I can help you with that. First, we need a retainer for a lawyer. You can pay with VillLoseX coins. There will be a ICO soon. Buy all you can. Then when we win a trillion dollars they will be paid out in Fakerium coins. You'll need to buy some of those to set up an account. As you know, sometimes people will take all the real money you used to buy fake money, so I highly suggest buying a substantial amount of WorthlessCoin in case one of your other accounts is compromised. Whatever you do, keep buying XCoins!
Ah shit. Meant to +1 funny, accidentally -1 overrated, had to post to remove the negative mod point.
If it makes you feel more karmic, 6 other people are losing a +1 in here to offset it.
This posts explains a lot about you. I suspect you are a mba that just wants it done, regardless of if it's buggy or not. If it flips, it ships.
Like I said in my post, I am a problem solver - I'm a senior project manager at a very large company nicknamed "The wolf" after Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction - because I fix other peoples' fuckups; When a customer is threatening to leave our company because another PM managed their projects into the ground, they call me to take over.
It irritates me tremendously; if I could get those big, juicy projects from the start, they wouldn't need fixing later.
But like I said - when I get home I don't want to problem-solve. I want a drink and to blow some shit up. Or to mow my lawn or do something mindless that yields tangible results.
For perspective, my home office has 6 computers in it - my gaming laptop, my gaming desktop (for dual boxing), my media center, my wife's gaming laptop, her gaming / movie watching desktop, and her work laptop (she works at home). I think we have 4 Razer Nagas in the room, along with a couple other brands of mice.
Last week I decided it was time to upgrade the laptop I had before this laptop from Windows 7 and repurpose it as a gaming laptop that I could take on the go. My current gaming laptop is a $3,000 rig, and isn't leaving the house. Instead of upgrading it to Windows 10, I decided to try Linux. I spent some time on the Linux subreddits, especially the "Linux4Noobs" subreddit looking for a GUI-friendly Linux experience to a new Linux user, and after talking to some of the Linux experts there, ended up choosing Xubuntu.
I learned how to make a boot device from a thumb drive, wiped the hard drive, installed Xubuntu, spent hours updating it and........then spent another two days in the #Xubuntu and #Ubuntu IRC channels trying to get tech support because while the OSes are explained as having drivers in the kernel, there were problems - Nvidia didn't have a very good Linux driver, and the open source Open-X driver listed as an alternative option wouldn't let me get back into 1920 x 1080. Then it turns out that if I want to actually play anything in Linux, I have to use Wine because there isn't much out there that supports a native Linux environment....... and when I was finally able to get a very basic game up and running - it was a stuttery mess.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to use ~sudo commands that the #Ubuntu community is explaining without knowing the logic behind the command structure to try making drivers and OS play nice together, and get Wine to work on top of that....on day #3, I gave up and went back to Windows.
People like me are Razer's customer base. My hobby is gaming. My hobby is not trying to make a gaming PC capable of gaming in Linux. No offense intended for the wizards who enjoy twiddling with configurations and problem solving. I problem solve professionally. In my free time, I want to kill shit, get fat loot, and game - and there isn't going to be a market for Razer or other gaming hardware on Linux while trying to game on Linux remains so difficult.
The process, and others like it, could make the humble material an eco-friendly alternative to using plastics and metals in the manufacture of cars and buildings, Nature reported this week. From the report:
There's a reason that we don't build cars and buildings (and other things that need flex) from brittle substances.
I still think phone and tablet use should be metered out to young children. Kids being glued to a screen while missing out on social interaction is going to be a bad thing. I see kids out in public watching phones the entire time they are out. I guess it comes down to lazy parenting and them being satisfied their child is busy and not having to interact with them. Will these kids ever be shocked when they get a job somewhere and be expected to have an attention span.
Indeed.
God forbid parents play with their children instead of demanding technology provide parenting alternatives.
Also, it irks me that they're labeling things like knife sharpening videos as disturbing. Disturbing youtube videos that I would be alarmed if children were watching would be things like, "ISIS beheads man with chainsaw" or "Man gets raped by horse" or "woman gets raped on camera" or "person gets run over by drunk driver on video."
I don't want kids seeing that stuff. Those are disturbing. But a video on how to sharpen a knife?
