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FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.

FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

I deceided to measure my computers power consumption as well as on my old system since I got power usage meter now.

I got a Core2 E6400 system with a P5B deluxe board, 2GB RAM, 4 harddisks, DVD drive, Audigy4 and a nvidia 7600GT silent.

My old system is a A64 3000+ with 1GB ram, one DVD drive, one harddisk, a nvidia 6800LE running on a Asus matx board.

To my suprise the E6400 system used a lot more than I thought.

I tested both systems in startup / bios mode since my old system doesn't have an OS running.

The Core2 E6400 system used a total of 159W. Then I Removed several components one by one finding out that in idle mode:
A harddisk uses 9 to 10 W, the 7600GT card uses 29,5W, the Audigy4 uses 4W, the DVD player around 4W, and the Fans around 0.7W each.

The A64 system used a total of 91W, where idling around the 6800LE used 21W.
If I subtract the usage of the components except the motherboard, memory and CPU the Core2 E6400 system use 85.5W while the A64 3000+ system uses 57W.

When I booted my Core2 E6400 system (win XP) and saw that in idle mode it uses 135W. Then I stress tested with prime95 (50% load) and the usage went up to 162W. Then I added a decoding job (40% load, making a total of 90% load) and the usage ended up at 168W.
During a 3Dmark05 test I measured a peak of 178W.

Why did I do this? Well, I'm configuring a low power usage PC at the moment serving as a media center / server. Clearly the E6400 doesn't win the game on this. On the other hand I don't know how much more the P5B deluxe board uses against the Asus matx board in the old system.

This is just an amazing video. If european soccer hooligans were doing this instead of bashing each other the world would be a bit better place.

South korea: boys cheering for their soccer teams. the most amazing thing is that they do this with their CLOTHES (not holding up cards). they have a jacket that is one color on the back, one on the front, and that they can open or close to show a third color shirt on the inside. One school has also figured out how to use their pants to make shading.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=453_1191345802

I really laughed my ass off when I saw this Japanese "human terisw" show on youtube!

Cats digging their music

http://www.2fingerjester.com/cats.htm

Ever wanted to have your own dog but you are allergic, or maybey you have your own dog but you want to be listen at this time? Try your own virtual doggie.

Try commands like sneeze, achoo, roll over, sit, bark, jump, fetch, play dead, spin, vogue. See what else you can get her to do

http://www.idodogtricks.com/index_flash.html