I plan to install linux on a partion to use only for internet browsing as linux doesnt attract all the malicous crap on the web. I plan to use Mandrake as they say thats one of the easyier dists. Im going to wait to do a clean install rather than try to use Partition Magic as Im worried about my programs not recognizing the new drive letter. Anyone out their install linux with Partition Magic?

Yes it can be done, but this isnt the guy to do it. The fact he mentions:

“An airframe, built using the type of foam-composite construction found in a number of home-built light aircraft would cost between $1,000 and $5,000 depending on the size of the craft. “

indicates he doesnt realize the engineering requirements of a small, heavy 500 mph aircraft. Thats not to say that cutting edge techonolgy is required, but something on the level of the German V-1 bomb. Programing software to build the “autopilot” that takes input from the GPS, gyros, etc, isnt something the amateur can sit down and do either.

I just want to mention I started a really good combat game called Battlefield 1942. It has alot of good points like the terain is well rounded and natural looking rather that the faceted paneled look that the terain in many combat games have. The rifle recoils and you have to recover for every shot. You can drive any unoccupied vehicle you find whether its a jeep, tank, fighter plane, enemy or freindly. You spawn into a new soldier if you get killed instead of having to start the level over. It looks very good sofar.

Im an american living in Mexico. Im in the process of trying to become a citizen of Mexico, and really the only thing thats holding me back is interferance from people in the US as Mexico has shown willingness to accept me. I concider myself a prisoner of the US rather than a citizen. Im not the type to sit back at let me hold me down and so I will become a Mexican sooner or later. Why would I want to leave the richest nation in the world to become part of a poor nation with lots of problems? It has to do with family values that I cant comprimize. Theres more to life than money.

Thanks Garry, didnt know about Red Hammer, Ill look for that. I have to totally agree with you about OpFP though, the actual infantry combat part of that game is very frustrating. I am addicted to this game because the helo flying and tank combat are on par with any game of those genres. Driving trucks and jeeps are also fun and equal to some car racing games. The layout of the landscapes is also a big plus. Fighting in forest is layed out in perfect perspective and mountain terain is unsurpassed for the realisticly large amount of area which you have to work with. But the AI of the combat just kills it, your/their troops just rush in and get shot, then your told to retreat even if only your offensive isnt going as schedule. If they provided more control over your troops with either waypoints or clicking directions on a map like C&C generals, then you might have a game I could really spend time on. Im finally getting the hang of making 400 yard shots which is what you have to be able to do to fight infantry field combat in this game.
Auther- I look forward to any URLs you can post on this game.

“but if US keeps testing our patents with illegal arms sale to taiwan then there will come a point when not even the CCP can keep the lid on the anger boiling down among the population itself.”

I forgot to add: jealose PARANOID boors

“Go back to China, demonstrate against the PRC and let’s see how proud of the current government in China you are.”

“why should i? u can go if u like, but why the hell should i protest against my government when it is u who have a problem with it? it is also nieve to think that protests are worth a dame, even in ur lovely little ‘democracy’. there were over a million ppl denmostrating the london over blair’s stance on iraq, still they when to war. “

Vortex didnt ask if you wanted to protest against PRC goverment, he DARED you to do it. It obvious you dont want to protest because the fact your able to travel/study abroad is a tip off that you and/or your family are part of PRCs ruling elite. The are millions of youth in China who dream of being able to communicate with the outside world as you can. The want to learn english, study abroad and become part of movers and shakers of this world, but they cant. Because people like you who are in control are satisfied with the way things are

“The fact is you can’t say anything against your government inside China. I dare you to do it. I can do it in the US…tell me about freedom again? “

“again, i dont wish to say bad things abt china because i do not wish to. there isnt much to say anyways. “

Theres alot to say, you just happen to be the one who wants to cover things up.

“the only thing i cab think of is the level of coruption in the government. yes, that’s a major problem, it could be compaired to a cancer in a person, and if it is not removed, it will caused great harm. but we are tackling corruption. u know y? its because cooruption is only common in the lower ranks of government. but the top levels are as clean as they come (in any country). personally, id prefer our kind of coorution to ur kind, where the head of state openly accepts ‘donations’ and ‘favors’ they must pay back some how. “

The government of PRC is a totalitarian goverment, why should they have to be corrupt. I doubt Joseph Stalin had to steal anything either, Im sure many said he was “as clean as they come” also.

“the corruption in china is like a cancer in the leg or arm or liver, while it is a serious problem, and seriously affcts the efficency and health of the person, he can still function fairly normally, and it can be cured fairly easily by removing the cancer or even the organ and putting in a new one. but ur kind of corruption is like a cancer in the brain, the rest of the body can be in perfect order, but it still cant work at its top efficeny. and like brain cancer, it is very diffiult to treat.”

You arent left with a healthy body if you remove the cancer of corruption in China, your left with an invalid. The industrial capacity of PRC is a joke. Wachenroder says PRC has opened themselves up to captalism. Where I ask? Where are all these huge successful PRC corperations? They simply have opened themselves up to foreign corperations to take advantage of the cheap labor in China.

“KMT in the past is no better than the CCP but that doesn’t say anything about ROC. “

“er, do u know anything abt the CCP of today except what Fox tells u? for all its flaus, it is nowhere near as repressive or burtal as the KMT of the cival war days.”

We only know what Fox tells us because if we went to China to find out for ourselves, we would be jailed.

“Mind you that CCP started from the left wing of the KMT and were part of the ROC process. As to legitimacy, is there anything signed about the defeat of the ROC? ROC doesn’t have to claim the bulk of China, but they certainly can claim Taiwan which PRC have no control what so ever over that. You’re claiming against that? What’s even more annoying to the PRC is that Taiwan is now fully democratic and that gotta hurt some of those old man’s egos…”

“well, if america hadnt poked it nose into our internal affairs then, we would have taken taiwan in 49. but even so, there doesnt need to be anything signed to mark the KMD’s defeat. them being driven from the mainland is proof enough. also, seeing how this was a cival war and not a conflict between two nations, there is no need for a surrander treaty.”

Taiwan (KMD) was not defeated, you did not win the civil war, China was divided into two nations, if you had won the civil war there would only be one nation. One which went on to exemplify asian industrial might and the other that languishes in semi-fuedalism. The fact that Taiwan doesnt claim to be a nation is a courtesy to the fact that they consider themselves chineese and someday hope to join with mainland china once they deliver themselves from their current oppression. But Taiwan is a nation in every way except by word. Taiwan has earned their prosperity and have no reason to lower themselves to your level.

“as for the KMD’s claim on taiwan, well even they never disputed that taiwan is a part of china, so when the CCP took over as the sole legitamate government of china, we also took over soverenty of taiwan. taiwan is currently not united with china because its so called ‘president’ dont want a demotion from ‘head os state’ to governer of a provence. “

Thats the understatement of the century: Taiwans president doesnt want to be demoted to governer. Howabout all of Taiwans 18 million dont want to be demoted to peasants like the majority of the population of PRC.

“as for ‘democarcy’, well what u now call ‘democracy’ is hardly what the Greeks had in mind when they invented the concept. just as communism was a faild attampt to create a sociaty where money had no meaning, ‘democracy’ is a faild attempt to creat a government that gave its ppl what they wanted. we all seen how well ur ‘democracy’ works when the american ppl didnt get the president most of them voted for. bush only won because of a legal technolity and some very questionable ballet counting.
even if the right president had been elected, the will of the government is still often forced on the ppl, even if most of them are actaully against the decision being taken.”

At least leaders can be elected in the US, unlike your PRC.

Plawolf- You say PRC hasnt taken over Taiwan because your peaceful. No, you havent taken over Taiwan because the cost in bloodshed would be a great embarrasment to you and would only show the world what jealose boors you are. Your hopeing to reduce by preasure Taiwans military capacity so you can quietly overtake contol of that country. Sorry, but thanks to the US, the price of fighting Taiwan will remain high.

crobato- For the past year youve been using the AFM forum as a place to display propaganda about PRCs aerospace prowess. Alls Ive got to say is you make me sick that a teenage punk like you who lives in the USA runs his mouth off about PRC pride while millions of youth your age in China are in silence. Its really a shame that the isolationism of PRC forces engineers of that nation to coble together eurofighter copys with mig-21 technology. Your pathetic and so is everyone in AFM for putting up with your sh!t.

I believe that gunpowder was the most important invention in forming our world today. Noone knows who invented it or when, but it surfaced in history around the 1300s. Its an exact perportioned mixture of coal, sulfer and saltpetre, it wasnt till the 1880 that replacement gunpowders were developed. Some say the chineese invented it as they had fireworks before this (fireworks involve explosions, so that could be). But without it how would combat it the world have develped? Warships would have continued to have been built with castles for grapled hand to hand combat, and ramming would have contiued to be a naval tactic to be used by ships. On land the bow and arrow and crossbow would have remained as well as the sword and spear. Catapults would have remained as artillary which would not have been affective in makeing castles/fortresses obsolete. Can you imagine WW1 being fought by steel warships whos main design of attack is to ram? Tanks that could do nothing more than protect troops? No bombs in which to drop by airplanes. A very strange what if senario indeed.