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Reporter confuses Star Wars' Rebel Alliance with al-Qaeda

Been trying to find data on 2015 immigration for Germany; breakdown by age, country of origin and sex. No dice, my Google-Fu is weak. Care to share the data you used to "speculate"? By the way, your projections rest on a million immigrants arriving per year, constantly for 14 years, with 100% of asylum seekers obtaining permanent resident status. You are also comparing somewhat different demographic groups (ages 15-24 vs 18-30). At any rate, I'm fairly certain that demographic forces don't obey (y = mx + n) over any significant period. But hey, what do I know...

No need for that. It was mostly solved with more international cooperation in law enforcement matters, and better laws that targeted specific practices and allowed judges to do their jobs more effectively. See? We didn't need to hang anybody, and no mass deportations were required. We call this "civilization". In fact, we consider it barbaric when countries hang offenders at the drop of a hat and inflict collective punishments on minorities. But that wouldn't make us barbarians, right? It is baffling and yet not really surprising, however, how your stance has changed immediately. Now only those "connected to organized crime" should have been punished (with which I agree), instead of flat out kicking everyone out, as you suggested previously. Care to explain why? Can't be because they are your countrymen, no siree. I'm not going to bother addressing the rest of your post — it's just your typical übermenschen wankery. All rhetorics and no substance.

No, that's not how the argument goes. It's rather "they are scum because they come from XYZ or worship XYZ", ergo, automatic deportation of everyone from <random geographical area>. The reason why this **** is bad is because it violates due process, presumption of innocence *and* is also collective punishment. They are all violations of basic human rights. What you folks seem to be incapable of wrapping your minds around is that you cannot be for human rights and the rule of law "sometimes". It's an either/or thing, 100% of the time. No exceptions. If only because tomorrow it could be you being taken to the gallows pole because some mouth-breathing hillbilly decided that your entire ethnic group is today's blight of the earth. What is an acceptable threshold for "filtering scum out", anyway? There are occurrences of EU citizens committing crimes in other EU countries, but that is generally acceptable because reasons. You reckon that level is acceptable or we should settle for nothing less than a 100% perfect record?

The real solution is mass deportation and a barrier to immigration from certain countries and economic segments in general. Requiring knowledge of the native tongue is a simple and very good barrier (for everyone except the english speaking countries). Everything else takes too long, is too expensive and uncertain. Haha. In the late 90's and early 2000's we had a "problem" over here with Eastern European and especially former Yugoslavs basically taking over organized crime. Assaults, extortion, drug and arms trade, women trafficking, murder for hire, you name it. These guys did it all. The level of violence they employed was unheard of back then (given that many of them were ex-military) and they were significant enough that law enforcement had to be reorganized to deal with them. Many, especially in the media, were quick to jump on the xenophobia bandwagon. Total amount was less than 200k back then, imagine the "overrepresentation" in crime statistics. Guess we should have deported everyone originating from beyond the Stettin-Trieste line en masse, right? Go on, explain to me why folks from your (former) country are fundamentally different and don't deserve such treatment. And don't forget, always warm up properly before performing mental gymnastics.

I think you forgot: 0. What is the problem? The title of this thread: THE RAPE OF EUROPE* *two actual occurrences of rape, to be investigated http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/08/cologne-violence-suspects-include-asylum-seekers Seriously, what is up with this clickbait bull****? Can we please elevate the level here by, I don't know, maybe going back to discussing squat toilets? Rationalize away!

Alpha Protocol sequel. Spiritual or "proper". Preferably with SIE and Heck cameos. Yes. YES!

They could have never done anything with the loans they received. The loans weren't for "Greece", they were to protect Greek -and French, and German- banks from bankruptcy. It was either let them fall, or nationalize them. Either choice would have set a very bad precedent in the EU (the reds are coming!), so they were forced to give more money to people like our very own BruceVC to cover the losses they had incurred during more than a decade of financial piracy, corruption, and plain old bad business calls. In order to pay back these "loans", they had to push austerity reforms that left a lot of people unprotected and destroyed the ability of the economy to grow and eventually pay back the debt. But who cares, it ain't my daughter or sister whoring herself out for a sandwich, it ain't my mother who can't pay rent and is being kicked out of her house at the ripe young age of 80, and it ain't me working two jobs and still struggling to make ends meet. So **** those dirty hippies in Greece, and MAKE THEM PAY UP. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9376938/Fraud-trial-for-Rodrigo-Rato-over-Bankia-collapse.html http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7d9b9140-a4d9-11e5-a91e-162b86790c58.html#axzz3ubjO7ffF http://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-piraeus-idUSBRE83107P20120402 Enjoy paying your taxes. edit: herp derp prepositions are hard

