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My understanding is that the police have to stop interrogating when the suspect says that he wants his lawyer. But if the suspect talks to them after that it can be construed as him waiving his rights and the interrogation may resume. Interrogating without the prompt from the suspect, for any reason, is a violation of Miranda rights. This seems upheld by several sources I can find online. Including this one. http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=171&issue_id=122003

Halo Wars. I figure it's about time I played it post-release. Not playing it at a rapid pace, though.

I've heard the rumors regarding her Star Wars work, but I wished to believe it was exaggerated. I may have to read one just to be sure.

Tired no, but I prefer science fiction. It's just that science fiction hasn't had anyone like Pratchett since Adams died. Though it has its share of epics.

Hey, if you're going to murder companions just because they're creepy and screwed up, then you'd end up facing the king of shadows alone with the animated suit of armor.

I've heard that there's a few filler books in there where the story doesn't progress. And even Eye of the World will overdo it in the description. But this was the big fantasy franchise my college friends were into back in the day (before a girl sidetracked me into reading Harry Potter and Stephen King started writing Dark Tower again). And then when the news of Sanderson taking over, that got me into checking him out, which got me to listening to Writing Excuses, which is why I started writing again. Altogether, this feels like something I should have finished a long time ago.

Finished Revelation Space over the weekend. I haven't enjoyed a book like that since Ender's Game. Decided that it's about time I read all of the Wheel of Time. I stopped at book four before, but am restarting with Eye of the World. I like the writing style. And Chapter 1 made me realize it's been a while since I read a book that wasn't jumping scenes every couple of pages.

I don't think any of the bars around here even do growlers. And I'm not familiar with any breweries. So, I'm going with a selfish no.

Cast iron or teflon coated?

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark It's not awful, but it's a cheaply made game. The overwhelming majority of the characters are just reused models from Fall of Cybertron. Not even the single player models, but the multiplayer models with bland color schemes that make everyone overwhelmingly red or purple. The only new models seem to be the movie characters, who don't have that color problem, but they look like crap. The level design is actually somewhat decent. The big thing holding it back is that they clearly had a small budget, so they pad out every single level with a hold-the-line scenario. And it lacks the spectacular moments of the other two Cybertron games. The only new mechanics are two new guns (one of which is G1 Megatron, awesome), a power, and an unlock system that might be familiar to you if you've played ME3's multiplayer. And it has no competitive multiplayer. Only a horde mode.

This seems like tilting at windmills to me. Occasionally a state, like California, does something dumb and tries to legislate video games. And then it gets shot down by the Supreme Court and we move on. Not the threat this website is trying to sell. This is the kind of siege mentality that breeds conspiracy theorists.

So how about that local sports team? Old thread here I believe everyone was talking about a player named Robben.

Thread is past the limit, new one going up shortly. Here it is.

The Lego Movie. I got impatient and ordered it off Amazon instant. The rave reviews were well-earned.

I thought "hey, I'll play some Transformers to relax." And the RB button on my 360 controller doesn't work. I've lost a battery pack and two 360 controllers previous. Microsoft certainly did not go with the highest bidder on these things.

It was probably better than Jobs. So, do they continue the running gag from the trailers and poster that it is a shameless sequel? They run that through a few. The first one made a joke out of being a shameless reboot.

22 Jump Street It was hilarious. As good as the first.

Any interesting looking story driven titles announced that aren't part of an existing franchise?

Now I'm only the third newest mod. Muahaha. Nothing can stop my rise to power.

Playing? People play things? What is playing? It sounds like something I should remember from long ago...

The entire spirit is about ensuring that creators are compensated for their contribution to the public through a limited monopoly. The limitations being a series of safety valves to ensure the predominance of the public good in the spread of ideas and information. And it's a complex balance between the two that has shifted over time. In our case, it seems to have largely shifted away from public good over to creator incentive. But that too, the ability to change with time, is also the spirit of the law. Even if I personally object. None of this supports the notion that a guy, thinking some work he could nonetheless afford is too expensive, should be able to acquire it at the price of his choosing. Heck, the traditional safety valves are all about things like resale, use, and scope. Not price.

Decided to give up on my current writing project. I've been too steeped in it to look at what's worth keeping and it's just not going anywhere. I liked the characters, I liked the main plot, I just struggled at figuring out a decent way to get the two together. My protagonist and antagonist spend the first third of the outline doing something totally unrelated to the main plot thread. And after writing my way through a good portion of that I realized it's probably not a good idea. Tried salvaging it over the weekend and all that did is make me realize the entire thing isn't cohesive enough to keep my interest. Sadly, my original outline was far more cohesive. But it had terrible characters. Hopefully if I move to a different project and come back, I might be able to figure out how to both good characters that happen to work with the plot. So I'm moving onto another project that I've already got the broad strokes planned out for. And it'll be more lighthearted so I can see if I have a comfort zone with humorous voice. It's about a team of interstellar mercenaries that were formed only so a rich guy could give his son a job. An adventure of heroic delusions, grand conspiracy, and poor business decisions.

A brief search tells me that the only thing the ECC does is offer advice. They don't make declarations of legality, they're not a court.

The showrunner for the Daredevil series on Netflix also left.

How would you make a real-time with pause MMO anyway? What happens if a player pauses the game and then just leaves? Is the entire server stuck?