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You guys wont believe this but about 15 years ago I also could have worked in the USA but it was a military contract...I always wanted to join the CIA. I had this view of how it was the perfect place for me. I could work independently and bend laws and break them in the name of security of the USA.....I know this is fine as long as its for the safety of your citizens People dont need to know everything...but I didnt apply but I have always admired the CIA, its amazing how they get criticized by so many Americans. No offense to anyone but I would never do that...I see it as unpatriotic Jesus Christ. Most operatives and agents within CIA bend the rules and work they way they do because they have to in order to reach their objectives, not something they take pride in (based on interviews and books by prior agents. Cognitive dissonance and all that taken into account). The fact that you would take some sort of enjoyment out of the methods shows a very sycophant behaviour, usually found in sociopaths. You wouldn't even pass the first vetting as such traits are treated as liabilities, not as assets. Rather i think you would be first in row as a test subject for the following projects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_ARTICHOKE Well as you know I'm 41 and I did do 1 year military service in SA How do you know I wasn't already interrogating people in SA and breaking the rules ..... 41? I figured early 20s.

What people usually think of as the "Canadian" accent is usually just the Maritimer accent, which is an understandable version of the Newfie accent. Eastern Ontario and Montreal tend to have an accent with a bit of a french feel to it, but not that distinct from the Western Canadian accent, and most of Western Canada just sounds like what you hear on the CW, as most of their shows are filmed in Vancouver with local actors. I have never heard another Canadian say aboot. It sounds more like Aboat. http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/2/4/5/4/6/0/i/1/4/8/o/EnglishDialects.jpg North American Dialect map

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That's a tellingly specific insult. Of course it originates from the alt-right; heck, it is the alt-right, neatly summarized in less than three lines of text. I really haven't gotten a complete picture of the alt-right. It just seems like a bunch of youtube personalities that are neither conservative or libertanians. My tinfoil-thinking-hat suggests either a honey-pot for easy money or controlled opposition. Sargon of Akkad did a video outlining the general beliefs of the Alt-Right. its pretty long, but there really isn't anything you need to watch so you can just have it on in the background. They are essentially right-wing SJWs.

If she was a state judge she would not survive her next retention vote. If she were a appellate or Supreme Court justice we'd be stuck with her but she will never get a decent table in a DC restaurant after that. There would likely be an investigation and huge scandal about the allegations about her black colleagues all essentially demanding sex from her as well.

To be fair to Polygon, I'm pretty sure that several of their writers are on record saying they hate video games.

The fall of the Roman Empire began when they gave citizenship to everyone instead of making people earn it through service to the empire. And last I heard, the only other time in history that had a major feminist movement was during the fall of the Roman empire. Correlation doesn't equal causation and all, but something to think about.

If it makes you feel better, I left my son's iPad on the roof of the car yesterday, and it shattered into a million pieces. So my life isn't perfect. *shrug* In regards to Fort McMurray, how amazing is it that they were able to evacuate everyone? You can always rebuild homes, and they will, but what a job by everyone in this disaster. We nearly had to evacuate a number of years back for a wildfire that burned 50,000 acres in the hills behind us, and I remember how chaotic it was. We lost firefighters in that one. It's shocking that the only people that have lost their lives in Canada have been from an auto accident, hopefully that is the full count. Trudeau took some heat for not accepting international aid, but it was because we already had as many water bombers as the skies could handle, and we hadn't even sent the military in to help yet. The way the news was going on, I thought the whole city was being wiped out, but I read recently it was only about 15% of the city, so that's good.

I'm going to make a totally indefensible snap-judgment but I think that any movie that starts with a deathrow convict being abducted for science is off to a terrible start. It's a lazy plot device and it shows a lack of imagination from the creators. Why is the animus some big contraption? They could have just kept it a chair and saved a ****load of money for the bits of the film that are interesting. And why oh why do they have the character making a leap of faith? That's one of the most ridiculous things in the series, he'd better not be landing into a wheelbarrow of hay. The whole thing feels off to me, I predict it's going to be rubbish. Someone on Reddit suggested the animus may be like that as a VR type thing. So while he is reliving the memories he is acting out the actions as well.

My PVR is thanking ABC. Muppets is gone too. Which is a shame, because the soft reboot really improved the show.

It looks like the game. I'm sold.

They aren't really spies, more of a black ops team. May really seems like the only one I would classify as a spy

What's so bad about SHIELD lately? I haven't had any problems

Started Stellaris with a Molluskoid tentacle faced raced named the Cthulhu. Started as a despotic empire, with the traits intelligent, enduring, and decadent, with the spiritual, martial and collectivist ethics. One of the first star systems I found was Sol, so I conquered the puny humans and made them my slaves. Now I am allied with a spiritual despotic empire of fungus people and am engaged in a war with some democratic bug people, because they blocked my expansion. The number of customization options is fantastic. You can make literally any race you want, especially because adding new portraits was the first modding tutorial they added.

