You mean him routinely being an asshole? Sorry, but when someone plays a jerk in almost every role, I stop believing that it's the role and start believing it's the actor. THAT is why I'm against Capaldi - not because he's old, frail looking, etc but because everything I've ever seen him in, he was such a colossal dick that I just wanted to punch him in the face the entire time.
When its circulation is only about 1.5 million in a nation of 315 million, yes, it is extremist. It focuses on the view of a small portion of inner city liberals and ignores the rest of the nation. I'm sorry that I have to say it again, but you don't have a damn clue what you're talking about because as you pointed out in your first comment you don't live here and thus do not know the culture.
As you said, you're on the wrong side of the world. Thus, you do not realize how out of touch the NY Times is with most of the US. It's the reason why their subscribers keep dropping and the newspaper that used to be known for their sharp reporting is now known for being a shill for certain political views.
It's funny, in order to support your claim that Fox News and it's viewers are dumb racists who only want their prejudices confirmed, your entire post is nothing but prejudiced and racist comments towards anyone who disagrees with you.
Read up on Operation Northwoods. They are not only evil enough to stand by and let them happen, the US government has been evil enough to plan their own terrorist attacks on US soil to try to get Americans to support going to war.
Yes, but DRM didn't appear in Blizzard games until after the merger. That is why I went from buying every Blizzard game at launch to not buying anything from them anymore. I refuse to be punished by a company for buying their product.
Take a look at Operation Northwoods - a plan from the 60's for launching "false flag" attacks in the US and blaming Cuba for them as a way to push the American public to support war with Cuba. The only reason the plan was never enacted was because JFK wouldn't sign off on it - but the military and the rest of the government was perfectly OK with murdering innocent Americans to push their own agenda.
Except that NYS law is in blatant contradiction to the Firearm Owners Protection Act signed by Reagan in '86 (if you're merely passing through New York, that is).
I don't think at any time was Zimmerman's life was in danger.
OK then, have someone start bashing your skull into cement and then rethink that statement. Zimmerman was part of the neighborhood watch - it was his (volunteer) job to look for suspicious people and keep and eye on things.
I expect a number of "stand your ground" laws will be amended to restrict the "charge into the situation until you escalate it, then stand your ground" that George used.
Wow, you honestly have no clue what went on in this case. No one except the anti-gun people in the media ever brought up "stand your ground". Zimmerman's case was entirely based off of normal self-defense laws that exist even in the most anti-gun state. He was pinned to the ground and was having his head bashed into the pavement - that's attempted murder. Even in your most anti-gun area, that's still full grounds for using deadly force to protect yourself. As for "stand your ground" laws, they do not change the circumstance for using force to defend yourself, they merely state that in a self defense situation the defender is assumed to be innocent of a crime unless the prosecutor can prove that they acted unjustly. In states without "stand your ground" laws, you are by default assumed to be guilty and must prove that you acted justly in defending yourself. "Stand your ground" laws do NOT change the fact that you MUST have a valid reason to believe you are in danger of serious injury or death in order to use deadly force to defend yourself and that you must NOT be the aggressor.
Zimmerman was NOT the aggressor. Walking on a sidewalk and following someone is NOT an act of aggression. Trayvon physically assaulting Zimmernman was an act of aggression and since Trayvon initiated the fight and Zimmerman was unable to flee, under EVERY SINGLE STATE'S self defense laws, Zimmerman was 100% within the law to use deadly force to defend himself.
The only thing that needs to be "amended" here is your ignorance of both the law and the facts of the case.
No, the problem was that she fired warning shots. Unfortunately, politicians who are anti-gun have pushed self defense laws to be SO strict when it comes to using a firearm that if you do anything other than flash the gun or shoot to kill, you WILL be guilty of a crime. The laws are specifically written to say that you MUST believe that your life is in danger in order to fire a gun in self defense - thus if you are firing a warning shot or shooting to wound instead of kill, you must not have felt you were in mortal danger or you would have used deadly force. It's ridiculous, but that's the argument of prosecutors, politicians, and judges and there is plenty of precedent supporting that decision.
He'll always be "that guy that got away with murder"
TIL that Slashdotters equate self defense with murder. In a pro-gun state, he'll have no problem getting a job because the citizens of those states respect people who defend themselves against violent people.
I drive 350 KM per week and use 9.4L per 100 KM. So I can calculate my weekly fuel use as 32.9L per week quickly and easily.
How is that any easier than MPG? You're actually doing the same amount of math because you have to derive the 9.4 L/100 KM first. If you know how many MPG your car gets and how far you drive in a week, you know how many gallons you need.
