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It is not for old machines. You need a good modern system for vista. All the 3D eye candy they added means it really needs a fancy graphics card. Nobody is doing the old upgrade your legacy systems spiel with this. They've had a "Vista Ready" marketing effort for new system sales and even with new systems you have to watch what you get, a good DX9 graphics card is essential for example. I'd avoid it for a year anyway. The only nasty thing is Microsoft is releasing Direct X 10 on Vista only (although the 3D desktop runs on DX9 for now), this means that at some point games may appear that are Vista only. Probably only Microsoft games though. Nobody else will be crazy enough to do a Vista only game for a few years yet. Vista will be the cool fancy looking windows platform with a small market share for some time to come. Remember Windows Me? Like that but with fewer bugs and better graphics, and maybe it won't be killed for some new release in a year or two.

Well I'm British so I guess your "you guys" applies to someone else. Although there were plenty of Brits murdered on 9-11. As I may have mentioned earlier it's all about perception. Americans are idealists, the assholes who funded the IRA were thinking they were funding freedom fighters from the old country to free themselves from oppression. The were probably thinking Boston tea party and founding fathers instead of where their moral obligation lay with the whole complicated messy fucked up situation, murdering women & kids, organized crime and a deranged sectarian cycle of violence between two resident populations. This would not have been on their radar, it doesn't excuse the responsibility for their actions, they were ignorant. The reality is 9-11 brought the consequences of terrorism into sharp focus for most Americans. They get it and it was a bitter lesson.

The doc says if I do this 3 times a day for a month my balls might finally drop.

I never claimed to, but I know enough Brits to see when someone is being pompous over a cocktail name. Some Americans absolutely do have blood on their hands over support for the IRA, I've said as much myself in the past. They learned their lesson the hard way. You should be aware that it was Gadhafi who really pushed the Provos capability over the top after Reagan bombed Tripoli from UK bases. Terrorists are opportunists when it comes to garnering support. Britain has well & truly been on the front line in more ways than one.

Tom Giles finally unveils his new "softer" canopy deployment system.

That's a big move, my dad has no toes on one foot (coal mine accident) and no big toe support very much affects your walk. He has insoles to help etc. and obviously there is some support from a shoe but it is not near the same as the full support a big toe gives you. Do not sever your tendon except as a very last resort. Look at your footware insoles etc. first. Cut your big toe tendon and you will walk with a limp, but I guess your doctor has already warned you of this. He also gets calluses on the ball of his foot, you may not with your toes still there, but do consider that you may just move the problem. Heck some people with normal tendons get calluses there, don't assume that there's a better outcome here by modifying the intact parts you're left with. Don't be in such a rush, you'll have to live with this decision for decades, take a few years to think about it & work on the problem.

Little spaces? Dude is that it set and screwed? Holy shit, you should get a refund. The after x-ray is supposed to look a bit better than the before w.r.t. where the pieces are + some metalwork to hold it in place. Tell me you photoshopped that metalwork in there.

I had the same problem. I wore mountain bike cycling shorts with a huge butt pad to try and mitigate it but it never helped much. Those adjustable training harnesses just suck. When you get your own rig it will be less of a problem. Some rigs also come with additional legstrap padding as an option, so don't worry about it too much, get through your training and get your own gear.

Your responses to answers undermines your question. You cannot desire an unknown. But knowing of something does not mean that the means of satisfaction exists. The example of flight I think is a good refutation of your argument. Man desired to fly before the means to satisfy it existed. Man desires to travel faster than the speed of light, the means to satisfy that desire may not exist. I think you need to define desire, there's basic urges and visceral desires and there are lofty intellectual concepts. However I think flight lies somewhere in the middle and is a tough one for you to address. I think you can have a visceral desire to fly like Leonardo DaVinci but lack the means to fulfill it, you can stand on a clifftop and dream. "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." this from a man who never flew, centuries before the means existed. His imagination created the desire without the means to satisfy it.

Yea it's shocking, simply SHOCKING! Brits would NEVER joke about Irish terrorism. Now, remind me again, what's white and flies across the Irish Sea at 100 mph?

From the Jump Shack website: "In tests, the Racer/Elite deployed reserves in an average of one-and-a-half seconds faster than any other system currently available. At terminal velocity, 1.5 seconds translates to 264 feet." Also from the same web page: "It is somewhat interesting to note that when the Porsche 944 came out in 1983, Porsche had done what no other car manufacturer had been able to by creating a car with an extremely 'clean' (read slippery) Cd rating of .31. The Vector pilotchute, which was presumably designed for high drag, has a Cd in the mid .3s. " That helps explain why their customers hold the belief mentioned in the subject heading, but I'd love to hear Bill Booth's take on those drop tests.

First time I've heard of a streaker greasing up to evade capture. Seems like he was up for going the distance. Hmm... wrestle some oiled up freak into submission or tazer him? Easy call to make if you ask me.

It's not a fraud, snopes confirms it as genuine with very minor adjustments in translation, it's just been circulating from 2004. The only bullshit is in your response calling it a fraud.

Dawkins responds to your question at 35:15 into this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR_z85O0P2M

This is from 2004: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/dapfner.asp

At least we know where the kid gets it from.

Please read the last line in the article before continuing this circle jerk.

To a parent that takes his children to cross lightings on Saturday night it certainly is....and holds just about as much weight as this fathers opinions. When you're ready for an honest debate instead of making foolish remarks about the definition of "controversial" I'll still be here.

I believe that the song is a parody. If it is a parody then he's taking it to extremes with his site and followup campaign to be heard. Just follow the URL, check it out. Sorry, simply denying this doesn't cut it. It's patently ridiculous to suggest that in a land with the Phelps' running around that this is unbelievable. There's also no doubt that many American Christians believe that sodomy is a sin and homosexuality leads to that sin. The core issue is when those beliefs affect legislation to impose a faith based moral code on everyone else. That's what drives some of the secular revulsion at the so-called revival and self-professed goal to "take back America". Just what do you think huge numbers of Christians mean when they say "Take Back America"? Secular business as usual? No doubt this is in part a backlash against some of the anti-Christian phobia, it's two sides of a self perpetuating battle. Each Christian gets to determine what their beliefs are, the only prerequisite is a belief in Christ as their savior. You don't get to determine his right to call himself a Christian any more than the nuts out there who'd want to exclude you from their elite Christian club. The indisputable fact is that historically this has been a mainstream Christian belief. All Christians who disagree with that line of thought could exercise that option. Oh the burden, between coping with that and hefting the money bags to the bank it's a wonder you have time to post.

His alternative theory is whack, his objection to a politicized documentary being shown in science class is not.

Ouch, now that's an inconvenient truth!

And so are the Kennedys .... your point being? You are too kind, the swimmer killed a girl. Don't worry though, he can atone by taxing your sorry ass and pointing to all the social good he can do. I sometimes wonder if JFK would have changed over time to adopt the modern left wing policies like his brother Teddy or if the man who said "A rising tide raises all boats", would have objected to the policies on taxes and social programs.

That's transparently dishonest. Clearly presenting the historical facts about the holocaust is not controversial.

It's probably real. He sings about fighting his urges and his web site talks about him being a "reformed homosexual". Here's more: http://www.lovegodsway.org/Blog/AmazingDay Definitely some comedy gold in that original video IMHO, but simultaneously tragic.

Which came first, the cuckoo or the egg?