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Vaguely related. Cultural sensitivity definitely works both ways. UK rugby writers are all precious manbabies crap, but there's certainly a point to be made about having a minutes silence for victims of a knife attack then having a haka with throat slitting gestures immediately after, and somebody should have thought about it.

E3 has been on a steady decline since they downsized it substantially a decade or so ago. They reversed that decision pretty quick, but the sky hadn't fallen and alternatives had been found in the interim so it never reclaimed anything near preeminence. Bad case of not knowing that while their proximal audience was trade people their ultimate audience was the average gamer who buys the games and read the reviews of those trade people; and not giving them what they wanted meant that other people did.

Most of the 9/11 guys were middle class, bin Laden was a multi millionaire, al Zawahiri was a pediatrician etc. Windmill tilting, par for course. More fake news from low energy failing CNN. Sad! Hack was pretty much definitely done by UAE or Saudi, since they responded instantly and had a media campaign/ statements etc already set up and ready to go.

Saudi kind of is done with Syria, and that's part of the problem. Their main proxy is currently being ground into pulp by Qatar's indirect proxy, and was well on the way down even before that. That and Qatar sponsoring groups antipathetic to Saudi's Libyan proxies is certainly a factor in the blockade. And to be fair to Saudi, Qatar is not averse to sponsoring more radical islamists than Saudi is willing to openly support. The main factor is that Qatar sponsors the Ikwhan (Brotherhood) which Sisi, Saudi and the UAE hates (ironically, because they espouse islamist democracy, not for Qatar though. Brotherhood themselves are fairly moderate though, certainly comparatively, and aren't salafi/ wahhabi like most of the head chopper factions). There's basically no chance of an invasion of Qatar though, and there aren't any convenient groups to sponsor either. Most likely Qatar will give lip service to some demands about the brotherhood and the whole thing will dial back over the next month. Saudi's foreign policy is a joke anyway, they only ever get lip service support from people with their hands out. The only bigger joke is their military which has all the toys but regularly gets their bottoms paddled and Abrams destroyed by barefoot Houthis with AKs. It's also full of petty rivalries that see things like the infamous instance of SAMs bought based on how well they'd be able to shoot their own air force's planes down (two rival princes heading the army and air force at that time).

Trump's a moron, Gulf States are all hypocrites (except Oman, and to an extent Kuwait), news at 11. Not like Qatar is a saint; but their sin isn't sponsoring terrorism, it's not toeing the Saudi line- and that's it.

And then they immediately stuck her on Hillary's team. That set the tone (deafness) for her entire campaign. I'd say that if you have a properly functioning electoral system then you don't need term limits. Power entrenchment comes mainly from political parties and bureaucrats anyway, and they aren't effected by term limits except for whoever is the figure head.

The two figures are measuring different things. 0.3 degrees = difference from US pulling out only 0.6-1.1 degree = difference if everyone pulled out/ there was no agreement. This includes the US contribution, it doesn't exclude it. This is where you are making the mistake. Trump is wrong because he has used the first figure and stated it as representing the second data set. If he'd stated that 0.2 degrees was the difference for the US pulling out he'd be correct (enough), but he said it was the figure for if the agreement didn't exist at all, which is incorrect. The new expected difference is 0.4 to 0.8 reduction per (0.6-0.2) to (1.1-0.3). (All simple case, statistically it's a bit more complicated than that)

... It's Teresa May then? Lies! Deception! (meh, low hanging fruit)

Got my computer assembled and all working well. Had to set the RAM up manually as XMP caused a boot loop but otherwise no problems. Have to say that for a purely cosmetic feature I did rather like the LEDs when I had the side off as well.

And he didn't even mention the solder issue either. The i9/x299 situation makes a lot more sense if Intel planned the whole thing under the assumption there would be no external competition and that their chips would be competing with each other rather than another company's products. The variable PCI lane numbers, dual/quad channel RAM depending on processor and no ECC make sense if you see the competition as being your own lower range chips and need reasons to sell the expensive ones. But if the competition suddenly becomes external you end up with a decidedly odd looking and inconsistent line up with gimped features relative to the competition instead. There's definitely some panic there when the flagship chip won't be available at launch (and may not even make 2017).

What are you talking about man? It's a rumour from 4chan, they'd never lie.

Technically the guy you play in R3 isn't wholly generic, since he's Patty's bro. But yeah, you're basically Mr B. Slate, esquire, otherwise. (I have to admit I rather liked the occasional dialogue in the PB games that poked fun at themselves for not having a lead character with any sort of defined name or previous role)

Every Piranha Bytes game has Raptors ('Snappers'), right from the first Gothic.

The unconfirmed price for the 16/32 AMD offering is ~$850, which is highly competitive to say the least and roughly half the 16/32 skylake-e price. That pricing seems fairly likely to be accurate though, as AMD have dropped prices on the r7 8 cores to get some separation (a week after I bought a 1700, no surprises there).

Depends if you count the GFWL version for F3. It didn't require an internet connection or product key, so probably meets the technicals for being DRM free even if people hated GFWL.

The i9s (so kabylake-e and skylake-e) aren't soldered, some of the Engineering Samples have already been delidded- yes, despite the previous enthusiast chips all having solder. I guess they could still change it since it seems an odd choice to make to save a little cash, and since the 7700k's heat issues have gained some traction. They do recommend watercooling too, so there clearly are some concerns about thermals. The failure rate on x99 is just relatively high, not absolutely high- about 5x that of a z170/ z97, iirc. But you'd still be unlucky to get an actual failure.