Yeah, classes that rely on backstab-like abilities got the shaft with tank companions not being able to hold aggro to save their your lives. At 65 it gets better, not only they cannot produce sufficient threat, their mitigation also tanks *cough* so they look like they are made of wet tissue paper. But I digress. If tank companion/backstab isn't doing it for you, maybe respec Hatred as it doesn't depend on being physically behind the target and has better defenses. An insta-60 Inquisitor does indeed come with a maxed Synthweaving skill... which includes a grand total of ~4 schematics learned. The trainer only teaches adaptive blue (non-moddable) schematics post 4.0, and the old orange schematics are only available as world drops, at ridiculous asking prices from GTN, or not at all, so I wouldn't advise that course of action. You could always buy the absolute cheapest adaptive pieces you can find on GTN and use the appearance designer to avoid looking like a hungover clown late for work. Outside of the level 8 vendor, that's probably the most convenient way to go about it.

Switch your companion to healer if you are having the slightest trouble. Khem Val as healer may look stupid but tank stance for companions doesn't work too well — it's either heal or dps. For gearing, you either run heroics which reward two random level appropriate pieces, or buy mods with the data crystals you get from quests. If you cannot craft moddable light armor yourself, you can buy a set cheap from the level 8 vendor on fleet. I could craft whatever you need but you're not on TRE, right? Technically, the game is pretty ****, is what it is. Building a MMO on an engine that doesn't support multiple cores and only comes in 32-bit is... interesting. As you have probably noticed, in order to circumvent these limitations, the game actually runs two swtor.exe processes simultaneously; from what I read one is the game proper and the other is the UI. Messing around with processor affinity for each may or may not improve your performance. There are tons of posts in the swtor boards dealing with performance issues and possible solutions, some of them quite detailed and in-depth. Unfortunately, in yet another incredibly bone-headed decision, the CS forum was made read-only and all queries redirected to "EA Answers". Moderators couldn't be arsed to collate and sticky these helpful guides in general discussion so you have to hunt them down. Really, many of the core issues with this game stem from the terrible decision to use Hero Engine in the first place. Ah, look at me. Already drifting into MMO burnout mode. You have fun now, signing off..

The XP awards currently are insane, but that's mostly due to the event, yes. "Mostly", because they already streamlined the leveling so you would be at level just by doing planetary arcs and story missions. If on top of that you do PVP, FPs, or Heroics, you will be overleveled quite a bit, double XP or not. Not that it really matters. Regarding class, pick the one that appeals to you the most, is the foremost criteria you should use to decide, because leveling is not the way you remember it — post 4.0 the game basically plays itself outside of group content. Jugg is quite a bit sturdier (heavy armor), has good defensive tools, can taunt in a pinch should you need to, and affords you the opportunity to dabble into tanking, which is my favorite role personally. It's a bit low on the damage department currently, but outside of progression raiding teams, that is irrelevant. All three specs are fairly easy to learn. If you want to switch roles, you will need two sets of gear, though. Marauder on the other hand is the quintessential glass cannon. Awesome damage, top-notch utility, fast-paced gameplay (as far as the engine allows anyway), and... two glowing sticks, if you are into that kind of thing. On the other hand it is, imo, the class with the highest skill ceiling. It can also be seriously frustrating to play in PVP unless you queue with a pocket healer and/or roll Fury.

I may be misremembering things, but isn't it implied when they are explaining why Luke decided to take a Sabbatical that Kylo is the one student of his that lost it and "destroyed everything"? That would mean he does have at least basic training. Either that, or we have another failed student and maybe Luke coming back and training more Jedi isn't such a good idea after all. It didn't bother me at all that Rey could kick his ass 1v1 me irl m9. But the whole "oh I can use the force lolol" was... out of the blue. Sure, have you felt the awakening and stuff, but leaving the explanation for the sequels (if at all) is, I think, a ham-fisted way to foreshadow the obligatory [PLOT TWIST!]. Still, no Jar Jar, Ewoks, or disquisitions on the nature of disintegrated rock, so I'm fairly happy overall.

The numbers can deceive you, do not trust them. That's on the 1.5 mil dummy. According to that, you have Sorc/Sage doing ~1k less dps than Mara/Sent. I don't raid, but from what I understand, parsing on the dummy doesn't translate so well to boss fights, especially with encounter design favoring ranged over melee. I do PVP quite a bit on mara/sent and while there is nothing more satisfying than hitting an unsuspecting healer for ~50k in 4 GCD, I am also aware that such a thing happening is like the perfect storm. It's much harder to pull than a sorc/PT rotation, infinitely easier to counter (if you are interrupted during Gore/Precision say good-bye to your output), and it also depends on RNG for the procs. Sorc survivability and mobility are on a whole different league compared to mara, too. Even after they fixed Undying Rage. I don't know what the solution is, but I'm thinking that trying to have abilities do the same and behave equally in environments as dissimilar as PVE and PVP is a mistake. And, of course, class balance being what it is assuming balanced group compositions but then having no matchmaking for the vast majority of games (regs) is... interesting.

