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One of the supposed punishments for flashing a dvd drive to play cracked dvds on the xbox was bricking when a new firmware/ dashboard update arrived, so it isn't new as a punishment. Though ms seems to be denying it has happened anyway.

The general reasons are pretty much as Sarex said- the current macedonian gov is seen as being pro russian and a lot of pressure has been applied to scupper the southstream gas pipeline which was going to go through Bulgaria until they cancelled citing EU/US pressure. Its alternative is currently going through Turkey/ Greece/ Mac/ Serbia/ Hungary, iirc. Those countries are being targeted to stop it, and Mac is the easiest target due to its inherent instability. It doesn't (or does, facpov) help things that Mac is an ethnic hodge podge of Bulgars, Albanians, Greeks and others and that Kosovo, pretty much a NATO puppet state is next door and the insurgents seem to have come from there and be ex KLA. They've also had a rather odd scandal for monitoring lots of people, given 5 Eyes and Snowden there's certain suspicion that the response is being massaged by outsiders as a way to attack the government, plus there have tended to be the sort of weaseling that was seen in Kiev re casualties, ie there were a surprising number of police injuries/ deaths formpeaceful protests and lack of unequivocal condemnation of the Kosovan albanian armed incursion. Whether that's accurate as a view is certainly questionable in the details, though it seems very likely indeed that few tears would be shed if the Mac government goes in either Brussels or Washington.

The original muppet show was great, I watched it as both a child and not that long ago and it is one of those few programs that entertains the kids but also has enough there for the adults to enjoy. I'd be a bit worried about any new ones not holding up to my memories of the old though.

The belief that PR ends with parties pandering to the fringes is certainly an inaccurate one, and it is rather ironic in that it is the tories saying it who stand to lose most from PR yet many people just seem to believe them despite them having an obvious reason for bias and no real examples either. What tends to happen is that the big left and right party go more central, and blame any unpleasant policies on their partner(s) being too moderate or too extreme. Which is exactly what happened to the libdems this time, they got the blame for the bad and no credit for the moderation. To illustrate, our current right wing government has the ACT party as a partner, it is economically far right wing and a client of the ruling party only getting a seat because they didn't stand against him. They are the fall guy for any right wing lunacy the gov wants to do like selling the prisons off to incompetent british firms. They don't get anything the gov doesn't really want itself but which they know will be unpopular to most of their soft support. Same for the Maori party, they got some lip service like whanau ora, but otherwise got nothing despite being supposedly quite left wing, hence they lost quite badly last election as did the libdems. In any case, the alternative to fptp should not be mmp or similar, they are designed by politicians for politicians, both of them. Multi member STV is by far the best, only direct electorate voting for individual candidates so no party lists for old hacks and apparatchniks but gives proportional results overall so you don't end with the party with the 3rd most votes getting 1 seat.

There are a few more titles that are likely to be released in the future, Risen 3 for example. I'd guess that m2033 falls into that category though it is certainly odd to release the sequel first. Alternatively it might use some steamworks functionality that can't be easily unpicked or needs to wait for galaxy, though that seems unlikely.

There's at least one character on the gg side as well, she's there twice. Albeit she is gg's mascot. NuThor is there on aGG too, presumably due to the ethics in blah blah. Characters can take sides even if only due to authorial intent or being designed as a representative. Don't know what Faith is doing there though unless she's meant to be representing DICE or rpatchett or something.

Stuff does just get obsolete as well. It's not like the RAF is still using spitfires or the usaf is still using F4s, at some point you have to do a genuine replacement. Can't really tell whether it's a good deal or not from outside as we don't have a good idea of the different capabilities of t90s/t72s vs the armata, but they can't keep using t72 variants forever whatever the case.

What's going to happen to the old kit is a rather lol question for sure. There's a huge amount of surplus soviet stuff around the ex su, that is what happens to the old stuff. Or they can ship it off to Syria or Donbass. 2000 armatas is a bit ridiculous for a short term aim though. Technically doable to produce a tank a day, but practically no hope. Taking the bulk of their active T72s to b3+ status or similar seems a bit more practical. They are also likely to get a reasonable amount of extra funding off of France for cancelling the Mistrals, as they get costs plus penalties when France formally refuses delivery. Which is probably a blessing overall for Russia, the Mistrals always seemed like a pointless prestige buy to me.

