LOL no. Not with Mcwynnty in charge(Thanks Toronto!), they have given the IESO every increase they wanted and we're now running at 17c/kWh at peak, and the government here keeps scratching it's head going why are all the businesses leaving?! When you can buy it in Michigan for $0.05-0.07 at peak. And we're selling excess power to the US for 0.01-0.025kWh and buying back at 0.10.
Idiot. Let me say that again, you're a complete idiot. Cheap energy is one of the best ways to get people out of poverty and one of the best ways to increase the general health of a group of people.
The average PC has Intel graphics or an old midrange or low end graphics card. In fact the average new PC is likely behind that 5 year old top of the line PC.
Your average intel graphics card and low-end card can easily pull the same settings that consoles do. Not at the same fidelity, but they can pull 720p and 902p which are what both console use at medium settings in many cases.
Rumors peg it at about RX480 level, probably a bit lower (power/heat constraints and all that). That's "on par" with the middle ground recent PC. A 1080 (and probably the Vega stuff AMD will eventually release) will trounce that easily, let alone SLI/Crossfire.
Doubtful. I'll wait to see the actual specs, but I'll bet it'll be in the range of a 2yr old mid-range PC. The PS4 and Xbox one were both the equivalent of 5 year old PC's at release. The reality is consoles are always behind at least a couple of years if not more even when it's "top of the line."
Oil from North American sources are significantly more expensive to extract and process. Forgetting the environmentalism concern entirely, are you willing to accept potentially 50% gas price hikes to stop doing business with undesirable nations? If so, great on you(?) but I don't see the market at large taking your stance.
Obviously you don't work, have friends that work/etc in the oil industry here in Canada or the US. If you did, you'd know that most of that extraction and processing is profitable above a price of $44BBL, the very heaviest crude including oil sands are profitable at prices above $64BBL. There would be no 50% price hike. Hell oil is at ~45-47BBL right now, and I'm still paying around $1/L or $4.10/Gal, where as I can cross the border and pay $2.10/Gal. Even when oil was at $110-140/BBL the price never topped $1.38/L or $4.25/Gal
The media is certain that guns force people to kill, so trucks must do it as well.
Seems to me there is a lot of political correctness going on, the media(many reporters, editors, and owners) would rather believe it's *anything* other than what it actually is. In many cases those people who were at the front of saying "it's okay, there isn't a big problem" or whatever else, don't have a way out and have to double down on the narrative that they've created rather then saying: "Gee, I guess those awful xyz people(conservative/right wingers/libertarians/etc) were right."
But you're right, they refuse to deal with the problem. It's beyond the scope of batshit insane, there's appears to be a strong ideological bent to do this shit. And the media would rather ignore that too. It is after all, much more difficult to say "yeah, I/we/etc were wrong, now since we fucked up. We all need to fix it." They know if they also said that people's trust(what little there is left) would evaporate.
...the democrats to get on the air quickly and start advocating for Banning ALL Assault Trucks immediately!!
Considering that a lot of the flappy headed media turned around and were using phrases like "children feared dead as truck attacks family event." It wouldn't surprise me. So far I've seen CBC, NYT, WAPO and CBS all using language that would make you think the truck got up all on it's own and decided to attack people.
You could almost say that the oil industry is really to blame. We've got a 60 year history of destabilizing a region where this mad ideology originates and then funding (and arming) their dictators. Oil industry and banksters have wrought this upon us. And a family named, "Rothschild"
We'll never deal with terrorism until we deal with that and the fallout from Balfour.
Okay, let's roll with this. You know the US is now sitting on more oil, coal and NG, then there are proven supplies in say Saudi Arabia? Canada comes in just under that US total too. So let's cut the snake off at the head, and start using our own oil/NG/coal/etc. Sounds good right? Oh wait, what do you mean those environmentalists are starting to whine, and the nimby's are so uptight that their assholes are where their mouths are? And there's a brain dead president in power that doesn't want to do anything and impose more bans on developing those sites or continues with the environmentalist anti-nuke policies.
