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sure they are, cant even believe that we have to explain something that basic to Bruce No they part of your definition of morality, I don't kill people because I'm " good " ...I don't kill people because I think its inherently wrong and against basic human rights even you yourself can see that you are not doing it because its evil. Morality and good or evil may be subjective, but it doesn't change that fact Morality (from the Latin moralitas "manner, character, proper behavior") is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are distinguished as proper and those that are improper: In other words, it is the disjunction between right and wrong. Good: 1. morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man. 2.satisfactory in quality, quantity, or degree: a good teacher; good health. 3. of high quality; excellent. 4. right; proper; fit: It is good that you are here. His credentials are good. 5. well-behaved: a good child. 6. kind, beneficent, or friendly: to do a good deed. 7. honorable or worthy; in good standing: a good name. Evil: 1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life. 2.harmful; injurious: evil laws. 3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days. 4. due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character: an evil reputation. 5. marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.: He is known for his evil disposition.

And have you ever seen any Muslim EVER support the idea of his beard being forcibly shaved? They will see this as an insult and an attack on there faith...if fact I cant recall where else in the world this has happened ? Have you ever seen anybody support the idea of their beard being forcibly shaved? But 98% of people of Tajikistan are Muslims. So its secular government that have decided this thing consist probably mostly Muslims. They were also part of Soviet Union, which also means they have traditions and habits, etc. from that era. I'm missing your point? Just because the government is Muslim it doesn't mean they dont have an issue with Muslim extremism and they think this will help..and no I haven't seen this before as I mentioned Point was that when somebody is forced to something it usually means that they didn't support idea in first place. And second point was that this has less to do with Islam and more to do with Tajikistan culture itself. It is difficult to say do forcing people living by certain standards add or lessen extremism, but forcing people to look certain way or forbid certain looks isn't uncommon thing even in western countries even though forced beard saving don't necessary belong among those things, except in prisons sometimes. Really? So is the mass shaving of perceived Muslim extremist beards part of there culture? I see this as a pointless decision by a dictator trying to control the spread of extremism That isn't what I said. But that not accepting certain looks and collective punishments probably come from their own culture. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/tajikistan-shaves-13000-men-beards-radicalism-160120133352747.html "Police in Tajikistan have shaved nearly 13,000 people's beards and closed more than 160 shops selling traditional Muslim clothing last year as part of the country's fight against what it calls "foreign" influences. Bahrom Sharifzoda, the head of the south-west Khathlon region's police, said at a press conference on Wednesday that the law enforcement services convinced more than 1,700 women and girls to stop wearing headscarves in the Muslim-majority Central Asian country. The move is seen as part of efforts to battle what authorities deem "radicalism". Tajikistan's secular leadership has long sought to prevent an overspill of what it sees as unwelcome traditions from neighbouring Afghanistan. Last week, the country's parliament voted to ban Arabic-sounding "foreign" names as well as marriages between first cousins. The legislation is expected to be approved by President Emomali Rahmon, who has taken steps to promote secularism and discourage beliefs and practices that he sees as foreign or a threat to the stability of Tajikistan, Radio Liberty said." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35372754 "Shaving beards is part of a government campaign targeting trends that are deemed "alien and inconsistent with Tajik culture"." "Women have been told to wear traditional Tajik colours - not black" "According to official data, 99% of the Tajik population are Muslim. However, atheism was officially encouraged during 70 years of Soviet rule." "President Emomali Rakhmon has also warned Tajiks: "Don't worship alien values, don't follow alien culture. Wear clothes of traditional colours and cut, not black."" "The campaign against Islamic practices also affects women. There is an official ban on wearing hijabs in schools and universities - but in practice it is enforced in all state institutions. Police say that over the past year, they have closed about 160 shops where hijabs were being sold, and convinced 1,773 women to stop wearing hijabs." "It is not clear whether these policies will have an impact on preventing radicalism. Djovid Akramov says he will not forget the humiliation he felt while being forcefully shaved at the police station. "The worst is the impunity of the policemen, who were enjoying the opportunity to bully people," he says. It is this kind of conduct that can prompt people to become radicalised, he says." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/tajikistan-parliament-approves-constitutional-changes-presidential-term-emomali-rahmon "Tajikistan’s secular government has raised alarm over hundreds of its citizens going to join Islamic State in Iraq and Syria." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/28/tajikistan-police-chief-defects-to-isis Tajikistan police chief defects to Isis I don't have any knowledge about Tajikistan to tell me if this sort actions increase or decrease extremism there, but it is clear that their leadership has real concerns about increasing extremism in their country and their reaction towards extremism is quite similar to how Soviet Union handled such cases (meaning use of extreme measures and promoting nationalism).