If anyone thinks the situation is bad housing wise in the uk/aus consider that we have neither stamp duty nor capital gains tax. The government also refuses to count how many properties are bought from overseas, taking advise from an estate agent that it's only 5%. Which literally nobody believes. They also quite deliberately allow more immigrants in than we can build houses for. And all the houses being built are in the8+ times average wage bracket where you have 30%+ of wages going towards interest alone, even with a 200k deposit and the cheapest house bought. Can't really blame people for speculating when they cna get fifteen percent returns per annum with no tax, but it is and will totally asterisk the economy up for everyone when the bubble bursts.

You can do a google image search for some of the 'cartoons' done about her if you want to see. I'm no sensitive internet snowflake and I'd consider them pretty bad. Obvious warning for potential unpleasantness if anyone does so.

While Jade (surely, not Jane) Raymond may not have had any probllems with her employers and certainly seems to have been one of the better industry producers she has copped a lot of pretty unpleasant abuse from the more general online population. She's a good example of a successful woman in gaming but not a particularly good one in terms of having had no- genuinely- misogynist abuse, because she has.

The issue with fptp being that the Tories are, now, also not the party that most people voted for- most people voted for other parties and didn't want the tories. At least with the coalition most people did vote for the two parties combined, just. Even the big landslide victories of the bliars and maggies had well under the majority of the voters voting for them, they were at best in the low forties. MMP and fptp sux, STV 4 lyfe, no member lists and proportional results best of both worlds. In any case it doesn't really matter if the libdem dog wagged the tory tail, because coalition is always a poisoned chalice for the lesser partner. They get stuffed if the ruling party get stuffed but if the ruling party does well it's usually because it cannabalises the partner's vote. That has happened every single time here. Clegg was an idiot either way. And the overall result is exactly as happened here. Inaccurate polls, highly negative campaign by the ruling party, everything. Lord Ashcroft must have got some good mileage out of flying out here for advice, because Cameron's campaign was pure John Key.

There'd be a fair few Ron Paul supporters here as well, probably more than average. Maybe not so many Randies since he's more mainstream. The main candidates from either side certainly don't look too appealing though, and there will usually be more support for fringe candidates on the internet anyway.

The only ST game I played was the first (?) quasi roguelike one and Elite Force (which was rather good), neither of which are on GOG. The Iply Star Trek games do seem to be remembered pretty fondly though, as opposed to some of the later ones and the utterly terrible nuTrek movie cash in games.

I thought they were doing a Alpha Protocol(ish) sounding infiltration/ spy game due to E: C not selling that well. Still, EC was pretty good if perhaps a little understandably simplistic.

Theoretically at least the MP component on Galaxy will allow direct compatibility with steamworks multiplayer; but will also very likely require keys andor the client to be running. Which wouldn't be a change of policy from GOG per se since some of their titles already have keys associated with them and running the client would not be compulsory unless in supported MP modes, but it is a way to get much of the ease of use/ cost reduction (to publisher) stuff from steam hosting MP and the like plus also allow for a certain amount of drm on what publishers will see as the most important aspects of the game. It'll be a bit of a jolt to some but it's the best way available to soothe publishers while also being able to say that they're still drm free so far as SP goes. It's also primarily speculation, but I'd put money on it being pretty accurate speculation.

Is that actually 2008 Hillary data? It's got Lehman Bros on it and they're rather famous for being bankrupt as of 2008. (Unless Barclays are still using the Lehman name in the US, which seems... unlikely. It would be a glowing PR choice, but only because it had been nuked so comprehensively from orbit)

I believe that due to being Australian his choice vote wise is effectively between the Mad Monk and, uh, William Shorten (I think) in a non presidential race. Then again, I'd vote Sanders in ahead of either of those two options. Any time I feel depressed about kiwi politicos I can always look across the Tasman to be reminded that it could be worse. I was a bit surprised that Sanders was standing for the Democrats though, iirc he actually stands as an independent in congressional elections.