Solution and answer are right there and could end it all in 30 years.
You think that bigotry caused this? Or any of the other previous terrorist attacks? No. Stop being so damned naive. Countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Quatar? They're funding extrimism in our own backyards by paying for the institutional buildings to spread that type of hate. You should probably pick up a history book as well. Then you'll find out that this has been an on-going problem for nearly 1300 years at this point. I'm sure someone will come out whining but what about the crusades. Oh yes, those crusades that were a response...after nearly 200 years of attacks against European countries, against muslim slavery, destruction of churches and religious sites. Rape, pillaging and murder of entire towns. It's so stupidly easy to chart the initial battles, slavery camps, slave markets from historical documents(the feudal governments and catholic church were malicious about it). And even easier to see when the initial push-back started.
That there are serious problems with muslims entering from the middle east and africa causing no shortage of problems. That in their new host countries, they continue the old way of life instead of integrating. That there are mosques and madrassa's that teach extremism as the bread and butter of their faith. You can find them easily all over Europe. Before someone goes..."but you're a white male, you don't know anything!" Let me finish out with I'm a first generation kid in Canada, born to mixed race parents who's parents integrated into society, left the old world bullshit behind, became productive members of society and were respected for it. So with that, I respect muslims that will turn around and leave the old world garbage behind and become productive members of society. The rest? Nope. And those ones that won't? They'll even attack their fellow brothers because they believe that they're not muslim anymore. See what happened here in Canada after the double terrorist attacks within a week of each other. When leaders of reformist muslim movements, and liberal mosque leaderships denounced and then stated that all mosques should be under police surveillance. The response? "You're not muslim, you should be killed. You're an apostate! Etc, etc, etc."
By far most of the new games today only have superior graphics and sound. Many don't surpass the stories that were written and very few surpass the size that many of those NES games had, especially when jammed into that little ROM chip. Keep in mind that the vast majority of today's games also handhold you all the way through. One of the reasons why games like Dark Souls or FTL are so popular is because even if you do everything right, you can still fail and that's the end of the line.
The big draw for a lot of people is that those older games, they don't handhold you. They don't put tips in the loading screens and so on. In the end, to each their own.
Maxthon has been around for over a decade and got the best browser awards or best product of x year a couple of times. If you haven't heard of it you haven't been paying attention(aka the sites you read were pushing their own shit), and you were likely on the firefox bandwagon when it was getting all that attention.
Too bad firefox has done a great job of burning all that good will in the tech industry and pissing off the people that they want to use their product. Notice how much their marketshare has dropped in the last ~5 years?
I'm expecting to see your comment modded into oblivion. The people who are so heavily invested in social justice really don't like it when things happen that disprove their narrative. Keep in mind that these same regressives are just like Jack Thompson now, demanding that things be censored to stop them from being offended. Even one of the shittiest sites on the internet(neogaf) has long since jumped on the Jack Thompson train, and developers who used to post there no longer do, calling it the place where the cause of anti-free speech groups goes to work.
But of all the things to cause Gamergate to coalesce, it was really a relatively minor thing, blown way out of proportion, with a fair amount of misdirection and outright lying.
Oh it was blown out of proportion, but that was done by the games media. They could have ended it in the first week by going "yeah, you're right. There was a serious ethical breach here when he wrote about someone he had prior contact to, was banging, and had done work for in the past." Instead they decided to double down on the "you're a sexist and misogynist" for disagreeing with us, and then turning around and saying there was no ethical problems. Of course, 8mo later the sites that were directly responsible for originally setting it off...surprise...all had disclosed that there had been prior relationships. But lying? Nope. All that shit happened, and if you think that "the zoepost" wasn't real, there was the video evidence of it. If you think that 12+ publications deciding all on the same day to write "gamers are dead, gamers are over" articles didn't happen or it was just a coincidence you're just being naive. FYI: Run those articles through a plagiarism checker, and you'll find that they range from 40-70% of all the same content.
