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Was a reference to an actor addressing UK parliament about needing more muslims on TV otherwise they will join ISIS or something. Yeah, it's a pretty stupid complaint, that's all. I'm not even in the UK and I can think of more muslims on TV there than people I'm sure are christians. Albeit that's because in dramas their characters tend to be labelled as 'muslim' and have it as part of their character more, plus I can recognise typically muslim 'asian' (subcontinental) names easily. If you're looking for an english source and find The Daily Stormer keep looking. The label 'nazi' is thrown around rather, heh, liberally but that website is literally named after Julius Streicher's infamous jew baiting nazi paper 'Die Sturmer'. They'd blame immigrants, muslims, lefties and non whites for literally anything and everything.

If they could get the facts right then there'd be no issue. Writing an article about someone else lying while effectively lying yourself in an absolutely identical way is at very, very best counter productive, if your aim is to convince anyone not already convinced. Because simply put, any Trump supporter who sees that will instantly decide the rest of the article is rubbish at that point, same as any anti Trumper will decide that lying in your article about lying is a 'technicality', or some weird Putin conspiracy. It isn't a technicality and it isn't even a genuine msitake, it was clearly done with absolute intent. Someone sat down and wrote that reasoning deliberately in an attempt to justify Trump being wrong. In that case he wasn't wrong. Did the NYT change their headline? Yes they did. Therefore on that Trump is correct. The correct response is therefore to have an article with 13 lies from Trump or find a 14th (shouldn't be hard), not try and weasel a truth into a lie. Well yeah, he's a politician. And all the media needs to do is illustrate that without lying themselves. They don't get a pass just because they're media, and every time they do it their reputation drops a little more.

There actually are plenty of muslims on TV in the UK. Way more than in the US, where they do rather tend to be trotted out as the terrorist-du-jour.

At this point it's pretty much an absolute rule that any complaints about factual accuracy (from 'MSM' in particular) have to themselves contain factual inaccuracies.

Nah, don't. After all, he does think that Origin established the Jane's IP- which would involve time travelling back to 1898. It's as much a licensed product as an NBA game. Most of the rest is just standard industry practice, crappy maybe but everyone does it.

The attack took place near the Houses of Parliament which, I believe, have had those countermeasures in place for most of the duration of the War on Terror (possibly since the 7/7 bombings?). Moreover I'd imagine there are few places in the UK with faster armed response times, which may be why the attack was stopped relatively quickly. Some of the counter measures, especially in really prominent targets like the PoW, date back as far as The Troubles as a way to stop IRA car bombs. Parliament would have pretty close to instant response times as there are armed police stationed there on a permanent basis. For a Nice style attack it's actually a poor area to target for that reason.

same as Clintons Clinton's had business that took money from foreign powers when Bill was president? Both the Bushes did as well. W especially also got funding after leaving the presidency in nearly the exact same style as Hillary/ Bill did, though I'm pretty sure he actually wound up his charity once his library was built instead of keeping it going. W's VP was also infamous for his intricate relationship with Halbech Halliburton-Bechtel. In any case, Trump is not special in that regard. Don't think Obama did though*, but then Obama was (perhaps consequentially) intensely disliked by the usual suspects of Saudi, Israel, other Gulf states etc; and he was not a businessman before politics. *except the still hilarious Nobel Prize money from well known bribery black hole Norway; and that went to charity.

Can you provide a link to a US sized UHC? Id be interested to read up on this. No, but then there aren't any 300 million population countries except the US since the closest in population is Indonesia, an entire UK population away. There are plenty of countries with similar or lower GDP/c to the US with UHC though, and the limiting factor ought to be available cash, not size. UHC seems to work fine for countries from the size of, say, Japan to Luxembourg- about a 250 fold population range- and gives a qualitatively better (to population as a whole) and cheaper result so I'd suggest that any argument that the US is a special case due to its size would require evidence of why its size specifically makes it a special case. Obviously the US is a special case relative to UHC countries, due to it having a significantly different and established system, the question is more whether it has to have that system as UHC wouldn't work there or whether the US system evolved to be inefficient/ 'broken'. The size argument is certainly general case, but there's no evidence of larger socialised health care systems being less efficient than small ones right up to Japan's size, rather the reverse since despite having an aged population Japan's system is cheaper per capita than most others.

I can't help but get some slight goosebumps every time I think about the game, love it. Have you tried Call of Chernobyl? I haven't had the time yet so I can't vouch for the quality myself, read about it in the Swedish PCGamer a little while ago, and it looks promising. To be honest I've barely played with any mods, except for AMK (and real weapon names for the later ones). Up until mid late 2015 I literally didn't have the bandwidth for most mods, this year I've mostly been catching up on games I couldn't download previously. A properly modded Stalker run is certainly on the list though.

