Laura

Er, I don't mean to impose, but do you have one? What lag are you talking about? The only apps that are possibly laggy are those that require internet service, which is to be expected or those with high memory demands. And call quality is superb, it had some issues when it was released, but with all the firmware updates, that's been fixed. And hands down, it has the best HTML browsing of any mobile phone. On the downside, if you text or e-mail a lot, the touchscreen QWERTY keyboard might take awhile to get used to, and it's a bit harder. But there's a reason it's the #1 selling phone this quarter, 10 million sold so far I believe.

My thoughts exactly. Without the BGS part, or at least, I can't make that inference.

Do the other computers also have a pirated copy? If not, it's safe to assume it's the pirated copy.

Sorry, I tried to convert it, but I got so confused, so I took a shot in the dark. :oops:

How much do you plan on spending for a gaming rig? What games do you plan to play? Try and shoot for at least a duo core, AMD or Intel. If you're serious about gaming (maybe without Farcry or Crysis) then aim for a NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT or higher (it's only like $50).

Asking for a discrete graphics card on a laptop for that price is a bit much, but you could take a look at the HP dv4-1125nr. 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 4GB SDRAM 250GB HDD 5,400rpm Intel GMA 4500MHD (Integrated graphics :( ) Vista Premium 64-bit I found it to be priced around $650. Also, I don't think you're wrong going to Dell. I'm about to buy a $550 computer from them with Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4GB DDR2 RAM, and an ATI Radeon HD 256MB. Pretty much all the components I was looking for, with a free bump up to a quad core processor.

Err, the iPhone has support for MS Exchange as well? Both are decent for business, but the BlackBerry wins, hands down. But, since you're just a casual user, I'd get the iPhone. I bought the black 8GB, and I'm happy I switched from a basic cell phone. Use of WiFi, 3G in my area, GPS(with turn-by-turn coming on 2.2 (Nov. 21st)), best music interface and design on the market, Apple's fantastic customer support, upgradability, and the iTunes App Store (I never thought it was a big deal, until after I saw the applications you can put on it, it's really the thing that makes the phone worth the start up price.) Before you buy one check your area from 3G support, and if you don't have have 3G just buy the original iPhone with the 2.0 software, as it's $10 a month cheaper.

So should I wait out instead of buying the Q6600 at the moment? Will it have the price drops as dramatic as the previous four core processors, or will it remain the "high end processor" for awhile?

Take a picture with your monitor, please. :twss:

That made me lol irl.

HIV/AIDS is transmitted past two people by people who do not care who they sleep with, or sleep with multiple people, ie, a large portion are rapist. I'm sure a portion of women there do not want to have a child when they do not know they're father. That's a really bad argument. The bailout came from tax payers money to aid our own country. Again, there's no way we're giving a trillion dollars to a country when we are trillions in debt.

What is it with you and viking porn? If you only knew. Theres just a lot of pent up Awesome from all this viking porn.If there was some forum I could go to to let it all out you guys wouldn't have to bear with this. Does viking porn even exist? Many people have Googled it and turned up empty. Only the original poster holds the truth. :-$

I'm trying to say that their resources will be growing at a slower rate than births. Even then, if a cure was created, it would most likely need a booster shot, and possibly multiple shots. The organization, cost of the cure, transportation, people, cooperation, and shelter would cost over a trillion dollars to put together, not just the "100 billion" for the cure itself. My point exactly. Women can, possibly be raped by many men in a lifetime, increasing the chance of her getting HIV, thus the next clean person to come along and do so now carries the virus. And if he strikes again, it gets passed along in the same way. Of course we should. But do you think many of the people being raped and don't speak out have the money to afford birth control? Or even use it correctly? And again, education costs money, where is this money coming from?

That's like two and a half weeks on a full time job, who wouldn't take that?

Hehe. :

I'm lost. :?

Exactly. They still need resources, but they're finite, as they only live so long. Now imagine if we had them live longer. While I'm not saying it's bad that they're living, I'm just saying the world as a whole won't and can't continue to sustain itself the way it's growing is. You can't say that mankind will not hit the carrying capacity, and making us resistant to disease and infection only shorten the time until we reach it. Do you know the reason they were denied treatment? Half were because they did not have the insurance to cover it, and certainly not the cash in hand. Saving one patient with a high-risk operation that cost thousands ultimately takes away from budget. That budget, could perhaps be used to better the hospital to save other with lower risk operations needed. 5 for 1? It is most certainly a factor in many cases. People [in Africa] have been taught of the dangers of HIV/AIDS. Taking away the risk could ultimately cause outbreaks far worse than we see today of rape crimes. Again, another variable. Any medicine has the potential to create resistant strains, it's still survival of the fittest, even at cellular level. Ethics? Of course many people will tell us to "save the ill!" but in reality, you're not prolonging the longevity of the country as a whole. Using a similar example, why would you have another baby, if you haven't enough food for the other twelve? Not only is food an issue, but rapid disease outbreaks can occur on a larger scale because of closer quarters. Although I base a lot of my examples and quotes on the people in Africa, it happens in many other countries to.

