Disregarding the larger implications of a president-elect attempting to negotiate influence business deals, here are some observations:

-$7M is pocket change in a state's budget and to the company's coffers
-Trump claimed credit for the deal not because he had any part in it (every article I've read states the deal was made by the state of Indiana), but because it reinforces the rhetoric he gave about the incident
-Math:
Cost to company: 1,069 jobs * $30.91/hr * 40 hours per week * 52 weeks per year + $0 of benefits factoring in = $68,729,003.2
Tax break: $7M
Promised company investment in the state: $16M
Net loss for the company (obviously not including the value of the workers): $-77,730,000

And the income tax from that $68.7M in salaries brings back another $2.2M alone, let alone property and sales taxes. The company's actually getting fucked from this deal, and the state is benefiting. I don't see this is a viable tactic to keep jobs in the country, and it fails to address the underlying cause of inversions or outsourcing.

If your only goal right now is to make an E4-ready team, this should set you up nicely. If you ever wanted to make a competitive team, you'd frankly have to go through a complete overhaul--we all do.

Lycanroc was actually my top candidate, too. I'm kind of bummed that I'm currently lacking any legendaries in my party though; as a kid I always loved getting a really strong Pokemon just prior to going through the league.

As for moves, what're your thoughts on 120+ power moves with 5 pp?

Oh shit this isn't in serious



The Sioux are protesting so much you'd think the pipeline threatened their whiskey supply instead.

1) The tribes made their opinions on the pipeline clear by not showing up to the meetings. Civil disobedience is a valid form of free speech. USG thus had zero grounds to unilaterally approve it anyway.

Surely you can see how ridiculous it is to sit out parts of a process spanning multiple years with the inclusion of 55 tribes, and then later claim to have been ignored. Tribes, including the ND Sioux, actively influenced the route of the pipeline.

2) Regardless of who sold what, it still does not give the government or anybody else free reign to bulldoze as they see fit.

You're right, it doesn't. There were three independent reviews that concluded there were no burial or cultural sites on the route. The route went through private property with easements from the owners, through an existing utility corridor which also had it's own cultural review. Because of the existing corridor, it's simply not possible for anything historic to be there. The land was already bulldozed and refilled. Again, this route was determined after hundreds of meetings with community and tribal representatives' input. It was not unilateral, and was designed to minimize water crossings. The project managers have also offered to reroute the Sioux water supply 50 miles further away (it is currently 20 miles away from the pipeline's crossing).

Fuck the federal government and all that, but this really does seem to be above board. It's an impossible situation at this point, since the entire pipeline is basically complete except for this spot, and further rerouting has been described as untenable.

You can hide legendaries, though. You can also filter by mons that you actually have.

But yeah in general it's pretty shitty. If it doesn't work out, I have Sun and can send you a vulpix if I can figure out how to do trade like that.

I'm welcome to having a sequel or two--but the notion that there's going to be five more kinda makes me sick to my stomach.

Yeah, my concern with this is that the characters in Fantastic Beasts were unlikable and flat. I hope we see a new cast of characters each movie, going through various historical (and future?) events, likely tied together by Gellert Grindelwald (and possibly Dumbledore). I can't really complain about cinematography -- HP has always had a really wonderfully realized world, and I agree that the scenes where magic is used in interesting, non-violent ways are really intriguing. I adored the bank scene, and it's a shame the whole movie wasn't reflective of that. It was really neat seeing competent wizards using magic, unlike in HP where we saw students often struggling to do basic stuff.

Another semi-review. Up front, on everybody's favorite objective rating scale: 4/10. A 7/10 film would be an enjoyable, above-average experience.

Eddie Redmayne portrays a nobody textbook writer from an actually good series of films/movies. He does this by assuming the character, Newt Scamander, is overtly autistic. This isn't a quirky, shy Brit -- it's a guy that fails to make eye contact relentlessly, often leaves the dialog hanging in awkward silence, and has much more affinity for animals than people (and women, especially). He's also mind-blowingly incompetent, and allows his titular beasts to escape on two separate occasions (mostly just to give the plot some momentum, not for any particular story reason), and all of them exist not to be fleshed out or interesting pieces of the universe, but basically as whacky tools for fighting people.

The characters are all pretty bad. You know you're in trouble as a director when your best character relies on a horny-fat-guy cliche, by Dan Fogler. Colin Farrell's character could have been good, but the need to turn him into a """surprise""" villain in the end didn't do him justice, and also replaced the character's actor, inexplicably, to Johnny Depp. I'm sure audiences will just love the tropey "quirky hot woman immediately falls in love with dumb fat guy" plotline.

The plot basically doesn't exist until the last 15 minutes, and it's far and away the worst in the Harry Potter series. Hold on tight for some heavyhanded gay/POC oppression symbolism and a "twist" JKR probably thought was just the bee's knees.

The music is also almost nonexistent, and while I appreciate when movies don't use music as a crutch to tell the audience what to feel (perfectly executed in Arrival, which has no soundtrack barring the intro and outro music), this just superimposed generic adventure music in lieu of iconic Harry Potter music.

Unless you're a HP superfan, you should wait to see this until you're swiping through Redbox on a quiet Tuesday night.

Oh boy, another generic mishmash of every zombie story told before.

But any feelings in a video game = GOTY

I would like a good, credible source on this, please.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/swedish-police-are-not-allowed-to-give-descriptions-of-alleged-criminals-so-as-not-to-sound-racist-a6810311.html

I'd remain skeptical, but it seems to have some legitimacy in regards to minor crimes.

He called wildlife services and said, "I just found a suitcase with a fox and three cubs while walking in the park." The lady on the phone said, "wow, that's awful, those poor little foxes. Are they moving?" He replied, "I'm not sure to be honest, but that would explain the suitcase."

As for resetting EVs in case you fuck up or want to start from a blank slate, I think berries are the only way to do that for this generation. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong on that.

Thanks for the info. As for resetting, I only ask because I haven't done anything for my 20 or so mid-40s-50s pokemon, so I assume their stats are pretty messed up by now.

Quote from: Verbatim on December 03, 2016, 09:18:17 AM

but they are not people.

Not legally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unborn_Victims_of_Violence_Act

It's probably more accurate to say that (U.S.) law considers the mother a form of medical proxy with a special exception that allows her to terminate her charge's life without cause -- though that just makes it more despicable in my eyes.

But would that same airplane accelerate at a high speed in outer space, at the same speed as a smaller plane would with that smaller engine that was faster on earth?

No. F=ma

a = constant (in your scenario)

As m increases (for the heavier plane), the force required to move it at the same rate increases.

Easy numbers example: Plane A weighs 2 tons, Plane B weighs 4 tons. You want to accelerate them at 8 meters per second per second.

Plane A:  F = 2*8 = 16m/s/s
Plane B: F = 4*8 = 32m/s/s

Friction is not the main impulse behind Newton's Second Law, it just increases it (hence why it's a coefficient of the normal force, and not a unit value). The example above was in space, with no friction. On Earth, the forces required to move both planes would be larger, and still unequal. On Earth, it would look something like:

Plane A:  F = 2*8 = 16m/s/s + Ff_A
Plane B: F = 4*8 = 32m/s/s + Ff_B

I can forgive a dumb CGI trailer because it had GdT. I only hope he and Norman Reedus are the PCs.

Quote from: HubbleTurkeyscope on December 02, 2016, 11:07:30 AM

Anyone have a quick and dirty guide to breeding/EV training? I've never bothered with it but it seems interesting.

Here's the EV guide I used, all locations/pokemon are in the description

YouTube

Gracias