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64 bit version of win 7. Don't install games to the program files folder, and don't put steam in there either. You will be fine.

The 'average' person's vote has been meaningless for decades. It is the folk with the money that decide who runs. Not the voters.

OoooooKaaaaaayyyyyy....... But it doesn't blow his toupee off? Ah well. I think there should be an appointed president, by the people. Give to someone that DOESN'T want the job.... If they do a good job their first term, they can retire, do a poor job, you get another four years to get it right. :D

Nothing new under the sun. Every politician accuses their opponents of the most nefarious behavior, even as they are doing the exact same thing. Personally, I think politicians are a lower form of life than even used-car salesman..... I would say 'lawyers', but, most of them started out that way in any event...... I firmly believe the world would be a much better place WITHOUT politicians, and lawyers.....

I wonder how many folks don't vote FOR a candidate, so much as voting AGAINST some other guy/gal? I know that was MY motivation during the last election cycle.......

Yeah, but..... as the old saying goes: It ain't over 'till the fat lady sings..... She hasn't even stepped up onto the stage yet. Trump is by no means out of the race, we still have quite some time to go before November...... A LOT can change between now, and then.

If that happens, I may want to go with him...... I can't say I have even the remotest interest in putting another democrat in the oval office. They need to tear out the Oval Office and put a dog house in there instead; for when the 1st lady is pe-od at her Presidential Honey Do. Real possibility that the next pres might BE the Honey that assigns the do....... In that case, does Bill become "First Man"???? Quite frankly, of the candidates I have seen so far, I don't think ANY of them will make a good president...... Once again, we will be left with the lesser of the evils. Shall I write in cthulhu?

If that happens, I may want to go with him...... I can't say I have even the remotest interest in putting another democrat in the oval office.

lol ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ And if you don't want to pull it out; build lots of skyscrapers or wear a condom. Or you will need a lot of skyscraper style condominiums to keep your girlfriend and the children, because there's no more room in the UK or Montana. Why do you think Trump keeps building Skyscrapers? Hmm? Because he has, ahem.... *small* issues? :D

But then, we have:

All my air is filled with snowflakes...... Of course, I don't expect we will get any accumulation..... Unless it keeps it up like this for a week. :D

Am I advocating armed insurrection? Well, no, not really. I am simply stating that given the current state of affairs, that is the ONLY way I see things actually changing for the better. On our current path, I see us heading toward economic disaster. The national debt is skyrocketing, with no sign whatsoever that it is going to slow, or, what is really needed, reverse..... and the US start paying off some of that outstanding debt. There is going to come a point when no one is going to be willing to buy our bonds, or loan us money, as there will be zero hope of ever seeing a return on that investment. (in all reality, I suspect we have already passed the point of having any hope of paying it off....... next step is for the rest of the world to realize that, and cut off our line of credit.....) The end result of that is going to be outright disastrous.... putting it very mildly..... We will take the entire world economy down the tubes with us....... Do I expect to see another civil war? Nope. Not at all. I expect things to continue, exactly as they are, until the slow slide becomes an avalanche... And then all those idiots in washington are going to be saying "how did it come to this?" and pretend they don't know EXACTLY what happened, and start looking for someone to blame, rather than taking steps to correct/recover. Typical washington behavior. I would vote for ya Lis, but, I suspect that it would be a death sentence for you. :) Doing things that actually make sense, help the 'little guy', and deprive the bigwigs in washington, and their uber-rich supporters.... of their major revenue streams, WILL make you some enemies. They ain't gonna take kindly to that, and will take steps to see you removed from office, one way or another. Either via some contrived scandal, political pressure, or, more 'direct' means...... One of the reasons that I HAVEN'T actually made any effort to run for the office. (even though I am well aware it would be an exercise in futility. :) ) Besides, the president doesn't have the power to change most of the things that would need it. He/She can't make law, only propose it, then approve, or veto it. Gonna take more than one person in washington to get us moving in the direction we need to, and they all need to be on the same page. Something that is most unlikely to happen. I have seen a few folks run for office, on a common sense platform.... Once elected, and actually in office, they discover that one voice is drowned out by all the others, and that the lone individual, can get nothing at all accomplished in the current system, and they end up just like everyone else there, doing the job for what it can do for THEM, not what they should be doing for the country.

Yep. And that is EXACTLY why I don't expect anything to change. At least, not from within the system. My view on it is: The only way we are going to get REAL change, is if the american people ignore the ballot box, step down off their soap box, and pick up their cartridge box. But then, most of the population is too fat, dumb, and lazy to expend that kind of effort.