By then, even more people would have the infection, and the population would increase. Charity would help, but 100 billion dollars or more? Even then, something like Gardasil costs: I can imagine the HIV/AIDS vaccine to cost much, much more. And, even if charity was made to "help" people in Africa, they would indeed be doing the exact opposite. There is no child support in most cases, in Africa. There are few consequences of sex, other than STD's. If we take that away, not only could women be raped more frequently (in many cases, it's a daily event), the populations would soar over the years, leading to mass starvation. There are to many variables to consider before handing out cures like that to 3rd world countries who haven't developed a fully capable legal system or means of supporting its people to full extent. Oh yes, and then there could be resistant strains of HIV/AIDS, which would keep us on the search for another cure.

Denying them an aids medicine wouldnt? It's the same result, exponential growth, mass competition and disease. And no, it wouldn't, no against the African government, as I doubt they'll be the ones making the cure. How could they afford it anyways? We should hand it out for free? The United States is trillions of dollars in debt. So is China, and many other countries to add to that. Again, if we can't support ourselves, how can we possibly support others? Yeah, I don't think that's feasible.

[hide=Wikipedia]Omission is, in Catholic teaching, the failure to do something one can and ought to do. If this happens advertently and freely a sin is committed. The degree of guilt incurred by an omission is measured like that attaching to sins of commission, by the dignity of the virtue and the magnitude of the precept to which the omission is opposed as well as the amount of deliberation. In Roman Catholic moral theology, a mortal sin, as distinct from a venial sin, must meet all of the following conditions: 1. its subject must be a grave (or serious) matter; 2. it must be committed with full knowledge, both of the sin and of the gravity of the offense (though nobody is deemed to be ignorant of the moral law, embedded into the consciences of every human being); 3. it must be committed with deliberate and complete consent, enough for it to have been a personal decision to commit the sin.[/hide] I don't really understand the first one(author is a bit vague), but she is still saying that no aids cure -> millions of people dying > Aids cure saving millions of people. (No offence Laura) And since you are talking about churches, since when does the church like that? Ok, let's say that the country of Africa is now an island with 20 deer. Many deer are killed after 10 years due to a parasite. Now, let's say researchers wanted to save these deer, so they rid all the deer of parasites, and make the deer resistant to them. Now the deer's life expectancy has doubled, allowing a life span of twenty years averaged. Now, initially, the deer population will experience exponential growth, that is, growing rapidly without limiting factors. But since this is an island, food is limited, and because of the rocket in deer population they over graze, and have little food left, and in turn, the population drops. Either way, with or without the parasite, the deer would have died. But, with the cure the deer had to compete with each other, and in the human world would mean violence, over turning governments, etc. Is that better? And, if turning down patients is a sin, you'd love hospitals. I worked as an intern under a neurosurgeon. Nine out of every ten patients (just an estimate, but I suppose you get my point) were denied treatment.

Someone doesn't know the difference between a sin of omission and a mortal sin. BACK TO CHURCH. [Medical care is never denied with the intent to kill... in fact, if a patient in dire need shows up at a hospital, by law the hospital can't turn them away. So... where are you going with this?] I am going at: But let's drop the genocide discussion and go back to the topic. Back to my point, where is the food to feed these 15 million people coming from? I don't think you can say that they'll make it themselves. People in Africa are already having a hard time feeding themselves at the time being. And I'm sure you know as well as I do that Africa has one of the highest doubling rates in the world, if not the highest. Why should we, without meaning too, encourage sex? Giving them a cure will only have short-term benefits. Long-term, they'd starve to death

Ice cream, eh? Cookies and Cream, hands down.

Please explain so this doesn't seem so disgusting. Are you joking? Why am I joking? While I'm sure all of us here would love to save millions of people with a cure, it has effects other than so. Most of the virus is in third world countries, who have enough trouble feeding, housing, and supporting its own people. "Saving" 20 million people will only worsen this, causing even more suffering, loss of jobs, housing space, and competition for resources and food. And even then, they would continue to have unprotected sex, as there is a less of a consequence, increasing population. Why would you want them to suffer even more? It's called a carrying capacity, and many countries are con their way to reaching it. Pretty much what Hitler said. There's a fine line between not saving people because of their actions, or actions of others and killing people. Perhaps you would like to enlighten me to my own genocidistic ways?

You shouldn't pop them at all. However, we all know it's inevitable, so yes, that's the best way to do it. Then use an antibacterial ointment or solution on the area, soap would work fine as well.

My room, err, corner. [hide=][/hide]