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Skyrim SE just came out, so, the modding community now has a new toy to play with. Skyrim (original) has been out for five years now, so, of course the mod community is VERY well developed, and there are literally thousands of mods available for it. Given time, SSE will have that as well, and with the new capabilities granted by the improved engine, pushing the graphics even further will happen in the not so distant future. Hopefully, some of the 'must have' mods for skyrim, (SkyUI, for instance...) will get ported to SE. That's what I am waiting for. :D

They blew it with this particular line, right near the beginning of the article: Less corrupt? I am REAL curious what they have been smoking. Afghanistan is one of THE most corrupt governments in the world. The rest of the countries involved in the Arab Spring, so far do not have ANY sort of cohesive government, that can claim to represent the entire country. The Arab Spring has been an outright disaster for american interests in the middle east. The various dictators at least maintained some semblance of stability..... Folks in Libya are publicly lamenting the loss of Qaddafi...... Life was vastly better for them when he was in power, as compared to the mess they have now. Iraq isn't much better, Yemen and Syria are still just country-wide war zones. I don't see how ANY of that goes in the plus column for the US. Nope. We would have been FAR better off, (and with a lot less dead folks, the world over) had we just left Iraq alone, and just sent a small team into Afghanistan to take out the ONE GUY we wanted..... Instead, we have the catastrophe that is the current situation.

We are already bankrupt, no one has done the paper work yet though. There is no way on god's little green acre we can ever repay the debt, and it keeps expanding. It will get to the point of interest on the debt will be more than the government takes in in taxes. Provided we don't blow ourselves to hell beforehand. Hilary keeps talking about a 'no fly zone' in Syria.... If she thinks Russia is going to honor that, she is sadly mistaken. (not to mention that Russia has already implemented their own 'no fly zone', and backed it up with a boatload of SAMs.....) Hilary will have us at war with Russia within a year. Obama already has us in a proxy war with them...... Trump wants to get the US OUT of the nation building business. Just as well too, as it has been more than adequately demonstrated that we SUCK at it.

Some of US didn't like the vietnam war....... Of course, a fair few of us didn't want Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, etc. either. There are also a fair few of us that DON'T want Hillary......... That leaves us with pretty much one choice........

Russia has already implemented their own 'no fly zone' in Syria....... Will they shoot down american aircraft? Not really a good idea, but, given their actions of late, it wouldn't surprise me. In all reality, the US record on nation building is abysmally bad...... I think we should be supporting Russia/Assad there, at least Assad could keep some semblance of stability there. That is certainly not the case in other countries we have interfered with.... Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, et. al.

Yeah, what he said...... And all one long paragraph? I doubt anyone is going to actually try and read that.....

But, seeing 'seconded' thirty times doesn't have nearly the panache. :D

Kinda difficult to differentiate in some games, where ANY perceived attack is met with maximum force. Steal something in any TES game, and everyone and their cousin comes to beat the crap out of you. Don't surrender quick enough, you die....... and when even the chickens and horses, and probably the cows as well..... can report crimes.... well.... makes life interesting. :D

Welcome to the Incorporated states of america....... Term limits for congress: Hell of an idea. I would love to see it happen. I would also like to see legalized influence peddling (lobbyists) banned as well. At least, paid lobbyists. But, that doesn't really need to be an amendment.... Balanced budget: I don't think this would matter at all. You know they would build some caveats into it, so they would still be able to go out of budget anytime they felt like it. Still and all, I think it would just be a gesture if one passed. The Supreme court is always going to be biased one way or another, depending on who gets to appoint any replacements, as they will stick someone in there whose views most closely align with their own. Term limits for them would certainly reduce the impact any one president could have the the SC..... That may indeed be a good thing™. Corporations have ran america for quite some time now. Congress is basically their puppets. After all, the corporations are the ones that put them there. I think some SERIOUS campaign finance reform would be great to have as well. Not to mention limiting political campaigns to within three months of the election... (well, maybe give pres a year.....) Currently, our congressfolk spend more time campaigning, than they do doing the countries business.

