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ya think they will make one for RPGs ?

on another noTe hey did you get the laptop back together?

http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ap_Odyssey_071017_ms.jpg GIBRALTAR (Reuters) - A Spanish warship intercepted a U.S. treasure-hunting vessel that it suspects took gold and silver worth an estimated $500 million from a sunken Spanish galleon, the U.S. crew said on Tuesday. The Spanish Navy corvette blocked the Odyssey Explorer after it left the British territory of Gibraltar and threatened to open fire when the captain refused to let police board. Police later arrested the boat's American captain, Sterling Vorus, a company official said. www.abcnews.com The warship had escorted the boat, which belongs to U.S. company Odyssey Marine Exploration, to the Spanish port of Algeciras so police could carry out a search. "They threatened that we must obey or they would use deadly force," Ali Nessar, a company representative on the boat, told Reuters by phone. "We were forced at gunpoint to come to Algeciras." The incident is the latest in a dispute dating back to May when Madrid said Odyssey's discovery of the treasure trove might have come from Spanish waters or from a Spanish galleon in international waters. In both cases Spain remains the rightful owner of the booty, the government says. Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration has said it has legally discovered 17 tons of silver coins plus gold while working on a wreck code-named "Black Swan" at a secret location in the Atlantic Ocean.

OMG a GRAND for a new hard drive Ill bet that sucker is fast fast:)

that Talon Tank killer missile is something I didnt know it went straight up in the air and then comes down and strikes it dead center on top :klinked: I played the level like 4 times now love the sniper rifle, not bolt action I sat there and was using the nade launcher toobing the second floor till I got to where I could put it in the window or door its nice to have it back NO constant tags is gonna be an adjustment for me, when running its hard to tell friendly s if your not aiming right at them sometimes. worth the price fo sho

WELL DONE :twitcy:

umm well actually Im not married and I dont drink wine and my 47 LCD is on the wall in my office not the living room.... I just thought this was pretty funny when I read it

umm wut he said .....

how about some specs, OS ,graphics card, ram ect.......... :klinked:

MY LIVING WILL Last night, my wife and I were sitting in the living room and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug." She gets up, unpluggs the TV, and throws out my wine. She's such a B***** :twitcy:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39870000/jpg/_39870894_dollar_ap203body.jpg hahahahahahha nOOb on the loose A man who handed over a counterfeit million-dollar bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket and asked for change has been arrested. the man became abusive when a manager at the Giant Eagle store confiscated the fake note. He broke an electronic funds-transfer machine at the counter and reached for a scanner gun, said police. There is no real US bill worth $1m (?490,000). Since 1969, the $100 note has been the highest in circulation. The man walked into the store on the north side of Pittsburgh on Saturday evening. After refusing to give his name to police, the suspect, who was not carrying identification, was charged with forgery and criminal mischief. www.bbc.com :twitcy:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42444000/jpg/_42444350_skull_getty203.jpg since its almost Halloween I saw this story This platinum cast of an 18th Century skull is covered in 8,601 jewels. It is thought to be the world's most expensive piece of contemporary art. 100 million The artwork, based on the skull of a 35-year-old 18th century European man, caused a sensation when it first went on display in central London on 3 June - not least because of its price tag. Some critics dismissed it as tasteless while others saw it as a reflection of celebrity-obsessed culture. Hirst said the piece, called For the Love of God, was "uplifting" and "takes your breath away". The centrepiece of the 41-year-old's creation is a pear-shaped pink diamond, set in the forehead. New teeth were also made for the artwork, which is thought to have cost about ?14m to create. Hirst is planning a global tour for the skull following its sale, said a spokeswoman for the White Cube gallery. However, no dates or locations have been confirmed. She added that, as the artist had retained a share in the artwork, he would benefit financially if it was sold in the future. www.bbc.com

sneak peeks of the coolest games releasing this holiday season.......... http://image.com.com/gamespot/shared/promos/2007/playersball/title.jpg GameSpot Players? Ball Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 6:30-9:30 p.m. PT www.GameSpot.com/PlayersBall The GameSpot community & their friends All gamers, regardless of geography, deserve to take part in the ultimate gaming celebration This October, GameSpot is bringing its annual video game bash to the masses, broadcasting live from Slim?s Nightclub in San Francisco. This year, we?re serving up all the action under a spinning disco ball: turbo-charged live stage show, with exclusive developer interviews and sneak peeks of the coolest games releasing this holiday season live finale of the Tom Clancy?s Rainbow Six Vegas tournament (winning teams from Mission 1 and Mission 2 will do battle live from the event) surprise features and stunts headlined by your favorite editors and Bay Area gamers We?re adding to our programming lineup every day. To stay current, check back to this page frequently. http://www.gamespot.com/event/live/playersball/ :twitcy:

sounds like a candidate for JERK OF THE MONTH lol :twitcy:

