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BLASPHEMER!!!!!! You Shall surely smoke a turd in Oblivion for such a remark! :D Well, it would be nice if the game company would be consistent with their lore, and have a province that was supposedly a tropical rainforest, instead be temperate forest.......

I thought the zombies in washington were all collected in the various branches of congress?

Dark0ne changed a setting on his end, and the site does indeed now use cookies on your local machine to track read/unread threads. Trouble is, it doesn't seem to work worth a damn.

Got OBMM? (Oblivion Mod Manager.) For OBMM users: Start OBMM. Click Utilities. Select Archive invalidation. You'll get a popup window. Click BSA redirection (it's the default choice). Click Update Now. Close the Archive invalidation popup (click the red X in the upper-left corner). Quit OBMM or click Launch Oblivion.

I love your Avatar. :)

I am seeing a lot of the aforementioned behavior as well. I do not clear cookies from specific websites on browser close. (this being one of them.) How bad was the performance hit from the previous method? I don't really notice the site being that much speedier.... At leas the previous method actually worked....

The vegetation is out to get us? :D One key note there: Genetically Engineered Grass. Are we our own worst enemies? Making products to 'make life better', which turns out to become a product that kills us? (or, our food source.......)

There was another thread on this topic the other day when I was here.... but, can't seem to come up with it now..... I have also started to see this problem in various forums. Showing topics as unread that I was the last poster in.... also topics that I have read, and posted in, showing as completely unread, such that when I click the button for "first unread post", it takes me to the first page of the thread....... Real curious what that's all about. Cookies are enabled, I only surf the forums from this machine.....

I seem to be getting these rather frequently..... a reload will usually fix it..... when they pop up, it will take a minute or two for the page to load though. This has been happening for at least a couple weeks.....

Wasn't it really another UN 'peace keeping' mission though, from the US stand point anyway... I don't think there was an official defence treaty between the 2 nations, S.Korea and the US, prior to 1953, So it wasn't the mutual defence treaty coming into effect, US involvement came from some other angle. AFAIK that was UN actions no ta US war. Back in the 50's, yep, that was indeed the case.

Given the way they have gutted the "RPG" out of Skyrim, I am not really waiting with bated (baited?) breath over ES VI. I expect there will be three skills, combat, magic, and barter, no attributes, perks out the wazzoo... but, plenty o' stuff to kill.

The US never officially declared war on N. Korea. (that I am aware of). S. Korea did though. Officially, a state of war still exists between the two countries, as the war ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. S. Korea is one of our allies. If someone attacks them, we are obliged to help defend them.

Win7 should run your games without issue. Just don't install to the Program Files folder..... (provided the hardware is up to snuff.) Only place you are going to find a laptop with XP is probably ebay, or similar sites. Biggest thing you are concerned about is going to be the video solution on the computer. Integrated graphics just won't cut the mustard for Oblivion. You NEED a 'real' video card. Morrowind isn't quite so picky...... Not sure you are going to find one worth a hill of beans for 200...... What are the specs on your new computer?

Yeah, I can see your point..... trouble is, if the US acts unilaterally, we look like the bad guys, and joe terrorist has yet another highly effective recruiting tool. If Israel attacks, it is a given that the US will support them, in which case, we will also be seen as the bad guy. Not like there isn't enough anti-american sentiment in that part of the world already...... adding fuel to the fire just doesn't strike me as a good plan. Iran allowing full-access inspections would certainly go a long ways toward removing any justification the US/Israel has for a pre-emptive strike as well. But, I can understand their reluctance to give full access to UN inspectors..... not like the UN has a steller, or even un-biased record. Once could argue that if they have nothing to hide, then they have nothing to fear either.... but, the average american citizen isn't required to allow cops to search their homes any time they desire either, even if there is reasonable suspicion that something shady is going on. (and I am not even sure we have reasonable suspicion here....) As for Iran selling a weapon, of whatever description, to terrorists..... The Revolutionary Guard has already been tied to terrorism..... The terrorists don't even had to get the weapon here to the the states, we have a lot of target opportunities overseas for them to poke at.....

So what about the modders that specifically state they DON'T want any compatibility patches made for their work? (and we have indeed seen at least one of those......)