I started shooting before Kindergarten. Of course, back then my dad or grandpa would be present and teach all the proper safety rules. My older boy is only 3, so I don't want him to learn gun and knife safety from a random stranger on the internet. He does help in the kitchen with adult supervision.
That is why parenting needs to remain the responsibility of parents, not of technology. If you don't like what your children might see on the internet, restrict or remove their use of it. They don't need the internet to be a functional child.
Use YOUR story. Your dad or your grandpa were present when you learned to shoot and taught you proper safety rules. Youtube wasn't around back then, but there's a physical parallel to draw - if they had taken you to massive gun show while you were a child, would they have released you and let you run around freely, to see what you wanted, talk to whom you wanted, do what you wanted at the tender age of 3-5?
No?
I bet your father and grandfather also didn't think it was the responsibility of gun show hosts and vendors to ensure that no one cursed or showed any content that might be inappropriate for a 3-5 year old either.
What is the problem with understanding that emission != Footprint? An EV is zero emission. It emits...nothing. The electricity used to power it has a generation cost, which in turn has an environmental footprint, but we're not talking about that. We're talking about vehicle emissions.
I love this headline. "Mazda Says Its Next-Gen Gasoline Engine Will Run Cleaner Than An Electric Car"
-An Electric Car has zero emissions. -That means the next generation ICE Mazda will have negative emissions. -That means the next generation Mazda engine will run on atmospheric carbon instead of gasoline. -That means we can effectively replace lost rainforests with fleets of mazda vehicles!
This should be titled from the "We-Are-Voluntarily-Giving-Up-Our-Credibility" department.
Living things on this planet breathe. They exhale. Sometimes we humans kill and eat them.
If all those animals were left alive, breathing out CO2, farting methane, eating up all the good grass and taking the jobs of other animals whose consumption have fallen out of popularity, their carbon footprint would be even worse.
Save the environment - stop eating plants that absorb CO2 and eat more meat.
This will simply move assembly here and provide a few jobs tending assembly machines on the line. No real bump for the workers in the USA.
That's nothing new.
In an effort to avoid counterfeit or inferior quality material, many American companies (especially in the energy sector) stipulate in their RFQs and POs that material can only be sourced from a specified list of countries.
American suppliers circumvent this by sourcing the same material from the same chinese vendors that they (we) always have, then assembling them in the US, and stamping "Made in the US" on them. The actual law is intricate, but you can read a summary here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Until now, I *literally* thought that flat-earthers were a straw-man argument that snowflakes used to point out how intellectually superior they are by making fun of them.
I didn't think there would actually be a real one out there somewhere.
Who...probably really isn't, but loves publicity, and just like the people on facebook who drink hot sauce or pour vinegar into their eyeballs in front of a camera for attention, here's a fellow who queued into something to attention whore.
Building a fiber network is expensive - much more expensive than running it for couple years. The first two municipal fiber projects I looked up cost the taxpayers an average of $3,200 per household to build. Whether you want it or not, every resident had to pay to build it and that's the bulk of the cost.
How is that different than the billions upon billions of dollars that we already paid in taxes so that private ISPs could build that infrastructure?
The copyright claims are valid if his video copied the white noise audio track from other videos, which can easily be determined by comparing the wave forms.
Youtube doesn't care.
I used to make songs - original compositions, written by me, sung by me, uploaded to youtube and linked around the web in places where my music was relevant. It didn't stop DMCAs or from youtube automatically taking down my work because the faggots at Warner Brothers claimed it was theirs.
The protest system is ridiculous, the assumption of guilt is ridiculous, and I stopped uploading content.
There's another piece to this - those federal and state tax credits are built into the cost of the EV.
-I bought a 2015 Nissan Leaf (EV) for $32,000 (new). -I got $7,500 back from the federal government. -I got $2,500 back from a state program. -When I purchased it, it had a $14,000 Kelly Blue Book trade-in value.
Dealerships are stealing the tax credits and bulking up their purchase cost. I still have buyer's remorse.
You couldn't have helped people by becoming a doctor? Or for that matter, a nurse? You had to "help people" by carrying a weapon, by being a volunteer killer-for-hire in a mercenary army?
I'm not sure you understand what the US armed forces do. Sometimes I daydream that if I were omnipotent, I would force peace on the world - destroy all guns, cause anyone with violent intent to disappear in a flash of light. But I'm not omnipotent, and nor is anyone else. In the meantime, those with the power to resist genocide, oppression, and evil have a moral obligation to do so.
