Shabadu

Sorry OT but ROFL God gave man both a brain and a penis, but not enough blood to use them both at once. - Robin Williams

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (cam0flage @ Jan. 19 2003,23:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Thank god I only post here I haven't found any other good boards that are properly moderated.<span id='postcolor'> This is true. I mean we may have to wisper in hushed tones but at least there isn't any blatant rascism going on like in some places. Ok, ok, I'll stop going on about Taldren.

Other than here I racked up about 140 posts in 14 days over at Taldren.com but I won't be going back there. lol

I've been hanging out in the forums over at Taldren.com because I got addicted to SFC3. I then realised that their off-topic forum was full of rascist scum. I tried to get the measure of them but the level of ignorance over there was breath-taking. Frankly I got fed-up with this board because most of the people posting are far too smart for me. I never have half as many facts as you guys and used to just slink out the back way whenever the going got tough. Will have to stick around.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Necromancer- @ Jan. 19 2003,22:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">SFC 3... Played it at a friends house and I dislike it. The gameplay is good though, but it doesnt give me a Star Trek feeling. Sovereign equipped with pulse phasers... ugh. Quantum torpedo reload of 12 seconds... ugh. And fired from a Sovereign class as well. SFC 3 isn't Canon enough for me. ST: Bridge Commander did though.<span id='postcolor'> That all depends how u kit them out though. Sovereign doesn't come with pulse phasers as standard. I only played a demo of BC, was a laugh though.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (DarkLight @ Jan. 19 2003,13:41)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (5thSFG.CNUTZ @ Jan. 18 2003,14:38)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> It could very well be that Saddam is hiding weapons. However, it is up to UN weapons inspectors to prove it. <span id='postcolor'> Actually, it is up to Iraq to prove they don't have WMD! </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">New York, Nov. 26 (NNN): The chief United Nations weapons inspector, Hans Blix on Monday warned that Iraq must provide "convincing" proof to back up its claim that it no longer has weapons of mass destruction, asserting that declarations submitted by Baghdad to inspectors during the summer "in many cases left an open question whether some weapons remained". <span id='postcolor'> I don't see how they are doing that considering these statements. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">NICOSIA - Chief United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix said yesterday Iraq had not given his inspectors "genuine cooperation". Blix, who arrived in Cyprus on the eve of a visit to Baghdad today, said he would impress on Iraqi officials the "seriousness" of failing to help his inspectors in their search for any nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. "There has been prompt access. There has been access everywhere. That is fine. But on substance, there has not been sufficient cooperation. We need to have sincere and genuine cooperation," he told reporters. <span id='postcolor'><span id='postcolor'> How can you proof that you don't have anything? Â WHat do you think they're doing? Â Giving us acces to all those places, how else could they proof that they don't have any weapons? I'd like you to proof that you don't have a red t-shirt lying somewhere in your house. Â And allowing me to inspect your whole house isn't good enough... Â How else can you proof that you don't have one lying in your house?<span id='postcolor'> This is the problem I have with the whole Iraq deal. I mean just 'cause you didn't find any means he's hiding them better? You can't simply say 'We think he's hiding WMD so we're going to attack his country.', if the weapons inspectors don't find anything then there aren't any grounds for invasion. Besides, if he did have them, he would only use them in self-defence. What would be the point in attacking anyone? He would be annihilated as soon as the weapons were halfway across the sea. He just wants power, he wouldn't jeapordise that power by using thses weapons. We can't justify that we are going in for our own safety. A better route to follow would be to start imposing world-wide human rights laws. That way you can take him down on the basis that he wiped out how ever many thousands of his own people.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ Jan. 19 2003,13:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Shabadu @ Jan. 19 2003,14:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Drop around the FAQ or here more often?<span id='postcolor'> Here. You have rarely been around recently.<span id='postcolor'> I know. Became addicted to Starfleet Command 3 for a while. It wore off because for some reason I can't fight human players online in that game. Came back to OFP:R and realised I'd cracked my CD! I think I might cry. Appreciate the sentiment, didn't know anybody noticed me 'round here

My resistance CD is cracked. Does anyone know what I should do? Other than running round the house screaming 'The end is Nigh'.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ Jan. 19 2003,13:41)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Search The FAQ for "damaged cd". Drop around more often. <span id='postcolor'> Drop around the FAQ or here more often?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (David Shipley @ Dec. 30 2002,08:46)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'm wondering what I should do here. I have a Celeron 1.3 Gigahertz processor, 700 MB of RAM and a GeForce 2 video card. I plan on getting either the Radeon 9500 PRO or the GeForce 4 TI4200. All I care about is whether the GeForce can handle Operation Flashpoint: Resistance at absolutely the highest levels of graphics - excluding View Distance levels. Can the GeForce handle it? Or will I have to fork out more dollars for the Radeon? Oh, and I think it's not a processor problem, because it's blazing fast when the graphics are toned down.<span id='postcolor'> That will be more than enough. I have Celeron 1Ghz, 512MB and GeForce 4 Ti4200. No problems unless I go right up to top settings. With the RAM you have I wouldn't worry in the slightest.

