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I just spent 15 minuites writing out a response and accidentally hit the back button. ugh.. some other time then.

ARGH Metal Gear Solid 4 did this quite a few times. Hitman 3 does this all the time. Sometimes you lose everything just by going through a door. Basically whenever there is a cutscene you cross your fingers that 47 isn't going to swap out his machinegun for a pistola. I get the reason, it's easier to get the difficulty just right if you control the inventory, but it's just too annoying,

I'm not familiar with the national academy of sciences, but US think tanks are notoriously biased and funded by special interests. They put out all manner of scientific reports, most of which adhere to academic standards but were only created because the results were expected.

I don't know why they have decided to do a tablet pc/ mobile device interface for the PC. One size doesn't fit all and they are really quite dense for thinking it would just IMHO.

I was always told you weren't allowed to carry around a pocket knife longer than the width of three fingers. You can carry a meat cleaver or a foot long carving knife if you wanted to though, as long as it isn't concealed.

Playing borderlands. I gotta say it was not half as bad as I expected. I wish one had communal XP and could swap out characters in town. I don't have any interest in replaying it four times and there is already too much grind focus. Looks gorgeous though.

I'm watching some senator suggesing a ban on clips with more than 10 rounds and reinstating the Clinton assault weapon ban. So, what, the guy would have had to reload once or twice giving the police time to show up ?. Is that the logic. If people aren't wearing body armor why are they wasting time with a ban like that.

Yes why don't we make the song fit that old format. That'll make em think fer sure.

Should I bother installing planetside. It's free.

Don't get me wrong, I would have prefered an invasion. Get the job done instead of dragging it out forever. That was the real cost in lives, not having the political will to put NATO forces in harms way.

We saw opportunity, much like muslim militants everywhere did with the Arab spring. We could help instate a friendly democratic government in place of Ghaddafi. and we made lemonade in the proverbial sense, with air support and special forces ground spotters. That's not an invasion. Also, don't do that. People who haven't read the thread will think I actually wrote that.

Actually you have more battery life than normal. When the headphones use their own battery source it doesn't suck as much life out of your phone. If the headset runs dry you can still use a standard cable.

I'm considering these bluetooth ones. Audio quality is excellent once the components don't have to be so tiny, of course you have to be able to not bother that you look like a nerd wearing those at all times. Fortunately I have that quality. Bluetooth has become viable because the devices now have built in transmitters and recievers which was previously prohibitively expensive. The bluetooth earplugs however are for some reason all crap. Made for looking like an idiot while making calls on your smartphone.

This from the guy who famously said that if forced to chose between them, it is far better to be feared than loved. Pulling quotes out of the air to suit your position is almost always a trivial and pointless game.

Well, whoever it is kinda tipped his hand in favor of not talking about gun control. One has to be careful not to hijack the national sentiment suit one's campaigning. Not if it happens at the expense of achieving some kind of agreement or common ground. (I'm looking at you Bloomberg) Talking about gun control won't create any copycats though. Spending money on psychological reserach... I seriously doubt that will translate into anything tangible. Psychological research is not fueled by money in the way that, say, cancer research is.

We touched on how the media spectacle was a catalyst for copycats earlier, I wonder if the president's visit is going to exponentially increase the chances of aother incident. What if from now on no self respecting mass murderer would make do with anything other than children. I suppose it's part of his job to adress a tragedy like this and attempt to be a cohesive and healing influence. A leader is not supposed to think with his heart though.

I realise that there are other factors at play, but it's remarkable how many people are psychologically incapable of making the connection between gun availability and gun deaths. Every other stone gets turned, but it's like it's sacrosaint to even suggest that fewer people would get shot if fewer people had guns to shoot with.

It's not entirely fitting for a cabinet member to be all giddy that someone died even if he had it comming, but we are a long way from being a psychopath.

Isen't it past due gangnam style went the way of the marcarena

I think this is rather poingant. The BBC is a public service channel funded by tax payers and they should insititute a version of the hippocratic oath. In other words 'Thou shalt promise not to do more harm than good in your reporting'. Since the media spectacle is a catalyst for copycats and people seeking the same kind of notoriety they should indeed make it as boring as possible in the slim hope that some day expert knowledge rather than sensationalism will guide coverage of these things. The same goes for politically motivated terrorist attacks. It's not very likely to work, but you have to start somewhere.

This kind of thing does seem to happen with alarming regularity in the US, but the idea of a right to gun ownership is so deeply ingrained in the American consciousness that such legislation will get nowhere. Instead there will be more mandatory security and focus on identifying children who may turn violent. Personally I think the idea of a 'thought police' responsible for identifying these individuals is a worse infringement on personal liberty. However noble the intentions, I believe that will constitute the practicality of it. Children don't vote, and something will be done to show action is being taken. Wheter it's the smartest move or not is another matter.

I dunno, I thought it got rather samey and boring after a while. If I'm going to play a shooter I'd rather be shooting things with the mouse in FP perspective.

You can stare yourself blind on racism, just look at Louis Farrakahn. Yes, it has a lot to do with having had the experience of being viewed and treated as an inferior group, but when it starts to cloud your judgement that's really on you.

Superman is lame.

Played Assassin's Creed 3 on a friends console. It's boring like everyone says, glad I didn't get it. Way too much railroading, and being discovered in a stealth mission is a result, more guards appear, it get's harder, Ubisoft. Not an automatic fail and restart. And why are we still doing tutorials a third through the game. Why is this series a success. It's a mystery to me.