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by Malta Soron
Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:27 am
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Misconceptions about your homeland?(Spam on subject)
Replies: 127
Views: 7323


Hmm... So the actions of the government (in particular war) can positively influence the protein intake of their subjects? Sounds obvious to me.
Yet you earlier wrote:


I don't quite see how the political structure would influence the level of protein intake.
...and that's what I was ...
by Malta Soron
Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:15 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Misconceptions about your homeland?(Spam on subject)
Replies: 127
Views: 7323

@Malta: Fable can correct me if my assumption is wrong, what I see here is that the "high-protein intake" (eating largely food from the sea) influenced the political structure of the said area. The feudal system was built on the concept that he who owns more land, gets more power. Since agriculture ...
by Malta Soron
Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:33 am
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Com. Upgrades
Replies: 11
Views: 1051

About my processors, It's only 986 MHz, my friend said that was a huge problem, so I'm thinking about upgrading that first, any thought?

I don't know what that number stands for, but it's not your processor speed. The AMD Athlon 64 3800+ is clocked at 2.4 GHz and has a 939 socket.
Can you give a ...
by Malta Soron
Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:05 am
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Your personal beliefs/religion/ideology(no spam, spam tastes bad)
Replies: 134
Views: 7522

You might want to check out this page , which details all the female bishops in the Methodist, Anglican, Presbyterian, Presbyterian, and Lutheran/Evangelical churches. That's 23 from the Methodists. It's also a bit dated--since that list appeared, the first L/E female bishop from the US was ...
by Malta Soron
Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:57 am
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Misconceptions about your homeland?(Spam on subject)
Replies: 127
Views: 7323

The key is "Northwestern Europe." This is a reflection upon an area with a notably high level of protein intake at a time when they enjoyed a largely non-feudal structure, unlike most of the rest of Europe. I see them as an exception, not the norm, and significantly, Steckel does not mention the ...
by Malta Soron
Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:19 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Com. Upgrades
Replies: 11
Views: 1051

I think the minimum upgrade would be to buy a decent graphics card. Right now you seem to be using an on-board chip, and that is slowing you down. I think that if you bought something like a 7900GT(X) or a 7600GT (if you're low on budget), you'd have no problems playing those games. However, to ...
by Malta Soron
Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:16 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Misconceptions about your homeland?(Spam on subject)
Replies: 127
Views: 7323

@fable: Indeed, the average stature of an adult 600 years ago was rather short by our standards today. The average lifespan was much more brief as well. I suppose the age of 50 was ancient beyond measure during Middle Age Europe.

No.
- Some time ago, a economist and antropologist Richard Steckel ...
by Malta Soron
Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:19 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: The foundation
Replies: 1
Views: 517

The foundation

The foundation of human rights

Nowadays the existence and validity of human rights is widely accepted (which is visible in e.g. the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). However, I never hear someone mention a reason to do so, why there are such things as human rights, what it is that gives ...
by Malta Soron
Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:06 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Giant ice shelf snaps free from Canada's Arctic
Replies: 58
Views: 2871

Tricky wrote:(I assume from the article that less than three days doesn't constitute a meteorological summer's beginning)
AFAIK the KNMI indeed requires a weather condition to hold on for three days until it counts.
by Malta Soron
Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:26 am
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Love in the Age of Google
Replies: 21
Views: 1448

Also, when googling up information, can you even trust that the results give you the correct picture? And even further, how on earth do you manage to find any specific info about specific person with googling, if he or she isn't somewhat known person has done something which has gotten people's ...
by Malta Soron
Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:08 am
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: US couples seek separate bedrooms
Replies: 10
Views: 705

I find the sheer size of that house to be shocking :eek: Really. It's about as big as (or even bigger than) my house, where we live with 10 students, and that's considered spacious according to Leiden student standards. And that couple is living there alone, right?
by Malta Soron
Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:13 am
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: What Game Are You Playing?
Replies: 483
Views: 47343

I've got Medieval 2: Total War, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Supreme Commander and Fable: The Lost Chapters lieing on my desk, with some more games waiting in the cupboard and Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory as a permanent favourite. I don't spend enough time playing :mad:
by Malta Soron
Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:57 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Shaving and Gaming
Replies: 24
Views: 1491

Apparently contrary to most people here, I don't shave; I've got a nice beard :) When I have to (how do you say that? 'Cut'? 'Revise'?) it, I always use electric clippers.
by Malta Soron
Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:45 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Will the Anglican circle remain unbroken? (no spam)
Replies: 33
Views: 1744

Another intersting mistake that a lot of people make, including Anglicans, is thinking that the Anglican church is protestant. It isn't, it's a catholic church, a fact that is reinforced every time an Anglican recites the Nicene creed, which ends:

We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic ...
by Malta Soron
Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:19 am
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Happy Birthday Magrus
Replies: 16
Views: 628

Congratulations, Magrus! :)
by Malta Soron
Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:28 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: SLI help
Replies: 3
Views: 670

OK, good to know.
by Malta Soron
Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:59 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: SLI help
Replies: 3
Views: 670

AFAIK there is no other way then running two nVidia cards in SLI mode; it's the very technique that makes the system work. So I'd say they are running in SLI.
by Malta Soron
Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:51 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Have You heard about Rospuda?
Replies: 4
Views: 464

I tend to follow the news, but I didn't hear or read anything about it. :confused:
by Malta Soron
Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:46 pm
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: Strip For Your Country
Replies: 16
Views: 1103

I'm under the impression that the current US security measures cost way more than the damage possible terrorist attacks would cause (that is including human lives, the value of which also is being calculated in money). Is that true?
by Malta Soron
Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:38 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Will BG run on Windows Vista?
Replies: 2
Views: 1039

I did a quick search on the BG2 support forums, and the first hit I got was this one. Look around yourself a bit too.