BTGBullseye

Put your specs in the Hardware forum, and I'll see if I can help you speed it up some.

Minus the vodka.

I agree with that. The rest however, I do not. (other than the fact that most people can't even talk about it in a logical manner)

2004 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004 (in order to fix the problem of it not telling me when there's another post right before mine, I'm posting a quickie, then editing in the meat) International Year of Rice. (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition. (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety. (by World Health Organization) NASA's MER-A (Spirit) & MER-B (Opportunity) lands on Mars. A whale explodes in Tainan City, Taiwan, while being transported through the town to a university for a necropsy. Facebook launches. (and privacy dies) Scientists in South Korea announce the cloning of 30 human embryos. NASA announces that the Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity) has confirmed that its landing area was once drenched in water. The largest expansion of NATO to date takes place, allowing Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia into the organization. The largest expansion to date of the European Union takes place, extending the Union by 10 member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus. North Korea bans mobile phones. The first transit of Venus since 1882 occurs; the next one will occur in 2012. In Mojave, California, SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. The U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq transfers sovereignty to an Iraqi Interim Government. Preliminary hearings begin in Iraq in the trial of former president Saddam Hussein, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Cassini–Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn. Vatican City gains full membership rights in the United Nations except voting. NASA's MESSENGER is launched (it is captured into Mercury's orbit on March 18, 2011). During the Republican National Convention over 1800 individuals were arrested by the authorities in New York, USA. However 90% of those charges were eventually dropped. In Mojave, California, the first Ansari X-Prize flight takes place of SpaceShipOne, which is competing with a number of spacecraft (including Canada's Da Vinci Project, claimed to be its closest rival) and goes on to win the prize on October 4. A team of explorers reaches the bottom of Krubera Cave, world's deepest cave. The depth reached is 2,080 meters (6,824 feet), setting a world record. The Ubuntu operating system is first released. Brazil successfully launches its first rocket into space. The Cassini probe passes within 1,200 km of Titan. The European Space Agency probe Smart 1 passes from Earth orbit into the orbit of the Moon. NASA's hypersonic Scramjet breaks a record by reaching a velocity of about 7,000 mph in an unmanned experimental flight. It obtains a speed of Mach 9.6, almost 10 times the speed of sound. The world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, France, is opened by President Jacques Chirac. The House of Lords rules that the British Government breaches human rights legislation, by detaining without trial foreign nationals suspected of being terrorists. One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits Southeast Asia, when the strongest earthquake in 40 years, measuring 9.3 on the Richter scale, hits the entire Indian Ocean region, which generates an enormous tsunami that crashes into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing. Astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich measure the strongest burst from a magnetar. At 21:30:26 UT the earth is hit by a huge wave front of gamma and X-rays. It is the strongest flux of high-energetic gamma radiation measured so far. The Russian Federation stops recognizing Soviet Union passports as legal identification.

I've done it before... TWICE!!!

sounds like a damn good idea. Screw her. Take a good camera with you... Bring back memorabilia... You know, just violate the entire time-space continuum while you have the chance. What? What what?

Testing my recently re-ripped audio CDs... Just found 3 of the albums I've been looking for for over 2 years, and if they all sound clear and good I'll upload them to my PirateBay account for anyone to get. (I haven't found any decent torrents of these albums in FLAC anywhere)

A glass of Arizona Green Tea with Ginsing & Honey, with a drop or two each of lemon and lime juice, and about 2 shots worth of orange flavored vodka.

NEOScavenger 0.987b. NO MORE EXE FILE EDITING!!! YAY!!!

I've seen several of those... Mice shortings too... Then again, I've also seen USB ports that got fried because of low-grade USB1.0 thimbdrives, and would shut off the entire system if you touched any of the metal of the port with anything in any way. (my brother's PC lasted an extra 3 years after this, and I killed two of my own systems with it) Yeah, they like compression nowadays, and us "old fogies" don't like it. (I'm 26 BTW)

The big problem is that the final audio length would only be about 15 minutes shorter than the total video lengths...

Female/FreeMAN

2001 - A Space Odyssey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001 The first day of the 21st century. Noah, a gaur, is born, the first animal of an endangered species to be cloned. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of America Online and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, launches on the Internet. The Congressional Budget Office of the United States forecasts a $5,600,000,000,000 budget surplus for the next 10 years. The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. The deorbit of Russian space station Mir is carried out near Nadi, Fiji, with Mir falling into the Pacific Ocean. Soyuz TM-32 lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the first space tourist, American Dennis Tito. A large trans-Neptunian object (28978 Ixion) is found during the Deep Ecliptic Survey. George W. Bush signs the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the first tax cut of a series now known as the Bush tax cuts. The world's longest train is set up by BHP Iron Ore and is recorded going between Newman and Port Hedland in Western Australia (a distance of 275 km, or 170 miles) and the train consists of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000CW locomotives, giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moves 82,262 tonnes of ore; the train is 7.353 km (4.569 mi) long. The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools. The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, for violating a provision of the DMCA. (he actually did nothing illegal, and all charges against him and the company he worked for were eventually dismissed) The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy. Massive demonstrations are held against the meeting by anti-globalisation groups. One demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is shot dead by a carabiniere. Several others are badly injured during a police attack on a school used by the protesters as their headquarters. Windows XP is launched by Microsoft. The United States, Canada and Israel withdraw from the U.N. Conference on Racism because they feel that the issue of Zionism is overemphasized. United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it no longer seeks to break up software maker Microsoft, and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty. Donald Rumsfeld warns of $2,300,000,000,000 of Pentagon spending that cannot be accounted for. 2,997 people are killed in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 are hijacked and crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 is hijacked and crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked and crashes into grassland in Shanksville, due to the passengers fighting to regain control of the airplane. The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as letters containing anthrax spores are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National Enquirer. 22 in total are exposed; 5 of them die. U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. War in Afghanistan (2001–present): The United States invades Afghanistan, with participation from other nations. NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io. The iPod is first introduced by Apple. U.S. President George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act into law. The Doha Declaration relaxes the grip of international intellectual property law. The People's Republic of China is admitted to the World Trade Organization after 15 years of negotiations. In the first such act since World War II, U.S. President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the United States. Law enforcement raid members of DrinkOrDie in Operation Buccaneer. (and freedom dies just a little bit more) U.S. President George W. Bush announces the US withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.

