You are girlfriend

Quote from: Kupo on October 07, 2015, 08:56:40 AM

I don't even know how I feel about this.

I mean, I guess I hadn't really thought much about it recently >.> I still feel like it's head-and-shoulders above PSN and NN, which seem to be made out of duct tape by comparison, but the difference is not as dramatic as it used to be.

PSN started the obligatory free old games thing, but I still can't ignore that I've had a terrible experience doing pretty much anything with it, from downloading and installing tiny updates in a timely fashion, to not having a lag slideshow, to not getting my account (and everyone else's) leaked multiple times.

Seriously, PSN keeps getting hacked and Sony still keeps users' data in fucking plaintext.

I actually haven't been having that many issues with PSN, save this Sep7agon FOX-HOUND Unit Community not showing up. I've always found myself having a better time with it than Live, even in the PS3 days.

But I suppose I was more focused on the "MS not allowing Valve to release free DLC because it set a dangerous precedent for the other developers" part of the video because it irks me more.

Quote from: Kupo on October 07, 2015, 08:12:02 AM

Quote from: Jocephalopod on October 07, 2015, 01:51:24 AM

um......


SHOENICE?

wut

look him up on utub

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Quote from: Kupo on October 06, 2015, 09:58:19 PM

w-was the Middle East safer with folks like Saddam & Gaddafi in power?

Absolutely.

All you have to do is look at the region before & after each dictator's downfall. They both kept them shits in check.

b-but muh human rights

AP INVESTIGATION: Nuclear smugglers shopped radioactive material to IS and other terrorists

By DESMOND BUTLER and VADIM GHIRDA, Associated Press

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Over the pulsating beat at an exclusive nightclub, the arms smuggler made his pitch to a client: 2.5 million euros for enough radioactive cesium to contaminate several city blocks.

It was earlier this year, and the two men were plotting their deal at an unlikely spot: the terrace of Cocos Prive, a dance club and sushi bar in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova.

"You can make a dirty bomb, which would be perfect for the Islamic State," the smuggler said. "If you have a connection with them, the business will go smoothly."

But the smuggler, Valentin Grossu, wasn't sure the client was for real — and he was right to worry. The client was an informant, and it took some 20 meetings to persuade Grossu that he was an authentic Islamic State representative. Eventually, the two men exchanged cash for a sample in a sting operation that landed Grossu in jail.

The previously unpublicized case is one of at least four attempts in five years in which criminal networks with suspected Russian ties sought to sell radioactive material to extremists through Moldova, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. One investigation uncovered an attempt to sell bomb-grade uranium to a real buyer from the Middle East, the first known case of its kind.

In that operation, wiretaps and interviews with investigators show, a middleman for the gang repeatedly ranted with hatred for America as he focused on smuggling the essential material for an atomic bomb and blueprints for a dirty bomb to a Middle Eastern buyer.

In wiretaps, videotaped arrests, photographs of bomb-grade material, documents and interviews, AP found that smugglers are explicitly targeting buyers who are enemies of the West. The developments represent the fulfillment of a long-feared scenario in which organized crime gangs are trying to link up with groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaida — both of which have made clear their ambition to use weapons of mass destruction.

The sting operations involved a partnership between the FBI and a small group of Moldovan investigators, who over five years went from near total ignorance of the black market to wrapping up four sting operations. Informants and police posing as connected gangsters penetrated the smuggling networks, using old-fashioned undercover tactics as well as high-tech gear from radiation detectors to clothing threaded with recording devices.

But their successes were undercut by striking shortcomings: Kingpins got away, and those arrested evaded long prison sentences, sometimes quickly returning to nuclear smuggling, AP found.

For strategic reasons, in most of the operations arrests were made after samples of nuclear material had been obtained rather than the larger quantities. That means that if smugglers did have access to the bulk of material they offered, it remains in criminal hands.

The repeated attempts to peddle radioactive materials signal that a thriving nuclear black market has emerged in an impoverished corner of Eastern Europe on the fringes of the former Soviet Union. Moldova, which borders Romania, is a former Soviet republic.

Moldovan police and judicial authorities shared investigative case files with the AP in an effort to spotlight how dangerous the black market has become. They say a breakdown in cooperation between Russia and the West means that it is much harder to know whether smugglers are finding ways to move parts of Russia's vast store of radioactive materials.

"We can expect more of these cases," said Constantin Malic, one of the Moldovan investigators. "As long as the smugglers think they can make big money without getting caught, they will keep doing it."

The FBI and the White House declined to comment. The U.S. State Department would not comment on the specifics of the cases.

All my teammates so far have been pretty good, I mean there are some shitty ones but w/e.

In the last five matches we've been doing it "professionally" (everyone is crouching or laying down all the time, the buddy system was used very well, we had people dong  that thing were two people stand on each side of the door and one person walks through, etc)

It's been pretty fun.

camp omega

I'm all for giving people a second chance. It's been quite a while, let's see how he handles things this time around.
Perhaps he will surprise the critics.

Quote from: Kupo on October 06, 2015, 03:16:18 PM

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Quote from: PSU on October 06, 2015, 01:37:50 PM

[vaccinating is] a fucking joke. Stupid libtards.

irony

Wrong, not what I said.

OVER-vaccinating is a fucking joke. The government telling you what you have to do with your child is a fucking joke.

There is no such thing as over-vaccination. It's a term invented by anti-vaxxers to sound legitimate.

I've personally had my son's pediatricians tell me not to get all the vaccinations that are "recommended" cause they're are far too many before the age of 3. I've also had friends who are doctors confirm this.

But you're right, let me listen to some kid on the internet. LAWL.

"kid"

I'm willing to bet your "son's pediatricians" and "friends who are doctors" are as real as your trip to England.

More importantly however, all doctors will not have infinitely valid opinions, nor opinions held by the vast majority of doctors. Some of them profit from telling people what they want to hear, when their job is really to tell them what they should hear.

You're still hung up on that dumb shit? Typical.

I agree, doctors opinions vary. Which is why I believe my personal doctors and friends over some quacks online.

I'd rather believe empirical evidence over a doctor's subjective opinion.

Its not like my doctors are telling me never to get my son vaccinated. All they told me were that some weren't needed at all and to space them out. Say, instead of getting 20 by age 3, get those same 20 by age 6 instead.

But I stand by my original point, IF someone doesn't want to vaccinate their children (Me not being one of those parents) , the government shouldn't force them to.