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Originally posted by Midnitte

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Originally posted by CleffyII
I like the idea of the spending freeze. Infact, I like the idea of making that idea permanent. Imagine it, a federal government who only finances the necessity; thats trillions of dollars. We can pay off the debt in only a couple of years, then afterwords decrease taxes to below 10%. Leave all the rest of the stuff the fed handles to the state. Thats how the constitution and the United States was designed. More power to states, let them make the state how they want it. Let the state be more socialist, and if you don't like it move to a different state. After all we aren't a communal mind, sometimes I don't wanna put money up so the fed can give it to wild-life researchers or bailing out corporations.

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Arrest that man! Hes making us see rationality in states-rights!

I think the idea is noble but the way McCain make it sounds is that we'd only spend money on war (research, defense), and veterans (whom mccain is). Why are veterans more important then education or healthcare?

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States can run healthcare and education better then the fed. Its been proven a state can stretch a dollar much further since they have a limited amount of budget to work with. States wish they even had 700 Billion on thier budget. I would rather keep social programs at the local level where you get better support then with a suite in D.C.

I like the idea of the spending freeze. Infact, I like the idea of making that idea permanent. Imagine it, a federal government who only finances the necessity; thats trillions of dollars. We can pay off the debt in only a couple of years, then afterwords decrease taxes to below 10%. Leave all the rest of the stuff the fed handles to the state. Thats how the constitution and the United States was designed. More power to states, let them make the state how they want it. Let the state be more socialist, and if you don't like it move to a different state. After all we aren't a communal mind, sometimes I don't wanna put money up so the fed can give it to wild-life researchers or bailing out corporations.

I think a bit of it was rambling and out there like saying we are under martial law. However, I am also highly opposed to bail-outs and increasing the national debt. This plan was re-spun to be a credit to the people they are bailing out so they have to repay later. However, I still don't like it since it goes against the grain of capitalism and this is the result of putting capitalist ideals onto a socialist institution. They should have just let it be killed, or should have put more socialist legislation on it earlier. What I find offensive is that the original supporters on this bill were the very same figures who denounced regulation in 2003, 2005, and 2007 that caused this to happen. Chris Dodd and that other guy.

This bailout costs more then double how much is needed to take the entire world out of poverty.

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Originally posted by DailyBuzz

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Originally posted by CleffyII
Also Republican reporters have traditionally been opposed to McCain, and were until his nomination. Some of that negativity will push through. Its odd how party centric news stations have become. With many liberal sided stations that praised McCain for his bi-partisanship suddenly changed views and call him the second coming of Bush.

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McCain used to get praise for being bi-partisan. He has recently been toeing the party line. McCain may be unpredictable, but he isn't stupid. If he knows one thing for sure it's that a "maverick" cannot win the republican nomination. Don't be fooled by his history, McCain is now a full fledged republican.

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Campaign years are no judge for how a person will be as a president. Its what they do before that. In campaign years all campaigners will lie and change thier views to first win the nomination, then win the presidency. I think it should be obvious why McCain is following his party right now. He had to or else he would have never been endorsed by his party, and he has to continue or else they won't come to vote for him.

The reason why Democrats have changed thier view of McCain by quoting his campaign year record and completely disregarding 20 years is because they need those independants to vote for a guy who is not moderate in the slightest degree. On the other hand McCain represents the most moderate, and has polled well with independants in the primaries.

You can see this on how Obama has been changing his tune after becoming the Democratic nominee. Such as how he went from a complete withdrawl to a phased withdrawl, and from Universal Healthcare to Healthcare for adolescents. However, like I said its the passed for me that determines how they will be as president. Take for instance Obama's past record when he wasn't running. $900 million in earmark spending, 100% voting record for abortion including live-birth abortions, largest liberal voting record, and in Illinios his constituancy complained that he poorly represented them and went against his platform in the Illinios Senate.

The media on the other hand wants sensationalism, they want to put her down. They are making more of her position then is actually there. She at best will be an advisor for McCain in regards to energy, and make the tie breaking vote in the Senate. McCain is in good health and can survive his presidency according to his public medical records. Ontop of all this she is the most popular governor in US history despite contreversy on her experience and family. Its because of her performance in an executive role.

