Gorgon
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Ended up ordering a Samsung Galaxy Xcover 4 and I probably overpaid, but I can have it in hand in a couple of days.
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So you are not getting your tattoo tear, you know the one that means you whacked someone.
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That would be all games you have currently installed. umm, whenever I start a steam game the steam executable starts first.
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I actually met DJ premiere and Guru, made some off hand remark about Guru approaching drinking like it was an olympic sport. He was drunk AF. Didn't even know it was them. If I had I would have said some dumb fan boy thing instead, that's what everybody else did. I kept it cool by pure accident.
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90s hiphop. You know, before everything turned to **** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us9ODm9MGcA I could go on forever, I'll stop.
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Nothing wrong with having 'useless' avenues for stat increases that might give you more options for dialogue for instance. I like the idea of making stats less important when weighed against feats, low stat requirements for feats would make for less min-maxing for instance. Are they called skills in Pillars, I can't even remember. EDIT : Skills, abilities and talents should have more diminishing returns imho, you could go all practical but the loss compared to trying out an 'unfeasible' path should be less. I hesitate to use the word 'powergamer' but that's usually what I wind up doing, I can't help myself. Whenever I play a game with less requirements and less lost in the creation of an unlikely build it feels liberating. -
Getting an Android to replace POS windows phone. Heard good things about Xiaomi as well.
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It is pretty odd that there have been no new STALKER games though,. I'd buy the hell out of one.
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Animations are the same pretty much tho. So is it just a texture pack ?. They don't really hold up for 2017. The creatures that is, the HUD and weapon amims are new.
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So it's a remake of Call of Pripyat? Nice. What I really want is a brand new S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game (is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 ever going to happen?), the Metro games were great, but much more linear and scripted experiences (not that that's a bad thing), whereas S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was more open with much more emergent gameplay (one of the best emergent gameplay experiences ever IMHO). I'll take it.
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Well sure. It's another example of how crucial it can be to be on top of an internet ****storm before you run out of options to affect the outcome. They failed spectacularly.
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I watched Jimmy Kimmel a few days ago he said stock had plummeted to the point where United could have bought all three passengers their own jet instead of kicking them off and the cost would have been the same. I don't think that a settlement will necessarily help United that much though, they may not be able to kiss and make up with a large bag of money, the damage to public perception will still be done.
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Point being that it's completely meaningless without doing what it takes. If you remember Iraq, that could mean hundreds of people with free range to go wherever they please.
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One of the first things he says is that Syria hasn't got chemical weapons. mmhmm. The process was simply Assad going 'here's what I got, come and get it'. No inspectors no nothing.
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mmm. I find it unlikely that a bomb hit a rebel chemical weapons depo by chance. I also find it unlikely that it would all be a hoax designed to get the US more involved, but there is also the fact that chemical weapons are unique in their ability to penetrate to western TV screens. So much so that this negates much of their use on the battlefield, politically they don't seem worth it. My guess, a local commander did it of his own volition. Assad has chemical weapons tucked away for a rainy day, why wouldn't he. He's in a war, is he going to give up weapons. No, he's going to make a show of compliance and that will be enough.
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Anyway the prediction is he's gonna get millions of dollars in settlement money out of this. The feeling is that most potential jurors would love to stick it to the airline. American dream baby, ka-ching.
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So if everyone lost their scissors at the same time...
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actually, there is. an ordinary english speaker would likely believe a passenger has boarded an airline when they physical step onto the plane. is at least one aviation attorney we spoke to who told us boarding is a process, and a passenger is not considered to have actual boarded until the plane leaves the terminal. law is replete with definitions which do not adhere to simple english meanings. most lawyers we know is gonna be very careful 'bout identifying actual meanings o' overbooked and boarded and whatnot. the problem with unique definitions and simple english readings is a frequent hurdle for Gromnir when attempting to explain Constitutional law to lay folks. folks read their pocket Constitution and become more confused when Gromnir explains what case law has interpreted the Constitution to actual be meaning. "but the tenth amendment says..." *shrug* typical, ambiguities in a contract is decided 'gainst the person who wrote the language in the contract, but is not always the case, and again, for airline travel you got custom and fed law to deal with. HA! Good Fun! Well a document like that should be parsable by the general public, so reasonably there should be definitions whenever ambiguity is an issue. Maybe there are, it's not like I read it. I sometimes wonder if legalese obscurity is a cunning plan to make sure no one but lawyers understand it so they will always be needed for translation.
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When the sun is directly overhead in Hawaii, it looks like a bad video game render
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we would caution 'gainst hiring this guy. am no more an expert on the subject matter than is he, but even we recognize what a shallow reading he gave the contract of carriage. boarding, for example, is a term o' art which seems to have a meaning divorced from simple english. likewise, federal laws is very much a factor when deciding when/how a passenger may be removed from a plane. the internet is a dangerous place. HA! Good Fun! Yeah but this is overbooking, that's covered by the customer-airline contract. The captain can deny anyone for the slimmest safety reason, the cops can have all kinds of cause, but again, this is explicitly a case of overbooking. Once you are on the plane you have boarded. I seriously doubt there is any legalese that would offer a different definition.
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psoting is indeed explicitly forbidden.
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Ohh maybe the link too
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Lawyer youtube guy says there is no rule covering the forceful removal of an overbooked passenger, just removal due to 'unruly behavior'. Point being once you are on the plane it's too late to envoke overbooking. That happens at the gate. Who knows maybe that was intended to avoid just this kind of situation.
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that's a reason you drive an rv instead o' flying? getting bumped happens .62 for every 10,000 passengers. Gromnir don't drive an rv 'cause roller skating deer, hopped up on ecstasy and listening to air supply tracks from their ipods, tends to throw themselves at our vehicle. *shrug* the situation with united were a bit unique as passengers had already boarded, but for purposes o' the contract o' carriage, airlines got extreme broad discretion insofar as bumping folks. rule o' thumb is airlines can bump you up until the moment the plane has left the terminal. worse, what constitutes "interference with the flight crew" is viewed even more broad, and as soon as the passenger refused to comply with instructions to disembark, force from law enforcement likely became appropriate. regardless, folks is once again learning the wrong lesson from the video. refusing to comply with law enforcement instructions beyond a certain point is all kinda stoopid. how often does we need see video o' folks getting bloody lips or a faceful o' glass or even shot before folks realize it is a bad idea to refuse to comply with police instructions? wanna fight cops? do so in court, with a lawyer to help you. fight cops on a darkened city street, in your car or on a crowded airplane is gonna end up bad for you. fight in court. you might lose in court, but you could win. you will lose on street, in your car or on a plane. HA! Good Fun! ps united stock went up yesterday on an otherwise flat trading day. stock is up considerable for the year as well. Well, the cops don't seem to think so. They uncharacteristically issued a statement that this was not reasonable force and not standard procedure.
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Yeah but the cops, or air marshals or whatever were the one's who manhandled him. That's law enforcement ; the government. I bet United are kicking themselves about the cost of all this negative publicity. Overbooking is worth a lot of money, they aren't going to give that up though. Anyway how is it that you can get on a plane and they have the right to kick you off because they made a mistake. They should be forced to give serious compensation in that instance, not just a few hundred bucks.