You can have all the sit-ins you like, tweet from the comfort of your home how the tools of an uncaring corporatist elite are holding down the people - I've fought for your right to do be an asshole and you're welcome to it. None of those empty gestures will stop dictators from gassing their dissidents, or ethnically cleansing people with a different colored skin - or any evil from perpetrating evil. That takes force.
I'm not trying to judge one way or another, and I understand the need to have people doing what you did. However, I noticed your username is "Notabadguy". Are you trying to convince us of that, or yourself?
Not that it matters anymore, but women want bad guys.
When you meet a guy who goes into the army because he failed school, sure, that's a good option for him... job security, a decent amount of respect and professionalism, transferable skills. It makes sense. But when you meet someone who obviously has a brain and would have been successful even if they hadn't chosen to be a high-ranking officer, you have to wonder what their motivation is. I've never really got to the bottom of it because those people I've met like that are quite cagey and tend to hide behind some argument about "service to the country" and so on.
You are the people fake news is written for. There is a world of information available to you, but you only want to hear what is slanted for you. I'll give it a shot since you haven't gotten to the bottom of it - the words will be wasted, but you've provoked my moral outrage.
I enlisted in the US Army in 1998; among different scholarships I had a full four-year scholarship to Michigan State. I opted to join the army instead. I enlisted for the maximum enlistment (six years) because of my intent to make a lifetime in service to trying to make the world a better place - to do my part to see that kids didn't grow up like I did. I joined the infantry - 11B. My ASVAB scores were phenomenal - I could have done anything.
I didn't join for guns, or for a uniform, or for failing school - I joined because I wanted to help - to be a part of something with a noble cause - protecting America, bringing peace to war torn parts of the world. Patriotism is a real thing. Young men committed suicide when they were denied entry to service during World War 2. This country's administration, its choices, and treatment of its citizens might not be worthy of such loyalty, but infantrymen enforce the last 300 meters of foreign policy; they don't make it.
Two years into my enlistment, I was much...much more worldly. I was regretting having turned down college because I'd met so many retired infantry NCOs serving food in mess halls and defacs with the same story: "I've been infantry for 30 years, retired, and I don't have any useful life skills in the civilian world, so now I serve food." That's a terrifying future for a 20 year old. In theory, the military pays for 75% of the schooling costs for classes you take in service, but trying to go to college while being a soldier isn't very plausible. At least for an infantryman.
Three of the officers in my company were West Point graduates (USMA). I was young, impressionable, and that's what I wanted to look like when I grew up. Officers could do more; help more - I wanted that. I wrote a letter to my senator, my congressman, the President - I went up my chain of command and got a letter of recommendation from my battalion commander; paired with the nomination of my Senator (and I had a powerful story to tell about overcoming adversity), I got into West Point.
My army career ended up taking me into the world of Information Assurance - and here I'm going to get hazy - but I helped develop and test zero day exploits, develop cyber policy for the army - did some really interesting things. I still have my "I am the Fed" T-Shirt from one of the DefCons I went to when I got targeted in the "Spot the Fed" game. In the last decade, there's been lots of feds, so I don't know if they even play it anymore.
I have a thousand stories of helping people - because its the right thing to do.
Patriotism is real. It exists for people of all backgrounds and all educations. People make choices beyond their self interest - philanthropy is a word. If you truly discard that story and look for ulterior motive, its because you have self-imposed blinders and earplugs and refuse to hear or see anything you don't already believe - *YOU* have an ulterior motive.
Those tweets indicate that Swautistic is a serial swatter
Well, score another one for police — why was not the fake caller prosecuted after his very first crime?
Score two for the police. In virtually no other modern western country would the cops have immediately shot a person for just opening the front door. Competent police would seek to contain the situation until they worked out what was going on, get a negotiator, trained snipers etc. Of course the guy in the door was black so never let a chance go by.
Uh...no, the guy wasn't black. His name was Andrew Finch, and he was pasty white.
Which is also why there are no SJWs screaming that this was a racially motivated killing. But they should, just to reinforce how ridiculous those kind of claims are.
