Hamish

There are people who claim that the majority of comp monitors now being sold have small videocams built into them. Is there any truth to this claim? If so, how much?

For the past several weeks, the display on my comp has been really flaky. To be specific, it won't come on immediately when I turn on the comp. I have to do repeated restarts to finally get it and then it only comes on in Safe mode. If I then do another restart from Safe mode, I can get it back into Normal mode. Once I finally get it on (in either Safe or Normal modes), everything works fine except for one game (Total War Attila) which may be a totally separate issue.

When I say it won't come on, what I mean is I hear the start-up sound effects at the usual time interval but the monitor remains dark.

Due to my living situation, it will be a big deal to cart the comp out to a repair shop so I'd like to avoid that if it turns out the real issue is I need a new monitor. Any advice is appreciated. Technical info follows:

My monitor is a ten-yr-old AOC, model 919Swa1, Resolution 1280 x 1024 x 60,

My video card is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti, bits/pixel 32

My hard-drive is Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Extreme CPU X9770 with an X64-based PC

My operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1

Fifteen minutes ago, I had one of them deliver a package and he just dumped it in front of the door. HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOCK. If I hadn't been home and heard an odd sound out front, I would never have known the package was there. ANYBODY could have taken it...

So as soon as I secure the package, I go to their website to report this utterly execrable service and, as far as I can see, there's NO WAY to do so. Their Customer Service menu has entries for packages lost or mail not delivered but nothing but for utterly unacceptable service from worthless employees.

The author claimed that in order to induce White settlers to move to Texas, financial interests in the US had deliberately underestimated the threat of Comanche attack, and that the death toll from Comanche raids was actually far higher than admitted at the time. The book supposedly caused quite a scandal when it came out.

I saw this book at a store many years ago, read a few pages, and then passed on it. I've been kicking myself ever since. I did not take note of either the title or the author so I could never find it again. Does ANYBODY recognize this description?

Is it true that as a child, Snooki Politzi played one of the Ewoks?

How is it everybody has overlooked that?

Try to answer without getting Violated....