Lee

Congrats on the new site and having solved the publishing issue. Hey, if you want something done right, you often have to do it yourself. BTW, GREAT movies! I love how the guns recoil and the sound of the bombs going off from that air strike sounded very believable. Nice work.

I knew they were coming out with a chip that fast, but I thought it might be a little sooner than that. Some of the first things I thought about were that I'm not going to even consider getting a new motherboard until some faster chips come out than 500 mghz, then I wondered how fast my new voodoo 3 3500 would be with a 1000 mghz chip backing it up.

Hmm, sorry about the spacing in my post above. Somehow the spacing got all changed from how it looked on my screen. Hmm, why don't the goofs who program these stupid message boards in the first place make these white boxes where you put your message twice as wide so we could type out normal width sentences in a natural way?!

Ugh! Having to pay for a local call is painful to even think about. I have a cable modem, $40 US a month, unlimited use/downloads. The fastest I have downloaded so far is a little over a meg every 4 seconds. The speed transfer speed was still going up but I ran out of file to download. Problem is most sites can't feed me the data as fast as I can take it. But even when I had a regular ISP with 28.8 connection I regularly downloaded large files, I just started the download just before I went to sleep and when I woke up it was done (except the gigantic Mechcommander demo which took 11 hours!). So, bring on some high quality QT videos for us Steve, let those of us who are willing to DL the file have a crack at it. [This message has been edited by Lee (edited 03-19-99).]

Yes, they have slowed down the rate on the MG3. I've seen MG15's as well, the sound is just incredible, it really does sound like a giant sheet of burlap being rent down the middle, just like the G.I.'s described it. There's nothing else quite like one of those fine german guns for immediate overwhelming firepower. Lee

Unfortunately what Steve said is all too true. It's a shame that a law-abiding person has to jump through government hoops just to exercise a right, but that's the way it is right now. As far as being in the military, that doesn't particularly make it easier to get a full auto weapon. It would, however, probably speed up the background check a bit. But that's about all. The only other real variable is where you live, some states hassle you a lot more than others when you go to buy one. And some don't allow you to own one at all (which they have no real authority to do), which is very sad for those people that live in those states. Just give the NRA a call, they should be able to direct you to a list of states where you can own full auto weapons. If you are in one of those states where you can own one, you should be all set. Assuming you have no felonies on your record. If you live in a state where you can't get one, you can just give up, try to get the state law changed or move to state where you can own one. Hope this helps you. I have seen an MG42 in action, very devastating. Trust me, you don't want caught in the sights of one. Lee