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« on: January 01, 2017, 06:06:41 AM »
Well, I'm glad you were able to make the investment worth your while.
It's not even my investment. It's standard work policy so I'm not paying for it. But yeah, it's worth my while. It might be different for you, but I love the larger working space.
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« on: January 01, 2017, 04:03:16 AM »
Are you all really on PS4?
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« on: December 31, 2016, 06:52:17 PM »
The reasons for a dual monitor setup being more useful are axiomatic.
it's literally like having a book with extra-large pages, so more text can fit on them
"look, i can read this book faster"
no you can't, it's the same exact length
A better metaphor would be having a desk the size of a single piece of paper or book. Sure, it's fine if all you have to read is just that one book, but it's not too useful for other situations. If you have to asses, cross-reference, cite, compare and compile information from several different sources and write it down in a new notebook, you'd constantly be picking up books, memorizing a line, putting it down, writing it down, picking up another book and so forth. It's not the size of the book that changes, but rather the size of your workspace. And in that case it's much more efficient being able to have all of your materials open, sitting out and directly available rather than constantly having to pick out and put back books from a shelf or the floor. It's not true that you can only really work on one document at the time anyways. That might be the case if you're just doing recreational reading or writing a text off the top of your head, but if you are working on something serious, have a deadline to meet and need to asses, incorporate and reference laws, feedback, journals, books, jurisprudence and data charts into a different document, youreally are working with a dozen materials at the same time. You might only actually be writing in one document, but you're constantly relying on a lot of others while you do so. And when it gets to that point, you really do save time and work more efficiently when you have a nice overview of everything and don't need to be minimizing, enlarging and switching between files the entire time. My typical set-up (2 files side-by-side per screen) is working document on the far left, literature second, excel data / references third and then legislation on the far right. The third screen (my laptop) is then the internet browser and outlook. I understand that it seems like a luxury, but it really does help if you have to manage a lot of materials. The constant switching does take time and is inefficient and kind of annoying after a while, especially if you do it profesionally and for 8+ hours a day. I'm fine with 1 screen for normal PC activities and occasionally working from home or while on the road, but anything less than 2 has become really annoying for when I'm actually at work. I could only suggest you try it yourself, but the real benefits only show when you're in a situation where the larger workspace actually has a significant added value.
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« on: December 31, 2016, 06:21:04 PM »
Greetings from 2017.
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« on: December 31, 2016, 06:14:53 PM »
Do you think we'll get an equivalent document or something that basically does the same thing? Would the next government (Assuming we vote in a new one next election) be able to overturn/ reverse this?
Very briefly: - The Human Rights Act (HRA) already is an equivalent document. In inter- and supranational law, there's typically two types (and a mix thereof) of countries, being monist and dualist. In monist countries, international legal instruments can be directly applicable in the national legal order, meaning that they fully count as a national law and can be interpreted by courts as such. In dualist countries (like the UK), international legislation does not apply directly but instead needs an equivalent and essentially identical national law to be adopted. In the UK, the HRA serves as this national implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), so withdrawing from the Convention would not directly lead to the removal of the law. - I assume there would be some kind of replacement document, but probably with lower safeguards and guarantees for human rights along with the removal of oversight by the ECtHR. - This isn't going to happen until at least 2020 (if it happens at all), so there's still time. It is possible to rejoin the Convention after leaving and / or adopt a new and equivalent act by a different parliament and government.
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« on: December 31, 2016, 12:14:27 PM »
I hope the strong anti-EU sentiment following Brexit doesn't result in a slippery slope or rejection of more things European
This is what gets me.
The ECHR has more Britishness to it than the EU ever did; we helped forge it. But people see the letter E in a given acronym and lose their shit.
