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Sorry, are you trying to restrict my right to teach my children what I believe to be the truth? I'm not going to stop you teaching your children whatever you like. However it is unfair to bring them up with such a one-sided view of the world and morality. You can be moral without being religious, and you can be immoral while being religious. Would you approve of me teaching my children the The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? It's truly ridiculous, but hey, it's my belief, thus will be my children's. They will actually believe it because they are so young and naive that they don't know anything else other than it. Oh, and also: This is blatant speculation at best which doesn't even attempt to take into account any other (real) reasons why the US goes to war a lot. The US isn't even the most religious North American country. edit: didn't mean to quote adrenal

I personally like the 2.5mm ones, and 120mm will be good for length (you'll be cutting the majority of it off anyway, no point in 200mm)

Very nice. Got any overclock going on the i5? Also strange because the TX650 in your picture and '530W Pure Power..' don't match up.

You don't >need< cable ties, but they're nice. You can get 100 for like 2 pounds on ebay. The harddrive is 1TB, or 1000GB.

minus minus 1 HP 5 HP

Mind expanding? Sure, I am trying to create a mobile app, for the mobile in a windows Operating system(i make the app on my pc, running windows) :) I know I know, but specifics about what kind of app? :P

Ok i am going to buy the parts soon, is this one better? Corsair 500W CX V2 PSU And the picture above apart from tools is that all the components i will need? Yes, that corsair one is good. You'll only need a screwdriver when it comes to tools. Looking good.

Guy's build does include everything, but you can probably squeeze an i5 2400 into your budget. -£140 for current CPU/Motherboard. +£150 for i5 2400, setting total to £460~. That leaves you £140 for motherboard, which is easily doable (you can get good ones for under £100). Up to you if you want the upgrade, I wouldn't bother unless you're doing quite a bit of gaming (BF3-esque)

One effective way is (surprisingly) anti-copy tools. For example, activating adobe software is a headache at best, whereas when activating a pirated version of Office 2010 you actually have to phone up microsoft.. If you improve your anti-piracy tools, people will still crack it (people will manage to crack anything), but it will be harder, such as when pirating adobe software you have to use a keygen or a bunch of keys on a program, then go and edit your hosts file and do a whole myriad of other stuff. Granted, it isn't really an option for smaller corporations, but a majority of the software produced by said corporations is low-user base, thus logically it's harder to pirate because less seeds and there may not even be a torrent available. I also agree with whoever said ridiculous prices put people off buying software. There is not a way in hell that I'm buying Rosetta Stone for 500, neither would my parents. If it was perhaps 100, maybe I could convince my parents to get it for a school suppliment or whatever, but 500 is truly stupid. (That 500 figure is circa how much it would be, not completely accurate)

Exactly this. BBM has been around for a long time, and then there are also cross-platform apps exactly like this (the name of which completely escapes me at the moment). It's hardly a new idea. There's an interesting article here about him and his less-than-nice side, and then there's the infamous conversation detailed here. He was by no means the nicest of people, and I certainly do not agree with the market plan that Apple has, but he certainly was a great contributor to his field.

Please.. consider building [hide=Build]Part list permalink / Part price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£89.86 @ Scan.co.uk) Motherboard: MSI 870-G45 ATX AM3 Motherboard (£50.24 @ Scan.co.uk) Memory: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£24.89 @ Ebuyer) Hard Drive: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£44.87 @ Scan.co.uk) Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 6770 1GB Video Card (£79.55 @ Ebuyer) Case: Cooler Master Elite 335 ATX Mid Tower Case (£28.65 @ Ebuyer) Power Supply: Corsair 500W ATX12V Power Supply (£44.80 @ Ebuyer) Optical Drive: Sony AD-7261S-0B DVD/CD Writer (£15.99 @ Amazon UK) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) (£71.05 @ Ebuyer) Total: £449.90 (Prices include shipping and discounts when available.) (Generated 2011-10-09 22:14 BST+0100)[/hide] If not, I've actually seen some builds by smaller companies selling computers on amazon, and they're actually pretty good value for money (they're built then sold to you). I can't vouch for the companies, but their prices are 100% more competitive than dells, or any other large PC manufacturer.

Mind expanding?

You can get an amazing gaming computer for $2000, you won't need for that for your father (I'm assuming). Check out local hardware stores, and do some research regarding online computer stores in Qatar. I'm not sure the volume of parts being imported there is particularly high, thus prices would be pretty high, so you may find it easier/cheaper to buy a prebuilt, especially for the lower end that you're looking at.

