Calax

Working on getting dates with a new aussie housemate. She's pretty personable and certainly is attractive.

I enjoyed it, good for mindless slaughter of zombies. If I do that, I'm gonna use bloody Dynasty Warriors.

How does "Protesting killing" (which is basically what they're attempting to do I believe... the military protests and such are protesting the taking of lives and not living by the strictest code of the bible) fall under "satanist"?

Don't worry; the army issues condoms. So do colleges, but that doesn't seem to help as much

Of course you're gonna need separate regiments... otherwise it's gonna be a literal breeding ground.

Hah, possible but I think they just don't know how to write a story. When comparing 2 to 1 you notice that they just seemed to have given up at some point in two.

Cataclysm! http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/vie...craft-Cataclysm

They're the crew that protested comicon because "batman won't save you like god will".

An opinion piece from a man who has an agenda in the case (he's the head of a political group trying to get involuntary treatment into law) and a piece on something that's been going on and well known since the 90's. Go Go Wall Street Journal!

http://kotaku.com/5731810/was-modern-warfa...act-of-sabotage

Dagon, my point was that the only way you could even try to do something is if you were willing to spend millions/billions on the subject. And your proof honestly, is entirely anecdotal. You see only the % of crimes that is committed within the realm of the newsday. NOT an accurate view of the problem.

No, you require them to check in once a month or so, to check on their condition. Those who couldn't or wouldn't comply can be placed in a supervised environment, it doesn't have to be a hospital, just a special residential project. and this is where the slippery slope comes in. You have them check in once a month... then another person goes and kills others with a mental illness, then it's once a week... etc. Also, right now we can't even keep an eye on foster families and make sure they aren't abusing their charges, you really want to add another domestic support to the already over worked, understaffed, underpaid social services sector? Your response isn't really relevant to what I said, and anyway I already explained institutionalization is not usually necessary if proper treatment and follow up is provided. People who remain dangerous to society should absolutely be institutionalized, this is different from criminal law. But what constitutes a danger to society? Is my bipolar which sometimes leads to thoughts of massacres dangerous to society? Am I any more dangerous than say some dumb idiot who drinks to much? After all the guy who drank to much has a higher chance than I to kill people.

Depends on the type of mental illness. Definitely people who suffer paranoia are very dangerous, it makes them hostile and obsessed with guns. You're right to an extent that mental hospitals don't do anything since there's no real cure. However, the medications now available are generally quite effective in dealing with symptoms. The problem is no one makes sure that the patient takes them outside of the hospital once he's released, and since medications generally have side effects often the patient will stop taking them and become dangerous again. Also, a lot of people can't cope with their illness, and either have no one to look after them or refuse help. Those wind up living in squalor in the streets, and society just accepts that as normal. Basically the only way to ensure that somebody continues to take their meds is to always keep them as a dependent. So basically the mentally ill would need to always be in the states institutions and couldn't actually have a life. Why not just kill em and be done with it? There would be no way to make sure that the person took it out in the world as all you could do would just be a med count and you'd find piles of meds going into the trashcan. Unfortunately they usually don't get locked up until someone is already dead. Also to be criminally non-culpable it's not enough to be mentally ill, it's to be unable to distinguish right from wrong, just as an aside. Oh stop... you have no clue what you're talking about. To be declared insane to the point of not responsible you have to literally totally disconnect from reality for the time that you perpetrated the crime, and have had it be completely spontaneous. That's why it's so hard and even those who DO have a mental illness get sent to prison rather than tossed to an institution, they have knowledge and semi-planned for their crimes. We can't have a system where anyone who's mind falls into the "probably going to commit a crime" section gets institutionalized, if we did, we'd be breaking "Innocent until proven guilty" at the very least. This is the same reason why we can't have cops go into a gang and just cart them off to a prison before they do anything provable.

Oh yeah, Goodkind has like one good book that he wrote. Everything else started to decend into extreme... "mary sue" territory and there was no question of who was ever right. The Tvtropes page for that stuff is hilarious.

They basically rely on the shops to judge the mental state of the buyer who hasn't been declared insane by the state because he hasn't undergone treatment. This is just another example of the government hoping that every state is capable of ruling themselves, but neither the state nor the federal government do anything to prevent events like this from happening. When they do they become a media frenzy game of hot potato to see where the blame lands and the problem continues unsolved. Deja Vu from Columbine, anyone? It's actually worse than that. The store can't judge anything, they check with the FBI computerized list of people not allowed to buy guns. The problem is even if someone is committed by court order to a mental institution, they're not reported to that list because of privacy laws. It takes a separate court order to do the report, but hardly anyone knows about that so it's almost never done. Add to that the liberal/conservative conspiracy not to treat the mentally ill but instead turn them out on the street, liberals because they are protecting their civil rights, conservatives because they don't want to pay for it. Honestly? You're scaring me dagon. I'm technically in the catagory of the "unstable" and I've been in the acute psych ward of a hospital (Chicago VA). And honestly, putting somebody in an institution does NOTHING for their sanity. They're so worried about the possibility of what you might do that you can't do anything and they censor anything that might even be close to violence. Hell, when somebody is declared insane to the point of being criminally non-culpable, it's more than likely they will never see the day that they get OUT of a mental institution. Seriously, people were put in a mental institution for 20+ years for simply shooting up a place that never even had anyone get hurt. Mental health in the US is utterly broken.

Well, just got back from my first class of the new semester... and my teacher is SOOO much better than before!

But unlike Salvatore, he seems to have given up, if not in time, then at least in general. (Edit: Oh great, he just came out with a new book after ~5 years, didn't he? ****) and punched the giant red "RESET!" button while he was at it IIRC. So all his characters are played by different actors! Any movement like this can be dangerous, but they don't strike me as so dangerous they need infiltration.

Honestly, it seems like he was sent in there in the same way that young cops were sent into student orgs bacin the 70's in America where they were sent in and basically perpetrated the acts to create the threat the government wanted. Admittedly I'm probably speaking out of my rear

Did you? Through most of my time at FAU I was notorious for showing up only on test nights. Yeah, I just ended up failing the course due to stupid mistakes, and the teacher didn't take attendance in any form.

I hope my professor comes through and tells the administration that I did indeed attend his class so I can not have to deal with this financial aid stuff

Becuase you're single. Trust me on this...

I think it's more like they can play through it, but the entire team is just golfballs floating in mid air talking to shepard who looks like a stick figure.

Actually Ryu, for the most part they take that into consideration. Sometimes near the end of a raiding tier/section, they'll pop up with "use this build if you're below these markers" and "use this build when above same markers" because those markers make other stats useful. But in general the "cookie cutter" builds are acknowledged as the best build for just about anything. Ok, maybe not for running around solo and trying to farm yourself retarded, but they're the best build for PvE situations for the particular spec you've chosen for your character. But realize that this concept also applies to the previously mentioned ME quest. If they hadn't added in the Paragon/Renegade points then that choice would have been much more... interesting rather than just "I need **** points" or "I need happy points".

The one thing I dislike is the need to quantify the consequences as something tangible in game. I think there are merits with a choice like that, even if you never hear of the results of the decision. In fact, putting forth some sort of outcome runs the risk of indicating what is the "right" or "wrong" choice for that situation. Something that I think is best avoided. They need to indicate SOMEWHERE that your choices had an effect. Maybe not a direct connection to the gameplay, but perhaps later you hear a news report about the geth pulling back or the civil war heating up.

guess I won't be telling people what a pric the wide receiver was in high school at the super bowl parties