I'm going camping with the rest of my family last week of June, then leaving the kids with my parents for 2 weeks. It is going to be amazing. We might even get the house clean.

I think AAA generally just means high production values. Doesn't need a high budget, just needs to look it.

You wish you could jail people who say something stupid on facebook? Those would be some crowded jails.

Cap 3. Spider-Man, best so far. Black Panther, fantastic. Crossbones, wasted. GIANT MAN. GIANT MAN. I can't swear, otherwise I would. Goddamned Giant Man. Movie was worth it for Spidey and Giant Man alone.

Yeah, a montage of him winning the battles and other teams adopting his tactics before they reassign all his squadmembers to lead other armies would have been good.

I actually liked Asa Butterfield, and the stuff they did I enjoyed, I just felt like it needed to be a half hour longer at least, to flesh things out. It was less than 2 hour long.

Yeah, and in the process, the director make Ender unlikable. Brilliant. I felt like one of the big mistakes was making the big space battle at the end so realistic. It needed to look more like a simulation. I always pictured it when I read the book as kind of like a digital version of the map/miniature war table you see in period movies. Making it look so realistic took a lot of the sting out of the revelation that he had been commanding actual ships and it wasn't a simulation. I feel like it would have been better served as a miniseries. They rushed through battle school too quickly, and his relationships and the respect he earned from his peers didn't get enough attention. A miniseries could also integrate aspects of Ender's Shadow as well.

How so? Heads of state are generally in charge of foreign affairs, where his charisma and strength of will would have been huge assets, as they were while he was in power, but the negative aspects, like removing term limits, disasterous economic policies, etc, wouldn't have been able to go through. Like if Mugabe had quit after 2 terms he might have been remembered fondly instead of as a dictator, Chavez will be remembered as the man who set Venezuela on the path to ruin. How would he avoided that if he was more right leaning? From what data I've seen, the dutch disease in Venezuela due to the petroeconomy would have happened regardless of Chavez and his economic policies. You misunderstood what I was saying. I meant if he was the head of state, and there was a separate, right leaning head of government. But you also may have a point.

How so? Heads of state are generally in charge of foreign affairs, where his charisma and strength of will would have been huge assets, as they were while he was in power, but the negative aspects, like removing term limits, disasterous economic policies, etc, wouldn't have been able to go through. Like if Mugabe had quit after 2 terms he might have been remembered fondly instead of as a dictator, Chavez will be remembered as the man who set Venezuela on the path to ruin. Good points raised I am very impressed with how you research certain African historical events like Apartheid Whats your interest in these events..most people dont care unless you South African I was pretty active on the Althistory wiki for a while, and I contributed to a bunch of articles on South Africa for the 1983: Doomsday timeline. The point of divergence was 1983, so Apartheid was still in effect. When the guy who was doing the Zimbabwe article bailed and his article was rejected, me and another guy moved on to that one too. So in order to get a realistic idea of how the timeline would have gone in those areas, I needed to research some of the history and the state of the area at the time. I'm also kind of interested in how the white minority rule decolonized states were so successful then collapsed after majority rule was granted. With many black leaders just doing terrible jobs I'm interested in why that is. Just in general I'm a history buff, I found I wasn't interested in various parts of history until I had to research the areas for articles on the wiki. I also played a game or two as Transvaal in Victoria 2, and research for the colonial period of my own alternate history timeline. I really think Alternate History would be an interesting teaching tool, as asking what would happen if things went differently makes you have to look hard at why things happened as they did. Okay that is very interesting, I can share some insights with you about the African continent from the 1960's and particularly Southern Africa Members of my family fought in the Rhodesian War (1974-1980 ) and then came to South Africa in 1980 and joined the South African military but for them it was about the war against Communism ...they werent racist (well as much as most white people living in Africa were ) Personally I have traveled and worked in about 20 African countries and I have spent the last 10 years studying the history of the region and understanding why certain political events occurred and also researching the history of the continent Is there something particular you want to know because it is very fascinating ? Yeah, from what I've seen, it seems like both Rhodesia and South Africa's exclusionary policies were more about fighting communism than outright racism. My understanding with Rhodesia was that they established educational requirements for running for office, which in practice meant only whites could run, but that they were also investing heavily in education, so it was only a matter of time before there were blacks who would fit the requirements, but communism offered "equality now" kinda thing.