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    Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on the health care debate

    An interesting interview with Former Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) on the current healthcare debate. I was not aware that Frist had worked as a doctor for a year in the British National Health Service. The most relevant portion, in my opinion injecting some sense into the debate, is here...
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    Why is the U.S. moving toward socialism when the rest of the world is moving as rapidly to the right?

    Did you even read the article you posted? Obviously not this section: What is happening in Western Europe in part is a move away from some of the more extreme measures of the socialist left (i.e. France's 35 hour work week), but probably moreso just a natural swing of the pendulum after...
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    How India headed off the banking crisis.

    Here's the article: Quite an interesting article - I saw it last night and was going to post it this morning, but it looks like tvarad beat me to it. Anyway, the Indian experience certainly makes all the more obvious just how devastating the deregulatory mantra pushed by Greenspan has...
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    California state worker ratio second-lowest in the nation

    link Looking further at the pdf report linked off that page, when taking California's combined total of state and local employees in account, the difference isn't quite as dramatic, but even then California is still well below the national average. Same for K-12 education employees. In...
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    Misplaced Blame

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10...5wed2.html?ref=opinion Some pretty good rebuttal there IMO, especially the bolded. It's ludicrous to think a 30 year old law in the US could be the origin of a global financial crisis. And the facts of the case, such as the study referenced in the last...
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    Can someone explain "mainstream liberal media" ?

    Yeah, pretty much. I've never heard of a Democrat or Republican politician come anywhere close to seriously advocating a near or total elimination of, for instance, private property or private enterprise. Which makes it unfortunate that there can be such heated political disputes and...
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    Can someone explain "mainstream liberal media" ?

    Yeah, that's a very good summary by Vic. Especially the part I bolded, which I thought pretty succinctly summarizes the differences between, but more importantly the common foundation shared by both sides. In essence both ?liberals? (i.e. progressives) and conservatives in the Untied States...
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    When Madmen Reign

    Uh, well that wasn't my intention for this thread, and I don't think that's what I did. As I tried to explain in my first post, I wans't trying to lay exclusive blame on for the crisis on any one factor, and elaborated that, despite my and other's belief that this ideology and its adherents in...
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    When Madmen Reign

    Well, I agree that with massive increases on military spending, huge expenditures on Iraq, civil liberty violations and so on they can hardly claim the "small government" label in a total sense, its a huge mistake to somehow conclude from that that they were solely in favor of "big government"...
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    When Madmen Reign

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09...ml?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin Bolded are what I thought were the most important parts. Agreeing largely with the article I don't have much more to say, other than to make a few points to ward off those wanting to deflect blame from this failed ideology. No, I'm...
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    Did Liberals Cause the Housing Crisis?

    While disgusting, I'm not surprised this is what Rush and co. are up to. If you're someone who clearly has no qualms about telling biased garbage, if not outright lies, and your entire political career you've basically been a conservative, small government, anti-regulation, free-market zealot...
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    Experts eye alternatives to bailout approach

    :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: That can not be empathized enough. Were it somehow not clear after Enron and other scandals, it is painfully obvious at this point that the extreme deregulatory policies pursued so far largely by conservatives/Republicans (and to varying extents libertarians)...
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    Experts eye alternatives to bailout approach

    link I saw this list of 4 solutions proposed as alternatives to the bailout plan by Paulson. While I'm by no means an expert on the financial system, as a taxpayer I have little interest in paying for a massive bailout of corporations who, combined with conservative administrations, have long...
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    Socialism, 21st Century Style

    Definitely true, and for similar reasons I like the quote in my sig by Earl Warren - "Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism." It explains, among other things, the very different...
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    Socialism, 21st Century Style

    Basically yeah, that's been their game plan. The only thing I would add to that list (which you partially cover already) is that one of their recurring tactics has been to claim there is a "liberal media" and "liberal universities" - despite the fact that the media's bias is far more corporate...
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    Socialism, 21st Century Style

    Uh...what!? I'm pretty sure what I'm advocating (more regulations, etc) is no where close to his extreme "small-government," laissez-faire, anarcho-capitalist views (not to put words in his mouth, but I believe that's at least close to his views).
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    Socialism, 21st Century Style

    link A ?harsh? but well deserved critique on some of the blatant hypocrisies of the Bush Administration, and more broadly the Republican party/ideology since the Reagan days (actually, probably going back even further to Goldwater) with the recent bailouts of Wall Street. It's just obscene to...
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    Need a windowed 3D program.

    I was recently doing some stress testing of my own for the same reasons you are. thread. As TC91 mentioned, FurMark can run in a windowed mode, and at 1280x1024 windowed with 32X AA it pushed my temps higher than any other program I've tried. As far as actual games, I know all the Source-based...
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    Some questions regarding overclocking a 8800GTS 512

    I left FurMark running for about an hour running windowed (so that I could have GPU-Z out for temps on the side) at 1280x1024 w/ 32X AA. I bumped up the fan speed to 80% (~1380RPM) to be safe, and saw a max temperature of 59C. The test ran with the GPU clocked at 783/1890/1053 (forgot to...
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    Some questions regarding overclocking a 8800GTS 512

    Oh right, I should have thought of FurMark. I just downloaded it and will see what happens.
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    Some questions regarding overclocking a 8800GTS 512

    Is there any better way to max out the temps than ATITool? As noted above gaming, or at least EP2 in windowed mode, didn't reach as high temps as ATITool, and Folding@Home reaches approximately the same temps as ATITool.
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    Some questions regarding overclocking a 8800GTS 512

