Very, very, very long Rolling Stone article that I am linking, but don't intend you all to read. Highlights regarding it are quoted below

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Four weeks into UVA's 2012 school year, 18-year-old Jackie was crushing it at college. A chatty, straight-A achiever from a rural Virginia town, she'd initially been intimidated by UVA's aura of preppy success, where throngs of toned, tanned and overwhelmingly blond students fanned across a landscape of neoclassical brick buildings, hurrying to classes, clubs, sports, internships, part-time jobs, volunteer work and parties; Jackie's orientation leader had warned her that UVA students' schedules were so packed that "no one has time to date – people just hook up." But despite her reservations, Jackie had flung herself into campus life, attending events, joining clubs, making friends and, now, being asked on an actual date. She and Drew had met while working lifeguard shifts together at the university pool, and Jackie had been floored by Drew's invitation to dinner, followed by a "date function" at his fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi. The "upper tier" frat had a reputation of tremendous wealth, and its imposingly large house overlooked a vast manicured field, giving "Phi Psi" the undisputed best real estate along UVA's fraternity row known as Rugby Road.

Now, climbing the frat-house stairs with Drew, Jackie felt excited. Drew ushered Jackie into a bedroom, shutting the door behind them. The room was pitch-black inside. Jackie blindly turned toward Drew, uttering his name. At that same moment, she says, she detected movement in the room – and felt someone bump into her. Jackie began to scream.

"Shut up," she heard a man's voice say as a body barreled into her, tripping her backward and sending them both crashing through a low glass table. There was a heavy person on top of her, spreading open her thighs, and another person kneeling on her hair, hands pinning down her arms, sharp shards digging into her back, and excited male voices rising all around her. When yet another hand clamped over her mouth, Jackie bit it, and the hand became a fist that punched her in the face. The men surrounding her began to laugh. For a hopeful moment Jackie wondered if this wasn't some collegiate prank. Perhaps at any second someone would flick on the lights and they'd return to the party.

"Grab its motherfucking leg," she heard a voice say. And that's when Jackie knew she was going to be raped.

She remembers every moment of the next three hours of agony, during which, she says, seven men took turns raping her, while two more – her date, Drew, and another man – gave instruction and encouragement. She remembers how the spectators swigged beers, and how they called each other nicknames like Armpit and Blanket. She remembers the men's heft and their sour reek of alcohol mixed with the pungency of marijuana. Most of all, Jackie remembers the pain and the pounding that went on and on.

As the last man sank onto her, Jackie was startled to recognize him: He attended her tiny anthropology discussion group. He looked like he was going to cry or puke as he told the crowd he couldn't get it up. "Pussy!" the other men jeered. "What, she's not hot enough for you?" Then they egged him on: "Don't you want to be a brother?" "We all had to do it, so you do, too." Someone handed her classmate a beer bottle. Jackie stared at the young man, silently begging him not to go through with it. And as he shoved the bottle into her, Jackie fell into a stupor, mentally untethering from the brutal tableau, her mind leaving behind the bleeding body under assault on the floor.

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Two years later, Jackie, now a third-year, is worried about what might happen to her once this article comes out. Greek life is huge at UVA, with nearly one-third of undergrads belonging to a fraternity or sorority, so Jackie fears the backlash could be big – a "shitshow" predicted by her now-former friend Randall, who, citing his loyalty to his own frat, declined to be interviewed. But her concerns go beyond taking on her alleged assailants and their fraternity. Lots of people have discouraged her from sharing her story, Jackie tells me with a pained look, including the trusted UVA dean to whom Jackie reported her gang-rape allegations more than a year ago. On this deeply loyal campus, even some of Jackie's closest friends see her going public as tantamount to betrayal.

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The first weeks of freshman year are when students are most vulnerable to sexual assault

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Studies have shown that fraternity men are three times as likely to commit rape, and a spate of recent high-profile cases illustrates the dangers that can lurk at frat parties, like a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee frat accused of using color-coded hand stamps as a signal to roofie their guests, and this fall's suspension of Brown University's chapter of Phi Kappa Psi – of all fraternities – after a partygoer tested positive for the date-rape drug GHB.