Ok It says 18 multilayer.............. does that mean 36 man server or is this only 9 per side? :twitcy:

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said on Thursday that its "Halo 3" video game racked up worldwide sales of $300 million in its first week, making it one of the year's best sellers and helping to more than double sales of its Xbox 360 console. http://www.foxnews.com/images/310312/0_62_halo3_chief_gaze.jpg Initial reports from retailers worldwide show console sales have more than doubled compared with the weekly average before the launch of 'Halo 3,"' Microsoft said in a statement. Microsoft did not elaborate, but industry figures show that the company sold 277,000 Xbox 360 units in the United States in August and just over 11,000 units in Japan in that month. Microsoft also said "Halo 3," which lets people play the game together or battle each other over the Internet, had spurred a "record number" of people to sign up for its paid Xbox Live online service. The company said all three "Halo" games had sold more than 20 million copies. Earlier this year, Microsoft said the first two games had sold 14.8 million copies, which could mean "Halo 3" has sold as many as 5.2 million copies. :twitcy:

you think there will ever be a multi player PC version?

OK I read somewhere that you have to set computer settings to allow game to control settings like you look through your detailed graphic settings and it should read something like allow game to control shaders ... or application controlled then you reboot then reload game then change in game settings then re start game I know BF2 has a problem with this :klinked: :twitcy:

Im jealous ........ Ok dont you have to pay a monthly fee just to be able to connect and play on their servers? and how many are on a map total? 32...............64? From what I understand the graphics are dX 10 quality Im wondering about laggg when server is full intensive game play ,if the xbox chip handles it ,good ,great, awsome ? :twitcy:

wut he said :twitcy:

neO CharlieOscarDelta4:twitcy:

A US man who stored his amputated leg in a barbecue smoker that was later auctioned off is locked in a custody dispute with the man who bought it. John Wood's smoker was sold to Shannon Whisnant last week after he fell behind on payments at the storage facility in North Carolina where it was kept. He wants his leg back but Mr Whisnant says he has a receipt for the smoker's contents and wants to share ownership. Mr Wood's leg was amputated above the knee after a plane crash in 2004. He asked to keep the leg so he could be buried as a whole man when he died, and stored it at the facility in Maiden after losing his home. But when Mr Wood failed to pay the necessary rental fees, the storage company auctioned the smoker and all its contents. After buying the smoker last Tuesday, Mr Whisnant looked inside and found a man's leg wrapped in a wire screen. He initially gave the leg to the police, who concluded it had not been removed as a result of a crime and sent it to a funeral home until Mr Wood could pick it up. But after making money by charging adults $3 (?1.47) and children $1 (49p) to look inside the empty smoker, Mr Whisnant asked for it back. His request was refused by the funeral home, so he decided to try to persuade Mr Wood to share custody and profits. "I told him I'd share custody of it..." Mr Whisnant said. "It's a strange incident and Halloween's just around the corner. The price will go up if I get the leg." Mr Wood, who now lives in Greenville, South Carolina, has insisted he is not interested in using the leg to make money and plans to travel to Maiden as soon as possible to reclaim it. "I just think it's despicable," he said. "I don't mind having the 15 minutes of fame, but I'm not looking to really profit off this thing. "He's making a freak show out of it." Having had his offer rejected, Mr Whisnant has threatened to begin legal action if the leg is not returned to him by next week. He says he has a receipt showing he bought both the smoker and its contents at the auction. "Everybody knows it's mine, period," he said. "And if anyone tries to take it, I want everything they got." GEZZZ give the guy his leg back already lol :twitcy: www.cnn.com

well the thing is used to be only a nerd would wear one of those nose clamp things geee I will be now I used to canoe and swim in the lake all the time canon ball water up the nose and all not any more lol