Finish an OFP campaign, eat dinner, go for a pee. In that order

I think that by nature we are a selfish race. Usually everything we do is to the betterment or survival or ourselves. I think it is probably because that is a typical response to hard conditions in nature and a part of evolution for some species. This isn't always true and the only reason we are able to appreciate such things is because we have developed a different kind of conciousness that enables us to look at things on a broader scale. As opposed to where our next meal is coming from.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ Jan. 08 2003,00:47)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (morbid @ Jan. 07 2003,23:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">What would you have done if you found an intruder in your home as your young children and your wife slept nearby?<span id='postcolor'> IMO this is a typical hysterical question motivated by unreasonable fear. The question you should ask yourself is how wise it is to have a gun in the house if you have young children.<span id='postcolor'> This is the reason I quit this thread, Denoir showing sense, the other guy clearly not.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (bn880 @ Jan. 08 2003,00:41)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Shabadu @ Jan. 07 2003,18:36)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I wish I had never read this thread. Is it meant to be a poll on arming the police over here(Britain) or removing firearms from US police? I think some people have got this confused.<span id='postcolor'> Looks like it just branched off into something that can be discussed in more length. Â Not many people are going to discuss the bobby's.<span id='postcolor'> I just got sick of reading something the length of the bible for each reply. I'm only 56k, I don't have the time. I resign from this thread. Was going to give a reason but couldn't b bothered, tis late and I'm tired.

I wish I had never read this thread. Is it meant to be a poll on arming the police over here(Britain) or removing firearms from US police? I think some people have got this confused.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (DarkLight @ Jan. 07 2003,17:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Where i live every cop carries a gun, isn't that normal?<span id='postcolor'> lol u say that and just look at your sig! In Britain our police aren't armed in general. There are armed response units but the police have never had the overwhelming need to carry guns. If they sort this recent spate of gun related crimes they won't need them. But then we'll probably never see our police force do anything desicive due to all the lentil munching liberals, useless govt. and all the rules and restrictions that imposed upon a police officer who might be carrying out ground level policing.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (madmedic @ Jan. 07 2003,11:41)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Shabadu @ Jan. 07 2003,10:46)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">How many ppl u ever shoot while asleep? Or not in the house?<span id='postcolor'> Im not sure I understand your question about sleeping....But if what you mean to ask is "How many people are awakened by a noise in their hose to find an intruder?"....The answer would be: It happens quite often...more than you might think. And I refered to "home invasion robberies"...That is a trend that has increased over the last decade. It is when someone "invades" your home...meaning they know you are at home, and often times awake. I responded to such a call last year where a couple was barged in upon, robbed, tied up, and doused with gasoline. The thugs chickened out of lighting them up thankfully.<span id='postcolor'> You don't mention where this happened or whether or not the robbers had firearms.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (madmedic @ Jan. 07 2003,02:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">4--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ Jan. 07 2003,014)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The matter of police having guns does not affect house breaking surely?<span id='postcolor'> No,...you mis-understand what I was saying. I was talking about the rights of the law abiding citizens to keep a gun in their home in that part of my post. (slightly off-topic) If a criminal knows the occupants of a house are un-armed...he will certainly be less apprehensive about commiting a home invasion, or a burglary. On the other hand...If he knows there is the possibility of being shot,...he will be less bold about it.<span id='postcolor'> How many ppl u ever shoot while asleep? Or not in the house?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Itchy @ Jan. 06 2003,22:05)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Heh, its cool. To go back to your point (which is a teeny bit off-topic), most rural areas with horses have a vet nearby. I'm assuming you don't live in the UK, its just a tiny little island. If you do, well, I was a country boy once upon a time, so I think I can get away with this. <span id='postcolor'> Actually I am British and damn proud of it. Well, I call myself English but I got blood from all the UK. Anyway, all I'm saying is that shotguns are warranted on the basis that sometimes a situation arises where the most humane thing to do is to kill the horse. A handgun just doesn't cut it and you don't want to create a market for such things. A shotgun benig the best alternative. And where r u from?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Itchy @ Jan. 06 2003,20:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Shabadu @ Jan. 06 2003,17:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">So there many vets way out in the middle of nowhere when a horse needs to be put down immediately, not inside of a couple of days?<span id='postcolor'> *drops it before it becomes a bit of a flame fight*<span id='postcolor'> lol sorry mate, it's a habit I picked up after being attacked by a pack of rabid wolves on every second forum I've ever been on.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (R. Gerschwarzenge @ Jan. 17 2002,15:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">That was Thomas Watson the Chairman of IBM. He said that in 1943. Â <span id='postcolor'> What he said was (Maybe not exactly) "I don't see why there would ever need to be more than five computers in the whole world." Or words to that effect. Also 1 gig boards are probably used in industry, by hollywood film graphics ppl etc...