Too busy trying to stop that hamster he's got glued to his head escaping. I have a hard time thinking someone, with ALL the money he has or can acquire, can not make a better decision about his hair. If I can not trust him to kill whatever it is on his head, give it a decent burial and find a better wig...well how am I going to trust him on the important stuff? J/K All kidding aside, I am not liking any person in this election and I really will write myself in. Heck I might even go down to the courthouse and actually apply to be a write in so the vote actually will count. I really dislike them all. Every one of them is selling snake oil. When you ask them a question they give all these generalities and no practical purpose answer. What are we going to do about the economy? Create more jobs!....OK how we going to do that? *birds chirping* What are we going to do about education? make teachers more accountable! OK....how can you fairly do that without testing the kids so much? What are we going to do about ISIS? Beat them! And how might we do this exactly? I almost wish debates were set up (at least a few) that you had to actually say how YOU would handle things. Like the mic gets cut off if you start talking or bashing the other candidates. I personally want to know some specifics with all these folks' grand plans to fix things. And no matter what happens here the Congress will continue to fight and bicker about anything and everything they can. The notion of compromise no longer exists. We are not educating our people on how the basics of government work. And I agree it has become you don't understand it if you don't write it. But it doesn't have to be like that. People just don't care to find out any more than is spoon fed to them on their news channel of choice or what they read on Facebook which is already distorted beyond recognition. Setting term limits and taking the money out of campaigns would do a lot to help, but the people that are screwing up are the same folks that will have to bring these bills forward and vote on them.. For once they would all agree on a vote. Exactly. The only folks that CAN change the system, are the very same folks that benefit the most from NOT changing it. Hence: Don't expect anything to change. These are the very same people that once voted into office, they only need to serve one term, and they get that salary for the rest of their lives. If you retire from the military (you know, the folks that keep us free) after 20 years, you get 50% of your base pay...... How is that in any way "fair"? Our government is simply out of control. We get the illusion of some say in the direction our country is going, by voting. But, look at who we get as choices...... I most certainly agree with Lis here. NONE of them are really worth voting for. Politics: The art of speaking for hours, without actually SAYING anything.

Bernie, just like the rest of the DC crowd, doesn't have a clue. What they fail to understand is, it isn't wages, per se, that is the problem. It's the JOBS. Raising minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour isn't going to do a damn thing. All it is going to do is raise the minimum income that defines 'poverty'. The so called "free trade" agreements it was is trashing the middle class. Tax breaks for 'creating jobs in developing nations', I.E. moving american jobs overseas, was flat out stupid as well, and you just know the folks in DC knew exactly what was going to happen with that, and they did it anyway. Puts more money into THEIR pockets RIGHT NOW. Doesn't seem to matter to them that by doing so, they are bankrupting our country, and destroying the lives of those they expect to vote for them. (and yet, those folks STILL vote for them???? This goes back to my earlier point about the box of rocks.) He is correct in that the rich and powerful have arranged the rules by which they play, enormously in their favor. But, that's what you get when politicians can be bought and sold just like stocks on the market..... Unless/until campaign finance is seriously changed, nothing else is going to change either. THAT is the root of almost ALL of our problems here.

Indeed. I have come to the conclusion that here in america, we do indeed have some intelligent individuals. However, taken collectively, we got nothin' on a box of rocks. How else do you explain us electing the same crooks, into the same office, year after year?

how did I miss this? Very good point. If we are going to have an evil either way, might just as well do it right. :) Yeah, that's part of the problem. We get the *choice* of the lesser of two evils. (see the above quote......)

I've said for a long time that certain DRMs encourage piracy, heavily DRM'd games tend to get pirated more, there was a fantastic article that I can't find now which backed this up with figures. That said DRM is no excuse, people can buy the game and then use a crack to get rid of the DRM, it's something I used to do all the time when disk based games were commonplace, I'd paid good money for the disk and I'd rather it was put away safely after installation. Way back when, before even oblivion was released, a selection of the staff at BGS who actually posted on the forums admitted to using a no-CD crack for Morrowind, just to make their lives simpler. :D

this point you're making is invalid with Steams return system. i bought 17 games during the Steam sale and returned 11 of them after i found them to be less then desirable. Assuming the game is available on Steam......

PCV is a closed system, so, valve on one side, just an elbow on the other.... So, make sure you get the piece you need. Two valves make for a non-functional system.

Both are important. Finding 'the one' to fill both roles is the stuff long term relationships and (gasp) marriages are made of. My wife and I have an alliance based on love, but we like and trust one another. Seeing how society is today I think we were lucky to find one another. How did we meet? She was one of my father's dry cleaning customers and he arranged that I would be there the day she picked up her laundry. :laugh: I hope you have thanked your father profusely for that. :)

Ah, but then, you have the other side of the coin.... The publishers that are oh-so-concerned about piracy, that they slap multiple layers of DRM on their games, that makes them pretty much unplayable for the folks that actually paid money for them........ But, the folks that pirated the game, whose copies don't have all the DRM, their games run great....... So, folks are more motivated to pirate the game, so they can actually expect to be able to play it. (Yep, I am looking at YOU EA.) Now, I in no way advocate piracy, as yes, it IS stealing. What I would like to see though, is game companies figuring out that their anti-piracy measures are actually counter-productive...... But, I will never convince any bean-counter of that.

You have the Powah! to run it, but, apparently, something in your system really doesn't care for it. The game runs fine without out?

May have to go back to a save from before you installed the first leveling mod....... Seems like something got baked into your save, and is causing your issues.

Yeah, I find it amusing that "morals" come into play in a game where you can play a sociopathic murderer, and kill everyone you meet...... Well, except for quest-givers...... for the most part....