Gromnir

the moderators, all of them, is excellent. is the unsung stars o' the series. all o' them is expert at using the kinda faux socratic method to lead the group to curious ethical conundrums. HA! Good Fun!

... kinda random, no? HA! Good Fun!

https://www.learner.org/resources/series81.html# am admitting we were unaware the series were available online in its entirety 'til we looked for it earlier today to be responding in the wot election thread, but the linked videos is fantastic. yeah, am doubting anybody actual watches one o' the +50 minute videos, but am feeling the need to repeat our appreciation for 'em. 1989 is a bit dated at this point, and while the folks in the videos were titans in their respective fields, many will be unrecognizable, particular to folks not from the USA. nevertheless, am thinking that the series is well-worth the time it takes to watch all ten offerings. am loathing wiki, but the link provides a list o' the panelists and we don't see any obvious errors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_in_America HA! Good Fun!

george bush actual pushed Congress to increase the nasa budget and encouraged nasa to get us back to the moon, unmanned and manned, with target dates which have already elapsed. return to moon were a reasonable first step to going to mars. HA! Good Fun! Oh, i do not fault him for doing that. It actually deserves praise in itself. I just find it interesting that once again it gets pushed to the limelight by the end of the second term by the next president. Perhaps it is not a sexy agenda during election times. january 2004. not election time for bush. not when it were too late to do anything. not after he slashed and burned nasa for two terms. HA! Good Fun!

george bush actual pushed Congress to increase the nasa budget and encouraged nasa to get us back to the moon, unmanned and manned, with target dates which have already elapsed. return to moon were a reasonable first step to going to mars. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.learner.org/resources/series81.html# is good stuff, and you get your answer(s) in video #2... and am thinking #8 as well. lawyer can't lie or put client on stand knowing that they will lie, but there is practical ways to deal with those limitations. defend guilty is not a problem. HA! Good Fun! ps pay particular attention to mr. neal remarks... am thinking he gets involved at 24:40 o' video 2

The victim says that was not how she behaved. Hillary's affidavit is her swearing to the court she was told those things, so either she was told those things (whether the person telling lied or not) or she lied to the court under oath (cue discussions of later Hillary activities, I'm sure! ). Ultimately the motion never got reviewed in court (again as near as I can tell) so there doesn't appear to be any real determination in regards to veracity. Regardless a defense attorney is legally able to challenge witnesses testimony and to test evidence on behalf of their client, so again while I don't like a lot of what Hillary has done in government in modern days, I can't fault her in this case for...well...being a defense attorney. what people is ignorantly lambasting clinton for regarding kathy shelton is exact why rape shield laws were passed. the case in question occurred two years previous to arkansas passing rape shield, so the terrible injustice done to shelton, when viewed from the pov o' 2016, were actual the norm. clinton defended her client. if she lied in an affidavit, it would be unethical and illegal, but proof o' such mendacity is lacking. regardless, the tragedy o' kathy shelton is not a criticism o' clinton but o' the system as it existed at the time. clinton laughing 'bout polygraph accuracy? this has been a non-issue for a long time. "true-believer" defense attorneys is common, but even so, successful defending folks one knows is guilty o' terrible crimes has gotta take a kinda toll. is more than a few alcoholic defense attorneys. 'mongst criminal defense attorneys, black humor is even more common than cirrhosis o' the liver. anonymous tips that lead to capture of _______? is a dirty secret o' the defense bar that a considerable number o' those anonymous tips come from defense attorneys. 'less one is a true psychotic, you gotta find a way to laugh at the perversity o' the system. Gromnir ain't even a criminal defense attorney, and am shuddering to think how insensitive some o' our conversations held 'mongst peers is gonna sound to the layperson. as an aside, we will never do family law. however bad is criminal law on the psyche o' the attorney, family law is even more taxing. the atrocities (petit and major) people is capable o' committing 'gainst former/current loved ones is genuine soul crushing. being an advocate for people with so much rage, particular when children becomes the ultimate prize o' the battle 'tween monsters, is the kinda thing we has seen destroy more than a couple good men and women. as much as we dislike clinton, we cannot fault her for defending her client, and am reluctant to judge her for her poor choice o' jests even as such were cringeworthy. 'course we find her email defense to be straining credulity and her foreign policy record to be worthy o' a whole 'nother degree o' black humor... and her willingness to lie when confronted with unpleasant truths is almost pathological. ... 'course when obama were recent talking 'bout how much he wants to see astronauts going to mars, we laughed at that too. no President since clinton (bill) has done so much to hamstring the US space program that we couldn't help but think obama were doing a tommy flanagan kinda jest... oh, and this is likely a joke for which obama would like a mulligan. *shrug* this election should be a laugh-a-minute chuklefest. 'tween clinton and trump's seeming intentional faux pas one-upmanship, we should be having chronic sore ribs from laughing, but we ain't hardly laughing. HA! Good Fun!

