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Maybe that was why I liked Empire best. Not only did it make the Empire seem dangerous it didn't rely on a "superweapon". In practical economics though the cost of building the Death Star would have been ruinous. The cost of losing it more so. They would not have been able to build a second one. And the writers would have needed to put a little more effort into Return of the Jedi which would not have been a bad thing. It sucks growing up and seeing all the major plot holes and logic fails in the stories you loved as a kid doesn't it?

Good luck Orogun. God be with you and yours next week.

Cop shoots news photographer. Thought camera on a tripod was a weapon: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/09/ohio_deputy_shoots_news_photog.html I would give the police in this country a choice: Give up your firearms while on duty or give up your qualified immunity. Pick one. You cannot have both.

That is a little sensationalized... but only a little. PETA is bad news for many reasons, not the least of which they do kill animals by the score.

On this date: Roger Maris has 53 Mark McGwire had 60 Barry Bonds had 59 Giancarlo Stanton has 53 25 games to go

Hold on to your wallets, hide your wives and daughters. and lock your doors.... Congress is back in session today!

The military deals with foreign enemies, the police deal with the public. When the police becomes the military the public becomes the enemy.

by the same token, every time they get in an argument he can point out how she ain't a princess no more, even if she continues to act like one. HA! Good Fun! That would be a weak comeback though.

Wow, I never considered that. That poor guy has lost every argument they will ever have before they even have one.

RIP Walter Becker https://youtu.be/tgYuLsudaJQ

Don't blame me... I voted for Johnson

How cool is this? (no pun intended) http://ovens.reviewed.com/features/want-a-cold-beer-just-pop-it-in-this-insane-microwave?utm_source=usat&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=collab

Neverwinter Nights. All the pieces you need for a compelling story were there. But it was just so... generic. No real thought or effort went into the main story. The never put the pieces together. Some of the side quests were pretty decent but in the end the villain was not compelling and their master plan made no sense, the writing and conversations were just vacant, and the premise just sucked. A cult worshiping a lizard race that plans to enslave the cult and everyone else but needs the cult's help to do it. It makes no sense! The problem is it tried to make your level one nobody into the savior of the city at level 1. The "best and brightest" were wiped out by level one goblins and wizards casing cantrip cold sprays but you survived. If that was the "best and brightest" that whole city was already f----d. And I HATE this idea that there is an "adventurer university" out there that teaches all different character classes how to do whatever they do. SoU, which was much better, leaned on that same crutch too. No adventure is epic at level 1. Baldur's Gate wasn't an epic adventure at level 1. You are on the run and your foster father is murdered. Now go find your own way. Here is WHY SoU was better: It started small. A small event occurs: an old man's house is broken into and some things stolen. That is a reasonable task for a level 1 character. Like Baldur's Gate the small event turns out to be a part of a larger plot, which is part of a larger plot still. And in following the plot structure your character grows as the plot grows and what starts as a small adventure is actually an epic one. SoU to it's credit never got so big the whole thing seemed empty or hollow the way NWN did. When you are the savior of the world at level 1 there is nowhere to go. I would not keep any aspect of the NWN main story. It cut a new one from whole cloth. But it would be one that would be smaller, more focused, that grows as the PC grows.

Take this for what it's worth https://youtu.be/VRcImXw3bV8

if you wanna dig through some o' the old police violence threads on this board you will be able to find a few discussions 'bout the correlation 'tween various police qualities and excessive force complaints and convictions. am knowing a few boardies who is dismissive o' the value o' education, but the most significant police attribute resulting in decrease in violence claims and convictions is the level o' education o' the officer. yes, is correlative, so perhaps education level is not the reason for the decrease in abuse o' force 'mongst cops, but am thinking it doesn't much matter if one is simple looking for a way to avoid such problems. hire cops with at least college degree, and a large % of such events don't happen. 'course the resulting difficulty is almost nobody can afford to hire a force o' all college educated cops. the pay for typical municipal cop with only high school education requirements is already excellent. nevertheless, major cities still have trouble fulfilling hiring needs even with an extreme large pool from which to draw. increase education requirement and you need increase pay as well, no? there is a solution to the problem. sure, have only cops with university degree won't complete stop abuse o' law enforcement power, but it will great reduce. unfortunate, as with so many problems, money is a practical barrier to adopting the obvious solution. HA! Good Fun! Given the number of vets who decide to go into law enforcement after their enlistment is over, would probably convince more to take advantage of their GI Bill. One of the best benefits of military service. That coupled with the fact the government pays tuition for classes taken while on active duty and the education value of the training you receive in and of itself makes a tour of military service one of the best educational opportunities in the US. If you take full advantage f everything it offers.

