pharris73

pharris73

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In countries where a lot of people die in wars, it would cause this if life expectancy is based on health-related issues. If you have a lot of older people and a lot of kids but a severe drop in people of "fighting" age, you would get this average age with relatively few people actually falling in the average range.

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Good graphics really add very little value to a game. Today's amazing graphics will look horrible in 10 years. Games were incredibly popular back when we had 8 bit systems and the graphics were horrible, but we thought they looked pretty good at the time. Great graphics will wow you for 10 minutes and then it becomes irrelevant. My favorite games are ones where I can zoom out to the point where all the graphics are reduced to symbols, but all the information I need is on the screen. A bad gam

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You can't do better than the Monkey Island series. One of the best. They've just re-released the original Secret of Monkey Island with updated graphics and if you've never played it, it's a MUST DO.

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I'm certainly no expert and don't pretend to have any extensive knowledge of the issue. However, common sense dictates that climate is in a common state of flux. It never stays the same. So you have only 2 options: it's getting warmer or it's getting colder. If you REALLY want my attention, warn me about global cooling! Until then, hand me my sunglasses and a cold beer.

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Actually, I found the pirate mega-event to be a gift allowing me an easy victory. I was humming along pretty good, my economy running really well, lots of money and population, but no military to speak of. I was just getting ready to start mixing things up when a whole busload of pirates showed up and started killing everything in sight. I didn't bother to fight them. They were doing a nice job of wiping out everyone else's defences. I simply built a transport loaded with engines and set my gov

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Check out the E4300. It's the same as the E6300 with virtualization disabled (which hardly anyone needs). It's so easy to overclock, a child could do it, and it's cheaper than the other core2duo chips. With a very inexpensive aftermarket cooler and the cheaper 667mz ram, you can safely bump this chip from 1.8 ghz to 3.0 ghz with no effort whatsoever. When you can run a chip at nearly double its rated speed on cheap ram with air cooling and little or no experience in overclocking, I say it's wort

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Look at all your other stats by using the graphs. Economy, research, population, etc. You might be surprised at how well you're actually doing. I'm usually dead last in the power rankings until I decide to gear up for battle and crank out some warships, at which point I catapult near the top. Unless you're in imminent danger of being attacked, a lower power ranking is a GOOD thing. It means you're not wasting all that lovely productivity on ships that are doing nothing except becoming obsolete.

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2 points that always seem to get passed over: 1. How can the same people people who believe Bush is too dumb to tie his own shoes, turn around and accuse him of masterminding the most ingenious plot and coverup in history? 2. Israel has one of the most formidable nuclear arsenals on the planet and has never used them, despite extreme provocation. Do you honestly think that Iran and bin Laden would be able to show such restraint? Would you really, truly, feel more comfortable an

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Actually, I've found that after clicking on the slider, you can change the price incrementally much faster using the mouse wheel. It beats clicking on the arrows to get 1 bc increments.

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I've seen this bug reported already, and I've had it twice but not in the same situation. I had one of those morality choices to make and the good choice cost a percentage of happiness. When I selected it, I tanked out to 1% and nothing I did had any effect. After a certain number of turns, I had a revolution, everyone split and I lost all my population

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