It must be? So, when team Obama was illegally wiretapping EU leaders it was because it must have been the far right? Or was that republicans? Try thinking critically for once in your life, or download the data and look for yourself. Well you are in the UK, so that's probably illegal anyway for you. There's a lot of people who'd want dirt on the government exposed, everyone from GTFO out of the EU to AFD to people in the UK pissed over Germany's attempts to run the EU like the next reich.
Can anyone comment on the timing too? Seems a bit random, is there something happening I'm not aware of?
You mean besides the only source for the "only AfD wasn't targeted" came from the German media? That's the only source so far, and we're seeing citogenisis in action with all the other media outlets reporting the same thing. As it stands, no proof, no information. Except that cybersecurity in Germany and in many other countries appear to be shit. But keep in mind, that the german media has also recently taken a beating for multiple reporters, editors, EiC's, having fabricated stories or manufactured news. So I wouldn't exactly trust that source.
Difference is, there's plenty of small AA/A class studios(Paradox, CDProjekt, 4A, Larian) out there to pick from, who all have passed the bar the AAA studios once had. And unlike say TV or movies, there hasn't been a mass convergence of video game companies, especially since anyone with time and patience can sit down learn unity or unreal and start working on a game with provided assets. Hell there's a booming business in games just surrounding RPGMaker.
The funny thing that you mentioned with FIFA 19, RDR2, and CoD is that the number of AAA studios has declined because the profitability has dried up over the last decade, and people are buying fewer titles. It also hasn't helped those AAA studios that they've gone down the path of attacking their audience, or shoveling social justice, politically correct crap, or censoring their games. See the mass drop-off in western companies that did localization for Japanese and Korean games, and the studios moving them either in-house, or in-country for localization. Fire Emblem is a good example of the absolute gutting of both core content and features to avoid 'offending' loud mouthed SJW's.
So let's make this clear, having read that study. Cows were being fed rancid herring, which not only has higher nitrate levels, but also a variety of toxins produced by the meat going rancid. But it's the nitrates that caused liver cancer, and not the liver processing the high levels of toxins that were also present and in turn killing the liver. Especially since it showed that the liver had no problems processing the levels and simply passing it directly into the kidney's and intestines.
Does this make any sense that the problem was nitrates instead of the variety of toxins causing systemic damage that couldn't be repaired?
Give you a hint why it was ended in 1979. It's because Canada had just entered a hyperinflation phase(1978), and the costs couldn't be offset by monetary policy. Something that the wikipedia article leaves out. But to make it clear at just how bad that hyperinflation rate was, if you were making $10k/year in a union shop that had COLA(i.e. wages tied to inflation), by 1979 you were making $32k/year. By 1981 it was $39k/year. The average price for a previously owned home was around $25k-31k, the interest rate on that house was around 13.5%. By 1982 it was 21% by 1983 25-31%.
But wait, it gets better! Because Canada is on the cusp of the same thing happening again. At a prime rate of 3.95% a jump of 0.05% puts 40% of mortgages under water, since many people have taken rates that are variable rate i.e. tied +% prime meaning their borrowing rate is say 5.95% and so on instead of a long-term fixed rate. But wait it gets even better! Because all of this is a repeat of Trudeau Sr.'s "NEP" which Jr., is currently re-doing to the detriment of the prairie provinces. If you don't live in Canada, you probably aren't hearing the "Fucking Trudeau, time to GTFO out of Canada and fuck confederation." That's been going around the last year or so.
Which report are you referring to? I've read a couple of them and neither mention new regulations.
Both the state and federal investigation into the issue. Both of them make clear statements that the new regulations requiring the cleaning of pipes cause/created/exasperated the issue and caused leeching where before, the levels had been below the EPA and state guidelines.
So you're going in on the anti-sjw malarkey again? You know what, alt-right anti-SJW types like you complain more about shit than actual supposed "SJW's" do.
Oh, you haven't been paying attention to the world as Sony has now become more censorious then Nintendo?
YOU are the fragile snowflake who gets butthurt when a game has a playable female character or allows characters to romance NPC's of the same gender.
Boy that's some Grade-A propaganda you're spewing there. So I, along with millions of gamers, suddenly, one day, had a problem with female PC's, and romancing the same gender. Does that make any sense to a rational person? You are rational right? And you can think on your own without some progressive nut telling you what to think.
And they're doing fine, considering Fortnite is a game with many many different heroes of different ethnicities.
