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- Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:42 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Who's going to run out and see "Inception", "
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14027
I just got back from watching this movie. I agree with all of the "criticism" of the movie - score was too loud, etc. I like to use The Matrix as a foundation movie to compare others against. Overall against it I would rate this movie as an 8/10. I would purchase The Matrix on BD before I purchased ...
- Sun Jul 18, 2010 2:41 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Who's going to run out and see "Inception", "
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14027
The Last Airbender (2010) - generally panned by most viewers The Happening (2008) - forgettable, I haven't even heard of it Lady in the Water (2006) - forgettable, I haven't even heard of it. Wasn't this supposed to be some sort of Arthurian thing? The Village (2004) - Great first half with an utter...
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:04 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec 3480: maximizing air flow / minimizing noise
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6395
Many AMD coolers will only orient top/bottom and NOT front/back. Be SURE that you get a cooler that orients front/back. The 3480 does not exhaust case air upward through the power supply like a normal ATX case. I'll second getting at least 1 Nexus 92mm fan up front, and while you're buying that one,...
- Sun Jul 11, 2010 4:21 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Passive 1156
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4369
I underclocked/volted my 530 and ran it passive with a Scythe Mugen for about a month. This was in an Antec 3480 so the rear exhaust fan is about 1.5" away - I had it plugged into the CPU-FAN header. Once I started gaming I bumped the 530 back to stock and I added a Nexus 120 to the Mugen for insura...
- Sun Jul 11, 2010 4:14 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' -- On Probation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 29417
Just imagine how much better off we would be if we had not installed our puppet, the Shah in Iran, and instead let the democracy they had just started continue on it's course? We probably would not have had the Iranian hostages, and Iran/Contra (by the lovely President Reagan!) would never have com...
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:36 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' -- On Probation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 29417
Right - you are laying the destruction of the WTC and the loss of about 12,000 American and Coalition lives (and countless Iraqi and Afghani lives) on what dribbled down Monica Lewinski's chin. More specifically, you are saying that the 9/11 plot is a retaliatory strike against the US for bombing Bi...
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:00 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' -- On Probation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 29417
That's very true but why exactly do you think the terrorists did what they did? Osama bin Laden was at one time a close friend of the US as result of America providing Afghanistan support against the Russian invasion in the 1980s. But in 1991, when the coalition forces (led by the US) ejected Iraq ...
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:49 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' -- On Probation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 29417
[quote="m0002a"] As just one example, Iraq should really be 3 different countries (Shites, Suni, Kurds) but the British created an artificial nation that has wrecked havoc on world. Ottoman rule over Iraq lasted until World War I when the Ottomans sided with Germany and the Central Powers. In the Me...
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:40 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' -- On Probation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 29417
Yes those French are very smart, but don't expect to ever be able to fool the Americans again. Never. Nobody fooled anybody. France did loose a battle in WWII, that is a fact. Other countries came to help and we are very grateful they did. Now the war is over and we're moving on. You owed us one an...
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:43 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Donnie Darko - I still don't quite get it. (Spoilers)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10006
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 1:35 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' -- On Probation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 29417
You're missing the point but are oh so close. First - this thread wasn't about immigration law, it was about a movie about Hugo Chavez, likely directed and produced with a slanted viewpoint. Second - Immigration law in the US is highly pertinent to the people of South America if they are going to be...
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:17 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' -- On Probation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 29417
I understand the difference between a person and their country. I just think you should work on the problems in your own country and region before your start trying to change other countries (this should fit into your anti-globalization philosophy very nicely). You should also refrain from making c...
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 5:27 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Scythe Setsugen photos and measurements
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6799
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:56 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' -- On Probation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 29417
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:58 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Air Penetrator AP121
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7106
- Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:10 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Re-Regulating the Internet in America
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2304
Normally I wouldn't open one of these threads up, but this response struck me because it's similar to what I have said in several threads here. And no, it's not me, my Disquss ID is psyopper. Posted by: stoffer | 06/24/10 | 7:00 pm | I would like to mention one important think that no one seems to r...
- Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:08 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Re-Regulating the Internet in America
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2304
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:45 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' -- On Probation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 29417
Speaking of Chavez and nationalizing US owned oil production facilities - he did it again today...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_ ... a_oil_rigs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_ ... a_oil_rigs
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:25 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' -- On Probation
- Replies: 107
- Views: 29417
To the best of my knowledge, the US and Venezuela were BFF all the way up to the point where Chaves nationalized all of the oil production facilities in Venezuela. Those facilities were paid for (in full) by foreign oil companies, primarly US companies. A certian percentage of their production was r...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:36 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Looking for ATI based card 5770 preferred but want quiet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4601
Edit: I do NOT recommend this Asus card for silent operation. It is tolerable but annoying in 2D and gets out of hand under load. I put a Scythe Setsugen on my Asus 5770 CuCore. I agree with your statement, plus the fact that the cooler didn't actually cool. It idled at 60c and ramped up to 110+ in...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:57 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Is Texas going back to the cavemen era?
- Replies: 118
- Views: 48669
Have you actually seen the references to ID in Texas textbooks? I doubt that it is more than a sentence or two, and not like anything such as you are imagining (such as religious fundamentalism). And by this statement, you haven't seen them either. Associating ID to religious fundamentalists and tr...
- Sun Jun 20, 2010 8:50 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Is Texas going back to the cavemen era?
- Replies: 118
- Views: 48669
Given that neither of us can prove our theories about whether the universe exists without any underlying intelligent design, or whether there is some intelligent design, why not let students hear both sides and let them decide? What are you afraid of? Yours is not a "given", but the rest of the sta...
- Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:53 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Looking for ATI based card 5770 preferred but want quiet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4601
The least I would get is the 5770 and then only to game on a single monitor with decent settings and frame rates in modern games. You'll want a 5850 or better if you want to go dual screen gaming. As for a quiet 5770, that's ben beaten to death on the forums. Get a Vapor-X if you want OEM and pretty...
- Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:48 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Is Texas going back to the cavemen era?
- Replies: 118
- Views: 48669
ID supporters wont relent until they actually see radiation make a positive mutation inside a dna strand in real time, and then only if they can see it with there own naked eyes. Not necessarily. As m0002 pointed out already (and I had surmised earlier) - they will just use that as evidence for "ho...
- Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:39 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Vapor-x or aftermarket cooling for a 5750?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3696
This is the model I'd be getting and I believe it will fit, but is it the best option? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131354 That's a reference card. Some coolers may fit but your mileage may vary. I wouldn't have any amount of faith in an aftermarket cooler fitting proper...
- Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:07 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Vapor-x or aftermarket cooling for a 5750?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3696
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:07 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Is Texas going back to the cavemen era?
- Replies: 118
- Views: 48669
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:59 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Is Texas going back to the cavemen era?
- Replies: 118
- Views: 48669
All of this is interesting theory (randomness or design), but it is all still theory. Do you understand what a "Scientific Theory" is? From wikipedia: In the sciences, a scientific theory (also called an empirical theory) comprises a collection of concepts, including abstractions of observable phen...
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:26 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Is Texas going back to the cavemen era?
- Replies: 118
- Views: 48669
The question is what causes the mutations in the first place, and are they actually random, or is there some design involved. That would be the part about radiation and where it randomly damages or removes portions of the genetic structure. If you like we can go into Heisenberg's Uncertainty Princi...
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:50 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Is Texas going back to the cavemen era?
- Replies: 118
- Views: 48669
There are plenty of causes of random mutations, but by defining the cause of a random mutation it can then be described with "order" thus giving it Intelligent Design. Isn't this what you're after? I'll give you several causes of random mutation.., and they all come back to Radiation by either earth...