1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Variety of tasks has to last me a while.
Gaming - I like most game genres that don't have MMO in them.
Though predominantly. RTS + FPS e.g. CoD 4, DoWII, Company of heroes blah blah.
Photoshop for...
Makes you wonder what other information Universities are passing onto god knows who...
sigh my government have really lost the plot, what with university's spying on our own students and our local government using anti terrorism laws as an excuse to use surveillance on it's own workers to...
"Proactively seek the dismantling of their empires? That is putting a huge revisionist spin to it. After WW2 many of the European powers re-asserted control over their colonies and actively fought against independence. What do you call the Algerian War, First Indochina War, etc. "
I'm not...
@CanOWorms :
Considering the US's intervention in WWII paved the way for them to proactively seek the dismantling of all the former European empires I would have thought you of all people would at least see some benefit from the sacrifices made by those many brave men that fought and died in...
"So you think British colonialism was something your God approved of?"
Why stop there, not heard of the Crusades? :).
EDIT -- Do the Romans count as "The West" could go even further....
"We got the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Well, we gave them weapons to fight off the soviets. "
I think Afghanistan is considered to be more within Central Asia rather than the Middle East, though it does border it and could be seen as part of the greater Middle East in some definitions. Would...
I'm moving to Taipei in August + will need to find a decent supplier of hardware.
Not being able to read Chinese I'm finding it pretty hard to find much information about where to get the various components at a reasonable price.
In the US there are places like Newegg, the UK has aria +...
Ok the article is more than a little misleading, especially the link to the *leading Muslim lawyer in the UK*.
For starters it's not a BBC article, it's fox linking to an article in The Sun of all things... i.e. Rupert Murdochs main tabloid paper in the UK so lets get that out of the way...
Yup I've noticed recently the BBC use the term *Chinese Taipei* more often. Considering the pervasiveness of that broadcaster I think it shows what a heavy shift there has been in terms of how we perceive Taiwan.
"You don't hear about someone going on a sword spree here"
Quick search on google, articles from first page :).
http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i6wmdwatch.htm
http://www.local6.com/news/4778339/detail.html
http://www.courttv.com/trials/...06_background_ctv.html
But yeah don't...
Um just so you know Tony Blair didn't leave because of the Iraq war, he was only ever really meant to stand for two terms then hand over to Gordon Brown. He actually stayed longer than was expected.
Despite unpopularity over the war he still could have quite easily won another election...
Um... wow.. where did you get this idea?
1) yeah except that he's been dead for 2 years... how are those book sales gonna help him exactly?
2) Robin Cook was Blairs own Foreign Secretary from 1997. And resigned from the Labour party because of the Iraq war... *The one high profile guy that...
As someone who lives and works in Central London I'd go along with this. It's a little surprising to me how willingly people in this country of ours give away any kind of personality liberties in the name of *security*. It's certainly not unique to here but there are an awful lot of people who...
"This is great and all, but I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Nobody is claiming all Muslims are radicals"
Didn't mean to imply you were certainly don't want to jump on that bandwagon, the OP however lists as his summary "Europes Conversion" I was referring to the idea that...
This thread has me scared, my housemate in the room right next door to me is a Moroccan muslim, just like the people in teh video oh noes she might try and radicalise me what should I do?
That video was really informative, I mean the people had camera's pointed at them and didn't like it...
Well in answer to your question, I'd say an decrease in violence / number of attacks and an increase in overall stability would be good metrics for deeming it a success... Obviously an increase in violence / number attacks and a general decrease in stability would suggest it is failing :)...
"How else except with the quantifiable loss of lives can this surge most effectively be deemed a success or failure?"
Skorb I think you've missed my point, I'm not saying the surge is a success or failure. I'm saying the OP title and what was quoted are innapropriate as they seem to have been...
"I predicted that after the surge, no less than 73 people would be killed daily in Iraq. I was wrong... proof of my wrongness follows."
Is this some sick sort of sarcasm meant to make you look smart, using people's deaths to prove how good you are at predicting things is real good of you...
