I bought a SATA3 SSD recently for my OS/programs/couple of games and its well worth it. Power on to usable desktop in Windows 7 in less than 10 seconds. Still keep a RAID array of conventional disks for mass storage.

It really is a good upgrade for old computers, anything with a SATA port should show a big improvement over a HDD even if the SATA controller is only SATA1. In my experience they are backward compatible, they should just run at the lower speed of the controller*.

Nice to see OAG making some squids out of her internet fame, she seems to be making the most of it, good for her.

*Youre experience may vary, check with your PC manufacturer

September 1, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A South Side Chicago man who admitted shooting and wounding two Chicago Police officers has been found not guilty and released from custody. In this Intelligence Report: How did the shooter's lawyer manage to win such a case?

Twenty-one-year-old Kenneth Green was asleep in his Roseland apartment two years ago when a Chicago Police team showed up with a search warrant for drugs.

Cops used a battering ram to get in.

When police kicked through the bottom of Green's bedroom door, he shot through the door wounding two of the officers. Despite admitting all that, Green got off claiming self-defense.

The early morning raid by police on Green's Roseland apartment building ended in almost three dozen shots fired, mostly by police, after veteran officers Scott McKenna and Danny O'Toole were wounded through the door. The officers would survive, but that day in 2009, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis used the incident to take a stand.

"People are trying to murder police officers left and right," Weis said.

After he shot two policeman, Green was arrested on the spot and charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery with a gun and held without bond.

Last week, after a several day trial, Green was found not guilty. His attorney, Marcus Schantz, told the I-Team that he convinced the jury that Green didn't know they were police outside his door executing a legal search warrant.

ok lets get the patriot act used on me...

I'm gonna blow up the mall of america, the statue of liberty, the golden gate bridge, oh and I plan to fertilizer bomb the hardware store in sleepy hollow, new york just for good measure

I'll be waiting for my epic raid for phat lewt!

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"And then?"

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OK. You lady can go first.

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I will throw mandures at your pretty face.

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But I don't want to be squished by your ugly/smelly/dirty foot, honey.

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It better be clean!

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OK, now I think I will have to terminate you.

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Thank you. As for identity, I was pointing out the typo. ;

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Nice mugshot! You look very nice. :

Thank you very much and you don't look so bad yourself antinator ;

As for my identity...I thought we had established I was a fairy! :


Yu dun lik spellng mstks du u? Duz thes driv u krazee?


I'd like to see you try tough guy. Just keep in mind that I carry a can of raid in my purse.


Mmm, Raid. I love sniffing that.

....and there's always my foot.


That would be the least of your worries dear ant.


I'll step in a BIG steamy pile of manure before the big s-q-u-i-s-h...smells even better than Raid.


*licks lips* Bring it on antinator, bring it on...


If I go first, you'll be a sticky mess beneath my shoe.


And then??? Well I guess it would all be over for you at that point wouldn't it?

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OK. You lady can go first.

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I will throw mandures at your pretty face.

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But I don't want to be squished by your ugly/smelly/dirty foot, honey.

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It better be clean!

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OK, now I think I will have to terminate you.

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Thank you. As for identity, I was pointing out the typo. ;

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Nice mugshot! You look very nice. :

Thank you very much and you don't look so bad yourself antinator ;

As for my identity...I thought we had established I was a fairy! :


Yu dun lik spellng mstks du u? Duz thes driv u krazee?


I'd like to see you try tough guy. Just keep in mind that I carry a can of raid in my purse.


Mmm, Raid. I love sniffing that.

....and there's always my foot.


That would be the least of your worries dear ant.


I'll step in a BIG steamy pile of manure before the big s-q-u-i-s-h...smells even better than Raid.


*licks lips* Bring it on antinator, bring it on...


If I go first, you'll be a sticky mess beneath my shoe.

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I will throw mandures at your pretty face.

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But I don't want to be squished by your ugly/smelly/dirty foot, honey.

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It better be clean!

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OK, now I think I will have to terminate you.

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Thank you. As for identity, I was pointing out the typo. ;

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Nice mugshot! You look very nice. :

Thank you very much and you don't look so bad yourself antinator ;

As for my identity...I thought we had established I was a fairy! :


Yu dun lik spellng mstks du u? Duz thes driv u krazee?