Yeah, I get what you're saying. Most people are not very informed about this and are easily swayed by biased and populist newspapers. I genuinely believe that if you'd give the people who voted Leave (and many of the Remainers too, but perhaps to a less extent) a quiz about the issue, only a very small portion would actually be able to score decently. The European Union, the European Commission, the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the Court of Justice, the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights... I'd be very surprised if many of them could even tell you what they do or what the difference is. People are typically uninformed about the EU and it has an image problem it has to work on. But as for my point: Iit's possible that what you and I fear might come true, and terrible media reporting will have a lot to do with it. I gave this example before and it honestly still disgusts me. I don't remember what newspaper it was (The Express, perhaps, but it wasn't a minor one at all), but it did an article on a report delivered by a working group of the Council of Europe / ECHR. Not only did they blatantly lie about the actual contents of the report (calling it a ban on Britain when it was a completely freestanding and non-binding report on practices in all European countries just to serve as a piece of information), but they deliberately and through the entire article referred to it as "Europe" does X, "Europe" bans that, "Mainland Europe" is at it again, just to make those people who are too unfamiliar with the issue and too uninformed to realize that the Council of Europe / ECHR is totally different from the EU believe that it was the Union. They never said "the EU", but by not making making the distinction clear and consistently referring to it as "Europe", their intention clearly was to get people to blame this on the EU. The most appalling thing of it all was that they had the EU flag with the golden stars on a blue banner as the picture accompanying the article, to make it seem even more as if this was the Union's doing. Not to go full Brexit on this again, but while there were informed people like you making sound arguments against the EU, I think the many Leave voters voted primarily because of often inaccurate opinions following slanted and biased media reporting, as well as misleading campaigning and smearing by politicians. And I doubt they're the kind of people to be informed and reasoned about this and not just see the ECHR / CoE as more "undemocratic European bureaucrats interfering with British sovereignty". So I really hope for the both of us that this doesn't come to pass, but I think it's definitely cause for concern.
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« on: December 31, 2016, 11:17:02 AM »
That's pretty expensive. I wouldn't know which one to go for. Sounds like a very personal decision, although I imagine that the pure engineering ones might be better for you to get that dream job.
I have two Master's degrees myself. One in Criminal / International & European law, and then an LLM in IT & IP law. They were definitely worth it for me, although I didn't have to pay as much. The 6 years of higher education were tiring though.
Damn, I totally forgot about your degrees. You're likely the most educated user here; thanks for the input. As for cost, I intend to apply for military tuition assistance, but I don't mind taking on $15-20K debt. What are your thoughts about going back to school after a few years of unrelated work experience? My concern with those engineering degrees (and I was even considering a physics degree) is that I'll be so out of practice with the math that I'll be at a big disadvantage from the beginning.
I'm happy to help, although I'm not sure to what extent my European experiences hold up in the US. For whatever reason, I always thought you already had a Master's yourself. I thought about asking you for advice a few months ago, as I have submitted a first article of mine for proper publication in a pretty esteemed and internationally peer-reviewed legal journal. Do you have any experience with that? By American standards, it seems that 15-20k is not an unacceptably large amount of student debt to incur. Especially if you can get financial aid from the military or already have a job / plan to pay it off, I'd say it doesn't seem like a bad decision. Not that I know much about the specifics here, but I can't imagine that you'd be able to get a job at a place like NASA without a Master's in your field, so if that's your goal then it only seems like the logical choice to get a degree like that. As for going back to school after a while, I'm not entirely sure what to tell you here. I know several people who have done it successfully. My girlfriend worked for a few years in the US and then moved over here to study for a year and get a Master's herself as a way of getting into the country easily and then starting a proper residency procedure from within in Belgium. She managed just fine, although her degree wasn't in physics or engineering. Honestly, I think that physics and engineering probably are some of the better subjects to "go back to" after inactivity. You may be out of practice and have forgotten some things, but it seems to me like a topic which is relatively static and doesn't change all that much (from a student / education perspective, that is). Like, if I were to go back to school and retake State Law or Data Protection Law, there's been so many changes in the past 5 years to existing laws as well new bills, jurisprudence and interpretations that I'd basically have to start from zero and relearn it all (had I not made a career out of it in the mean time). Engineering is obviously changing, but it's not as if you'll go back and find that the basic formulas, maths and science behind everything is suddenly all different than it was when you got your Bachelor's. I've always heard that maths is a lot more about getting that "insight" and understanding of the issue. You might have forgotten about the formulas or details, but they can be relearned. Sure, it won't be easy. You are at a disadvantage to those who started their Master's immediately and still have all the maths and such in their fingers. But I don't see why you wouldn't be able to overcome that. It'll be some hard work, but if you start on time and study on your own, you could probably catch up to a large extent and again become more familiar with the materials.
