Anesthesia

You know how the Inuits are supposed to have something like 20 different words for snow? We must have a similar number for rain.

I've heard that too. Something to do with utilities named Cain & Abel or something like that, they do something to access the password hashes which you then have to somehow decrypt with another utility.

If you're still in school then surely you can't have been to see them live?

You'd have to check the board's details. Some come with only the onboard graphics and no AGP or PCI-E slots, MicroATX boards in particular. The same can be said for some full system manufacturers; some of them use proprietary motherboards which all but close off your system to upgrades. However if it does have an AGP/PCI-E slot then you're pretty much guaranteed you can use a third party graphics card. Why bother putting on in if they won't let you use it?

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Why not ask them how those assignments are impossible to do with a normal laptop - then if they give a good reason, ask why you can't use a normal graphics tablet (you know, like a mousemat and a pen type). That would save a large amount of money. Also ask why they need those specifications precisely. What will be run on it that needs such specifications?

Haha that's excellent, the same happened to me a while back; I was getting double what I should have been non-stop and so I phoned up only to be told we'd had a free upgrade.

And he might be using firefox/mozilla in which case it would answer his query. I seem to remember it happening in IE as well; though I haven't used that for a couple of versions.

I am also a ska fan, I used to like LTJ before they got all pop-y, Reel Big Fish, Buck O Nine, Mustard Plug, Farse and Ska P. The Killers? Alternative? You've got to be joking.

Do you only get over the expected speed at the start of a download? I have always noticed unexpected speeds when I'm starting a download, I think it's because it starts the downloading whilst I'm still choosing where to save the file and then reports the average speed as a bit too high because it only starts considering how much of the file we already have when I have finished choosing where to stick it. If you know what I mean.

Oh really? Gee whiz. I didn't realise that. I guess I must be a closet christian then. IT WAS A JOKE :roll:

Three days?! That's tomorrow!

Those seem pretty ludicrous requirements... It's one thing to say that the requirement is so stupidly high if THEY are going to be providing the equipment, but another if they expect you to get it. Why on earth do they want a 56k internal modem? It looks very much like they are trying to limit you to buying one through them, upon which I'd guess they'd make a tidy profit. On dabs.com (probably the UK's largest online computer store) there were 308+ notebook PCs and only ONE of them fulfilled that requirement. I'm not even sure if that one did, as it didn't specify XP Pro.

That's another poor analogy. A person who is asking for euthanasia can convey their feelings. A foetus cannot; hence there is NO way of knowing what it's like to be killed in the womb. I don't need to address your arguments, they were all religious ones. That renders them invalid to me and the rest of the freethinking world so they don't need to be addressed. I wasn't willing to bother because this isn't a topic about whether religion is right or wrong. Funnily enough no. None of my family are religious, nor ever have been. I 'slam' people who spout dogma and are blind to reason because in my eyes they are puerile know-nothings who are afraid to take off their religious blinkers and experience the real world without shifting all responsibility to a mythical being. I don't hate god, I hate religion. To hate god would be to acknowledge god. My girlfriend's a catholic and I don't 'slam' her. Well, not like that anyway... I don't have a problem with her because she doesn't arrogantly spout dogma like she is somehow enlightened. She can feel empathy and doesn't sit in an ivory tower telling people to suffer when she has no idea how it is. I love you too. But no physical love please. That would get us a first class ticket to hell.

Has anyone actually read anything other than the first post? I posted a link to an official statement from Sony saying that this rumour is NOT TRUE.

Why? Do you have illegal things on there? I'm talking criminal illegal, not copyright infringement (a civil matter). Maybe you should look at this: http://ee-sucks.tripod.com/

Ahh yes the wonderful and steadfast philosophy of 'if it costs more it is better'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_ant ... Criticisms Some highlights from a better source of information than me: According to an article by the Washington Post, Norton Antivirus has one of the worst average response times for providing virus definition updates based on the worst virus outbreaks of 2005, lagging behind every major competitor, including Kaspersky, F-Secure, Sophos, AntiVir, Trend Micro, F-Prot, Panda, AVG, Avast, and McAfee. Despite its widespread adoption, it carries a reputation within parts of the computer enthusiast community as being slow and inefficient, difficult to uninstall, and ineffective. Some computer professionals have reported encountering machines infected with a virus despite having NAV installed and (in most cases) being fully up-to-date. In addition, its GUI is considerably bogged down, especially on slower computers, because it is rendered using Internet Explorer's HTML engine instead of standard Windows graphic interface libraries. Norton AntiVirus was criticized in the past because of Symantec's policy that allows spy software (keyloggers/backdoors) of US secret services, such as the FBI (Magic Lantern) and the CIA (Oasis), to bypass Norton's malware detection I'd take AVG Free over norton any day.