But what really started gamergate, and if you ask people who were around at that time? It was the game sites censoring any discussion of it. Reddit gaming subs banning all discussion of it. And those "gamers are dead" articles, that's what drew people to it. And that's when people had enough. What do you know, the Streisand Effect *does* work.
So you say you "feel" it isn't about ethics in journalism. That's nice, of course actions to the contrary speak otherwise. Keep in mind that if you're not an actual hardcore gamer you wouldn't know that this had been brewing for years, and people had been making noise over it since around 2005, earlier on usenet when magazines were still the thing. Keep in mind that your average gamer is exceptionally laid back like most people with their hobbies, until people start attacking it. You can also find the start of this when people started digging up the connection between Digra and Critical distance among other organizations all writing papers with confirmation conclusions. Digra's are some of the best where they've written the conclusion first, even when the evidence is contrary to the actual conclusion.
But in the end you're right, it was a small event that started it. You know what set it off? When gaming sites decided to ban all speech of it. When the gaming subreddits(except PCMasterrace) blocked all discussion on it, when they banned people from those subreddits for talking about it. And what was the last straw? When over a dozen publications published nearly the same article all saying that "gamers are over, gamers are dead" all on the same day(though there were a few latecomers to the party). That's what caused the huge surge of people. Fun thing about that though, nearly all those people who wrote those article are no longer in the industry. Some of those sites drove their audience away and collapsed. And I haven't even started on the source for all of those articles.
Or the people who were engaged in unethical behavior like leigh alexander, who wrote about games, ran her own consultation company, shilled the stuff she was promoting, and gave no disclosure. And apparently was one of the big behind the scenes people pushing the "gamers are sexist-misogynists" bullshit. You know, much like how it was pushed with the "if you don't like the new ghostbusters you're a "sexist-racist-misogynist" bit. Oh and she was one of the big "gamers are dead" but you could figure it out right off the bat that she wasn't an actual gamer. For her trouble she was quickly out at gamasutra, went off to another site which collapsed not even 6mo down the road, and then instead of learning not to attack the audience doubled down.
Despite the belief that gamergate has a time machine, that's sadly not true. Keep in mind it's not even 2 years old yet, but I've seen authors on the usual gaming sites saying that it started in 2002, 2008, 2010 and 2011 too. So if you're one of those people who reads those shitty sites, no wonder you might think that.
Gamergate didn't actually expose some hidden truth that no one knew about.
Actually it did. See the gamejournoprosleak . People thought there was a list, they believed there was collusion going on just like the game mags from the 90's, but had no proof. But the truth came out, and it was the same jackass who created Journolist doing the same thing to the games industry. Then people found out about the number of authors engaging in shady shit by shilling for their friends games, and other authors not disclosing that they were involved in a personal relationship with PR people see PCGamer and the author(Tyler Wilde) who had all of his stories removed about Ubisoft. And the attempted blacklisting/ostracizing of authors/publications who refused to engage in groupthink, and the massive amount of groupthink going on in said organizational group.
They were also the group that got the disclosure rules changed for native advertising/affiliate links/etc. Meaning that shitty, shady and clickbait sites had to be open, clear, with disclosure and no more obfuscated stuff. In the end it shone light on the rest of the garbage in the industry, and did a very good job at costing shitty companies money for being very shitty companies. And continues to do so while pushing back against people who instead of making their own games/characters/stories and let them sink or swim on merit like the rest of the industry. Ensuring that established characters/games/stories aren't rewritten to fit some special snowflakes head cannon. And bringing to light assholes like polygon/kotaku/RPS/etc who are now in the Jack Thompson camp screaming about how we should really censor games because it might hurt someones feelings, and how xyz thing is sexist/racist/homophobic/etc.
Wouldn't actually surprise me if the bats were just carriers but the transmission path was mites/fleas/parasites/etc. Seems the most logical thing to me, especially when there's no direct/obvious marks on the person. And since rabies can be passed through any mucas, blood, urine or fecal matter you can guess at the other various paths too.
