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Holland 1st MRB

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  1. Happy Birthday!
  2. Please see; Indeed, I believe they do. How long does it take to pre meditate? A week? A day? A few hours? A few minutes? Maybe the amount of time to drive to your friends house? Pre meditation does not imply careful planning, a period of time, or even rational thought. In this case, it implies the intention of your actions specifically to kill someone. You exemplify the seemingly collective idea of self-policing which, in some cases, may work fine. In most cases, including that which you may have reacted given the chance, does not. If this is the case, why are you, through taxes or otherwise, paying for a court system that remains completely unappreciated? Why not give both conflicting parties a dueling pistol and have them walk a few paces? The emotional response impaired your judgement, resulting in unnecessary death. Now you look at the school shooting and wonder, where in the world do children get the idea of shooting each other? It is generally accepted that children, particularly young ones, imitate the behavior they see around them in their daily lives. Daddy, why do you threaten to shoot and kill that man that man who made you mad? Then a child gets teased in school.
  3. My comment here is not going to be of a political nature. You can debate the meaning of your constitution or whether or not the issue of gun control is right or wrong all day long. Nor will I give my personal opinion on the matter. Instead, my comment is going to be of human nature. Imagine a situation where an armed person, maybe mentally stable, maybe not (irrelevant, as they are unlikely to be found one way or the other before something has happened already), who has been put under great emotional strain. Maybe they found another man/woman sleeping with their wife/husband. Perhaps a criminal broke their window in an attempt to break in to their house. Maybe that criminal was simply a kid playing a prank with some rocks. Regardless of the specific scenario, that emotional person has the option directly at-hand, to draw a weapon in response. All it would take is a split second of an emotional response, or loss of emotional control to create a terrible situation. It is not as far-fetched as you might think. I ask you to question your own line of thought. You might think "But I am responsible, and I have never had to even touch that weapon I carry around. I certainly am no threat to anybody." That is easily said, and surely you are a role model for how we should all strive to behave, however not everyone is as responsible. Have you ever witnessed another person become absolutely hysterical over something that was really quite minor? I know I have. Maybe that child, who thought it would be fun to break a window in some persons house with a stone. What if that home-owner had a very short fuse, and happens to have a weapon at their waist? What is the likely-hood of that person, enraged at the child's apparent lack of fore-thought, deciding to extract punishment, either directly, or indirectly? Either could result in a terrible situation. Is everybody like this, most certainly not! Most people, like yourself, are quite reasonable. And so what happens when something a bit more serious happens to those normally reasonable, yet armed, people? How many times in your past can you look back, in retrospect, at the absolutely retarded things you may have done when you were upset? It doesn't have to be a murder, it could be as simple as physically assaulting someone. Maybe you said something you shouldn't have whether it made sense in the situation or not. Broke someone else's possessions or property that might not even have had anything directly to do with the situation. Regardless, it is very likely that you realize now that it was an irrational response given the situation. Humans are irrational. Every one of us is irrational, or have been irrational in one way or another. When we have weapons readily available, it only takes a single irrational moment to create catastrophe. Now does this mean that everyone is a risk? Probably not. However, that does not mean that the potential of becoming a risk does not exist. That, is where the problem lies. You may not be a risk now, nor ever, but the potential for that moment of irrational thought, split second responses, or otherwise is still there. It is exactly that which creates the terrible situations that make up a great deal of gun-related homicides.
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  6. Update your graphics drivers as a first step. New computers are not necessarily up-to-date on their software. Make sure you have downloaded the most up-to-date patch for the game itself. The most recent one can be found here. What is happening in-game when it crashes? (Cut-scenes, battles, entering large open areas) Keep in mind that there still may be a crash from time to time. Fallout 3 was really quite an unstable game, plagued with many bugs. Some of which were never addressed.
  7. Are you attempting to play on the same save game each time? What are your system specs? What is happening in-game when it crashes? (Cut-scenes, battles, changing areas (loading screens)) Are you alt-tabbing or using the steam overlay? Accidentally pressed the windows key? Update your graphics drivers, check the in-game settings (make sure they are set appropriately for your system), and disable any programs in the background that could result in any kind of pop-ups, taskbar notifications, or other kinds of interference. These programs often will cause a game to minimize improperly, resulting in errors such as this.
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  9. Problems with computers will never "fix themselves". Something must change, whether it was by you, someone else, or otherwise, for anything to have a changing outcome. I suggest you go with Lafy's solution, it should fix the problem you are having.
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  11. Could try the compatibility mode, though it may or may not have any effect. Right click the program executable, click the compatibility tab, select whatever version of windows was the recommended for the game (Probably XP at the latest)
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  13. My apologies for the delay, have been on holidays for a while now. It is a common bug with ITunes that has, thus far, not been addressed (as far as I know). My suggestion to you, is to use one of the many free 3rd party Ipod managers. That being said, the only thing these applications (usually) do, is sync/backup your Ipod. If you appreciate the ITunes store, or the setup of their program, you may just want to wait it out.
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  20. Name: APOC-Nick Danger Steam I.D: STEAM_0:1:1396201 Duration of Ban: Permanent Reasons for the Ban: Blatant speed hacking Demo Provided?: N. Comments: Banned him before he could do much more than speed around the map once or twice.
  21. Congrats!
  22. What security software were you using?
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  25. Welcome to 2013.
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