And have you ever seen any Muslim EVER support the idea of his beard being forcibly shaved? They will see this as an insult and an attack on there faith...if fact I cant recall where else in the world this has happened ? Have you ever seen anybody support the idea of their beard being forcibly shaved? But 98% of people of Tajikistan are Muslims. So its secular government that have decided this thing consist probably mostly Muslims. They were also part of Soviet Union, which also means they have traditions and habits, etc. from that era. I'm missing your point? Just because the government is Muslim it doesn't mean they dont have an issue with Muslim extremism and they think this will help..and no I haven't seen this before as I mentioned Point was that when somebody is forced to something it usually means that they didn't support idea in first place. And second point was that this has less to do with Islam and more to do with Tajikistan culture itself. It is difficult to say do forcing people living by certain standards add or lessen extremism, but forcing people to look certain way or forbid certain looks isn't uncommon thing even in western countries even though forced beard saving don't necessary belong among those things, except in prisons sometimes.

Voters of lesser evils make Cthulhu sad.

And have you ever seen any Muslim EVER support the idea of his beard being forcibly shaved? They will see this as an insult and an attack on there faith...if fact I cant recall where else in the world this has happened ? Have you ever seen anybody support the idea of their beard being forcibly shaved? But 98% of people of Tajikistan are Muslims. So its secular government that have decided this thing consist probably mostly Muslims. They were also part of Soviet Union, which also means they have traditions and habits, etc. from that era.

The basics are the same. Most people start with a small caliber iron-sighted rifle and work their way up to scoped precision rifle, thats the usual procedure for marksmanship training. Trigger discipline, stance, breath control, heartbeat, patience etc. is required when shooting any rifle. For basic shooting part is similar, but actual sniper training has actually includes quite lot other things (like how you camouflage yourself in different environments, how to work with spotter, how to work as part of greater operation, and of course other basic stuff that is taught for every serviceman) at least in Finnish Defence Forces (where shooting training is started with assault rifles RK-62/92 or RK-95 and then in specialized training they move to TKIV 2000 or TKIV 85). Meaning that one learns how to shoot with all sorts of rifles from biathlon training (at least basic stuff), but that alone don't school one to become actually sniper at least not in military terms. In Finland one of our national sports is called Pesäpallo (which is also its English name, probably to prevent people mixing it with baseball which would be direct translation for it), it is designed to teach people basics of grenade throwing and throw them accurately in variety of distances. It is sport that is taught to people from day they first go to school to day they finish it. Also orienteering is sport that is taught in schools that is meant to give students basics about how to move and navigate in nature which are necessary skills for soldiers in Finland. And lot of other sports that are taught in our schools have similar purposes. So biathlon is not alone if we want to ban all sports that could be counted as preparing people becoming as terrorists. Also if we want to make immigrants/refugees as part of our society they need to learn those skills so that they can use them if necessary against great yellow country (a hypothetical country that is used in most FDF's military exercises) that always attacks from East for some reason. So in short I disagree that biathlon and sniper training are same even though they school lots of same basic things about shooting with rifles.

There will be in 3.0 What does that mean, though? Skip all combat? I don't understand. Not exactly. Combat encounters compositions are same as in normal difficulty, but player's characters get stat boosts and enemies get stat decreases which will make encounters much more simpler and less time consuming. So it is like opposite of PotD mode.