More details on the Salt Lake City cop vs nurse/Constitution story: http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/01/every-cop-involved-in-the-arrest-of-this

Yes, I know we have a forum for this kind of thing. But it does not get a lot of traffic.And it's pretty computer centric in a world where computers are becoming a smaller and smaller piece of the Consumer Electronics pie. This thread is for all things electronic. I've been very interested in this one. I've been watching it's development closely: https://youtu.be/34I27KPZM6g https://remarkable.com/ I could really make use of this. I'm sort of old school and still do a LOT of my work longhand. I use Excel and Quattro Pro a lot but when it comes to notes, documents, etc that I write they usually start hand written in notebooks. The pros are obvious but the cons give me pause. It's not out yet. And they just announced the first shipment has been delayed: https://blog.remarkable.com/get-set-for-remarkable-first-batch-shipping-date-confirmed-704b0c1e8f52 It only syncs with iOS. If you are not an apple user you are SOL. You will have to port documents using flash devices. It's compatability with Android, Windows, & Linux is limited right now No apps,. Their OS is proprietary and by design they are limiting the functionality. Oddly I can see the appeal of this kind of spartan design decisions. I am easily distracted when one of my apps pops up a new news item or story or message. Limited formats for opening documents from elsewhere. It looks like it will open .pdf .txt. .rtf or pub. This thing is seriously expensive. Over $600 US I believe. Despite all that I am intrigued. Does anyone know of a similar product or know anyone that has ordered on of these? .

Yep, which is why I roll my eyes and laugh any time one of them get shot or dies in any other way and get the funeral for a fallen hero. Thank God for the proliferation of video cameras these days. I certainly don't want to see any of them injured or killed. Even the asholes are still human beings with families that love them. But I certainly am uncomfortable with extending military decorum to law enforcement. To call it apples and oranges is still too close a comparison. Joining the police force or even the military does not make someone a hero. Sometimes cops do heroic things. Military members often do heroic things when in a situation that calls for it. But military service is a sacrifice. The pays sucks, the conditions you are in usually suck. The work is long, hard, complex, stressful, and often done with no tolerance for error. There are no "shifts" in the military, You work when you are told to work and stop when you're told you can stop. If a cop has to work on Christmas at least 1/2 of that day will be spent with his family. Not even close to being the case in the service often enough. And if you don't like being a cop you can do something else. Be a cop somewhere else. If you don't like the military, tough s--t. You are in until your contract runs out. Maybe even longer if stop-loss is in effect. Police are paid a decent salary. They have better than average benefits. The government goes out of their way to cover for them when they make mistakes. i assure you military members get no such coverage. They are routinely thrown under the bus. It's not the same thing. And it annoys me when I see the equation of the two. Mark my words, this detective will not get fired. They will hide him until this blows over and it will be business as usual again. It happens all the time.

He was in the wrong. The patient could not give consent and the 4th Amendment (just for starters) requires the police to get a warrant for that kind of thing. Either he didn't know or didn't give a s--t. To tell you the truth I'm surprised they didn't slam the nurse to the ground and beat the holy hell out of her. Some of them like doing that.

It's no secret have have very little respect for police. There are some decent genuinely conscientious people in law enforcement who are trying to do good. But the large majority are little more than armed thugs too stupid to comprehend or too arrogant to be troubled to learn the laws they enforce. Here is another example of the latter: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/utah-nurse-arrested-refusing-give-patient-s-blood-police-n798021

Spotting alts used to be a sport around here. My favorite part was when they forgot what name they were signed in under and posted something out of character. That's how LoF was caught.

You guys invested far more thought into that than I ever intended. It was really just supposed to illicit a chuckle at the absurdity of it rather than analyze it. I like the Washington Post. I read it everyday on my Kindle. And like other newspapers these days it has more than it's fair share of absurdity that it treats as serious subject matter. Which is itself absurd. This whole micro-aggression sensitivity business is just the latest bucket of large male bovine nightsoil that self indulgent college kids engage in. I think they will find this incessant navel gazing won't be tolerated once they have to get actual jobs.

Good burritos are where you find them.

The only response I can come up with is this:

70's & 80's TV actor Richard Anderson passed away at age 91. I remember him in Big Valley and the Six Million Dollar Man http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/richard-anderson-dies-oscar-goldman-from-%E2%80%98six-million-dollar-man%E2%80%99-was-91/ar-AAr3OZC?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp