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Delta was founded in Lousiana in the 1920s. They moved to Atlanta in the 1940s. Yeah, I actually specifically looked it up...and I meant to flip those two around - founded in Georgia, headquartered in Atlanta. @Gfted: companies move headquarters for tax purposes more frequently than one might think. Given that Delta dared them to do it (and those tax credits were previously given specifically to convince Delta to stay), I really wouldn't be terribly surprised if it happened.

I seriously doubt they would've doubled down on it when being specifically warned that exactly that would happen if that were the case. I understand that they also chased away Amazon from expanding into Atlanta with that little stunt. I hope that in a year from now we hear about Delta moving its headquarters into another state - that'll be a much funnier image. Georgia loses millions of tax dollars and thousands of jobs because their insane legislature thought the 13 people that actually had the discount were worth pissing on the state's 5th largest employer.

I hate those "race to the bottom" type of tax credits (or otherwise taxpayer-supplied funds) given to attract companies to come to your state...so I don't feel too terrible about Delta losing it. However, those credits were given to help convince Delta (a company that was founded in Atlanta) to stay headquartered in Georgia - it will not be terribly surprising if Georgia ends up the eventual loser there with such asinine and punitive action against one of its biggest employers...and so I won't feel too terrible if that comes to pass, either. At least, not until the people actually affected vote their awful politicians out.

Are all of those actually real? That's rather comical.

I mean, you don't even have to go that far. If they roll a 20 against your fighter (5% chance for every attack!), your fighter is almost certainly dead, too. Levels 1-2 in BG1 really sucked.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChaoticStupid there should be a "real life" category of examples on tvtropes

"He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day." -Trump on China's Premier (president/prime minister) consolidating power and becoming president for life.

(and there's no way that the issue would be nearly so equally split politically if literally almost the entire adult population had guns)

That's...an odd inference to draw from KaineParker's statement.

When Marnie Was There. I had trouble with this one. Whoever was directing the English voice-acting really screwed up with the titular character - I watched the movie in half Japanese, half English. I'm not sure why they thought having the voice actress constantly simpering was a good idea - it was very grating. Hmm. Anna's character hit much too close to home (painfully so at times), and I think this would've been a bit harder to like if not for that, so it's fortuitous that it did, as I think it helped carry the film for me.

"Trade wars are good, and easy to win." -Trump this morning on waging economic warfare on our European allies.

What do you consider "ok" temperatures?

@RAM: Is there a benefit to doing all 6 channels instead of just 2 or 4? IIRC, first generation i7s work best with 3 channels, but I don't recall if there's any benefit to going to 6 instead of 2 or 4. @New system entirely: I don't quite agree with Humanoid's numbers here, but I agree with the general principle of what he's saying. If you want to stick with an i7, that'll be $300-350 (depending on whether you want the overclockable version), and a good motherboard will probably be within the realm of $150-200 unless you have very specific features in mind. 32GB of DDR4 3000-3200 is around $340, give or take $25; while 16GB is around $180, give or take $20. @SSD: What, the Samsung 860 Pro? That's the only really notable SSD that I see at around that price. If that's the one, then at 1TB, there really isn't enough of a difference between it and the 860 Evo to justify the $200 greater price tag - at lower capacities I could see it, but the gap is bridged greatly when going to higher capacities.

Hey, I represent that! Yeah, I didn't have an alternative story to link instead.

I'm rather confused. Not upgrading to Windows 10 seems to be a sticking point for you...but you seem to be implying that you'd have to if you made a new rig, which you don't (especially as motherboard manufacturers are even conveniently still providing drivers on their websites for Windows 7 for new motherboards). I've built a bunch of new PCs for people in the last couple of years, and most of them have been Windows 7 machines (the biggest problem with Windows 7 for new builds is that it's very difficult to install an OS on SATA M.2 drives - and sometimes impossible for certain models). Further, your price for upgrading your current rig confuses me even more - you can get a very good 1TB SATA3 SSD for ~$300, your RAM for probably around $150, and the cooler...well, that depends on how far you want to go - probably as little as $50, though. @Gizmo: Yep, GPU costs are ridiculously terrible right now, which is making whole systems a much more attractive option than they used to be (because prices haven't affected them...at least as much...yet).

