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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24365 |  Chrispyski (492) Nov 07, 2011 - 01:47 pm
| Wow, you are all krazy to me... I didn't upgrade my ol' socket 939 4200X2 till a few months ago (to a PhenomII X6 w/ 16gb ram).
I generally don't upgrade until my system fails to meet the min requirements for a game I'm interested in. Battlefield 3 is gonna put my overclocked 8800GT to the test though... Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4672 | Chrispyski (492) May 01, 2011 - 07:10 pm
| It could be worse, in markets where Frontier bought Verizon's FIOS network, they have NO intentions of ever expanding the current fiber network. The president even admitted they bought Verizon's network primary for the old copper lines and wanted nothing to do with FIOS.
To make things worse, they've been jacking rates like crazy since the acquisition.
And so, I too, am stuck with Comcast. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23288 | Chrispyski (492) Feb 08, 2011 - 02:41 pm
| No I don't live there, and I do know they are Democratic-Socialist, but contrary to American beliefs there is a significant difference between a Democratic-Socialist state an actual Socialist state. Even assuming Scandinavia WERE full-blown socialists, the total population (20 Million)is dwarfed by an actual socialist state: China (1.3 Billion).
Given that those countries are frequently listed in the top 10 happiest countries, I'd gladly exchange high taxes for happiness any day. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4636 | Chrispyski (492) Dec 11, 2010 - 01:36 am
| True, most of the documents are (really) trivial diplomatic communications, and are at most, largely stating the obvious and creates a mild embarrassment to US diplomacy efforts. But to state it's all a ploy to "lockdown" the internet is absurd.
I DO agree that the State Department did in fact work with the New York Times in deciding what to print to minimize the harm caused by the documents.
But there ARE some documents that are, in fact, quite harmful, most of which have not been published in the New York Times - One instance is US pressuring for the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia which caused far more instability in the region (20,000 killed and greatly increased the power of the radical Islam in Somalia) - of course the US denied any involvement at the time.
My summary is this: Would the US government willingly acknowledge they pressured a country to invade another, killing thousands and causing millions to lose their homes, just so they could firewall the hell out of the internet (knowing full well how poorly that works in China)?
Nonsence. Flag this | Edit this post |
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