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« on: December 31, 2016, 10:05:08 AM »
how pointless
"i have more space!"
why do you need more space
do you know how to minimize windows
I was almost a necessity to have two monitors at times when I streamed art or games. It's nice to see the comments and such on one window to interact with the viewers whilst playing on the other.
Some people require the extra space for working.
This. More monitors is great. When I work, I never have any less than 5 Word documents open at any time. Add onto that a webpage or 2, an Excel file, an email in Outlook and 3 PDF's of legislation or literature. Constantly minimizing and enlarging is such a pain and waste of time when dealing with that many materials. We're given 2 screens by default and have the option of getting a third one as well.
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« on: December 31, 2016, 06:25:21 AM »
If true, this is pretty worrying. Say what you want about the EU, but the Union's advocacy for and defense of human rights is both remarkable and extensive. May has always been against the ECHR and HRA (to my knowledge), so this was to be expected. I hope the strong anti-EU sentiment following Brexit doesn't result in a slippery slope or rejection of more things European, even the proper good ones.
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« on: December 31, 2016, 02:03:26 AM »
That's pretty expensive. I wouldn't know which one to go for. Sounds like a very personal decision, although I imagine that the pure engineering ones might be better for you to get that dream job.
I have two Master's degrees myself. One in Criminal / International & European law, and then an LLM in IT & IP law. They were definitely worth it for me, although I didn't have to pay as much. The 6 years of higher education were tiring though.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 07:37:06 PM »
iPhone SE, because when it was time to replace my 5 I didn't want one of the fuckhueg iPhone 6s. I like it well enough.
Getting real sick of Apple's shit though, and I probably won't buy another Apple phone if they continue to suck.
I like the iPhones for their stability and consistent quality, but the Android freedom and flexibility is really making it almost impossible for me to go back. The customization is just too good. Custom launchers and desktops like Nova with hundreds of possibilities and features for your screens, adblockers on your phone, customizable gestures allowing you to do pretty much anything by just sweeping across your screen, custom lockscreens and widgets on them, apps like Tasker letting you create extensive macros (f.e: as soon as your phone recognizes your home wifi, it automatically goes off silent mode, blocks work calendar notifications, sends a message to your girlfriend saying you're home, and starts playing music through your home speakers), extreme conrol over battery usage with Greenify, full back-ups saving literally everything on your phone as it is for later recovery, custom ROMs, things like Dash Charging / removable batteries or storage, and so forth... iPhones are really nice, but if you love tinkering and extreme versatility, Android is definitely the way to go.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 07:21:37 PM »
That said, Flee does not seem like the MMO type either.
Not really sure what we're talking about here. FFX or V aren't MMO, are they? But yeah, you're right. Only MMO(RPG) I ever played was Runescape like 10 years ago. Oh and a free WoW trial for like 30 days at around the same time.
No, X and XV aren't MMOs. The game I was referring to was XII, which actually isn't an MMO either. I made a mistake; I was thinking of XI. That's my bad. There's way too many fucking games to keep track of 
To clear things up: XI and XIV are both weeby MMOs, which I don't think you'd be into at all.
The rest are RPGs, including X, XII, and XV.
Ah, thanks. If I do play one of them, it'll be FF XV. I got it on Xbox for my girlfriend as a Christmas present, so I might as well give it a go myself.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 07:18:13 PM »
Also, I'm just gonna say that I don't have anything against anime by some sort of principle. My anti-weeb attitude on here is pretty much entirely for shits and giggles. I'd never not play a game or watch a show or movie because it's made by Yaps and might be anime-tier. But the thing is that I just don't tend to like it for a number of reasons. The anime-specific tropes, the character behavior / reactions / dialogue / interaction, the j-pop intros in that one style (you know what I'm talking about), the "edgy" stuff, the outlandish and way over-the-top stuff, the art style, the overdramatization of pretty much everything... I'm not looking to bash on anime and I'm sure you can find specific examples to address every point I made, but it's just a medium I really don't tend to like.
