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I got a used textbook last quarter and it stank so bad I couldn't be within 1m of it and not have massive pounding headaches. Anyway, I've got some friends who have quit, and here's some suggestions: 1) Have something for your fingers to play with or chew on. A pack of pens or such would work. There's the psychological habit of having something just so in your fingers and mouth. 2) One gag a friend and I made that seemed to work was that we made what looked like a pack and filled it with rolled up notes colored to look like cigarettes. It fit the friend's shirt pocket just right, and when he'd reach for a light, he'd get a friendly reminder. 3) Some prefer cold turkey, some prefer weaning. Both require a buddy, unless you're severely macho. You'll still have odor residue around your place, car, clothes, and stuff, even a little bit even if you were a stickler about going outside. Open the windows, get some ventilation, and do some deep cleaning. Not only will it help purge you, it will reduce the memory-jarring residue and give you something else to concentrate on. Congrats and good luck.

Amen to that. I nearly flunked kindy because the teacher said it was more important to color pictures of elephants shaped like the letter E than looking at books and learning to read, and I thought that was stupid, and was independently minded enough at 5 to ignore the teacher for nearly the entire year, and the teacher was dumb enough to never check my cubbyhole storage box. In first-grade, I had an understanding teacher who was overwhelmed with the volume of class mediocraty, so she shipped me off to in-class accelerated study programs. One day I was reading a book and saw a picture of a maximum security prison with heavy doors and multiple floors, and thought how ironic it was that the elementry school building seemed to be laid out the same - plain '50s box, two story and open in the middle, etc. School sucked after that. After first grade my teacher said that even if they stuck me in the elementry version of AP, that the program in the district wouldn't be able to handle me. (I had by this time subverted my dad's brand new 286 workstation and Mac 512ke.) So my mom pulled me out and took care of everything at home. One other problem the public school system is facing that they're not being honest about imho is the so-called "Special ED" system. There's way too much money and too little oversight for it to be totally aboveboard. Here in Washington with a significant funding rearrangement from the legislature, the number of 'special' students exploded overnight, along with the staff headcount and departmental budgets of course, but I have yet to see reports saying that there is something in the water. Furthermore, how come only the kids are being affected, and not the parents? The kids weren't braindead before they went to school... well, there was one report of a little lead in the drinking fountain in one school, but a follow-up check was inconclusive.

Ok, this 'wacko' theory is widely dismissed, but look at it mathmatically. Everyone claims that it is the US and Israel with their heads in the sand, but conversely isn't it equally possible that it is only the US and Israel who have their heads on straight? Or how about maybe nobody is on the level? The whole reason Israel has to go in to the refugee camps in the first place is that the Palestinian terrorists and their allies in Tehran have no qualms about using 'innocent' civilians as pawns on the chessboard. How about Israel just send an invoice to Arafat asking him to cover the costs for caskets of people killed just by the rockets fired from the refugee camps instead? Any idea when that invoice would get covered? It's like on the Simpsons where Apu says "Please do not be touching my merchandise or I will have to be asking you nicely again". Now with a mobile system they can excuse that by claiming that Israel would supposedly first-strike a fixed location, then launch it from a hospital, and charge the Israelis for the deaths of innocent civilians then the hospital gets leveled. Back to Beirut. A guy there allowed IDF spotters to use his roof to call in artillery strikes on an enemy clan. Each time the enemy site got hit, he showered his guests with the blessings of Allah. Finally the guys wised up and figured out where the spotter was, and dropped a morter on his front steps. Those spotters were escorted off the property so fast they didn't know what happened. So it is in Iran. As long as the mullahs continue scamming the world and the rest of the world continues to be duped by it, and thinks it's "ok" for Iran to have nukes because the 'impetuous' Israel may or may not, rather than lifting a finger to disarm both sides, things will continue to be nuts until the locals say "Hey, NIMBY ain't such a bad idea, I might live a bit longer."

