well, how about you stop eating enough for a small village for your own health? or do you want to die?

we do have a problem with overcrowding in prisons.... would be interesting... not sure exactly how useful it would be though... what happens when people complain that criminals are stealing their jobs?

one thing i would definitely be in favor of is much heavier presence at our southern border...  inorder to stop not just illegals, but drugs and guns being smuggled into the country...

crocodile slang for an older woman?

lol

you have a brother?!!!!!   what an unfortunate soul....

spain lost their first match... there is only one...

on throw ins, they often step onto the field before letting go of the ball too..

> [TI] Primo wrote:

> They also elected Amy Whitehouse as sexiest woman alive.

what?! who the hell did that? !!!

ah, well, rts's are typically more demanding on the cpu and ram i think, then the gpu, so make sure you invest in those... i imagine a $100ish card should be fine.... one quick question, what is your monitor's native resolution? higher resolutions are more demanding on videocards...   i will say my brother is in scii's beta and his monitor is very a low resolution and he is unable to run scii on max with the 8800GT from Nvidea... so i would suggest getting at least 1 tier above the 8800 GT.

also to go in a little more detail when i said higher number generally means newer.  the first digit of the card is basically the generation. so the 5850 is a generation past the 4870, so the 5850 is the newer card. after the first digit, the remaining numbers basically tell of its performance. of the 5000 series the 5970 is the highest performer, while the 5450 is the worst that i know of; but i am pretty sure that 5450 is actually newer then the 5970. each generation basically has 1 card that the generation starts off with, with ati it was the 5870. the numbers after the 5 just describe how much weaker or stronger they are compared to it.

nvidea has a similar system, but their current generation is called 400 not 5000. and also for some reason, they skipped the "300" generation and went straight from 200 to 400. so the 200 series nvidea cards are as old as the 4000 series ati cards. and then prior to the 200 series cards was the 8000 series card for nvidia, which is comparable in age to the 3000 series of ati. the 9000 series for nvidia was just a die shrink of the 8000 series, so they are slightly newer then the 8000 series, but they are not a new architecture, and i wouldn't call them a full series, they basically re-marketed the 8000 series to sell more cards.

the best deal i can find is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150436 $140, $120 after mir; and it outperforms a 5770... only slightly worse then the 5830... its what i bought way back when it came out, cost me $300, and i only got 512mB of ram

there are tons better then the 9600M GT, and actually, the last two generations, ati has typically provided much better bang for your buck

this is tom's hardware chart for performance of video cards: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-radeon-hd-geforce-gtx,2676-7.html

you can get the 5830 for just under $200. the GTX 465 has roughly the same performance on the chart, but costs $250 at newegg.

i don't think your 9600m GT is on the chart, but i found a review  that compared it to others http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-GT.9449.0.html, and it was slightly below the  Go 7950 GTX in performance, and that one is on the chart.