Way to miss the point. Do you need me to draw you a diagram so you can understand why Dishonored 2 failed, and the new Wolfenstien game, and BFV? Give you a hint, that your basic understanding of gaming is less then the 13 year old telling you he's going to fuck your mom.
Only that this fact was the sole source of your argument. Truly horrible people have justified their actions based on facts.
Oh look, someone's got a stick up their ass and inventing an argument instead of looking at the reality of the world and drawing a parallel conclusion.
Errr no, it's mainly 1st world countries. Your idea that liability is automatic in Germany just really shows how little clue you have about the world outside the USA.
Strange, because liability *is* automatic in Germany. If I rent a car and drive it into a wall, I have liability not the renter. If I own property and it causes injury to a person because I fail to maintain it, I have liability. Good job on showing just how ignorant you are. Not to mention making the assumption that all people that post here are in 'the USA.'
I've seen your posts over the years and your views on many issues are right in line with the usual neckbearded alt-right-libertarian screeds. You may not think you're one, but if you walk and talk like a alt-right-libertarian neckbeard, don't be surprised when people think you're one.
Oh look, a left wing communist that thinks they know everything with the smoking remains of a 100 million dead around their ankles. Don't be surprised when people take you for an enemy of humanity.
Haven't seen an anti-collectivist yet, who doesn't think they're the next best thing to John Galt.
You should get out of your political and social bubble then.
That's basically you, and Andrew Ryan...is an expy of Ayn Rand.
Oh noes, whatever would I do with someone comparing me to a 2D character with more character flaws then Mao?
Lifespans in the ancient world are sorely misunderstood because of infant and child mortality. If a typical Roman made it to age 14, they had a 50% chance of making it to 60.
It's only hard to understand if you were born in the 1990's or 2000's, and didn't have great grandparents that had 8-16 kids at a time, with 50% of them dying before the age of 5. That was the norm even 100 years ago here in the west.
You're a very sad man if when talking about injury your first thought is liability.
Stating facts makes a person a sad man?
You'll actually find that there's many places around the world which aren't suehappy or places where liability isn't an issue where glass was still banned because of *injury*. Some of us care about others, and don't just care about the risk of others suing us.
Yeah, those places just happen to be mainly 3rd world countries. I suppose if you like going there and all that, then it's not a problem. If however, you're in Germany, UK, Canada and so on, then the "ownership" of a site does require liability, or mandates liability coverage in some form.
Ensuring clean water for US citizens is a core function of government. At all levels, but starting from the top. This is enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, in case you care about things like that.
You might want to read the US Constitution sometime then. This falls directly into "state rights."
Err... no. It was caused by NOT adding anti-corrosion agents to the new source.
No, that's exactly what it was. Because the anti-corrosion method they used stripped off the mineral layer, go read the report on it. It states that being the primary factor, which is why in all those cities that still have lead pipes they are no longer using those anti-corrosion methods. Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton here in Canada. Washington DC., SanFran, NYC, and so on as well.
I'm not accusing you of anything partisan, but the idea that the Flint crisis was caused by additional regulations (and not good ol' government mismanagement) is quite bizarre.
Again, read the report it wasn't just government mismanagement. It was local government also failing to heed the warnings.
Battletech is a recent game, but can be quite difficult at times.
It actually has a "gear" limit for taking missions. If your mechs or weapons aren't good enough quality, you're in for some serious RNG loves you moments. Though pulling off a mission with a 90T drop and the opposing side comes stomping at you with 250T is fun.
You're right. But that doesn't change the fact that cans were coated to stop lead and acid from eating through them. So, what was it? Let me help, first canning was done with either glass jars or tin, or steel. Second, lead leaching was already known to be a serious health problem during the time. Some of the most famous cases of this directly effecting crews such as Sir John Franklin expedition. They cut corners to save on the costs and preserved foods by using the cheapest method of canning available at the time and basically got lead poisoning.
So, do you know what coating was used? Usually paraffin, bee's wax or zinc.
You think plastic is the only thing used? So in say 1820 what do you think they used on the inside of the can. This is of course to stop lead leeching and acid in the food from rusting the can from the inside out.
Today's games look nice but play like a 5 year old designed them.
That's because gaming has "opened up" to the large crowd of people who want instant satisfaction when playing a game. Truly difficult titles are far and few between. You probably remember the trope of "Nintendo Hard" from the 1980's and 90's? Most people these days wouldn't ever play a game like G&G, Contra or Ninja Gaiden if they had a choice. They were unforgiving titles that punished you for failure. Hell just look at the amount of whining that goes on over games like Dark Souls or even the remastered versions of Baldur's Gate, BG2, and Planescape: Torment. The average player has their hand held so hard through modern titles when the game says "here you go" and doesn't give you a map, direction, and markers, people freak out and game journos bomb the title because it's too difficult.
