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"You would be marked illegible for breeding in a state ruled by my policies ." (spz2, self-declared Fascist) Late to this, but I have to say that in my fascist, social darwinist, Mensa-ruled state, anyone who doesn't know the difference between "eligible" and "illegible" would be straight on the Soylent Green conveyor belt. Gotta work at those basic standards in the herd intelligence -- no room for sentiment.. :laugh:

"A welfare state: Because of the economic issues that the Roman's had, the emperors were faced with a lot of unrest (jobless citizens [among others] flocked to the cities, especially to Rome, where they created a constant fear of rebellion). To help calm them, "bread and circuses" were enacted" Most of the "jobs" in ancient Rome were done by slaves, so it's a poor analogy if you're making comparisons with the modern USA. The bread & circuses thing was really just pork-barrel politics, it wasn't a welfare state. I'd say that the major weakness that eventually brought down the Roman Empire, assuming it wasn't just old age, was simply that they weren't a particularly inventive people. All of the technology we associate with the Romans was copied from the Greeks, Phoenicians, Egyptians, and the various places they conquered. Their skills were military, logistic, administrative, but unlike the Greeks, they really weren't into research into new ideas (there was the arch though -- give them that). This lack of ideas, of science, might well have been the ultimate cause of their downfall (mind you, the Holy Roman Empire, as opposed to the military empire, survived through to the 19th century, just).

"I'd recommend that the user making the new content makes enough changes to their new item that it is obviously just that, a new item." Possible copyright infringement (for example a similar, but not exact, copy of a texture) should be borne in mind when making such changes. The concept of "derivative work" should be explored in this case, as even something that isn't a straightforward port has potential pitfalls.

Orwell was no absolutist about non-censorship though. In a proposed preface to Animal Farm, he wrote in part; "There always must be, or at any rate there always will be, some degree of censorship, so long as organised societies endure. But freedom, as Rosa Luxembourg [sic] said, is ‘freedom for the other fellow’. The same principle is contained in the famous words of Voltaire: ‘I detest what you say; I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ If the intellectual liberty which without a doubt has been one of the distinguishing marks of western civilisation means anything at all, it means that everyone shall have the right to say and to print what he believes to be the truth, provided only that it does not harm the rest of the community in some quite unmistakable way." (my emphasis). That last part (bolded) is where the disagreement over freedom of speech lies, I think. People have differing views as to what "harms the community in some quite unmistakable way". For example, if hate speech leads to serious rioting and civil unrest, it must be very tempting for authorities to censor it as an easier option than policing the perceived consequences of tolerating it.

Some Catalyst drivers don't like Oblivion much, I've found. Frame skipping has been a problem for me in the past with updated ATI drivers. Have you tried an earlier version, or possibly an Omega Drivers version?

The source from which you have apparently taken the above, and the related quote, actually says; "At the same time Marx was not immune to the racist stereotypes of his day. His description of the German-Jewish socialist Ferdinand Lassalle, which Sperber describes as “an ugly outburst, even by the standards of the nineteenth century,” illustrates this influence:" (New York Review of Books, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/09/real-karl-marx/?pagination=false). The point made is that Marx's views about "lesser races" were fairly typical of the times in which he lived and of "Western" society generally; such attitudes were not uncommon by any means, though Sperber does see this as extreme. No hint of extermination or "purifying the proletariat", as you put it, though.

Well I'm still regularly playing the big O, though not as intensely as when I first got it. There are still aspects to this game I haven't yet explored, such as DB or Thief's Guild (I'm usually a good guy) plus loads of high-end mods yet to be tried. And when it comes down to it, it's just a nice place to ride around checking out the scenery. With Unique Landscapes I'm still finding knock-out new views and places I haven't seen before. I doubt I'll bother with Skyrim -- the whole Steam thing puts me off. Steam + Valve games was OK, but that's as far as it goes pour moi.

Yes. All the servers show zero users for some reason. Didn't know this has been going on so long..

You most likely want the Feedback, Suggestions & Questions forum for this. The rules about porting apply to Bethesda's content, which they don't allow to be transferred between their games. As to mods, that would depend on the specific mod. You could always PM one of the admin staff about this if you get no useful response in the forums. :thumbsup:

You have checked your sound driver, that it's the right one for XP? Sorry if it's an obvious question ;)

Just a thought, but it could also be that your drive is getting worn. I had a similar problem a while back, and found that re-installing from another, newer, drive on my network did the trick. (In passing, I wouldn't mention either the T-word or the P-word around here again if I were you :tongue: )

That's the way the Irish and the Scottish say it. Arse fits better in their accents IMO. Not just the Celtic fringe -- it's Old English & older in origin; "ass" is an American neologism, I think, perhaps seen as more 'polite'. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=arse

You can use a cheat code to set a quest as complete, which is sort of a solution if you don't want to torture NPCs. You'll need to do a bit of online research; 'completequest' should complete the current quest, but I don't know offhand if that would jump over too many stages in the game. Make a savegame before doing anything drastic, obviously ;)

Published music is usually protected by several copyrights, but the relevant one here is that the actual arrangement of notes is itself covered by copyright, so just doing your own version of a tune (without permission) would still breach copyright law.

