Good point. I have an nVidia 550 GTX, and I installed it at the same time as SWTOR. I wonder if that's the issue?

Star Wars: The Old Republic has caused me to have 4 BSOD's on Win7. Not sure why. I've sent in all my data to them. It's the only program I run that causes this issue.

Probably because Homeland Security has been given almost unlimited rights to detain you forever for no reason whatsoever, often without a warrant or any other documentation.

I'm glad they are monitoring for this stuff. At least it will help people. But _why_ does it cost $15 million per year?

MATE is basically Gnome2 but updated. Cinnamon is Gnome3 but has a much better UI than Gnome Shell.

Thank God I'll be dead before then. Without coffee, life wouldn't be worth living.

Sadly, you are right. When it comes to the economy, taxes, and other big issues, both the Dems and Reps vote the same way. They may talk a big talk on TV, but late at night, they make sure the vote both parties actually want gets through. They use stuff like gay marriage and abortion to distract everyone from the fact that they have been systematically removing our rights every year. They are looking at it long term. Maybe something big like the Patriot Act, followed a decade later by the TSA conducting warrantless searches on a mass scale.

Obama is a rich black guy who has far more in common with the rich old white guys in DC than he does with you.

One thing that gives me great satisfaction is knowing many of these TSA agents are going to have all kinds of awful cancers in about 20 years. Karma is a bit delayed, but still not that far off.

I think it would be great if he could actually pull this off. He's made himself into a huge target, though. Also, even if he does, our government would never use it, because they'd be worried about spying.

Too bad all of the millionaires in Congress love NAFTA.

Third candidates will never work in the USA, unless the entire electoral system is completely overhauled, which is not likely to happen. The people in power like the system the way it is.

No they are not. Prices have "stabilized", but the amounts have dropped. For example, that jar of peanut butter used to cost $5 but was maybe 24 ounces. Now the bottom is dimpled up where you can't see it and you only get maybe 20 ounces at the same price. Same thing happens throughout the whole store. There have been a number of Consumer Reports style news stories about this.