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6121
« on: April 14, 2015, 10:48:41 PM »
Literally everyone in this thread is retarded. All you have to do is put the baby back in the microwave for -5 seconds.
6122
« on: April 14, 2015, 10:20:26 PM »
And nothing happened. My childhood is a lie.
6123
« on: April 14, 2015, 09:11:42 PM »
I changed engineering fields in my sophomore year.
6124
« on: April 14, 2015, 04:37:31 PM »
That actually looks a lot cooler than the cheap cartoony shit they've used before.
6125
« on: April 14, 2015, 04:25:22 PM »
As I was reading through his stance on the common issues to confirm if he's as awful and outrageous of a candidate as I expected him to be (which he turned out to be), I stumbled upon this beautiful quote of his.
"God does not love America more than Belgium. (Jan 2010)"
I don't even.
Isn't that a good thing for him to say? He's saying America is great, but not because of some divine providence or anything like that.
6126
« on: April 13, 2015, 10:04:10 PM »
Roguelike game about traveling down a procedurally generated river to gather supplies and survive the apocalypse.
6127
« on: April 13, 2015, 09:58:54 PM »
That was pretty good. What was he originally doing wrong?
6128
« on: April 13, 2015, 07:34:15 PM »
You're trying to put out a fire by pissing on it. I've no idea what the series turned into beyond a couple hours put into DAII.
Skip DA2. DA:I is stunning. As for progressive characters, there's a character whose entire story arc is that he's gay and his dad doesn't accept him, and another character who is a trans-man and that's basically the extent of his story, too.
6129
« on: April 13, 2015, 07:15:58 PM »
6130
« on: April 13, 2015, 07:07:01 PM »
I'm fine with it in Star Wars and Mass Effect. It just felt shoehorned and out of place in Dragon Age, having a medieval culture be far more sexually liberal than modern day.
But muh greeks.
Greeks weren't medieval Europeans, and they also kept adolescent boys as sex servants, so I don't know how progressive we can say they were.
6131
« on: April 13, 2015, 07:05:06 PM »
I'm fine with it in Star Wars and Mass Effect. It just felt shoehorned and out of place in Dragon Age, having a medieval culture be far more sexually liberal than modern day.
6132
« on: April 13, 2015, 05:28:01 PM »
Probably. Brakes are easy shit to do yourself.
Also, spend 20 bucks for an OBD II reader. Pays for itself the first time you don't have a mechanic look at your light or check the code.
A lot of places will check it free, though whether you trust them to not lie about maintenance you "need" is another story.
6133
« on: April 13, 2015, 05:26:14 PM »
You're fine. A bit under average, I'd say.
6134
« on: April 13, 2015, 04:58:47 PM »
Can someone summarize it?
It's 10 minutes dude.
Yeah, and I don't have time to listen to it right now.
6135
« on: April 13, 2015, 04:32:08 PM »
But you're not providing evidence and are just saying "connect the dots". Also you not accepting the given reason as "legitimate" doesn't mean it's not legitimate. However I see you're hellbent on this narrative so there's no reason in trying to continue this conversation.
I'm providing an argument; just because Clinton didn't actually say that was the reason doesn't mean there isn't evidence. The Rhodes email in particular mentions that the policy was for spokespersons to emphasize the role of the video in protests and avoid having appear to be a greater failure of foreign policy. The given reason for the lie is that it was a mistake, a miscommunication between offices. Petraeus' excuse that they didn't want to reveal the extent of their information network is valid only to the disclosure of Ansar al-Sharia's involvement, not the fact that the attack was coordinated.
6136
« on: April 13, 2015, 04:06:05 PM »
Ok so there's no actual evidence and it's "connect the dots, the numbers mason, what do they mean?".
There is. First, there was no justifiable reason for covering up the true cause of the attack. Second, the attack coincided with the height of the election, posing a serious threat to President Obama's chances of being reelected. The actual story was suppressed for several weeks, effectively removing it from the general spotlight. You're more than welcome to deny that this is why the coverup happened. All I'm doing is rebutting the claims that the administration did nothing wrong and that there was no scandal, both of which are obviously, demonstrably incorrect. It doesn't matter anymore. If it was an attempt to shift blame from the administration, they succeeded, and there's no legal repercussions to be had. It is still a highly legitimate criticism of Clinton.
6137
« on: April 13, 2015, 03:47:37 PM »
You mean the "leaked" information that Johnathan Karl reported on without vetting his source that only the conservative news outlets still tout as fact? No, I mean the disparity between the official story for three weeks and the testimony given by Mrs. Clinton during the investigation stating they knew within hours that it was a coordinated terrorist attack. Her actually admitting to covering it up for political purposes would be incredibly massive and all over every major news station instead of being parroted on far right wing blogs and "news" websites with no actual quotes to back them up.
Obviously she never said anything of the sort. It's as simple as connecting the dots of the timeline of the attack with the election. President Obama was already known for failure at foreign policy, and this could have been a nail in the coffin of his presidency. Whether that's a valid consequence isn't relevant; what matters is that there's no justifiable reason for the false story being propagated for weeks.
6138
« on: April 13, 2015, 03:03:58 PM »
Here's the most standout memory I have of elementary school:
6139
« on: April 13, 2015, 02:59:33 PM »
No, but to deny that the way they tried to cover up the scandal
There wasn't even a scandal because they didn't actually do anything. You can't have a scandal over something that never happened.