She'd have arrived aged maybe 10ish on the show. I don't know if it's actually been stated or not, I missed almost all the early episodes. So I'd guess that the comic explanation may apply to some extent.

X99 had big initial problems, and still has a very high relative failure rate for its motherboards. They're also expensive. No ECC support though, at this stage at least. Also no soldered heat dispersal, though hopefully that won't matter so much for lower clocks.

I wouldn't say that either Iraq or Libya actually got their propaganda target achieved- mostly because their propaganda target either got discredited or is well on the way to being discredited. It's hard to discredit going into Afghanistan to get bin Laden for 9/11 when he admits and nearly everyone accepts that his organisation did it. OTOH, there were significant signs of Iraq going bad almost immediately (looting etc) and it never recovered PR wise from the mess and contradictions of its justification/ propaganda base- no meaningful WMDs, troops dying for years, Saddam's capture doing nothing, Zarqawi and Baghdadi, the government being favourable to Iran etc. That trumps any PR achievements. Libya is much the same, just not quite so well covered as the situation in Iraq. Certainly you aren't going to get anyone trying to justify intervention by quoting Iraq and Libya as successes, and at heart that's what you need to be able to do to have them be propaganda successes; you need to be able to use them again for more propaganda. Kosovo would be a propaganda success, since basically nobody knows that nearly half its economy is black market, most of the other half comes direct from NATO/ EU, it has more refugees entering Europe than Afghanistan, of the certified massacres there a disproportionate number were serbs rather than albanians and there has been systemic ethnic cleansing of serbs; and it can thus be used to justify 'freeing' whoever it's currently convenient geopolitically to free.

I wonder what the TDP would be on a 18 Core Skylake-E, you could probably heat a swimming pool with one. I suspect that Intel's reliance on a ringbus system rather than clusters will start to catch up to them with those sort of core numbers as well. AMD's ccx system does have some drawbacks with low cluster numbers, but their advantages get more and their disadvantages less as cores increase, while it's the reverse for Intel. That's why graphics cards all shifted to clusters rather than ringbus. To me, 1800x is far too much premium cash wise for too little benefit unless there's no plan to overclock or for workstation situations where the competition is Broadwell-E. The overclock ceiling on it vs the 1700 is only 200Mhz difference, and you pay nearly 1USD/ hz for that. That's also why I personally wouldn't consider watercooling either, unless sound is an issue. You might eke an extra 100Mhz or two on top of Wraith Spire but again that's at a hefty cost relative to benefit. I am very much concerned with getting the best longevity/ cost/ performance balance though, so I tend to see everything through that lens.

Yazidis aren't muslims, and certainly don't consider themselves muslim either unlike actual muslim sects that get their muslimness questioned. Should also be noted that 'takfir' (ie labelling other muslims as unbelievers) is considered to be both extremely serious and regarded extremely negatively by most muslims of any type except the most radical. Most Sunnis are fine too- a good thing, since they're by far the majority- it's almost exclusively the Hanbali derived groups that are bad. Unfortunately Saudi Wahhabism is one of those with basically no redeeming features and they've decided the best way to spread influence is to radicalise other countries.

Better longevity/ future proofing, I don't need a 1070+ since my monitor is only 1920x1200 60hz, the like-for-like cost was similar enough and to be honest I plain dislike nVidia. Plus if I do want to upgrade my monitor a freesync one is cheaper. I don't really have brand loyalty- apart from the 5770 I currently have I've never bought an AMD product- but I do sometimes develop the reverse.

Ordered, finally. Some slight differences from what I planned due to still poor availability and fluctuating prices, but I'm pretty happy with it. R7/1700 Gigabyte Gaming 5 MB 16GB Corsair LPX 3200CL16 Asus 580RX (not the premium one) Crucial MX 500gig SSD Plus EVGA G2 550W and case which I already had. Decided on the Gaming 5 as it dropped hugely in price (actually cheaper than in the US, amazingly) and it has the far cheaper than 3200CL14 RAMs Corsair LPX on its QVL. Plus Taichi went up in price again, and I do want something that will last. ASUS 580 as it's just about the only one available, and I got a discount for it, Crucial MX because the 300p price went up 25% and the big speed difference has marginal practical effect. End cost was about the 1200USD (2000NZD, inc GST) equivalent I planned on and not bad value I think, given that most components are simply more expensive here. I'll probably do the assembly next weekend.

Supergirl being stronger is (supposedly at least) comic accurate. Plus the show is called Supergirl. Much like the Flash* she tends to get nerfed down to the power level of whichever villain she is fighting each week, so a solid win with minimal shenanigans is kind of refreshing. *run straight at the gorilla's shield, Barry! What can go wrong?

Arrow's finale was about as good as you can get from a show of its type. There were a few minor criticisms to be had- the villain was too smart ('see you on the boat' from the previous episode was a little indulgent) but well enough written and played that it didn't detract; and I fundamentally dislike that type of ending, plus there was a little too much to squeeze in to a commercial hour- but they're pretty minor. The whole season was excellent overall, a complete change from the previous season which was dreadful. Spartacus reunion in a Suicide Squad/ Rogues type program, please. Supergirl was OK. Liked it better/ more consistently overall than Flash's finale, though I didn't actually dislike the Flash finale, but it wasn't particularly memorable. The Girl Power stuff (more show less tell please, it is already called Supergirl after all) and politics (no one cares that the president can't be president?) is still cringey. Gotham... hasn't had its finale yet?