I just got back from watching this movie. I agree with all of the "criticism" of the movie - score was too loud, etc. I like to use The Matrix as a foundation movie to compare others against. Overall against it I would rate this movie as an 8/10. I would purchase The Matrix on BD before I purchased ...

The Last Airbender (2010) - generally panned by most viewers The Happening (2008) - forgettable, I haven't even heard of it Lady in the Water (2006) - forgettable, I haven't even heard of it. Wasn't this supposed to be some sort of Arthurian thing? The Village (2004) - Great first half with an utter...

Many AMD coolers will only orient top/bottom and NOT front/back. Be SURE that you get a cooler that orients front/back. The 3480 does not exhaust case air upward through the power supply like a normal ATX case. I'll second getting at least 1 Nexus 92mm fan up front, and while you're buying that one,...

I underclocked/volted my 530 and ran it passive with a Scythe Mugen for about a month. This was in an Antec 3480 so the rear exhaust fan is about 1.5" away - I had it plugged into the CPU-FAN header. Once I started gaming I bumped the 530 back to stock and I added a Nexus 120 to the Mugen for insura...

Just imagine how much better off we would be if we had not installed our puppet, the Shah in Iran, and instead let the democracy they had just started continue on it's course? We probably would not have had the Iranian hostages, and Iran/Contra (by the lovely President Reagan!) would never have com...

Right - you are laying the destruction of the WTC and the loss of about 12,000 American and Coalition lives (and countless Iraqi and Afghani lives) on what dribbled down Monica Lewinski's chin. More specifically, you are saying that the 9/11 plot is a retaliatory strike against the US for bombing Bi...

That's very true but why exactly do you think the terrorists did what they did? Osama bin Laden was at one time a close friend of the US as result of America providing Afghanistan support against the Russian invasion in the 1980s. But in 1991, when the coalition forces (led by the US) ejected Iraq ...

[quote="m0002a"] As just one example, Iraq should really be 3 different countries (Shites, Suni, Kurds) but the British created an artificial nation that has wrecked havoc on world. Ottoman rule over Iraq lasted until World War I when the Ottomans sided with Germany and the Central Powers. In the Me...

Yes those French are very smart, but don't expect to ever be able to fool the Americans again. Never. Nobody fooled anybody. France did loose a battle in WWII, that is a fact. Other countries came to help and we are very grateful they did. Now the war is over and we're moving on. You owed us one an...

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spookmineer wrote:Not all movies can be explained... merely experienced.

Like Memento?

Memento is a thread in and of itself. And I encourage you to start one, I'd love to discuss it!

You're missing the point but are oh so close. First - this thread wasn't about immigration law, it was about a movie about Hugo Chavez, likely directed and produced with a slanted viewpoint. Second - Immigration law in the US is highly pertinent to the people of South America if they are going to be...

I understand the difference between a person and their country. I just think you should work on the problems in your own country and region before your start trying to change other countries (this should fit into your anti-globalization philosophy very nicely). You should also refrain from making c...

I connected the Scythe fan with the stock fan header so that the card is running the fan. Unfortunately I can not confirm if the card quits with no fan. A few people have put aftermarket coolers/fans on these cards and I have never heard of this happening.

aristide1 wrote:Since drug addicts are pretty much just a parasite sucking off society ...

Addiction is a little more complicated than that. Some addicts behave this way, but many many more do not.

Without some form of measurable test, my opinion is up in the air.

Get one of these to Mike, stat!

Normally I wouldn't open one of these threads up, but this response struck me because it's similar to what I have said in several threads here. And no, it's not me, my Disquss ID is psyopper. Posted by: stoffer | 06/24/10 | 7:00 pm | I would like to mention one important think that no one seems to r...

Speaking of Chavez and nationalizing US owned oil production facilities - he did it again today...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_ ... a_oil_rigs

To the best of my knowledge, the US and Venezuela were BFF all the way up to the point where Chaves nationalized all of the oil production facilities in Venezuela. Those facilities were paid for (in full) by foreign oil companies, primarly US companies. A certian percentage of their production was r...

Edit: I do NOT recommend this Asus card for silent operation. It is tolerable but annoying in 2D and gets out of hand under load. I put a Scythe Setsugen on my Asus 5770 CuCore. I agree with your statement, plus the fact that the cooler didn't actually cool. It idled at 60c and ramped up to 110+ in...

Have you actually seen the references to ID in Texas textbooks? I doubt that it is more than a sentence or two, and not like anything such as you are imagining (such as religious fundamentalism). And by this statement, you haven't seen them either. Associating ID to religious fundamentalists and tr...

Given that neither of us can prove our theories about whether the universe exists without any underlying intelligent design, or whether there is some intelligent design, why not let students hear both sides and let them decide? What are you afraid of? Yours is not a "given", but the rest of the sta...

The least I would get is the 5770 and then only to game on a single monitor with decent settings and frame rates in modern games. You'll want a 5850 or better if you want to go dual screen gaming. As for a quiet 5770, that's ben beaten to death on the forums. Get a Vapor-X if you want OEM and pretty...

ID supporters wont relent until they actually see radiation make a positive mutation inside a dna strand in real time, and then only if they can see it with there own naked eyes. Not necessarily. As m0002 pointed out already (and I had surmised earlier) - they will just use that as evidence for "ho...

This is the model I'd be getting and I believe it will fit, but is it the best option? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131354 That's a reference card. Some coolers may fit but your mileage may vary. I wouldn't have any amount of faith in an aftermarket cooler fitting proper...

Aftermarket cooling on the 57xx cards depends on the layout of the card. If it's a reference card there's not much to choose from as the GPU is too close to the backplate (I/O shield) for any of the coolers to fit.

If it's a non-reference card your options start opening up.

Wow. You should move to Texas!

All of this is interesting theory (randomness or design), but it is all still theory. Do you understand what a "Scientific Theory" is? From wikipedia: In the sciences, a scientific theory (also called an empirical theory) comprises a collection of concepts, including abstractions of observable phen...

The question is what causes the mutations in the first place, and are they actually random, or is there some design involved. That would be the part about radiation and where it randomly damages or removes portions of the genetic structure. If you like we can go into Heisenberg's Uncertainty Princi...

There are plenty of causes of random mutations, but by defining the cause of a random mutation it can then be described with "order" thus giving it Intelligent Design. Isn't this what you're after? I'll give you several causes of random mutation.., and they all come back to Radiation by either earth...