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  1. Yes this is all over the international media....Gfted1 when Trump makes comments like he did how do you feel? I'm battling to understand why you guys aren't more annoyed and or concerned ? I know I tend to perhaps overact to these types of comments but surly someone on this forum from the USA must be a little ......exasperated ? To be honest I doubt anyone over here really cares, either about Trump (non supporters) or what the UK thinks of him (supporters) As far as banning or even severely restricting guns in other countries I'd be curious to see what ownership levels and such were like before the bans. I could see banning them here eventually succeeding but it would probably take a few generations of moves in that direction, essentially changing the culture. Severe restriction to gun ownership (like need to prove that you have practiced shooting for at least year before you can get permit to buy a light caliber gun and even longer if you want higher caliber gun) and return guns without licence without questions asked policy have dropped amount of guns owned by private citizens in Finland from estimated several millions to estimated bit over 1.5 million (which is about 1 private owned weapon per 4 citizens). This estimated change has happened in my life time. Although lots of the returned weapons without license were from time of second world war and years after it, so they have returned when their owners have died and their beneficiaries didn't know what to do with the weapons they inherited.
  2. No thats not the solution..if the USA converts to Islam then the problem is solved ? Lets not over complicate things....if the most powerful and influential Western country in the world just converts then the EU would follow ....surly if the whole world was Islamic then there wouldn't be anymore violence? Well except for the historical Shia\Sunni violence , the Iran vs Saudi resentment, the likes of ISIS and AL-Qaeda who kill anyone who doesn't agree with there interpretation of Islam, and the likes of Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab....but apart from that we would have Global peace..wouldn't we It is said that there will not be global peace as long as there is more than one human on this planet. So our only hope is... there is no hope, There Is Only War ®
  3. Although player has ability to define protagonist's past self's and Iovara's relationship as lovers, which closes some of the ending options away.
  4. Synth infiltrator missions seem to be bugged for many people.
  5. I saw a "mission failed" notice pop up at one point because I didn't get around to doing one of those "settlement under attack" missions in a specific set of time. But when I visited that settlement, I didn't notice anything different. Still had the same number of people living there, still had the stuff I built for them, etc. On that note, guess which settlement needed me to save them again tonight? Sanctuary Hills. Ugh. Preston's opening line of "I just got word that a new settlement needs our help" just pisses me off at this point. It's our settlement, Preston. How about you stop wandering around between the various houses I built, and stop sitting on the various chairs and couches I built, and actually help out at one of the guard towers? If you don't help settlements then random things will broke in settlement and settlement happiness will drop.
  6. but again, US Courts is almost unique (australia has a lite version o' exclusion) in that if cops do bad and find evidence that proves guilt of a defendant, we don't simple punish the cops... we let the defendant go free. HA! Good Fun! That is quite well working system in most cases. But even it can fail to protect innocents when their neighbors start to act too paranoid, as police officers and those whose behavior their neighbors find suspicious are humans and when there are influx of cases where polices are called to check those more or less suspicious people there is increased change that in some cases people (police and/or those under suspicion) don't act as well as they should in such situation that can lead altercation that has unwanted consequences. So it isn't law that is problem, it is the inevitable human element. And more there are distrust between people more likely it's that human element comes into the play. Which is why some people find neighbor watching/stalking problematic, which I think was the original point/thing that was objected
  7. Police don't sadly always follow law as strictly as they probably should. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-woman-esmeralda-rossi-sues-chandler-police-officers-violation-naked-arrest/
  8. Settlements inability to defend themselves without you being there is quite idiotic decision. At least it gives me comedy effect when I go to settlement that is under attack and its defenses destroy all the attacker before I can is even take my gun out after fast travel and then settlers come and tell me how grateful they are because they can't even think what could have happened if I wasn't there to defend them.
  9. That reminds me bit of this quote from Albert Einstein's Autobiographical Notes. I came—though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents—to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment—an attitude that has never again left me, even though, later on, it has been tempered by a better insight into the causal connections. It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings. Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation, and I soon noticed that many a man whom I had learned to esteem and to admire had found inner freedom and security in its pursuit. The mental grasp of this extra-personal world within the frame of our capabilities presented itself to my mind, half consciously, half unconsciously, as a supreme goal. Similarly motivated men of the present and of the past, as well as the insights they had achieved, were the friends who could not be lost. The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it. -Albert Einstein
  10. It depends how they count that five years. If that five years include coming up with idea and getting it green lighted on publisher then five years isn't atypically long development cycle. So question is how long game is developed by full team and how much of said development time is just done by prework team. Like for example Alan Wake was in development over 7 years, but big part of that time it only had under 10 people working on it, which is why it production cost were much lower than most of the AAA franchises that have yearly releases with about 3 years development time.
