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Nice Work. Once your done with major roads and you get to the grid it should become much easier. And yes, I comment your work because mountain dew is my favorite soda...

Mt. Dew, the greatest soda ever mines the name of a band.

Hi HotDogs. This is incredible. Can't wait to look at some of the past updates. Nice work.

Red Sox continue to be horrible, dropping 2 games to the orioles after winning 8 of 10. Ortiz hit two home runs [positive] but Dice K and Wakefield both got rocked for 6 runs each [negative] Adrian Beltre is fourth in AL batting average [positive] but Lackey and Beckett have ERA's above 5 for April [negative]. Lackey and Beckett will figure it out, just maybe too late

Astronelson-Point across. And yes, not "everybody wants to kill us". That is extreme hyperbole of course. And there are certainly other european countries that have a lot of the same problems in terms of terrorist threats and needing good military and defense. But the US has the highest military budget in the world and it's not just because we are militaristic [okay, yes, we are pretty militaristic haha]. From the 50's-90's though, we had to compete with the soviet union. Arms races, investing in new technology...even the space race should be considered military spending because we were trying to get there first so the soviets couldn't nuke us from outer space [like that would ever happen...]. That costs a lot of freaking money. Then the Soviet Union collapses and suddenly America was head and shoulders above everybody else as the most powerful country in the world at that time [in my opinion. I'm sure somebody somewhere has facts and figures to argue that]. All that power meant America had to be the world police [actually it didn't, but everybody thought it did, or at least the government did] So then we have the Gulf War, enter 9/11, and now we have Iraq, Afghanistan, and the "war on terror" [afterwards hopefully we can do a "war on fear" ]. basically, we've been constantly having to spend money on our military since World War II, with a little bit of a break between the gulf war and 9/11. But America, more so than any country i'd say, has the need to spend on defense. Fourth largest country for land, and I think the third largest for population but i'm not sure. Thats a lot of land, and a lot of people to protect. Add to that two wars and being the number one targest for terrorists [car bomb in times square this morning as we speak] and we need to spend a lot of money on defense. Compare that to a country like Switzerland, which is historically neutral, not fighting in any wars, small land area, small population, much smaller target for terrorism...and you can see where i'm getting at right? The money that a country like switzerland has to spend on socialist stuff like free healthcare, university, "social security" [to be honest, i don't know if they have a social security style program there] we just don't have. We should have the money to do all this socialist stuff, but we don't, because over the years we've screwed up with our money and wars too much.

"(largest 4-sided clock in the world btw )" They just built a bigger one in Mecca. Sorry

Instead of quintuple posting, post all of those as part of one update. No need to make 5 posts in a row an hour apart. If you want to make changes you can use the edit post button.

Unrelated but it fits into the subject a bit. I saw a commercial for dog food with all kinds of terrific healthy foods in it. It had real white meat chicken, fresh vegetables, and fresh fruits. Why on earth are we americans wasting perfectly good people food on our dogs and cats and gerbils while there are billions starving not just in the poorer areas of our world but right here in our on country. It's kind of disgusting..

Which system is right depends on the country. Socialism works for countries like switzerland. They have tons of money, and nothing to spend it on other than their people. Socialism doesn't work for america. We have tons of money, but we have to spend it on weapons and defense, because everybody in the world wants to kill us. We don't have the money for the government to give us healthcare and university educations and food and all that good stuff. Communism doesn't work for anybody. Communism is just too idealistic. All concepts revolving around equality are doomed to fail, because humans aren't equal, like it or not. If humans were equal, than we would have no sports, because they would be deadlock ties for eternity. If humans were equal, how would colleges reject hundreds of applicants, if all the applicants are the same?. Equality should mean we all get the same rights, not we all get the same life.

mIlwaukee is a very nice city. Doesn't get much press because there is nothing there, but its cool at least haha

This is great for the BATting community! getting my copy asap

Wow Ryan Howard got old fast. He's 30! They probably should have called him up sooner than 26.

Of course the only state to tax it is taxachusetts

If I'm home i'm there. [don't count on it though].

iLike iHotDogs alot?

Melton-you should BAT in meters. I'm pretty sure BATting in feet confuses the renderer and it also makes it harder to scale with the game. One tile in the game is 16m. As a general thumb I think of a meter as in the ballpark of a yard. My standards are as stated 4 m floors [everyone pretty much does that?]. For the base I do 5 or 6 meters usually. Doors 3-4. Doors in life have all different size heights.

Larks, you can tell when he stopped taking just by looking at his numbers/injury history. 2008 if I'm right..

You know, what you describe sounds a lot more like weed dependence/addiction, not weed fixing your problems....

