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More gun rights =
Higher armed crime rate.

Atleast, uh, that's what I believe. Compare statistics, anyone?

Bump.

If a browser gets a website with that name - it has to be bad.
That site contains all the whys to why you should switch. Read, change, accept.

Government, deriving from the word "govern", to regulate.

I'm not getting the movies - I just end up at some strange placeholder page... Link to the movie clips themselves..?

I'll always love you and your masculine physiqe Hugh-pie.

WikiPedia = Truth.
Comparing paedophilia to homosexuality is 19th century nonsense, stop being an idiot.

JESUS LOVES YOU!!!

84% of American killers are caucasian.
16% are black.

Not a single hispanic?

Anyway, I repeat: People with grave mental disorders have no control over their actions. They shouldn't be punished for something they couldn't prevent.

Pedophiles, for the most part, physically and/or mentally harm their victims (lovers?), forcing themselves on them against their wills. That's what makes it wrong - unlike homosexuality.

Also, being religious is fine by me as long as you don't try to impose your religion on others (Cough, gaybashing christians). Seriously, an argument like "You're all going to hell cause you're gay!" really doesn't matter if you believe that hell is a load of bullshit.

I'm actually agreeing to that "Homosexuality isn't natural". It isn't, if you look at it from a realistic re-productive perspective. But why should we bother with it? I believe the right to free will and choice stands above trying to make the whole world conform with some non-existant norm. IE, leave gays alone to their business and don't try to cure people who don't want to be cured.

KillDisk - Never used it meself, but it's supposed to completely empty the hard drive.

That sounds like a hardware error, though.

Yeah, MNuTz, no real need to post two identical posts within 4 minutes from eachother.
Anyway, I never bothered with F.E.A.R. for one simple reason - I don't like the horror genre.

Just experimenting with... stuff. I generally don't use Photoshop for fancy effects, I use it to make layouts and graphics.

Jahzel returns with plausible theories, making all of our hearts rejoice! I'm agreeing to some degree.

As for the gay-debate, I believe Seventh made a valid point..;

Maybe homosexuality will die out in thousands of years through natural selection, or maybe it's something that is based on something so fundamental that it can't. Who cares? We're talking about today, not 10 000 years. Maybe we'll all have gills by then. It's not really that relevant.

What "causes" homosexuality really doesn't matter - it's a widespread phenomenom that should be accepted, not removed.

Even if it is not his fault he must be removed

Yeah, I agree, democracy sucks.

Anyway, the whole idea of capital punishment is, in my opinion, wrong and bad and not at all good.
The society should treat criminals and try to re-adjust them to society, not kill them off.
And uh, Arcan, kindly be quiet.

Pretty hard with so many people from different timezones... But people, if you want to organize matches, go on IRC! It's way better than trying to fix something up on forums.

Can you really execute someone for having a mental disorder? He evidently wasn't very sane at all, but don't mentally dysfunctional people deserve treatment? I don't really believe in sending people who've no control over what they do to their deaths, even though what he did was terrible.

What, you mean you randomly called someone and called him an asshole?

Get firefox!
Hilarious ad, the portrait of IE is astounding. Too bad opera's not in there.

Did you not read any of this thread, Xyos?
The server is down and TBV is gone and lost.

Y'all head down over to my CS 1.6 server instead.

Edit: Satchmo, then he can do it cause I told him and I'll smite him if he doesn't.

Replace against with at and it almost makes sense.
Host it, pepper. And for the love of god, learn how to speak english.

Faked.
Not nice to call other people's work (be it maps, images or texts) and call it your own, Unbreakable.

Proof.
It'd be nicer if the story was uh, plausible.

You're basically just stuck with the underground base theme...

Fie! I'm remaking the theme entirely, with good progress.
It's nice to see how another mapper works... I must say, the basemap is quite... messy. Overlapping brushes, unnecesary brushes, stretched textures...
But it looks good, I must admit.

That saga is theory, not fact. And... OOOOOOOOLD.

I've never tried flight simulators meself. Do those games even have goals or do you just... fly around?

Slap her with a shoe and say her kid will die from ODing antibiotica. That ought to shut her up.
Overprotective parents for the big lose.

Oh, found the error. I had a lot of strange binds (give item_healthkit) bound to my walk-keys to hax0r on Muzz's server (when sv_cheats was on) - that's what caused it. Should've seen it before. It was your comment that made me think about it, Chicken.

I get this message whenever I run any HL map - be it custom or standard.

Host_Error: PF_precache_model_I: models/w_medkit.mdl

Oh yeah, this is STEAM HL.

I've tried removing a couple of custom files, rebooting, restarting steam.
Searched around google, for other people it only seems to appear when you load a custom map.