I watched an interview with Thomas Sowell (economist, author, think tank guy) where he made an argument against affirmative action that I had never considered before. Consider a situation where a person pursues a job in a field where they have no real experience but they are confident that they would be able to learn and perform if given a chance. Sometimes companies love to hire people like this, because they are cheaper and may turn out to be a stellar hire who just hasn't been given a real chance to excel yet. It is a gamble, however, and the person may not work out in the end. The company may decide, after a trial period, that they just aren't going to work out. When a minority applicant is in this position, according to Sowell, a company is actually incentivized NOT to hire them because of affirmative action, because it makes it much more difficult to fire them down the road if necessary. If the applicant is white they can just tell him thanks but no thanks and send him home. Sowell contends that affirmative action, in the end, causes companies to shy away from giving ethnic minorities a shot at a position unless they are over-qualified and not asking for much money. A cheap, over-qualified applicant is more of a sure thing than gamble. This means that the only people who really benefit from the law are people who would likely be solid contenders for the job in question without such a law, and even then they will only benefit if they are competing with other applicants with the same level of qualification and experience and affirmative action laws are the deciding factor. It achieves this, however, to the detriment of ambitious candidates who are younger and less qualified. If the goal of the law is upward economic mobility, and if Sowell is right (I think he is), then it is achieving the exact opposite of its goal by silently shutting doors on minority applicants. Wouldn't be the first time that the government passed a law that had pretty much the opposite effect of what was intended........

I wholeheartedly concur. I think affirmative action to more to sabotage race relations, than it did to help it. At one point, maybe it was needed, but, today, I think it has outlived its usefulness. And quotas for college/university admissions as well..... It should be a level playing field, you get in by your test scores, and that's it. No awarding additional 'points' because you are some specific color, or come from some specific region of the world.

M indicates 'mobile'. What are you thinking about installing this in?

Not a biostar motherboard by any chance? I went thru four of them before I finally gave up, and got something different, that actually worked the first time.

What is the file extension on the stuff you download?

You used the huffington post as your 'evidence', and you expect us to accept it? That's pretty funny.

Can't you re-size the windows? Grab a corner, and shrink 'em?

You are talking about graduates and adults who have already left school and have had the benefit of the school of hard knocks. when we are talking about a relatively new idea that has yet to be implimented. It goes to highlight the differences between progressives and liberals. Progressive what solutions that will work well for as many as posible. Liberals want to champion ideas that for the most part are shoved down the noses of those less capable with dealing with them. This safe haven is a liberal idea that will in effect make their work and the work of the progressive movement far less attainable because those who these institutions are created for will not aquire the skills they will need to carry our work foreword. Thank You Very Much. That was a perfect response. :D

I am not offended. I just think that it is a stupid idea. There are no 'safe spaces' at work. You learn to deal with it, or you move on. However, in todays society, it 'appears' that we are doing our best to avoid offending anyone, even when they so richly deserve it..... at the expense of the health of our society. I think Denzel Washington put it best in the movie Demolition Man: We have become a Brady Bunch, Pussy whipped version of ourselves. That isn't helping anyone, and is only serving to further erode our society. Whatever happened to schools building the foundational skills required to survive in the working world? Instead, its "everyone wins, everyone gets a trophy, no one person is any better than anyone else." And then, when they get out into the real world, it is a MAJOR cultural shock, when they discover that NOTHING they learned in school has prepared them for the real world.

Not sure who you were referring to there, but..... The concept of this simply reinforces the coddling of 'special interests'...... Its no different than any other form of discrimination.

We have become to much of a 'coddle me' society for kids to actually learn anything from the school of hard knocks. "Safe Zones" are a fairy tale. You can label something anything you like, but, that does not necessarily mean that is what it is. Call a room a 'safe zone', and it becomes a bully magnet. Unless it is a one-person cubicle.....

With SSD's, it isn't just price vs. size you should be considering. Price vs Performance comes in to play as well. I have two SSDs in my system. A smaller one, on which the O/S resides. (and keeps boot times, from pressing the power button, to having windows up, and ready to roll, in less than a minute.) I have another 500 gb drive that my games are installed on. Loading screens in skyrim are momentary, at worst, in some cases, I don't even see them. (they simply don't have time to load, before the new area does.) FO4 has some interesting issues, and load times are a tad longer, but, MUCH faster than they were on a mechanical harddrive. Even a 10K RPM drive...... after seeing the performance difference, I won't go back to mechanical drives.......

I knew there would be folks here that would recognize that line. :D Thanks Honey. :D

Any sufficiently advanced technology would appear "magical" to those unfamiliar with it. Watch the episode of Babylon 5, where the technomages made their appearance. :D

Yeah, that is one thing I have noticed.... Nearly everyone is pretty disgusted with our government, and the way things are going. What the past obama voters, and future hilary voters think is going to change if hilary gets elected is beyond me. I know I certainly don't want 4-8 years of the same....... I am not so much voting FOR The Donald, as I am voting AGAINST Hilary........ Your sentiment of "the lesser of two evils" is spot on. :D

My Grandma was never a smoker either.... But, she was a farmer.... she died of emphysema at age 94. I don't think I want to live that long, as the last decade or so will consist of me being confined to a bed, and having someone feed me, and change my diapers..... Been thru that once, no desire to do it again. Just put a bullet in my head, and call it a day. (I have MS.....) Here's wishing you a speedy, and complete, recovery.