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Those don't look like sniper rifles but sport rifles (light rifles used in biathlon) And quick googling tells that picture is from biathlon range with biathlon rifles, where high school students are taught said sport. Including about 50 students with immigrant/refugee background from all around world. Article where this net rumor originated http://www.allehanda.se/angermanland/solleftea/laddade-for-prickskytte and clarifications regarding cited "sniper training" article from same publication http://www.allehanda.se/angermanland/solleftea/clarifications-regarding-cited-sniper-training-article

Impression from beta and alpha Story driven character creation tutorial is OK, but may become boring after multiple repeats, so it would be good if finished version will have option to skip it, especially when game offers you option to change your character to what ever you like after it anyway. Main character's avatar isn't most fantastic, although later on items give you option to build your appearance at least somewhat (I have played only 5 hours and I have only found handful of items). Beginning of story felt bit jumpy for me but it becomes more coherent soonish. First companions don't feel that great and I hope that their dialogs will get bit more love when game closes the finish line and they get VO for them. Environmental interaction and consumable stat pool resources make crises much quite interesting puzzles, where optimal strategy depends also lot of what you want to do after the crisis. Like for example you nano can blast enemies with their spells in fight but then after battle they may suffer severe lack of int pool resource to help in persuasion, etc. check. And of course wise versa. Game has at least some time quests that make resting bit less obvious choice. Writing is readable and had not yet become sore in any point . Game gives you at least in beginning good number of roleplaying choices. Also I would not recommend beta to anybody that don't like to play non-finished product that lack polish in many places.

By targeting singular person that has accused to done something that should prevent him to come in UK instead of putting in general ban for all Americans for example? EDIT: Is this you saying that you don't support any form of bans for any people when it comes to matters of immigration? Or are you just saying that it is choice between no bans or banning whole groups of people?

And no one thought to make them debate why Mr. Cameron porked a piggy? I think it has to be couched as something that Parliament can debate/ have an effect on, such as Trump's supposed hate speech. So you'd have to find a way to make Dave's quasi-amorous deceased porcine interactions politically relevant rather than just amusing/ embarrassing. I don't think even something like "David Cameron's, uh, 'private member' is haram, and thus would be offensive to the Saudis or other muslims if he met them" would fit the, hm, bill. Unfortunately. There has been over 5000 petitions so far, from which 19 has so far got enough votes to be debated, although The Petitions Committee has decided not to debate two of those 19 nineteen topics. I didn't find topic about Cameron's escapade with pork, but it maybe there but just using words that I didn't figure out. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=all Also during Trump debate there were two topics under discussion Block Donald J Trump from UK entry and Don't ban Trump from the United Kingdom (although this only had 44k votes so it was included in debate by parliament's own decision, probably to prevent need to debate same topic again in future)

Is ISIS controlled oil factored into world oil prices though, since it isn't traded legally? It effects how much there is demand for legally produced oil. And oil price is determined by how much demand there are compared to amount oil that is produced. But I would guess that ISIS controlled oil has quite marginal impact on oil prices.