Are you enjoying more "more inclusive hobby?" Not me. I liked the difficult games because there was a sense of accomplishment to beating something difficult.
That's okay, considering it has a user metacritic score of 27 you're probably better off not buying it. GMG has had the lowest price at $47.99USD, though if you're still shit-hot on buying it's still on sale at $48.99
What's rare is the will to stand up to corporations and the understanding in government that supplying clean drinking water to the population should be one of the core functions of government.
If you're in the US, Canada or Europe that responsibility falls into 3 areas: State. Local(municipality/city). Federal(governed by treaties). Looks like clean drinking water is already covered in that. And if you're thinking "omg Flint, MI!" keep in mind that the problem was created by NEW regulations on cleaning pipes either by energizing the water system or pumping cleaning agents through. Which of course ripped the mineral layer off the inside of the pipes and allowed lead leeching.
It's at least as much a core function as foreign wars or building a fucking wall.
Keeping in mind that in many cases this is a failure of local government, not federal government. And in the US and Canada for instance, these are state/provincial issues. Meaning if there's a problem, you should be looking at either the regional government or municipal government.
How did you survive? Injuries, surgeries, not to mention statistically you didn't even survive as long.
It's a liability problem then. That also depends on what you mean by "survive long" living to your 70's and 80's was considered an achievement but a lot of people made it to their 50's even in the ye olde days of peasantry.
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It must be? So, when team Obama was illegally wiretapping EU leaders it was because it must have been the far right? Or was that republicans? Try thinking critically for once in your life, or download the data and look for yourself. Well you are in the UK, so that's probably illegal anyway for you. There's a lot of people who'd want dirt on the government exposed, everyone from GTFO out of the EU to AFD to people in the UK pissed over Germany's attempts to run the EU like the next reich.
Can anyone comment on the timing too? Seems a bit random, is there something happening I'm not aware of?
You mean besides the only source for the "only AfD wasn't targeted" came from the German media? That's the only source so far, and we're seeing citogenisis in action with all the other media outlets reporting the same thing. As it stands, no proof, no information. Except that cybersecurity in Germany and in many other countries appear to be shit. But keep in mind, that the german media has also recently taken a beating for multiple reporters, editors, EiC's, having fabricated stories or manufactured news. So I wouldn't exactly trust that source.
Difference is, there's plenty of small AA/A class studios(Paradox, CDProjekt, 4A, Larian) out there to pick from, who all have passed the bar the AAA studios once had. And unlike say TV or movies, there hasn't been a mass convergence of video game companies, especially since anyone with time and patience can sit down learn unity or unreal and start working on a game with provided assets. Hell there's a booming business in games just surrounding RPGMaker.
The funny thing that you mentioned with FIFA 19, RDR2, and CoD is that the number of AAA studios has declined because the profitability has dried up over the last decade, and people are buying fewer titles. It also hasn't helped those AAA studios that they've gone down the path of attacking their audience, or shoveling social justice, politically correct crap, or censoring their games. See the mass drop-off in western companies that did localization for Japanese and Korean games, and the studios moving them either in-house, or in-country for localization. Fire Emblem is a good example of the absolute gutting of both core content and features to avoid 'offending' loud mouthed SJW's.
Let's hope they're just going to fix it, and not try to "improve" it like they did with firefox, or google did with gmail.
So let's make this clear, having read that study. Cows were being fed rancid herring, which not only has higher nitrate levels, but also a variety of toxins produced by the meat going rancid. But it's the nitrates that caused liver cancer, and not the liver processing the high levels of toxins that were also present and in turn killing the liver. Especially since it showed that the liver had no problems processing the levels and simply passing it directly into the kidney's and intestines.
Does this make any sense that the problem was nitrates instead of the variety of toxins causing systemic damage that couldn't be repaired?
Give you a hint why it was ended in 1979. It's because Canada had just entered a hyperinflation phase(1978), and the costs couldn't be offset by monetary policy. Something that the wikipedia article leaves out. But to make it clear at just how bad that hyperinflation rate was, if you were making $10k/year in a union shop that had COLA(i.e. wages tied to inflation), by 1979 you were making $32k/year. By 1981 it was $39k/year. The average price for a previously owned home was around $25k-31k, the interest rate on that house was around 13.5%. By 1982 it was 21% by 1983 25-31%.