  11. Legendary Mythic deathclaws I think are most powerful and toughest version that you can run into (your character needs to be level 85 or higher). Although there is no enemy that can win player character when you use psychojet as it gives you good damage bonus and lows time so you can cause massive damage without needing to worry that enemies hit you.
  12. Do Lebanon have some sort special intelligence agency or why one should trust that they have some sort inside information about alliance that they aren't part of?
  13. Christianity's villainy and terror are also ongoing things although their outright militantism isn't very big problem in Europe anymore and in USA people seem to tolerate it quite lot more than they tolerate it from other religions. Also expansionism and converting everybody to Christianity is one of the core tenets of Christianity. Mark 16:15 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation." Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. What nonsense. Christian militantism in the US is laughable. Literally laughable. The religion is still strong in certain parts of the country but its capacity for expansion and fanaticism is limited to non-existent. And that's only in the US. Mail me when you find an international christian terrorist network spanning the globe. Christian terrorist group don't form international networks at least that are know to public, but they don't necessary need because we have enough Christian missionaries that are willing to spread their message to other countries. But for example in Anti-balaka in Central African Republic are Christian terrorists that hunt and kill Muslims quite openly including lynching ex-minister of Health. They also use mass rapes regular weapon against Muslims. They have caused nearly as many refugees in Africa as ISIS in Iraq. Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda committed during their rebellion (2005) lot of crimes against humanity including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, and using forced child labourers as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves. They still continue to operate Tripura in India is Christian terrorist and rebel group that seeks the secession of Tripura, North-East India and they do terrorist attacks against Hindus. Nagaland in India is Christian terrorist group that wants to establish a sovereign christian state. Their main income comes from drug smuggling. They have also indulged in kidnapping, extortion and other terrorist activities. Their operation status is currently under question as they signed peace treaty with Indian government. Army of God in USA is Christian terrorist group that has done terrorist attacks against abortion providers starting from 1982. Christian Identity is global loosely organised Christian group that consist from individuals, churches and prison gangs that hold white supremacist theology, like they (European decent white people) are God's chosen people and that Jews are cursed offspring of Cain. Groups like Aryan Nations follow their teachings. They preach such things like killing Jews and Homosexuals. They don't form international groups because there's literally no such thing as powerful international Christianity barring the Catholic church. What you name are a handful of people in Africa (where there is a "terror group" for everything and as many failed states there are various groups), India (where there are even communists still, let alone christians, in a subcontinent with a billion people) and the US which has a prison gang for every single religion or creed in existence. Besides, all of that is representative of local interests and divisions. Muslim terrorist networks span dozens of countries, are in general agreement on the cause they're fighting for (even if there is infighting) and have proven themselves capable of large scale attacks in functioning modern states, attracting even second or third generation immigrants. They're now an international ideology with as much draw and charisma as communism in its heyday. Most importantly, christian extremism doesn't enjoy wide support at all (none really), whereas half the arab world is now celebrating what happened in San Bernandino without even knowing if its really religiously motivated with hundreds TV stations and mosques across the entire muslim world implicitly or explicitly supporting terrorism daily and preaching hatred for the west through daily propaganda. Christian terrorist groups get surprisingly lot support from regular Christians. And most of those Christian extreme movements in Africa, India and other countries have born from preachings of "regular" western preachers. Who of course always deny that it was their fault that people took their preachings literally.
  14. Christianity's villainy and terror are also ongoing things although their outright militantism isn't very big problem in Europe anymore and in USA people seem to tolerate it quite lot more than they tolerate it from other religions. Also expansionism and converting everybody to Christianity is one of the core tenets of Christianity. Mark 16:15 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation." Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. What nonsense. Christian militantism in the US is laughable. Literally laughable. The religion is still strong in certain parts of the country but its capacity for expansion and fanaticism is limited to non-existent. And that's only in the US. Mail me when you find an international christian terrorist network spanning the globe. Christian terrorist group don't form international networks at least that are know to public, but they don't necessary need because we have enough Christian missionaries that are willing to spread their message to other countries. But for example in Anti-balaka in Central African Republic are Christian terrorists that hunt and kill Muslims quite openly including lynching ex-minister of Health. They also use mass rapes regular weapon against Muslims. They have caused nearly as many refugees in Africa as ISIS in Iraq. Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda committed during their rebellion (2005) lot of crimes against humanity including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, and using forced child labourers as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves. They still continue to operate Tripura in India is Christian terrorist and rebel group that seeks the secession of Tripura, North-East India and they do terrorist attacks against Hindus. Nagaland in India is Christian terrorist group that wants to establish a sovereign christian state. Their main income comes from drug smuggling. They have also indulged in kidnapping, extortion and other terrorist activities. Their operation status is currently under question as they signed peace treaty with Indian government. Army of God in USA is Christian terrorist group that has done terrorist attacks against abortion providers starting from 1982. Christian Identity is global loosely organised Christian group that consist from individuals, churches and prison gangs that hold white supremacist theology, like they (European decent white people) are God's chosen people and that Jews are cursed offspring of Cain. Groups like Aryan Nations follow their teachings. They preach such things like killing Jews and Homosexuals.