Are you specifically looking for all-in-one's, or would you be fine with the normal box+monitor? This, for example, is $440 but a million times better than the other two, and may be cheaper if you build it yourself too (edit: see below). [hide=For interest]Nope, not cheaper, that $99 windows mucks everything up.. Part list permalink / Part price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i3-2100 3.1GHz Dual-Core Processor ($119.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: ASRock H61M-VS Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($53.99 @ Newegg) Memory: G.Skill NS 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($25.99 @ Newegg) Hard Drive: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.99 @ SuperBiiz) Case: Apex PC-389-C ATX Mid Tower Case ($24.99 @ Amazon) Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W ATX12V Power Supply ($37.99 @ SuperBiiz) Optical Drive: Sony AD-7261S-0B DVD/CD Writer ($20.98 @ Newegg) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) ($99.99 @ Newegg) Total: $442.91 (Prices include shipping and discounts when available.) (Generated 2011-10-08 07:33 EDT-0400)[/hide]

Never really thought of that. I always assumed it was interference or out-of-date software. This could definitely be a possibility. Out of curiosity, would plugging them in to my iPod be a good test before I think about doing this? I figure if they're faulty, the static clicking would happen regardless of what they're plugged in to (which is what cheeky16 suggested). Ah yes.. Should've read the OP more clearly, I thought it was a laptop. In that case, yes try with an ipod or something.

Woot, another leader to pester! Grats Russet! <3:

I would call up acer, I think it's faulty hardware.

Are you ok with the other killings that have been happening for the past 3 years or whatever? Every single death there isn't publicised as widely as this guy's. Are you saying all of these terrorists should've been given fair trials, and then eventually found to be guilty and executed anyway? To give them a fair trial in the fist place you have to capture them as well, which has a human cost. It's unfortunate, but this is the only real efficient way to do it.

ISTJ here. I've done this test a few times and I'm pretty sure it's changed every time... I feel very different depending on whether I've just been out to an amazing party or something or played a week of games and had a lot of fun that way, and can't be bothered to go out because of that.

I think it's a case-by-case thing. Americans aren't going to complain (as much? I'm not sure how annoyed people are at this 'citizen' being killed) if someone like this guy was killed, but back then there'd be widespread rebellion of they killed MLK.

I see no difference between this killing and the killing of many many other Al-Qaeda operatives in the same region apart from this guy is an American citizen. However this guy appears to have been spouting anti-American rhetoric, which isn't a particularly American thing to do, implying he doesn't think himself American. It isn't a definitive science, but there is a difference between being born in America and being an American, same with any other country. I was born outside of the UK, but I still consider myself English. He was just another terrorist, and if we don't kill them/stop them what do we do? Let them continue? Unfortunately there really is only one option, other than imprisoning them, which is both incredibly difficult, involves loss-of-life, takes time and requires you to extradite them to a secure position, all with the distinct possibility that they will be killed anyway. I don't feel this is a particularly special case. TL;DR technically an American citizen, but didn't act like one (to the contrary, actively hated America), thus who cares? Just another one of many who have had the same thing done.

While I appreciate your response, the question was aimed at the theists to answer ... :razz: I was going to post something along those lines anyway, as I'd be interested in a reply.

I'm not a theist, but I'll answer anyway. It's impossible to prove that any deities exist, and equally impossible to disprove them. However the way these things work, you can't assert something with no evidence, it is a case of not true until proven true, otherwise I could assert that we are all actually plugged into computers, matrix style. This holds the same merit as an assertion that deities exist, and is equally unprovable. The discussion of whether or not deities exist is an infinite one - one side can not prove the other totally wrong, but at least we can debate 'evidence' that is presented from either side. Personally, I find the scale of everything a pretty limiting factor in the existence of a deity. The universe is massive, and there's the whole possibility of other dimensions and all of that physics-y stuff. It's huge. To think that a god would care one bit about the tiniest, literally think of the smallest thing possible then half it, bit of dust floating around the infinity of space. There is so much more out there, and there is every likelihood (it's a probability, rather than a possibility) that there is other life out there too. It is unreservedly arrogant of humans to think that, if any deities did exist, they would care about nothing other than us. The observable, note observable not entire, universe has a radius of 46billion light years. Our own galaxy has a radius of ~100,000 light years, which is 0.000217% of the universe. Our Earth is 0.00000006371 light years in radius, making us 1.38500*(10^-18)% of the universe. This is obviously a very vague number, but that is not the point - the point is that we are so infinitesimally tiny and unimportant, so why would anyone care about us? I'd argue that there are a lot more interesting things out there, out of everything that exists. We don't matter, why would any person want to listen to billions of people complaining? You can't claim they do because a book says so - I've read many books and they all say a great deal of interesting things. Many of them include dragons, but it doesn't mean that dragons exist. I hate to bring up an obvious question, but I will anyway because it is important. If deities exist, where are they? Do they fly around through dimensions? Or are they undetectable, and if that is indeed the argument than surely they are nothing more than figments of our imagination?

If being pregnant for 9 months and having a normal-sized foetus in a body of a child who is half the size of any woman, and then proceeding to have a c-section is not dangerous or potentially life-threatening, then I don't know why. Your claim here is entirely baseless.

Going back to that whole 'do you believe heaven exists' thing a couple pages back, I just want to add my 2 cents. The assertion that heaven/hell exists carries exactly the same weight as the assertion that we are all reborn, or that we just cease to exist. In other words, any debate about that is fruitless, any of them can be true. Hmm.. reading over that it doesn't add a lot to the discussion, oh well.