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Florida is, basically, a big swamp next to the sea, with appropriate apologies to Floridians for the rather blunt and stereotypical description. Florida does not match many places where water would be needed very closely at all- which are, basically, monsoonal, ie lots of water when there's lots of water, otherwise near desert. Somewhere like Nagpur in India is hundred of km from the sea and has up to 45 degree heats (up to 35 degree mean daily temperature) in summer with 27% average humidity, and seven months with less than 20mm average monthly precipitation. Tampa, say, does get to an average mean temp of 32 degrees, but average humidity never drops below 69% and it has seven months of less than 70mm rainfall, which is still quite a lot especially if you have high humidity which retards evaporation. So the question is whether that device could efficiently work in Nagpur's significantly different conditions- fundamentally, there's no shortage of water in Florida, just shortage of potable/ fresh water whereas there is, fundamentally, a seasonal shortage of water in Nagpur.

You can get some 'free' energy out of heat pumps via entropy, iirc, so in theory you can get very efficient heating/ chilling cycling. The question is whether it works well in appropriate conditions. You want something that produces water well in the dry season when humidity is low and temperatures high, something that produces water well only when humidity is high such as during/ after rain or monsoon is a lot less useful.

Wouldn't count Romero, personally, main thing he did was be frontman for an ad campaign for a much delayed, buggy, mediocre game- and indirectly make it so that Eidos couldn't buy out Looking Glass- but at heart he was no worse than, say, Mike 'awesome button' Laidlaw fronting DA2 promos. I expect people to promote their products. Derek Smart PhD, Cleve, in a different way Tim Langdell, they all trolled like the Japanese fishing fleet chasing the last tuna in existence.

Yeah, it did. That has some relevance to the current situation as well, given that the same accusations are being made again.

A poster on a board has no obligation to respect others- within reasonable limits- and Nonek didn't go to BSN or whatever to make his comment. A journalist at least theoretically does have one, as well as obligations towards being honest and objective. But games journalism isn't really journalism in the classic sense anyway. Indeed, the response of some to the current scandal is more reminiscent of someone defending Scientology or a cult- varying from the equivalent of sticking fingers in ears and yelling "Nahnahnah I can't hear you" to trying to silence others even using illegal methods and threats. In the end, the initial stuff is primarily a question of morality and integrity, plus elements of applying what you preach; but some of the acts leading on from that on the other hand go far beyond those sorts of issues. I don't even care particularly about SJW, I just turn on the brain filter and don't engage most of the time.

An article from a Polish (albeit english language) website that mentions the previous Witcher movie? Pretty irresponsible given that 'The *****' caused PTSD in a third of the people who saw it.

Excellent, more money for us, and with world dairy prices dropping as well. Jolly decent of the EU to throw our farmers a bone and hand us a market like that. Still doesn't make up for the CAP though. And in slightly more relevant news, Ukraine has been invaded by perfidious Russians intent on spreading mischief and mayhem. Or alternatively Russia has got tired of Ukrainian stonewalling and sent their aid convoy in without waiting yet longer than the week it's already been for permission. Either way, things are going to get interesting.

I don't block anyone- even gimmick accounts who commit grievous insults against the purity of dear sweet logic. If you don't have the discipline not to reply to something pointless you're either taking things far too seriously or should remove yourself from the internet for your own sanity. Or you have far too much time on your hands.

Not really, Gromnir brought it up previously and basically no one else has said anything, except Nepenthe noting it wasn't a very flattering comparison for US police. Given the context I wouldn't be surprised if he thought I was Russian rather than being a proud citizen of the least corrupt* nation of earth**, and he was Scoring a Point by mentioning eastern Europe's police. *alternative interpretation since it's a perception index: country best at self delusion, burying their head in the sand and being smug about not being corrupt. **OK, equal with Denmark. Bloody Scandics, always getting in our way on the indices.