Frats are often the sole option for an underage drinker looking to party, since bars are off-limits, sororities are dry and first-year students don't get many invites to apartment soirees. Instead, the kids crowd the walkways of the big, anonymous frat houses, vying for entry.

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Most of that hooking up is consensual. But against that backdrop, as psychologist David Lisak discovered, lurk undetected predators. Lisak's 2002 groundbreaking study of more than 1,800 college men found that roughly nine out of 10 rapes are committed by serial offenders, who are responsible for an astonishing average of six rapes each. None of the offenders in Lisak's study had ever been reported. Lisak's findings upended general presumptions about campus sexual assault: It implied that most incidents are not bumbling, he-said-she-said miscommunications, but rather deliberate crimes by serial sex offenders.

For those who do not know, UVA is among 86 universities across the country under investigation from the federal government regarding the sexual assault problem, and claims of coverup. UVA's investigation goes one step further, which the quote below explains:

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UVA is one of only 12 schools under a sweeping investigation known as "compliance review": a proactive probe launched by the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights itself, triggered by concerns about deep-rooted issues. "They are targeted efforts to go after very serious concerns," says Office of Civil Rights assistant secretary Catherine Lhamon. "We don't open compliance reviews unless we have something that we think merits it."

The topic of sexual assault on college campuses is not new, but it's one that has escalated in recent years as more and more victims come forward with reports of their assault, and the claims that their university either pushed them to drop the claims, or that the university covered up investigations to protect frats, athletic teams, and their prestige.

So, let me ask: Aside from the federal investigation and severe penalties that are coming down, what more can be done to prevent this growing problem?

Fuck that shit. Ubisoft's terrible optimisation strikes again.
It's dropping below 20fps on both consoles, and Totalbiscuit is having trouble running it on his fucking dual GTX 980's.
NPC pop in happens a lot, you fall through the map, ghosting, clipping and various other bugs.

I hope to fucking god Ubi sorts this shit out. They've had 4 damn years to make this game.
Needless to say that I'm really pissed, because the game loks great when not fucked by technical issues.

I've ordered Dragon Age Inquisition instead, which is getting great reviews and feedback across the board.

Lol. Go check it out.

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Haha! Some good news today folks! Blog news aside, I may have just found myself some land!

Talking to my Uncle, who owns 160 acres of land. He says he'd like to keep it in the family. And, he's already been talking to my mother about it. Point is, my name is up for the owner of the land.

When he's paid off the mortgage at the end of next year, he's going to add my mother into the paperwork as an owner, and if I so wish, myself as well. Shared ownership. You folks may not know the size of an acre, but know that 160 of them is fucking big. Big enough that there's a lake on the land he owns.

There's some technical loopholes to work around with laws and stuff, but for all intents and purposes, in the next year, I may have land to call my own.

160 fucking acres of it!

why did you have to leave bungie.net again?

I got locked out of my account forcefully due to dammicky rules from my provinces internet service rules. Bungie felt like it was time to verify that my account was really me, and sent me a message that I could only delay for a week before I got locked out.

Due to dammicky shit, the account exists, but at the same time, doesn't. And I can't make a new one because of my internet provider's ball squeezing grip and their rules.

so you couldn't create a new account in a public place, library etc.

1. Lol what library? I live in a town of 800. Closest town away is a 40 minute drive.
2. No, because an email account here costs money. You pay a service charge linked to your IP address that gets deducted along with the internet fees.

Nothing will ever be enough for Republicans until they have dictatorial control over the country.

While we all have a vague conception of the quality of most presidents, almost all have exceptionally good and exceptionally bad things about their term(s). So, pick a few presidents and then one or two of the best and worst things about their presidency.