Ok thats slightly different, I guess I took the tone of your criticism a little stronger than you perhaps meant it. I think possibly our efforts should be concentrated more towards countries like India as the large democratic nation that can counterbalance Chinese influence in the region if...
"You are projecting out too far and not taking into account the demographic and social problems China is going to face in the future. The one child rule and an aging workforce is going to massively bite them in the ass in the next couple decades. Also, I am very doubtful that you can accurately...
"I dont buy that. Everyone calls Islam a peaceful religion and blames acts of terror on the extremists. They are blaming extremists not moderate muslims."
I'm talking about all the "little" things that add up, people whispering nearby when they see someone who looks like they are of Arabic...
"what I believe many fail to understand is that in the Middle East about 75% of the population is illiterate and un-educated. They are fed from the breast the core values of Islamic fundamentalism. Your argument applies to an educated society however my friend I do not believe the same for most...
"The intolerance stems from the Muslims themselves NOT from us."
By classifying this in such simplistic terms as Us vs. Them you are playing into the very trick you seek to expose.
"According to Muslim teaching, jihad is one of the basic commandments of faith, and obligation imposed upon...
"That's all I'm saying. It's been beaten like a dead horse so just let it lie. "
Was that really so hard to say in the first place :). This is actually part of my point Dave, to me thats exactly what this was an unfortunate accident. So I'm wondering why it's causing such an uproar in the...
So by your reasoning it also shouldn't be reported on by anyone other than an A-10 pilot. I guess we should also only allow pedophiles to report on cases of child abuse since "Unless you've been in that seat you have no business commenting." huh Dave.
I'll quote myself to help you out a...
"Have you ever flown a sortie?"
Ok I'll bite. No I haven't Have you?
Now would you care to tell me the relevance of that sentance? I hope you aren't insinuating that for anyone to have any kind of meaningful opinion on this topic we must first train as an A-10 pilot in the US Airforce...
"Why then, do they feel beholden to share the boat with those who chant "death to America" and kill our people?"
The vast majority of the muslims I personally know condemn both of those things as strongly as you do. Thats not to say that plenty of others don't but don't mistake what is...
Ok I did a search on the forums I was fairly surprised to see this isn't being discussed and due to the huge amount of coverage this is getting in the UK I am curious to see how this is being reported over on the other side of the pond.
A-10 Cockpit Video
Link to the video feed from the...
Though I'm opposed to the *extremist* elements as they are generally referred to. As someone who has many friends and work colleagues who are Muslims. I resent this idea that it's all part of some over riding Muslim agenda to Islamicise the whole of Europe and eventually beyond. Tolerance works...
I personally don't like the move my country has made towards promoting *faith* schools in this country. Bizarrely it is touted as a means to promote that ever popular word in the UK multi-cultural. I find it more than a little strange that they would equate single faith schooling to integration...
"to claim that the EU caused Rwandan and Sudanese genocide is more than a bit of a stretch." - I am referring to your claim. I don't really feel like going into a discussion about what is and isn't technically a genocide. Whats happening there is pretty horrible i dont' really care about the...
I think you are suffering from a misunderstanding of the word cause, failure to prevent sure... to claim that the EU caused Rwandan and Sudanese genocide is more than a bit of a stretch. Even if you are talking prevention then it is the UN that you should be taking your argument to not the EU...
To CanOWorms
From wikipedia
The European Union (EU) is an intergovernmental and supranational union of 25 democratic member states from the European continent. The European Union was established under that name in 1992 by the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty).
So urm which...
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I found this Aopen, it seems to support pretty high prescotts, looking at most manufacturers websites a lot of their information seems old and it makes it really hard to know if it will support the processor or...
Simple question really, I am mainly an AMD system builder but have been asked to put together a shuttle SFF pc *or possibly Aopen SFF*.
It needs to support the 2.8ghz Pentium D. Now i know that this is an 775 socket processor but I noticed that a lot of the Shuttles that say 775 only utilize...
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