Wrath of Dagon

If you have qualifying insurance, either from work or personally purchased, you don't have to opt in. Otherwise if you don't opt in penalty is withheld from your tax refund, if any. There are many gotcha's in this, as the law wasn't well thought out or even went through proper legislative process. All kinds of special interest groups of course got their 2 bits in, like with any piece of major legislation.

I guess I have a case of Congressitis. I should've said "the law means what we want it to mean", although I was also referring to what Bill Moyers asked Sandra Day O'Connor, but that's too subtle a reference. As for the decision, they've now extended jurisprudence to "what the law plainly says is not what it actually means", which of course allows all kinds of retconning. And the overall plan isn't evident, one of the main architects Gruber said many times the provision was intentional, it's only evident now when most states refused to set up their own exchanges. But fixing bad laws isn't the job of the courts, a law being vague is all the more reason to strike it down. The more things change, the more they remain the same, this is from 1947! Edit: Btw, if they passed the law without even reading it, how can we talk about what their "intent" was?

So a typical Bioware game.

Not only that, but slavery still existed in the US after the Confederacy already ceased to exist.

Excellent news? Are you coming over here or something? The decision itself is just another in the long line of examples of judicial tyranny; "the law means whatever we say it means". The rule of law has been dead since about 1930.

Let the censorship begin! Are they going to stop selling Crusader Kings too? Also this : http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420211/left-activist-peak-kevin-d-williamson

I guess they better expunge Harry Truman from everything since he was a member of the KKK.

Suzuki says there are other sources of financing, which is good because even if KS raises $5 million it's probably not enough for a proper game: http://www.vg247.com/2015/06/22/shenmue-3-10-million-kickstarter-sonys-role-pc-ps4/

Texas is what's left of America. It's not that I'm a huge fan of Trump, it's just that I think he'll get the job done, in spite of his faults. And look at the alternatives, a bunch of lying corporate sell-outs, one of the most corrupt and dishonest people ever, or a Socialist who apparently thinks the Soviet Union was heaven on earth, since he honeymooned there.

Some more info from Kotaku : http://kotaku.com/what-we-know-about-shenmue-iii-so-far-1712187835

It's kind of open world and sort of RPGish adventure and you're supposed to live in it, like work, gamble, play arcade games, collect capsule toys and take photos. I think if you're expectations aren't sky high it grows on you with its charm and attention to detail. It's not any one thing but a combination of all, as well as a fairly new way to tell a story for the time it was made. I played the second game without playing the first, and that was fine but probably would've been better if I did play the first, as you're immediately invested in the character. No idea about the third, since it's not made yet. Really hope they reissue the first 2 for the PC since I'd really like to play the first.

See, it's a win-win. No, I don't watch "reality shows" except for Pawn Stars and the news.

Here's another side effect of replacing Americans with foreign workers: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/encryption-would-not-have-helped-at-opm-says-dhs-official/

I am. He's the only one who's not a corporate sell-out. Interesting, so Trump will have his valid suporters The Republican nomination is going to be interesting. WOD you should work on convincing Hurlshot to vote Trump, if you can convince the Californian liberals to vote for him then the battle is basically won. People's Republic of Kalifornia is beyond redemption. The best thing is to give it back to Mexico. Edit: @Hurl Yes, Trump is very rich. Of course we don't want successful people to be President. What we need is a community organizer who's never achieved anything and has no competencies (except lie and get himself elected through lies).

H1B program has always been a complete scam, and should be cancelled. Unfortunately our entire government are a bunch of corporatists, two parties against the people.

I am. He's the only one who's not a corporate sell-out.

Hopefully it won't cost $70 million this time, or it'll never happen.

Never underestimate the arrogance and malfeasance of professional politicians and bureaucrats. Prezbident Obongo himself has openly declared his contempt for our founding documents and considers them roadblocks and obstacles to be overcome. Ruth "Buzzy" Ginsberg and others on the Supreme Court have expressed similar sentiments. They're nothing but Ruling Class vermin and are not to be trusted. It's not a matter of trust but practicality. I'm 100% sure that no one will be busting down your doors to seize your guns. At least not within 100 years. I can't be sure of anything after that. It's pretty simple. What they did in UK was give you a 10 year prison sentence for gun possession. So you can hide your gun, but if they ever find out it's 10 years in prison. Not too many law abiding citizens will take that chance. Sure right now there's no public support to ban guns, but if the Left makes it a priority, and use all their media and entertainment industry assets, they can change that. Senate filibuster is on its way out too, once the same party controls both houses and the presidency. And of course the liberal states would ban guns immediately as soon as the SC lets them, but I'm not too worried about that.

Yes, that's the beauty of the Supreme Court, they don't have to worry about anyone's opinion but their own. Although Hurl is right to an extent, it would take Dems awhile to pass national gun control legislation, but they can do it if they prioritize it like Obamacare.

May be those are different people.

Yeah, one more term for the Democrats and it's almost a certainty they'll replace one of the old Conservatives on the Supreme Court. Then good bye to the Second Amendment. It's almost enough to make me vote for the lying Republican scum.

Because she's a liar and a crook without a shred of integrity. Also it seems insane to me to vote for a position that affects almost everybody based on the candidate's sexual organs. Really surprised so many Americans in this thread are Socialists. I mean I expect that from Europeans. Edit: Btw, in case someone's been living in a cave : http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/26/11-explosive-clinton-cash-facts-mainstream-media-confirm-are-accurate/

While I'm generally against wonton provocation I also don't think that religion should be a sacred cow and above critique or insult, it's wonderful that we don't have blasphemy laws and I'd hate to see that change. I don't think it's above criticism certainly, but I don't believe in gratuitous insults. I don't agree with drawing the cartoons, though they certainly have a right to do that. They're doing it to get under the skin of Jihadists, but we also have many Muslim citizens and allies, so why insult them also? Apparently it was a city policeman working security after hours, armed with a powerful handgun (.45 Glock according to CNN) I think what Zora is actually alluding to is if someone found a way to directly insult the entire Jewish community in the USA through some kind of " freedom of expression " there would be consequences and people wouldn't just be able to say " its okay, its just freedom of speech". I think the bacon story is just an analogy around the point he is making ? And I agree that there would consequences that would be far reaching than just internet criticism Actually a while back there was some controversy when the nazis wanted to march through a Jewish neighborhood, with many Holocaust survivors living there as well. The courts said they can do it though.

Hate speech is free speech, at least in US. Popular speech doesn't need protection. Dumping bacon on front step of a synagogue would be a hate crime, because you're trespassing on private property. If it's a government building, you can bring in bacon, no matter who it offends. In other words, you can draw swastikas all you want, just not on someone else's property. There is a "fighting words" doctrine, where you personally insult someone, that could be considered a provocation. A public speech though wouldn't come under this, as you're not forced to listen to it. I don't believe anyone's religion should be insulted, but that's a very different question of whether it should be legal or not, and if it is legal police have to protect the person same as everyone else, else they themselves would be engaging in censorship.

Problem is you're usually making decisions based on insufficient information. This is where ideology helps, since it's a set of principles believed by those who hold them to have worked in the past.