WinCustomize Forumsmost gaming skins and themes use stolen graphics, so you won't find a lot of it here. I'm sure you can google up a ton of it if you try, or make your own.
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I was cut off... con't "but I don't want to waste my tax money containing him either. I want YOU to do it, and I really don't care if you are successful or not."
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Here's an update on how this conversation, and the state of the world, has effected me. I like food, and I spend a good amount of money on small amounts of stuff. I passed over two bottles of wine and some cheese yesterday, because of where it was produced and the anti-American sentiment there. I bought domestic instead. I would save a lot of money if I forced myself to do that with all my luxury goods. I hadn't read much about Italy lately, so I stuck with my prosciutto di parma a
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Crea: "Shell is investing in alternative enrgy sources" translates to "Shell is getting government cash for farting around with gasahol so that farmers can get subsidies for growing corn that no one is gonna eat." At most Shell *might* be messing with natural gas powered cars, which in the end will burn a bit cleaner, but you're still dealing with non-renewable resources. I'd be really shocked if shell was investing any of its own money in hydrogen or electric research; government mon
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The main problem with electric is storage. They can't be recharged quickly, and the range of electric cars is far, far too short for the average American. I know people who commute 60 miles, one way, to work. Others go further. You've gone a long way toward tapping your car out with the commute to work, and it takes a rather long time to recharge. Forget long vacations. Honda's electric car has a range of like 150 miles, if I am not mistaken, and takes like 4 hours to charge (forgive me if
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lol... let's poll a thousand investors and see how many would like to invest in hydrogen filling stations... i'm shocked shocked that we can't get this off the ground, lol. Many of the laws for storing and transporting volitile gasses would have to be changed in the US as well, state and local, not federal, laws. Everyone would be running around with refillable hydrogen tanks, and in twenty years those same cars would be on the road with the same tanks; scary, huh? L
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I would assume that deviantart does their own DNS at this point, in order to coordinate all that hardware. If you didn't mind a situation like "whatever.com/~whoever" you can set that up yourself in Apache. Apache is what I use, so I dunno about any of the others.
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I just tested a system of methane production... excuse me.
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Jafo: I was under the impression that's what they were shooting for with the theme format, and just let people put the 'requirements' in the description or readme. I always like zipping up the whole litestep folder, too, since the modules changed so often. maybe they will straighten things out soon. Moshi: aye, and I am dubious about several others as well. Any of us could just do a compiled .dll mod for this or that if we wanted to be evil, but somehow it is scarier to think that th
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kosher: sanctioned by Jewish law. My pickles are usually kosher, and now at least 3 skinners are. Sadly, I partake of way too many pork products to even be kosher, so I'll just be satisifed as a skinner to the gentiles. ( Which would be very different than being a skinner to the genitals, though my spell-checker seems to not see the difference )
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Weeeell... As much as I hate it, there is no reason for anyone to distribute .DLLs in LS themes anymore, is there? I don't like the theme format very much, but it seems to be used more often than not now. If you guys wanted you could start axing themes that had them in it, i think. It would, however, probably take as long to open each .zip file and look for junk as it would to right click it and select scan. Danged if ya do, danged if ya don't, i guess. P.S. as an aside, is anyone
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!??!?! "bush failed to do is make a case that says they started it". Maybe you forgot. There was a war with Iraq a little over ten years ago, after he invaded Kuwait and attacked Israel. Saddam Hussein negotiated a cease fire under specific conditions, and he didn't keep them. Weapons of mass destruction need not enter into it. The simple act of not allowing inspectors unfettered access, buying and deploying banned equipment from China, and firing on coalition planes is plenty enoug
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You should be able to do a 'repair' if you boot with the the XP cd in the drive, right? Don't you have safe-mode networking in XP, like I have in 2000? you could always boot to safe mode, get on the internet and download the hook.dll you need, or get it from the install you used. I've never installed it on XP, but if you can get yourhands on a windows 98 boot disk you can use that to move and edit files around via DOS. Once you fix this, you'll know how to fix it from now on, and yo
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This is different than Panama because the Iraqis won't be as suseptable to loud music during the final seige, so we'll probably have to resort to really big fingernails on a really big chalkboard, or maybe Jerry Lewis movies. I figure he'll just go into his bunker and shoot himself in the head, anyway. If only this was more like the Falkland Islands. Now THAT was a war in the chic European style... I'll reiterate that if we can't get a firm coalition of middle east nations, we should
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(wow... no one is posting... *ahem*) Yeah, well, you guys, are... a, um, bunch of hippies... or something... and, and you're, like, wrong, and stuff... ha, take that...
