For some reason, god only knows what it is, ATI cards hated Simcity 3000. I cant even really explain this. the fastest mode, the one where you go because yuo dont want to watch each building construct peice by peice, is easily 100x slower than on an Nvidia card. of course, i wont be buying any new ones based on this. it just pisses me off.

Yeah thats a bit far dotn you think? I certainly dont recall Bush trying to repeal dont ask dont tell. Im not completely happy with Obama, of course not.. But I also havent been letting the 24/7 rightwing propaganda machine get to me. Clearly, some have. You. You have. Theres a LOT wrong, and a lot i dont agree with. But heres what I do agree with: Obama got Russia to agree to the biggest nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the history of nuclear weapons. He pushed for the repeal of DADT so people who wanted to serve could do so without fear, without having to effectively abandon their loved ones. That means more than you have recognized. Clearly. Because you see, if any group, anywhere, can be subject to blanket attacks simply because they are part of a group, then anyone can. Even you. As long as "rights" are something 'on the table' it may be yours next time. It may be you whos being told you better keep your head down or risk getting it cut off. Do I agree with Obama all the time? No. Still voted for him. Still gonna vote for him again. Because you see, the democratic party is the oldest and longest lasting political party in the US, for a reason: We dont immediatly take our ball and go home and demand purification when we disagree. From an outsiders perspective, it may look pointless. From our perspective? If everyone agreed all the time, youd just have another Bush. See what I did there? Stop pretending this is black and white. Even Pokemon Black and White was less Black and White than the world you seem to think exists. And that game is pretty damn black and white. Come back when you want to be a responsible member of society. Unlike the hatred constant directed at us, we will continue extending the olive branch, we want to forgive you. Even if you insist on smacking it down.

Lots of reasons. Im pissed about it. Sometimes i get really upset, and scared to go out. But I'm so sick (like, more than once, someone with cancer has felt bad for me. I dont need that sort of pressure!) i cant. If the wind is a bit too cold it causes pain. Everything = Physical pain. Im really upset about this stuff. But I cant risk being arrested. There are like, nearly ten places on my torso, where if i accidently touch them, then pain is enough to make me drop things, or curl up in reflex, or if its a bad day, send me into a nervous breakdown or make me throw up. Since I cant get any health care (I dont have insurance. I dont have insurance cause I cant get a job. I cant get a job because everything is pain. I cant get the pain treated because I have no health insurance.) And I cant get medicare because IM 25 YEARS OLD. Im helpless. You. You go fix it for me. I will gladly wave a little pennant with your name on it if you do...So long as i dont have to pay for it.

So voting for ron paul. That will get me the neurology and therapy I need to function, and wont take all ym money to do so? Cause I dont have any money because I need to see a damn neurologist because a sensory processing disorder literlaly and in no way exaggerating, TURNS ALL SENSATION INTO PAIN. Is ron paul gonna get me the healthcare I need? Because it takes all my willpower to not kill myself if I happen to think about my future. Didnt think so, ass. Come back when you have someone who actually cares about protecting those weakest of us. Ill be waiting, i cant do anything else, since even the sensation of my own hair on my skin is more painful than you can possibly imagine.

Well, several, on my way from colorado to california and back. See, Mom, I have REAL friends!!..she wont be reading this. ANYWAY....In san francisco on the way back i had a two hour delay because greyhound can go to hell. Well I saw the dumbest thing ever. People were getting patted down and having their bags searched before getting on the bus...I payed close attention here. Why? I had a fair deal of pot with me. yes yes I know, probably shoulda found a better way but anyway. During my two hour delay, i watched them. They werent making people remove their shoes. So, i went to the bathroom. I took the pot out of my backpack, and put it in my shoe..This might gross some folks out, apparently, but i tend to overheat badly because I dont sweat, like at all, from my feet. Its rather horrible as shoes can make me pass out. They searched my bags. Didnt search my shoes., I got on the bus, and successfully brought my shouldnt be illegal drugs home. Idiots. Heh.

We should get Patrick Stewart to do it. I dont know about you, but when Patrick Stewart tells me to take this amulet halfway across the country to give it to some guy who wont be happy that I have it, I *did it.* Didnt think twice about it.

How do you get something like this to interpret actions? I have trouble with the idea of saying dash equal moan equal dash (-= moans =-) or asterisk moans asterisk out loud repeatedly.

Ideals dont just burst out of nowhere, fully armed and ready to go. Ideals require agreement. It doesnt help that there are two seperate protests (the anti-US imperialism is not the OWS protest. They just tend to both be leftwing groups, but have very little to do with one another.) Look at this as step 1. We cant just magic up some ideals and some decisions out of nowhere. That wont work. So now the only way to do so, what with the rightwing trolls and all, is to stop playing on the itnernet and meet face to face. Much harder to disrupt such things. Thats whats happening. Will these protests single-handedly solve everything? No. That would be astounding and kinda weird. But it got attention. If getting attention to your cause means anything, this has succeeded. If you want everyone to understand the twofaced rightwing attacks, this is bringing them into hte open. This wont be a gate-toppling revolution. But then that was never its goal. You see this thread, you see 800+ comments, on SLASHDOT? (not known for being overly political.) A resounding success from my point of view. What happens after this is important. And, sadly, im sick. So all i can do is observe from the balcony.

Sure. Why not? Capitalism did more harm when it collapsed than communism ever did. Hard to claim one is better than the other in terms of "Relative suckyness" but I just did and its correct.

Anything that gets my fellow 20-something formerly angsty peers out into the sun a bit more cant be bad. No matter the results, we should all end up a bit more sociable in the aftermath.

To get silly headlines. And they are coming. And it will be silly. Dear god the sillyness. Almost enough to distract from the evilness.

That is like the least obvious Venture Brothers reference in the world. Like, me and two other people, one of whom is you, got the joke. Hot Planet indeed.

Driving and War seem to actually be the causes of climate change. So by climate change now driving countries to war, we have entered a stage not unlike a panic disorder, where everything circles back around to cause itself, perpetually. Like panic disorder, I fear we may not notice this til we're too late.

I used to use my laptop there. But I have shakey hands. And trust me, it only takes one still on laptop joning you in the water before you never make that mistake again.

well sure, internal consistency is all you need to make a decent fantasy framework work. The trouble is most people cant remember what they had for breakfast today, let alone the complex interactions and contradictions in a fantasy world. And trust me, when your world involves 1000+ year old wizards who have only not destroyed their planet cause theyre way too interested in killing each other, you want consistency to distract everyone once you realise you accidently wrote a story about the Cold War with wizards and eventually a large amount of fail. (The fail comes at the end.)