Originally posted by: anytownusa I believe our Faith in Jesus Christ brought us out of the Dark Ages. Western Civilization consisted of nothing more than a whole continent of barbarians. It wasn't until we became Christians that we began to really develop. The introduction of Christianity into Europe cannot be overstated. If we ceased to be a Christian culture we would go right back to being barbarians as proven by events such as the holocaust. In 1492 the Spanish pushed the last muslims out of Europe, making the continent entirely Christian. That was the exact same year Christopher Columbus discovered North America. Not a coincidence. Maybe when we bring the whole world to Christ we will finally discover a new inhabitable planet somewhere in the universe. quote> heres how everything happens. The year 0-this is actually 33 years. Odd, eh? This is when Jesus lived. I suppose you say Christianity formed now. -Romans become christians, spreading christianity throughout europe. -Christianity spreads to europe. -Rome collapses, bringing in the dark ages. -Orthodox Churches form over the debate of symbolism. Cause you know, who loves jesus more is a big issue. -The Pope decides to invade the middle east because you know, they didn't do anything besides preserve centuries of knowledge and culture from the greeks and romans, as well as facilitate global trade of ideas and technology from europe to asia. So yea, lets go get us some holy land! -Reformation. Basically, people fighting over who loves jesus more. Also Church of England forms because King Henry wants a loophole out of "going to hell". Interestingly enough, divisions of the church are present in nearly every major european conflict. Protestant-Catholic fighting/hatred doesn't stop till just recently. Is that progress? -Hitler starts WWII and Houlocaust. You'll be surprised to find out that Hitler was a christian, raised catholic, but then favored protestantism because it was german, who believed in a aryan jesus christ who fought jews. Wow! That's progress! -1980's-90's. The United States decides to get involved in the middle east, thus causing a bunch of islamic radicals to resume that holy war on the west, because you know, they love god more. No wait, we do. No, they do. Ahhh lets just fight about it with missles! Don't you love progress? In 1492 Columbus did sail the ocean blue. Proving the supposedly infallible church wrong, that the earth is round, not flat. If Columbus was a good christian boy, he would have never challenged the churches teachings, and 300,000 million americans would currently be living in europe. Population density is fun! O, and columbus killed a bunch of natives in the name of god. At least he wasn't a barbarian, right? Luckily, the church fessed up to being fallible, considering they denied the worlds roundness and thought the sun revolved around the earth [did I mention they killed Galileo for that?]. So yea, eventually they said, "oops, we are wrong". In the 20th century. While we were inventing hollywood, the church was discovering the earth was round. How's that for progress? Your right. If we all followed the churches teachings we would be living on another planet right now. Unfortuantly, according to the church, there are no other planets. Those are just heaven.

Not to go off on a tangent but Basketball is definetely a contact sport...jumping up 40+ inches into the air full speed, colliding with another individual whose done the same, and then hitting the hard floor on top of eachother definetely constitutes as painful. The NBA isn't as physical as it used to be [new rules were made to free up the floor for offense, plus fighting was banned a few decades ago [double parenthesis: That didn't stop Ron Artest!]], but theres still a lot of contact down low under the basket. On the subject. I think censorship to a degree is necessary. I don't see a problem with saying "warning: graphic content". It's only proper. Different people have different levels of tolerance and different things that offend them. So you kind of have to be all encompassing with these warnings and warn about every single thing. For example, sexual content or really violent content doesn't really affect me, but I do get really queezy watching those surgery videos. For some, its the other way around. I watch all kinds of comedy and I don't really mind politically incorrect or crude jokes. A lot of people get horribly offended by that content though. So you have to make sure you give people warning. But you still can't restrict peoples rights to watch what they want.Give them a warning? yes. But keep them from watching it? no. Of course, there are some extremes, for example, obviously the kiddie stuff is something thats gotta be banned regardless of rights to watch whatever you want. Is dogfighting/animal cruelty one of these things? Honestly, I think it isn't. Would I want to watch that? no. But if the discovery channel films lions eating zebras, whose to say Joe the Star Falcon's Quarterback [yea, my take on Joe the Plumber] can't watch dogs biting eachother? On another odd distant tangent, I don't get why animal rights focuses typically only on domestic animals like dogs and cats. What about fish? You know the pain I put those things through when I was a kid and i struggled to remove the hooks from them, giving them a torture on their way to death? Shouldn't I go to jail? Or what about insects? When i'm in a really pissy mood I like to torture insects with toothpaste. Why hasn't PETA tried to get me arrested?

Just a heads up, you want to make sure the person saves their city before blowing up, and doesn't save after until they have checked their images and are 100% satisfied with the results.

^rules are rules Darnell McDonald is a nice "out of nowhere" prospect. Unfortunately those hard workers in the minors who take years to get to the big leagues and only get a few games for a call up never stay. They always get pushed to the bottom of the depth charts by free agents, trades, or big name prospects. O well, it's nice to get a guy his moment. Hopefully Francona can find him a spot, hitting .450 for a week is definetely worth playing time if we are giving playing time to David Ortiz, he of the sub-100 average.

Also get photoshop or GIMP [or any other free image editor like GIMP] if you aren't in the position to get photoshop. A big part of BATting is making textures, which will require a lot of image editing.

Brenok, that's an interesting idea. It worked with the International Spacestation, did it not? Why not have a fleet of ships as the capital of the world, and they can move from country to country all the time. This of course assuming there was a need for a capital of the world, which there isn't

I like how the Patriots played the draft this year. Next year they have a garunteed top 10 pick [Oaklands first rounder from the Seymour trade], there own first, and two second round picks. This year with 12 picks including 4 in the first two rounds, they managed to get 4-5 players who will contribute greatly. 06-08 they had some bad drafts, but if you take those years first round picks, and the last two drafts, you have a number of starters and players who could contribute immediately next year. Meriweather and Mayo have grown into pro bowl caliber players on D, Maroney is the teams leading rusher since he was drafted and when healthy a good player. Last year, Vollomer, Wilhite, and butler all ended up starting games for the Pats, and Pat Chung grew leaps and bounds from barely playing in the first game to making big plays by week 17. This year, Brandon Spikes in the third round is IMO the best pick in the draft for the patriots, he should end up starting next to mayo, Cunningham should be a terrific OLB once he learns the spot [although I don't think he's ready to step in right away, he's more of a long term project]. Gronkowski was a steal in the second round, first round talent but fell due to injury concerns, and Anthony Hernandez was the top TE in college football last year so he's there if Gronkowski doesn't work out. Picking the top kicker/punter in the 5th round was a great pick that even Mel Kiper liked, and that fills an immediate need for opening day. The one pick I didn't like was Price the reciever out of Ohio, but history has shown that drafting recievers from small schools in the second and third round is almost a better option than going for the big names in the first round. Knowing how Edelman turned out last year, theres a good chance this guy could work out too.