The scandal was the fact that for several weeks, at the height of an election, the administration refused to reveal that the attack was a legitimate terrorist attack, instead blaming it on a riot that went out of control as a result of some video. In reality, as Clinton says, they knew within hours that it was a coordinated terrorist attack. They feared that making it public would make the Obama administration appear incompetent and swing the election against him. Shit, at least Nixon's guys just stole some tapes. They didn't lie about the circumstances of four dead Americans and the razing of an embassy. Hillary Clinton's platform on government transparency:
lolcontext
Yeah, the context is that she's asking why the circumstances of their deaths matter, why it matters whether it was a terrorist attack or an uncoordinated riot. Well, it matters for the reasons I listed above.
6140
« on: April 13, 2015, 02:53:07 PM »
Can someone summarize it?
6141
« on: April 13, 2015, 02:49:29 PM »
Hillary Clinton's platform on government transparency:
6142
« on: April 13, 2015, 09:07:33 AM »
Max, Meta, Goji, Piranha
Not in any particular order.
6143
« on: April 13, 2015, 08:56:45 AM »
1. Tech products become the byproducts of a money-making scheme rather than an end unto themselves. Literally any product on the market is a byproduct of a money-making scheme. 2. Even inspired leaders internalize a worldview which places profits over humane behavior. Focuses on lambasting Steve Jobs for being an all-around prick and using Chinese labor. In reality, U.S. companies exporting labor gives millions of impoverished families a source of income and stability. But yeah, Jobs was an asshole. Nothing shocking there. 3. The culture encourages a solipsistic detachment from reality, even as its brute economic strength colonizes everything it touches. Baby's first thesaurus? 4. The Valley gets fixated on lame (and sometimes antisocial) buzzwords. Coming from the media: fuckin' lol. 5. Silicon Valley’s culture is hurting our economy. [Read: monopolies allow room for inefficiency] This author is out of his mind if he thinks the top companies in SV are inefficient. There's a huge market for efficiency innovation to beat out competitors by literally microscopic margins. Just look at the semiconductor industry for an example of tight performance limits required to stay competitive.
6144
« on: April 12, 2015, 07:48:00 PM »
The best is from Kazakhstan.
6145
« on: April 12, 2015, 07:42:32 PM »
"...but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top."
Such a silly platform for politicians to use when they themselves are part of the top 1%.
6146
« on: April 12, 2015, 07:33:42 PM »
The fact that she's tried to push legislation banning video games is enough for me.
Honestly, that's a remarkably petty thing to hinge a vote on, not to mention that her bill was only to prohibit the sale to minors. It's already the policy of every retailer in the country (except maybe online sources like Amazon; I'm not sure if they verify age via credit card) to not sell mature games to minors. Her bill would just make it enforceable.
6147
« on: April 12, 2015, 07:01:49 PM »
bottom of the can.
If it's in a can it's not tea.
6148
« on: April 12, 2015, 06:53:08 PM »
The current trend of shifting blame from the market to policy decisions feels akin to whitewashing.
You'd expect the most serious downturns to be the result of government interference; it's like taking one issue and then having it reproduce across a whole economy.
The worst market actors did in the run-up to the recession is engage in high degrees of leveraging, which put institutions like Lehman Brothers at exceptional risk, but even then that's not incredibly substantial.
A lot of the policies being blamed in this paper were a direct response to the financial crisis; despite the responsibility shifting primarily to the Fed and Legislature, there's still a cause and effect relationship between the crisis and their actions. In particular, I don't think many will disagree that the ARRA did anything but prolong the recession, in the same way the New Deal lengthened the Great Depression.
6149
« on: April 12, 2015, 05:14:38 PM »
The current trend of shifting blame from the market to policy decisions feels akin to whitewashing.
6150
« on: April 12, 2015, 05:10:09 PM »
But I am doing the same thing right now by not having unprotected sex with as many women as I could. Every sperm cell I have has the potential of becoming a person, and by not putting them to constant use I am effectively denying potentially dozens of people to come into existence. We're not talking about potential lives, since that's a silly, intangible notion. We're talking about existing, living humans. To justify abortion by equating it to abstinence is to make the same logical fallacy made by many abortion opponents. During the first few weeks of pregnancy, it is nothing but a non-sentient parasite with the mere potential of becoming a human being. Another case of sanitizing your language. A fetus is demonstrably not a parasite, and sentience can hardly be a justifiable criteria for personhood as infants aren't even sentient themselves. Personhood itself is a flimsy, subjective notion that holds very little water in objectivity. And at that point, the rights of the parents trump the embryo's or fetus', something I don't think is immoral in the slightest. You have to compare apples to apples. It's all well and good to say the right of the parent to life trumps that of the fetus, but for all intents and purposes you're comparing the right of life of the fetus to the right of, what? Comfort? Financial indepence? Are these things rights? Do parents somehow lose rights upon birthing a child? Besides, none of this will have much of an effect on me. Abortion has been legal here for 25 years This is literally the laziest excuse of an argument in the entire discussion. Lest I get shit on for the comparison, this is the same argument used for millenia to subvert the personhood of any oppressed class.
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