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Let's not forget that LOST had a character that was an Iraqi torture expert who was redeeming himself, so in 20 years we might see an ex-ISIS in a hollywood flick doing the same.

That makes way more sense than most of the character development in the Expendables movies. But yeah, not really a big deal.

Malc, you talk about the police having to earn your respect. How exactly do you see that happening? If there is a gunman loose on my campus firing off rounds, every cop I know will respond by heading towards the shooting, even the jerks. Is that not enough enough for a bit of respect? If you are in a major accident on the freeway, the Highway Patrol is going to be the first on the scene, and they are going to do everything they can to save your life. That doesn't get a smidgen of respect? Don't try to feed me this bull about it being their job. Their salary is good, but it isn't 'risk your life' good, and yet they train to put themselves in the line of fire whenever necessary to save others. So yeah, the default should be respect until they prove they don't deserve it.

How does it worsen the situation to have communities that automatically assume the worst about law enforcement?

10%!?!?! My experience has that number at much higher across most professions, especially high when it comes to government or large corporate employees. With police specifically it's about 50/50, and I've numerous friends on the 'force'. There is no evidence to support that. 95% of police officers will never fire their weapons in the line of duty in their career. With video becoming more prevalent, accountability is on the rise, rather than the reverse. Look, there is always room for improvement. This is a terribly difficult profession, it requires way more training, discipline, and accountability that your average job. But buying into negative stereotypes is pointless, and perpetrating them only worsens the situation.

On one side you have crazy people that defend cops no matter what they do, and on the other you have crazy people who condemn them no matter what they do. Neither of these are tenable.

Bad cops are out there, for sure. Like any profession, you can expect about 10% of people to be terrible. There is also a culture in police departments that protects those bad cops, which is the bigger problem. But maybe we should balance all this police bashing with some stories about cops risking their lives to save others, getting shot in the back by bad guys, and keeping their cool while dealing with abuse from hoodrats. Because that stuff happens every day.

So how do you recommend creating stable families? It seems like a pretty difficult thing to control.

So nobody covered the civil rights movements in the 60's?

Who is rioting over jobs? Are you talking about the Occupy movement? They just want a better distribution of wealth, they don't seem too concerned about working for it.

Hey, the Giants won the first protest since 1986, that's pretty crazy. They also lit the Cubs up today in response, so we'll see if this is them turning the corner, or just a fun blip against a bad Cubs team.

I reached level 20 in WoW with my Pandaren monk, and I got a cool looking turtle to run around with. Boy, gold is sure easier to come by now than it was when I played a decade ago. I'm really enjoying the streamlined quests, there is no sense of grind right now as I move through the early areas.

With Obsidian games being so buggy, why would you even want to beta test it? Just relax and wait for the full release.

Why is there a free fire zone? It's not a warzone.

I just want to add that I love the Original Poster's avatar. "Who are you that flies so good, are you insane?!?"

Played a bit of PoE, it's pretty cool. I spent a lot of time on the character creation. Wowzers.

You'll always have Hope Solo.

Hmm, looks like a very sleek version of Shadowrun.

I was away from WoW for close to 8 years. I dipped in here and there, but I never stuck around long. I'm not sure if this will be different, but so far I'm really enjoying my Pandaren monk, and the hero's call questlines make levelling and moving through the areas pretty quick. I also ran through the Deadmines and it was a nice little trip through time, although I missed Van Cleef. I might see if I can remember how to play my level 58 paladin, but that's really the highest character I have from back in the day.

Praise Jesus!

Yeah, that makes for great storylines in games and movies, but in reality the majority of the world is becoming safer, equality and civil rights are progressing, and even those living below the poverty line in developed nations are much better off than they were 50 years ago. Plus in the last decade our ability to tap into renewable resources has grown tremendously. There is still a lot of progress to be made, but again we've taken huge steps forward compared to the past.

I've been thinking about ordering the Destiny PS4 bundle.

Because they are gross?

WoW- Geez, I haven't played this in like 4 years. I'm a bit lost, but it's been a fun trip back to Azeroth.

kgambit, I don't think you were around when I posted this story, so I'll repost it. Now this article is more of a human interest spin looking at a very particular scenario, not necessarily a collection of a large amount of data. I guess my big question moving forward would be if you removed the foreign born workers tomorrow, would you be able to replace them with American born labor effectively?