But if the 90% of 'good' cops protect the 10% of 'bad' cops or even just turn a blind eye how can you judge the 90% to be 'good'? They would be protecting- potentially- murderers, racists, extortioners or whatever else the 'bad' cops get up to just because they are cops, and that is as bad as (if not worse than) protecting murderers, racists, extortioners etc who are private citizens. That's the heart of the matter, these people are entrusted with power and trust. When they abuse it- or allow it to be abused- that is a fundamentally Bad Thing because it erodes that trust, breeds corruption and allows people who have committed crimes to escape punishment and go on to commit more. This isn't isolated to any particular country either. We've had plenty of examples here as well, perhaps most famously where a group of police were alleged to have spent at least five years raping women, with impunity. Two were eventually convicted of one crime, 16 years later, the third was never convicted but was set to be made our top cop just prior to the whole affair blowing up- and after the other two had been convicted. A fourth avoided conviction due to another policeman deliberately aborting two trials by giving hearsay evidence, he had also covered up the original complaint against the other three. Last year we had a similar multiple instance incident involving a policeman's son where they claimed no complaint was ever laid. In reality, four were but they were never properly investigated. It's ironic really, one of the arguments used for why the police can't just let things slide a bit in Ferguson is because they have to maintain control and not give the green light to bad behaviour by ignoring it. If only they applied the same logic to themselves things would be a lot better; and in the end they'd be a whole lot better for the good cops since they wouldn't be tarred by the bad eggs.

You're arguing the difference between a (morally) good leader and an effective leader. Look at Churchill- effective, sure, if you exclude the Dardanelles, Dieppe and a few other follies; but then you have to exclude a fair few mistakes for Stalin as well. Morally good? Nah, to both. Churchill wanted to gas Iraqis for having the temerity of being brown, uppity and sitting on his oil and he was PM when millions of Indians died in famine as a result of deliberate inaction. Of course, the millions dead there were Indians and Churchill was a hero, democrat, capitalist and westerner, as opposed to Stalin, so people only care about the dead that are politically expedient to care about.

Yeah, not like Iran doesn't have reasons for being hostile- though there'd almost certainly be a lot less hostility if points 6-8 in the Parker Manifesto had been adhered to historically. They won't ever be a superpower though, just a regional one.

They've got too many employees now to just focus on Cyberpunk anyway. If not Twitcher4 they would need another title to develop, so they may as well go for one they know has a market. Not like we've had saturation Twitcher either, it isn't annualised like an Assassin's Creed or CoD so it'll be 3 games in near eight years.

Cyril Ramaphosa. What's happening in Ferguson is mainly just 'respect my authoritah' from police who have got used to people kowtowing because anything else is too much bother and want to intimidate the resistance out of anyone who doesn't. It's crappy for sure, but they haven't actually been using their AR15s etc for direct personal gain or to attack the crowds with live fire with 'proper' bullets. OTOH Cyril Ramaphosa, deputy President of RSA- and board member and large shareholder of the Marakana mine's owner Lonmin- called on the police to end the strike. On August 15. The mass shooting's date? August 16. Of course, it's possible that those dates are coincidence, but if so it's one hell of a coincidence.

Oh, it certainly wasn't without irony that the leaker got leaked, that's for sure. The argument is of course that there is no 'public good'/ need to know justification for those particular leaks, as the wikileaks leaks were 'historic' and 'public/ governmental' rather than 'current' and 'private'- rules of confidentiality in judicial cases also aren't there just to protect the alleged perpetrator from having their reputation unfairly impugned by accusations that potentially turn out to be unsupported, but also to protect the alleged victims; and to prevent jury influence, where relevant (not here, iirc). Assange's alleged victims were identified pretty quickly once he had been identified, and I'd imagine they did not want to be. I'd also imagine they wouldn't want their statements leaked, much as Assange wouldn't. But in any case support for leaks is based on circumstance and personal opinion, always is. If you think that secrecy/ privacy concerns outweigh public right to know you oppose that specific leak, if the reverse you support it.

There's also, er, Arrival for ME2, as without that you don't know why you're in the brig at the start of ME3. Witch Hunt could have been- still might, at a stretch- for DA as well. DLC is easy to hate on in any case. Have it be essential to the story and you're chopping critical stuff out to sell separately and confusing people who don't have it; have it be extraneous or trivial and your're trying to sell irrelevant stuff unconnected to the story or Horse Armour. There's a very fine line between the two.

