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« on: August 21, 2016, 02:39:10 PM »
uhhh noam chomsky is actually the most intelligent person in the universe
>expert in linguistics >talks about economics 
1112
« on: August 21, 2016, 02:20:04 AM »
is it angry brute
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« on: August 21, 2016, 02:07:36 AM »
degeneracy affects us all
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« on: August 21, 2016, 02:03:54 AM »
Is Britain ever going to leave the European Union. Cause it seems they have just ignored its result and moved on with life.
Yeah, the government is just yet to decide when to formally trigger the process.
Hell, we even have a "Department for Exiting the European Union" with its own minister.
Well looks like beauracracy will kill any hope of Brexit.
It would be literally impossible to leave the European Union at all without massive bureaucratic involvement.
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« on: August 21, 2016, 02:00:58 AM »
ReutersAn independent review of draft British security legislation said bulk interception and collection of citizens' personal data was vital for the intelligence agencies to prevent attacks, a position welcomed by Prime Minister Theresa May.
Last November, Britain unveiled a draft of the law that would give police and spies broad snooping powers they say are vital to protecting the public from criminals, paedophiles and terrorism.
David Anderson, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, said in a report that bulk interception was of “vital utility” to the security services while there was no alternative to collecting large amounts of data on people unlikely to be under suspicion, known as bulk personal datasets.
"Anderson’s report demonstrates how the bulk powers contained in the Investigatory Powers Bill are of crucial importance to our security and intelligence agencies," May said in a statement.
"These powers often provide the only means by which our Agencies are able to protect the British public from the most serious threats that we face," May said.
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« on: August 21, 2016, 02:00:11 AM »
Is Britain ever going to leave the European Union. Cause it seems they have just ignored its result and moved on with life.
Yeah, the government is just yet to decide when to formally trigger the process. Hell, we even have a "Department for Exiting the European Union" with its own minister.
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« on: August 20, 2016, 05:58:50 PM »
>chomsky
got to give him props for being the most accomplished retard at making it sound like he knows what hes talking about though, i guess
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« on: August 19, 2016, 05:20:57 PM »
Unfortunately it's not fixed in ME3
Surely you can just disable acceleration/dampening in the .ini folder? Or were you referring to the key mapping?
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« on: August 19, 2016, 05:18:28 PM »
I'll be playing the beta; I bought another 8GB of DEDICATED WAM to remove the bottleneck in my laptop based on predicted requirements.
If it's decent, and the reviews are solid, I might get it. But news from the alpha has me wary, and as much as it's a Battlefield game, it feels like they've squandered the WW1 setting.
Hopefully they have a server for straight up bolt-action combat.
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« on: August 19, 2016, 05:14:24 AM »
I've always thought it has a lot to do with them having completely different goals at the fundamental level. It's why you can privatise things like railroads and postal services, as both the public and private sector have the same objective (run a good, efficient program trying to expand and get more people to use the service). But private prisons are not like that, as they can only really expand and turn higher profits by being paid more by the government (which is already a no-go because of how costly that is) or by dealing with more prisoners. On the other hand, society as a whole and the public sector want fewer prisons, less convicts and less crime, which opens up a whole lot of possibilities of abuse by the private sector.
This is pretty much the issue. I guess private prisons could work in the kind of society where both the government and the public are strongly behind the idea of rehabilitation, and they would be funded on some model based around how well they facilitate this. But the West, particularly America, really isn't anywhere near that point.
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« on: August 19, 2016, 04:52:38 AM »
Anyone who unironically (or even ironically) took part in the Damn Daniel meme needs to be euthanised.
^this It wasn't even funny. It was just some faggot with a stupid voice making dumb snapchats of himself annoying his friend. Like, what the fuck is the appeal?
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« on: August 19, 2016, 04:51:36 AM »
Is there no contrarian position on this? Very rarely does the general stance on an issue seem so unanimous. Surely there must be some defense.
There is usually a common theme when it comes to arguing for the privatisation/non-nationalisation of many services. These themes don't really hold up with prisons, and the evidence suggests that prisons really are an exception.
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« on: August 18, 2016, 03:47:05 PM »
the ME2 controls are 10x better than ME1.
Oh I know. I refuse to play ME1 on PC because of the unfixable mouse issues. Which is a shame; I rather preferred ME1.
1124
« on: August 18, 2016, 02:25:18 PM »
gold standard
kys
DEATH TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE
1125
« on: August 18, 2016, 02:24:18 PM »
console master race
>only has three sensitivity settings >i have literally infinity sensitivity settings if i modify an .ini folder
1126
« on: August 18, 2016, 02:23:18 PM »
1127
« on: August 18, 2016, 02:22:55 PM »
the ONS figures came out this week
sheeeeit do you have a link?
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« on: August 18, 2016, 02:22:23 PM »
Nice one, lads.
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« on: August 18, 2016, 10:06:16 AM »
The salt over Mass Effect is real.
