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[quote who="psychoak" reply="122" id="3376022"] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/29/press-release-2/ Anyone interested in actually educating themselves should start studying the data origins, and stop getting their information second hand from political hacks like the IPCC and internet trolls from skepticalscience.com that have a long history of being caught lying through their teeth. Not that I mind, really, this thread has given me hours of amusement so far. [/

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="107" id="3375892"] A single volcano erupting will have more impact that all the CO's man has EVER belched out across our short lived civilizational history. Personally, I'd love it if it were a little warmer. I live in Northern Canada. [/quote] It can get quite chilly up there in Northern Canada. Although not in Northern Canada, I was up in Calgary a few years ago and the other day saw a picture in the paper of downtown

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="96" id="3375791"] Ok, then why wasn't this predicted in the 1990s or in the IPCC report? If there's another decade of stable temperatures, do you have another rationale ready to retroactively use? The skeptics, like me, have pointed out since the start that the earth's climate is very very complex and there are a lot of moving parts involved. Humans certainly have an impact on global climate. It wouldn't be the first time an organism on

[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="89" id="3375640"] Also, I want to point out one important thing in another post (I should have mentioned this earlier)- Keep in mind that the last decade also had a VERY unusual solar cycle where the Sun solar minimum was much deeper than usual. Solar minimums are usually associated with slightly lower temperatures. So even if there was a slow in temperature rise, it is likely because of a known, observation effect (the solar minimum)

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="70" id="3374517"] Don't worry, we'll get there soon enough. As they like to say -- "weather isn't climate". Since the worldwide mean temperature hasn't materially changed since 2001 but, according to the animated video shown the ice camps are melting, that would indicate some other cause (everything from a slight change in the earth's tilt to warmer winters to who knows what. [/quote] Krazikar

Geez, I leave for a day and everything turns into a mess. [quote] Yeah you do come off as more than "a bit condescending". As I stated above, anytime someone doesnt agree with the alarmists, they try to demonize you or tell you that you are too ignorant to understand whats happening. Sounds to me like you are the intolerant one. Or is your intolerance ok?[/quote] I don't agree with you, but I did state that I'm still open to facts. The only 'skeptic' in

[quote who="Victor5" reply="12" id="3373570"] Spoken like someone who watches way too much Fox News -- or Fox News-equivalent. Believe it or not, many great scientists around the world believe the theory of global *cooling* to be a far more likely outcome, perhaps foreseeable even in our lifetimes to a small extent. I was lucky enough to hear both sides from said scientists giving lectures in college. I'm not saying I believe 100% i

Looks like public pressure and the cries of outraged potential still mean something. Microsoft walked back on their "always on" internet requirement for offline games and will now let you trade and borrow used games without penalty. http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update

blah blah conspiracy blah blah warming isn't real blah blah scientists are committing the biggest hoax ever blah blah Thought I would get that out there before some random conspiracy nut comes in here trying to pass tinfoil hats around.

Yep, I'd go with everyone else here and just build a new rig from scratch, maybe keep your dvd drive and power supply if it's a good, reliable brand and has decent wattage... but from those specs sounds like you should get a new one anyways. $400-$500 can get you a very respectable rig these days, especially if you already have decent peripherals and Windows licenses.

[quote who="louist" reply="4" id="3370503"] You're expecting people to give you a specific answer to an essentially unanswerable question. You can't pin down all of a country under a single label, feeling, or state of affairs. ... I find the article you've linked to be heavy on claims but light on any sort of support. I wouldn't take his word on it just because he worked on Neverwinter Nights.[/quote] Pretty much this. It's l

I used to play STO back when it was subscription. Very fun game... in space. The ground part always felt needlessly tacked-on, drawn out, no strategy and annoying.

[quote who="Jafo" reply="83" id="3368676"] How about Tribbles vs the Borg ....[/quote] Cute and cuddly crazy-fast self-replicating and assimilating fuzzballs? The greatest danger the universe has ever seen, methinks...

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="65" id="3365795"] I saw the Imax 3d. I did not really notice a marked improvement over the old 2d, but my son was thrilled. Since no spoilers, I will not state what I did not like. As a movie it was great. As a ST movie, I had problems with it.[/quote] Don't worry, use the spoiler tags! [spoiler]For instance, the redoing of the Wrath of Khan warp drive radiation death scene. It's nice

[quote who="Borg999" reply="22" id="3365432"] I'm surprised no one guess a " SM Pirates!" type game. The parrot is a dead giveaway.[/quote] Someone needs to make a game like that in space... Han Solo style. Escape Velocity, mayyybe Freelancer are the last games I can think of that were close enough to be awesome.

[quote who="Leo in WI" reply="5" id="3365324"] It's too bad about that one absolutely ridiculous score on metacritic, a 50. This is a fantastic game and should be averaging in the 86-91 range, IMO. [/quote] Yeah, looking at their metacritic profile was a bit weird, they have a lot of games that they've rated at least 15-20 points under the metacritic average. It's like they're using a different grading scale than everyone else. <p

Is it too early for "shut up and take my money"?

I have always found Space Sector's reviews to be the most cogent, reliable and trustworthy. The points presented in the article are spot-on.

Iceberg announced details of the upcoming expansion for Endless Space today, called "Disharmony" http://www.iceberg-games.com/index.php?dispatch=news.view&news_id=21 Features • A brand new Faction called “the Harmony” with a single objective in mind: Annihilate Dust! • New Fighter and Bomb

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="6" id="3360587"] I don't want to do anything the kinect is made to do. Like move or talk. Even if it actually would work as designed, I don't want to do that shit. [/quote] Ah, nevermind then. I misunderstood. I get most of my gaming fix with my PC, and I only have used the 360 in a party setting (as I do not own one). Drunken Fruit Ninja (or any other Kinect game combined with alcohol, really) is a party s

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="1" id="3360529"] The Kinect being automatically apart of it actually makes me less attracted to it.[/quote] There's a great quote from Island Dog's Wired link: When the original Kinect launched, apartment dwellers lamented that they had to move couches and tables just to be recognized by the its depth sensors, let alone play a physically involved game like Dance Central . The restrict

Man, you guys really need to use those spoiler tags. This is why I never look at any of these movie threads until after I've seen the movie. [spoiler]Alrighty, what I perceived as the "Into Darkness" part was not only the exploitation of Khan's genetics, but the secret militarization of Starfleet personified in the Vengeance class vessel. A secret program dedicated to nothing but a monstrous, almost automated killing machine seemed like a pretty obvious criticis

The reveal and specs for the new Xbox, dubbed "Xbox One" came out today. Features: - 100W 40nm AMD Jaguar based 8-core CPU/GPU, "tailored for DirectX 11.1" - 8 GB Ram, though DDR3 instead of GDDR5 - 500 GB HDD</p

I probably spent the most hours playing MoM, HoMM 2 and MoO2... but if I could only pick one TBS game to play forever and ever, it would be HoMM3.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="33" id="3359057"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 32 I didn't like the Gunslinger series. I really liked the first 3, was luke warm to the second 2, and then despised the last 2. [/quote] I'm assuming you guys are talking about the Dark Tower. And if so, I completely agree. The first three were great. The fourth was alright, but I didn't care for the departure from the main storyline co