  15. Christianity's villainy and terror are also ongoing things although their outright militantism isn't very big problem in Europe anymore and in USA people seem to tolerate it quite lot more than they tolerate it from other religions. Also expansionism and converting everybody to Christianity is one of the core tenets of Christianity. Mark 16:15 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation." Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
  16. I being sarcastic in the post with videos above....i just want to show how the media work...no one care about Muslims being persecuted because of the media have brainwash you all saying Islam and Muslims are bad, so if Muslims got persecuted who cares? Muslims and Islam are bad. Rohingya Muslims got genocided and driven out from Burma by Buddhist, nothing goes into media, no one say "Buddhism is religion of terror", "Buddhists are terrorists"...what worse is you will blame those Rohingya Muslims...i have seen that in internet comments.... http://world.time.com/2013/06/20/extremist-buddhist-monks-fight-oppression-with-violence/
  17. She don't like when you steal she only has hots to see you to use those bobby pins with such great skill.
  18. They are. But not everybody of them want to be and more so after what transpired in 1930s and WW2. There was huge rise of Zionism within Jews after the war and nations that looked from side quite long time when millions of Jews were systematically killed and oppressed were willing to throw them bone, especially as it played in their own interests.
  19. Dude....seriously? Poland suffered from hyperinflation after the USSR collapsed and yet Poland transformed itself. Poland is considered a success story. Who would be prejudiced against Poland ....sorry but I don't understand all the EU historical bias Poorer people from richer EU countries that see Poles as cheaper competitors on same jobs, which is not unfounded as it is not uncommon to see polish metal workers, builders, welders etc. to be hired build things in richer EU countries, because they are cheaper than local craftsmen with same skills. It's not uncommon that they will get even better quality for less cost. With more opened borders that is one of a factors why a lot of companies are willing to move their Offshore operations or Shared Service units to Poland. Even though they will pay more in Poland than lets say in Mauritius or India, they will get significantly higher quality in terms of accuracy, deadlines etc. Better quality is debatable thing, but cheaper it is. Like for example they use Polish welders to weld accumulators, steel webs to reactor building, steel linings in Nuclear Power plant building site here in Finland and now that nuclear plant is 6 years late and estimated to be 9 years late before its ready because failures in welds. And estimated price has rose from 3.2 billion euros to over 9 billion euros. But of course one can put blame only or at all for the workers but ****ty management and leadership of Areva. To note that Finland has world class welders, which is why we are able get so many of those billions of dollars worth luxury ship building contracts, build world largest oil drilling pipes for oceanic use etc.. So it isn't that they couldn't find people with good workmanship from local worker pool, but they just decided not to do so. Also to note those weld failures aren't only thing that have failed in that god-forsaken nuclear plant. So purpose of this post is not to say that Polish workers do ****ty job, but projects like that Olkiluoto 3 nuclear plant is why quite lot of people have bad picture of them, as they are mostly hired to construction sites that try cut costs everywhere, which usually leads to circumventing building codes and produce buildings that have inherit failures in them, because contractors safe in materials and time-consuming stages. The main thing that causes grudge with local workers is that they ability to compete with Polish/Estonian/etc. countries workers is very limited and self hurting, as they live in countries that have much higher cost of living and those laborers from cheaper countries come only to do that specific job and then they go back to their home country with cheaper cost of living which means that they can ask much lower salary and not hurt their ability to live decently where local labor don't have such luxury. This is also the thing that causes most grudge in people about free movement inside of EU (if you don't count current refugee crisis and terrorist threat).
  20. Dude....seriously? Poland suffered from hyperinflation after the USSR collapsed and yet Poland transformed itself. Poland is considered a success story. Who would be prejudiced against Poland ....sorry but I don't understand all the EU historical bias Poorer people from richer EU countries that see Poles as cheaper competitors on same jobs, which is not unfounded as it is not uncommon to see polish metal workers, builders, welders etc. to be hired build things in richer EU countries, because they are cheaper than local craftsmen with same skills.
  21. Cipher nerfs have nerfed amplified wave quite lot. There was time when cipher was able to throw it three times in beginning of battle without charging their focus. Which meant that you didn't need anything else than spam it to win all the trash battles. Still it is very powerful spell, but it is most useful against trash mobs and against meaningful opponents it is usually better to use something else.