You're confusing the benchmark on the main screen with the 3D performance in the advanced settings. Wish I had a benchmark like that though.

@BowreryBaker - That is because America has such a strong and broad peasantry that healthfully views themselves as kings and not chattel. Nobody has made any serious moves towards resolving the ME myopias, because nobody wants to acknowledge or deal with all the baggage they've attached to it. Israel DMZ'd the Sinai for a buffer zone, Jordan went away, and now they are cordoning off the Palestinians. That's not a 'fix', it is just a workaround. With Iran, they claim a justification of a retalitory position, but their claim that Israel is 'out to get them' is rediculous, and why is it ok for Iran to pursue a pre-emptory policy when it is not ok for the US to do it? Is it Iranian citizens locked down in Ramallah and Gaza or no? Do the Palestinians have their own envoy to the UN or no? If Israel had announced that their intent were to exterminate all non-jews starting with their cousins, Iran might have a point, but then Iran would only become a coalition partner equivelent to what Bulgaria or such is doing in Iraq, according Kerryesque accounting. In light of the fact that Israel does not have the military capacity to conduct exhaustive occupationary adventures into multiple of it's <s>neighboring</s> adjoining countries, and that that any such operations would likely involve flyovers of US interests who would object (ie Iraq, Turkey, Saudi Arabia), I say that the notion of an Israeli strike is preposterous. This isn't the mid 80's, there is a different policy in place. With the state dept actively pursuing a policy of mimicing Khomeini's revolution by inciting public unrest, unifying military action could be disadvantageous. Now as concerning Asia, N. Korea will not come to the table until China pulls the rug out from under them, and China will not do that because N. Korea is the prop they use to put the screws to S. Korea and Japan and proxied through to the US. Japan is starting to shed its emotional baggage from the Manchrian Occupation and re-enter the Asian diplomatic arena, but is stalemated over N. Korean abductions vs. Japanese occupation. In any case, China is N. Korea's 'nuke', and unless China says "hey, you can't do that, we won't back up you", N. Korea can do as it pleases, to the consternation of the whole rest of the world, and China skates free. Then you have 'insolent' little Taiwan who just won't 'go along for the ride'.

Considering that there is a camera on the right and in his face and likely on the left as well, there's not a whole lot he can do, except hold on to the chair.

The picture posted below is from the Wisconsin journal Sentinal (http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/oct04/laura2100504.jpg) This is the same organizations I referred to earlier about the Orlando office invasion. So now that I've found a source that doesn't rhyme with sludge or that you are biased against their bias, does it now 'exist'?

I disagree 180 degrees with BoweryBaker, but you don't see me trying to arrange his personal permanent visit with Mr. Satan. Bin Laden on the other hand is, and it seems to me that the Iranians wouldn't mind either. Look at the case of Hitler. He whined and howled and said "gimmie-gimmie or I'll pout", and history has shown the rest of the world the price of being a sucker for that kind of stuff. Of course Iran is interested in it's own interests, but I still say that their allegation of Israeli aggression is unwarranted and a false premise for nuclear escalation. Furthermore, if that is all they are worried about, then why did they run the range so much further past the boundires of Israel? Why range it out to Greece? When have the Greeks been seen as Zionist conspiritors, except with the Cyprus mess - and how on earth is that in any way relevant to Iran? Now to the economics aspect. It's understandable to be in the military arms business, stuff wears out and better things are developed. But this is not a police sidearm, it's a totally different psychological football. Back to my point about the Saudi Prince. I don't think that we're the only ones naively ignorant in the world on these matters, nor do I suppose that the Iranians are totally on the level either. What is heartening is that those traditionally ground under foot in the ME as expendable serfs are beginning to look around and say "hey, wait a second, sure I'll be a martyer, but it's going to be for me and on my terms." I presume that this is a comment about racial civil rights. Well the key to fixing that problem is when both sides admit that 'people' == 'people'. So long as Americans who happened to be black were regarded as property and not people, and as long as they accepted that, the vicious cycle continued. When they said "hey, wait a sec., I am me, and I am a human being, and I resent not being recognized as such", that broke their psychological chains. The white population has had to have the same awakening, and then both sides have had to work it out legally. But every time that there was somebody who rose up and said "Hey, let's kill all the white folk - because they're white", that was unfairly misconstrued to represent the entire population. As long as you allow the psychobabblers to dictate to you, instead you you telling them where to get off, you're still stuck in the rut. Now to Iran. Friedman had another experience while in Lebanon. A leader of some influence was introducing him to a bunch of local imams, and commented on the favorable press he'd given. Then he mentioned "Oh, btw, he's Jewish", and the imam just about flipped. Is this representative of the Muslim community at large? I don't think so, but I believe it is of the Iranian Mullah councils.