I'd like to see you try tough guy. Just keep in mind that I carry a can of raid in my purse.


Mmm, Raid. I love sniffing that.

....and there's always my foot.


That would be the least of your worries dear ant.


I'll step in a BIG steamy pile of manure before the big s-q-u-i-s-h...smells even better than Raid.


*licks lips* Bring it on antinator, bring it on...

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But I don't want to be squished by your ugly/smelly/dirty foot, honey.

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It better be clean!

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OK, now I think I will have to terminate you.

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Thank you. As for identity, I was pointing out the typo. ;

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Nice mugshot! You look very nice. :

Thank you very much and you don't look so bad yourself antinator ;

As for my identity...I thought we had established I was a fairy! :


Yu dun lik spellng mstks du u? Duz thes driv u krazee?


I'd like to see you try tough guy. Just keep in mind that I carry a can of raid in my purse.


Mmm, Raid. I love sniffing that.

....and there's always my foot.


That would be the least of your worries dear ant.


I'll step in a BIG steamy pile of manure before the big s-q-u-i-s-h...smells even better than Raid.

In reply to this comment by ant:
It better be clean!

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OK, now I think I will have to terminate you.

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In reply to this comment by ant:
Thank you. As for identity, I was pointing out the typo. ;

In reply to this comment by pumkinandstorm:
In reply to this comment by ant:
Nice mugshot! You look very nice. :

Thank you very much and you don't look so bad yourself antinator ;

As for my identity...I thought we had established I was a fairy! :


Yu dun lik spellng mstks du u? Duz thes driv u krazee?


I'd like to see you try tough guy. Just keep in mind that I carry a can of raid in my purse.


Mmm, Raid. I love sniffing that.

....and there's always my foot.


That would be the least of your worries dear ant.

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In reply to this comment by ant:
OK, now I think I will have to terminate you.

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In reply to this comment by ant:
Thank you. As for identity, I was pointing out the typo. ;

In reply to this comment by pumkinandstorm:
In reply to this comment by ant:
Nice mugshot! You look very nice. :

Thank you very much and you don't look so bad yourself antinator ;

As for my identity...I thought we had established I was a fairy! :


Yu dun lik spellng mstks du u? Duz thes driv u krazee?


I'd like to see you try tough guy. Just keep in mind that I carry a can of raid in my purse.


Mmm, Raid. I love sniffing that.

....and there's always my foot.

In reply to this comment by ant:
OK, now I think I will have to terminate you.

In reply to this comment by pumkinandstorm:
In reply to this comment by ant:
Thank you. As for identity, I was pointing out the typo. ;

In reply to this comment by pumkinandstorm:
In reply to this comment by ant:
Nice mugshot! You look very nice. :

Thank you very much and you don't look so bad yourself antinator ;

As for my identity...I thought we had established I was a fairy! :


Yu dun lik spellng mstks du u? Duz thes driv u krazee?


I'd like to see you try tough guy. Just keep in mind that I carry a can of raid in my purse.

Addressing Cenk's question of why Obama is so hard-right on the issue of pot legalization, I agree with Bill Maher's take: Obama does not wish to go down in history as the president that legalized pot. It would tend to advance the stereotype of black people as being big pot smokers. In Obama's mind, it's enough being the first black president as well as the first president to ever address health care in a meaningful way. Federal pot legalization is an issue he's happy to let a future president tackle.

And the degree to which he's opposed pot legalization (by raiding more head shops than Bush II) is simply meant to undercut that stereotype. Like a "see how black I'm not" kind of thing.

Point 1: If by misquote, you mean substituted a larger term (religion) for a smaller one (churches), I suppose I did. But without religion, there -are- no churches. I don't see any meaningful difference.

Point 2: Texas has worked damned hard to earn its reputation as a major-league collection of wingnuts. I'm not sure how you can justify getting upset when that reputation is assumed to be true. You have a problem with the reputation, maybe you should start blaming the people who are going out of their way to earn it...like Rick Perry, or the Texas Board of Education. As long as the state is trying to rewrite history to eliminate reality's liberal bias, you're going to be stuck with that.

