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"Founder's Edition". Basically a badge for not being patient and paying over the odds as an early adapter. 1060 looks like it's a spoiler card for the 480 more than anything else. Can't see it having wide availability at its stated price point either.

That really depends on how he endorses her. He's already said he'd be voting for her if he lost which is an endorsement to most practical purposes. If he talks about how bad Trump is rather than how awesome Hillary is there's no principle violation, and he can actually hit most of his talking points without directly criticising Hillary. It would only violate his principles if he actually thought Trump was a better candidate since Hillary is the only other viable candidate or if he starts waxing lyrical about Wall Street, SuperPACs and the like. More realistically he could order his supporters to vote Hillary, which would definitely be a mistake- I'd expect only a personal and fairly limited endorsement.

Don't get me wrong, Stalin was one of the great monsters of history, but I think you mischaracterize him. The person who did the most to win WW2, who confounded Western powers, and made a backwards, poor, illiterate nation into a super-power can not be what you say. Well yeah, in his own way Stalin was quite brilliant, but he didn't do his education or modernisation programmes out of altruism or even patriotism, he did them for the same reason he'd also randomly kill off groups of people: because it made him more powerful. For that reason he has more in common with Al Capone or Pablo Escobar- both quite brilliant in their own ways- than any genuinely principled leader. She deliberately gave classified info to lawyers who had no security clearance, at least Petraeus mistress had security clearance, it just wasn't high enough. Gross negligence standard does not require intent to break the law, only that the actions be intentional. Comey is playing word games by saying without intent he can't win the case. Assuming Comey isn't corrupt, he choked, it was just too big a step to take and he punted. The problem there is the same as with accusations of perjury, in order for it to perjury you have to be able to show that Hillary deliberately lied. She clearly did lie in the sense that what she said was false, but if she did it in the genuine belief that it was true it isn't perjury, it's just plain old being wrong. If she supplied her lawyers with information genuinely believing that it was non classified then that would be negligent, but not grossly negligent. And you have to be able to prove that it was deliberate or grossly negligent, not just think it was. Don't get me wrong, I think Hillary deliberately used the server to avoid FOI and inconvenient paper trails and I think she has lied through her teeth repeatedly and deliberately. But I ultimately have to agree with Comey that he'd have no chance of actually convicting her. It would be different if she was a random Joe/Jill instead of Hillary Clinton, but she is Hillary Clinton.

Stalin had principles? I suppose monomania is a principle, of sorts, but it isn't what most people would recognise as being principled. Otherwise he was just a petty thug who hitched a ride to communism as a way of getting power. The difference between Petraeus and Clinton is clearly one of provable intent. Petraeus leaked classified material to someone he was boffing and who was writing a biography on him, Clinton did not (provably) deliberately leak classified material, she was just (provably) an incompetent moron- which isn't a crime so long as she wasn't grossly negligent. What exactly the point is of having 'gross negligence' as a standard at all when to practical purposes it is the same as being 'deliberate' is I don't know, but it is what it is. And while it would be nice to see Hillary in court defending herself by saying she was an idiot or that she "couldn't recall" that would not be enough to convict. I'd have liked to see Comey try at least, personally, but political shankings are not a legit reason for criminal proceedings and most of the opinions I've seen prior to his recommendation were that Comey has integrity. Bottom line is that Petraeus did it deliberately- and ended up pleading guilty to one charge at least- Clinton can at least plausibly claim that she did not and was just 'mistaken' or whatever.

Michael Gove looks and sounds like Harry Potter would if he'd merged with Voldemort and is one of the few people who genuinely could be a lizard-man wearing a meat suit for convenience. It really is quite disconcerting.

Nazi SJWs do, of course. The debate is mostly over whether it's an 'apology' or an 'expression of extreme regret' just falling short of a formal apology, which is pretty much semantics and certainly a deliberately crafted wording that allows each side to save face and claim what they want to for domestic consumption. The Turkish word used translates towards regret but not outright apology, the Russian translation for it is on the outright apology side. In any case it isn't the "we're sorry you were offended by us shooting your plane down" passive aggressive non apology that you usually get in such situations. And Erdogan has supposedly phoned Assad as well, which hasn't happened in 4 years. Most likely it's not a full scale retreat from supporting the rebels though, just hedging against the Kurds gaining vs ISIS and the rather feeble efforts the rebels have made attacking both the Kurds and ISIS despite extensive Turkish backing.

More DNC/ Hillary leaks from Guccifer 2.0. Scroll down to bottom (well, about 2/3 down, with current number of comments) for actual leak stuff.