There was a bit more unusual stuff as well, the number of leaks from the case were absolutely unprecedented (four separate ones iirc, none traced) and included things like leaking the alleged victims' statements- utterly unconscionable, and the defence did not have them to leak it must have been a police/ prosecutor side leak- as well as Assange's identity and statements. Assange was also allowed to leave Sweden then retroactively made subject to extradition when the prosecutor changed. Meh, Assange is old news anyway, and has generated no real interest in the past two years. Selfish it may be but I'm far more interested in Kim Dotcom and whether he'll succeed in bringing our government down at this point.

Nah, I just pointed out a particular document to Orogun. I actually doubt the style I did it in matters in the slightest. Unfortunately, you leap to conclusions; then inevitably start tilting at the windmills your conclusion leaping has created. It's that conclusion leaping thing that has caused you the problems, in both cases.

Must try harder Bruce, that's far too obvious. Nah, the general public is mainly just apathetic when it comes to such things.

Once only. Yatsenyuk did resign over budgetary issues, but his resignation was not accepted and the measures were eventually passed.

The comparison to Ferguson is fine. Same thought processes going on both places, many of the same actual processes too. Scarves/ shirts etc don't stop tear gas in Ferguson either, but there's plenty of people trying to use them as such etc. As for Khdeir, well at least you've now stopped saying he was carrying a sling like it was anything other than an unsupported allegation- mission accomplished there- and gone all in on victim blaming without that added prop. Of course, there's no evidence that he was actively demonstrating either, but I think I'll let that go.

Finished watching House of Cards S2 (US). Honestly, it was a bit of a struggle. Liked the Brit version too much, found the US one too long, don't really care much about the US political system shenanigans and wasn't really convinced by Spacey to be, er, frank. To be fair Spacey was on a hiding to nothing considering how much I liked Ian Richardson's performance, so that criticism at least may well not be fair. Too much arch Old Etonian ingrained in the cultural memory, not enough Southern Gentleman. And I did enjoy Blacklist rather a lot. I suspect I would have loved HoCUS if Spader had been lead there. He'd be pretty much utterly unbelievable as President, but I doubt I'd care.

Right Sector apparently plan to march on Kiev in the next 48 hours if their demands are not met. Yes, that is written correct; pull out of Lugansk/ Donetsk and march on Kiev. Whether they'll actually do it or not it does rather reinforce that arming right wing nutters is most definitively a double edged sword.

Would sue in Britain :smug: the 'multiple media sources' all resolve to one, the Israeli Police who got nabbed beating the 15 yr old up and who when given the opportunity to back up their claims neither charged nor offered any evidence in the forum in which it would actually be tested. Thus their claim upon which your entire thesis is based, is valueless. Actually I am rather amused you took the whole defamation thing so dead seriously, right down to the legalism the 'ohno its libel cos its written' predicted. But it does make a good parallel though, how the people in Ferguson end up with scarves etc wrapped around their faces to minimise tear gas effects then get accused by the peanut gallery of being 'thugs' deserving of what they get. It's a very useful circular argument for the authoritarian types; use smoke and tear gas, people protect their faces, faces concealed == thug*, hit them with smoke and tear gas! Shame they don't have the introspection to go the reverse way though; dress and act like soldier in hostile environment, get treated like soldier in hostile environment, have to dress and act like soldier in hostile environment. 'Give everyone hammers and soon every problem looks like a nail' in action. And, of course, in these cases you always end up with people willing to vilify the original victim to defend their chosen side, whether it be Brown or Khdeir, other people arrested then released without charge who some believe must have done something wrong- not taking the sensible route and just kowtowing to their masters to save trouble, perhaps- people who take whatever authorities release as gospel etc etc. *Even those locals who stand around protecting local stores from the out of towners mainly responsible for the looting. Nope, you can take it any way you want. Want to believe Israel's training had a large effect, take it as sarcasm. Want to believe it had no effect, take it as literal. I- literally- don't have any opinion on the matter except in so far as expecting various police to share policing methods as a matter of course. You're just looking to pick a fight, basically. Whether Israeli training actually influenced the results is something only the Ferguson PD can answer. And I'd bet any money that they won't.

Well, it gets one thing unequivocally right, namely: "Again and again, Bush and Obama have assessed Russia through an American prism and come away disappointed that the view from the Kremlin looks different than they thought it ought to." Which, of course, betrays a near total lack of introspection as well as gross arrogance. But then there's never been a less introspective or more arrogant group than politicians.