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    Anyone up for Fantasy Football?

    Question about Madness: Can you only take players optioned for Madness, or any of the draft-eligable players?
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    PS2 Hardware Problem

    So lately my PS2 had made a lot of noise when attempting to load games...I wasn't sure if it was hurting the actual disks, so I just borrowed another ps2 pff a friend. Anyways, I did some googling, and it seems like it's a lens problem. Anyone else have this happen to them? What's the best way to fix it?
  3. Here is the original article, with the fulltext below. Tripoli — As the hour neared midnight and the bonfire burned down to embers last night, the aides began to glance nervously past the sleeping camels into the big tent behind them. Prime Minister Paul Martin had been inside Libyan dictator Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's tent for more than an hour. The meeting, utterly unscheduled and spontaneously ordered by Col. Gadhafi over dinner, had no agenda or topic. A protocol officer threw his hands in the air. No Canadian leader had ever visited this mercurial leader, and things had very much not gone according to plan. What were these two men doing? What deals were made in this huge Arab tent, ringed by armed soldiers, on a Libyan army base? What had the Prime Minister got himself into? It was a strange climax to a very strange day. While a neatly organized Canadian schedule had called for a conventional one-day state visit filled with official meetings, visits to factories and signings of contracts, Mr. Martin ended up spending a good part of the day seated on couches in a tent listening to Col. Gadhafi's unorthodox theories. At one point, as their talks dragged on, two camels mated clumsily just outside the tent. "In terms of the camels outside and the scene, it was not the usual situation," Mr. Martin acknowledged at one point. "I have to ask myself, however, that when leaders come from the south in the middle of January, what they think of our 10-foot snowdrifts." The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, as Libya has been known since its 1969 socialist revolution, has little in common with the Dominion of Canada, except perhaps a mutual desire to make money from Libya's considerable oil resources, now fully open to exploitation after the end of years of international embargos against the former terrorist state. From the moment his Airbus jet landed at a former U.S. Air Force base that was seized during the revolution, Mr. Martin repeatedly offered his rationale for this unprecedented and controversial meeting. Yesterday marked the first anniversary of Libya's decision to rid itself of chemical and nuclear weapons, he noted. This, along with Libya's apologies for bombings of jetliners and nightclubs in the 1980s and its payment of billions of dollars to the victims, has led this rogue country to make peace with the West. Following in the footsteps of British, French and German leaders who visited earlier this year, Mr. Martin said he wanted to encourage Libyan moves toward normalcy while helping Canadian companies make profitable deals with Libya. But such an olive branch would not be easy to extend. Col. Gadhafi, renowned for having financed dozens of international terrorist groups and liberation movements in the 1970s and '80s, still rules Libya as a cult of personality. His socialist republic permits no conventional democracy, punishes any form of dissent, and operates prisons and courts that have raised serious alarm among human-rights groups The Prime Minister's aides said he spent time at both meetings criticizing Libya's rights record, which includes summary trials, seemingly arbitrary imprisonments, mass roundups of immigrants and severe punishment for people who attempt to form political parties or criticize Col. Gadhafi's rule. Mr. Martin said his discussion with Libyan Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem included "everything from due process to the rights of families, the need for consular services. And we got down into individual cases, and had quite a detailed discussion as to what is required." Aides said this included the imprisonment of Mustapha Muhammad Krer, a Canadian citizen imprisoned in Libya for political dissent, and two other prisoners with Canadian ties. In an effort to give weight to these criticisms, Mr. Martin also extended to Col. Gadhafi one of the few things Canada can offer to encourage the country to mend its ways: an offer of most-favoured-nation trading status, a political recognition that could eventually help Libya win membership in the World Trade Organization. His aides did not say what conditions were attached to this offer. Mr. Martin described a meeting in which human rights and money-making opportunities were discussed almost in the same breath — a natural combination, he said. "I certainly believe, and I think history has demonstrated, that in fact increasing trade is a major encouragement to sounder human rights. You're not going to get strong human rights in countries that isolate themselves," he argued. In business-trip terms, yesterday's pinnacle was the signing of a $1-billion memorandum of understanding between the Libyan government and the Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin for the expansion of the Great Man-Made River project, an enormous system of underground rivers that use aquifers beneath the Sahara to provide irrigation and drinking water for Libyan cities. But Canadian officials quietly acknowledged that the hours spent in the tent yesterday had not been devoted as much to Canadian interests as to the Libyan leader's lectures on his own idiosyncratic theories: his belief in direct democracy, his ideas about complex conspiratorial links between the world's terrorist organizations and his belief that Israel and the Palestinian territories should unite to become a single nation known as "Isratine." At one point late in the evening, Col. Gadhafi ushered a small group of Canadian journalists into the tent. After they had made a breakneck drive across the countryside and were searched by a sequence of increasingly menacing soldiers, they were invited into the spacious, incense-scented enclosure to hear the Libyan leader praise Canada's multicultural democracy and commitment to rights. "Very soon, I expect Canada to be a Jamahiriya," Col. Gadhafi declared, unexpectedly, referring to his style of government which operates, in theory, as a state of the masses. The Prime Minister looked briefly mortified. Then Col. Gadhafi roared with laughter, rocking back in his sofa. Mr. Martin allowed himself a tight smile and a brief chuckle. But he seemed too shocked by the whole affair to propose, in return, that Libya maybe ought to turn itself into a dominion, or maybe a constitutional monarchy I <3 insane dictators. I mean, Isratine? I think he lost his mind when Reagan bombed his daughter dead.
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    kkk NFL pick 'em Week 16