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Itchy @ Jan. 06 2003,18:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Shabadu @ Jan. 06 2003,16:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Shotguns aren't illegal. You can have one on a farm due to the fact they're almost neccesary for putting down a horse humanely when you have to.<span id='postcolor'> Pump-actions are. Its double-barrel or nothing. Edit : And for putting down a horse, you do not use a shotgun. A vet has a special device, which uses a charge to propel a spike, which doesn't fully leave the device as much as go far enough and stop.<span id='postcolor'> So there many vets way out in the middle of nowhere when a horse needs to be put down immediately, not inside of a couple of days?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Itchy @ Jan. 06 2003,17:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (morbid @ Jan. 06 2003,15:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'm sure some of you have heard about the case of the farmer here in the uk who was jailed for 5 years for shooting 2 burglars who had repeatedly robbed his farm. He encountered them one dark night and shot them both - likely out of fear, I certainly would have been scared of two intruders, in my property at night.<span id='postcolor'> The old man was paranoid, and slept with his shotgun. He fired on the intruders while they were climbing out of his window, and therefore not threatening him. Remember how illegal pump-action shotguns are in the UK. On top of that, he had been official warned about threatening behaviour, and had stated he wanted someone to break in so he could shoot them. Don't forget he killed one of them either. Self-defense laws in the UK are pretty tight, it is true. If you are attacked, you are allowed to defend yourself with anything you have to hand. However, you cannot run away, get a weapon, and return. That isn't self-defense. But I prefer things that way. You will get extreme cases like you mentioned (give me some evedence on the sword thing and I'll consider it), but I could use all sorts of tales about the US that go the opposite way.<span id='postcolor'> Shotguns aren't illegal. You can have one on a farm due to the fact they're almost neccesary for putting down a horse humanely when you have to. On the subject of coppers packing heaters, yes they should in winter, I mean it's f**king freezing at the moment. On second thought no they don't need to, since they're not on the beat. Don't those Pandas have air-con?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (morbid @ Jan. 06 2003,16:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'm sure some of you have heard about the case of the farmer here in the uk who was jailed for 5 years for shooting 2 burglars who had repeatedly robbed his farm. He encountered them one dark night and shot them both - likely out of fear, I certainly would have been scared of two intruders, in my property at night. I've also heard of (but can't confirm) that an older man (~60?) was charged with possesing an offensive weapon. The man happened to be carrying an ornamental sword when he was attacked. As far as I know he ran his attacker through with it. I'm pretty sure he did not take the sword outside with the intention of using it, it was likely he was merely transporting it. In the UK you are not allowed to defend yourself. I'm not a strong person. If I am (and I have been) attacked my only defense is to run but I can no longer run due to an arthritic condition in my foot. Therefore I can no longer defend myself (unless there happens to be a useful implement nearby, or the attacker is particularly feeble). You people in the US are lucky in that you are allowed to defend yourself with nessecary force (gun - if nessecary) In the uk I can't even carry a pocket knife for self defense, I don't know if CS spray is legal and I certainly cannot carry a gun. note - I don't actually fear walking on the streets (well not every street, there are some that I will not walk at night), crime rate isn't isn't bad but should a person become a victim of crime they have but one defense - their fists, or speed (ie run) because the police won't be there to defend you - they are there to pick up the pieces and investigate AFTER the crime.<span id='postcolor'> I'm not proud of the fact, if I weren't so lazy I'd have filled my suitably sized frame with muscles but as it is I'm not very strong. Even so I don't regret not carrying any weapons, lets face it, if you carry it you have to be prepared to use it! I haven't been approached since I was 16 and no-one has ever succesfully robbed me. And at the end of the day it isn't that hard to break a guy's arm, or at least get one good shot at his temple. That in anyone's book is neccesary force, driving a knife through them of shooting someone most certainly isn't( unless you've just nabbed said weapon from them).

2. What?! NO! no violence, peace and love! 3. Police should have something but not guns I didn't vote because these two answers disgust me. There should have been a simple Yes, No, Not sure. And NO they shouldn't have guns. They wouldn't need them if the MET tried to actually cut crime, rather than removing the police from public life and separating them from the community. We should see a return to bobbies on the beat, increase wages( I mean MET budget = NYPD budget, pay is lower in MET, half the number of W/PCs WTF is that about?) and those that are driving about should be aware, or at least awake.