Wrath of Dagon

"I can't take anything off the table" is still a better policy than Obola's "they have nothing to fear from us". Edit: Alicia Machado's Wikipedia page just got scrubbed: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alicia_Machado&oldid=741517763

Not that there was much doubt who did it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/dutch-probe-missile-brought-from-russia-downed-malaysia-airline-plane-over-ukraine/2016/09/28/05a9770c-84c5-11e6-b57d-dd49277af02f_story.html

Hilzilla would be in prison now if the FBI investigation wasn't fixed. So Trump's scandals are nowhere near Hilzilla's, who's not only a felon but also a betrayer of public trust.

No they didn't. Holt said Trump supported the Iraq invasion, in the interview he's clearly not supporting, instead suggesting to wait for the UN. In any case, it's not a moderator's job to take sides in a controversy.

Once again a debate moderator takes a partisan position, and once again gets his facts wrong: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/27/2003-clip-backs-up-trump-on-iraq-war-opposition.html

I didn't know Gifted is an institution. I know he's a mod and all but that's quite a promotion.

credits state that it was developed by LTI Gray Matter, with Bioware providing their game engine, QA, assets and a bunch of producers This is what Wikipedia has to say about it: Jade Empire is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Microsoft Game Studios, originally released worldwide for the Xbox.[1] A Microsoft Windows version, developed by LTI Gray Matter and published by 2K Games, was released in North America on February 26, 2007, as a Special Edition.[1] Jade Empire was released as an Xbox Original on Microsoft's Xbox 360 on July 21, 2008. The Special Edition became available for Mac OS X on August 18, 2008.[2] I know when I played it on the Xbox, there wasn't even any talk of it being developed by someone else. Admittedly I probably never read the credits.

The game was made by Bioware, I don't know if they did the PC port themselves. I thought the Tien's Landing part was quite good, the rest was kind of meh a lot of the time, a lot of recycled ideas. I liked the game overall but it was clearly rushed, truncated and in general showed the start of the decline in quality that badly affected the subsequent Bio games.

Your other costs in third world countries could be a lot higher though, transportation, energy, corruption, political instability. As manufacturing jobs become more automated, an educated worker becomes more valuable than a cheap worker.

Over-regulation is mostly a red herring in the off-shoring argument. It can be a factor (mostly in heavily polluting industries that no American really wants to live near), but for most businesses it pales in comparison to the fact that Americans are expensive to employ. And no amount of tax reduction and deregulation is going to make American labor rates comparable to those in Bangladesh. Anyhow, the biggest driver in the loss of American manufacturing jobs isn't firms going overseas-- it's mechanization. American manufacturing output has actually been recovering in recent years, but it's doing so with the kind of factories that employ 5 engineers and lots of robots instead of 50 union workers on an assembly line. Over-regulation is one of the things that drives up costs. You can't just say it's one thing and not the other. Also the workers in Bangladesh don't necessarily have the same capabilities that American workers have. You can't just do a straight comparison of wages. Edit: Disparity in wages isn't something we can do much about, but the regulatory and tax environment is in our control. So it's valid to try to come up with the best environment to make us globally competitive.

More on the Mills immunity, this time from a neutral observer: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/09/26/hillary-clinton-emails-mills-server-immunity-jonathan-turley/91092182/ "For the Obama Administration, the criminal investigation into the Democratic presidential nominee and its prior secretary of State came with a heightened level of public scrutiny and skepticism. Many doubted that the administration would seriously pursue the Clintons, a family of political royalty in both Democratic and establishment circles. The easiest way for prosecutors to scuttle a criminal case is to immunize those people who are at the greatest risk of criminal indictment."

I guess I haven't learned anything in all that time.

Before grandma conquers IS and Putin, she's going to have to conquer the menace of short flights of stairs: http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/25/video-hillary-clinton-struggles-stairs-curb-first-presidential-debate/ Another outbreak of pneumonia no doubt.

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. Pretty early in the game, but great so far.

More on Cheryl Mills immunity: http://observer.com/2016/09/the-fbi-investigation-of-emailgate-was-a-sham/ You give immunity to someone who's simultaneously acting as the chief suspect's lawyer! Just wow. Edit: More on this, this time from a former federal prosecutor, admittedly a partisan one: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/440370/why-did-obama-justice-department-grant-cheryl-mills-immunity

On some games I have to set the video card GPU clock below normal to avoid crashes.

wod, as usual, don't know what he is talking 'bout. it is indeed scary to discover just how many potential criminals get deals. *chuckle* we knew a smuggler who got a deal from feds to functional educate 'em 'bout current smuggling routes n' such. was almost like a paid consultant... well, actual it were a paid consultant too, but he also avoided personal prosecution. a few years after his deal went into effect, the guy got busted, predictably, for smuggling. got transactional immunity, but that didn't prevent him from being prosecuted for future crimes, and he just couldn't keep his hands outta the cookie jar. were embarrassing for everybody involved. tv police procedurals is a bit misleading. in our experience, a considerable amount o' police work is getting one crook to snitch on others, and not necessarily in court. HA! Good Fun! So do you believe they agreed to snitch on Hilzilla and then didn't snitch? Or did the government just need an education on how to avoid all security protocols?

Well, I guess if you toss out the 60's and early 70's, then you have a point. But I don't know why we would do that, since they are a pretty solid blueprint to follow as to how this whole thing is going to develop over the next decade. http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/11/are-we-living-1968-all-over-again/ http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0503-burrough-violent-revolution-20150503-story.html The tone of your reply was implying that I didn't know what I was talking about. My point was things are getting worse, not that they're historically unprecedented. Now you seem to be agreeing with me that things are indeed getting worse. Normally immunity is granted to get people to testify in court. In this case it seems they never had the intention of building a case, so why give immunity to those most involved? - unless it's precisely to keep them from talking. Edit: They gave immunity to Cheryl Mills, yet Cheryl Mills was present when they questioned Hilzilla, how's that for a hostile witness?

Well thankfully the internet exists and you can check to see how often they happen. The 60's and 70's were pretty crazy, this stuff pales in comparison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_the_United_States I wasn't here in the sixties and I wasn't comparing to the sixties either, obviously that was an extraordinary time. That was more than 50 years ago and you might as well compare to the Civil War. I don't remember anything like now in the late 70's, looks like Wikipedia is listing just about every episode, not wide scale rioting like we've seen lately. Was his pseudonym Carlos Danger by any chance? Edit: The pseudonym suggests he knew Hilzilla was using an unsecure system: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/365990.php

I don't remember them happening this often before. 70% of rioters arrested in Charlotte were non-local btw.

It's not a question of what I want, that's how it works.

They would only be able to sue us in their country's courts, which means no more business for them with America. I guess with someone like Obola, who actually settles lawsuits with enemy countries, it could be a valid strategy.

To channel GuardDog, what about Johnson? GD doesn't agree, but in a two party system the only logical choice is to vote for the lesser of two evils. If by election day Johnson looks like a he has a chance, then by all means. Personally I don't like most of his ideas though.

Trump is far from a perfect candidate, but he's all we got. Unless you like what's happening with the country.

Don't vote for Hilzilla for her own good: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/297208-clintons-eyes-a-window-into-her-health-issues