Did you not read his post? He didn't really say that it was difficult. A combat system being bad doesn't necessarily mean hard. I was bored to absolute tears playing out the majority of combat encounters using the same exact sequence of spells/abilities in the same exact way every time for the optimal results. Necessity is the mother of invention and variety is the spice of life and all that, and I think I played until around level 5 or 6 in PoE before I realized that there seemed to be very little of either on the player's side in the game and that I was really, really just tired of the combat system.

I'm also in favor of the "make our country not so terrible that apparently a bunch of people want to shoot up schools/each other" solution. Everything else is just symptom management at best. ...Of course, actually doing that is seemingly impossible, so back to symptom management we go.

I was going to put a warning that it was the DailyMail, but I forgot (...and also, I didn't know enough about the story itself to know whether or not anything was horribly inaccurate about it). Also, "poster of [my] talents"? What talents?

That is exactly what's happening, yes. Half the subreddit is going, "No no, guys, he's obviously planning something!", and the other half is dissenting and getting banned by the moderators for being "concern trolls", including a lot of long-time posters.

rotfl on Trump's recent pro-gun control and anti-due process comments. reddit's Trump subreddit is imploding right now. (e): Also, Bruce, you may want to get out of South Africa: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5443599/White-South-African-farmers-removed-land.html "[...] not calling for the slaughter of white people - at least for now." It's easy for an ethnic cleansing to transition to a genocide... Also, didn't Zimbabwe do this and essentially collapse as a result? Not exactly the best footsteps to follow in.

This is still not fixed either, no? Can't check right now, because of mobile phone. Does the forum getting any updates anyway? What about security issues? I had my data stolen on quite a lot boards in the past couple years, seeing my "have I been pwned?" counter steadily go up. Makes me wonder when the Obsidian Board will show up on the list. Forums are a pretty terrible vector for security threats, given that almost no important information is stored on them besides an email address with only very few notable exceptions. Maybe they can get your password if the security is truly terrible - anyone that has their email password the same as all the stuff that's registered to that email to is going to be in a world hurt sooner or later regardless, though.

It's not against presidents, it's against administrations (see the top text) - though the presidents themselves are obviously included. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/11/1619079/-Comparing-Presidential-Administrations-by-Arrests-and-Convictions-A-Warning-for-Trump-Appointees

For sure. Maybe a few of the people in his campaign would've eventually gotten busted for some of the shady financial dealings that went on during his campaign, but at this point over a hundred indictments have been filed against 19 people, with more to come. Firing Comey as he did magnified the investigation and its scope many times over. Here's a fun table: It'll be neat to see the eventual totals for Trump. Off to a fast start (though not all of the 100 indictments can...yet...be laid on Trump's administration, since some of them were the Russian nationals who have not been established as being party to the Trump administration).

I envy you (and anyone else). Not that mine hurt all the time but they don't feel "normal" either. "Pinching/grip" strength is nearly gone, some days super hard to pull off things like yogurt foil tops or hold dishes w/out dropping them. Although most games don't require a lot from those two fingers, thankfully. Thumb just sits on the spacebar for example. But damnit, I'm going to keep gaming thru it until the fingers fall off. I do hands and finger exercises all the time these days, and that seems to help with pain and dexterity some. My hands are too valuable to let rot away from repetitive motion injury and carpal tunnel syndrome, and never mind old age!

Hilariously, we wouldn't even be talking about this if Nixon Trump hadn't repeatedly fired or attempted to fire everyone looking into it. Could've been something that the FBI director was handling internally at the FBI...but then Trump fired him and said he fired him because of the Russian thing on Twitter. Talk about the height of stupidity.