I think China recently started telling its banks to stop lending the US money.  I'm not sure if they started again or not.

Quote - How much deeper do we want to get in debt?

The people don't want anymore debt I think.  Both isles of congress are probably thinking there is a magical fairy fund that will suddenly appear to cover any amount of borrowing they do.

By freezing does that mean you are getting Poser 7 (not responding) in the upper left part of the app window and the program appearently doing nothing?  I've been getting that for over a month now.  Try waiting it out for 5-10 minutes and see if something eventually happens.

I'm thinking of reinstalling, but somehow I doubt that is going to help.

My older sister got hit by a car once when I was a kid.  We were crossing the street to go to the groceries, standing in the center waiting for a chance to get over and she got smacked in the butt.  Scary thing is she thought I was standing too far ahead of her and wanted me to move behind her just before she got hit.  If I was standing behind her like she wanted it could have been no more me.  I think the moral of this story is don't always listen to advice from people with bad judgement.

Anyways it's been an occasional pain in the rear for her ever since.  Though I think I'll stop now before I get car-ied away and start punning.  ;)

Hope you recover soon. 

Are you talking about the figures you use or the color style?  If it is the figures, you'll probably need to buy an anime style figure unless you have a 3d modeling program that you are pretty good at.  Some characters might have an anime style morph (like V4 has Aiko4) but you'll have to look into that and it's probably sold seperately.

Technically stealing or not still she didn't deserve that kind of treatment.  As for safeway let's just hope people stop shopping there if they are going to support that much agression.

About OJ, I don't think it was karma, it's just that he is an idiot and he can't afford a good set of lawyers anymore.  He was lucky to get out of jail the first time, especially when he was found liable in a civil suit later, he shouldn't have been pressing things and kept his act clean until he died.

Quote - Unfortunately, most security officers have little or no training.

This is probably one of the biggest differences between a security guard and a rent-a-cop. > Quote - Anyway, I agree on the pathetic apathy, ugh. Let's put it down to cowardice, for it takes many forms, including:

...not educating yourself from being too lazy or gutless (hey, libraries and talking to people are free, how I learned much of what I know)
...not voting for poliiticians with brains (left/right do NOT matter, skill, brains, compassion, diplomatic skill, are what's needed in office, not "Pork barrel" corruption, pandering to ignorance etc)
...letting shysters pervert the entire concept of justice into legalized robbery and extortion.
...letting heinous scumbags serve pathetic sentences (cause they can afford good lawyers or ocme up with psychobable garbage, hey I know plenty fo folk with har dlives who're honest and loving), while fitting retarded/weird folk up for senational crimes ('cause it's easy).
...lettingour police forces become corrupt and stupid (see Brazilian electricians getting their heads blown off, little old black ladies getting shot up in their own homes by out of control cops)

Why does this sound so much like a certain counrty I live in...

Is the challenge application period over or not?  Today you posted in the poser forum that people should enter, but the end date has already passed...

They could lower the price in order to stimulate demand.  It'd have to be pretty cheap though, along with most of the outfits and characters, since most people would get apollo which is free.

Mariner, I know how you feel.  V4/A4 is expensive enough as it is.

Too bad there isn't an Apolloette (Venus maybe?)

Congrats on winning.

I'd probably look for something that I've really wanted for awhile and know that I'd like, but have always been talking myself out of for some reason or another.  Maybe if something was a little more expensive than the average thing or you had something kind of like it, but the one you didn't have looked pretty cool too.  I think some people try to "collect" all the items that particular vendors release, so if you are missing something like that, now could be a good time to catch up.

It sounds to me like the problem might be with your computer firewall or something along those lines.

I did a google search on that error message and one thing I saw was that you can try doing a TRACERT on the website to see if your computer can connect to it over the internet.

What geep said.  If you don't have the thing you wanted to deform selected, the magnet won't work.

Quote - Oh Lord!! This means With the Fast Grab and my wishlist here and at DAZ, my Bank Account can't handle anymore!! HELPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:b_uncertain:   :b_unbelievable:

Repeat after me: there will always be another sale.  There will always be another sale.

Quote - How much would you think the current content paradise's contest prize would cost?

AMD 8 Core Workstation

• 8 gig memory
• 3 x 250GB 10,000rpm SATA drives
• ATI 3800 X2 graphics card
• 24" Viewsonic DVI-HDMI monitor
• Keyboard/Mouse

I just went to tiger direct
~550 for the processor
~180 for the memory (4 x 2 gig)
~210 for the 3 hard drives
~150 for the graphics card
~100 for the keyboard/mouse, more if you get the nicer models for gaming
-I can't find a good price on that moniter, so I'm guessing around 400 or so.
-Then you'd need all the extras.

Quote - In the realistic sense, is Mac Pro the best choice perhaps?

One question: are you a PC gamer?  If you are, I think you need to stick with the PC or else you are going to have to install windows on your mac.  If you aren't into gaming then there really isn't that much difference between PC and Mac.

A really cute Chobits (persocom) is what I'd get if money was no object.  ;)

On subject, I'd probably run down to the Best Buy and pick up the best HP I could find.  They are good enough and a fair price.  I haven't heard many good things about Dell lately and Gateway has gone downhill.

One other thing you could do is start reading up and buy all the parts yourself and put one together on your own.  You can generally end up with a computer that is just as good, but a little cheaper.  I'd do this, but I've been too lazy to keep up with technology lately.