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I didn't go to nuke school like they wanted when I was 18, so now I am I'm off to join the Pasty-White-GeekTroll corps. At 32 they oughtta make me a general... I'm well acquainted with the use of a rail-gun, plasma rifle, and the BFG10k, so all I need to do is learn where the Iraqi spawn points are and I'll be a campin' madman. Lag could be a problem, though, the Chinese have laid a lot of fiber there lately. I figure their ping times will be pretty good. If i get lucky with the Qu
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wombat_1: I wasn't trying to say no other countries had a part in Afghainstan, just the opposite. I was addressing LeCrayon's implication that the US had bombed them to an oblivion and ran off to bomb Iraq. That was a UN action, so I think efforts for rebuilding Afghanistan should be laid at the feet of the UN, not thrown in the face of the US who is still there. Most of the ruins we will help rebuild in Afghanistan were made by the Soviet Union. Noble try for France there
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The UN has a long history of watching people hacked to death, mutilated, gassed, etc, while *not* meddling in a nation's internal affairs. 100,000 people were murdered in Rwanda; 40,000 corpses floated down the river to Lake Victoria. How much was left of Sarayevo when they finally decided to do something? Granted, the aid drops made great bait for the snipers. It takes years for the UN just to put war criminals on trial *after* they have had free reign to commit their atrocities.
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wombat: agreed. That's the problem when necessary, ugly action has to please the concience of the civilian public, at least enough to win the next election. War is business, and to wage it for the public means waging it inefficiently. Kinda like grenades in the movies. They have to make them look like all fiery and festive or people will wonder why the bad guys fell down... I agree that much could have been done on all sides, long before now.
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wombat: The seeds of VietNam were sown by French Imperialism in 1859, long before Churchill and Harry Truman were in power. For more than 200 years Europe divided up the remaining world, and when they couldn't hold each bit, they ran, leaving instability and utter poverty in their wake, just like the French did in VietNam when the Japanese invaded. Look at pakistan, afghanistan, and all the thorns in our collective sides, and then trace their history back to a poor attempt at european imperia
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Hooray! free porn for the warez kids! (yes, i know that was unfair, but I couldn't stifle it... really, I couldn't...)
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I voted the first option. I was enraged when we didn't stop him from killing tens of thousands of Kurds in the 90's, and I *still* blame GB Sr. for caving in. I am ashamed that we are puppets to oil, and I personally think that our "allies" in the middle east are easily as bad as Saddam, pumping million of dollars into Hamas and the other 'corporate' terrorist entites. Saddam had an agreement that left him in power, and never kept that agreement. If the "european opinion" is to give
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I wouldn't mind paying, but I wouldn't as long as I could get them for free somewhere else. You would have to have a lot of exclusive content, and you would have war keeping people from posting them for free everywhere else...
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I dunno about much WINE, jsut that it kind of sits between the OS and the app, translating. I dunno how they make that work without stepping on MS's IP. I know that it is pretty touch-and-go, though, and with only one OS. It won't run Photoshop 7, anyway. (or I'd be talking to you from a linux box...)
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paxx: In order for that to happen, the OSs in question would have to share patented structure and code openly, or build a standard, black-box translation layer on top of what is already there, adding complexity and subtracting performance. Even then, the visual interface for the 'translator' would have to be a whole new beast, since the varied OS interfaces are all patented as well. You'd end up with a generic UI running over any number of differently functioning operating systems, which could
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