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« on: August 18, 2016, 06:14:32 AM »
Related: British households may have recovered from the loss of confidence. British households have recovered from a loss of confidence about their finances after the country voted to leave the European Union, a survey showed on Wednesday, another sign consumers are taking the referendum result in their stride.
Financial data firm Markit said its Household Finance Index for August reversed July's plunge and edged above its level in June at 44.9, its highest reading in four months.
"Concerns seem to have eased in line with the removal of some of the immediate political uncertainty arising from the shock referendum result, combined with a strong monetary policy response from the Bank of England," Markit senior economist Jack Kennedy said in a statement.
Concern about job security eased in August after reaching its highest level in three years in July, although income from employment was the weakest in three months, the survey showed.
The online survey of about 1,500 people was conducted by polling firm Ipsos MORI between Aug 8-12, after the Bank of England cut interest rates to 0.25 percent and announced other measures to cushion Britain's economy from the Brexit shock.
Economists are waiting for official retail sales data on Thursday to get a sense of whether spending by British consumers will help offset the drag of lower investment by companies following the Brexit vote. The labour market isn't showing many signs of taking an immediate hit: The number of people claiming unemployment benefit in Britain unexpectedly fell in July despite the shock decision by voters to leave the European Union, suggesting little immediate impact from Brexit on the labour market.
Benefit claimants fell by 8,600 in the month, compared with an increase of 900 in June, and there was only a small fall in the number of jobs employers were trying to fill, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday.
Economists taking part in a Reuters poll had expected the number of claimants - a potential early warning sign of an economic downturn - to rise by 9,500 as employers responded to the uncertainty caused by the referendum.
The figures represented the first official measure of the labour market since the June 23 vote. The ONS data also showed the pace of job creation remained strong in the run-up to the referendum.
"The labour market data for July — the first 'hard' figures since referendum - suggest that the economic recovery is slowing, but do not give a resounding recession signal," Samuel Tombs, an economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said, pointing to the fall in vacancies. And spending figures for July are strong: Shoppers in Britain shrugged off June's shock Brexit vote as retail sales jumped by much more than expected last month, adding to signs there has been little immediate hit for consumers.
Warm weather boosted clothes sales and the pound's plunge tempted overseas buyers to splash out on luxury items such as watches and jewelry, official data showed on Thursday.
These are the first official figures to shed light on how consumer demand has performed since the unexpected decision by voters to leave the European Union in the June 23 referendum.
Data released earlier this week also showed little immediate impact of the Brexit vote on the labor market but there were signs of inflation pressures building after the plunge in sterling, which could eat into the spending power of households going forward.
Sentiment surveys have shown levels of concern, but actual retail sales volumes surged 1.4 percent in July compared with June, the Office for National Statistics said, topping all forecasts in a Reuters poll that pointed to a much smaller rise of 0.2 percent.
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« on: August 18, 2016, 06:09:27 AM »
US poses biggest risk.Britain’s economy will slow down but should not go anywhere close to a recession, according to economists at credit ratings agency Moody’s, while growth in the rest of the world is also “stabilising.”
Although markets dived on the referendum result in June, stock prices have recovered and now economists also believe the impact of the vote will be relatively modest, compared with some early fears.
The lower pound should support economic growth in the UK, Moody’s said, while the government is expected to loosen the purse strings to shore up GDP.
Moody’s economists predict growth of 1.5pc this year and 1.2pc in 2017.
“Uncertainty around the future of the economy outside the common market will continue to dampen business investment and consumer spending, as businesses hold back on hiring and making long-term investments, and as consumers postpone large spending decisions,” said senior analyst Madhavi Bokil.
“However, the fall in the sterling will mitigate some of the negative effect in the short term by providing a boost to exports. Our baseline growth forecasts also incorporate the assumption that some fiscal loosening and monetary policy accommodation will support the economy, eurozone limiting the slowdown in growth.”
Moody’s does not expect a major fall in house prices or a big drop in consumption.
The analysts expect only “limited Brexit-related spillovers to the eurozone”, and expect the currency area to grow at almost exactly the same pace as the UK, at 1.5pc this year and 1.3pc in 2017.
Renewed optimism in the state of China’s economy and some rebound in commodities prices also point to a stabilisation of the global picture, analysts believe.
In part as a result of that Moody’s has increased its GDP forecasts for China to 6.6pc this year and 6.3pc in 2017, and for the other G20 emerging markets to 4.4pc for 2016 and 5pc for 2017.
While the analysts believe the economy is stabilising after the turmoil which immediately followed the referendum, they do not predict a boom for the global economy.
Ms Bokil believes there is a “nexus of low trade growth, low investment and slow productivity gains [which will] dampen potential growth rates globally.”
“A concerning aspect of this current environment is that the lack of fiscal buffers, combined with the limited scope for effective monetary accommodation, has reduced the ability of authorities in many economies to support economic activity in the event of future systemic and idiosyncratic shocks,” she said, referring to the fact that governments have little room to borrow and spend more, and central banks have already cut interest rates a long way.
There are risks, however, which could still derail this forecast.
Further hikes in US interest rates would be a sign of confidence in the US, but could also trash valuations of assets such as shares, bonds and currencies across the world, Moody’s fears.