As much as I like Iran and the Iranians (visited Tehran in the early 60's) they are our biggest near east foreign policy headache and we will have to deal with their desire to become another nuclear power BEFORE they actually put a weapon in operational status, since after will make our desires moot. Just being pragmatic, though I wish that was not necessary but probably it will be. Bad at diplomacy? Having issues with people who won't bow down to everything you say, and might actually want what is best for their country? Why not start wars! I don't believe that developing nuclear weapons is in the best interests of the Iranian people........ but, nor do I think it is the place of the US government to dictate to a sovereign nation what they may, or may not, do on their own territory. Quite frankly, I don't care if Iran develops a nuke. Its what they do with it, should they build one, that becomes the issue. If they decide to actually USE one, we already have mutual response treaties in place with our allies in the region. Iran knows this. In this particular instance, being pro-active is only going to backfire on us, and lower the standing of the US in the middle east even further should we invade/bomb/otherwise militarily engage with Iran on the premise that they are developing nukes, without substantial evidence to back up our position. (which we do not currently have, nor are we likely to.) Now, should Iran develop, and then USE a nuke...... we would be justified in whatever military action we should decide to take. There would be a large number of middle-easterners SCREAMING for us to act. Politically, I think that would be a better position to be in....... And as an aside, if potentially belligerent nations developing nukes is such a concern, and the mere thought of them MAYBE building one is cause for military action, just why is it, that we have given N. Korea a pass, when we KNOW FOR A FACT that they are building/testing nukes, and a capable delivery system?? Why is N. Korea so different from Iran?? Could it be....... Proximity to Israel?

So, because cops in some locale are dishonest, we should allow cops in some other locale to violate our rights against unreasonable search and seizure. (detention) I don't follow the logic there. And since we are going for hypotheticals here..... how do you think folks would have reacted had the criminal in question decided that instead of being arrested, he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, and came out shooting, and one or more of those folks (and possibly even a child) were shot by either him, or some cop? Headlines reading "Innocent victim handcuffed on side of road killed" wouldn't go over so well, now would it?

I agree with you. Iran is the least of our worries. But, our government doesn't seem to. So, they either know something we don't, which sways their opinion, or, some folks are just agitating for another war. My guess is, the latter.....

Iran is no threat to us. They don't have the military means, nor the technology to threaten us with Nuclear weapons. The entire media hype over Iran is fueled mostly by Zionists AKA Fox News, who have Israel's bests interests ahead of Americas long term interests. Iran is a direct threat to Israel, and only because they are in missile range. Israel will be fine, they got 300+ nukes, and have advanced missile defenses as good as anyone in the world. Any sort of direct invasion into Iran would be a disaster, and completely out of the question, especially in the current economic situation. I don't want to see 50,000 of our people die and trillions more dollars just because Israel feels insecure. I'm sorry but Israel isn't a good enough ally for our nation to go completely bankrupt fighting their wars for them. Best thing I can tell the Israelis if they have to defend themselves, do it, and pull no punches. China and Russia are more of a threat to the US than Iran, its already proven that both countries have long range missiles aimed at US targets. Does Iran? Not a chance. Does that mean we should attack Russia and China? The Iran issue is and always has been about Israel, and not about them being a threat to us. But, they could sell nuclear technology/material to some terrorist organization that would just love to set off some variety of dirty bomb on American soil.... or one of our allies for that matter. That's what all the hullaballoo about their refining uranium is mostly geared towards. Doesn't seem to matter that we could easily figure out where the material came from, and then exact retribution for any such attack...... The war machine needs another bank roll. Iran has been marked as the next likely target. Nothing like a good invasion to get the bucks rolling in for the military-industrial complex.

87% minorities. Hhhhmmmm......... All the more reason to hate NYC and avoid it like the plague. If a cop threw me up against a wall to try and search me, he might walk away missing some teeth. Trouble is, at that point, he could shoot you, and get away with it....... I get depressed watching the rapid erosion of our rights....... This goes right back to the "what are you entitled to" thread. You are only entitled to what your current government is willing to grant you, and even that is subject to change without notice.

Syco has it correct. These are not people that they have detained, these are folks that "look suspicious". Also not, from the article, 87% minorities. Hhhhmmmm.........

Here's another one for folks to chew on. NYPD Stop and Frisk. Constitutional? Or budding police state?

Nice thought, but, I think you are mistaken. People really ARE that stupid. :) I would like to think that the 'major powers' are well aware that there is NO winner in a nuclear war. But, it isn't the major powers that concern me. Most of them have a pretty good idea of what would become of their country should they launch a nuke in the wrong direction..... It's the 'little guys" that we need to worry about. N. Korea probably wouldn't have to think twice about using one, provided they had one that actually worked.... and a delivery system for it. I could see them smuggling one into S. Korea though..... Iran? They are pretty sure that nuking Israel would be the last act of a soon to be vaporized government...... maybe if the leaders there were fanatical enough, they would just see the populations of several cities as martyrs...... better be a lotta virgins in heaven..... or was that, Virginians?? Not to mention the possibility of some terrorist group or other getting their hands on some flavor of nuke. Be it an actual nuclear device, or simply a 'dirty' bomb. (radioactive material with an explosive dispersal device. Chernobyl on a smaller scale.) Making a large part of D.C. uninhabitable for the next 10,000 years would certainly cramp our lifestyle for a bit.....

The search and detention of folks that they had no cause to hold, was unconstitutional. Should we just throw our rights out the window in order to be "safe"?? Wasn't it Ben Franklin that said: They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.