How about getting a left leaning poster to take the opposite tact and make a post supporting a free-market health care solution? It may be more interesting to take each question and have each side of the debate take opposite stances. Just a thought. So can a socialized health care advocate make a c...

Lots of pure seething vehemence expressed in their anti-americanism on that site. Whew! Some was very funny to read. I love it when people post such dimwitted sounding posts on how much they hate the US. By "that site" are you perchance talking about Youtube? If you're looking for gratifi...

Like I said, I'm watching The Dead Zone as I write. And it has gotten better as it has gone on (Johnny just met Greg Stillson). But it has nothing on the book. No ice-hockey accident at the age of 5. No regurgitated hot-dogs at the fair. No Stillson kicking a dog to death because it's owners dared t...

Syl wrote:You figure it out. I got it in about about ten seconds.

It's "Who are the people in your neighbourhood?" from Sesame Street, right?

I bought the DVD of "The Dead Zone" on a whim yesterday. I saw this movie once back in the '80s, shortly after reading the book, and at the time I thought it was OK. But as I write this I'm watching it. And (despite the presence of Christopher Walken) it is truly, truly dreadful. Does anyo...

I'm kinda big on the whole "cultural differences" schtick myself in case you hadn't noticed. I wasn't talking about you, Syl.

finn wrote:Check this guy out.............


www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXl_TyM6aI

I suspect there would be a bit more opposition to that if anyone had watched it.

Pity about the XTM performance, Nav. If there is a clear performance issue then I guess you have no choice but reverting to vanilla. But XTM is far better if you can manage it. Just a little note on Kha'ak clusters: They do not like Hurricane missiles. Not one little bit. Fire one just after the clu...

The game certainly does run a lot better than it did at first, the trouble is that the gates don't seem to match up with the map so I can't get up to Menaleus' Frontier to get that free toucan. Do I need to install the expanded universe mod first? You shouldn't have to. Is your problem occuring in ...

Great answer to Nav's question, Murrin. Some other good sectors for sector trading are: Empire's Edge, Duke's Domain, Queen's Space, Shore of Infinity Haven't worked out the right balance for capturing yet. Did the first two plot missions--the first one was pretty simple, the second one showed off j...

Sell the Falcon. Falcon's are absolute rubbish. IIRC their top speed is about 77. Even a slow capital ship can fly 44 or so. You'll be able to mount a decent amount of guns on a falcon, but anyone who feels like firing at you will hit you. You need to get some better weapons than those IRE's. The on...

Murrin wrote:I have a Mercury. Stupidly (I really wasn't thinking about what I was doing), I used all but 30Cr buying and upgrading it, but by buying 2 Energy Cells and selling them at profit I slowly got business going again.

Wish you could use the Best Buy/Best Sell locators remotely; I'm having to fly the Mercury myself and have to search all the Argon Prime prices manually. I think I'll keep going on vanilla for a while before I start a mod game. You can use them remotely. I'm assuming here that you've been using it ...

Here's a link to how to install the mod. www.thexuniverse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2720 (nb use the 2nd section: "If you don't have X3 installed" as a guide rather than the first one, as the first one makes no mention of the bonus pack) Murrin, you're right, it is very slow in the beginn...

More crazy Indian stuff:

youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw

Lol. Rick Astley. I take that in the spirit in which it was given. And that is pretty friggin' funny, Lord Foul.

Awesome.

PS Es, that link doesn't work for me.

AVG can bog down sometimes, I think it starts a hidden scan of its own under certain circumstances. It's usually okay though and if you don't have time to scan the whole computer you can pick up where you left off later, which is a neat feature. I think that's the same avgw.exe process that I was t...

Avatar wrote:Hey...I think it's cheaper for me to buy dollars, then convert those into euros than buy the euro directly...

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I may be wrong, but I believe you can profit off of the back of the proles in that very manner. You go, Girl!

Actually, I've never done it, because I'm not sure what they all are. Neither am I, but it seems they have nothing to do with helping you play games, and it frees up a helluva lot of RAM. Like I said, I read this in the manual for Sims 2 (or one of the expansion packs). Also, If you have AVG anti-v...

I'm sure everybody here knows this already, but I'm going to point this out for people who happen upon this thread and like me never realised it until they read it in the manual for Sims 2: If you're gaming offline you should hit Ctrl-Alt-Del before you start up a game. Hit the "User Name"...

Seems to me, Es, that you're advocating nihilism. As such, I can't imagine why you're bothering to post on a political forum.