Emerging markets could see a major outflow of cash back to the US in such an eventuality, harming companies and governments which have borrowed in US dollars and suddenly find their domestic currencies are relatively less valuable.
Further disintegration of the EU could also spook markets, while the US presidential election also poses threats.
“The political and geopolitical risks of a rise in nationalist and protectionist pressures,” said Moody’s.
“The most immediate risk in this context is an outcome in the upcoming US presidential elections that ushers in an administration that would renegotiate global trade pacts and security alliances.”
Moody's did not explicitly refer to Donald Trump's candidacy, but financial markets are increasingly nervous about the prospect of a major shakeup of US policies should he win the Presidency.
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« on: August 18, 2016, 05:37:39 AM »
never complain about any of your life's problems, EVER, because there is ALWAYS someone worse off in the world
is that fair or rational
The point is when the suffering is self-imposed because the person is too stupid to broaden their perspective. Such as being annoyed at the title of No Man's Sky.
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« on: August 18, 2016, 05:24:54 AM »
Halo.
Fallout if they don't pull it back.
Battlefield if the new one doesn't offer anything particularly interesting.
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« on: August 18, 2016, 05:23:02 AM »
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« on: August 18, 2016, 05:20:57 AM »
who's the braindead fucktard at bioware who thought mapping the sprint/use/cover functions all onto the same key would be a good idea
also fuck bioware for making me go through the trouble of altering their sensitivity settings and turning off mouse acceleration/dampening in a fucking .ini folder.
Still a great game though.
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« on: August 18, 2016, 02:01:43 AM »
Realizing that you will die is the beginning of terror. Accepting that you will die is the beginning of liberation
Fuck that shit, cryotubes when?
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« on: August 18, 2016, 02:00:57 AM »
2.0 would imply an upgrade of sorts, as though any "edgy" belief challenger has, i haven't already eclipsed
So, what you're saying, is that you're really Challenger 2.0?
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« on: August 17, 2016, 11:02:32 AM »
Douglas Murray at the Spectator. So farewell then Anjem Choudary. At least for a few years. Britain’s biggest loudmouth Islamist has finally been convicted in the UK for encouraging support for Isis. He now faces up to ten years in prison.
There have been reporting restrictions on his conviction for several weeks now, as we waited for the conclusion of the trial of his associate Mohammed Mizanur Rahman. But now it’s over. At least for a while. There is much to say, but allow me one particular reflection for now.
Like his mentor and predecessor Omar Bakri Mohammed, Anjem Choudary was always a subject of enormous interest in Britain and abroad. Indeed you could argue that for some years now he has been Britain’s most famous Muslim. Most Muslims understandably hated this, but so did everybody else. I once ground my teeth hearing him introduced by a foreign interviewer as ‘leading British Imam Anjem Choudary.’ He was regularly invited onto television and gave other media interviews liberally, as it were.
Which was understandable because he was the perfect go-to guy. Where others ‘ummed’, ‘ah-ed’ and talked of ‘context’ Choudary could be relied upon to give his fundamentalist views straight up. Yet as a trained solicitor he knew where the lines were and carefully stepped away when he felt you encouraging him over them. This was always done in the mutual awareness that his views lay a long way over that line. Whenever people – especially Muslims – assured me that Choudary was merely a joker I always reminded them that in that case he was a joker with a particularly unfunny contacts book.
But all of this presented a problem for the media. You couldn’t avoid him – as some people insisted the media do – not least because (as with the murderers of Lee Rigby) he had a tendency to know the terrorists who were the story. But each non-avoidance of course also made him grow, which among other things risked further flagging him up for anybody attracted to his kind of extremism. But could someone so outspoken seriously be at the centre of anything? Surely every movement and word was listened into by someone?
In truth, like Omar Bakri, Choudary was a bit of a clown and also deeply sinister. His connection to multiple terrorism plots spelt this out very clearly. Research on all terrorist convictions that my think-tank carried out seven years ago showed Choudary’s associates were involved in more terrorism plots than any other group. And these contacts continued to be serious. When Choudary and his supporters once confronted me on a street in London the police came on hand to sort things out but also to record what happened. Sometime later one of the people standing alongside Choudary that day was caught and convicted of a plot to assassinate various public figures in the UK and carry out a Mumbai-style attack on the London Stock Exchange.
There never was any easy answer with Choudary. Other than waiting for what has now finally happened. He did finally put that foot wrong. And the secular law he so despised was there to notice and act when he did. A great day for secular law, and a bad day for its enemies.
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« on: August 17, 2016, 09:47:38 AM »
what else should i try out
Civ V if you're not looking for anything heavy. Otherwise: Medieval II: Total War; Europa Universalis IV, Endless Space, Endless Legend and Stellaris.
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« on: August 17, 2016, 04:46:02 AM »
But those who do pass have every right to fight on the battlefield.
Given that your entire moral philosophy is basically based on consent and the NAP, why are you so eager to expand the amount of people who could potentially go to war?
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