Banned for not getting the time right. It says 5:04 am.

What do you have to say? Please? Thank you?

Penis dicks.

Going through all my old backup disks from 2006 and getting all my Freelancer mods back.

Actually, it made sense since people could conceivably damage their game cartridge, but not their console, requiring them to repurchase the cartridge... And they were planning on producing more consoles after the game release.

sTSA_sWGM44

Banned for being offline.

1998 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998 The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. The United States Senate passes Resolution 71, urging U.S. President Bill Clinton to "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs". Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and Britain. Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice. NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station. The High-Z Supernova Search Team becomes the first team to publish evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world. The first euro coins are minted in Pessac, France. Because the final specifications for the coins were not finished in 1998, they will have to be melted and minted again in 1999. The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the world's pagers without service. Bear Grylls, 23, becomes the youngest British climber to scale Mount Everest. The CIH virus is discovered in Taiwan. Peter Arnett publishes a false report of Operation Tailwind (initiated 1970), claiming that sarin nerve agents were used to eliminate a group of deserting U.S. soldiers. Microsoft releases Windows 98. Japan launches a probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation. At a conference in Rome, 120 countries vote to create a permanent International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum. The Second Congo War begins; 3,900,000 people are killed before it ends in 2003, making it the bloodiest war, to date, since World War II. The first RFID human implantation is tested in the United Kingdom. A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of 9 counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced. Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary. Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant man-made object from the solar system, at a distance of 69.419 AU (1.03849×1010 km). A declassified report by Swiss IOC official Marc Hodler reveals that bribes had been used to bring the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake during bidding process in 1995. The International Olympic Committee, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Department of Justice immediately launch an investigation into the scandal. A Russian Proton rocket is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first segment of the International Space Station, the 21 ton Zarya Module. The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches the first American component to the International Space Station, the 25,600 lb Unity module on STS-88. It docks with Zarya two days later. Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq. UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq. The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles of impeachment against President Clinton to the Senate, making him the second president to be impeached in the nation. Lloyd Bridges dies.

I knew one of the guys that helped dump the stuff... Never was a myth to me. BTW, the ET game really was the worst production video game of all time.

What response?

Replace the "K" with a "c", and replace the "r" with "n"... That's what it sounded like to me...

1990 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990 Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean debuts in a Thames Television special. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns. Martin Luther King Day Crash – Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT&T software bug. Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the Morris worm. Globalization – The first McDonald's in Moscow, Russia opens 8 months after construction began on 3 May 1989. 8 months later the first McDonalds in Mainland China is opened in Shenzhen. Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars. The Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth is sent back from the Voyager 1 probe after completing its primary mission, from around 3.5 billion miles away. The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first democratic election in the history of the Soviet Union. Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. An SR-71 sets a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight. The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union approves changes to the Constitution of the Soviet Union to create a strong U.S.-style presidency. Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to a five-year term as the first-ever President of the Soviet Union on March 15. Twelve paintings, collectively worth $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings (as of 2011) have not been recovered. The Community Charge (poll tax) takes effect in England and Wales amid widespread protests. The 1990 United States Census begins. There are 248,709,873 residents in the U.S. Comet Austin, the brightest comet visible from Earth since 1975, makes its closest approach to the sun. STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. In London, a man brandishing a knife robs a courier of bearer bonds worth £292 million (the second largest mugging to date). Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million. The World Health Organization removes homosexuality from its list of diseases. The US and the USSR agree to end production of chemical weapons and to destroy most of their stockpiles of chemical weapons. Microsoft releases Windows 3.0. Mega Borg oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston, Texas. (the Borg were trying to destroy us even back then) Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled. U.S. President George H. W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination. First Walmart in California and on the West Coast opens in Lancaster. Relcom is created in the Soviet Union by combining several computer networks. Later in August the Soviet Union got its first connection to the Internet. Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War. The first ban of smoking in bars in the US (and possibly the world) is passed in San Luis Obispo, California. "Sue", the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota. First Pizza Hut opens in Soviet Union. First Pizza Hut opens in People's Republic of China, nearly 3 years after the first KFC opened there in 1987. Tim Berners-Lee begins his work on the World Wide Web, 19 months after his seminal 1989 outline of what would become the Web concept. First Walmart in the Northeastern United States opens in York, Pennsylvania. Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation. The first known web page is written. STS-38: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on a classified U.S. military mission. Home Alone is released to theaters. It would become the highest grossing live-action comedy film of all time. The second Nintendo video game console Super Famicom is released in Japan. Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991. Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first land connection between Great Britain and the mainland of Europe for around 8,000 years. Tim Berners-Lee completes the test for the first webpage at CERN. The Polish government-in-exile is dissolved in London after being in exile since 1939. J.K. Rowling begins writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in summer 1990, which would be completed in 1995 and published in 1997. Satoshi Tajiri begins creating the first Pokemon game. World population: 5,263,593,000