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« on: April 12, 2016, 09:17:25 PM »
Actual victims wouldn't go to Tumblr after getting raped.
As much as I doubt the integrity of his ex making these allegations, the degree to which people assume how victims of sexual assault would act never ceases to amaze me. Thank God you are here to show us the truth, and put all our doubts to bed.
1922
« on: April 12, 2016, 06:40:57 PM »
doesn't matter; still dead
You're a man of results, aren't you?
1923
« on: April 12, 2016, 06:38:16 PM »
haha he's rolling hard
I can't wait to get back to university.
i'm gonna try it again over the summer most likely. last time i took pills which my friend said were molly, but apparently you don't take mdma in pill form, so i have no idea what i took. probably ecstasy.
it was fun tho.
hope you OD
You'd have to take so much ecstasy in order to OD that dying would probably feel fucking awesome.
1924
« on: April 12, 2016, 06:37:28 PM »
haha he's rolling hard
I can't wait to get back to university.
i'm gonna try it again over the summer most likely. last time i took pills which my friend said were molly, but apparently you don't take mdma in pill form, so i have no idea what i took. probably ecstasy.
it was fun tho.
Your friend's an idiot.
MDMA is ecstasy. Molly is just short for "Molecule", the crystal form of MDMA.
EDIT: Wait, no, you're an idiot too. Yeah, MDMA and ecstasy are the same thing. But "ecstasy" is usually used for it in pill form, whereas molly is crystals.
so you snort it or smoke it out of a crack pipe, right?
What, molly? Yeah, most people bomb or snort it. Haven't come across anybody smoking it though, although I don't know why you wouldn't be able to.
1925
« on: April 12, 2016, 06:29:53 PM »
haha he's rolling hard
I can't wait to get back to university.
i'm gonna try it again over the summer most likely. last time i took pills which my friend said were molly, but apparently you don't take mdma in pill form, so i have no idea what i took. probably ecstasy.
it was fun tho.
Your friend's an idiot. MDMA is ecstasy. Molly is just short for "Molecule", the crystal form of MDMA. EDIT: Wait, no, you're an idiot too. Yeah, MDMA and ecstasy are the same thing. But "ecstasy" is usually used for it in pill form, whereas molly is crystals.
1926
« on: April 12, 2016, 06:24:14 PM »
haha he's rolling hard
I can't wait to get back to university.
1927
« on: April 12, 2016, 06:15:37 PM »
apparently people lying warrants jail time now
Yes, it does.
1928
« on: April 12, 2016, 06:01:47 PM »
Toby's comedic degradation is actually p sad. Becoming the safe for work ADHD posterboy of the minecraft generation did net him a shit load of cash, but the filter ultimately inveigled him in producing a string of shitty content for 8 years.
As for the rape allegations, don't have the time to read anything but, it's obvious this guy gets around... it's also obvious he's been masking depression or some other internal shit for a number of years. I wouldn't be surprised if he was addicted to Ritalin or something
some people are just really shitty at relationships and the above factors usually don't help. Just from what I've seen of the guy he doesn't seem like the raping type, but at the end of the day we all know next to nothing about the whole situation and the people involved
apparently he's addicted to mdma lol
That's . . . Not a good place to be in. It's pretty clear he does MDMA, though.
1929
« on: April 12, 2016, 05:48:13 PM »
There are two kinds of people who say IQ tests are worthless.
Those who don't understand them, and those who get a low score. Not to say there isn't a significant degree of overlap.
1930
« on: April 12, 2016, 04:22:05 PM »
It really kicked off post-2008 when the government began looking for extra sources of revenue. The IRS and DoJ tried to come down hard on Americans with undeclared assets overseas, including laws like FACTA and an increased pressure to have overseas firms register with the SEC, which has made foreign banks wary of taking on US customers.
What penalties could the US possibly impose on the foreign firms, though?
Nobody really knows how something like FACTA could be implemented. So far, the withdrawal of non-US financial services has been entirely voluntary; banks are doing it precisely to avoid whatever the US government might have up its sleeve. Increased scrutiny, by itself, is something banks with large amounts of foreign assets would want to avoid.
That makes sense lol. What's your opinion on the US's strict rules? Do they do more harm than good?
Depends on whether or not you think the extra hassle for ordinary US citizens/residents is worth tracking down foreign assets that may or may not be held illegally. I don't really have an opinion on it; the US government certainly has a legitimate aim, but they could be more delicate with it.