To each his own and nothing against anime or the people who like it, but I just figured I'd explain that I don't just avoid because of the weebshit meme.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 07:06:43 PM »
That said, Flee does not seem like the MMO type either.
Not really sure what we're talking about here. FFX or V aren't MMO, are they? But yeah, you're right. Only MMO(RPG) I ever played was Runescape like 10 years ago. Oh and a free WoW trial for like 30 days at around the same time. And oh 2.0: I briefly played SWTOR with a friend for a few days because you could get to level 10 or something if you were invited for a free trial by a friend.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 07:03:28 PM »
I definitely have a higher tolerance for it than Flee does, though--Flee had to stop playing Sun/Moon because of the incredibly mild anime influence that the game has, so knowing his tolerance level, that's why I'm like, "Yeahhh, FFX might be a bit much for him."
You got the sentiment right, but that's not entirely true. I believe I said that some parts were a bit cringeworthy and that the anime influence was noticably stronger than in, say, ORAS, but I didn't stop playing because of it. I fully intend to go back to Sun & Moon and am sure I'll enjoy it. The start was just off putting to me. The dialogue, the characters, the interactions... Ugh. Can't quite put my finger on it, but I just wasn't the biggest fan yet. Main reason I stopped playing for a bit was because I had plenty of other things to do as well. For me, pokemon games have always mainly been placeholder games. Something to do while bored and waiting or just to have something on your hands when having a show play in the background or something like that. I just so happened that shortly after starting Sun, I got to play CoD MWR, Sleeping Dogs and Skyrim: SE. They're the primary reason I haven't gone back to pokemon, although I have been playing Go again recently.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 06:48:28 PM »
So on the topic of pokemon Go, for those who still play or have a passing interest in the game: now is a pretty decent time to play some more. Christmas pikachu, new gen 2 baby pokemon from eggs (with currently a higher chance of spawning), longer lasting lures and more starter pokemon spawns and their evolved forms showing up now.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 02:28:39 PM »
Holy shit, they weren't lying about there being more starter Pokémon on go this weekend. According to my tracker, there's legit over 150 starters in the city. It's flooded with charmanders, squirtles and bulbasaurs. Even caught their final forms too.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 10:19:32 AM »
I have yet to use anything other than Tone or Ion. They're pretty great so far.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 08:39:26 AM »
X is super eastern/anime-like. Just a forewarning.
Only reason I'd even try it is because I have FF XV sitting right next to me, so I'm not gonna get one of the others as well. My girlfriend has FF X remastered on the PC though, so I suppose I could play that one as well. Trust me, I know. I've seen her play it. Definitely not my thing. Looks like FF is a series I might never touch.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 06:27:11 AM »
It has been hilariously Japanese at times
I actually have the game for Xbox but don't know if I'll play it partially because of this. Never really played FF before so I might as well, but eh... This thread gives me hope at least.
There are better Final Fantasies to try if you want to.
Only reason I'd even try it is because I have FF XV sitting right next to me, so I'm not gonna get one of the others as well. My girlfriend has FF X remastered on the PC though, so I suppose I could play that one as well.
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« on: December 29, 2016, 07:18:14 PM »
It has been hilariously Japanese at times
I actually have the game for Xbox but don't know if I'll play it partially because of this. Never really played FF before so I might as well, but eh... This thread gives me hope at least.
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« on: December 29, 2016, 04:09:57 PM »
On a similar note. Also a good read. There was an article with one of these historians in the Financial and Economic Times yesterday which talked about the dangers of populism, anti-intellectualism and the normalization of rage against "the other". Brexit and Trump legitimately have me worried about the direction we are moving towards as a Western society.
And these do not? Nuremberg II can't come soon enough for you Cultural Bolsheviks.
Literally what in the world are you even trying to say?
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« on: December 29, 2016, 12:15:40 PM »
Different lifestyles, different needs.
