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PS4 Launch Date: November 15th

Posted by Soulskill on from the lost-release-date-chicken-with-microsoft dept.

Today Sony announced the official release dates of the PlayStation 4 console: November 15 in North America and November 29 in Europe. From the article: "The system will be available for $399/€399/£349 in 32 countries by the end of the year, the company said. The date comes just days before the Black Friday post-Thanksgiving sales, but given the strong pre-order interest for the system already, the PS4 might be hard to find on store shelves in the days after it drops. Sony revealed that one million PS4 systems have already been pre-ordered worldwide. The company notably did not mention a release date or price point for the system's launch in its native Japan."

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  1. A short dramatic dialogue with Eric Holder: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    TRG: In 2011 there were 448 black-on-white homicides in the U.S., according to FBI statistics.

    Holder: Yes. So?

    TRG: The same year, there were 193 white-on-black homicides.

    Holder: Not sure where you're going with this...

    TRG: Well, doing the math, that means that there were 2.3 times as many black-on-white as white-on-black homicides, correct?

    Holder: That's arithmetically correct, but...

    TRG: But there are also 195 million white Americans, but only 35 million or so black Americans. So there are roughly 5.7 times as many white as blacks, right?

    Holder: I'm not sure what arithmetic has to do with the "complicated and emotionally charged issues" raised by the Trayvon Martin case.

    TRG: Well, I'm just "speaking honestly"... doing the math, doesn't that mean that, in proportion to their population sizes, blacks are.... let's see, 2.3 times 5.7... 13 times more likely to kill whites than whites are to kill blacks?

    Holder: Now, wait a minute...

    TRG: Just "speaking honestly," Mister Attorney General... what has your department done to alleviate what appears to be a "disparate impact" in murder rates on white Americans?