Full console log:

Sound Initialization
Set primary sound buffer format: yes
2 channel(s)
16 bits/sample
11025 bytes/sec
DirectSound initialized
Sound sampling rate: 11025
Loaded library demoplayer.dll.
Loaded library core.dll.
Creating fake network channel.
Loaded library core.dll.
DemoPlayer module initialized.
Parsed 143 text messages
WARNING: failed to locate sequence file global
joystick not found -- no valid joysticks (a5)

execing valve.rc
execing language.cfg
execing autoexec.cfg
execing violence.cfg
execing config.cfg
"sv_aim" changed to "0"
warning: MP3_InitStream(29, mediagamestartup.mp3) failed
Eax preset 0

Adding: valve/dllshl.dll
Dll loaded for mod Half-Life
execing skill.cfg
Spawn Server t0a0
Clearing memory
Texture load: 23.6ms
WARNING: failed to locate sequence file t0a0

GAME SKILL LEVEL:1
0 entities inhibited
Game started
Local connection.
Connection accepted.
Compressing split packet (7390 -> 4137 bytes)

BUILD 3382 SERVER (0 CRC)
Server # 1
Serverinfo packet received.
Unable to open commandmenu.txt
Remote host: Half-Life
Spooling demo header.
SteamWaitForResources() time: 0.009 seconds
Compressing split packet (12148 -> 5059 bytes)
Verifying and downloading resources...
Setting up renderer...
Verifying and uploading resources...
Custom resources total 8.80K
Decals: 8.80K

---

Resources to request: 0 bytes
Compressing split packet (5420 -> 4688 bytes)
Custom resource propagation complete.
CL_SignonReply: 1
31.5 megabyte data cache
Couldn't open file overviews/t0a0.txt. Using default values for overiew mode.
Couldn't open file overviews/t0a0.txt. Using default values for overiew mode.
CL_SignonReply: 2
Host_Error: PF_precache_model_I: 'models/w_medkit.mdl' Precache can only be done in spawn functions
Netchan_Clear() : reliable length not 0, reliable_sequence: 22, incoming_reliable_acknowledged: 0
Netchan_Clear() : reliable length
[quits back to main half-life menu]

EDIT: Update. It seems to only happen to certain maps - for instance "map stalkyard" or "map bounce" works fine - but "map undertow" b0rks, with that error. God DAMN it.

You're a dick.

Anyway, I'd have done the same.

Oh no, nickelplate found his way to TWHL .
Anyway, sure, homosexuality doesn't conform with nature in the sense that homosexuals can't reproduce - but since when does anything humans do conform with nature? We're constantly sucking earth dry of it's resources, polluting it's seas and it's air.
Claiming homosexuality is bad because it's "unnatural" is a fairly weak argument - look at infertile couples, or people who actually have sex for fun - do you call them unnatural, and claim it's a mental disorder?

Last time I checked, around 10% of every child born is homosexual. I might be off, school taught me this (Ugh) .

If you're so concerned with HIV, nickelplate, wear a condom. Let others do whatever (and eachother) they want.

And yeah, I'm with Satchmo. Everyone who judges a person based from his or hers sexual preference should be considered as bad as a racist.

What are you on about?
The Egyptian civilization was for hundreds of years the mightiest in the world - I'm not too well read up about the southern part of Africa but there probably were major civilzations there too.

Great civilizations have risen and fallen, throwing countries that once were hugely advanced back into barbarism (dark ages, anyone? The fall of rome?)
The slave-trading europeans (and the original invaders of America) quite clearly saw blacks and asians as inferior, and even non-human and assumed they were meant to work for them. They blatantly ignored the fact that african tribes already had sophisticated languages, religions and cultures themselves, and banned the speaking of their own language.

I mean, racism is still widespread in all civlizations - just how civilized are we?

Anyway, we're all humans. Skin colour or minor physical differences don't change the mind, they merely reflect what environment the person grew up in.

The cultural development in Africa was impeded by the heavy colonisation during the 14th and 15th century, when millions were enslaved or killed. European countries didn't allow much cultural progress for the occupied people.

I'd say the development in the rest of the world, besides europe, wasn't going slower or worse in that sense - it was just going in a different direction, that favoured close-together tribes instead of fullblown civilizations - then the europeans came and fuckered it all up. Today much of Africa is still poor because the former occupying forces (France, Great Britain, mainly) sucked the land dry of it's resources and economical force.

Essentially, it's our fault.

Edit:

Isnt it true african americans have an extra muscle, and less brain power?

Highly individual. Maybe there're some minor racial traits and differences, but it's quite marginal.

Come on, don't we have anything more to argue about?
... Religion?
I guess that only works with BL (and saco?) though, we need something more controversial.

What? CG: G has a Crosshair. I wouldn't know about Doom 2D.

It's really hard to tell sometimes.

Get some sweet animations for it and that game'd rule .

Oh blah, getting strange errors when I run any hl map now.

Host_Error: PF_precache_model_I: 'models/w_medkit.mdl' Precache can only be done in spawn function - anyone?

I'm pretty sure everyone here knows who Al Gore and John Kerry is. I rooted for them both simply because Bush was worse, more so in the 2004 election than the 2000.

Let me clarify this: I don't hate the American people. I hate the choices the American government does and I'm worried that people are actually voting for Bush.

I'm not saying my government is the best in the world, and I'm sure there are a hell of a lot that could be done better (especially if the righties didn't have anything to say about it), but in my eyes they appear better than the US administration. That's my opinion, anyway.

That was one of the worst retorts ever. While ours are actually logical, you pretty much just call everyone an idiot for not sharing your point of view. Offer some arguments.