My entire point was that it appears that A, Iran does not understand the diplomacy of nuclear peace, and B, the rest of the world is in no hurry to help them see the light. Those five paragraphs were regarding the potential and ability that Iran has to write-off it's entire population for it's aim, because the rest of the world is willing to accept that write-off. Saddam did it brilliantly in 90-03, and Yasir Arafat has managed to do a pretty good job of it as well. The reason I said that that position of 'defense against aggression' is that convential military doctrine goes against obliteration-type tactics: It's not 'cost-effective' to try to exterminate something, especially not a large civilian population, even if you have the popular support. Israel understands this, but I'm not sure that Iran does. Bin Laden gets it, but from a different standpoint.

Hey, I'm what the mainstream would consider a Right-Wing fundamentalist kook, and I agree with the imams that pop culture is screwed up, but I disagree in that I believe jihad is to be dogmatical, not with sticks and stones. I spent a few months in the ME, and there was definately a double-mindset on that. You have people wearing nike and levi's, and say they want their kids to go to America and get an education and opportunities. Then they turn around and say that maybe not, based on all the crap they see on TV. At least they have the gumption to call it for what it is. I disagree on the the recommended courses of action though.

For those that view citizen peasentry as expendable serfs, 11 million people is a charge on the other guy's account. There's the old joke about if you owe the bank a thousand dollars, the bank owns you, but if you owe the bank a million dollars, you own the bank. Well, look at GW1. Saddam played that brilliantly because GB1 was too ©old-school to think outside the box like W is doing. Colin Powell told GB1 that while the US was clearly winning the war on the ground, they were loosing it on CNN, therefore the US was 'obliged' to quit, to make things 'fair'. What Saddam realized was that he could afford to loose every single living organism inside the boundries of Iraq, but as long as he survived (ala chess), he wins. When your population consists only of a statistic in an accounting book, you have a lot more freedom as a head of state to do dastardly things and blame others for them. Iran now has the liberty to build weapons of ill intent so long as they claim 'defense against imperialist aggression by Israel', which is nonsense. Part of the reason military tactics have been changing from classic heavy divisions to small SpecOps roles is realization that mass-xenocide is actually an expensive and counter-productive way to wage war. Israel doesn't have the technical supplies to exterminate every single muslim in the world, so where they get off thinking that is nonsense. The other advantage of mobile systems is that they can be moved about for security purposes, and if the launch track just happens to come out of the middle of a hospital or schoolyard, blame it on incompetent minions and claim distortion of the facts. Why accept responsibilty and liability when you can screw your enemy and stick them with the bill?

Organized labor complicent in attempting to strong-arm the process, and in Florida of all places: Miami Herald - AP This is not something new, Bob Hasegawa, a candidate for the Washington state Legislature bragged about this kind of cozy relationships leading up to the Seattle WTO riots: University of Washington - WTO History project The police didn't invade their neighborhood, they were escorting the protesters out of an area declared under martial law by due process to the location of the protestor's choosing. Only when the police were loading up to return to downtown did the protesters initiate an assault on the officers, assisted by the Capitol Hill hoodlums.