Old news. I'm ashamed to be standing up for sony, but: Sony Refutes 'No Used Game Sales' Rumour.

Van der Graaf Generator, damn, you're going deep mate. :P Formed within 20 minutes walk of me.

Suicide can be considered cowardly because it is a person not being strong enough to face up to life's problems and work through them. The difference between that and a person seeking euthanasia is that they know there is no hope, they have a degenerative disease which will slowly eat away at them until there is no more left - it's not like their girlfriend has just dumped them (something that can clearly be put behind someone in time).

You can't compare 'celeron' to 'AMD' - one is a model the other is a brand. Celerons are the intel CPUs with less L2 cache - AMD has a similar model though I've forgotten what it was called now; it at least used to be called Sempron. Norton is a known resource hog, in fact some people have likened it to a virus by how it slows down your machine.

If you fail to see why then my work here is done. Does anyone else see why its invalid? Prove why it is valid please. I just proved why it is invalid; because one situation governs how a person can do an action that affects only them whereas the other governs how a person can do an action that affects someone else. You see no proof of why you are acting pompous? Well of course you wouldn't. Do you think anyone who acts with pomposity realises that they do? If they did, do you think they still would? As for dogma relating to morality and faith - read the last part of the definition; it says set forth by a church. That is confirmed by both dictionary.com and wiktionary.com, askoxford.com says "an inflexible principle or set of principles laid down by an authority" - the same thing, m-w.com says "a doctrine or body of doctrines concerning faith or morals formally stated and authoritatively proclaimed by a church". By none of those 4 definitions is what I have said dogma. Point. Proof please? If it says a man can sell his daughter to servanthood it still proves our points. If it says it is wrong to beat your 'servant' if he dies immediately but okay if he lives for a couple of days and then dies - it still proves our points. Proof please? Your entire first post was an opinion. I'm pretty sure that it looks to almost everyone else like you are a pompous preacher who simply can't think about how other people feel. Someone who spouts insensitive garbage about how other people should have to endure unspeakable pain when you don't even know what it is like - I bet you've never even had to have a relative go through that. You sit up there in your ivory tower and pour down your dogma (yes, dogma - a doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and "faith, this bit---> set forth in an authoritative manner by a church <--- this bit") about how other people should have to live lives of suffering and indignity. Proof please? Oh no I can provide some 'proof' for that: Dictionary.com on 'fanatic' - A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause. Your selfish and arrogant attitude is reprehensible.

Well you were presenting dogma (a doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a church) in a pompous manner (characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious). As for proof, how can you prove it - it's an opinion. Consensus on the other hand... Proof please? "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11)" "When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21)" Now I ask you for proof - prove to me that a guy bought my body a thousand years ago. What have we learned? Asking for proof constantly doesn't make you right, in fact it makes you look stupid when you ask for proof of something which is clearly an opinion. You can't value proof too highly if you are as fanatic a christian as you clearly are. Your example is invalid. Read the words you used: I don't have a right to deprive others of euthenizing (I assume you mean euthanising/euthanizing) THEMSELVES If you don't agree with murdering, then don't deprive my rights of being able to murder someone. Stopping someone killing themselves because they want to die compared to you taking someone else's life against their wishes. Invalid. [Edit] What a coincidence, this post was #666.

Your example is not particularly relevant. Euthanasia isn't where a doctor says you are going to die and then gets someone to kill you. It's where YOU want to die because living is too painful or degrading, it doesn't even necessarily involve being terminally ill.

Since "Joined: 27 Jul 2004". Look in a dictionary, I think you'll find that pontificating means being pompously dogmatic.