  22. We like Russia Drowsy....but they need to act in a more reasonable way ..like not annexing Crimea Are you suggesting that Hitler attacked to Soviet Union because he foresee that in future when Soviet Union has broken down Russia will try to annex Crimea from Ukraine even though it was not at point of time even part of Ukraine, as it was transfered from Russia (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) to Ukraine (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) after the war?
  23. If we Finns weren't able to defend ourselves against some sissy Swedes, it's better that we forget about it in shame. Truth to be told, we couldn't even read our own language, but the great merciful Swede called Mikael Agricola translated the Bible to us out of pity. Not to mention the Swede Johan Snellman who made the Finnish equal in terms of Swedish as language in the senate. Then the Swede Runeberg wrote the words of our national anthem and the Swede Sibelius conducted the beautiful hymn Finlandia. We could've almost have lost in WWII, but thanks to great strategies of the Swede Mannerheim as General of the armies we were led to victory. Nowadays we can always be proud of our great education system, producing great innovators in technology, such as the Swede Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux. We are our own worst enemies and all other countries fear us from it. You forget Elias Lönnrot who collected our mythologies and stories to Kalevala and Alexis Stenvall (better know as Aleksis Kivi) who wrote first novel in Finnish language. But all this Swedes that you speak are Finns saying something else is just pure heresy and Swedish conspiracy to undermine Finns.
  24. If we compare whose people have treated most wrongly in history I want to bring Finns on table. Because before year 1000 AD we had several kingdoms in area that is now know as Finland, but then Swedes come and conquered us and forced us to convert to Christianity or die. Then they made fictional history that made Finns the bad guys of the conflict and forced every Finn to learn it and shame their forefathers actions. Then they prevented us to make trade with any other nation than Sweden. Then Danes come and take over Sweden and with them us then then Sweden take control back from Danes, then Swedes had civil war and we become part of Poland, but soon we were again part of Sweden. During their rule Swedes destroyed our culture, heritage, self worth and even that wasn't enough the made new racial study that taught that Finns were lesser race compared to Swedes and then Swedes made us fight their wars. That humiliation continued over 700 years then 1809 AD Russian Empire decided to invade us and Swedes didn't even bother to fight against them they just fled to Sweden, so we become part of Russian empire without even giving fight. But lucky us Russian empire had new young czar that had all sort of enlightenment ideas and give us autonomy and own parliament, probably mostly because he wasn't that keen to try to govern us himself. But then Russians start to regret that they gave us autonomy and started to bit by bit take it away, but lucky to us Russians interest then was taken by other matters and we changed our governance system from feudal class society to equal democratic society and started to build new peoplehood for our nation and thanks for WW1 and Bolshevik revolution we were able to declare our Independence in sixth of December 1917 AD. But then Bolshevik Russia become Soviet Union and they decided that Finland should be part of it and they invaded us, but then for lots of reason first time in Finns history we were able to prevent another nation with overwhelming force to conquer us. But because Soviet Union was winning side of WW2 we were made the bad guys again by people trying to invade our country and we were forced to pay them all their losses against us and then we were forced to become a pawn in cold war between Soviet Union and West. And now we are counted to be part of evil west that has done terrible things to other nations in past and apologize those acts, which is totally fair and all.
  25. I think you are making a big mistake there. You are saying the mobile market is to blame for these companies now running into issues, the truth is the company is just run like ****. Any company that makes 5 billion dollars and is somehow in financial trouble only has one thing to blame. **** leadership, cause that is the only thing that can cause that hard a fall that fast. But easy billion dollar fluke success doesn't mean you know how to run a business, it means you got lucky, and it isn't a shocker that someone who found instant success might not know how to duplicate it or keep themselves liquid while trying. Also no the "Candy Crush" variants haven't failed. They just aren't making a million a week. That's like saying the original Laura Croft reboot failed because it only sold one million copies. Which is actually something Square Enix claimed at the time, they must have exaggerated though since the game recently got a sequel that probably cost more than the original. You don't need 100 million downloads to make money with a mobile game. You might not even need 1 million. But they don't make 5 billion dollars, but much less and problem behind their financial problems is of course in leadership and failure to make other games that are as successful as products that they are now for. But as I said you don't need as successful products that I used in my examples to make money in mobile market, but if you have company of that has hundred or more people you most likely need to make over ten games in year to keep company running without need of downsizing. Tomb Raider reboot failed because it cost to make nearly 100 million of dollars and Square Enix needed it to sell over 6.5 million copies to make even. So even though it sold millions of copies and is best selling game in franchise it wasn't making money for SE at time they made their claim that situation has then changed and it has become profitable for them. So how much you need to sell to be financially successful depends fully on how much you need to invest money on your products. Like for example King has 1400 employees so they need to get quite lot money from the games they make to keep things running as they are now. So their failure to produce another Candy Crush puts their company in bad situation as if Candy Crush stops to make money their company will crash.
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