Malcador

The intelligence agency that takes its place would be just as bad - well, unless you think a power like the US has no need of a foreign-targeted intelligence agency

Damn CCP making me resub for a while

Jews, Muslims and Athiests have Good Friday off here as well.

Malc don't you think they should make it mandatory for everyone who doesn't drink that they have to work on the 1st after NY because you guys wouldn't be nursing a hangover ? New Year's Day is a day off here, I assume for that reason.

Sleep and play games, am off from 29-31 and have 25 & 26 off too. Never did get the appeal of NYE, I guess people will take any excuse to party and booze it up.

Game delayed to May 2015 http://thewitcher.com/news/view/906

Got a chuckle out of this old advert

Going with non-smokers is probably more economical in a long term view - cigarettes are expensive and if the relationship progresses to a stage where mutual maintenance is required that can add up.

Sounds like your students are too stupid to pick it up.

Work email archiving is becoming an epic task, with my craptastic PC here. Rather boggling how large my .pst files are, the smallest is 4 gigs. 95% of it is irrelevant too.

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2014/12/06/psx-2014-grim-fandango-remastered-release-date-revealed Jan 27 for the GF remastered release

Human beings are indeed disgusting things

They aren't running around harassing, assaulting, or killing people and getting away with it on a daily basis.... It's hard to have a reasonable conversation when you throw out hyperbole like this. I support law enforcement reform, I want to see way more accountability, I want a dramatic shift in the way police interact with their communities. Do you support these things? How do you expect to achieve any of them if you treat every police officer as some thug who goes around harassing, assaulting, and killing people on a daily basis? Do you recognize how hostile (and frankly unrealistic) that sounds? It's weird to me that the same people that want to yell at the police for not respecting the ideals of innocent until proven guilty are so fast to condemn an entire police force without evidence. Hurlshot is 100 % correct, you guys are generalizing and making sweeping and unproven statements and making them sound like "facts " Its very hypocritical and sounds silly Is it ? If the cops need to reform their ways or be nicer with the community then...a lot of them would have to be a bad sort, else why need reform? I find the police whining about being demonized rather amusing in all this.

Considering these are the types of crowds gathering: 200+ sounds like your standard round up. Only 5 of those are actually being charged with anything of substance. Overall it seems like this is going exactly the way it should, for both the protesters and the police. The message is clearly getting across and isn't being sullied by outbreaks of violence. Surprised there hasn't been any, would have thought some people would cook off or cop agents would get to work. Wonder what they are being charged with in instances like this.

Hopefully they explain that

I hate Christmas shopping, wish the family would just tell me what they want so I can get this over with, myself. But nope, always doing the "oh nothing" routine. Fah.

Skeptical of any reform forced on the cops will be very successful, if anyone finds enough guts to do it, but a nice dream. Cops don't really have any respect or fondness for 'civilians' anyway, regardless if they are being hostile, so not sure why you want people to not see them as thugs or what have you. Assuming the police are bad based on the ever present "bad apples" does lead to the entire force being seen as bad once they cover for each other and so on - those that cling together, swing together, and all.

Sleeping at my desk at work, will try to avoid snoring

Would you support a child-rape simulator? A holocaust simulator? What do you mean by 'support' here? Give money to them ? Or be okay with them being sold ?

Media most likely, always some cop show on where cops roughing people up is lauded and always justified (not as funny as in Tropa De Elite where everyone they torture actually knows something, heh). In Canada, it's the same, you get people who show up weeping when these people die, is all very strange. Cops themselves seem to buy into this nonsense that they are not civilians (my example of this was the G20 here, watching them try to do a military style drill while some Canadian soldiers watched on amused ). As for that case, that guy made things a bit harder than it is - though then again this events are all being narrated by the cops. Have to wonder if the legal battle is winnable at all though, perception of police immunity and generally being like the Mafia is pretty strong.

Police deaths in Canada average maybe 5-6 over the last couple of years. Last one was a speeder, heh.

Yeah found that site but was not sure how true it is. At least here deaths in duty includes stuff when they decide to be an hero and drive with no belt on and so on, so does take some closer looking. But ok, cops have a dangerous job by nature as they have hazards, I suppose whether or not lots of them get put in the ground isn't all that relevant. A lot of them seem to let that go to their head when it comes to dealing with people, doesn't seem de-escalation is a tool they have. As for the hyperbole, fair enough but it seems quite common around that people will shrug when some guy resisting cops gets abused as he deserved it - cop here was spat on so he punched a handcuffed guy several times, was punished harshly with a $50 fine though. I blame all these damn cop shows for making cops abusing people acceptable

Well not really hyperbole. But was watching some NYPD guy saying something similar - though he had more of weird "resist and you get what you deserve" tone. But it is the case that you should treat the cops like any dangerous person especially if you are a certain sort. As for cop deaths, I will search more later but only found 100 deaths total so far this year - some from accidents. Not too sure how dangerous it is as I have not checked for ones wounded.

Kind of sad that resisting arrest can be a capital offence at least in acceptable results by police. Does seem to be the reality, heh.

Hmm I see one escaped the pogrom... Trailer was boring, but who knows the movie might be enjoyable. Or at the very least be something to pass a lazy afternoon.