The problem anew here with nuclear 'diplomacy' is that when you strut around with a loaded gun in your pants or waving it at everyone, nobody can have sane or rational bilateral negotiations. There may be the possibility that the mullahs in Iran are idiots rather than warmongerers, Tom Friedman cites a case where he saw the one of the highest members of the Saudi Family watching lots of TV channels, but everthing but Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeerah was muted because he didn't bother to learn any other language - therefore those other opinions didn't matter. The irony has been that the exclusive possession of nukes by Israel I think has actually helped stabilize diplomacy in the region. With such a one-sided arena, the parties have to come to the table, but conversely Israel can't ever dream of actually useing their nuke's because that's not 'fair'. So now it seems that we can actually have a 'fair fight', as if it were a fight that the global community had desired all along. So much of nuclear diplomacy is so-called 'proof-of-concept' stuff: sputnik, pershing, the 'NASA' radar imaging of the nile delta, and so on. The only times that the cold war nuclear race was semi-stabilized was when the parties focused on nuclear 'blankets' for deterrance rather than self-write-off first strikes. But with so much of the leaders and thinkers in the Arab Middle East convinced that the Jewish culture, as expressed in the state of Israel, is the next Saladin incarnate bent on conquering the world remeniscent of Gengis Khan, they're still in the 1950's era of 'good bye cruel world, let Allah straighten them out' mentality. Any volunteers to go in and try to convince Mr. Crazy that the whole world is not 'out to get him', and to put the gun down? Anybody want to make a quick profit while they're at it and sell them the parts to make it more accurately kill more people? It would balance the power equations for you all who dislike one-sided fights.

Ok, here's some vid's to show the problem with twitchy proxies on maps greater than 12.8km sq (test island a double Tonal at 102km sq). The two key pieces are the second one where you are looking at a pilot in a stationary helicopter, and the last one in normal player view. You can see the effect very clearly there. View from helicopter cargo position Outside helicopter looking at pilot - pilot's view moves according to the pilot proxy jitter View as Tank commander - 1 of 2 View as Tank Commander - 2 of 2 View as Tank Driver - 1 of 2 View as Tank Driver - 2 of 2 Player view - basic soldier, rotating in place, watch weapon proxy movement Memory load is significantly higher due to larger map size, however FPS and functionality is not adversly affected. Thank you.

Maybe it's time to fork the thread?

And some more... Knoxville, Tennesse: I went up the the Washington state office saturday (day after the laptops were stolen) to get some more signs. It's well outside that city's main business district, and the specific office is a ways back in the complex. There's no external identification other than a plaque on the door. Why none of the adjoining businesses were hit, and the 'coincidence' of the same thing during the last campaign is more than just a bit suspicious.

The difference is that the local type of surface magma (lava) is thick pasty stuff that doesn't flow well. Yeah there's pressure, but it just spurts out here and there and crusts up. Now on the other hand, if you drive from the cascades east past Yakima, Spokane, Northern Oregon, Southern Idaho, all the way up the Snake river valley up to the Yellowstone Caldera, it's all one big lava bed when things broke loose enough to get the good stuff under the surface scaby crusts.

That's right. As a brand-new GOP precinct chairman, I have an area full of krumudgeonly old farmers who have an axe to grind with the state party, and have been staying away from the polls as a protest action. Problem is, by not exercising their right to vote for what they would term to be the lesser of two evils, what they believe to be the greater evil ends up leading in the polls, and that cascades to all the other gullible masses. The situation now is that because of the state party's bungling, the candidate for the open congressional seat from the R side is a bungling n00b, and his opponent is a skilled and agressive D radio host. But the end result is that one has a D and the other has an R after his name. That little suffix determines congressional headcount, and that determines who gets to be speaker and who is minority leader. Changes in that balance is what makes or breaks proceedural politicking like filibustering judicial confirmations and congressional investigations and politically packing vital oversight committees like the select committes on intelligence. It's a nasty little mess trying to explain how voting for the 'worse' candidate makes out to be the 'better' result. So my first order of business is to rebuild the bridges inside the party, and help the locals to see that. It's one thing to check your voter registration, but politics ain't just a every four years thing. If you don't keep up on it all the time you'll get creamed from all the nonsensical hyperbole.

