Zydor

Reply to Tyranny Is Coming to America in Religion JoeUser Forums

Believe what you wish, but you don’t have a Divine right to chastise and pillory those who don’t. I maybe a "heathen non-believer", but I sometimes wonder who understands the teachings of the person they labeled Christ more ...... as I understand it he was supposed to have taught tolerance and understanding. I see little around on this thread - more a competition as to who can prove the sky is falling tomorrow, or who can conjure up a more dramatic scenario. In my 56 years on the pla

Reply to God Talking to People in Religion JoeUser Forums

May be we don’t have a fool-proof evidence but all the signs point to a Creator. No question about that. Then I am happy for you, you have found what you consider to be an inner peace. I have an equal right to judge things by absolutes, if that differs from others views sobeit. I never claim "believers" are wrong, that’s the difference in tolerance between many believers and non-believers. By the same token don’t expect me to paper over what I believ

Reply to Is Your Religion Wounded? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Excuse me for sounding trite, but what was the point of your rant? More Catholic bashing? That's getting a little old. Large institutions make large targets. ................ In any case have a nice evening. Regrettably you sound very defensive, especially using the very common and falsely meant and falsely delivered invective of "have a nice evening". The latter is such a common device used by those who feel wounded but don’t know which way to

Reply to God Talking to People in Religion JoeUser Forums

Well I must confess that I was not a Believer , then He came to me in a dream last night and said I must turn up and prevent the slanderous utterances of those claiming to speak for him. True? Of Course Not. But neither can you prove it wasn’t true. This is the whole point about the whole thing people know as Religion. It relies, very conveniently, on central issues that cannot be disproved in absolute terms - but crucially it cannot be proved either. It is usually followed

Reply to What Is A Fair Profit? in Consumer Issues JoeUser Forums

In all and every case its "what the market will bear" To do otherwise, always, always create artificial distortions that eventually come home to roost and bit you in the bum so hard, it ends up costing the consumer more than going for the original market driven solution ever could. Attack Business Cartels fixing Prices ? Absolutely, thats artificially distorting the marketplace, and businesses need to learn to obey their own rules or expect the wrath of the customer to decend.

Reply to How to become a millionaire in Consumer Issues JoeUser Forums

I'll give you two simple suggestions. Read in the following order: The Angel Inside by Chris Widener Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T Kiyosaki They are not "get rich quick" nutters, but what they lay out works every time, in any market place, in any scenario under all circumstances. It'll be the best $20 you ever spent (Amazon carry them both).

Reply to In defense of bank charges. in Consumer Issues JoeUser Forums

What the average Joe doesn’t realize is that every transaction you make with the bank costs the bank money – and quite a bit more than most people expect Exactly the mistake the Banks make - arrogance thinking they have a captive and docile market. I am staggered by the simplistic and non thinking repeating of that remark originally coined by Marketers. I feel so enlightened by these little gems: - The Banks are not charities they are a busin

Reply to The Big Banks and The Customer in Consumer Issues JoeUser Forums

Which is why those Banks have issues in growth, other than to increase charges to captive customers. The 80/20 rule expressed above is of course quite true, very common, and should be a surprise to no one. Eventually the Banks will get it into their heads that insane competition for the 20% doesnt work as the cost per customer is horrendous. Businesses who focus on bottom line only - instead of tha holistic cost per customer - never

Reply to Disturbed by Disney Death in Current Events JoeUser Forums

It is - of course - a very sad event, of that there is no doubt, and anyone with any kind of heart has to feel for the parents. These freak things happen. Checks and balances are in most places to prevent these kinds of incidents, but no honest person can ever guarantee they will not happen. There is a line of thought that we can go too far on safety at certain things (in a generalised sense), its an impossible quest to be deluded that every

Reply to What Makes a Person "Good" or "Bad"? in Misc JoeUser Forums

Definition of a good person ? Thats in the eye of the beholder. Attilla The Hun would probably have thought Hilter was a cool guy. A devout traditional Catholic will think the Pope is "The Man". The average crook will have no love lost for a Circuit Judge, but most non criminal types quite like them. Any definition must therefore be a simple fundemental one, that arguably can be used in any and all circumstances. So my take on it would be

Reply to Harry Potter- How can you avoid spoilers? in Books JoeUser Forums

Nah, someone will turn up, knock on the door and offer the last page for five bucks ....... Its a funny 'ol world

Reply to Windows Blinds is f*****- SYSTEM FILES PROBLEMS in WindowBlinds JoeUser Forums

What these immature ineffective wannabe 3 year olds will never get into their skulls is if there is an issue lurking (which in this case is clear patent nonesense), acting in that manner is guaranteed to bring automatic dirision, particularly laughable when claims he is an IT Consultant, that one really made me fall over laughing, especially after his first rant where it states "..... You see the problem now is that you deal with MEN which also happe