bozo aired at noon 'til the 1980s. *snort* pre-adolescent 80s pansies. just sayin' HA! Good Fun! ps we didn't have a tv back in those days, but am recalling visiting chicago relatives during the 70s and watching bozo. the freaking grand prize game is what we recall most vivid. *shakes head sadly* we sat and watched kids throw ping pong balls into buckets to win t-shirts and toothbrushes and trips to the natural history museum.

tassadar sacrifice at the end o' starcraft were kinda memorable for Gromnir. not on par with the mebbeth incarnation o' ravel's coda, but worthy o' mention. y'know, our actual best gaming moment might be when we downloaded a patch for mechwarrior: mercenaries to correct a bug that were preventing us from progressing. message boards and developer responses were a bit slower back in those days, so we spent considerable game hours trying to figure out what we were doing wrong 'fore we realized that our failure to rendezvous with a dropship were the result o' a bug. being actual to progress after literal wasting more than a dozen hours on a sisyphean task, followed by a week (or two?) waiting for a hotfix, were likely our bestest game moment. HA! Good Fun! ps honorable mention for troika as no developer has so consistant had our best gaming moment for their titles existing immediate before playing the games. so many great concepts ruined by poor execution.

Plus I think they forgot at least a 'few' of the Trump scandals... understatement. HA! Good Fun!

we haven't seen a full transcript o' the interview, but J. Ginsburg is getting a bit grumpy in her old age. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/88911-the-us-election-2016-part-vi/?p=1840673 as we has noted earlier, a national anthem protest o' cop behavior reveals a fundamental lack o' awareness. am doubting ruth went into much detail in an interview with katie couric as to why she were seeing the protests as "dumb" and "stupid," but am suspecting that at least in part it is 'cause o' reasons we already mentioned. nevertheless, the salty octogenarian is becoming increasingly apt to speak her mind w/o considering the consequences o' how the average citizen will react to her musings. we enjoy the news articles that result from her lack o' concern for the niceties o' being one o' the more recognizable figures in our fed government, but J. Ginsburg's penchant for reflexive rather than reflective public responses is becoming almost trump-like. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/30/liberals-love-alexander-hamilton-but-aaron-burr-was-a-real-progressive-hero/?utm_term=.7d64119f21c2 before the musical we thought aaron burr got a raw deal from history. is too bad the only exposure many will have to aaron burr is a musical and a milk commercial. before today, we had no idea michael bay directed the commercial. huh. HA! Good Fun!

Ive often wondered about this. Good ifo's. in the spirit o' full disclosure, we got no numbers to back up our impressions o' lakota christianity. nationally we got numbers that says 3/4 o' indians is christian and a majority o' those is catholic, but there is baptists and lds and methodists on the rez... or maybe lutherans. all those protestants get kinda jumbled for us 'less we got a specific case. regardless, gifted shouldn't take our impressions 'bout lakota christianity as... gospel. HA! Good Fun!

the question is a bit... gauche. is current 567 recognized tribes. is a considerable number o' tribes still not having recognition. each o' those tribes is gonna have its own traditions. and keep in mind just how geographical large and diverse is the United States. not surprising then that the indigenous peoples would be diverse as well. *shrug* our christmas dinner, when we could afford to do christmas dinner, were not too unfamiliar. christianity is common 'mongst the lakota, with catholicism being the most common denomination. and our family were catholic. we celebrated christmas. always had some kinda decorated tree. for dinner we perhaps had turkey or pheasant or perhaps a roast beast o' some kind. couldn't always afford an extravagant meal, but gift giving were a tradition 'mongst the lakota long before europeans and christianity arrived, so we always exchanged gifts, even if were small stuff. menu items which might be unfamiliar to bruce would include wampanackali (which we believe our grand father learned from a huron or iroquois, so is not a lakota recipe and would not be common at other lakota christmas dinners) fry bread, wasna, and plum cake. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/20/the-myth-of-the-anchor-baby-deportation-defense/ anchor baby is not what most believe it to be. *shrug* HA! Good Fun!

trump's muslim ban has 'been 'bout entry as 'posed to deportation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pushes-expanded-ban-on-muslims-and-other-foreigners/2016/06/13/c9988e96-317d-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html the ban were original targeting any muslim entering the country, but trump's plan has evolved a bit. is still a ridiculous plan, and would be struck down by SCOTUS, but is not 'bout deporting muslims. deportation o' illegals is a different issue. the illegals issue is a bit more complex and is perfect trump fodder as gut-level sympathy for people who is admitted doing something illegal is gonna be low. the fact that many illegals has been getting away with their criminal activity for decades tends to reduce empathy rather than increas. after all, US immigration policies is already 'mongst the western world's most lax. regardless, the trump muslim ban has been 'bout entrance. HA! Good Fun!