Actors, writers, directors, and producers generally subscribe to one political ideology and most movies involve at least one or two scenes of insulting / vilifying those who disagree with their political agenda. Now we have a writer who's on the opposite side and suddenly the political agenda of those who made the movie matters?
No, the people who will be affected by this are the gamers who, when companies eventually start coding for DirectX 11.2, have no choice but to buy a crappy OS (Windows 8.1) just to play a new game.
Exactly. As slow as companies are to move on to newer versions of Direct X, by the time companies require DirectX 11.2, we'll have Windows 9. Which, given the past 15 years, Microsoft seems to be on a "every other release" for if their OS is great or shit. ME was horrible, XP was great, Vista was horrible, 7 was great, 8 is horrible.... I hold out hope. Or, they could simply realize that putting a mobile UI on a desktop / laptop is a horrible idea and allow you to go into Control Panel and turn off the Metro UI permanently and restore the Start Menu. If they did that in 8.2, people would no longer bitch about how horrible Windows 8 is.
Feminists support nudity in certain contexts (such as public nudity as part of a protest). If it's nudity in other areas (such as a strip club), they vilify it because the evil men are there providing the dancers with a source of income.
it is the advancement of women to rights parity with men, something that badly needed doing, more so in the past, but still not fully addressed.
No, that's always been the tagline to sell it to the population as a whole. Yes, their first steps many years ago were equality, but after that was achieve they went on to pursuing the primary goal which was superiority. And guess what? They got it. Both in regards to social expectations and the law, women are viewed as superior to men in basically every way and it keeps getting worse for men every single day. I want equality, but it's rather sad to see men promoting the very people who are getting men classified as second class citizens in the US.
Do you realize how many millions (actually probably hundreds of millions) of people in the US drive and talk on the phone or even text while driving every year without getting in an accident? The people who are dumb enough to put a phone over driving are dumb enough to get themselves killed no matter how many laws you pass.
It doesn't matter how many laws and regulations you pass, people will still die. It shows just how delusional people like you are to think that you can actually legislate away death.
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You mean him routinely being an asshole? Sorry, but when someone plays a jerk in almost every role, I stop believing that it's the role and start believing it's the actor. THAT is why I'm against Capaldi - not because he's old, frail looking, etc but because everything I've ever seen him in, he was such a colossal dick that I just wanted to punch him in the face the entire time.
When its circulation is only about 1.5 million in a nation of 315 million, yes, it is extremist. It focuses on the view of a small portion of inner city liberals and ignores the rest of the nation. I'm sorry that I have to say it again, but you don't have a damn clue what you're talking about because as you pointed out in your first comment you don't live here and thus do not know the culture.
As you said, you're on the wrong side of the world. Thus, you do not realize how out of touch the NY Times is with most of the US. It's the reason why their subscribers keep dropping and the newspaper that used to be known for their sharp reporting is now known for being a shill for certain political views.
It's funny, in order to support your claim that Fox News and it's viewers are dumb racists who only want their prejudices confirmed, your entire post is nothing but prejudiced and racist comments towards anyone who disagrees with you.
Read up on Operation Northwoods. They are not only evil enough to stand by and let them happen, the US government has been evil enough to plan their own terrorist attacks on US soil to try to get Americans to support going to war.
If you think Americans will ever vote these politicians out, you're not very familiar with history.
By posting this, you've pretty much guaranteed you'll have a no-knock raid at 1am pretty soon.
Yes, but DRM didn't appear in Blizzard games until after the merger. That is why I went from buying every Blizzard game at launch to not buying anything from them anymore. I refuse to be punished by a company for buying their product.
Take a look at Operation Northwoods - a plan from the 60's for launching "false flag" attacks in the US and blaming Cuba for them as a way to push the American public to support war with Cuba. The only reason the plan was never enacted was because JFK wouldn't sign off on it - but the military and the rest of the government was perfectly OK with murdering innocent Americans to push their own agenda.
Even a Mosin that can no longer fire a bullet is still one hell of a club or spear (if you have the 16 inch bayonet attached).
Except that NYS law is in blatant contradiction to the Firearm Owners Protection Act signed by Reagan in '86 (if you're merely passing through New York, that is).
I don't think at any time was Zimmerman's life was in danger.
OK then, have someone start bashing your skull into cement and then rethink that statement. Zimmerman was part of the neighborhood watch - it was his (volunteer) job to look for suspicious people and keep and eye on things.
I expect a number of "stand your ground" laws will be amended to restrict the "charge into the situation until you escalate it, then stand your ground" that George used.
