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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Gorgi Knootewoot @ May 14 2002,14:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Three, i think.<span id='postcolor'> I checked and there are six of them. Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Major Fubar @ May 14 2002,11:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I find it enough of a hassle shaving my face (well, the bits around the goatee and sideburns, anyway).<span id='postcolor'> Getting my sideburns and beard to look symmetrical is sometimes harder than flying a space shuttle.

The Dune saga (I can't remember how many books) by Frank Herbert. It's among the best sci-fi I've ever read. If you are not going to read it then I'll come and kick your butt.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Major Fubar @ May 14 2002,11:44)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I think it would be fair for anyone caught posting other people's work as their own to be banned. Would maybe make them think twice.<span id='postcolor'> That's a really good idea. But I still don't know what the h*bleep*l is going on here.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Hilandor @ May 14 2002,11:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">it takes about 2 months for themt to grow back.<span id='postcolor'> 2 months of looking like Mr. Moon-man must be alot of fun.

What the.... I can't decide if I should close this thread or restrict posting rights or what... Argh. Must sleep and must eat to get my brain working. It's just darn difficult to get some sleep at work. My boss doesn't like it when I'm napping.

Done.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">'Metal Storm' weapons may replace Crusader By Arnaud de Borchgrave UPI Editor At Large From the International Desk Published 5/12/2002 115 PM View printer-friendly version (EXCLUSIVE) WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- A new ballistic technology that can fire burst rates in excess of one million rounds per minute from a 36-barrel weapon was one of the reasons Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld canceled the $11 billion Crusader artillery system. The technology is known as "Metal Storm," which is also the name of the Australian research and development company that owns it. The fastest weapons today are mechanical Gatling gun styles that can fire at the rate of some 6,000 rounds per minute. Infantry rifles average 600 rounds, which is the firing rate for a magazine of 15 to 30 rounds. Admiral Bill Owens, a retired former deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and author of "Lifting the Fog of War," a controversial book about defense modernization, is the chairman of the board of Metal Storm Ltd. With multimillion-dollar contracts, Metal Storm works closely with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Australian Defense Science and Technology Organization. Chuck Vehlow, a former general manager of the Boeing helicopter division, is the company's new chief corporate officer. Vehlow has negotiated big-ticket procurement contracts and technology licensing agreements with the Pentagon. Most of Metal Storm's work is top secret. Already under development is an "area denial weapons system," including an unmanned aerial combat vehicle that will carry twelve 40-mm mortar boxes comprising a total of 1,200 tubes, and armed with 7,200 grenades. The system's unprecedented firing capabilities can lay down a continuous 50-meter-wide carpet of grenades for about two miles, firing all its grenades simultaneously with a five-yard separation on impact. Another gun under development for a small combat aerial vehicle is multi-barreled and can fire 270 rounds onto a target in just .001 seconds without stress on the air frame or any drop in air speed. The company's advanced individual combat weapon program is destined to replace small arms throughout the western alliance, said Mike O'Dwyer, company chief executive officer. The prototypes now being developed have a dual barrel capability to fire both 20-mm and 40-mm bursting munitions and standard 5.56-mm NATO ammunition. The weapon will also fire "less-than-lethal" projectiles for riot control. The future infantry weapons hardware replacement program for Australia's small defense forces alone is estimated to be worth $700 million. Metal Storm's submachine gun will be capable of firing multiple barrel rapid-fire bursts at 45,000 rounds per minute per barrel. The technology is 100 percent electronic. Its electronically variable rate of fire has been confirmed to one million rounds per minute. The technology allows barrels to be grouped in any configuration required for a particular application because it has no moving parts, no separate magazine, no ammunition feed or ejection system. The only moving parts in this revolutionary ballistic technology are the bullets or other projectiles. Next to "Metal Storm's" firepower, said a senior Pentagon acquisition official, the lumbering, 45-ton Crusader artillery tube would be obsolete equipment. At the core of the new technology is a projectile design that allows multiple high-pressure ammo to be stacked in-line in a barrel, then electronically fired in sequence. In turn, multiple barrels can be grouped together to form compact weapons systems of unprecedented conventional firepower. These new weapons will have all-electronic access control systems to ensure that only authorized personnel use them. The dual function will also allow on-board selection at the press of a button between a non-lethal response capability and the kind of lethality that will deny an area to the enemy without having to use anti-personnel landmines. Metal Storm also makes the Vle, a handgun with a 64-digit electronic keying system that conceals a transponder. An electronic message confirms when the weapon is set to fire and which fire setting is selected. U.S. defense sources said the Metal Storm technological breakthrough will produce a new generation of weapons that will "accelerate out-of-atmosphere ballistic missile interdiction as well as biological and chemical cloud neutralization." The technology is not just used for firing projectiles. It is an electronically controlled delivery system that has potential applications in fire fighting, fireworks displays, aerial advertising in the night sky, precision chemical distribution in agriculture, and seismic surveying for minerals and oil. Copyright © 2002 United Press International<span id='postcolor'> Ouch.

I install Logitech drivers and MouseWare. Then I go to the mouse properties. There's a page in the properties where you can select the functions for buttons. Set the wheel button as 3rd button (or as middle button?) and you should also set the wheel as MS compatible scrolling. I hope I got the instructions right because I haven't changed the settings for a few months. I can check it today when I get home.

I must see Battlefield: Earth. I'm a big fan of b-movies.

Am I the only one who knows how to configure the wheel and buttons of Logitech mice?

I got some weird triangles when I overclocked my gfx card.

Moving.

Moving.

Another quality add-on from XMP.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ May 09 2002,13:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Might as well change CM's name to Slavemasters!<span id='postcolor'> LOL I'm very expensive.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Hilandor @ May 09 2002,13:02)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">most havent aged that much either since the last age poll 3 weeks ago  <span id='postcolor'> I have probably aged 5 weeks since the last poll. I'm 20 and I'm a tech support guy at a university. Good thing most of the students have already gone. I have slowly started to become a very pissed off tech guy.

Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

They are from Silent Storm.

OK, I'll make the face, someone makes the clothes and someone makes a mission where you can blow him up in many different ways.

Spam-b-Gone pistol says: *BANG*

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Major Fubar @ May 09 2002,08:58)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">That would be Cherry 2000 Â <span id='postcolor'> Thank you.

Cyborg 2087. Does anyone remember the name of that android movie where this guy has a hot looking android (designed for pleasure) who breaks down and then he has to go find some spare parts? I believe the movie's name was something like 'Anna 276'. I can't remember what name and what number it was on the name and I really can't remember if it was a good movie or not.

I probably have time to do it next week.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (IceFire @ May 09 2002,01:05)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">"I'm withdrawing from this discussion since it is generating too much bad blood" Yeah, I can sympathize with that. Â Lol! Â I'm outta here too.<span id='postcolor'> I wash my hands from this conversation too. This is why I don't like politics much. There are so many different opinions that these conversations eventually end up in a flamewar and such. Now I'm preparing for my holiday. (hooray... can you call two days a proper holiday )