And if her story is accurate she has as much grounds for workplace discrimination as does the previous case of the school teacher.

Unfortunately, neither of the campaigns have addressed the entire 'alliances' issue in the proper light. Diplomats have always been gullible for creating pretty pieces of paper that presumably obligate other people into doing things those other people may not care to do when it is not convienent or expedient for them. (Spain vs. Japan in Iraq) That kind of manipulation has been the 'justification' for innumerable armed conflicts since time immemorial. More recently though, it was the convoluted systems of alliances that precipatated WW1, by trying to pass the Balkan hot potato around to other parties with the effective intent of screwing everything up. Then you have the Versailles cabal that created the idiotic lines in the sand and such that set the stage for WW2 and the Middle Eastern messes. Of course, since the US was attacked by Japan, the 'obvious' thing was to immediately send 'official' aid to Britain. Following WW2, the deck chairs were reshuffled again, but still along the east-west lines, NATO vs. Warsaw Pact. NATO's role was to be a tripwire to 'create' a 'reason' for the US to continue to be involved in Europe, at Europe's direction - opposite of the WP. With the rearrangement of the deck chairs in Russia, the 'official' role of NATO has become an empty shell, and Europe has confused itself by trying to blend Rome and Byzantium into one big kumbayah family. Rome sez they're inviting Byzantium, but Byzantium says that they can't come because dinner ain't hallah. On the other hand, those who have gotten a clue over here and question the role of the previous alliances (UN, NATO, old buddy, 'special understanding', etc...) are dismissed as "not a team player", even though they say the team is advertised under false pretenses. Does anybody else remember GW's 'quaint' notion suggesting a forum of 'democratic' nations? I'm sure that caused lots of heartburn over at the State Department. Now if Bush were to admit that NATO was the diplomatic equivelent of a one-night-stand, that of course would not go over well, because people don't like the bubbles being burst in their virtual worlds. So here comes Kerry, accusing Bush of 'outsourcing' Afganistan, but implying that we need more non-US bodies and money in Iraq. I'm sure this would go over real well... Seriously, you'd have to be astronomically high on Afgani hashish to not offend everyone's mother over the phone if you happened to be Tony Blair on that call. Do I hear the French or Germans volunteering to go be shot at in Iraq? Do I hear Americans volunteering to go be shot at over there either? No, because that is not what the mission is about, and that is why it is so counter to Kerry's presumptions about alliances. Unfortunately, both candidates have been pandering to this broken record, and neither has offered a serious proposal for a new topical or regional diplomatic snuggle-up for the current era and situation. GW's 'Democracy Coalition' comes close, but nobody here cares about so-called third-rates like Poland and Japan, when they should. Until the political apparatchiks can be honest about the nature and effect of the alliances, and the gullible masses properly educated, this cycle will continue like the broken record it is.

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you could have some fun with this if you let the gamelogic 'drift' with a setpos loop.

If you split up the config.cpp like various different mods have done (if you need a template just see my exploded config.cpp set ), that would make it easier to farm out sections for community development. Also, please consider spliting the pack into three parts (files): 1) configs, 2) weapons, 3) sounds and scripts. That way any future changes or bugfixes would be much easier to digest for dialup users and hosting ISP's alike. I.e. 2~5mb patches, instead of ~110mb replacement packs.

More to the story... (email from Chris Vance, Washington State GOP Chair) As for the voter registration deadline, October 2nd is the last day to register by mail, but you still have two more weeks if you hand deliver it to your county elections office here in Washington.

There are other localized versions like Korean, Czech, and Russian, but you don't see those details unless you have one of those localized copies.