That's what I used to think, but then I found out we are actually paying more than all of those countries in taxes towards healthcare costs. About 70% more in total costs as proportion of GDP/c than the EU as a whole, and even more than that as an absolute value (well, absolute value normalised via PPP). The economic/ tax raising argument doesn't really hold water as the costs aren't even close, and the quality of healthcare provided- as a whole, since if money's no concern healthcare can be superb quality in the US- is also inferior for that extra cost. Size arguments also don't hold much water, generally the larger the system the more efficient it is rather than the reverse. The fundamental problem is that profit motive doesn't work for healthcare, because the minimum cost model for a health company is to simply not treat as many sick people as possible.

Why do you want me to feel old now, instead of next year? Of that list the only one I personally would take as significant would be Fallout, and I played that a year or so after release since I actually played F2 first (I also preferred F2). The other games I either played or liked on that list such as DK/ TA/ AoE I simply wouldn't consider important enough, to me, to remember their release date. (I didn't like Diablo much, though I'll freely admit it is a significant game in general)

There have now been 10 years of cheeki breekis and getting out of there Stalker since Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl is now 10 years old. Still has the best atmosphere in any game I've played, and the best 'dungeons'. Even worse for making me feel old, Baldur's Gate will be 20 (!) years old next year.

Medical insurance itself is perfectly fine both theoretically and practically. The US system is... non optimal, I think everyone would agree, but that is due to more reasons than it being primarily based on medical insurance. There are efficient healthcare systems based on medical insurance, albeit most have a compulsory element to them and more regulation than the US likes.

Another game sponsored by nVidia with massive and utterly pointless amounts of tesselation specifically to asterisk with AMD cards? OK, that's about as surprising as an AMD sponsored game with huge amounts of async compute to asterisk with nVidia cards but I do wonder if the money is worth it just to annoy x% of your user base. Titanfall 2 reviewed fine, its problem was being released within weeks of another MP focussed game from the same company (Battlefield 1) and since it is primarily a MP game it needs to have a decent playerbase to promote further sales; hence the discounts. Pretty much everything I've heard on Titanfall2 has it as being a good game. There's a bit of a difference though between lo-fi graphics and 'bad' graphics. Something like Stardew Valley has a graphic style from the early 90s, but it is a consistent style that works with the game and game play. System Shock 2 has shonky animation married to basic models, but is also 17 years old and has good gameplay and atmosphere. Certainly the problem with MEA looks to be that it's way, way down the uncanny valley with some people (not universally/ mostly women, to be fair) who look like they were extruded from plastic and faces with completely unconnected muscles/ expression sets. It's also the 4th game in the series, you'd expect improvement. Plus also also it will, whether fairly or not, be compared to the best games out there for animation and models. It certainly doesn't look like it compares favourably to, say, TWitcher 2 in that regard, let alone its sequel. (And no, I have no idea how Bethesda gets away with ocean wide, puddle deep games that have deep technical flaws because they're still using the same basic engine as Oblivion did 11 years ago and won't or can't fix their issues. It's inconsistent but in the end massive sales numbers have a quality all of their own)

It is a newish studio doing their first game as well as being a major release from a big publisher. I'd say there have definitely been production issues there. It looks like the animations just plain weren't ready when the rest of the game was and the choice was to wait for the animations or ship the game as is and they went for the latter. That's definitely a production issue where a Producer didn't do their job properly- make sure others did their jobs properly and stuck to deadlines. It's even possible, though unlikely, that the problem is not the animations themselves but the rigging of the models. I think I said a few pages back that perhaps they outsourced to aliens who'd only had humans described to them rather than seen them. After seeing a few videos I'm not absolutely sure that isn't exactly what happened. And to be fair to the animators/ modellers even the voice acting seems to be, uh, off shall we say. Even when Bioware's writing has been shaky to shonky the voice acting has been generally good to excellent despite it. I've only seen videos, but their voice direction seems to have largely deserted them as well.

The chip structure is not really a problem per se, it's pretty much an inevitable consequence of how they are manufactured, and communication within a 'node' (ccx) will be faster than between different ones. It is able to be improved by better scheduling from OS and/or per program basis, there certainly seems to be an issue where it is detected as having 16 physical cores rather than 8/8. Though AMD has rather equivocated on whether it is/ isn't working as intended it certainly isn't working optimally; the equivocation may be to stop rabid fanboys annoying MS to 'fix' their scheduler to take Ryzen into account. Base RAM speed determines the speed of the inter core communication so yeah, going from 2400 to 3200Mhz will make a huge difference. If you were unlucky enough to have a MB/ RAM combo that didn't like each other or wanted to use 4 sticks of RAM then there will be a large performance increase at some point when the MB/ BIOS revisions are released. Most of the ASRock and Gigabyte MBs seem to already be capable of getting decent quality RAM to 3200Mhz (in 2 stick set ups, 4 are still at 2400 max so far as I know), the ASUS and MSI ones were lagging.

They've taken outsourcing art assets too far this time, and got aliens to design their AI skins based on a verbal description and a few photos? Or perhaps only the females, since most of the males seem to be relatively fine. To be fair to ME:A though, ME as a series hasn't exactly stayed away from the uncanny valley when it comes to women before, both Miranda and Ashley v2 had issues and comical animations have been a persistent problems as well. The running animation in ME3 was... Prosperous and in real life could only come from someone who had most of their spine and hips fused yet was the one animation you'd see most often in the entire game, and Shep's amusing facial animations are still used as a meme.