    Well, now that I'm off from work for today, I've had time to run ATITool more extensively. My previous setting, 799/1080/1890 (the real values) resulted in an error in ATITool after about 4 minutes or so, with the GPU reaching a max temperature of 61C (at 67% fan speed - ~1137RPM). Reducing the...
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    Some questions regarding overclocking a 8800GTS 512

    Huh, well that's strange that Rivatuner would report true values while GPU-Z and nTune would not. But that does make sense, since if I understand right GPUs (and all clocked processors in general) base their clock speed off a multiple of the vibratons of a crystal oscillator. Therefore, while...
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    Some questions regarding overclocking a 8800GTS 512

    Hmm, well I guess I just imagined the core/shader ratio then. In any event, I played with the OC a bit more after finding that nTune lets me type in specific clock speed (verses dragging the slider to arbitrary values). I got the following results: Error @ 750/1100/1850 Fine @...
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    Some questions regarding overclocking a 8800GTS 512

    Hi, I recently jumped on the Zotac 8800GTS 512 deal at fxvideocards. I've been out of the loop for a while on overclocking the latest cards (my previous card, a 7900GS, is obviously significantly different than the unified architecture of the Geforce 8000 series and beyond). Anyway, I...
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    puppies are offensive to muslims

    Exactly, those are key points some here seem to be forgetting. Just as it is ridiculous for anyone to claim all Christians are fundamentalist nutjobs because, for instance, a small number of them think Harry Potter is satanism, so is it ridiculous to claim that the couple of fundamentalist...
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    A real, but rarely addressed problem with government run health care

    From what I briefly researched, that sound essentially like the French healthcare system (which by no means a criticism of your compromise with the "pinko-commie libs", as France's system is rated #1 by the World Health Organization - link). Here are three good articles I found on the...
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    ** OFFICIAL Diablo 3 Thread **

    Thanks for the heads up. I saw a while back that Blizzard opened an online store, but must have missed the ability to register store-purchased games for download. VERY nice - I wish more game developers would do that. Edit: Something even nicer I noticed - since Brood War didn't have its own...
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    Bioshock install limits removed

    Link I didn't see any other posts on this in a quick search, so I don't think this is a repeat. Anyway, I think I speak for all of us when I say that took long enough. Strange they waited nearly a year to do so, in the process possibly keeping those who would have paid full price for a...
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    Survey of Sorts: Are you a Millennial? Is this how you think?

    A good point as well, and probably a way more succinct answer than what I posted. Another point relating to what you posted, in my opinion anyway, is that many seem to confuse the size of government verses transparency as the benchmark towards representativeness and corruption (or lack...
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    Survey of Sorts: Are you a Millennial? Is this how you think?

    Well, I can't (obviously) answer for Martin, but for me I think things would be far better for the country as a whole if college education was heavily subsidized. I mean, there seems to be something seriously wrong with society when the large majority of college students, who will be driving the...
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    Survey of Sorts: Are you a Millennial? Is this how you think?

    Good post Martin, especially the bolded part. The most galling thing is that I've seen some people (here and elsewhere) actually point at high income inequality and claim that is a good thing: that it equals freedom and so forth. Yeah, try telling that to a single mother barely scrapping with a...
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    Deciding what fans to get for my p182-based system

    Ugh, buying any parts for a "cheap new system" is a gateway drug itself. I originally went for this when I saw an E2180, 4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 set, and an IP35-e each for about $60 after rebates. I initially planned on using the case, powersupply, hard drive, etc from my older Athlon 64 X2 based...
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    Deciding what fans to get for my p182-based system

    Alright, well after spending probably way more time than was necessary researching fan options, I went with 5 Yate Loon D12SM-12 fans link, and a Kama Bay. The 5 Yate Loons are probably far more than I need, but at $3.50 each I found it too hard to resist buying a few extra (and I could now...
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    Deciding what fans to get for my p182-based system

    I see now what you were talking about as far as the fan tubing, since apparently I missed the link in your sig (unless you added that recently). Looks simple enough to do, and as you suggested a 50 or 100 pack CD/DVD case lid would probably work fine. Has the tubing made a noticeable difference...
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    Deciding what fans to get for my p182-based system

    Wow...thanks Syzygies for the VERY detailed reply! I didn't even mention it before, but I was looking for something like the Scythe Kama Bay as well, to provide better cooling for my CPU and memory (and would probably get some air over to the northbridge as well). From reviews on Newegg...
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    Deciding what fans to get for my p182-based system

    Hey all, I have an Antec P182 case, and am considering what additional fans to get (if any). I currently have it set up with the default three Tricool fans (intake in middle of bottom compartment, and blowing out of top and rear). I installed an Arctic 7 Freezer Pro fan on the cpu. My main...
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    Where capitalistic democracy has failed

    Well, there would have to be some sort of threshold of support a candidate would have to pass in terms of public support to get funding. I haven't read too much into the specifics of public financing of elections, but I think definitely that would be a far better system then what we have now: a...
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    Unreal pack on Steam now $44.99 (previously $59.99)

    I just saw that the Unreal pack (which contains Unreal 1, 2, and Unreal Tournament '99, 2004, and 3) on Steam now costs $44.99, $15 less than the previous price $59.99. I believe the prices of some of the components of the pack, or at least Unreal Tournament 3, fell as well, though I'm not sure...
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    The revolution continues...

    Do some damage to McCain's efforts? He already has well over the total number of delegates needed to win...
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