I suspect that Whedon may well just genuinely believe the stuff he says rather than is making excuses as such. He has said before that he doesn't like twitter and he is right that the old joke about 2 palestinians in a room resulting in three warring factions applies about equally to feminists and SJ types. Fix It Again Tony

Really, you won't find a more arbitrary committee than the boards that make up most companies' ultimate form of governance and which set wages for their CEOs and the like. Rich people, ex CEOs or aspiring CEOs themselves awarding each other 7-10 figure sums, bonuses and the like irrespective of whether they run their company- and the whole British economy- into the ground is pretty much the definition of arbitrary cronyism. We've got exactly the same problem here as in the UK and as was in Spain, our 'growth' is almost entirely based on a ludicrous housing bubble, encouraged by committees of rich people who stand to make profits from it. And what happens when the inevitable crash happens? Yep, privatise the profit, nationalise the losses, too big to fail etc etc. It's funny really, having a committee of left wingers deciding anything is terrible stuff, a fundamental evil that is to be abhorred; right wingers setting salaries for themselves == awesome, the natural order and other committees of right wingers deciding that their buddies have to be saved by taxpayers from their mistakes and that there is, oh so unfortunately, no recourse available to allow the people who generated those debts to be punished or not get their bonuses- but that the guy working in a chippie for 6.50 an hour is responsible for them instead- is also the natural order of things. And it has to be that way because otherwise where will poor Mr Abramovich live? Surely you don't want him to be forced out of Belgravia by a crowd of plebs? Driven off, depressed and downcast in his last and least gold plated Phantom as he runs for the those last liberal bastions of... the UAE/ Qatar/ Saudi/ Singapore/ Kazakhstan to spend his days in the horrors of mere unparalleled luxury rather than unlimited luxury? Have you no shame, commie?

He's not really pro consumer, unfortunately. He did write the gamer's bill of rights but he then proceeded to ignore most of the things he wrote himself. He's a raging right winger who will alienate a lot of people if asked the wrong/ right questions. Which is the problem, really, with electing 'representatives'. They'll end up saying stuff as the voice of [movement] that a lot of people will disagree with. Same thing happened with Occupy and it drove a lot of their support away.

To be fair, they'd probably cite Saul as well as Leviticus as justification for their stance which is a bit more difficult to challenge with a flow chart. It is all trumped by "Love thy neighbour" and "Judge not lest ye be judged" of course. It is always ironic how many people forget the Christ part of Christian and regard Jesus as some sort of hippy.

It's fair to say that the food safety explanation is... rather controversial. Trichinosis is only a problem if you don't cook the meat properly- and if you hadn't cooked meat properly you've potential for a whole lot of problems whatever it is and whether or not it's kosher or halal. Chicken would be a good counter example, it's kosher but almost all chicken- even modern chicken- has things like campylobacter in it (and salmonella, and listeria in eggs plus a couple of others I can't remember- chickens are basically little bacterial fermenters, tasty but care must be taken). Cook it and store it properly and you're fine much as with pork, don't cook it and store it properly and you have a fair chance of getting life threatening food poisoning.

If you got it a few days ago it was technically an invite for the 'alpha' rather than the beta as a big batch of unsolicited alpha keys went out then. I believe the beta uses the same system as is used for their game giveaways to stop the servers crashing ie you sign up and when it's not busy they send out a key/ register the title to you rather than doing them all at the same time. Also, Fantasy General and Pacific General have been released. Most significantly, they're published by GOG themselves rather than via a 3rd party as they have previously done.

I used bacon because both Jews and Muslims regard it as 'unclean', and because that aversion is exactly as arbitrary as whether or not you can draw Muhammed or write the non transliteration of Jehovah or not*. Generally speaking there's also a dichotomy between the two, where deliberately targeting Jewish religious practices is seen as bad while deliberately targeting Muslim ones is seen as 'free speech' and sticking it to the terrists, usually by the same people. Personally I think they're either both free speech or both hate speech. But I'm not going to waste my time worrying about which because either way the idea behind contravening them is just to be offensive and provocative, and is not to make an actual point- it's their right to be a git and they have to assert and protect the right to be a git against the dark night of encroaching lack of gitness, basically. Well yeah. Oddly enough, most people do absolutely fine without asserting their right to be a git and only attention courtesans, psychopaths and the chronically dumb actually revel and feel proud of being one. *I could of course write ____ instead but, meh, I can make the point that I personally think it's silly without rubbing any orthodox type Jews' faces in it for no actual benefit.