1931
« on: April 12, 2016, 04:02:55 PM »
It really kicked off post-2008 when the government began looking for extra sources of revenue. The IRS and DoJ tried to come down hard on Americans with undeclared assets overseas, including laws like FACTA and an increased pressure to have overseas firms register with the SEC, which has made foreign banks wary of taking on US customers.
What penalties could the US possibly impose on the foreign firms, though?
Nobody really knows how something like FACTA could be implemented. So far, the withdrawal of non-US financial services has been entirely voluntary; banks are doing it precisely to avoid whatever the US government might have up its sleeve. Increased scrutiny, by itself, is something banks with large amounts of foreign assets would want to avoid.
1932
« on: April 12, 2016, 03:53:11 PM »
It really kicked off post-2008 when the government began looking for extra sources of revenue. The IRS and DoJ tried to come down hard on Americans with undeclared assets overseas, including laws like FACTA and an increased pressure to have overseas firms register with the SEC, which has made foreign banks wary of taking on US customers.
1933
« on: April 12, 2016, 03:39:48 PM »
The Independent.Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg are among the backers who hope to send "nano-ships" to Alpha Centauri in just 20 years, in order to send back data about planets which may potentially have the capacity to support life. Tiny rockets are going to be sent into space to study the far universe in the most ambitious space exploration project in history.
Scientists including Stephen Hawking and backers such as internet investor Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg will send “nano craft” deep into space to explore the most remote regions that humans have ever seen, by far.
The hugely ambitious project could reveal deep secrets of the universe and will allow people to photograph one of the most likely places to hold life on other worlds.
Professor Hawking said at the event: "What makes us unique is transcending our limits. Gravity pins us to the ground, but I just flew to America.
"How do we transcend these limits? With our minds and our machines.
"The limit that confronts us now is the great void between us and the stars. But now we can transcend it, with light beams, light sails, and the lightest spacecraft ever built. Today we commit to this next great leap into the cosmos, because we are human and our nature is to fly.”
The Starshot Project hopes to get the tiny robots out to the Alpha Centauri star system, 25 trillion miles away. Getting there through normal means would take 30,000 years – but the new project hopes that using the tiny rockets will allow them to get there in just 20.
Scientists think that the Alpha Centauri system might well have an Earth-like planet that could be found in its “habitable zones”. The craft will be able to take pictures of those – a potential way that they might find life on other worlds.
The crafts will be “gram-scale nano craft”, according to Yuri Milner, which will make their way through space using a “sail pushed by a light beam”. Their design will allow them to fly at 25 per cent of light speed.
Those craft will be able to send back images of possible planets and other scientific data, according to the scientists behind it.
"The human story is one of great leaps,” Dr Milner said. “Today we are preparing for the next great leap – to the stars.
"Can we literally reach the stars, and can we do it in our lifetime?"
The tiny rockets are made up of computers that can be mounted to a tiny “wafer”. Shrinking computer components mean that all of the necessary parts – cameras, thrusters, power supply and navigation equipment – can all be mounted on a tiny plate that will be a fully functional space probe.
Before those are built, the project will have to create all of the important parts on the ground. That includes the construction of a light-beamer that can power the rockets and a “mothership” that will be able to carry them all out into space and launch them.
Because of economies of scale and the decreasing price of computer components, the team will eventually be able to send out the rockets for just a few hundred thousand dollars, they said.
1934
« on: April 12, 2016, 03:06:20 PM »
If it's solely on principles I'd still say privacy. Because security comes naturally from your precautions for privacy.
Not absolutely. The question is whether or not it is legitimate to sacrifice some privacy which is legitimately getting in the way of implementing genuinely security-enhancing measures. For the purpose of this discussion, there is conflict between the two. In an actual trade-off, which would you choose?
1935
« on: April 12, 2016, 03:00:53 PM »
Idk why people think these are mutually exclusive concepts.
Security is to protect your identity, your wallet, and/or your life. Things that matter.
Privacy is to protect your name, your reputation, and/or your social anxiety. Things that don't necessarily matter at all.
I think you're being overly-reductionist with your definitions of privacy and security. It's not entirely clear that they can be delineated in that way; take the British government's collection of journalists' families' medical histories. This is no doubt a breach of privacy, and is consequential. Concern about what the government will do with information about you is not unwarranted.
1936
« on: April 12, 2016, 02:57:06 PM »
Define "Security" for me. Presumably it's actions taken by a government which legitimately result in significantly less tension, unease or discord in society presented either by domestic or international threats. How can I trust this "Security"?
