95328fabe4c34b97e Will these liberals ever stop shooting up malls and schools to foist their gun control legislation on the rest of the law abiding Americans? I can just see it now...
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    Responsible gun owners don't have to brandish their guns or fire warnings, right?

    Apparently not/ This is the shit that flies back in the face of all the 'responsible gun owners' out there. I'm supposed to be perfectly comfortable that there are more guns than people in the country because most of those owners are calm reasonable folks. I've been told that a 'responsible...
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    "Honeymurder Game" sweeping the country

    http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=9328232 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/08/murder-trial-newlywed-bride-begins-monday-husband-fell-to-death-in-glacier/ http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/07/21811759-newlywed-couple-found-murder-victim-on-craigslist-police-say...
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    Life along the Ohio Rivier

    A sobering article of the disparity between Indiana and Kentucky, post ACA. The ultimate insult is that residents of Indiana still pay for the Medicaid expansion they cannot benefit from. Medicaid is a federal program paid for by federal taxes.
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    XCOM Enemy Within preview

    Kokatu link: http://kotaku.com/xcom-enemy-unknown-gets-its-first-major-expansion-this-1175378649 Interview with designers and discussion of new features: http://youtu.be/GCSoqdOZ0-M My quick take The good: 1. Lots and lots and lots of new maps (47!) including an urban UFO crash. 2. Two new...
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    460GTX SLI vs new NVIDIA cards

    So one of my 460GTX cards died the other day, sadly. I ran two in SLI for some time and never had a performance problem on my single 27" monitor. They are no longer being made, but I think I can pick up a used one for $75.00 or so on EBay. So the question: With the new generation of NVIDIA...
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    List the games you've bought on Steam but never played

    I see people moaning about Steam forcing them to buy games with sales, but I'm curious what the true damage is. I'm certainly guilty, so I will go first: 1. Warhammer 40k Retribution 2. Colonization 3. Saints Row 2 4. Red Faction 5. Portal 2 6. Mass Effect 2 7. Left 4 Dead 2 8...
  14. Daverino

    Now that gay marriage may become legal on a national level:

    We have all seen the tides of social change coming in here and even the most staunch conservative must now see that at best this can be fought off for a generation or two more. So we should all take a moment of quiet introspection and thought as to how we will all react when the shadow of gay...
  15. Daverino

    I'm responsible for Stephen Colbert's shout-out to bronies last night

    True story. If you caught The Colbert Report last night, you'd have seen that Stephen opened the show with, "A shout out to all my bronies!" I am seizing this opportunity to claim my moment of internet famous. About a year ago, I joined a World of Tanks clan 'My Little Pwnies' when they...
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    Loaded Baldur's Gate again - need advice

    I bought BG and TotSC back in 1998 or 99 when it first came out. I played the hell out of it, but I think I only finished about half the game before getting bored and quitting. Honestly, I can't even remember why I quit. I *think* it was because I got to a point where the next boss to beat...
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    Silverstone FT02 and Swiftech H20-220

    I was already planning on buying the FT02 and doing air cooling. But seeing the reviews on the H20-220 and 320, it looked like a water kit that I could actually install myself without much heartache. My question is, though, whether the radiator for the 220 would fit inside the FT02. I'm not...
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    Does anyone remember these Quake 2 maps

    Really stretching my memory here, but I remember installing a map pack for Quake 2 where all the maps were horrifically and hilariously unfair. I *think* I may have gotten it from Gamespot or PC Gamer magazine but this would have been back around 2000 or 2001. These are the details the maps I...
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    Am I going to beat the Asus N61JQ-A1 bang for the buck?

    http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-n61jqa1-p-2734.html I am looking for a laptop with the following specifications: Medium size and weight Around or under $1,000 Decent game playing for TBS, RTS and RPG gaming (no FPS) Great screen Games I would play would be things like Fallout 3, Dragon...
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    God of War Series

    I played the God of War III demo on the PS3 and was seriously impressed. But I haven't played God of War I or II. Luckily my PS3 is a backwards compatible one. Is it worth it to go back and play the first two games for the sake of continuity?
  21. Daverino

    Firefox using C: drive space for downloading

    I set my computer up so that the C: drive is used exclusively for Windows. The drive only has about 2 gigs of space left. Last night I tried to download a 3 gig file to my H: drive. Much to my surprise, at the 60% mark I got a warning that the C: drive had run out of space. I could see the...
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    Gigabyte or Asus

    I bought a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R board, looking for a good board at the $100-$120 price point. Anandtech reviews rave about it and it was very popular at Newegg. Got the board and found that the CPU fan header is dead and therefore the computer won't start. A few times, it has started with...
  23. Daverino

    New computer start-shut down looping before post screen.

    Built a new computer last night: Mother board: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz Power supply: CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W GPU: SAPPHIRE 100277L Radeon HD 4770 No real issues putting it together. Posted with no problem and installed Vista Home...
  24. Daverino

    Heatsink disappointment

    I have been on these forums for a while and have tried to pick out imbalanced or histrionic posts about coolers not doing this or that when custom cooling really is a 'your actual mileage may vary' kinda affair. A few months ago, people were piling on Thermalright because their U120-X didn't...
  25. Daverino

    Temperature readings too low?

    Forgive me for crossposting in both the CPU forum and the cooling forum but I'm not really sure which category this should be under. I just upgraded to a Intel E6750 and an Asus P5K Deluxe motherboard. I removed the old motherboard setup and took my Thermalright SI-120 off. I reinstalled...
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    Baffling temperature readings

    I just upgraded to a Intel E6750 and an Asus P5K Deluxe motherboard. I removed the old motherboard setup and took my Thermalright SI-120 off. I reinstalled that on the new chip and replaced the motherboard. I'm using a Nexus 120 silent fan on the SI-120. After some fights to get it to...
  27. Daverino

    Want to buy some more memory

    I put a computer together about two years ago and splurged on some top-of-the-line Corsair memory. I bought 1G of DDR2 PC2-8000 RAM. It was unnecessary for the computer that I put together, but it was fun to overclock it and see what timings I could get from it. Anyhow, now 1G of memory...
  28. Daverino

    My Weighted Companion Cube

    I miss her and I'm having a hard time coping. Anyone else having this problem? :(
  29. Daverino

    File name character encoding in Unix

    I have a FTP site that gets files from time to time and I have a Perl script that runs over the directory, moving things around automatically for me. Trouble is lately I've seen some files with Windows-1252 and Big-5 characters in the file names. Perl is unable to move the files because it's...
  30. Daverino

    Thermalright cases?

    http://www.thermalright.com/default.htm It looks like Thermalright is now designing cases that are heatpipes and radiators themselves. Where did this come from? Although I confess the idea is appealing and they look pretty sharp, I can't imagine working in a case where the whole thing is...
  31. Daverino

    Is my motherboard dying?

    Haven't ever seen something like this before. . . About 2 months ago I started having problems with my CD/DVD player in my system. It stopped reading CDs, although it would correctly read DVDs. I swapped in an older DVD ROM I had handy and it worked fine, so I chalked it up to a dying player...