"The US involvement World War Two made sense considering the axis were a serious threat.." Just to clarify, the US involvement in World War Two wasn't a matter of choice -- it was forced on them by the declaration of war upon the USA by Germany & Italy in 1941. But yes, it made sense.

"Wow do you just come on here with the sole purpose of trolling me?" No, but posts on this and other threads are read by lots of other people, so some attempt at clarification of often emotion-driven issues is worth pursuing, as I'm sure you would agree. For example, we see, from your referenced quote, that Al-Q proxies were believed to be operating in Kurdish Iraq, an unstable, trans-border region that Saddam was struggling (often brutally) to control, and who were presumably hoping to take advantage of such instability. The no-fly zone probably didn't do Al-Q any harm, incidentally. The fact remains that the USA's excuse for attacking Iraq in 2003 was that Saddam was, at least by implication, actively encouraging Al-Q; the words "nine-eleven" were thrown in at every opportunity by GWB in just about every speech in the run up to the attack.

@ginnyfizz ...aware as I am of the report that Al Qaeda were not specifically tied to the regime in Iraq, some of their associates were certainly operating there. You have claimed (see posts passim) to be a lawyer, so you will understand the importance of evidence. Do you have evidence, or references, for that statement? Saddam, nasty as he was, was basically a classic, old-style, northern-Arab quasi-Stalinist dictator, and would have been as antagonistic to Islamism as George Bush. The idea that he would have tolerated any nurturing of militant political Islamism within Iraq is risible. He spent most of the 1980s at war with Iran, and his later treatment of the Shia marsh arabs, with their cultural links with Iran, in the southern borders further emphasises this. Actually (I add as an EDIT), why did the US so quickly dive in to defend Kuwait in Gulf War 1? That's the more interesting question.

Don't stint with the cringing. But that aside, when it comes to inflicting explosives on other countries and their people, I'd say that we should be told exactly why it's being done; yes? In any event I have the, possibly mistaken, impression from previous posts of yours that overweening, secretive, government is something of a bête noire in your world.

"It is a volunteer military, and when you join up, you know there is the possibility, maybe probability depending on what you sign up for, that there is going to be some killing." ..and if you're a poor boy with no job prospects in your town, and your chances of actually being killed or injured in battle are minimal (as they actually are in the modern Western military), and the money looks good, then patriotic blablabla is probably not the most urgent driving impulse..

Maybe it's exactly because the US intervened that they were unable to hurt the US continuously? Isn't that the whole point of intervening? Isn't that the number 1 reason why they invaded Afghanistan? Then what is? I wouldn't say it was all that random. And what if a country is found harboring those terrorists? Hmm. Smash the hypothetical threat. How far down that particular hall of mirrors are we supposed to we go??

Surely time to lock this thread as it's turning into Groundhog Day :confused:

I would also suggest installing the mods that beautify & improve the gameworld -- mods for landscape, weather, window-lighting, good-looking NPCs and so forth. It's a big world and you spend a lot of time just travelling around in it, so it's worth making the environment as interesting as you can. Like others, I'm in no hurry to get Skyrim as Oblivion just never seems to get old :thumbsup:

Does it lag in base-game buildings? If not, what building mods are you having trouble in? NB: Have patience -- this is a forum not a chatroom :thumbsup:

To answer your second post, I personally found that FO3 does get old a lot sooner than Oblivion, but that's just me. Something to keep in mind -- if you follow the main quest through to the end, that's the end of the game -- the final curtain. You need the add-on Broken Steel (or one of the mods that fixes the ending) to be able to continue with an open-ended game. Of course you don't have to complete the main quest.

Good replies, and the 'better computer' suggestion could just mean a better video card & more memory if your processor is reasonably fast. For me, Unique Landscapes made a huge visual difference to game enjoyment, but it's likely (I'm assuming from what you've said) that you won't be able to use it as it is very graphics-intensive. Worth a try though -- my system is hardly state-of-the-art. Maybe you just need to leave off playing for a couple of months then come back to it with a new character with different aims & strategies in the game. :thumbsup: