Americans are weird

So, in this game you can beat people to a pulp with everything from golfclubs to shovels, run them over with your car/motor cycle/tank or whatever, kill people with chain saws and flame throwers as well as your arsenal of ordinary firearms. You can even take the unsuspecting bystanders head off with a couple of well-placed rounds, policemen and old ladies alike. But just a wee bit of mild sexual content, that makes everybody go crazy? Americans are weird. Mindless unprovoced violence? Not a problem. Sex? Aaaaargh, spare our children!!!

But this is not a game for children anyway, now is it?

joakim

Subject: Dell Capacitors - The Untold Story

The 400SC has the same problem, and AFAIK Dell is still in denial. I'll just check the Dell forums to see if... oh wait, Dell erased all their forums...

This link describes the problem: http://www.aaltonen.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2376

Cheers,
Steve

Subject: "low number" number my ass!

My company has thousands of Dell SFF's, many are GX270's. Dell may consider it a low number of systems affected, but this week alone we called in twenty GX270's for leaking capacitors. We are getting at least one "Thermal Event" per day, meaning the computer magically shuts off and when restarted it alerts you to a previous thermal event - it will never boot again. Crack the case open and they all have visibly leaking capacitors. Today we had two Dell techs out replacing motherboards - they didn't bring enough boards and will have to comeback tomorrow. From what I've heard our IT manager negotiated weeks ago to get 100 motherboards replaced because of this. And today one of my co-workers received a job offer to replace Dell motherboards at three facilities in the area. Dell knows how big a deal this really is and shouldn't be calling it an "isolated number of the system boards."

anton

Subject: san andreas

i was wondering how do you get to the sex scenes

Kenyatta

Subject: rockstar games

anyone looked into San Andreas' sales since this announcement?

gogogo

Subject: I have the solution

Launch a nation-wide education and awareness program for _parents_. Endlessly hammer home the message that THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE for bringing up their own offspring.

Run TV ads all day that clearly state that parenthood is a job, and if you can't take it, DON'T REPRODUCE.

Put labels on beer cans, frozen foods, and billboards all over the country that remind people that childcare is a REPONSIBILITY.

Dramatically increase school funding, and make that a National Priority. Start churning out intelligent people with well-formed minds, instead of suburb junkies ready to live on welfare and sue anybody who forgot to tell them that car oil should not be used to wax stairs.

Then you'll have people who can make informed decisions about what their children should be doing.

But of course, you'll also have politicians that will find it is a lot harder to lead the herd by the nose.

Pascal.

Subject: Hillary Clinton

Subject: GTA has an 18 Certificate and features a lot of killing, maybe the yanks could look at that and then shut the f*ck up. Or maybe Hillary is worried that video games may tempt married men to cheat on their wives...

Pyrocles

Subject: Bad Capacitors on Dell more widespread

The problem is far more widespread than GX270s.

It affects many 400SCs (and Dimension Desktops.)

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pes_other&message.id=13069

ubiquityman

Subject: Additional PCs affected

We have the same problem with our HP eVO D530 Ultra Slim Desktops.

We are currently getting 30 motherboards replaced.

Just thought you would like to know.

Michael

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