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I wouldn't be surprised if a doctrine that incorporates "wolfpacks" of drones working in tandem with manned fighters for target acquisition and coordination is being worked on. I remember reading that while kill ratios for Russian missiles were worse than their US counterparts, Russian doctrine simply called for MOAR missiles to be available per engagement. Having a bunch of unmanned missile dispensers flying alongside stealth(ish) fighters would solve that without necessitating a costly redesign of weapons systems or aircraft. But as you say, is the F-35 needed for that? I don't know about its performance as cutting-edge fighter, but its success as too-big-to-fail subsidy facilitator for the Texas aviation industry is hard to dispute. I kid, I kid...

Hip thrusting is where it's at (skip to 0:48)

Well, what were you expecting?

No, I agree. However a public servant has a duty to serve the public, and my question would be, rather, if that duty could supersede their 1st Amendment rights, considering that nobody is actually conscripted into public service positions as far as I'm aware.

Because so far they haven't really shown that they can handle a project of that size. While there is a degree of hyperbole (this IS the internet) involved, the claims regarding bugs were fairly spot-on. They managed to release a two products with literally hundreds of bugs (many of them brand new, game-breaking issues), after a huge amount of debugging work had been done by the community throughout the last decade. They also managed to break compatibility with some of the most popular mods around (Dave Gaider's Ascension). As far as the new content goes, quality varies, but I didn't think it was as bad as everyone had led me to believe. I wouldn't pay full price for the EEs, but if they go on sale... edit: even though I own IWDEE, I haven't actually gotten around to playing it, so I can't comment on the quality of that one.

Wow, they packin'. Mine is around this size: Now I feel so... inadequate.

So basically they are saying that they can refuse to do their job as public servants, on religious grounds. ...can they actually do that? And if they can, could I exercise my discretion to pay taxes on moral grounds? Heh. I foresee lawsuits... lots of lawsuits.

With the horrible and damaging lifting techniques and odd disciplines used in Crossfit I refuse to recognize it as a valid form of sport. And it does not have enough endurance in it anyway, thats more like circuit training and thats not what I mean. I was more thinking along the lines of -as example- log lifts and atlas stone lift sessions followed by 60km bike sprints, followed by dead lifts and bench presses with running 20km as finisher. Most of the lifts are not against the clock but instead the total amount of weight lifted counts. Endurance disciplines are of course against the clock. I'd give the athletes a mandatory rest phase between the strength and endurance disciplines. Just thinking out loud.... So basically a sport that matches the way you train, right? Problem is, there is always going to be a disagreement wrt what is considered "balanced". You said it yourself, Crossfit "does not have enough endurance", because it doesn't meet some arbitrary criteria. And it will be difficult to get many people to follow it because it's always more interesting to see feats of extreme strength or endurance than the performance of an athletic jack-of-all-trades. BTW, there is a sport that is essentially what you just described, only there are no mandatory rest periods. It's called Obstacle Racing. Other than that, football (the American version) players are about as close as it gets to a "perfectly balanced athlete". Feel free to disagree...

From Beamdog?

Yep, she squats.

Show me a good time, Jack.

http://www.baldursgate.com So they are releasing... or announcing... something. Apologies if this isn't even news, I guess. edit: ah, so it's an adventure bridging the gap between BG1 and 2. And it was announced a while ago, so I guess it's not really news. Oh well.

Yeah...that's good in theory...but not so much in practice when getting along with others is pretty much required for your time to be constructive. Yeah, I'd go one step further and say that it's not even that good in theory, let me explain (pedantic **** mode ON). If you don't give a **** what others say, there is no point in posting or saying anything, ever — just thinking or writing in a journal would accomplish the same result and is more convenient. And if you only care about what others say if they agree with you, that is also pointless, as they already agree with you and reinforcing the same point accomplishes nothing, much like yelling inside an empty cave. It makes no sense to care only about what others say if they agree with you after you convince them, because you can *not* know before listening to their reaction if they agree. So this leaves only two possibilities: either you don't care what people think and only speak because you love the sound of your own voice, or you speak in order to elicit a reaction, whatever that may be, so you do in fact care about what others say. If only because, barring physical demonstrations, you need to listen to their reaction to know that your message has been received at all, and is intelligible. Speaking up and not giving a **** about what other people say is about as sensible as a deaf person that cannot read lips and doesn't know sign language trying to have a conversation. (no, I don't really have anything useful to add to the legal debate)