Because we're discussing principles. If you're saying "I prefer privacy because I don't trust the government", then fine. But what you're actually saying is not a commentary on the relative value of either privacy or security, because I imagine you feel less secure precisely because your privacy is being violated. It's entirely possible to live in a world where security and privacy are perfectly correlated, as the only threat individuals face is a tyrannical State.
1937
« on: April 12, 2016, 02:51:11 PM »
Idk why people think these are mutually exclusive concepts.
^ Pretty much. Policies pursued like the banning of encryption harm both security and privacy. Security, as any kind of useful concept, has to include some kind of protection from government. Nobody would reasonably argue that somebody living inside Nazi Germany, despite an extensive surveillance state, was secure in any meaningful sense. When it comes to legitimate trade-offs, however, then security should probably take precedence. The discussion about which comes first in principle is different to the discussion about whether things like metadata collection are actually warranted.
1938
« on: April 12, 2016, 02:32:53 PM »
I have no use for privacy if I am not secure.
1939
« on: April 12, 2016, 12:27:04 PM »
and I always end up winning by domination because waiting for the space shuttle is grueling.
Yeah, this is a big thing for me in strategy games. Endless Space actually gets some points in my book for managing to mix this up; even on easy difficulty (first ever game) it's managed to throw me some curve-balls that a game of Civ V never offered. Originally I was planning on going for either a supremacy or expansion victory (both military), but the fact that one of the other civs I haven't had much contact with managed to shore up their military and make me think that I should change tactic and shoot for an economic victory. That kind of thing keeps it dynamic.
1940
« on: April 12, 2016, 12:18:29 PM »
Besides the thread on the upcoming Total War instalment, and some noise about Halo Wars 2, we don't really see much discussion of my favourite genre on here: strategy games. Which is weird, since I know a fair few of you guys play them. Maybe I just don't come here enough. So, what's your favourite strategy game?
Civ V was really the game which pulled me into the genre properly, particularly 4X games, and I've logged ~80 hours on it so far. But it kind of feels like baby's first strategy game at this point. Not that it's a bad game, but it just lacks depth. I've also started playing Endless Space and Endless Legend--at about 10 hours each--and I'm only really scratching the surface and getting used to how the game operates, but it's incredibly enjoyable, not least because of the highly asymmetric factions in both games.
But, for me currently, the best strategy game in my library is Medieval II: Total War. It's definitely more engaging than any other strategy game I've played. Maybe Warhammer will change that.
1941
« on: April 12, 2016, 03:10:37 AM »
Literally wrong
Those are crackers you savage.
1942
« on: April 12, 2016, 03:09:32 AM »
nobody lmao
Got something to hide? I knew the anti-natalism was just a front for your homicidal tendencies.
1943
« on: April 12, 2016, 03:07:59 AM »
People check their alerts?
1944
« on: April 12, 2016, 03:06:12 AM »
and only faggot bum-fucking retards disagree
1945
« on: April 12, 2016, 12:47:11 AM »
What a song choice to follow Mad World.
1946
« on: April 11, 2016, 09:59:31 PM »
This is the one where he talks about how people are upset over cross buy or something right?
Yeah. I did only just recently watch this specific video, however.
1947
« on: April 11, 2016, 09:46:48 PM »
You just discover TB?
No, been a follower of 'WTF is' for a while.
1948
« on: April 11, 2016, 09:44:07 PM »
Where on earth did payday credit become involved in this? How do you say that, and then say:
only that giving medium to low interest loans to low income individuals is working for small banks and there's no reason it couldn't for large banks.
This is literally what payday loans are. At least, that's what they refer to over here.
A payday loan is when you get a few hundred dollars in exchange for your entire next paycheck, with some collateral on the table that's worth thousands of dollars ensuring you follow up.
As far as I know, that's not correct. Literally the first line of the Wikipedia page specifies that payday loans are not backed by collateral, and are not necessarily related to the borrower's incoming wages. And I can say that, at least in the U.K., this is usually what payday loans refer to. Just small and usually short-term loans.
1949
« on: April 11, 2016, 09:35:51 PM »
Where on earth did payday credit become involved in this? How do you say that, and then say: only that giving medium to low interest loans to low income individuals is working for small banks and there's no reason it couldn't for large banks.
This is literally what payday loans are. At least, that's what they refer to over here. Also I'd like to see some actual empirics with regards to large banks actively choosing to not lower rates for the sake of profit. I don't doubt that it could, and does, occur; but the U.S. financial system is highly idiosyncratic.
1950
« on: April 11, 2016, 09:10:33 PM »
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