    Minnesota Minnesota - I doubt it, but I will always pick Minnesota! Because I'm a giant homer. Kansas City Tennessee New Orleans Baltimore Carolina Detroit Jacksonville Cincinnati San Diego Buffalo New England Arizona Washington Cleveland St Louis
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    The Amazing Race 6

    It must be an extra long leg...otherwise Lori and Bolo have no chance at all. I really want to see Kendra get her loser ass kicked off.
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    Anyone up for Fantasy Football?

    He can do it...I belieeeeeve! Wait, it's against the Patriots defense? Shit.
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    Anyone up for Fantasy Football?

    Did I lose? Wow, Fitz had two TDs for Arizona. I wonder what Antowain Smith did.
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    NFL Week 15

    That was hilarious. Loved the "oh shit" look on Favre's face after he hit the ref.
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    NFL Week 15

    Oh wow, amazing pick there.
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    NFL Week 15

    Yeah, that was pretty bad. Hard to justify a clothesline. ...Unless he hit Favre with it.
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    NFL Week 15

    This game needs more fumbles.
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    NFL Week 15

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO Bad snap by the Lions, and they miss the game-tying extra point.
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    NFL Week 15

    ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Minnesota is the most aggravating team ever!
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    NFL Week 15

    It was close, but please. He didn't break the plane. Very unfortunate for Seattle.
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    NFL Week 15

    Another phantom TD against the Seahawks. Holmgren must be ready to explode.
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    NFL Week 15

    Wow, first play of the game and Dante Hall returns it for a TD, 7-0 KC over Denver.
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    GTA: San Andreas

    Trucker = optional.
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    Will there be another GTA?

    If I wanted to play the Sims, I would play the Sims. Plus, filling gas etc seems pretty needless. Does it really add anything to gameplay if you have to go fillerup every few hours? Besides, if a car just got near empty you can just steal another one.
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    kkk NFL Pick 'em Week 15

    Minny - 28 Pittsburgh Washington Carolina Buffalo Philadelphia Houston Jacksonville Minnesota San Diego Seattle New Orleans Arizona Kansas City Tennessee Indianapolis New England
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    Will there be another GTA?

    I imagine they'd just do a straight up sequel to San Andreas. It's not like the possibilities for CJ are over. If it's a next gen game, I could see them pulling all three big locales (Liberty, Vice, and SA) together in one game. God, that would be awesome.
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    Dynasty Warrior 4

    I don't see the encoding you are talking about. Look, I can copy and paste straight from the FAQ: Fire Arrows (*/**** with Huang Zhong or Xiahou Yuan) Effect: Arrows become fire arrows. Stage Found: Unification of Jing (Wu forces) Requirements: Before the enemy generals join forces, defeat Wang Lang for the supply team to appear at the west castle. Defeat the supply team for the item. Comments: Fun to play with but ultimately not very useful, unless you're playing as Huang Zhong or Xiahou Yuan. This item upgrades their Charge attacks to fire arrows. Here's the FAQ I copied from: http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/dy...arriors_4_c.txt
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    The Amazing Race 6

    Douche has actually shown a flash of niceness (CANDY MAN). Kendra has called one team midgets, and basically seems to despise the Third World. Must be terrible having to drive past poor people, eh Kendra? I actually hate Kendra more than Douche.
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    Dynasty Warrior 4

    The very first FAQ at the DW4 section of Gamefaqs has a list of all the items, as well as how to get some of them. It's section 7.
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    The Amazing Race 6

    I love how insane The Douche is. Also, Rudo bringing the content with those captioned pics. Gus was great this ep too. So who else hates Kendra? I'm glad she apparently dies or whatever next ep.
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    Bargain hunters thread

    So what was the price for the POP deal, Andrew?
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