Foreign buyouts raise US fears as weaker dollar drives deals By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | October 1, 2007 Foreign firms are taking advantage of the weaker dollar to buy US companies at a record pace that is boosting investment here but also raising fears about a potential loss of jobs and autonomy. In New England alone, 69 companies have been sold to foreign buyers in the first nine months of 2007 for a total of $30.8 billion, more than in any full year since 2000, the height of the high-tech boom, according to New York research firm Thomson Financial. "We could be looking at the world's largest tag sale if we continue to see declines in the dollar," said Donald Klepper-Smith, chief economist for the New Haven firm DataCore Partners. Last month, Koninklijke Philips Electronics of the Netherlands snapped up Color Kinetics Inc., a Burlington maker of lighting systems, for $714 million. Analog Devices Inc. of Norwood agreed to sell a pair of cellular product lines to Taiwan's MediaTek Inc. for $350 million earlier this month. Just this week, Australia's United Group Ltd. completed a $411 million purchase of UNICCO Service Co., a Newton company that provides cleaning services for office buildings. When Governor Deval Patrick and a delegation of state and local dignitaries went to Lenox on Sept. 4, they used the traditional Arabic salutation of "Peace be with you" to greet the new owners of one of Berkshire County's leading companies: Saudi Basic Industries Corp., known as Sabic, paid $11.6 billion for GE Plastics of Pittsfield, the biggest overseas acquisition of a regional company in 2007. buyouts are sparking anxiety from New England to Washington, though their impact is complex. Foreign owners typically use acquisitions as an entry into the US market and thus may be more willing than American buyers to invest in their new holdings, some economists say. But the risk is that they might also be quicker to cut back or consolidate US operations when times get tough. "Quite naturally, foreign companies want to play in this market," said Alan Tonelson, research fellow at the US Business and Industry Council, a trade group for small and mid-sized manufacturers. "They want leading-edge technology, and the United States is still the technology leader. But when they buy these companies, they're acquiring control over the most dynamic pieces of the American economy, and they're acquiring control over America's future." Overseas buyouts are just one way the dollar's falling value against foreign currencies is having an impact on New England. The weaker dollar has also drawn European, Asian, and Canadian tourists to Cape Cod and Maine, made it more expensive for Americans to travel abroad, and boosted the exports of regional companies that sell high-tech equipment or medical gear around the world. But foreign acquisitions could become the sagging dollar's most lasting legacy. Nationally, the value of this year's purchases of companies by non-US buyers totaled $257.4 billion as of this week - also a seven-year-high. The figure represents more than 20 percent of the value of all US acquisitions in 2007 through this week

It sounds like science fiction but it's true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die. eeeeee Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it's killed six boys and young men this year. The spike in cases has health officials concerned, and they are predicting more cases in the future. "This is definitely something we need to track," said Michael Beach, a specialist in recreational waterborne illnesses for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "This is a heat-loving amoeba. As water temperatures go up, it does better," Beach said. "In future decades, as temperatures rise, we'd expect to see more cases." According to the CDC, the amoeba called Naegleria fowleri (nuh-GLEER-ee-uh FOWL'-erh-eye) killed 23 people in the United States, from 1995 to 2004. This year health officials noticed a spike with six cases — three in Florida, two in Texas and one in Arizona. The CDC knows of only several hundred cases worldwide since its discovery in Australia in the 1960s. In Arizona, David Evans said nobody knew his son, Aaron, was infected with the amoeba until after the 14-year-old died on Sept. 17. At first, the teen seemed to be suffering from nothing more than a headache. "We didn't know," Evans said. "And here I am: I come home and I'm burying him." After doing more tests, doctors said Aaron probably picked up the amoeba a week before while swimming in the balmy shallows of Lake Havasu, a popular man-made lake on the Colorado River between Arizona and California. Though infections tend to be found in southern states, Naegleria lives almost everywhere in lakes, hot springs, even dirty swimming pools, grazing off algae and bacteria in the sediment. Beach said people become infected when they wade through shallow water and stir up the bottom. If someone allows water to shoot up the nose — say, by doing a somersault in chest-deep water — the amoeba can latch onto the olfactory nerve. The amoeba destroys tissue as it makes its way up into the brain, where it continues the damage, "basically feeding on the brain cells," Beach said. People who are infected tend to complain of a stiff neck, headaches and fevers. In the later stages, they'll show signs of brain damage such as hallucinations and behavioral changes, he said. Once infected, most people have little chance of survival. Some drugs have stopped the amoeba in lab experiments, but people who have been attacked rarely survive, Beach said. "Usually, from initial exposure it's fatal within two weeks," he said. Researchers still have much to learn about Naegleria. They don't know why, for example, children are more likely to be infected, and boys are more often victims than girls. "Boys tend to have more boisterous activities (in water), but we're not clear," Beach said www.yahoo.com