You are making an assumption on the situation. What we know is that as far as the police knew they were rolling on a murder and hostage situation (hostage in danger of murder as well). We don't know if the potential hostage taker had his hands hidden, whether he made any sharp movements - basically we know nothing. We don't know if the officer followed procedure, or what he was responding to. To say that they just rolled up and shot the first person they saw is only showing your bias and not what was reported.
You could watch the video dashcam and decide for yourself.
*spoiler* They *did* roll up and shoot the first person they saw. The said, "Put your hands up." He put his hands up. They shot him.
All we're missing is for him to be black and activists screaming on the streets and social media that it was a racially fueled cop murder. Whatever the white version of Black Lives Matter needs to take this to the streets in outrage, if only to point out how ridiculous something like BLM is.
This just makes it MORE like gambling AND ruins the mystery by revealing what items could potentially be won. A more PROPER policy to avoid Loot boxes being like gambling would be require all the publishers do these two things:
(1) Establish a "daily purchase maximum" per player / per-user that is not more expensive than the typical costs of food one eats in a day, for example: you cannot buy more than $5 in loot boxes per day per player per game. AND 3x that as a limited monthly limit, E.G. $25 maximum loot boxes per month, and when that $25 limit is used up, resetting it requires calling a phone number, providing verbal proof that the player is age 18 or higher, and accepts some terms, to reset to $100, and finally, an annual limit of $200 per player that cannot be overridden.
And, (2) REQUIRE the player pass a skill-based challenge in game for each loot box "purchase"; in other words, simply BUYING a lootbox cannot be done without completing a skill-based challenge first for each purpose OR consuming some in-game resource that player skill was required to obtain ---- Thus changing it from simple Gambling to a Contest-type situation.
Great example of how regulation leads to unintended side effects worse than the original.
People want to spend what they want to spend - this would cause a secondary grey market where people RMT in-game currencies and resell / trade on ebay/elsewhere.
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I can help you with that. First, we need a retainer for a lawyer. You can pay with VillLoseX coins. There will be a ICO soon. Buy all you can. Then when we win a trillion dollars they will be paid out in Fakerium coins. You'll need to buy some of those to set up an account. As you know, sometimes people will take all the real money you used to buy fake money, so I highly suggest buying a substantial amount of WorthlessCoin in case one of your other accounts is compromised. Whatever you do, keep buying XCoins!
Ah shit. Meant to +1 funny, accidentally -1 overrated, had to post to remove the negative mod point.
If it makes you feel more karmic, 6 other people are losing a +1 in here to offset it.
This posts explains a lot about you. I suspect you are a mba that just wants it done, regardless of if it's buggy or not. If it flips, it ships.
Like I said in my post, I am a problem solver - I'm a senior project manager at a very large company nicknamed "The wolf" after Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction - because I fix other peoples' fuckups; When a customer is threatening to leave our company because another PM managed their projects into the ground, they call me to take over.
It irritates me tremendously; if I could get those big, juicy projects from the start, they wouldn't need fixing later.
But like I said - when I get home I don't want to problem-solve. I want a drink and to blow some shit up. Or to mow my lawn or do something mindless that yields tangible results.
I'm a hardcore gamer.
For perspective, my home office has 6 computers in it - my gaming laptop, my gaming desktop (for dual boxing), my media center, my wife's gaming laptop, her gaming / movie watching desktop, and her work laptop (she works at home). I think we have 4 Razer Nagas in the room, along with a couple other brands of mice.
Last week I decided it was time to upgrade the laptop I had before this laptop from Windows 7 and repurpose it as a gaming laptop that I could take on the go. My current gaming laptop is a $3,000 rig, and isn't leaving the house. Instead of upgrading it to Windows 10, I decided to try Linux. I spent some time on the Linux subreddits, especially the "Linux4Noobs" subreddit looking for a GUI-friendly Linux experience to a new Linux user, and after talking to some of the Linux experts there, ended up choosing Xubuntu.
I learned how to make a boot device from a thumb drive, wiped the hard drive, installed Xubuntu, spent hours updating it and.... ....then spent another two days in the #Xubuntu and #Ubuntu IRC channels trying to get tech support because while the OSes are explained as having drivers in the kernel, there were problems - Nvidia didn't have a very good Linux driver, and the open source Open-X driver listed as an alternative option wouldn't let me get back into 1920 x 1080. Then it turns out that if I want to actually play anything in Linux, I have to use Wine because there isn't much out there that supports a native Linux environment... .... and when I was finally able to get a very basic game up and running - it was a stuttery mess.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to use ~sudo commands that the #Ubuntu community is explaining without knowing the logic behind the command structure to try making drivers and OS play nice together, and get Wine to work on top of that....on day #3, I gave up and went back to Windows.