If your talking about the screen locking up then its a hardware issue. If you talking about being able to walk fine but hits not registering or getting pushed back to a point, then its lag. I will cover both cases in terms for morgs.

Hardware side. The most important things for games are the graphics card and the processor. In games today there is less used on the processor and more on the graphics card. For mmorpgs, they also make use of more memory. Considering you aren't computer savvy chances are you are running alot of background apps that eat away at your system causing the problem. My suggestion without changing your habits is to aim for more system memory and a quad processor.

A problem with your last computer is that it was a laptop. Laptops are highly limited in the gaming realm and they cannot offer what matters most. You obviously aren't computer savvy, so I have run a search on newegg to generate a list of desktops that would suit your needs.

Power Searched PCs. Note that not all the ones are 64-bit since I couldn't weed it out of the list so you have to pay attention to that. Also price is not important. All the PCs in this list will run all mmorpgs beautifully. Also as with all shipping, some parts may have come out of place. So you would need to check on that if it doesn't boot up when plugged in. Things like video-card and memory dimms not fully pushed in, or wires not plugged in.

Here is how I eliminated the criteria.

Processors: Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad, or AMD Phenom over 2.0ghz.
Memory: 4GB or more of DDR2.
Video Card: nVidia 8800GT, 9600, 9800, 9800 GX2, GTX260, GTX280; or ATI HD2900, HD3850, HD3870, HD3870X2, HD4650, HD4670, HD4850, HD4870, HD4870X2

Internet Connection: This would be associated with getting pushed back, or you can move but nothing else updates. The most common culprit is using a WiFi connection. Wireless will have a bad connection since it is subject to worse interference from metal, glass, and electricity. Another is your anti-virus if you are using Norton of Mcafee. Both are bloat-ware that rob your system of resources and limit your connection. I recommend NOD32 for anti-virus. Lastly there is your firewall or port-forwarding of your router. However, if you can get in the game this isn't the actual cause since it disbars the connection entirely. Your internet connection is the lowest culprit for mmos since they typically use much less. You can actually play most on a 12.2K modem. Other online games will require more.

Someone made RO work on the DS online through modifying a bot program. I am sure there will be versions in the future that modify this game to work online.

An LG Monitor, and a Thermaltake Xaser VI or Armor+

The HD2900XT benchmarks exactly the same as an HD3870. In some benchmarks its higher. Considering the HD3870 has less then an 10% performance difference with the 8800GT/GTS(G92), its reasonable to assume it can perform worse in some situations when you take into consideration the rendering engine. A game built with ATI cards in mind will run almost 3 times better then ones built for nVidia cards due to the architecture in the HD series of cards.

Ross Perot was right!!!

Lineage, Ragnarok, and just about any Korean MMO with siege combat shows this is a possibility with a net-coded friendly combat system. You can literally have hundreds even thousands on a raid or in a castle siege in an mmo. When you factor in 4/5th are NPC allies, then thats even easier since the server doesn't have to send data to them, only about them.

However, we are atleast 5 years from realistically getting twitch combat to work in an mmo with success. The network infrastructure just isn't there in the US.

I can see why McCain chose Palin. He had to choose a governor. When you take out those that are democrats, those that are not eligible, and those that swift boated him in the primaries, the pool is much smaller. Palin aligns with McCain's philosophy more then what is left. Although I think Mike Huckubee would have also been a good choice.

I can also see why thier campaign doesn't want Palin interviewing. All the media outlets are trying to pounce on the woman and get her to make a news story since she would make the most impact for one. The only real choices thier campaign has for interviews are with the BBC and Fox since 1 is unbiased and doesn't force stories, and the other is republican bias.

Also Republican reporters have traditionally been opposed to McCain, and were until his nomination. Some of that negativity will push through. Its odd how party centric news stations have become. With many liberal sided stations that praised McCain for his bi-partisanship suddenly changed views and call him the second coming of Bush.

I don't know why people keep bring up foriegn policy with Russia to Palin. They should bring up something not in north-west Asia, like Europe, the Middle-East, or Africa. It is true that out of any governor, the governor of Alaska will be dealing with Russia. Palin lived in Alaska during the cold war. You know that thing where there were atleast a dozen nuclear ballistic carrying subs in the water around Alaska. Also its the state were deals are now being made with Russia, Japan, and Korea to expand it for trade with those countries as a gateway into the US. Cough Cough this probably involves the Alaskan Government.