Point 3: Perhaps I should have slowed down and spent more time in the step-by-step logic...I really thought most people who read her could follow the shorthand, but I did indeed jump about a bit.

In many ways, churches are no different than any corporation. They exist as a means to concentrate funds and offer the controller(s) of those funds a method of avoiding personal responsibility for misuse of those funds. On top of that, churches pay no taxes, although they still make liberal use of publicly funded services, -and- in many cases, they keep lobbying for public funds to be handed over to them as well. Now add how many churches are politically active and advising their cult members how to vote, and you might begin to see why I refer to them all as corporate welfare queens. Or maybe not...I don't know if you're even going to try to follow it or not, and don't much care at this point.
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>> ^Stormsinger:
>> ^chingalera:
>> ^Boise_Lib:
Someone just explained separation of church and state to him.

Jeeez dude, you are about a party-liner ain't ya?? Texas would be the first state to "separate" from the diseased political system you so faithfully believe in and, as we observe, believe in as fervently as any bible-thumping proselytizer determined to beat a moot point into oblivion.
As the government of the U.S. continues down her retrograde path, churches will become for many, a last bastion of sanity exempt from a really retarded form of totalitarianism and fascism. Retarded, because folks who talk shit from the comfort of their programming who belie intelligence with their words should have seen the shit coming from miles away but were too comfortable in their delusion to see the boots and badges-

I was gonna...but then decided it's not worth it, then changed my mind one last time.
I suspect aAnyone who can call religion "the last bastion of sanity" is too far gone to make sense, but... Religion supplies a cushy lifestyle for priests...that's the sum total of it's accomplishments. Churches have, if anything, helped push the government down the path you so self-righteously condemn...and they preach and stump political issues all without paying any taxes. Yet more corporate welfare.
It's time for the -real- welfare queens to start paying their share...churches, Wall Street, Defense contractors, big Pharma, etc. Time to either start contributing to the upkeep of society, or be broken up (or strung up, as the case may be).

No, you misquote me and then infer bullshit in that same smug manner that libby there used and that anyone on the receiving end of such smug could expect after reading a gajillion similar quips. I said CHURCHES and meant the members of the same whose communal efforts keep the building's physical plant in order and supports the members in time of want or need. You know...The first places to get raided and ransacked when the jackboots come??
This didn't start about about religion: I started it when Potato-libro there took a jab at Texas and lighted upon another opportunity to bash "them ignernt conservatives, etc.", NOT UNLIKE a shitload of folks with "holier than thou" attitudes concerning politics and government. QUITE laughable really, because the opinions they have and the conclusions they have arrived at, are based on limited and incomplete information or worse, they have been programmed to do so through systematic efforts by do-nothings in colleges or universities.
Stormsinger, YOUR rant began with religion and politics and manically concluded with corporations and Wall Street....WTF??!! By the way, my solution as an anarchistic, soon-to-be expatriate is to use the BIG TEX method on governments and corporations. You hate em so much, be like the Hulk. SMAAAASH! Then burn, repeat.
Can we talk about how fucking progressive IDAHO is now??? Jesus Christ, Allah Mustapha!!
I suspect anyone who can start with anti-religion rants, switch to blaming churches for the state of America's demise, bash tax-exemption and somehow blame corporate welfare (whatever the fuck!??...see where this is going?) and arrive at a total solution by blaming BELTWAY INSIDERS AND THE SENATORS/CONGRESSMEN THEY HAVE BOUGHT for pharma, defense, etc. shifting the blame to people without any power or influence???....I'd have to call them schizophrenic! Which is how most rabid concerning politics ion one side or the other are to me. ALLL OF THEM, conservative or liberal. I could give a fiddler's fist-fuck about working within a failed system. I prefer to keep to the fringes of this broken machine and put as little of my resources or mentations into it.
But some, like stormie and libby here...well, hopeless fiends and junkies for the dance politic. Playing right into the hands of the corporations iffn ya axe me!

>> ^Stormsinger:

>> ^chingalera:
>> ^Boise_Lib:
Someone just explained separation of church and state to him.