People like me are Razer's customer base. My hobby is gaming. My hobby is not trying to make a gaming PC capable of gaming in Linux. No offense intended for the wizards who enjoy twiddling with configurations and problem solving. I problem solve professionally. In my free time, I want to kill shit, get fat loot, and game - and there isn't going to be a market for Razer or other gaming hardware on Linux while trying to game on Linux remains so difficult.
From the summary:
The process, and others like it, could make the humble material an eco-friendly alternative to using plastics and metals in the manufacture of cars and buildings, Nature reported this week. From the report:
There's a reason that we don't build cars and buildings (and other things that need flex) from brittle substances.
I still think phone and tablet use should be metered out to young children. Kids being glued to a screen while missing out on social interaction is going to be a bad thing. I see kids out in public watching phones the entire time they are out. I guess it comes down to lazy parenting and them being satisfied their child is busy and not having to interact with them. Will these kids ever be shocked when they get a job somewhere and be expected to have an attention span.
Indeed.
God forbid parents play with their children instead of demanding technology provide parenting alternatives.
Also, it irks me that they're labeling things like knife sharpening videos as disturbing. Disturbing youtube videos that I would be alarmed if children were watching would be things like, "ISIS beheads man with chainsaw" or "Man gets raped by horse" or "woman gets raped on camera" or "person gets run over by drunk driver on video."
I don't want kids seeing that stuff. Those are disturbing. But a video on how to sharpen a knife?
I started shooting before Kindergarten. Of course, back then my dad or grandpa would be present and teach all the proper safety rules. My older boy is only 3, so I don't want him to learn gun and knife safety from a random stranger on the internet. He does help in the kitchen with adult supervision.
That is why parenting needs to remain the responsibility of parents, not of technology. If you don't like what your children might see on the internet, restrict or remove their use of it. They don't need the internet to be a functional child.
Use YOUR story. Your dad or your grandpa were present when you learned to shoot and taught you proper safety rules. Youtube wasn't around back then, but there's a physical parallel to draw - if they had taken you to massive gun show while you were a child, would they have released you and let you run around freely, to see what you wanted, talk to whom you wanted, do what you wanted at the tender age of 3-5?
No?
I bet your father and grandfather also didn't think it was the responsibility of gun show hosts and vendors to ensure that no one cursed or showed any content that might be inappropriate for a 3-5 year old either.
Me too! Me too!
What is the problem with understanding that emission != Footprint? An EV is zero emission. It emits...nothing. The electricity used to power it has a generation cost, which in turn has an environmental footprint, but we're not talking about that. We're talking about vehicle emissions.
I love this headline. "Mazda Says Its Next-Gen Gasoline Engine Will Run Cleaner Than An Electric Car"
-An Electric Car has zero emissions.
-That means the next generation ICE Mazda will have negative emissions.
-That means the next generation Mazda engine will run on atmospheric carbon instead of gasoline.
-That means we can effectively replace lost rainforests with fleets of mazda vehicles!
This should be titled from the "We-Are-Voluntarily-Giving-Up-Our-Credibility" department.
Living things on this planet breathe. They exhale. Sometimes we humans kill and eat them.
If all those animals were left alive, breathing out CO2, farting methane, eating up all the good grass and taking the jobs of other animals whose consumption have fallen out of popularity, their carbon footprint would be even worse.
Save the environment - stop eating plants that absorb CO2 and eat more meat.
This will simply move assembly here and provide a few jobs tending assembly machines on the line. No real bump for the workers in the USA.
That's nothing new.
In an effort to avoid counterfeit or inferior quality material, many American companies (especially in the energy sector) stipulate in their RFQs and POs that material can only be sourced from a specified list of countries.
American suppliers circumvent this by sourcing the same material from the same chinese vendors that they (we) always have, then assembling them in the US, and stamping "Made in the US" on them. The actual law is intricate, but you can read a summary here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Until now, I *literally* thought that flat-earthers were a straw-man argument that snowflakes used to point out how intellectually superior they are by making fun of them.