While I live in an urban area, we have bats here since the rest of the county is very rural. And while rabies has been pretty much eradicated from everything here(from racoons and foxes to coyotes and bears), bats seem to be the one big species where they've had problems eradicating it. There's warnings put out every year to avoid bats because they're common rabies carriers.
And you can live on minimum wage? People are struggling at twice that.
Try moving. I can't live on $10.75/hr in Toronto, but I could in Ingersoll or Woodstock. Lot of people like that, they'd be happier to live in an area outside that's right at their budget limit or even over instead of thinking.
Most police departments haven't even adopted bodycams, and many don't even have dashcams, despite big documented advantages at reducing violence.
That's because for most police departments(since you're talking US), can't afford to. Most cops make diddly in money(Between $28k-55k), many have to buy everything from shoes/boots/puncture resistant gloves to their own guns and bullet proof vests as well. In some of the poorer police departments they even have to pay for the fuel for their patrol cars.
Jump north into Canada here, there are plenty of police services that are the same way. Especially for the people who are working in the asshole of nowhere, like postings in the far north of Canada -- FYI: The far north of Canada is pretty much anywhere outside of 250km of the US border or a major city like Saskatoon, Edmonton, etc. Your home is also your jail in those cases. If you're married your family lives in the jail with you. If you get lucky, small towns may have a jail. But this is all getting a bit off. Even here though, many people have to buy all of their own gear. Everything except guns or non-lethal weapons. Many police services can't afford dash-cams or body cams, though there is a push much like in the US for both. Some services like the OPP or SQ(both equivalent to state police), have been to points as well where constables have to pay to fuel their own vehicles, or they'd simply have them parked on major highways to create the illusion that they're out there.
So unless the areas are very rich like peel region(here in Ontario), or Vancouver(BC), it's still a waiting game. And of course when the police say "we need money for xyz thing" the first thing people do is start screaming that the police don't need that money. One also can't forget that in many parts of Canada due to changes in police services acts, all police services must have ERT(like SWAT), homicide divisions, underwater rescue, drug dogs, K-9 units and so on. Stuff that they can't afford, but if they don't have it they lose their status as an actual police service which leads to either rental or sharing between services. It's also one of the reasons here in Ontario, local police(and people who know the area) are so rare now. Because the OPP replaced them all because those small local police couldn't compete with the "hey here's our contract rate." Now you deal with people who've never lived in the area and have no idea of what's going on.
Doubtful. Go look at the usual chans(especially 4chan) and you'll find that people have been using VPN's and simple scripts to sign this thing using random name pools, and verifying their signature in under 20 seconds per name.
It'll be just like the fantastic 4 reboot or ghostbusters reboot. Critics and media lapdogs will give them a 60-80% approval rating, and the public will give them around 4% Though I might be generous with the 4% rating...
Not sure if BLM is a movement with leaders or something more like Anonymous. More than likely those BLM supporters who want to kill cops are the minority.
Yeah really, these are self-professed members acting in violent, criminal and in general scum like ways. There's no real difference between them and the ye olde racists of yesteryear.
Really though, more whites are killed by police then blacks in the US by a huge number. But there's zip on the media about that. You heard about the last two blacks, how about the last two white guys who were gunned down that literally happened a few days/weeks before that.
So major auto manufacturers are installing systems that are completely illegal to use on the road?
Yes.
I think you're full of shit (most likely, your information is woefully out-of-date).
That's okay, I think you're just an idiot that doesn't understand that traffic law doesn't automatically catch up to technology right away. Here's a fun fact: In Ontario, when the police started getting those large support vehicles for on-scene crime forensics and all that, they had backup cameras installed in them so they could back in easily. They were also illegal, until the government took 9 months to exempt police from their use. That was around 8 years ago.
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LOL no. Not with Mcwynnty in charge(Thanks Toronto!), they have given the IESO every increase they wanted and we're now running at 17c/kWh at peak, and the government here keeps scratching it's head going why are all the businesses leaving?! When you can buy it in Michigan for $0.05-0.07 at peak. And we're selling excess power to the US for 0.01-0.025kWh and buying back at 0.10.