FDR
The Good:
- Kept America afloat, if not prosperous with the New Deal.
- Was incredibly charismatic and was able to lead the American people.
The Bad:
- Internment of Japanese-Americans at the beginning of the War.
- The Roosevelt Recession of 1937, chiefly as a result of monetary tightening and slashed fiscalism.

LBJ
The Good:
- LBJ's Great Society.
The Bad:
- Gulf of Tonkin

Nixon
The Good:
- Ended the draft
- Ending segregation
The Bad:
- Affirmative Action
- Watergate

Reagan
The Good:
- Reduced inflation to 4.4pc
- Reduced federal income taxes
The Bad:
- Took advice from an astrologer
- War on Drugs

Bill Clinton
The Good:
- Good economic growth
- Free trade
The Bad:
- Bombing pharmaceutical companies in Sudan.
- Doing nothing about the genocide in Rwanda.

Dubya
The Good:
- Iraq
The Bad:
- Everything else

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You do realize that a gun can be smuggled illegally. Look at drugs

Is this by any chance a poor attempt at trolling?

Gun control in America isn't feasible.  What with the cartel smuggling guns over the border to citizens who then smuggle said guns to the north, it'd be impossible to enforce such radical legislation.

Not sure how that is relevant to whether or not Xbot is a troll, which he clearly is.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/179045/less-half-americans-support-stricter-gun-laws.aspx

something something polite discussion no hurt feelings pls

Bullshit

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Tens of thousands of Georgia residents have submitted all required documentation, but have still not received a voter registration card, and so will be denied a chance to participate in Tuesday’s important midterm election.

And there’s likely nothing they can do about it.

Yesterday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Christopher Brasher denied a petition from voter rights advocates that would have forced the Georgia Secretary of State to process an estimated 40,000 voter registration forms now missing from a public database.

As reported two weeks ago, voter registration drives sponsored by the New Georgia Project had collected the necessary forms from an estimated 80,000 people around the state. But while voters in affluent communities seemed to receive their registration cards in a timely fashion, over half of those who applied, mostly those from poorer and predominantly minority neighborhoods, were still waiting, some as long as six months, and there was no record of these potential voters in the system.

After negotiations with Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp proved fruitless, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and the Georgia NAACP, which served as legal representatives for New Georgia, sued.

Dr. Francys Johnson, President of the Georgia NAACP, called Tuesday’s court decision “outrageous.”

“[A] Republican appointed judge has backed the Republican Secretary of State to deny the right to vote to a largely African American and Latino population,” Johnson said.



This is not merely academic. In July, Kemp was recorded telling a group of Georgia GOP insiders that he was concerned Democrats were registering too many minority voters. In September, Kemp launched a fraud investigation into the New Georgia Project’s registration drive, though he has never said why he suspected fraud.

The Republican deputy whip of the Georgia Senate complained that racially diverse DeKalb County was making it too easy for minorities to cast ballots by allowing voting in a mall close to predominantly African-American churches.

But Judge Brasher ruled that it was “premature” to suspect that state officials would “fail to carry out their mandatory duties.”

The prospect of 40,000 voters denied access to the ballot has the potential to swing a number of races in Georgia, not the least of which are the Governor’s race between Incumbent Republican Nathan Deal and Democrat Jason Carter, and the important Senate contest between Michelle Nunn, the Democrat, and GOP standard-bearer David Perdue — both of which are extremely close, according to recent opinion polls.

The question of which party will control the Senate next year could hang in the balance.

Georgia law requires the victor to top 50 percent, with a January 6 runoff if no candidate gets a simple majority. This is a very real possibility in the Peach State, as Libertarian Amanda Swafford is expected to grab about 5 percent of the vote.

As detailed recently, 40,000 ballots could amount to around 1.5 percent of the November vote — a margin that could easily affect the outcome in the Georgia Senate race, and in the battle for control of the U.S. Senate.

"Oh, Voter ID laws won't disenfranchise voters. If you sign up, you'll be allowed to vote with no problem"

Yes