Quote from: True Turquoise on March 05, 2015, 04:27:26 AM

flee just rolled out the law

Flee is the law.

This was a bit of a troll post.

The "a bit" part is worrisome.

You seem to be more educated then I expected.

I'm about to get a Master's degree in criminal law and I wrote my Bachelor's thesis on this exact subject, so I like to think I know what I'm talking about.

But how is the above quote wrong? Criminals have no cares for the law

They do, though. This is known as the lawbreaker paradox. Just because criminals, by definition, have broken the law, doesn't mean that they do not abide by any of them.

Why do we still have any sort of laws? Why do we impose speed limits and other traffic regulations? After all, "criminals" by definition will not follow the rules anyways. Why do we have laws against rape, murder and violence when "criminals have no cares for the law" in the first place, as you said? Aren't all laws useless, then? The good people, those who won't rape and pillage and murder, would behave properly without a piece of paper signed by lawmakers telling them what to do. And the bad people, who as you say don't care about any laws, are going to ignore these rules anyways. So what's the point in having any law?

To quote, " Laws against murder, rape, and theft would be abandoned out of fear that criminals wouldn’t follow them, and that they would thus hurt law-abiding citizens who ostensibly murder, rape, and thieve out of self-defense."

Laws are necessary for a society to function and survive. Just because some people don't follow some of them, doesn't mean that they are (all) obsolete. Limiting access to firearms and making it substantially harder for criminals to obtain them has only had good results. "Even imperfect efforts to restrict gun availability to high-risk people can reduce illegal gun use on the margin, even if these regulatory barriers can be overcome in a number of ways by those who are determined to obtain a gun".

but it will also make it easier for them to do what they want.

It generally won't, though.

In the U.S., in places where guns have been virtually banned, the crime rate hasn't dropped as much as other parts of the country, in some places it has actually risen.

Do you have a source on it actually rising? Even the "worst" cities in the US have found their crime rates decreasing.

The problem with these areas are that they are (and have been) the so-called crime capitals of the US. These are cities and places that have had long histories of gangs and organized crime. Chicago, for example, is the traditional gangster city, which is now ridden by gangs. Using these cities as an example that gun control doesn't work is tantamount to putting a bandaid on a festering and gaping bullet wound and then claiming bandaids are useless for any medical treatment because the person ends up dying. Despite the fact that these areas are usually "islands" of stricter gun regulations surrounded by other counties and states with substantially looser gun laws, which results in most of the guns used in these crimes are simply bought elsewhere and then brought into the cities, violent crime has actually significantly decreased after stricter gun control was implemented.

Ask yourself this. Do these cities have a lot of crime because they have strict gun control? Or do these cities have strict gun control because they've always had a lot of crime and would be considerably worse off if the criminals there had easy access to firearms?

2/10, would not watch unless inebriated and the movie's free.

In other words, I'll torrent it some time.

38-40 degrees, nice and warm.

"Never the brony", they said.

Ho ho ho.

Quote from: Flee on March 04, 2015, 03:45:56 AM

This goes bad, it'll be locked.

im not seeing how this can go "good" tbh

So far, so good.

Those better be with mayo.

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Quote from: Flee on March 04, 2015, 03:22:09 AM

Locking them is what gets me off.

Thanks for contributing

Just sharing the perspectives of someone on the mod side.

Any other mod fetishes you'd like to share?

Nothing that I'm at liberty to share. Some of the things that go down in the staff chat you wouldn't believe.

Ehhhh, talk is talk

>implying we don't have extremely kinky video chats over Skype

Quote from: Flee on March 04, 2015, 03:43:42 AM

As usual, not an excuse for a spam thread.

Flee...

Spoiler

You got rid of my post.
Why?

I did? I thought I just selected 17 boxxy gifs by Door. Apologies if I messed up, this is a pain on mobile.

As usual, not an excuse for a spam thread.

Quote from: Flee on March 04, 2015, 03:22:09 AM

Locking them is what gets me off.

Thanks for contributing

Just sharing the perspectives of someone on the mod side.

I'm genuinely curious to see how exactly they're grading this. Does this me answering that I don't believe are morally superior to men add to my sexism score?

Edit: after a few quick tests (same baseline of answers compared to a few deviations), it turns out that it does. No matter what you pick, you are always sexist in one way or another. If I think that woman are morally superior, I'm benevolently sexist and am supporting the traditional gender roles and the view that women are somehow more pure and deserving of a special different treatment than men. If I don't think they are morally superior, I'm hostile sexist and have "negative feelings towards women".

Looks like no matter the choice, we can't win and will always be sexist.

Just googled her and I have to agree. She looks older than 17 for sure.

Inb4 flee tells you to beat it at soul level 1, no bonfire, no weapon, no estus, blind folded

To be fair, when you play it at SL1 with RTSR (which is necessary to do any kind of decent damage), pretty much any hit from any boss will instantly kill you anyways. No bonfire and no estus wouldn't really add to the challenge, it would just be a pain having to run back every time you died.

No weapon would be a pain because of the low damage, but using the tumblebuff glitch you could effectively buff your bare fists with Magic Weapon, which is possible at SL1, so that would help quite a bit.

Blindfolded though, now that'd be a pain. LobosJr has attempted a blindfolded run where he basically just listened to someone next to him telling him what to do, but he never finished it.

I'm on the website right now, and if I were to buy the 64gb it would come unlocked and I could go with whoever right?

That's what it's like in Belgium and the Netherlands. I assume it's the same all over the world, but you should probably just google that to make sure.