Jeeez dude, you are about a party-liner ain't ya?? Texas would be the first state to "separate" from the diseased political system you so faithfully believe in and, as we observe, believe in as fervently as any bible-thumping proselytizer determined to beat a moot point into oblivion.
As the government of the U.S. continues down her retrograde path, churches will become for many, a last bastion of sanity exempt from a really retarded form of totalitarianism and fascism. Retarded, because folks who talk shit from the comfort of their programming who belie intelligence with their words should have seen the shit coming from miles away but were too comfortable in their delusion to see the boots and badges-

I was gonna...but then decided it's not worth it, then changed my mind one last time.
I suspect aAnyone who can call religion "the last bastion of sanity" is too far gone to make sense, but... Religion supplies a cushy lifestyle for priests...that's the sum total of it's accomplishments. Churches have, if anything, helped push the government down the path you so self-righteously condemn...and they preach and stump political issues all without paying any taxes. Yet more corporate welfare.
It's time for the -real- welfare queens to start paying their share...churches, Wall Street, Defense contractors, big Pharma, etc. Time to either start contributing to the upkeep of society, or be broken up (or strung up, as the case may be).


No, you misquote me and then infer bullshit in that same smug manner that libby there used and that anyone on the receiving end of such smug could expect after reading a gajillion similar quips. I said CHURCHES and meant the members of the same whose communal efforts keep the building's physical plant in order and supports the members in time of want or need. You know...The first places to get raided and ransacked when the jackboots come??

This didn't start about about religion: I started it when Potato-libro there took a jab at Texas and lighted upon another opportunity to bash "them ignernt conservatives, etc.", NOT UNLIKE a shitload of folks with "holier than thou" attitudes concerning politics and government. QUITE laughable really, because the opinions they have and the conclusions they have arrived at, are based on limited and incomplete information or worse, they have been programmed to do so through systematic efforts by do-nothings in colleges or universities.

Stormsinger, YOUR rant began with religion and politics and manically concluded with corporations and Wall Street....WTF??!! By the way, my solution as an anarchistic, soon-to-be expatriate is to use the BIG TEX method on governments and corporations. You hate em so much, be like the Hulk. SMAAAASH! Then burn, repeat.

Can we talk about how fucking progressive IDAHO is now??? Jesus Christ, Allah Mustapha!!
I suspect anyone who can start with anti-religion rants, switch to blaming churches for the state of America's demise, bash tax-exemption and somehow blame corporate welfare (whatever the fuck!??...see where this is going?) and arrive at a total solution by blaming BELTWAY INSIDERS AND THE SENATORS/CONGRESSMEN THEY HAVE BOUGHT for pharma, defense, etc. shifting the blame to people without any power or influence???....I'd have to call them schizophrenic! Which is how most rabid concerning politics ion one side or the other are to me. ALLL OF THEM, conservative or liberal. I could give a fiddler's fist-fuck about working within a failed system. I prefer to keep to the fringes of this broken machine and put as little of my resources or mentations into it.

But some, like stormie and libby here...well, hopeless fiends and junkies for the dance politic. Playing right into the hands of the corporations iffn ya axe me!

My highest is 27. I've got one of each profession now, and I can't seem to figure out which I enjoy most.>> ^shang:

I ROSE UP!!!
I've spent 36 years shacked in the basement of my mothers home, living off medicare & medicaid on disability, with extra cash coming from adsense ads on various blogs and such
but I ROSE UP and tossed off the shackles of oppression
and I LOGGED INTO GUILD WARS 2 WITH THE PASSION OF A MILLION NERDS CRYING OUT AS ONE!

or something like that....

level 60 Engineer so far 20 more levels to go then its dungeon raiding time

I ROSE UP!!!

I've spent 36 years shacked in the basement of my mothers home, living off medicare & medicaid on disability, with extra cash coming from adsense ads on various blogs and such

but I ROSE UP and tossed off the shackles of oppression

and I LOGGED INTO GUILD WARS 2 WITH THE PASSION OF A MILLION NERDS CRYING OUT AS ONE!


or something like that....


level 60 Engineer so far 20 more levels to go then its dungeon raiding time