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This Acer Altos G330 is actually a server, but add a basic sound card and a decent video card and it makes an AWESOME home computer, at an insanely low price. £140? I might get two!

Dual core Xeon 3GHz 64-bit processor, supplied with 1Gb DDR2 RAM (but at these prices why not order 4×2Gb with it and have 8Gb of dual-channel memory?), hardware RAID support for 1,0,10, 6-channel SATA controller, onboard ethernet adaptor, and all the expansion slots you’d expect from a normal workstation.

This is a PCIE-based motherboard so you will only have 2 PCI slots for peripherals (e.g. for sound card and wireless adaptor). I therefore strongly recommend a PCIE x16 format graphics card, with an absolute minimum of 128Mb onboard RAM.

You will need Windows XP 64, Vista 64, or a 64-bit flavour of Linux to make the most of the processor.

Bodybuilding is becoming a progressively more precise art on a monthly basis. In recent years, there has been an explosion in the range and quality of supplements which can maximise the effects of weight-training while minimising the body’s counter-productive responses.

In this article, I am going to show both beginners and bodybuilding veterans alike how to save around 60-80%, in cold hard cash, on the ingredients that are vital to a successful training regime. Bodybuilders may disagree on trivia such as which stack is the most effective, when and how often to train, and so on, but most will likely agree that their devotion sucks both time and money away from them. Regaining just one of those is sure to be a hit with everyone, no matter what habits they have integrated into their timetable.

Read on for a brief disclaimer on what this article is NOT, followed by the big bad-ass breakdown of the commercial rip-offs.
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Three weeks ago, I was asked a question that defied any possibility of providing a polite answer:

If God did not create Eve from Adam’s rib, why do women have one more rib than men?

This question came from a reasonably intelligent, middle-aged enforcement officer with whom I was patrolling the Leeds metropolitan district. He was driving at the time, in a heavily populated area, so understandably I did not want to distract his attention from the road by giving him the first reply that popped into my head.

Biological pedantry notwithstanding (”one more rib”?), the question is as intellectually obstinate as it is baffling. Of course, if God’s hand were not responsible for the missing rib, then there can be no other explanation, can there? Truth be told, at the time I didn’t actually know of any biological explanation, but I sensed this man would easily fool himself into entertaining the notion that the lack of a ready explanation is the lack of any explanation per se.

Such blind single-mindedness is the very root of the ongoing and frankly incredible siege against the evolutionary sciences. I use the word incredible in its literal sense; that of being “beyond belief or understanding”. How can it come to pass that so many people should be so misled?

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