Malcador

Still better than Scooter.

Finished ME3. Was rather amusing to see how Garrus and Vega with Typhoons just dismantled everything during that boss fight. Did the God Empress Shepard with the creepy monologue over the slideshow. Edit : Have started Andromeda, combat seems like it might be more interesting with movement, the Frostbite engine is aptly named, everything looks cold, heh, damn dead eyed characters. My Ryder seems to have trouble making eye contact when speaking to people. Just out of the prologue, arrived at the Citadel

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/winamp-releases-new-version-after-four-years-in-development/ It seems the llama won this round though

Well, at least we're in RA2 reality now.

Hearing missiles landed in Japanese waters had me worried for a bit, but turns out it's in the EEZ off Okinawa.

Also that oil rig in the Black Sea is still burning, no ?

Was curious, grabbed it for $10. That and I've never paid for any ME game so figure tossing EA/Bioware $10 is fair I am sure the game will be "ok" in my book, we'll see.

Almost to the end of ME3. Giving Garrus the Typhoon proves to work out quite well, well the rare moments he realizes he actually has LOS with the target rather than mag dumping a wall or indestructible box. I guess after this will be Andromeda, better start that download.

Also need bayonet and possibly some sort of night vision optic on it as well.

That pistol isn't tacticool enough.

Stop the steal!

Not seeing what you linked.

....this isn't what people do all the time ? My neighbours are interesting folk, in a good way. They've flown a flag I never knew existed - the Grand Union Flag - on July 3rd, switching to the US we know on July 4. Lately they've been flying the Four Provinces of Ireland flag, I assume this is rugby related, but maybe they are secretly IRA

Welcome to North America. Blessed be the slave that learns to love the lash.

Well means you can take as much time off as you want, as long as you get it approved suitably in advance, and don't take too much as they'll hold that against you when you go over an amount your manager or someone above deems appropriate for workers to take off Recruiter telling me that was a selling point made me laugh.

New company I am moving to has "unlimited PTO", which is a neat way of them avoiding having to pay out vacation days when you leave. Will still try to take 3 weeks a year, heh.

TCP handshake involves 3 packet exchanges, SYN, SYN-ACK and ACK. I forget exactly what goes on there as I am trying to recall stuff I learned in 2005 Reminds me of a professor who said his lessons were UDP - he didn't care if you got it. Lovely University, really. Wikipedia to the rescue.

Pelosi's landed in Taiwan - https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/02/world/pelosi-taiwan Unless the Chinese have a cloaking device though, no invasion anytime soon. Edit : Never mind about the jets, they're flying around in Taiwan's ADIZ, so that means nothing.

Going to need some citations on who you're talking about here. As for drones being okay because non-Americans are using it, I think your persecution complex on behalf of the West (inextricably tied to whiteness as you said on the Kodex) is acting up. And the usefulness of drones, or any weapon, is separate from how it's used. UAVs are very useful, we've seen it in the war in Ukraine, the Azeri-Armenian war, the, heh, "War on Terror". The US killed al-Zawahiri, they also murdered 10 people in Kabul last year with a drone strike (conveniently no one gets punished for that).

There was a question about them ? How many have they been used to kill in the last 20 years ?

Yep, not a big deal, although I am sure squad Mako was just Cortez by himself. Despite myself, the in mission dialogue did get a laugh out me - the drone bothering even the enemies with its prattling on. I can see why people like this DLC for the fanservice.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/01/sources-u-s-kills-al-qaeda-leader-ayman-al-zawahri-in-drone-strike-00049089 Not sure there'll be dancing in NY over this.