Wow, you honestly have no clue what went on in this case. No one except the anti-gun people in the media ever brought up "stand your ground". Zimmerman's case was entirely based off of normal self-defense laws that exist even in the most anti-gun state. He was pinned to the ground and was having his head bashed into the pavement - that's attempted murder. Even in your most anti-gun area, that's still full grounds for using deadly force to protect yourself. As for "stand your ground" laws, they do not change the circumstance for using force to defend yourself, they merely state that in a self defense situation the defender is assumed to be innocent of a crime unless the prosecutor can prove that they acted unjustly. In states without "stand your ground" laws, you are by default assumed to be guilty and must prove that you acted justly in defending yourself. "Stand your ground" laws do NOT change the fact that you MUST have a valid reason to believe you are in danger of serious injury or death in order to use deadly force to defend yourself and that you must NOT be the aggressor.
Zimmerman was NOT the aggressor. Walking on a sidewalk and following someone is NOT an act of aggression. Trayvon physically assaulting Zimmernman was an act of aggression and since Trayvon initiated the fight and Zimmerman was unable to flee, under EVERY SINGLE STATE'S self defense laws, Zimmerman was 100% within the law to use deadly force to defend himself.
The only thing that needs to be "amended" here is your ignorance of both the law and the facts of the case.
No, the problem was that she fired warning shots. Unfortunately, politicians who are anti-gun have pushed self defense laws to be SO strict when it comes to using a firearm that if you do anything other than flash the gun or shoot to kill, you WILL be guilty of a crime. The laws are specifically written to say that you MUST believe that your life is in danger in order to fire a gun in self defense - thus if you are firing a warning shot or shooting to wound instead of kill, you must not have felt you were in mortal danger or you would have used deadly force. It's ridiculous, but that's the argument of prosecutors, politicians, and judges and there is plenty of precedent supporting that decision.
He'll always be "that guy that got away with murder"
TIL that Slashdotters equate self defense with murder. In a pro-gun state, he'll have no problem getting a job because the citizens of those states respect people who defend themselves against violent people.
I drive 350 KM per week and use 9.4L per 100 KM. So I can calculate my weekly fuel use as 32.9L per week quickly and easily.
How is that any easier than MPG? You're actually doing the same amount of math because you have to derive the 9.4 L/100 KM first. If you know how many MPG your car gets and how far you drive in a week, you know how many gallons you need.
Actors, writers, directors, and producers generally subscribe to one political ideology and most movies involve at least one or two scenes of insulting / vilifying those who disagree with their political agenda. Now we have a writer who's on the opposite side and suddenly the political agenda of those who made the movie matters?
I think you completely missed the entire topic of discussion here....No one was complaining about upgrading from Win 8 to Win 8.1...
No, the people who will be affected by this are the gamers who, when companies eventually start coding for DirectX 11.2, have no choice but to buy a crappy OS (Windows 8.1) just to play a new game.
Exactly. As slow as companies are to move on to newer versions of Direct X, by the time companies require DirectX 11.2, we'll have Windows 9. Which, given the past 15 years, Microsoft seems to be on a "every other release" for if their OS is great or shit. ME was horrible, XP was great, Vista was horrible, 7 was great, 8 is horrible.... I hold out hope. Or, they could simply realize that putting a mobile UI on a desktop / laptop is a horrible idea and allow you to go into Control Panel and turn off the Metro UI permanently and restore the Start Menu. If they did that in 8.2, people would no longer bitch about how horrible Windows 8 is.
Feminists support nudity in certain contexts (such as public nudity as part of a protest). If it's nudity in other areas (such as a strip club), they vilify it because the evil men are there providing the dancers with a source of income.
it is the advancement of women to rights parity with men, something that badly needed doing, more so in the past, but still not fully addressed.
No, that's always been the tagline to sell it to the population as a whole. Yes, their first steps many years ago were equality, but after that was achieve they went on to pursuing the primary goal which was superiority. And guess what? They got it. Both in regards to social expectations and the law, women are viewed as superior to men in basically every way and it keeps getting worse for men every single day. I want equality, but it's rather sad to see men promoting the very people who are getting men classified as second class citizens in the US.
Well, looks like no multiplayer for me from now on. I didn't use it much anyways.
Do you realize how many millions (actually probably hundreds of millions) of people in the US drive and talk on the phone or even text while driving every year without getting in an accident? The people who are dumb enough to put a phone over driving are dumb enough to get themselves killed no matter how many laws you pass.
It doesn't matter how many laws and regulations you pass, people will still die. It shows just how delusional people like you are to think that you can actually legislate away death.