Idiot. Let me say that again, you're a complete idiot. Cheap energy is one of the best ways to get people out of poverty and one of the best ways to increase the general health of a group of people.
The average PC has Intel graphics or an old midrange or low end graphics card. In fact the average new PC is likely behind that 5 year old top of the line PC.
Your average intel graphics card and low-end card can easily pull the same settings that consoles do. Not at the same fidelity, but they can pull 720p and 902p which are what both console use at medium settings in many cases.
Rumors peg it at about RX480 level, probably a bit lower (power/heat constraints and all that). That's "on par" with the middle ground recent PC. A 1080 (and probably the Vega stuff AMD will eventually release) will trounce that easily, let alone SLI/Crossfire.
Doubtful. I'll wait to see the actual specs, but I'll bet it'll be in the range of a 2yr old mid-range PC. The PS4 and Xbox one were both the equivalent of 5 year old PC's at release. The reality is consoles are always behind at least a couple of years if not more even when it's "top of the line."
Oil from North American sources are significantly more expensive to extract and process. Forgetting the environmentalism concern entirely, are you willing to accept potentially 50% gas price hikes to stop doing business with undesirable nations? If so, great on you(?) but I don't see the market at large taking your stance.
Obviously you don't work, have friends that work/etc in the oil industry here in Canada or the US. If you did, you'd know that most of that extraction and processing is profitable above a price of $44BBL, the very heaviest crude including oil sands are profitable at prices above $64BBL. There would be no 50% price hike. Hell oil is at ~45-47BBL right now, and I'm still paying around $1/L or $4.10/Gal, where as I can cross the border and pay $2.10/Gal. Even when oil was at $110-140/BBL the price never topped $1.38/L or $4.25/Gal
The media is certain that guns force people to kill, so trucks must do it as well.
Seems to me there is a lot of political correctness going on, the media(many reporters, editors, and owners) would rather believe it's *anything* other than what it actually is. In many cases those people who were at the front of saying "it's okay, there isn't a big problem" or whatever else, don't have a way out and have to double down on the narrative that they've created rather then saying: "Gee, I guess those awful xyz people(conservative/right wingers/libertarians/etc) were right."
But you're right, they refuse to deal with the problem. It's beyond the scope of batshit insane, there's appears to be a strong ideological bent to do this shit. And the media would rather ignore that too. It is after all, much more difficult to say "yeah, I/we/etc were wrong, now since we fucked up. We all need to fix it." They know if they also said that people's trust(what little there is left) would evaporate.
Maybe making murder illegal will fix it?
Well I like the cut of your jib.
...the democrats to get on the air quickly and start advocating for Banning ALL Assault Trucks immediately!!
Considering that a lot of the flappy headed media turned around and were using phrases like "children feared dead as truck attacks family event." It wouldn't surprise me. So far I've seen CBC, NYT, WAPO and CBS all using language that would make you think the truck got up all on it's own and decided to attack people.
You could almost say that the oil industry is really to blame. We've got a 60 year history of destabilizing a region where this mad ideology originates and then funding (and arming) their dictators. Oil industry and banksters have wrought this upon us. And a family named, "Rothschild"
We'll never deal with terrorism until we deal with that and the fallout from Balfour.
Okay, let's roll with this. You know the US is now sitting on more oil, coal and NG, then there are proven supplies in say Saudi Arabia? Canada comes in just under that US total too. So let's cut the snake off at the head, and start using our own oil/NG/coal/etc. Sounds good right? Oh wait, what do you mean those environmentalists are starting to whine, and the nimby's are so uptight that their assholes are where their mouths are? And there's a brain dead president in power that doesn't want to do anything and impose more bans on developing those sites or continues with the environmentalist anti-nuke policies.
Solution and answer are right there and could end it all in 30 years.
