Moosetek13

Moosetek13

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Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]It is really a double standard; Americans see it as the governments duty to try and protect them from crisis while still letting them do as they please, but what if what they are doing is harming themselves; and the only way for the government to stop it is to take control?[/quote] It is not a double standard, it is simply defining the role. And so what if I want to do something that is harmful to myself? SO WHAT!!!??? So long as what I do is not harming others, it is m

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Reply to "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than"... in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I am worried that he won't rock the Wall Street boat too much, and so the rich will stay rich and the poor will stay poor, but no free-market loving Republican would touch Wall Street so keep Obama in and see what he can do.[/quote] If you're lucky he'll make it so you don't need to work to pay your bills, being the good lil Robin Hood that he is.

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"I'd rather be a really good one-term president than"... in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/president-obama-good-term-president/story?id=9657337 Obama would rather be a really good one-term president, than a mediocre two-term president. What do you all thing of that statement? I, personally, think that if he made a "really good" president in his first term - he would be re-elected for the second by popular vote. I also think that he simply wants to advance the agenda of 'the powers that b

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Reply to Issues with a friend's system in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Are you sure the cd drive is not bad? Even though it shows up in the BIOS, it may not be functioning properly. I was a tech for a dozen years or so, and I have run into similar problems before. I have seen cd drives go bad and make the system act really flakey (i.e. the mouse acting weird or very choppy video, etc.). I have seen bad drives cause just what yours is doing - making it so Windows can not load. Sometimes it only happened if a cd was in the drive, but sometimes just

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Reply to Star Trek Ship Database? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It would be great if someone would make a GC2 playable model of the new Enterprise, it is one sweet looking ship. Unfortunately, it is not so easy as exporting the Blender mesh file to a .x file. There are still the matters of texturing and hardpoints.

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Reply to Computer only recognizes 1 GB RAM in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

The controller chip on the RAM has something to do with how RAM is recognized, as does the controller chip on the MB. If they are not compatible with each other, you will see this problem. The best thing to do is return the newly bought stick and exchange it for another brand with the same specs. That is what I did, when my HP system had the same problem. Funny thing is, the first try was a brand and model that was recommended for my system - which didn't work with my

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Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]By the way... I have a beautiful 72 gallon fishtank, fully planted with live plants, and a 20 lb tank of CO2 in my bedroom that slow bleeds bubbles into it to keep them healthy. Yeah, I said it CARBON DIOXIDE!!! In my bedroom, in a 20 lb industrial tank I purchase only a few blocks from here... So don't tell me I don't know the truth... CO2 is NOT pollution... it's plant food![/quote] I used to have a 55 gallon salt water tank, long time ago. I never t

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Reply to What would you like to see in Galactic Civilizations 3? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

GC3 should be an entirely new game. It should have new graphics, a new story line... new everything! It should bear no resemblance to either GC1 or GC2. Maybe there should be no GC3 at all! Let the series end, and come up with a totally new game in the same light but with an opposed spectrum. I am sick and tired of 'expansions' and 'variations on a theme' on how t

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Reply to Mod Library in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]it's a real shame that the GC2 community has died out over the past year or so.[/quote] Nothing lasts forever. The original GC2 was released 4 years ago, after all. The expansions added some twists, but nothing big enough to get me to buy them. They were too much like dev-level modding, than an actual expansion on the game. Mining asteroids to obtain resources and increase micro-management is not my idea of an expanded game. It is simply a way to add another la

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Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Again, the level of math I expect here, this time from the other side. The point is that at 0.2 C per decade (which even alarmists don't claim we're at yet) it will take 100 years to get the 2 C increase we are supposed to be fearing.[/quote] What do you mean???? A decade is longer than 1 or 2 years? [e digicons]8C[/e] Wow! And I thought the end of the world was just around the corner. Silly me. [e digicons]:P[/e]

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Reply to Computer only recognizes 1 GB RAM in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

The smartest thing to do is - exactly match what you currently have, or buy everything new with RAM that is recommended by the MB manufacturer. I have never tried to get sticks of different speeds to work together. It seems like a stupid idea to me. If your system requires PC-Whatever - you get that. If you (generic 'you' - not you personally) are too stupid to find out what your own computer needs, then you shouldn't even have a computer to begin with.

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Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Ya, only 10 years it would take. And I really doubt that a significant decrease in CO2 levels can be reached in that period of time to make much difference. The whole idea of Cap and Trade is stupid, considering they only want to go back to levels of a decade ago. To reverse the warming that they say we have caused over the past century would mean shutting everything down - completely. The

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Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Oh. *Only* 15 to 20 meters! That's 60 fucking feet you know. Seems pretty dramatic to me. But even these are severe under estimates.[/quote] And since the last glacial maximum it has risen over 425 feet.

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Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]So it's true that 120,000 years ago that temperature rise was not due to human emissions. But that does not by any means disprove that our emissions don't increase the temperature above what would otherwise occur. However what you're neglecting to mention is that the sea level aproximately 120,000 years ago was about 6 meters (20 feet) above the sea level of today.[/quote] Yes, add another 2C or so and the sea levels will be a few meters higher. And what you

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