I'm sorry, you are right. The process is not exactly like that, but I didn't want to go in-depth into this. The way it works is, under the guise of "homogeneization" (the ECTS system and Bologna plan), what used to be a superior degree before (usually 5 years) that endowed a student with both a working understanding of their field of study and an attractive profile for prospective employers, is now a nigh-useless "general" 3-year degree, whereas previous 3-year degrees were specialized career paths that essentially prepared people to work as technicians. Current degrees open the door to a one- or two-year master's that is now the bare minimum for anyone to qualify as skilled labor. Master's credits cost roughly 3x as much as regular degree credits, of course. Funny thing is, the people I've spoken to that hold a master's agree that they are useless and they didn't really learn anything that justified the cost increase, outside of, in some cases, networking contacts. In addition, this has led to rampant abuse of internships, which is where people apparently learn most of their "marketable skills". They call this "better adjusting education to respond to the needs of the market" or some such BS.

I came across this by chance, and never having lived in the US, I don't know what to make of it. While we don't have church or school shootings over here, the mechanism described does apply to the society I know. And with education getting both more expensive and worse (and more oriented toward helping people acquire "marketable skills" rather than... educating them), I'm not sure it's a trend that will soon change.

‘Star Wars’ child star arrested after chase, crash in Colleton County "Now this is pod racing!"

SWTOR Expansion "builds on the Legacy of KotOR" And I think Gorth may be interested to know that character transfers are 90% off (90CC) (why the hell am I posting news here? I haven't played this game since december!)

One of the newsletters I'm subscribed to had this: Is Obesity a Choice? (inb4 fit shaming) Which leads me to another important question: Why Are Words Randomly Capitalised?

That looks great. You've altered the draw distance too, right? What's the performance hit? Almost feel like firing up NV again...

The last link lets you check crime figures for yourself based on FBI data. I didn't look state by state (ain't nobody got time fo' dat), I just glanced at nation-wide aggregate data. While the War on Drugs is federal policy, I'm not sure how state-level legislation affects things, though a majority of the prison population is in state penitentiaries. Anyway, in 1960 you have ~5 murders and non-negligent manslaughters per 100k inhabitants, and in 2012 you have ~47. Aggravated assaults is 86 vs 252, 60 vs 113 robberies, etc. Sure, I'll accept that people report more rapes today, but I doubt many aggravated assaults and murders went unreported in 1960. It's 1960 we're talking about, not 1881 Arizona. Murder rates in 1950 are even lower than in 1960. Remember that the original contention was that your WWII-vet grampa wouldn't agree that things are more ****ed up now that back in the day, so I looked at crime rates for the post-WWII US. You may be surprised, but I take no pleasure in being "that guy" constantly yelling and pointing at the elephant in the room. And I'll gladly admit that I'm greatly ignorant about regional differences in policy, outlook, legislation, demographic makeup and pretty much every other important detail. I'm also aware that the devil is in the detail. Still, there are huge red flags to be worried about, and crime and prison population rates are only some of them. And that's another thread I've derailed, so at this point I'll quietly bow out. edit: I don't always herp, but when I do, derp

Huh. They added Starfleet Command Gold at some point. Not on sale though. This is good news for me because it probably means SFC2/Orion Pirates will be added soon as well.

Funny that you say you can, but you didn't. Because I can point to the absolutely insane rise in prison population (especially after the "War on Drugs" was launched in the 80s), the fact that there are more blacks under correctional control today than there were slaves in 1860, and that crime rates, while currently at a decades-low, are still higher across the board than they were in the 1960s. Lol, "feelz".

(Apologies if it has been posted already. I hadn't seen it before)

It's possible that the manifesto isn't his but WHOIS says the domain was registered back in february. Could certainly be the handiwork of *chan trolls (hosted in Russia and registered under a proxy email). Smells funny, but I suppose that's to be expected. I'm still puzzled they haven't taken it down yet. Maybe being hosted overseas makes it difficult to pull the plug. No, I don't find it ironic, random people posting it on *chan illustrates precisely my point. If the mainstream media do what you suggest, people will go elsewhere for the juicy details. And then you'll get YouTube channels making monetised vids out of this stuff. I'm not against it in principle, I just don't see how it could be done.

In today's world, that would accomplish little. Somebody would dig into court records or something and post the details online regardless. He'd get his minute of glory anyway. Surely you are not suggesting "secret" arrests and trials...? I'm curious: where did you get that link? I doubt the site will be up much longer.