But wait, it gets better! Because Canada is on the cusp of the same thing happening again. At a prime rate of 3.95% a jump of 0.05% puts 40% of mortgages under water, since many people have taken rates that are variable rate i.e. tied +% prime meaning their borrowing rate is say 5.95% and so on instead of a long-term fixed rate. But wait it gets even better! Because all of this is a repeat of Trudeau Sr.'s "NEP" which Jr., is currently re-doing to the detriment of the prairie provinces. If you don't live in Canada, you probably aren't hearing the "Fucking Trudeau, time to GTFO out of Canada and fuck confederation." That's been going around the last year or so.
Which report are you referring to? I've read a couple of them and neither mention new regulations.
Both the state and federal investigation into the issue. Both of them make clear statements that the new regulations requiring the cleaning of pipes cause/created/exasperated the issue and caused leeching where before, the levels had been below the EPA and state guidelines.
Article 1 Section 8.
Nope, sorry. Doesn't say anything about water infrastructure there. The word "welfare" doesn't count either.
So you're going in on the anti-sjw malarkey again? You know what, alt-right anti-SJW types like you complain more about shit than actual supposed "SJW's" do.
Oh, you haven't been paying attention to the world as Sony has now become more censorious then Nintendo?
YOU are the fragile snowflake who gets butthurt when a game has a playable female character or allows characters to romance NPC's of the same gender.
Boy that's some Grade-A propaganda you're spewing there. So I, along with millions of gamers, suddenly, one day, had a problem with female PC's, and romancing the same gender. Does that make any sense to a rational person? You are rational right? And you can think on your own without some progressive nut telling you what to think.
And they're doing fine, considering Fortnite is a game with many many different heroes of different ethnicities.
Way to miss the point. Do you need me to draw you a diagram so you can understand why Dishonored 2 failed, and the new Wolfenstien game, and BFV? Give you a hint, that your basic understanding of gaming is less then the 13 year old telling you he's going to fuck your mom.
Only that this fact was the sole source of your argument. Truly horrible people have justified their actions based on facts.
Oh look, someone's got a stick up their ass and inventing an argument instead of looking at the reality of the world and drawing a parallel conclusion.
Errr no, it's mainly 1st world countries. Your idea that liability is automatic in Germany just really shows how little clue you have about the world outside the USA.
Strange, because liability *is* automatic in Germany. If I rent a car and drive it into a wall, I have liability not the renter. If I own property and it causes injury to a person because I fail to maintain it, I have liability. Good job on showing just how ignorant you are. Not to mention making the assumption that all people that post here are in 'the USA.'
I've seen your posts over the years and your views on many issues are right in line with the usual neckbearded alt-right-libertarian screeds. You may not think you're one, but if you walk and talk like a alt-right-libertarian neckbeard, don't be surprised when people think you're one.
Oh look, a left wing communist that thinks they know everything with the smoking remains of a 100 million dead around their ankles. Don't be surprised when people take you for an enemy of humanity.
Haven't seen an anti-collectivist yet, who doesn't think they're the next best thing to John Galt.
You should get out of your political and social bubble then.
That's basically you, and Andrew Ryan...is an expy of Ayn Rand.
Oh noes, whatever would I do with someone comparing me to a 2D character with more character flaws then Mao?
Lifespans in the ancient world are sorely misunderstood because of infant and child mortality. If a typical Roman made it to age 14, they had a 50% chance of making it to 60.
It's only hard to understand if you were born in the 1990's or 2000's, and didn't have great grandparents that had 8-16 kids at a time, with 50% of them dying before the age of 5. That was the norm even 100 years ago here in the west.
You're a very sad man if when talking about injury your first thought is liability.
Stating facts makes a person a sad man?
You'll actually find that there's many places around the world which aren't suehappy or places where liability isn't an issue where glass was still banned because of *injury*. Some of us care about others, and don't just care about the risk of others suing us.
Yeah, those places just happen to be mainly 3rd world countries. I suppose if you like going there and all that, then it's not a problem. If however, you're in Germany, UK, Canada and so on, then the "ownership" of a site does require liability, or mandates liability coverage in some form.
Yeah, games respect our time better.
Except that's not what I said. Tell me something, how are all those "woke" games doing in terms of sales these days?
Really, you're calling Mashiki, who is notoriously one of Slashdots alt-right-libertarian anti-"collectivist" anti-"sjw" randroid's a lefty?
