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I have a pita commute so self driving cars would be heaven to me. Kick back, rest my eyes for the ~45 minute ride, no a-hole drivers...sign me up!

The missus and I are going over a friends house to celebrate New Years Eve. Im sure I'll feel like crap tomorrow...

Tammy. I wasn't expecting to like it as Im not a huge fan of Melissa McCarthy but she pulls off a sympathetic character and there are several laughs.

I suppose. I prefer to be challenged by the encounters and story, not annoying mechanics built from the ground up to prevent a certain play style.

HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS! Wooooooooooooooooooooo!

Damn...

Congrats Calax! Got a sweet high four figure bonus Friday night. Its supposed to be a surprise for Monday when the boss ceremoniously hands us our last check of the year but I cheated and saw it in my bank account, already deposited by ADP (direct deposit). w00t w00t One more work day and then off until 5 Jan!

"Thank you, Im not interested." *click* Well, thats what I used to say. I no longer even have a home phone and I very rarely get sales calls to my cell for some (lucky) reason. That and I don't answers calls from numbers not already programmed into my phone.

I can agree with this. Im not talking morality, I was disputing the opinion that torture doesn't get results.

I don't think we will ever hear about how a plot was foiled, that would compromise the apparatus. Just seems mighty strange to me that these agencies (worldwide?) would continue to practice a method that was "disproven", thrice now per Barathmuk and yourself, for roughly 25 years after discovery of its iffeffectiveness. They must not have anything better to do.

So they kept doing it for an additional 25 years? Weird.

I think this is important. What constitutes "reliability". 100% accuracy? 75%? If your government had to torture a terror cell (lets say 20 people for the sake of conversation) to prevent a school bombing type incident like what recently happened in Pakistan, would it be acceptable to you that 19 didn't know anything but one did and gave it up?

That's why hopefully interrogators are more intelligent than forum posters, to suss out fact from fiction.

Did you miss my winkyface emoticon? Seriously though, while distasteful, I find it laughable when people say that torture wont produce results. You know, because every single mook is a hardened Rambo-esque mercenary that laughs off pain while feeding false information. Trust me, everyone in this forum would sing like a canary if put to the test. As an aside, I wonder why they don't consider warfare to be torture too. The stress & pain are surely more magnified over the duration of a war, no? Id rather stand all day with my dong out than get shot, but I guess we all have our crosses to bear.

That's because our use of torture is a legitimate intelligence gathering tactic and is required to spread freedom around the globe. Everyone else is doing it wrong.

Nah, Congress will snuff it out.

Pfft. This is the work of reptiloids.

Hehe, no. Just some random animated gif I found over a decade ago and never changed.

What do you mean. The point is just to abandon a falied dogmatic approach to Cuban forgein relations. This is a good thing. Shows character being able to examine and learn from your own mistakes. Cuba is so important that we use it as a prison. I guess its fine that we can pat ourselves on the back for our sudden "enlightenment" but at the end of the day, Cuba is about on par with Haiti as far as foreign relations go.

Id like to buy a beer for whoever made the rogue-disengage-thing (as of V1.0. Havent played since so maybe it changed.)

Hehe, I have American Girl dolls coming out the wazoo. My daughter was into them for many years but shes grown out of it now (I still get the catalog in the mail and I tried to interest her in it and I got the dreaded eye roll. ). They have a store downtown that shes been to a few times.

True dat.

So?

Who gives a damn about Cuba? What do they have to offer us (besides cigars rolled in the thighs of virgins)?