If he's a traditional zombie then eating her brains would be appropriate, I guess? But he's Zombie Gregor and it's GoT; you're pretty clearly meant to think he's going to do what Gregor's known for. At least it isn't as cheap a shock as many this season due to Gregor's history and nature being well established.

Anything British with 'Daily' in it is deeply unreliable. Daily Mail/ Mirror/ Express are all crap with different biases, The Sun manages to somehow be worse than all of them but fortunately no one ever seems to link to it. They're all Tabloids and basically the Gawkers of the newspaper world, utterly concerned with pageviews/ circulation/ sensationalism especially when it plays into their readers' biases. The Broadsheets (most of which are actually tabloid format now) are the Telegraph*/ Torygraph which is pro Conservative, The Times which is pro Murdoch, The Independent which is adequately neutral most of the time, and The Grauniad/ Guardian which is SJW central left biased. *Technically it's the Daily Telegraph which is kind of appropriate as it's gone down the toilet recently in terms of quality. Due to its readership it's very much Stiff Upper Lip Old Empire clickbait they produce though which is at least amusing.

I'm actually not that surprised about Boris. Especially after Gove confirmed he would run earlier.

480/ 8gig is NZD500 (USD 350) here. Ironically, you can now get a 390X for slightly less than that amount instead, when a few weeks ago it was very rare to see them for less than $700.

Most people who wanted a DRM free copy of their early games already have them. All their older games were available DRM free for ages elsewhere- Gamersgate, primarily, since both Paradox and them were owned by the same company. If you already have a DRM free copy there's not much point in a GOG release except convenience.

Galaxy was going to piggyback steamworks' multiplayer component directly at one point. That idea seems to have quietly disappeared though.

In some ways nationalism is just religion with a different faceplate, and one of them is their ability to inspire fanaticism and get people to do extreme things for the cause and to be remembered.

Yep. Probably once the summer sales are out of the way. The same guy who was polling the Galaxy database had already semi confirmed Tyranny as coming to GOG a month or so ago, a whole bunch of unreleased games had support pages already set up including Tyranny. Still, good to have a formal confirmation.

Definitely looks like ISIS though they usually claim responsibility fairly quickly. But Kurdish groups (especially TAK) have used suicide bombings before despite being secular/ atheist in philosophy.

Required specs for the demo are pretty lol, only 13,000 times more RAM required than the original game, and that's not counting the RAM on the videocard. I suspect the core design will be updated whether they reach 1.4 million or not given that it's for xbone so has to be standard controller friendly. There's a massive amount of menus and options in SS1 so something has to give- Bioshock is far more simple and it had to cut lean when they simply ran out of buttons.

Yep, they bought the IP off of LGS's insurers. Only real criticism I have of their pitch is the base price, it should probably be $20 for early bird and $25 for the base game. $30 for a unity remake of a 1994 game is pretty steep unless you're a fan; that's the sort of price point you should have for a full SS3 on KS. Having said that, I'm pretty unreservedly a fan, so I guess they'll get their extra money and I'll skip my almond milk organic chai latte for a day.

Meh, the show is still good if you turn your brain off now and don't look for consistency, but outstripping the books has crippled the consistency. It isn't just the fast travel either, things like the Frey Pies, how does that entire sequence even work (see below)? To be frank, most of this season has felt like the showrunners trying to burn through pare down the cast list pretty arbitrarily and top the Red Wedding while shovelling people around with no thought to logic. We had the Martell Purge, the Bolton Purge*, the Frey Purge and the King's Landing Purge in a single season. Could add the Dothraki Purge as well, though they were at least wholly, er, disposable characters. If we do include them though then that's one purge every second episode. Without book comparison it's difficult to tell but I again suspect it's that non existent 5 year gap partly to blame, to be fair. The consistency problem is also best epitomised by the extended Frey Pies sequence. Arya is stabbed in the gut, recovers via will to life and penicillin tea (no wait, that's Arrow jumping the shark) does parkour, escapes and gets to the Freys probably via fast travel again, kills off Walder's offspring (presumably not all of them since there are like 32 or something, and at least one is a baby in the books) then butchers them and bakes the pies without anybody noticing plus uses a superpower that so far as we knew she didn't actually have and never learnt then serves pies to Walder at the one time we ever (?) see him alone in the entire series. The whole thing is done primarily to be 'cool' and 'edgy' fanservice, to be brutally frank I'd expect that from a rebellious14 year old's fanfiction or worse, a _chan parody. *least offensive, least 'lazy' and least purgey for the sake of it, though Ramsay was... not entirely credible as a character and the political situation in the north was grossly simplified. I hope Roose feeds Ramsay to his dogs in the books, he's a far more believable bad guy. He's the favourite to kill Cersei. But he's not going to join Jon- or Dany for that matter- and if he does the shark has not just been jumped, it's been hopped and skipped too. Leaving aside that he's a Lannister, had his demon spawn on the throne and had been boffing his sister he attacked Ned, killed lots of northmen and chucked Bran out a window, and murdered (ok, 'murdered') Dany's father. Fan favouritism seems to bestow magical powers in TV land, but not that magical. Jaime's endgame is either death or (my favoured bet) Nightswatch, possibly as LC. Latter would certainly have the required Dramatic Irony.