You think that bigotry caused this? Or any of the other previous terrorist attacks? No. Stop being so damned naive. Countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Quatar? They're funding extrimism in our own backyards by paying for the institutional buildings to spread that type of hate. You should probably pick up a history book as well. Then you'll find out that this has been an on-going problem for nearly 1300 years at this point. I'm sure someone will come out whining but what about the crusades. Oh yes, those crusades that were a response...after nearly 200 years of attacks against European countries, against muslim slavery, destruction of churches and religious sites. Rape, pillaging and murder of entire towns. It's so stupidly easy to chart the initial battles, slavery camps, slave markets from historical documents(the feudal governments and catholic church were malicious about it). And even easier to see when the initial push-back started.
That there are serious problems with muslims entering from the middle east and africa causing no shortage of problems. That in their new host countries, they continue the old way of life instead of integrating. That there are mosques and madrassa's that teach extremism as the bread and butter of their faith. You can find them easily all over Europe. Before someone goes..."but you're a white male, you don't know anything!" Let me finish out with I'm a first generation kid in Canada, born to mixed race parents who's parents integrated into society, left the old world bullshit behind, became productive members of society and were respected for it. So with that, I respect muslims that will turn around and leave the old world garbage behind and become productive members of society. The rest? Nope. And those ones that won't? They'll even attack their fellow brothers because they believe that they're not muslim anymore. See what happened here in Canada after the double terrorist attacks within a week of each other. When leaders of reformist muslim movements, and liberal mosque leaderships denounced and then stated that all mosques should be under police surveillance. The response? "You're not muslim, you should be killed. You're an apostate! Etc, etc, etc."
By far most of the new games today only have superior graphics and sound. Many don't surpass the stories that were written and very few surpass the size that many of those NES games had, especially when jammed into that little ROM chip. Keep in mind that the vast majority of today's games also handhold you all the way through. One of the reasons why games like Dark Souls or FTL are so popular is because even if you do everything right, you can still fail and that's the end of the line.
The big draw for a lot of people is that those older games, they don't handhold you. They don't put tips in the loading screens and so on. In the end, to each their own.
Maxthon has been around for over a decade and got the best browser awards or best product of x year a couple of times. If you haven't heard of it you haven't been paying attention(aka the sites you read were pushing their own shit), and you were likely on the firefox bandwagon when it was getting all that attention.
Too bad firefox has done a great job of burning all that good will in the tech industry and pissing off the people that they want to use their product. Notice how much their marketshare has dropped in the last ~5 years?
I'm expecting to see your comment modded into oblivion. The people who are so heavily invested in social justice really don't like it when things happen that disprove their narrative. Keep in mind that these same regressives are just like Jack Thompson now, demanding that things be censored to stop them from being offended. Even one of the shittiest sites on the internet(neogaf) has long since jumped on the Jack Thompson train, and developers who used to post there no longer do, calling it the place where the cause of anti-free speech groups goes to work.
But of all the things to cause Gamergate to coalesce, it was really a relatively minor thing, blown way out of proportion, with a fair amount of misdirection and outright lying.
Oh it was blown out of proportion, but that was done by the games media. They could have ended it in the first week by going "yeah, you're right. There was a serious ethical breach here when he wrote about someone he had prior contact to, was banging, and had done work for in the past." Instead they decided to double down on the "you're a sexist and misogynist" for disagreeing with us, and then turning around and saying there was no ethical problems. Of course, 8mo later the sites that were directly responsible for originally setting it off...surprise...all had disclosed that there had been prior relationships. But lying? Nope. All that shit happened, and if you think that "the zoepost" wasn't real, there was the video evidence of it. If you think that 12+ publications deciding all on the same day to write "gamers are dead, gamers are over" articles didn't happen or it was just a coincidence you're just being naive. FYI: Run those articles through a plagiarism checker, and you'll find that they range from 40-70% of all the same content.
But what really started gamergate, and if you ask people who were around at that time? It was the game sites censoring any discussion of it. Reddit gaming subs banning all discussion of it. And those "gamers are dead" articles, that's what drew people to it. And that's when people had enough. What do you know, the Streisand Effect *does* work.
