Quote from Hyperactive :

Why the hell should contraceptives be only distributed by doctors?

because you shouldnt mess around with your hormon balance without the oversight of someone who presumably knows what theyre doing

lemme guess the women should be married and become stay at home housewives instead because thats what women are meant to be?

i just wish hed started his post with "im not racist but..."
would have been the finishing touch thats missing to achieve perfection

i dont see any downsides for obama to letting texas go
hell secure the hite house for the democrats for generations with that move

Quote from flymike91 :

DUI with marijuana is hard to prove because of how long it stays in your system

easy
tell them a really terrible joke
if they cant stop laughing theyre high

Quote from edge3147 :

You don't know what you are talking about do you.


Try to kill yourself, but don't succeed. It is not legal for you to take your own life.

yes it is (at least in the us)
By the early 1990s only two states still listed suicide as a crime, and these have since removed that classification.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S ... legislation#United_States

also right back at ya

Quote from amp88 :

Do you want to take another chance at answering those questions?

i think its become glaringly obvious by now that he is either incapable or unwilling to actually think about his position which would be required to answer (probably both)

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

they said it wasn't stringent enough to make sure that the patients were in their right mind in order to be able to consent.

i dont know the legislation in question at all but if thats true (and there is a chance since that is an unusually level headed logical and non fundamentalism based argument against it) that is a very valid reason against it

Quote from pipa :

It would not be murder. All they are doing is removing the foetus from the mothers body, obviously it would die but it's human rights have not been touched.

first of all you have a bit of a rainbows and unicorns outlook on how abortions work and secondly you are still actively ending the life of something that may or may not be considered eligible for having human rights
so (assuming a foetus has human rights) if it isnt murder it is at least manslaughter

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Oh, I get it! Because he's black!

im getting more of a wigga/vanilla sherbet vibe from that image

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

I thought that I read there was more than one? Honestly, (and again contreversial) I believe if somebody has a terminal illness, they should be free to end their life and it should not be a crime.

thats not the question though its always been legal for someone to end their lifes (or at least free of punishment as its kinda difficult to punish a dead person)
the question is should it be legal for someone else to end the life of someone who wants to die

Quote from Scrabby :

First I need to tuck him away in my basement for 15 years

i thought you only did that if theyre underage

Quote from thisnameistaken :

If you think it's morally OK to terminate a pregnancy that was a result of rape, then why isn't it morally OK to terminate a pregnancy in any other situation? The woman's situation is different but the foetus's isn't - I thought the pro-life stance was based on the right to life of the foetus?

it is a valid argument
if we start from the assumption that a foetus has full human rights abortion would basically be murder
however not allowing abortions in certain cases of crime would legitimize the crime to a certain extent
so it becomes a question of which crime you give precendece to

Quote from tristancliffe :

Exactly. A very rigid, energy absorbing structure. Or do you actually think nose cones are flexible deforming things? The video shows no deformation, just disintegration.

you must be blind then
at ~0:15 you can see the tip of the nosecone (first 10-15cm of it) deform and break away and by the looks of it its not part of the nose crash structure (presumably to allow modifications to the shape of the nose without having to go through crash testing again)

my guess is the tip not being part of the rigid crash structure is probably made from very few layers of carbon (the small frontal area of it means it doesnt have to bear a lot of load and it should get a lot of strength from its round shape so they can probably get away with a very thin layup) which has obvious advantages considering the nose is fairly high up on the car
if that bit breaks it will lose a lot of its rigidity and will easily bend as much as you can see on the red bull

Quote from Scrabby :

I go for look and race-car handling, seems to be working

Because racecar

http://www.jannousiainen.net/h ... mages/M_test_center_2.JPG

ive seen a w201 dtm in the flesh and it has a completely different suspension geometry than the production model to accomodate for the lower car
presumably its the same with all touring cars as the suspension geometry on the production cars is designed to work with the car sitting 20cm higher up

disable all of the bios warnings
if that doesnt help you could try the hard way by pulling everything but ther bare essentials out of the pc

Quote from CheerioDM :

This thread has just gone straight to hell.

capitalize Hell and Satan please

might help to know what motherboard youre using
also unplug that buzzer no one uses these anymore

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I think it's mostly because I remember the days when new games were often fresh and interesting, not warmed up leftovers of games that came out ten years ago. I keep giving them another chance and I keep getting let down. I should learn my lesson.

im imagine its a lot like having sex as a pensioner
theres an underlying sense of 'this used to be fun' but when youre honest to yourself youre shagging a raisin

ive even started considering buying overly expensive stuff i dont really need that requires a lot computational power only to at least somewhat justify spending all that money on fast hardware

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I caved and updated my gaming PC.

i did the same last winter... now almost a year later im not really sure why since i hardly use it at all
apparently i forgot that all modern games suck

id say your use cases are quite different form the advantages felt by the average computer user
i can think of work related ssd advantages too like receiving simulation data from number crunching servers quicker but i wouldnt consider those to be relevant to the majority of potential ssd customers

Quote from amp88 :

You don't really believe that, do you?

yes i do
or do you buy an ssd to marvel at the amazing sequential write speeds that benchmarks give you but you wont ever achieve in a real world scenario because nothing can supply data fast enough for them to matter?

Quote from amp88 :

You admit they're in "vastly" different PCs, so I can't see how you can separate out the I/O performance from the other differences.

ultimately what the ssd advantage in daily use boils down to is does the ssd remove the lag otherwise present when trying to open your browser and other programs
and that is definitely true for all generations of ssds ive used

Quote from amp88 :

edit: The improved performance of the 840 series in most real world (i.e. non crazily high workload) tests is better than the 830. Just look at the light workload results. That's what should make you consider the 840 over the 830.

heres the thing though
over the years ive owned and extensively used (except for the m4 as thats in a pc i dont use all that much) a 80 gig intel postville (which presumably would be slower than the slowest on that chart) a 160 gig intel 320 a 256 gig crucial m4 and a 256 gig samsung 830 (the one i use the most as its in my main pc) and quite honestly the differences in speed are practically unnoticeable and/or impossible to feel without putting them in identical pcs (which i dont and they are/were all in vastly different pcs)

thats not to say that buying the fastest ssd on the market doesnt make sense but with that little of a performance difference and the higher price my choice would be with the older generation that has both proven reliability and a theoretically longer lifespan

currently the pro is about 80 euros mroe expensive for the 256gig which imho is the sweet spot in terms of ssd pricing and size atm

also yes i read anand daily and yes the tlc will probably be fine but theres nothing that would convince me to buy it over the 830 as the 830 is currently about 25€ cheaper (256 again)

Quote from amp88 :

3570K CPU + 128GB Samsung 840. Availability on the 840 drives is a bit sketchy in some places now, but it's worth waiting for compared to the 830.

how so? its currently more expensive only very minimally faster and being tlc has potentially shorter life

you cant even produce units with the keyboard apparently
you have terrible taste in rts

in what universe is that even remotely comparable to starcraft?