I didn't think there would actually be a real one out there somewhere.
Who...probably really isn't, but loves publicity, and just like the people on facebook who drink hot sauce or pour vinegar into their eyeballs in front of a camera for attention, here's a fellow who queued into something to attention whore.
Building a fiber network is expensive - much more expensive than running it for couple years. The first two municipal fiber projects I looked up cost the taxpayers an average of $3,200 per household to build. Whether you want it or not, every resident had to pay to build it and that's the bulk of the cost.
How is that different than the billions upon billions of dollars that we already paid in taxes so that private ISPs could build that infrastructure?
Now is the time for BLOCKBUSTER to join in. That name is just begging to be converted to something-crypto-something-blockchain-something.
My new IPO for my company "BLOCKCHAINBUSTER" is about to go public. Get in while you can. It's gonna be 'UUUGE.
The copyright claims are valid if his video copied the white noise audio track from other videos, which can easily be determined by comparing the wave forms.
Youtube doesn't care.
I used to make songs - original compositions, written by me, sung by me, uploaded to youtube and linked around the web in places where my music was relevant. It didn't stop DMCAs or from youtube automatically taking down my work because the faggots at Warner Brothers claimed it was theirs.
The protest system is ridiculous, the assumption of guilt is ridiculous, and I stopped uploading content.
There's another piece to this - those federal and state tax credits are built into the cost of the EV.
-I bought a 2015 Nissan Leaf (EV) for $32,000 (new).
-I got $7,500 back from the federal government.
-I got $2,500 back from a state program.
-When I purchased it, it had a $14,000 Kelly Blue Book trade-in value.
Dealerships are stealing the tax credits and bulking up their purchase cost. I still have buyer's remorse.
You couldn't have helped people by becoming a doctor? Or for that matter, a nurse? You had to "help people" by carrying a weapon, by being a volunteer killer-for-hire in a mercenary army?
I'm not sure you understand what the US armed forces do. Sometimes I daydream that if I were omnipotent, I would force peace on the world - destroy all guns, cause anyone with violent intent to disappear in a flash of light. But I'm not omnipotent, and nor is anyone else. In the meantime, those with the power to resist genocide, oppression, and evil have a moral obligation to do so.
You can have all the sit-ins you like, tweet from the comfort of your home how the tools of an uncaring corporatist elite are holding down the people - I've fought for your right to do be an asshole and you're welcome to it. None of those empty gestures will stop dictators from gassing their dissidents, or ethnically cleansing people with a different colored skin - or any evil from perpetrating evil. That takes force.
I'm not trying to judge one way or another, and I understand the need to have people doing what you did. However, I noticed your username is "Notabadguy". Are you trying to convince us of that, or yourself?
Not that it matters anymore, but women want bad guys.
"moral" or "morale"?
When you meet a guy who goes into the army because he failed school, sure, that's a good option for him... job security, a decent amount of respect and professionalism, transferable skills. It makes sense. But when you meet someone who obviously has a brain and would have been successful even if they hadn't chosen to be a high-ranking officer, you have to wonder what their motivation is. I've never really got to the bottom of it because those people I've met like that are quite cagey and tend to hide behind some argument about "service to the country" and so on.
You are the people fake news is written for. There is a world of information available to you, but you only want to hear what is slanted for you. I'll give it a shot since you haven't gotten to the bottom of it - the words will be wasted, but you've provoked my moral outrage.
I enlisted in the US Army in 1998; among different scholarships I had a full four-year scholarship to Michigan State. I opted to join the army instead. I enlisted for the maximum enlistment (six years) because of my intent to make a lifetime in service to trying to make the world a better place - to do my part to see that kids didn't grow up like I did. I joined the infantry - 11B. My ASVAB scores were phenomenal - I could have done anything.
I didn't join for guns, or for a uniform, or for failing school - I joined because I wanted to help - to be a part of something with a noble cause - protecting America, bringing peace to war torn parts of the world. Patriotism is a real thing. Young men committed suicide when they were denied entry to service during World War 2. This country's administration, its choices, and treatment of its citizens might not be worthy of such loyalty, but infantrymen enforce the last 300 meters of foreign policy; they don't make it.
