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Eckss

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  1. Interestingly, the US system was set up originally to a cry of "no taxation without representation", yet if I work in the US, I have to pay US taxes and get no representation at all in return for those taxes. I don't expect any polititian to do anything about that, not that I'd be allowed to vote for them, even if they said they would. Just saying. :devil:
  2. I think the practice of popping off people in power when they become unpopular in certain circles is not unprecedented in our modern age *wink wink* This wasn't any indication that their people were upset with their kings, they loved them. If you're not prepared to die for your people, you shouldn't be ruling them.
  3. I think the world would be a better place if we reinstated the practice of killing our leaders after their terms in office are over: Sacrificed Celtic Kings. Aah, the good old days. :smile:
  4. Early in the quest, the player gets a vocal chord injury. The player temporarily (or permanently) gets a vocal chord transplant from a protectron or something. From then on - player robot voice. Simple, effective, toungue in cheek and lore friendly. At the end of the quest, the player can potentially have their voice fixed. This can become a bit of a running joke if every quest mod shoots the player in the throat during the intro scene, but it would allow detailed dialogue and Stephen Hawking to do the voice acting. :wink:
  5. Fool me once - shame on you. Fool me twice - shame on me. Fool me again and again and again - it must be politics. :sad:
  6. Lemmy Kilmister 1945-2015 - We're All Born To Lose
  7. What has my life come to that I'm really happy that I found a LEGO Tow Truck?
  8. When faced with such uncertain times, sometimes it's safer to just vote for the Devil you know:
  9. The very idea of segregated toilets is nuts: Children often need assistance and often are accompanied by an adult of a different gender. This creates a problem - which toilet do such a pair use? Segregated changing rooms are just as nuts - Does the man take the little girl into a changing room full of naked men, or does he go with her into the changing room full of naked women? Prudes offend me. I want to silence them but instead I tolerate their presence in my vicinity and their influence on the society that surrounds me. I suppress my intolerant urges because, although such people offend me, I don't want the illusion of civilisation under which we live to break down because of me. If it were to break down sufficiently due to other causes, however, I would no longer feel the need to curb my anger in public and such people who annoy me would get more than a dark stare. Now, replace the anti-prude sentiment in the previous paragraph with ANY other Intolerance and you'll find some people somewhere who feel that way. The Paradox of Tolerance is that human beings are Intolerant creatures that practice Tolerance so that we can live in close proximity to each other without killing each other for increasingly trivial reasons. We have to be as tolerant as we can because the consequence of not doing so is unpalatable to the majority of us. Even a giant killing machine who lives in an unassailable fortress full of weapons has other people that he cares about, who would be unhappy in a world of no Tolerance, because such a world has no supermarkets, no television, no computer games. All the best things in life come from having a civilised society and civilisation is an illusion that can only exist in an atmosphere of tolerance. Without it, civilisation withers and dies - that's why we all put on our best fake smile and suppress our inner Hulk, no matter how much we want to Smash! As for the PC-Brigade, Twitter-Nazis and other modern lynch mobs, they're a temporary phenomenon and will wither and die once they bite off more than they can chew - it's inevitable, like an anaconda choking on a cow.
  10. You have my sympathy mate. :sad: My sister has had BT troubles ever since she got her broadband from them. 1 year later & she's finally going to take my advice & go with Sky. I hope they can fix it for you.
  11. I was asking about a second lan on your PC as some mobos ship with 2 potential connections & the other one might work better. I can't be certain, as I don't use BT, but from what I know the Lan2 port on a BT Openreach box is either disabled or only for accessing the modem itself, depending on your package. Either way I wouldn't mess with the BT box, as they can be complete iceholes about their equipment. You could try TCP Optimiser. It's free & can fix issues if they're caused by your PCs settings.
  12. You don't happen to have Killer Network Manager by any chance? It has history of doing stuff like that. Do you have a second Lan Connection on your mobo you can use?
  13. I've had nothing but trouble with wireless for desktops, I don't know why. I tried a wireless dongle & needed to restart several times each day till I replaced it with a cable. That's why I recommend using a wired connection for your desktop if at all possible. BTW: the wire.jpg link's expired.
  14. Give a man a fish & he'll barf on your shoes. Teach a man to fish & he'll help others to barf on your shoes.
  15. Thanks very much for posting this - Very interesting. :thumbsup:
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