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Sure. But I have no doubt that incidents like that happen daily in North America. Some worse, some not so bad, but all the time...there's just not always a camera around. It's always been that way, and it always will. A police vehicle was videotaped participating in an illegal street race against a WRX not too long ago. Nothing came of that either.

Off topic, but over in gatineau they have scooter gangs (since you can ride one at 16 and they're all hardcore french canadian gangsters apparently). Revolting? A minor injustice maybe, and poor judgement for the officer...but nothing to get too worked up about.

I don't think Cloverfield tried to be any more realistic than most movies. It just presented the standard Giant Monster formula from a different perspective, and in a more visceral manner. Yeah, the bar missed the lung. Is that unrealistic? In the real world, are all unfortunate accidents instantly lethal? I don't think there's any calculable rate of lethal vs non-lethal injuries when the building you live in tips sideways and hits another building. Many of the complaints against Cloverfield are essentially complaints against the whole genre. Since when is artistic licence a bad thing? And if it is, where does that end? So say the bar hits the lung and she's dead. Fine, there's your 'realism'. But then...maybe they shouldn't have made it up the building. Or through the subway. Or across the bridge. Or out of their apartment. And there goes your movie. You can apply that to almost any movie. Oh, how convenient he only got shot in the leg. Oh, what a lucky that he fell through an awning before he hit the ground. As much as I might enjoy a movie rife with death and despair wherein all of the main characters are killed and their antagonist continues on its merry way, leaving only blood, flame and ash in it's wake...most people would be pissed. They want the story points. they want the happy ending, which in my opinion does detract from many otherwise great movies. I'd say it succeeded in it's purpose. It was entertaining. Not perfect, but nothing ever is. As long as we're nitpicking, the Paladin mobile artillery was a surprisingly good choice for a situation like that....usually they'd just show an Abrams tank because that's what everyone expects to see. That said, the Huey pilot is a tard, and it's unlikely that they would employ a Spirit stealth bomber for a low-level carpet bombing. That's more the domain of a Lancer or a wing of Thunderbolt IIs. But again, the circumstances are not fully revealed.

Indeed. Also - put a length of rebar through my shoulder above the lung and I guarante I will survive for hours. and be mad as hell.

They will literally poison you. So you'll need a decent case and processor, hopefully a motherboard with many SATA ports for your drives, average PSU, and since it's music...an OK sound card. some RAM, but nothing insane. If this is not to be a gaming computer, then you can and will save hundreds of dollars by not having to buy one or more PCI-X performance video cards. Onboard video or a basic 3d card should be fine.

Yep, you can get 7200 RPM Terabyte drives now for about $300 each. Mirroring them would not be a bad idea. if it were me, I'd probably use the pair of mirrored drives for file storage only, and run my OS and applications from a smaller third drive, maybe a 120 or 160 gig. Should help with your read/write speed a bit, and adds a little protection against your files becoming unreadable if a nasty virus or something hits your OS - remember that mirroring drives will mirror the bad stuff too.

Five grand would get you a supremely powerful gaming monster or a nearly bullet-proof server. You could probably do a hot-swap RAID for that. $2000 will still give you a fairly high-capacity RAID storage system if your main goal is to protect a huge pile of music. Crusader's right there - one big drive is not the way to go. You'll be kicking your own ass when it fails with your whole collection a few years down the road. Big is fine, but at least two drives in a mirroring RAID is what you want. It'll also allow you to store your gargantuan data archive on one while you reformat the other with whatever OS is coming up. Yes, you can use multiple drives for different purposes. I have a 250 for my OS and games, then another 250 and a 120 for general crap. Not an optimal setup, but I'm still sorting it out after moving to Vista. I used to run the pair of 250s as a RAID-1 array, which means that the same data appears on both drives. So I effectively had 500 gigs that worked like 250, but would be recoverable if one drive failed outright. you can do the same with RAID-0 (striping) which increases read/write speed but not redundancy....and then there are a whole bunch of nested array levels to chain multiple drives into one big high-speed, ulta-redundant superdrive. Most drives are sold in fairly even numbers, but remember that you'll only really get about 93% of the advertized capacity as useable space. Terabyte will be effectively 900-some gigabytes.

Heretic!

I have it on good authority that Erik is too busy for this shit right now. "Not a combat mission" my ass. It's the goddamned Army. An armed force trained for battle in territory which is overrun with a cohesive, armed group who wants to kill them. What the hell do you people want? Construction workers in camoflage? Any time you get shot at, it's a combat mission. And don't give me the whole 'deterrent' line. You can't drop a division of soldiers and a tank battalion or three into hostile territory and assume their mere presence will eliminate any need to actually fight. If it was never meant to be a combat mission, they would have sent the damned Red Cross instead.

Yeah. In some of the calmer moments, they do hold the camera at stange angles for no apparent reason. But that's pretty much my only complaint. It even had Paladin mobile artillery!

Pancakes II: Pancakes For Your Face Wtf? I have to admit it was pretty well done. I don't frequent this thread, so if someone already posted it - too bad. Get out' my face.

alkaline trio - Sadie

I'm bored, so here we go again. Strap in, boys and girls. ------- Not hardly --- atheism is, in fact, a polytheistic form of worship, with a female as it's primary deity - (Mother Nature). -AV1611VET, Christian Forums [2008-Jan-25] ...uhh? ------- {"I suggest you ask a doctor about drug resistent bacterial strains. Evolution in action.") That is not evolution, but only the bacteria adapting to its environment. -Alien Syndrome, Fark [2008-Jan-25] ;) ------- You Atheists think you have got it all figured out huh? So you THINK you know that there is no God so you make up this ridiculous fake religion. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? COME ON!! As if making fun of Christians for believing in God wasn

I was thinking it, but it doesn't translate well in plain text.

Bacon-wrapped, pork-stuffed chicken. That is all.

Blair witch was cocking shite. SHITE. Cloverfield is, and I hesitate to use this terminology, the bomb diggity.

What the shit? there was a discussion about it in Happy Things. It is excellent. I know Meg will back me up on that. GO SEE IT NOW. NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW etc

I did one project on the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada and my Civics teacher labelled me a communist, to the point of telling all my other teachers and muttering 'pinko' when we crossed paths in the halls.

Septuple failbot production. I assume the acoustic shows are cheaper too. Who needs a band? that said, I like both.

Hahahahaha!

Particularly when it's already 1300 by then.

Bacon. Coffee. Time.

USCGC Morgenthau Album: Enough to follow through

Cloverfield. All of you, go now.

Vodka and ginger ale = Copperhead. It has a cool name, but it's not that good.