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Let's take some of BNP's (a typical new wave populist party) policies under review as an unscientific example: * The repatriation of all illegal immigrants. (NOT communist) * The introduction of a system of voluntary, financially-aided repatriation for existing, legally-settled immigrants. (NOT communist) * The repeal of all equalities legislation, regarded as reverse discrimination. (NOT communist) * Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union and the pursuit of protectionist economic measures. (kind of communist maybe but just about any non-mainstream populist party wants this) * The restoration of corporal punishment for "petty criminals and vandals" and the restoration of capital punishment for "paedophiles, terrorists and murderers". (NOT communist) * The reintroduction of national service and the requirement of people completing national service to maintain an assault rifle in their home (NOT communist) That sort of thing hardly seems communism in disguise. They may have some unrealistic welfare promises that may sound left-wing to some but the main message still seems to be light skin good dark skin bad / our country good other countries bad. These people are way beyond left/right scale.

Probably because Communism had a strong middle/upper class intellectual support base, and fascism was mainly lower class skinheads; therefore it would have been harder to ban Communism, plus most western communists have very different views to soviet, maoist. Quite so. I have yet to meet a western communist that had admired stalin (some very few oddballs did admire mao for some reason (!)) while lot of the neo-nazis hardly bother to hide their admiration of Hitler. Well, nazism is perfectly legal in the US of A so.. It is, just look all those populist right-wing parties sprouting all over europe.

And who is going to define that? Isnt banning those ideologues not leaving any room for pluralism? Last time I checked nazism was banned in Germany and France only. Personally I think people should be allowed to practice this kind of fucked up ideologues as long as direct violence is not encouraged. Banning does not serve any practical use.

I don't think Putin is a communist. He is just a totalitarian, and has no communist political views. I think Russia is destined to become totalitarian again, simply because, culturally, it likes to have strong leaders; liberal leaders are scorned and I don't know of any that have been accepted by Russians. Considering that putin is more of a pragmatic person than a foaming ideologue id say authoritian would be a better choice of words than totalitarian. At least he was elected unlike those thugs CIA tried to strongarm to power. "We should outlaw communism because they outlawed dissent.. oh wait." Lot of the worst 3rd world regimes were champions of the anti-communist ideology but hardly had any regard for any kind of rights.

Don't mean to spoil the fun, but what do you mean by that? Are you referring to collective economies (eg. EU) being larger? The eurozone GPD went ahead after the dollar started plummeting. Now wonder why that might be.

Never was much of a fan of fantasy RPGs but might as well give it a shot. At that price its more than buyable if I like it. EDIT: Oh well, it complains about me not having enough video memory. 128MB is not enough?

Using windows 2000 with 64 megs of ram? Screw exploding shuttles, now theres something to be afraid of. EDIT: Oh well, it was 144MB but still pretty painful.

So, is it still 2 times slower than FEAR?

I recall reading somewhere that it slows down other players.

Dude, even Prey's coming out before Stalker. That's not good at all. That is quite an achievement indeed. I still remember reading about prey and thinking "wow, I wonder if my crappy pc will run this game when it comes out."

My prediction is that it will come out just before duke nukem forever.

Too many subs and too little money dont mix well.

Radeon 9800 Pros and Geforce 6600 GTs are surprisingly cheap these days.. EDIT: Bittorrent mirror seems pretty slow, are any of those mirrors located in europe?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn....86.html I am.. speechless, just plain speechless.

You'd be surprised how popular it still is, especially in S. Korea where it got almost scary at one point. Wonder why blizzard is not making a sequel, would be a foolproof cash cow.

.. or Quake 3 and Half-life 2 #1.

Isn't the whole point of this keyboard being able to map whatever graphic we want on keys we want?

Read about this a month ago. Heard there was a patent covering this owned by someone else so there could be difficulties regarding the US market at least.

Uhh.. don't know where you are getting that idea but Buran can lift 30 metric tons of stuff while the space shuttle can do 25 tons. Reading too much pravda lately comrade?

I suppose youll also get a more reliable hard drive as well.

Has been fixed already in FDFMOD.

So, is the thread going to get renamed to struggle against global extremism now?

According to wikipedia:

2 gigabytes? Holy fuck. And I just upgraded to 1GB DDR400.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/index.html Far from perfect indication but still beats reading the manufacturer/fanboy BS.