Two years into my enlistment, I was much...much more worldly. I was regretting having turned down college because I'd met so many retired infantry NCOs serving food in mess halls and defacs with the same story: "I've been infantry for 30 years, retired, and I don't have any useful life skills in the civilian world, so now I serve food." That's a terrifying future for a 20 year old. In theory, the military pays for 75% of the schooling costs for classes you take in service, but trying to go to college while being a soldier isn't very plausible. At least for an infantryman.
Three of the officers in my company were West Point graduates (USMA). I was young, impressionable, and that's what I wanted to look like when I grew up. Officers could do more; help more - I wanted that. I wrote a letter to my senator, my congressman, the President - I went up my chain of command and got a letter of recommendation from my battalion commander; paired with the nomination of my Senator (and I had a powerful story to tell about overcoming adversity), I got into West Point.
My army career ended up taking me into the world of Information Assurance - and here I'm going to get hazy - but I helped develop and test zero day exploits, develop cyber policy for the army - did some really interesting things. I still have my "I am the Fed" T-Shirt from one of the DefCons I went to when I got targeted in the "Spot the Fed" game. In the last decade, there's been lots of feds, so I don't know if they even play it anymore.
I have a thousand stories of helping people - because its the right thing to do.
Patriotism is real. It exists for people of all backgrounds and all educations. People make choices beyond their self interest - philanthropy is a word. If you truly discard that story and look for ulterior motive, its because you have self-imposed blinders and earplugs and refuse to hear or see anything you don't already believe - *YOU* have an ulterior motive.
Well, score another one for police — why was not the fake caller prosecuted after his very first crime?
Score two for the police. In virtually no other modern western country would the cops have immediately shot a person for just opening the front door. Competent police would seek to contain the situation until they worked out what was going on, get a negotiator, trained snipers etc. Of course the guy in the door was black so never let a chance go by.
Uh...no, the guy wasn't black. His name was Andrew Finch, and he was pasty white.
Which is also why there are no SJWs screaming that this was a racially motivated killing. But they should, just to reinforce how ridiculous those kind of claims are.
You are making an assumption on the situation. What we know is that as far as the police knew they were rolling on a murder and hostage situation (hostage in danger of murder as well). We don't know if the potential hostage taker had his hands hidden, whether he made any sharp movements - basically we know nothing. We don't know if the officer followed procedure, or what he was responding to. To say that they just rolled up and shot the first person they saw is only showing your bias and not what was reported.
You could watch the video dashcam and decide for yourself.
*spoiler* They *did* roll up and shoot the first person they saw. The said, "Put your hands up." He put his hands up. They shot him.
All we're missing is for him to be black and activists screaming on the streets and social media that it was a racially fueled cop murder. Whatever the white version of Black Lives Matter needs to take this to the streets in outrage, if only to point out how ridiculous something like BLM is.
All I see is meat ads all day long. You've been brainwashed.
Watch less TV. Your brainwashing will diminish.
You could turn that question around and interest more people:
Should vegans go away and stop bothering meat eaters completely?
This just makes it MORE like gambling AND ruins the mystery by revealing what items could potentially be won.
A more PROPER policy to avoid Loot boxes being like gambling would be require all the publishers do these two things:
(1) Establish a "daily purchase maximum" per player / per-user that is not more expensive than the typical costs of food one eats in a day, for example: you cannot buy more than $5 in loot boxes per day per player per game. AND 3x that as a limited monthly limit, E.G. $25 maximum loot boxes per month, and when that $25 limit is used up, resetting it requires calling a phone number, providing verbal proof that the player is age 18 or higher, and accepts some terms, to reset to $100, and finally, an annual limit of $200 per player that cannot be overridden.
And, (2) REQUIRE the player pass a skill-based challenge in game for each loot box "purchase"; in other words, simply BUYING a lootbox cannot be done without completing a skill-based challenge first for each purpose OR consuming some in-game resource that player skill was required to obtain ---- Thus changing it from simple Gambling to a Contest-type situation.
Great example of how regulation leads to unintended side effects worse than the original.
People want to spend what they want to spend - this would cause a secondary grey market where people RMT in-game currencies and resell / trade on ebay/elsewhere.
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Obama's one major lie was that you can keep your doctor stuff.
I'm sure what you *meant* to say was that Obama broke more promises than he kept. Here's a handy Obama promise tracker.
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