So you say you "feel" it isn't about ethics in journalism. That's nice, of course actions to the contrary speak otherwise. Keep in mind that if you're not an actual hardcore gamer you wouldn't know that this had been brewing for years, and people had been making noise over it since around 2005, earlier on usenet when magazines were still the thing. Keep in mind that your average gamer is exceptionally laid back like most people with their hobbies, until people start attacking it. You can also find the start of this when people started digging up the connection between Digra and Critical distance among other organizations all writing papers with confirmation conclusions. Digra's are some of the best where they've written the conclusion first, even when the evidence is contrary to the actual conclusion.
But in the end you're right, it was a small event that started it. You know what set it off? When gaming sites decided to ban all speech of it. When the gaming subreddits(except PCMasterrace) blocked all discussion on it, when they banned people from those subreddits for talking about it. And what was the last straw? When over a dozen publications published nearly the same article all saying that "gamers are over, gamers are dead" all on the same day(though there were a few latecomers to the party). That's what caused the huge surge of people. Fun thing about that though, nearly all those people who wrote those article are no longer in the industry. Some of those sites drove their audience away and collapsed. And I haven't even started on the source for all of those articles.
Or the people who were engaged in unethical behavior like leigh alexander, who wrote about games, ran her own consultation company, shilled the stuff she was promoting, and gave no disclosure. And apparently was one of the big behind the scenes people pushing the "gamers are sexist-misogynists" bullshit. You know, much like how it was pushed with the "if you don't like the new ghostbusters you're a "sexist-racist-misogynist" bit. Oh and she was one of the big "gamers are dead" but you could figure it out right off the bat that she wasn't an actual gamer. For her trouble she was quickly out at gamasutra, went off to another site which collapsed not even 6mo down the road, and then instead of learning not to attack the audience doubled down.
Despite the belief that gamergate has a time machine, that's sadly not true. Keep in mind it's not even 2 years old yet, but I've seen authors on the usual gaming sites saying that it started in 2002, 2008, 2010 and 2011 too. So if you're one of those people who reads those shitty sites, no wonder you might think that.
Gamergate didn't actually expose some hidden truth that no one knew about.
Actually it did. See the gamejournopros leak . People thought there was a list, they believed there was collusion going on just like the game mags from the 90's, but had no proof. But the truth came out, and it was the same jackass who created Journolist doing the same thing to the games industry. Then people found out about the number of authors engaging in shady shit by shilling for their friends games, and other authors not disclosing that they were involved in a personal relationship with PR people see PCGamer and the author(Tyler Wilde) who had all of his stories removed about Ubisoft. And the attempted blacklisting/ostracizing of authors/publications who refused to engage in groupthink, and the massive amount of groupthink going on in said organizational group.
They were also the group that got the disclosure rules changed for native advertising/affiliate links/etc. Meaning that shitty, shady and clickbait sites had to be open, clear, with disclosure and no more obfuscated stuff. In the end it shone light on the rest of the garbage in the industry, and did a very good job at costing shitty companies money for being very shitty companies. And continues to do so while pushing back against people who instead of making their own games/characters/stories and let them sink or swim on merit like the rest of the industry. Ensuring that established characters/games/stories aren't rewritten to fit some special snowflakes head cannon. And bringing to light assholes like polygon/kotaku/RPS/etc who are now in the Jack Thompson camp screaming about how we should really censor games because it might hurt someones feelings, and how xyz thing is sexist/racist/homophobic/etc.
Wouldn't actually surprise me if the bats were just carriers but the transmission path was mites/fleas/parasites/etc. Seems the most logical thing to me, especially when there's no direct/obvious marks on the person. And since rabies can be passed through any mucas, blood, urine or fecal matter you can guess at the other various paths too.
While I live in an urban area, we have bats here since the rest of the county is very rural. And while rabies has been pretty much eradicated from everything here(from racoons and foxes to coyotes and bears), bats seem to be the one big species where they've had problems eradicating it. There's warnings put out every year to avoid bats because they're common rabies carriers.