Reply to 5 Coolest Things On-Line 2007 -- so far in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I hadnt realised Home Server was around until Frogboy pointed it out - looks good in theory, they certainly have spotted a market gap yet again), lets hope their solution fills that gap. If it does, they will get another sale out of me. I personally am not a microsoft basher - sure I'll joke about it in a fun sense (they are market leader, comes with the territory to be clobbered if you are the big guy - if you dont like the heat get out the kitchen),

Reply to Enough is Enough - The Church MUST Put its House in Order in Religion JoeUser Forums

As this saga unfolds, I really do get more and more frustrated with the reaction from many quarters, as I am sure many people do. Whenever events of this serious a nature surface, the reaction is vertually guaranteed - this is unfair, what about him, and him, and him - ahhh you dont understand you obviously dont have the inherent intellect to realise that this is a factor, that is a factor, what about this, what about that. Strewth, it make

The Big Banks and The Customer in Consumer Issues JoeUser Forums

I am now convinced the Big Banks have taken leave of their senses (I live in UK) regarding the relationship they have (or had, more of that later) with you and I, joe soap, the ordinary person going about his or her life before the grim reaper moves us on. At the end of the day, they are a business not a charity, and are there to satisfy their shareholders - what a

Reply to The Adventures of the Starship Enterprise in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

the parking attendent arrived in his Spor Shuttle. He wistfully thought of the good old days of the parking ticket, he had always thought that instant disintegration of your ship for illegal parking was going a bit far. Anyway that damn Romulan Warbird was trying to pinch his parking slot, he was here first. The Korath official obviously agreed as the Universal Translator barked into life with a torrent of ugly threats directed at the Romulan ship. He saw his chance, and deftly swung

The Adventures of the Starship Enterprise in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Ok lets see your creative side, and write a new script for the Enterprise, depicting whatever you wish. Rules (hey there has to be some) 1. Its a bit of fun, stay out of the boring side of Politics, Religion and Women. Keep it light hearted, and please no pretence and false subtlety in attempts to break the rule. Such attempts are usually so obvious a Phaser Beam through the upper deck observation post is less clear in comparison, whatever the originator may think. Light hearted

Reply to Asteroid Collision in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Nice Bump - excellent video, very clearly thought out, and superb understated graphics that telegraph a clear unambiguous message. It is a shame its not english commentary, but that does not distract from the power and mind numbing effect of the whole presentation. Awsome is an overused word these days, and I normally back away from using or taking notice of it - but that video really is awsome, full marks to the Producer & Production Team. I loved one of the comments "F**

Reply to Delete in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Is Global warming happening? Indisputably yes - the evidence is overwhelming - ice fields the size of Manhattan island are breaking off the Ice Pack in the Artic daily, the clear indisputable evidence that is occurring in the ice pack is without doubt overwhelming. Other aspects to the evidence of Global Warming of course, but once its accepted its happening, endless rounds of further evidence - at least initially - are not really relevant. The question is Why is it Happening? In any

Reply to anyone cared enough to share the truth of heaven and hell in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

So you don't believe in infinite Hell? Yup - its recursive religous threads Regards Zy

Reply to Ascension.. do you think it is possible? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

To even think otherwise is to show ignorance of what energy is. I'll trade my first couple of hundred centuries in purgatory, against the bet that the "rules" of energy, light, speed, travel yaddi yadda will heve been rewritten. Even a hundred years or so ago, you would be considered at best excentric, and more likely put away as irredeemably crazy, if you serously believed walking on the moon was possible. As for a remote buggy waddling over

Reply to Green Economy in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As such neither matter, because when the trade route is established, it grows by a fixed 1 parsec a Turn no matter the speed of the initial freighter setting it up. The route value increases in direct proportion to distance travelled after setup. Base value of the route is Planet size and population at either end of the link, with the most important element distance of the route end to end. So in a nutshell, a fast freighter gets it setup quicker as it gets their faster theref

Reply to A matter of opinion, what's yours? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I always go for Economy (30), Research (15) and Moral (20) add on the Terran Industrialist race bonuses of 20 each to Social & Military Production (Playing DL not DA) I dont bother with anything outside Economy, Research & Moral because those three are the Core elements to the fundamental game (whatever Race you choose to play), the rest is really tinkering at the edges. I always believe as far as you are able, that the bonuses should be concentrated in key areas, not watered down by

Reply to New Rig... poor results in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Raw performance stats are always suspect in terms of conclusions of course, but they are usful for comparitors. Toms Hardware did a Review on principly 8600GT, but they covered peripheral aspects surrounding it with the other NVIDIA cards. There is a quantum leap in specification and performance between the 8300 to 8500's and the 8600 to 8800s. Comparitor table This next one is a dreaded benchma

Reply to Ctrl-N fools me again in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Nothing yet - its in development, there is an article on the home page about it. What a great compliment to the Dev Teams that question is .... with most software games, Players usually end up clammouring for an update, "anytime this century will do" is the usual frustrated feeling. Meanwhile over at GalCiv II such is our expectation now with the great support and updates they do, eager disappointment reigns if its more than (circa) a month or so between point upgrades <