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In any case, it wasn't meant to be a permanent program. and the new cars bought with it will become used soon enough. The used car market should recover.

[quote]The clunkers were destroyed, rather than resold, which has driven up the cost of used cars.[/quote] Firgive me if I sound a bit dense - but I thought that this was between consumers and new car sales? Where does used car sales come in?

Blogging? Huh [e digicons]o_O[/e] ???? How did get get to talking about that????????? EDIT: Ohhhhh - - - - that's right, Stardock's forum software intergrates with some blog stuff. Sorry - I'm on the forum side of things.

Frankly, compression should be free. There's no sense in using the .rar format. I'm not paying just to use it. And just because there are free decompressors does not mean I'm gonna use it. I could care less. [b]If you want me to use your stuff never, ever send it to me as RAR![/b]

Glenn Beck acknowledges he's an enterntainer . . . even as somebody who leans right, I'd look to other sources for stuff more researched. . . . and frankly, that video of Hitler is stupid. Guit by association (in this case putting words in Hitler's mouth to make him sound Republican) is a fallacy. . . . and I'm amused that people are just slamming each other by throwing around the words "fear mongering," as if that were some deep truth that really matters. Perhaps some

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be the blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king. "The Fellowship of the Ring" - "The Lord of the Ring" (J. R. R. Tolkien)

In no particualar order, some of my favorites: The original C&C and Red Alert. Great games :). Red Alert 3 - kinda. It's a bit over the top with the superweapons, though. There are too many things that there is really no defense against. I feel more like it's a rush to nuke everything first than a real strategy game. Sins of a Solar Empire, although it takes too long to play. Age of Empires games in general are of very good quality :).</l

From reply#88: [quote]Next up are the comments that with larger RAM more files will be cached. Yes more will be cached, but let get serious for a minute. Things get cached as data reads progress. The computer does not cache files in advance, it will cache them after a request for them occurs leaving you with not much of a performance gain. This coupled with the potential for a cached file to still be dropped causing another Page/Memory Fault to occur hampering

mmk, I think I got it all sorted out here . . . pure socialism under the "centrally planned economy and gov't controlls all means of production" I think is infeasible. But - very few nations today are 100% pure. I think that a mixed economy does work, and frankly seems to be working the best. There will always be arguments over where the lines should be exactly, so I guess I'm not gonna pursue this thread any longer. Nice talking to everybody, talk later abou

[quote]The real problem for ardent lovers of late-20th free market rhetoric is that they have no answer for the core critique in Das Kapital: money is not the root of all evil, it is the ultimate abstraction--and as such it is a profoundly corrosive element of larger social systems that use it.[/quote] I'm not familiar with "Das Kapital" - but it seems to me you have asserted that somehow being an abstraction creates some sort of "corrosion." So I now await the proof that all

[quote]Were the original Christians... A. Capitalist B. Socialist C. Communist ?[/quote] They didn't get into economics much. Assigning an economic system to Christianity is rather silly. [quote]your mind is physicly cant undarstand a true socialism/communism.[/quote] False. I understand it - I just do not believe it works as intended. [quote]the reason why you have this "nothing comes for free" psychology is due to t

[quote]How do you reboot the franchise and wipe out the entire 43-year continuity of five entire series of hundreds of episodes and ten movies (not to mention the thousands of books), without "alienating all the fans by tossing aside the well-loved and already established content"? You can't.[/quote] They pretty much have to. They can't maintain continuity with an old series with actors being old or dead. They're not having much success creating a new series. Here are basicall

[quote]1. no one aked to be freeid[/quote] Should a fundamental human right need to be asked for? . . . and try telling that to all of the Iraqi women with purple thumbs, that voted for the first time, and those who have decided to not wear veils now that it is no longer law to wear them. [quote]2. usa did it to gain controll over the oil [/quote] Not our primary reason. But that is a subject for another day. [quote]Haha, here is the true face of capita

Killing Floor? What's that? Oh - Yet Another Horror Game™. No thanks.

[quote]....only $6000...[/quote] heh - IMHO it's pretty insane to pay more for a piece of sofware than for the computer you're running it on . . . [quote]The issue with Blender is that it just isn't at the level of the professional tools we use in the industry. [/quote] More professional than any other piece of freeware I know of. If you don't want to blow away more money than you did on your last two computers, then Blender is as professional as you can get for free.<

All modern OSes are actually using graphics acceleration behind the scenes, so theoretically 3D is possible. In addition, they also have 3D cues such as drop shadows and lighting on buttons. It's just that the 2D "desktop" metaphor really does work best for managing documents and applications. I don't really see any advantage to moving to a "true" 3D metaphor.

It's a good movie. Kinda fast paced, though, I think in a couple of spots they should have slowed things down a bit. I want to have a nice long look at that new bridge :). I'm not quite understanding this new audience . . . When the new Knight Rider came out, I had hopes that it would be good - but after the first few episodes aired, I basically turned it off. I can't really put a finger on what I didn't like - but it seemed rather directionless and without focus. Too much cha

I think a lot of the old adventure games (usually by a name with "___ quest") derserve a lot of "weirdest" awards. Although they were fun anyways :). Why did adventure games die anyways? It was a fun genre.

[quote]A simple deduction of facts.[/quote] Or simple assertions of consequences masquerading as "facts." [quote]omg people fix your quotes, what up with all the over enters?[/quote] Agreed! What's up with the scrolling, Brewski?

[quote]Something for nothing? Wanting someone else to pay for it? Where did you pull that from? Socialism is about collectively paying for something and collectively benefitting from it. It is in no way, shape or form a tool for the purpose of taking from one person and giving to another. You sound like you are more interested in your own lot and walling it off than working with society for a more efficient solution overall, which increases your own lot anyway.[/quote] In that case, I

CocaColaAddict - you ever thought that maybe, just maybe, there are some products where reliability is not primary? Yeah, people buy Xbox 360s. And they buy it knowing full well it's not reliable. Why? Because reliability isn't always everything for all products. The Xbox 360 is a gaming device, and gamers are notorious for wamting more power in their systems and are willing to pay extra for it and pay the penalty of reliability for it. You're right - the Wii p

[quote]and "AMUSINGLY" enough you dont know WHO buy the Wii and WHY...[/quote] Congratulations - you threw a red herring. Do you want to whine about sales, or do you want to talk about the subject at hand? [quote]remember that we are talking about WW2... if USSR was still here today i bet they would of maintain the suprimacy[/quote] Well, geez, that didn't happen - because their economy sorta collapsed. Last I checked, we were talking economics, right?

[quote]note: USSR tank (T-something...) was cheap to produce in mass numbers, and very easy to fix and maintain.[/quote] Cheap, but ineffective. With half the range of an M1 tank, they turned out to be useless when they were finally put to the test in recent wars. I don't think I've heard of a T-anything that could really stand up against modern MBTs. As we say around here - "you get what you pay for." You pay little, you get little. If you let the government buy your

Apparently most of the IP rights are going to Apogee software .

[quote]America does not have medicare, Australia for example does.[/quote] Umm, what ?? [quote]Anarchy seams to be unworkable for sure only because it requires certain level of intellectual and ethical sophistication from each individual in a society...[/quote] . . . which makes it unworkable. Without law enforcement, it only takes a very small number of criminals to