I would say that those articles give bit too rosy picture how Denmark actually treated said ISIS fighters, even though their PR gives nice and cosy picture of forgiveness and brighter future. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/12/deradicalise-isis-fighters-jihadists-denmark-syria And other countries didn't share that Danish approach "Most western countries, fearful of the threat they could pose, are cracking down on returning fighters. In France, tough new anti-terror legislation allows authorities to seize passports and ID cards from would-be jihadists “likely to jeopardise public security on their return”. Britain has arrested at least 60 returnees; government talk has been of long jail terms, or trying to ban more from coming back at all. At least 30 returning jihadists are facing trial in Germany, which is mulling far stricter exit controls, while, in Antwerp, 46 people were recently accused of belonging to a Belgian group that allegedly recruited and sent fighters to Syria; the group’s leader could face up to 15 years in prison." Also there is bit difference between Denmark and Netherlands "Fighting in Syria, as long as it is not for an outlawed group, is not illegal, and Danish law does not allow authorities to forbid people from travelling. “We can’t take passports,” says the commissioner. “We have laws against participating in banned terrorist groups; fundraising, that kind of thing. But our only real tool is to try to persuade them not to go.”" Also in that Danish approach it not for all returning ISIS fighters "The so-called Aarhus model, says Preben Bertelsen, a psychology professor at Aarhus University, is about “inclusion. Look: these are young people struggling with pretty much the same issues as any others – getting a grip on their lives, making sense of things, finding a meaningful place in society. We have to say: provided you have done nothing criminal, we will help you to find a way back.” And police justifies their approach "But in his office on the fifth floor of East Jutland police headquarters in Aarhus, superintendent Allan Aarslev, who is in charge of the police end of the programme, waves away any suggestion that the city’s approach represents the easy option. “What’s easy,” he says, “is to pass tough new laws. Harder is to go through a real process with individuals: a panel of experts, counselling, healthcare, assistance getting back into education, with employment, maybe accommodation. With returning to everyday life and society. We don’t do this out of political conviction; we do it because we think it works.”" "It may have launched only at the start of this year, but Aarhus’s exit programme builds on a longstanding, integrated and very Danish approach to crime prevention that has operated for more than 30 years, stresses Aarslev’s commanding officer, police commissioner JØrgen Ilum." "“But this is not a get-out-of-jail-free card,” the commissioner says. “If we think we have reason to believe they have committed crimes, we will investigate and prosecute.” So far, police have been unable to prove any of the city’s returnees actively supported, or engaged in, terrorism." "Aarhus police have simply handed their files over to the Danish intelligence service, and asked that a watchful eye be kept on them." And also such approach may disappear from Denmark and new laws may come in place to give official ability to arrest people without proof that they did something other than traveled in ISIS controlled territories. "It is not an approach that has met with unanimous approval in Denmark, which, with more than 100 young jihadists emerging since 2012, has produced more fighters per head of its population than any other western European country bar Belgium. Conservative parties, including the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, have loudly criticised the city’s thorough deradicalisation programme as “soft”, “naive”, “shortsighted” and ultimately “very dangerous”. The Venstre party has called for returning jihadists to be stripped of their citizenship and handed six-year jail terms." As DPP now has quite good ability to drive in legislation changes that they want. And I would not say that even in that Dutch case is not anyway near top priority, as currently they have taken his passport and said that he can't leave the country to prevent him going back in Syria and police is investigating if there is reason to prosecute him. I would say that there would not be even investigation if man had not made his fight against ISIS public in Facebook and well know by giving statements to press. It is hard for prosecution offices to ignore people that publicly declare that they have broken the law. http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-dutch-arrest-idUKKCN0UT1S1

Changes for console version are very close to zero. Reason for that are: First game uses Unity 4.x as engine and to port it to Xbox One and/or PS4 they would need to port game first to Unity 5, as Unity 4.x don't support those platforms. Game's UI and control patterns that game uses are not gamepad friendly, which means that there would be need for heavy modifications in those sectors to make game pleasant to play on consoles. Game is writing heavy with much smaller amount of VO that W2DC(all important parts), D:OS EE (100%) have, and reading isn't something that is commonly found as pleasant experience on TV screen (because of usually relatively slow resolution compared to screen size and longer view distance compared to PC screen or other screens that are more commonly used for reading), which means that amount of VO should be increased or they should find better way to represent text for players to keep their experience pleasant W2DC and D:OS EE use turn based combat that gives lot of leeway in how fast player needs to input their commands, where RTwP system that PoE uses also gives in theory that same leeway, in reality it has high change to make combat feel to hectic or too disjointed to actually be pleasant experience for most of the players. Meaning that combat spacing would need some sort overhaul to make it actually work on consoles. Also Obsidian has said they don't have spare resources to do such ports.