Gorth got laid off? Shady did. As for moving back, let's just say I missed the climate and the geckos No that answer is lacking in accurate information, Gorth please dont break your record by being laconic or nebulous with your views What do you mean by weather ? The UK only has good weather in summer...you knew that ? But why not go back to Denmark,,,,where do your friends live? In Oz I assume...so do you consider Oz your home ? You should know by now that I'm almost physically incapable of lying... not even the little white lies. Truth is indeed that i missed the pleasant climate here in the sub tropics. Denmark is even worse than the UK, being cold and miserable 11 months most years. As for "home" and friends... being an old introvert I never had a large social circle, a few good friends, several of which I've had for 2-3 decades are not deterred by a bit of geographical distance. Besides the weather, I just felt claustrophobic in Europe. Whether in Germany or the UK, it was like it didn't matter where you went, if felt like there were hordes of people everywhere and endless queues of cars, even on the smallest of country roads. I just needed to get back to a place where I can get away from people when I feel like it, open empty areas without any people nearby just an hour or two away. does gorth like rabbit? gd likely has more recipes for rabbit than does Gromnir. personal, am planning to end up in idaho on a ranch/christmas tree farm 100 miles from nowhere. HA! Good Fun!

Bragging about how he gets away with sexual assault is a few steps beyond "something rude." anybody else waiting for a wod link to a dubious article that proves that 103% of women actual wanna be gropped by creepy celebrities? HA! Good Fun!

They lie about everything else, so why not? Hah, good one. Wait...unless your being serious. Please don't be serious. is difficult to be certain, no? HA! Good Fun!

queen is a qualifying exception. odd. is there a particular demand for cher impersonators in britain? HA! Good Fun!

gotta say the gif is pretty darn unfunny from our pov. disquieting.

http://www.swtor.com/eternal-throne/home december 2 and november 29 early access *shrug* am embarrassed to admit that we did buy the recent released sanguine somethingorother armour via gtn so we could unlock the outfit on all characters. the set is improbable ugly, almost intentional ugly, but it includes an eyepatch... for the just in case we wanna look like a cliche movie/cartoon pirate moments. HA! Good Fun!

is more than a couple best moment threads, and variations on the theme, having appeared on these boards and and the old ip boards. our response has been largely unchanged since late 1999. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/61866-what-was-your-favourite-quest-in-an-rpg-why/?p=1258604 ravel's incarnations all provide memorable encounters, but the resolution o' the ravel story as it plays out in mebbeth's hut in ragpicker's square is our best moment in a game. HA! Good Fun!

in all fairness, Gromnir don't dig J. Thomas. wod's third linked article attempts to imagine a flaw as a strength-- no Justice on the Court so often writes solo opinions, and he is one o' the Justices least likely to be called 'pon to write a majority opinion. why? answer is simple: he ain't a good writer. he ain't a brilliant scholar. write legal opinions is an exercise in argument... is persuasive writing. the fact that Thomas so often writes solo opinions don't mean he is wrong, but it does tend to indicate that he failed to persuade any o' the other Justices. fifty years from now only a handful o' legal scholars and historians will recall Thomas' contributions to the Court... and a few constitutional law attorneys. high school kids will never be exposed to a Thomas opinion that resulted in a cultural sea change. even university students, 'less they is poli-sci majors or somesuch, will likely only be exposed to Thomas in connection with the anita hill situation. and that is too bad. while Thomas's writings is pedestrian at best, he clear has had influence on his fellow Justices. dc v. heller and citizens united v. federal election commission won't be discussed fully w/o recognition o' Thomas' impact, but he didn't actual author either opinion. even so, build a museum o' African-american history and one need recognize the historical relevance o' events and people not only now but in the future. 50 years from now Clarence Thomas is gonna be little more than a footnote worthy personage for historians. is too bad, but is also reality. as we noted earlier, the politician's criticism o' Clarence Thomas is largely unfounded-- as with all the current Justices, Thomas is primarily driven by his legal philosophy. casual observers likes to divide Justices based on liberal v. conservative, and that just don't work in most cases. sanctimonious liberal politician wanna criticize J. Thomas 'cause he is a black man who opposes affirmative action? *shakes head* is J. Thomas' integrity that prevents him from comprising his beliefs. as a judge, we should be applauding those men and women who show such character on the bench. would you respect a catholic judge who treated catholic plaintiffs and catholic issues as if they were special or unique? Gromnir wouldn't. J. Thomas is an admirable judge, but ain't a particular significant Justice. is kinda ironic that such a recognition cannot be voiced w/o offending. would be dangerous to careers to admit such. nevertheless, would be amusing to see how folks react if the Smithsonian actual were honest and observed that Clarence Thomas just ain't relevant enough to get more than footnote kinda coverage in a museum of african-american history. HA! Good Fun!

The only other consumer car that's close is the Accord. Maybe a charger if you want to deal with dodge. The Cherokee that killed Anton was because of the ****ing stupid shifter design. I drove a 300 with that shifted and it doesn't provide enough feedback to inform you that you've changed gears. gives at least 2 visual indicators to let the driver know he is in park, and an auditory one as well. the shifter itself displays whether or not you are in park and an indication is displayed via instrument panel. in the version we drove, there were also the hud. is also a distinct beep/ding, but if music is being played too loud, such sounds could be missed. is different. you don't feel the shift as change from park to drive. also, the shifter does not lock in place when parked. nevertheless, there is multiple feedback options. HA! Good Fun!