I'd have voted leave, but it would be very much in spite of Farage that I'd have done so, not because of. Indeed, it would have been very much in spite of pretty much every politician in support of leave and the only one it might not have been was Corbyn of all people, had he been 'leave'. My personal crackpot theory would be that it was a land grab. No, really, the Ukraine has a lot of really good farm land (Chernozem) that can - and is - now gobbled up by foreign investors. The food market seems like a really good investment. There are more and more people who need to be fed. *shrug* Big natural gas deposits. Under, er, Donetsk/ Lugansk and Crimea, coincidentally. It's probably not really that or agriculture though- the way to make most money there is to be a member of the EU for the CAP subsidies or in the US for its corporate welfare/ pork barelling subsidies- and just that they thought, much like Libya, they could do it and hurt Russia doing so with very little consideration of whether they should do it.

Theoretically at least, that is exactly what you have the civil service (especially, since they're supposed to be non party political) and parliamentary staff for though- preparing contingencies and plans. It's not really expected that individuals come up with plans themselves as they have no ability to cost or vet ideas (let alone implement them) and consultancy is expensive and time consuming enough that you could not expect even decently wealthy people to finance it for something of Brexit's scope from their own pocket. They're also MPs, not experts, themselves; it would probably be worse to have them throwing ludicrous contradictory ideas around rather than staying quiet. Only one party supported brexit and it was the least important one, so that also means minimal parliamentary resources were available. Really, it has to be Cameron's and HM's Government as an apparatus whose failure here is most egregious- Carney managed to have a plan for the BoE, the other civil servants should have had theirs too but seem not to have. At present it just looks like they've either deliberately or incompetently failed to plan anything coherent, and despite that being their actual job.

The 'funny' thing is that the remain press is complaining vociferously about the leave side having no plan for if they won- well, what's the point of them having a plan when they have zero chance to actually implement it themselves. There's simply no point asking Farage (who's a complete dong, but for this that is irrelevant) what his plan is when he cannot implement it anyway and will have very little power to get his way, and very little point asking even Gove/ Johnson when Cameron is going to be PM for the next four months. The people who should be preparing plans are the beaurocrats (albeit acting under instructions of the government) and about the only one of them who seemed to have any sort of plan is a Canadian who hasn't even been in the job very long. It's all very well to think that Leave winning is unthinkable, but there's plenty of such scenarios that get plans; there will be one for Russia nuking the UK etc which are equally unthinkable. Something something Hodgson doesn't take 4 months to resign something something Brexit 2.0, June 27 this is our independence day something something hopefully England doesn't turn into an Iceland like anarchy something something England leaves EUro 2016 in shock result, have to wait at airport for standby tickets as no one has planned for that eventuality etc etc.

In my opinion its because most of our spineless lapdog politicians were useful sock puppets for the USAs interests in Europe, a foothold in the door so to speak and an ally amongst what may be a future enemy. Plus supporting Brexit would antagonise the remainder of the EU- or at least their most powerful politicians- with very little to gain; and negotiating deals like TTIP without Britain is far harder too. Which is pretty much what WoD said really, but Britain has always been seen as a bit of a bulwark against some members' more protectionist instincts, especially France.

18-24 year old turn out was ~36% for the vote. Bit of a rum old do, blaming more senior people for actually turning up to vote when your group couldn't even be bothered to. That's quite all right, my man, it's only your first mistake. Any more though and your tea and biscuit, real ale or tweed jacket privileges may have to be reconsidered.

Fair enough. RUUUUULE BRITANNIA, RUUUULE THE WAAAVES; BRITONS NEVER WILLLL BE SLAAAAVES! amirite fellas? 'Fraid not. You've left out a second 'Brittania' after the comma and a couple of 'never's after the first one. And I'm fairly sure it's 'shall' rather than 'will' too.