And you can live on minimum wage? People are struggling at twice that.
Try moving. I can't live on $10.75/hr in Toronto, but I could in Ingersoll or Woodstock. Lot of people like that, they'd be happier to live in an area outside that's right at their budget limit or even over instead of thinking.
Most police departments haven't even adopted bodycams, and many don't even have dashcams, despite big documented advantages at reducing violence.
That's because for most police departments(since you're talking US), can't afford to. Most cops make diddly in money(Between $28k-55k), many have to buy everything from shoes/boots/puncture resistant gloves to their own guns and bullet proof vests as well. In some of the poorer police departments they even have to pay for the fuel for their patrol cars.
Jump north into Canada here, there are plenty of police services that are the same way. Especially for the people who are working in the asshole of nowhere, like postings in the far north of Canada -- FYI: The far north of Canada is pretty much anywhere outside of 250km of the US border or a major city like Saskatoon, Edmonton, etc. Your home is also your jail in those cases. If you're married your family lives in the jail with you. If you get lucky, small towns may have a jail. But this is all getting a bit off. Even here though, many people have to buy all of their own gear. Everything except guns or non-lethal weapons. Many police services can't afford dash-cams or body cams, though there is a push much like in the US for both. Some services like the OPP or SQ(both equivalent to state police), have been to points as well where constables have to pay to fuel their own vehicles, or they'd simply have them parked on major highways to create the illusion that they're out there.
So unless the areas are very rich like peel region(here in Ontario), or Vancouver(BC), it's still a waiting game. And of course when the police say "we need money for xyz thing" the first thing people do is start screaming that the police don't need that money. One also can't forget that in many parts of Canada due to changes in police services acts, all police services must have ERT(like SWAT), homicide divisions, underwater rescue, drug dogs, K-9 units and so on. Stuff that they can't afford, but if they don't have it they lose their status as an actual police service which leads to either rental or sharing between services. It's also one of the reasons here in Ontario, local police(and people who know the area) are so rare now. Because the OPP replaced them all because those small local police couldn't compete with the "hey here's our contract rate." Now you deal with people who've never lived in the area and have no idea of what's going on.
You cared enough to reply. So it must have been pretty important to you.
Doubtful. Go look at the usual chans(especially 4chan) and you'll find that people have been using VPN's and simple scripts to sign this thing using random name pools, and verifying their signature in under 20 seconds per name.
I can only imagine the Rotten Tomatoes ratings...
It'll be just like the fantastic 4 reboot or ghostbusters reboot. Critics and media lapdogs will give them a 60-80% approval rating, and the public will give them around 4% Though I might be generous with the 4% rating...
Not sure if BLM is a movement with leaders or something more like Anonymous. More than likely those BLM supporters who want to kill cops are the minority.
Seriously? There are founders, leaders and members of BLM that have been assaulting people and another, at least one for running a under-age prostitution ring and under-age sex trafficking, the one from Toronto has repeatedly said "they wanted to kill white people" and then at the protest in Toronto they brought out more anti-police, anti-white rhetoric.
Yeah really, these are self-professed members acting in violent, criminal and in general scum like ways. There's no real difference between them and the ye olde racists of yesteryear.
Really though, more whites are killed by police then blacks in the US by a huge number. But there's zip on the media about that. You heard about the last two blacks, how about the last two white guys who were gunned down that literally happened a few days/weeks before that.
So major auto manufacturers are installing systems that are completely illegal to use on the road?
Yes.
I think you're full of shit (most likely, your information is woefully out-of-date).
That's okay, I think you're just an idiot that doesn't understand that traffic law doesn't automatically catch up to technology right away. Here's a fun fact: In Ontario, when the police started getting those large support vehicles for on-scene crime forensics and all that, they had backup cameras installed in them so they could back in easily. They were also illegal, until the government took 9 months to exempt police from their use. That was around 8 years ago.