Ouch. With the 4.0 crafting overhaul, old schematics are somewhat irrelevant, and which skill crafts what has been reworked (for instance, Cybertech no longer produces armorings). Your old schematics, however, should all have been moved to the "archive" tab. You can no longer learn old schematics from the trainer, but you can still craft old items from the archive tab if you have learned the schematic before 4.0. Skills being reset is par for the course every time a major patch is applied. Training skills has been free for a while now, so it's more the inconvenience of having to hunt the class trainer down if you don't have a holo. Gear is completely irrelevant for companions now, their effectiveness depends on your Presence stat. The only thing whose stats they can take advantage of currently is the main hand barrel/hilt, and that's unintended (but not acknowledged as a bug, either). Good luck.

"In the context of the film" being key here. In 1977 Lucas wasn't sure the movie wouldn't be a total flop precluding any sequels so he needed to make it a self-contained story. Abrams had the benefit of knowing he'd blow the box office to kingdom come no matter how badly he did so sequels are *guaranteed*, giving him more leeway to leave stuff unexplained (and arguably nonsensical in the context of the film). Character development arcs are going to be paced differently simply because of that. Better, worse? Hard to say until we have a complete picture. I already agreed with you regarding Rey, but I think it's possible they can resolve these issues in retrospect, as TN said. The possible execution is a whole 'nother matter...

I don't know about that, but here is what a contract tester had to say about resources and the direction the game is headed: Of course, this is just one guy's perspective, so grain of salt, etc. Heh, I wish Alanschu was still around. And then, there's this. I'm not going to jump ship just yet, but it's hard to be hopeful.

Other than, you know, this being the second event in a row that they botch? I don't particularly care about the event itself, mind. But the level of unprofessionalism and contempt towards customers they've been displaying lately is... mindboggling. Maybe it's because you don't work in the service industry, but usually when you deliver a broken product, you either fix it, offer a refund, or if neither alternative is an option, you compensate the customer otherwise. Really, the event is just the proverbial straw. Have you heard about the NiM loot "fix"? The myriad issues with class missions disappearing and preventing progress? Rollbacks causing CC losses which they can't refund because reasons? Missing companions? That's just off the top of my head. Apparently, at Bioware Austin, holidays begin on october. Man, I wish I worked there.

Yep. The facepalm is strong with Rey in this regard, and I had exactly the same feeling. However: Pompey was awarded his first triumph at 26, and Alexander had conquered most of the known world before he kicked the bucket at 33. While the bad guys in TFA do look and sound like a bunch of punks trying way too hard, being over 50 isn't necessarily a requirement to hold senior military rank and do it competently. Also, does Harrison Ford have arthritis or something? Bad posture and moves... awkwardly.

Nice find.

That hasn't worked out so well in the past. Unless what you mean is more along these lines.

Uh-huh. Not good enough, sorry. If you aren't helping out all day everyday, you have no right to raise a point. It's not that I believe this, of course, but that's pretty much the logic you are using with the tired "he likes immigrants, he can take them all in his house instead of speaking up" nonsense. Also, I have serious doubts that you actually know anything about the author(s) considering that you can barely spell the name right. Feel free to prove me wrong. They are dumb, but you aren't exactly raising the level of the debate, yourself.

Yeah, only a poorly thought-out post that you composed in less than five minutes cannot really compare to a mural and even in this day and age would not be considered art by anyone. Feel free to go draw up a rape scene involving refugees on the side of the town hall, though. And hey: if you care so much about the victims of such rapes, why aren't you devoting every single free second of your time to help rape victims? There are volunteer organizations for this as well as career choices you can make to help people, you know. (see what I did there?) But it isn't about people at all, but rather your own issues, yes? Maybe get help? It's clear that venting is just not doing the trick. Good luck.

Another great Guandolo post, right? "Evidence exists that the more religious a terrorist is, the more likely he is to be a religious terrorist". Because this absolutely flies in the face of the millions of peaceful Muslims who are deeply religious and NOT violent. But they don't count, because Guandolo here is redefining "religious" to mean "willing to commit violence in the name of religion". Circular logic, meet WoD. WoD, this is circular logic. What do you mean you were already acquainted?

That's fine, I suppose. But it has absolutely nothing to do with: Which seemed to be a denunciation of the message rather than the execution, which you are now criticizing. Which one is it?