Sorry, I'm not alt-right. Don't fall into the libertarian camp. I am anti-collectivist. Try to avoid spewing bullshit.
Ensuring clean water for US citizens is a core function of government. At all levels, but starting from the top. This is enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, in case you care about things like that.
You might want to read the US Constitution sometime then. This falls directly into "state rights."
Err... no. It was caused by NOT adding anti-corrosion agents to the new source.
No, that's exactly what it was. Because the anti-corrosion method they used stripped off the mineral layer, go read the report on it. It states that being the primary factor, which is why in all those cities that still have lead pipes they are no longer using those anti-corrosion methods. Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton here in Canada. Washington DC., SanFran, NYC, and so on as well.
I'm not accusing you of anything partisan, but the idea that the Flint crisis was caused by additional regulations (and not good ol' government mismanagement) is quite bizarre.
Again, read the report it wasn't just government mismanagement. It was local government also failing to heed the warnings.
Battletech is a recent game, but can be quite difficult at times.
It actually has a "gear" limit for taking missions. If your mechs or weapons aren't good enough quality, you're in for some serious RNG loves you moments. Though pulling off a mission with a 90T drop and the opposing side comes stomping at you with 250T is fun.
In 1820 they didn't use aluminium.
You're right. But that doesn't change the fact that cans were coated to stop lead and acid from eating through them. So, what was it? Let me help, first canning was done with either glass jars or tin, or steel. Second, lead leaching was already known to be a serious health problem during the time. Some of the most famous cases of this directly effecting crews such as Sir John Franklin expedition. They cut corners to save on the costs and preserved foods by using the cheapest method of canning available at the time and basically got lead poisoning.
So, do you know what coating was used? Usually paraffin, bee's wax or zinc.
I'll give you a hint: whatever the coatings contain (much is shrouded in secrecy) they contain plenty of BPA.
Give you a hint, epoxy resins for canning was only used in the last 53 years. You're so close to actually figuring out what it was.
Yeah coated with plastic.
You think plastic is the only thing used? So in say 1820 what do you think they used on the inside of the can. This is of course to stop lead leeching and acid in the food from rusting the can from the inside out.
Coated with hormone affecting BPA plastic? Mmm.. Hormone affecting BPA plastic.
What do you think they use inside canned food these days? I'll give you a hint, but it wasn't BPA plastic. Not even back in the 1800's.
Today's games look nice but play like a 5 year old designed them.
That's because gaming has "opened up" to the large crowd of people who want instant satisfaction when playing a game. Truly difficult titles are far and few between. You probably remember the trope of "Nintendo Hard" from the 1980's and 90's? Most people these days wouldn't ever play a game like G&G, Contra or Ninja Gaiden if they had a choice. They were unforgiving titles that punished you for failure. Hell just look at the amount of whining that goes on over games like Dark Souls or even the remastered versions of Baldur's Gate, BG2, and Planescape: Torment. The average player has their hand held so hard through modern titles when the game says "here you go" and doesn't give you a map, direction, and markers, people freak out and game journos bomb the title because it's too difficult.
Are you enjoying more "more inclusive hobby?" Not me. I liked the difficult games because there was a sense of accomplishment to beating something difficult.
That's okay, considering it has a user metacritic score of 27 you're probably better off not buying it. GMG has had the lowest price at $47.99USD, though if you're still shit-hot on buying it's still on sale at $48.99
What's rare is the will to stand up to corporations and the understanding in government that supplying clean drinking water to the population should be one of the core functions of government.
If you're in the US, Canada or Europe that responsibility falls into 3 areas: State. Local(municipality/city). Federal(governed by treaties). Looks like clean drinking water is already covered in that. And if you're thinking "omg Flint, MI!" keep in mind that the problem was created by NEW regulations on cleaning pipes either by energizing the water system or pumping cleaning agents through. Which of course ripped the mineral layer off the inside of the pipes and allowed lead leeching.
It's at least as much a core function as foreign wars or building a fucking wall.
Keeping in mind that in many cases this is a failure of local government, not federal government. And in the US and Canada for instance, these are state/provincial issues. Meaning if there's a problem, you should be looking at either the regional government or municipal government.
How did you survive? Injuries, surgeries, not to mention statistically you didn't even survive as long.
It's a liability problem then. That also depends on what you mean by "survive long" living to your 70's and 80's was considered an achievement but a lot of people made it to their 50's even in the ye olde days of peasantry.