Sure thing. I'm not telling you to get one either, I just think you're a little quick to dismiss it as just another trend. It's as well adopted as the internet and a real necessity for many of us. You might not need or even want a mobile phone, but using one is far from jumping on the bandwagon at this point.
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« on: December 29, 2016, 10:15:59 AM »
All ya need is a reboot. I really need to clean out my sd card.
I wish. My OPO's battery and charging were pretty shot. Just using it to browse the web drained it very quickly and it charged poorly. I legit got the message "charging rapidly - 37 DAYS remaining until full" once. If I had it plugged in and charging while the phone was on, it would sometimes drain battery faster than it would charge. Sometimes I'd go to bed with it "charging" at 30% and I'd wake up to it having dropped to 10% while plugged into the wall. This was partially my fault for being one of the earliest adopters when it was in its first stages and assuming I could fix most issues by myself, but still. Glad to have a new one after 3 years.
One plus really has come a long way. The two was kind of a step back, that's why I'm back on the htc.
I constantly had problems with the fingerprint reader on the two, it would work for three days and then I'd have to clear out my fingerprints and it would work again for another three days. Plus that screen was pretty ass.
Damn, that does sound shitty. The 3T's fingerprint sensor works great. Tried it from every angle and part of my thumb and it recognizes it instantly.
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« on: December 29, 2016, 07:55:52 AM »
All ya need is a reboot. I really need to clean out my sd card.
I wish. My OPO's battery and charging were pretty shot. Just using it to browse the web drained it very quickly and it charged poorly. I legit got the message "charging rapidly - 37 DAYS remaining until full" once. If I had it plugged in and charging while the phone was on, it would sometimes drain battery faster than it would charge. Sometimes I'd go to bed with it "charging" at 30% and I'd wake up to it having dropped to 10% while plugged into the wall. This was partially my fault for being one of the earliest adopters when it was in its first stages and assuming I could fix most issues by myself, but still. Glad to have a new one after 3 years.
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« on: December 29, 2016, 07:06:11 AM »
The campaign is a blast. The farther in I go, the more it becomes a Sanic game.
sonic? the hedgehog?
story-wise or gameplay-wise
also, what
Gameplaywise mostly. The campaign is exelent. The story itself is nothing to write home about and the charachters are mostly Rogue One tier, except, just like in Rogue One the robot( BT-7472) is by far the best character and is pretty much impossible not to love...unless you're Verbatim, probably.
BT was great. I actually laughed out loud a few times playing through the campaign. He reminded me of that one guy from Guardians of the Galaxy who's dry and doesn't get sarcasm, only in Titanfall it was actually funny as opposed to the movie.
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« on: December 29, 2016, 07:03:52 AM »
One word to describe literally every single design aspect of homestead
Homestead?
Imagine a large empty round-table with two mounds off dirt and a salt shaker in the middle. That's homestead, literaly everything about the map is about as anti-titanfall as you can get, although it makes for a more accurate WW1 map than what BF1 has.
Ah, I don't yet know the names of the maps.
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« on: December 29, 2016, 03:38:35 AM »
One word to describe literally every single design aspect of homestead
Homestead?
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« on: December 28, 2016, 08:26:11 PM »
I think Sleeping Dogs is a good game
Agreed. Pretty underrated imo. I thought it was going to be some kind of GTA rip-off at first and didn't get it until it became free with gold on the 360, but it's pretty great. The focus on melee combat definitely paid off. Just beat the game 100% and got all achievements for it a few days ago. Also, stuff like this happens pretty frequently. Which is fun, but also frustrating at times. http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Flee4Me/video/25065455
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« on: December 28, 2016, 08:24:27 PM »
Upon further review, inglorious is better than me
You make me blush
But nah
I was just pulling those out of my ass
You did pretty well. I got the hang of it towards the end, but I usually don't play pilot vs pilot.
Me neither
I play Attrition and Last Titan Standing
Damn, did I just miss a Sep7agon Titanfall gathering?
Yeah do you have a PS4
Xbox One I'm afraid.
>thumbsticks at the same level
It's almost as if they want only scrubs to play on their system.
Oh boo hoo
Do you need someone to peel your grapes too
As a matter of fact, you offering to?
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