It is nice to see how immigrant politics are mostly game for some countries. Finland forbid people crossing over border with bicycle to lessen illegal border crossing, so now Russians sell them cars that Soviet Union sold for Finnish car merchants in 80s and 90s and which were then sold back to Russia used and now they fill parking spaces in Norther Finland's border station as they are confiscated as they are used in illegal entry to country, which is crime and vehicles and other things that used in crimes are automatically confiscated to the state. So welcome home Ladas and Volgas we didn't miss you. Pictures are from http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/a1452841699638?jako=93d7b4b336aec82fe8ce972acc753cc3

It is complex question. With multiple factors in play. Countries under crisis aren't necessary capable or even willing to try people. Also other laws may prevent giving people to be tried in other country, like for example European human rights convention forbids to senting people to be tried in countries were they will face death penalty, torture or otherwise their life will be in danger. Also thing that is crime in one country is not necessary crime in another country. For example using nazis as example killing hews was not crime in Nazi Germany, but in most other countries it would have counted as murder, and therefore they would probably would had tried their own people if they had gone to Germany to do such legal killing. Also countries often have laws that they don't give their citizens to be tried in other countries but they are instead tried in their home countries. Also putting person trough criminal process isn't same as saying they are necessary guilty in something but that they have done something which legality is under question.

Making sure that country's own citizens follow its laws is bad? It is quite normal that we don't let people without official authority hunt and especially not kill criminals. Of course we can't talk should there be exception for criminal and terrorist organisations like ISIS and should there be criminal process for crimes that are done outside of country's borders, but then we also need to take account what if for example war criminal comes in the country what then and so on .

Freedom and Liberty advert from person that most loudly opposes both, maybe it is meant to be ironic

Hebdo's cartoon are aren't good outside of France as people don't know and have hard time get to know context behind them In above cartoon they take shots against cardinal and archbishop of Paris André Vingt-Trois (Mrg [French honorific] Vingt-Trois referring to him), who had just publicly declared that marriage between people of same sex is hoax, by introducing his three dads (trois papas), The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit. It is not world most intelligent or original quip, but in context of recent things before publication of said comic it is understandable (meaning that people that know the context understand what cartoon tries joke about).

It's not a bug, it's a feature

Factories have survived smoke breaks and toilet breaks that their employees take. Those prayers aren't such that they have absolutely exact times when one needs to perform them. 1. Salat al-Fajr, or the morning prayer, is said after dawn and before sunrise. 2. Salat al-Zuhr, or the early afternoon prayer, is said when the sun begins to decline, and its time extends till the next prayer. On Fridays, the Friday service takes the place of this prayer. 3. Salat al-`Asr, or the late afternoon prayer, is said when the sun is about midway on its course to setting, and its time extends to a little before it actually sets. 4. Salat al-Maghhrib, or the sunset prayer, is said immediately after the sun sets. 5. Salat al-`Isha, or the early night prayer, is said when the red glow in the west disappears, and its time extends to midnight. But it must be said before going to bed. Of course in December here Finland they could do them all during lunch break and best days they only need to do 2 of them as sun never rises. And during June same thing as Sun never goes down.

Oh yes, under five minute break five times (which 2-3 are during typical work hours) of day massively hinders how much work person can do in one day and absolutely prevents all sort career advancing.

It is however still important that we do not blame an entire culture for this or take this ****ed experience as proof that we can never coexists. We can easily assimilate immigrants, as long as we understand where and what they come from. You can easily assimilate immigrants from muslim countries? Why aren't you doing it then? Immigrants come in many forms, most of immigrants from Muslim countries in Finland have been assimilate well in our society, but most of them aren't refugees and most of them have come in controlled fashion, which are much more complex group to assimilate especially when their immigration is not controlled. Where we get to probably main causes behind problems that are caused by this crisis, which is uncontrolled immigration and too little resource in assimilation processes. Also I would put quite lot blame on politician that have been absolutely ridiculously slow to form any coherent universal way to response and handle such immigration, which has just let things get worse and worse and we get closer and closer point where government is forced to use radical actions with no time to really plan them, which usually never goes well. But such inability to make decision and constant back and forth has plagued European politics now quite long time.