You don't understand how our system works. Wilders was one of the big winners and his party gained a significant amount of seats in parliament. His influence has only grown. Yeah, nobody has any prospect of winning outright in a proportional system except under very unusual circumstances*. Since everyone said they wouldn't have Wilders in government he could not 'win' the election in that sense as he had no prospect of getting 50.1% of the vote, he could only win by getting lots of votes. Which he largely did. He may have got less than he hoped for but he still got 2nd/ 3rd by the looks of it and even if he's given the cold shoulder officially other parties will be looking to attract his voters, which almost inevitably means moving closer to the more acceptable of his policies. Though the main problem there is that he does seem to have mostly bluster and rhetoric rather than actual policy. *Ironically (or maybe not) the post apartheid elections in RSA would all have had a clear winner under a proportional system, even the last election with Zuma saw the ANC get 60+% of the vote and all the Nelson and Thabo ones had even more.

R5 release April 11. 1600X looks pretty good value, 100USD less than the 1700 and should be (here at least) about the same price as the 7600k, only with 3 times the threads, a decent stock cooler and no need (well, 'need' at least) for a premier motherboard.

Wow... who does that remind you of? Daily Mail readers. That actually sounds like the vast majority of opposition politicians, most seem to be waiting for the government to self destruct rather than propose actual alternatives since those alternatives might alienate potential voters.

Not even 'Bioware Points' that can be used across games? I guess at least they're selling in sensible block sizes, though it's probably a forlorn hope that if they're used for DLC purchasing that the DLC won't cost just a little bit more than the nearest single increment of points. It's John Walker and he's a big Bioware fan. He fairly regularly suffers from (and makes his readers suffer his) jilted lover syndrome, so if he does get disappointed by Bioware there will be tears before bedtime. If you liked DAI well enough then that is probably the best indicator. Realistically it also depends on what exactly you disliked about ME3 and liked about ME2 too.

Meh, that's moronism from the opposite end to the 'muslim ban' or a 'muslim registry' and makes me want to give Mr/ Miss Rose an intellectual atomic wedgie. Completely ignoring the massive disparity in deaths due to the two extremist views is at very, very best facile and specious. There are more incidents of beatnik hippies/ rainbow haired SJWs protesting in the streets and being arrested than there are muslim extremist incidents as well, somehow I suspect that would not be regarded as a 'quantitatively, significantly, statistically' large threat to public peace. A muslim registry is a stupid idea, that's a stupid and counter productive counter argument (particularly so since it can be a good counter) because anyone who disagrees has an instant indication of a - genuinely- bad faith argument being made so can dismiss it and any similar arguments out of hand.

Only thing I take into account is how well they act as a bullet sponge. I've generally found companions' only role in combat to be to distract enemies while you do 95% of the killing, at least on high difficulty. They simply don't do enough damage with any single attack to justify micromanaging them. OTOH it seems it's yet another thing that Bioware has cut rather than fix, and that's been a pattern with all of Bioware's sequels (and apart from DAO, all of their games) post BG2.

I think he means that if you use an in text link any text you add after the link gets included as (blue) link text. eg this should only have eg showing as link text not the rest of the text help how do I stop it? That happens when you add the link at the end of your current bit of writing, any text you write afterwards gets included in the hyperlink text. The way to get out of it is to use the BBCode toggle (top left of message composition box) and write some text outside the [/url] tag or manually copy/ paste the tag.

I would have thought that both 1080p (and some did 720p) and maybe 4k would be fairer, with some acknowledgement if there were differences in min frames etc. The whole benchmarking thing has been a bit inconsistent though, since most reviewers got ASUS MBs that were not ready for primetime. Not really ASUS' fault as it seems the release was rushed by AMD and they've suffered a bit for it, but fact is that reviewers with Gigabyte MBs had a better experience but they were the minority. Add to that the whole windows scheduler not playing nice with AMD's core set up and the RAM speeds being a bit of a crap shoot due to the MB/ BIOS issues and there's plenty of potential for improvement there even before Ryzen 2.0. I'm still pretty much definitely doing a Ryzen system since I still think it fits my needs best- primarily having better longevity and price performance than an equivalent Intel. I'll see if I can wait for the R5s and especially Vega/ 5x0s to see how they turn out and since they must be close (heh), but if I can't I'll be pretty happy with a 1700 and maybe pick up a cheap interim card 2nd hand since anything has to be better than a 5770. (I've been checking hardware for a potential build and most stuff is fine, but looking at cases... it must be like how old people feel when they go into a cafe and have to do a questionnaire to get a plain coffee instead a non skinny non chai latte free trade Ethopian medium roasted in a counter clockwise rotating kiln coarse grind double shot- I just want a case with good cooling and expansion thanks, rather than endless irrelevant LED and case window variants from a dozen different makers which each seem to have their own model number. At least most sites have some sort of sensible sorting options...)