Nice, no more private servers.  Its only a few years too late.  But very exciting news.  I think Gravity is going to end up adopting a payment system similiar to Requiem for all thier games soon because of how much the game generated from a month of retail.

I'm still waiting for them to re-open Sakray to test Episode 12.0.

Doubt it works as stated.  They are thinning the fuel content.  However, its that fuel that makes the vehicle move.  If you thin it out, when it ignites it will generate less force making it create less of a spin, which means it will need to ignite several more times for the same effect.  There are other ways to increase gas mileage that are more effective.  One is to increase power without increasing the amount of pistons or fuel intake.  Things like Turbo Charges, and using higher octane fuel.  Another is to decrease your vehicles wieght making it require less force to move.  The last is to use an alternative fuel source like a hybrid.

Right now I think the best alternative source is natural gas powered vehicles.  Hydrogen, Electric, and Air powered cars are still too far in thier infancy to be effective.  Also Natural Gas is a viable fuel form for industrial vehicles where as the others would not be able to power a semi for a long enough duration.

One thing you have to remember is that you will never get as much energy transfered as you put in which is why we use non-renewable resources.  Think about that hydrogen thing with the metal plate.  The amount of energy going in to heating the metal plate was more then the amount of energy gained by splitting Hydrogen from Oxygen.

Ya, I think the Debate was pretty much a tie and in that case a win for Obama.  There also wasn't much of the moderator feeding Obama answers this time.  Maybe it was due to his 4 teleprompters. 

However, I fundamentally disagree with Obama's economic plan.  I don't think you should be taxing people over 50% of thier personal income, and 35% of thier business.  This is the taxes our employers will have to pay.  If you are an honest American who pays thier taxes and doesn't take advantage of loop-holes you are out alot of money.  I think the better solution is to lower both these taxes and decrease the amount of tax exemptions, or put a limit on it so you aren't having employers making 1 solar powered low flush toilet to get a huge tax break.   It was ironic when Obama was criticising McCains plan by noting 94% of americans won't have a tax increase, where as McCain's plan calls for cutting taxes on 100% of americans.

I also disagree with bail-outs, however both the candidates came to the same conclusion.

Considering it can run a much more demanding game, its a problem with the drivers or the other games.  I would bring this up with EA...  MMOs with bugs are quite common.  It also may be a result of securom.

I am confident my bank won't fail considering it only gives accounts to the military.  People with a military background usually always are more financially responsible.

I don't believe it unless there is a sex tape of her and Megan Fox.

You forgot to mention he is running for president.

This is a sequel that lets you play as Master Chief after the fight.  You get to do exciting stuff like try to hang on to a job, and try to get your non-organic love interest to have sex with you.

Because you cannot use Dual ATI cards on a nVidia chipset.  It would be a waste of money with the extra PCI-e slot, and the 750i chipset isn't really that good.  I find problems with your Case, Power Supply, Motherboard, and Speakers.

1st the case and power supply are not compatible.  Also the case has that front swinging door which can be annoying.  However, the case should suffice if you replace you power supply.  You are using a non-modular 800w PSU.  The problem is when you get to higher wattage PSUs, you end up with alot more cables.  Even though there is a slight loss in power, modular cables are pretty much a necessity unless you want your case to be filled with cables and overheat as a result of blockage.  Here is my recommendation for the same price.

Xigamatek 750w Modular PSU

Next is your motherboard.  The 700 series nVidia chipset has been noted as having bad drivers.  Also you are using an ATI card which won't be supported in a dual card setup.  Honestly, a dual GPU setup still is not worth it.  Also you are going to get problems with the sound.  Spend the extra money on the 1GB edition of the 4870.  Here is my recommendation on a motherboard.

ASRock P43

Last is your Speakers.  I have the generation right before for those speakers.  They have problems with electrical interference and pop.  I really cannot recommend Logitech Speakers.  Also your using onboard audio, which has poorer quality then a sound card and really makes using 5.1 worthless compared to spending the money on a sound card and headphones.  I actually now use a pair of headphones that cost as much as those speakers and like it alot better.  You also don't get background noise on a mic.