I'd say hard statistics count as physical proof.

Man, xyos, you have so much bullshit in your post it's hard to read.

First of all...

Gun control: Freedom must be absolute. No exceptions... Some laws though are there to protect. The patriot act does inhibit certain freedoms, but to protect the good.

Biggest contradiction EVER. What the hell do you think gun restrictions are there for? Of course they're there to protect the society itself! It's bloody proven, higher gun restrictions -> Less crime! The patriot act hardly protects the citizens of the US as much as it offers the government control over it's people.

Torture: We never torture, EVER!

Physical torture isn't the only torture. Mental torture can be as painful to endure, especially if you're put through it for years, without even being accused of something. There have been cases where the US military have physically tortured prisoners... Try Googling it.

The fact is we are the greatest country, strongest, and most advanced. Were almost perfect in every way. Of course your anger for us is understandable. You wish you were us. Too bad. You can dream though................

Ohmigosh the arrogance! Everyone's written like ten times in this thread that we don't want to live in america - I repeat: America offers me nothing.
The fact that you have the strongest military and one of the strongest economical powers in the world is irrelevant to whether or not one's jealous of you - the fact that the US govt. is run by jacktards plays a bigger role.

LOL, btw does any of your countries get immigrants? I mean is America so great that we actually have thousands sneaking in to get some of our greatness? Never heard of people flocking to Britain...........

Sweden accepts several thousands immigrants per year, alot more than our Scandinavian neighbours.

Also, never heard of people flocking to Britain? There're thousands of immigrants emigrating to britain every year - in fact this is the case with all industrial countries - america isn't uniqe with this in any way.

Also, about highschool education... there're quite a lot of spelling and/or grammer errors in your post (and mine too, most probably) - perhaps your education isn't as great as you claim, atleast the English bit?

That's set in some universal options for the computer, not only firefox. Look around in the control panel.

What? There's no mail client in FF. Mozilla developed Thunderbird for that.

Yeah, deaths per thousand citizens remains the same no matter how big the country is... I don't see your point..?

Not true. Lots of completly peaceful people were taken by the US to Guantanimo Bay (spelling), imprisoned and tortured for three years. THREE YEARS OF TORTURE, Juse because they had a certain faith.

That's what I was trying to say Americans seem to have trouble acknowledging this as pure fascism.

No. I would guess your percentages would rise directly with the size of your country. Too many dynamics to accurately predict, but that would be my guess.

Nonsense. So people get more... violent if there are more people living in the country?
The deaths per citizen is still accurate.

In the UK, 529 people were murdered in 2000. That's 0.008% per 1000 citizens.

In Australia, 303 people were murdered. That's 0.015% per 1000 citizens.

Both are significantly lower than the US's numbers, and they both have stricter regulations.

In china, 58 people of 1,313,973,713 were murdered - this is obviously not true, the chinamen are lying. Still if it were...

Rowleybob: I'm using current population numbers from the CIA, on all countries. The results should be fairly precise. A country's population doesn't increase much in 6 years.

How is it not a valid comparison? The numbers of Deaths / population stays the same.

Um not in 2000, ass. Insert apology <here>

You're saying the US population increased by 98 million in 6 years?
hahahhahahahahahha
haha
haha.

The World Health Organization - a huge, corporate, american org. They're probably downing the numbers.

Anyway, the population in the US is 298,444,215, just to clarify. (Wtf, american citizens should know this : )

The murder rate per thousand citizens in the US is 0,0533 (0,05%) in the US, 0,0088(0,008%) in Sweden. Quite a large jump.

What the damned... CS1.5 doesn't even exist anymore.

RowleyBob, there was 16590 deaths caused by homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other in the US, year 2000. My guess is this would be a lot lower compared if the gun laws were a fair bit more restrictive, like in Britain or any other industrial country, really. Compare the deaths statistics to other countries.

So how else would you explain the sickly high amount of deaths caused by murder in the US compared to other countries?

That's bull Seventh.
An extremely tiny fraction of the functions available from firefox extensions exist in Opera.
Useful or not, it's the liberty to choose which ones you want that's the central argument.

Anyway, Opera is great and I like it alot. Point is, it's centuries better than bloody IE.

By using Internet Explorer you're supporting the usage of outdated standards and faulty code - thereby hurting the web developing community. Think collective, switch today! Gotta see the big picture.

[about IEtab], I don't get the point of that.

Very useful for web designers - testing their sites in IE and FF.

Your gun rights is the cause of the extreme high amount of armed crime in the states. Compare to other countries of equal size.

If your not a fucking terrorist, you have nothing to fear from the Patriot Act. Profiling? Hell yes I'm all for profiling.

'Cept if you're a middle eastern shop owner. Stamp them for TERRORIST!!1

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the patriot act gives the state right to undergo extensive surveilance and even detain people based on loose suspicions of terrorism?
I wouldn't trust any government to have such rights.

I think its hard for people here to remember that its not the cumalitive mass of the country making decisions to war, or impose our beliefs, but the government.

Yeah, but americans actually vote for war-mongering republicans.

Crush the monarchy!