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And for todays "WTF" moment..... we now have Ferguson protesters complaining that they aren't getting PAID! Isn't that novel. :)

Hhhmmm.... I don't speak Russian.... so, didn't get as much out of the trailers as I probably should have. Looks like some good action though..

The very term "dehumanizing" is a construct, meant to describe a behavior that folks would like to discourage. Of course, that assumes that folks take pride in actually being human..... which isn't always the case. Some folks actually ENJOY the pain of others, whether they inflict it themselves, or not. Does this make them any less human? Or, is it simply a human trait coming to the fore, that others suppress? After all, power over another living things does have a certain amount of appeal to some folks.

Probably came from folks not liking having it happen the them..... so, they figgered that nothing else liked it either, so, don't do it. This could go WAY back into history.......

I think the biggest thing about 'being human' would be not to inflict indiscriminate pain on any living being. Also depends on your definition of 'beating'....... Some folks think it's necessary for training....... "Do this, else you will feel my wrath!"...... I personally do not subscribe to that theory, and it works fairly well. My dogs HATE getting baths..... but, once in there, they will sit/stand there, and behave. If I want them to move, all I have to do is tell 'em which way to go, and touch them in the right direction, and they move. Now, they give me looks like I just killed their best friend..... but, do what they are told. (and still love me when I let them out. :) ) Sometimes, I think they are a LOT smarter than they let on...... other times, I am quite sure they are MUCH smarter than me. :D

Could also cruise on over to TES Alliance (link in my sig), and join the Voice Actors Guild there. :)

I rather like the way you think. :)

Trouble is, the racism (the underlying cause of the issues here) is coming from both sides. It isn't just one-way. There are some in both communities that simply don't WANT to understand the other. They want everything 'their way', and anything less is unaccpetable. Impasse. Oh yes, racism is alive and well in the US. No doubt about it. And the mass media is one of the major contributors to the problem. If a white cop shoots a non-white person, it is plastered all over the media. You will rarely, if ever, see anything about a non-white cop shooting a non-white, or a non-white cop shooting a white person. Why? Because that doesn't stir the pot of emotional reaction. You don't see rioting, and whole neighborhoods destroyed in those cases either. Not to mention the 'communities' banding together (intentionally, or not.....) and supporting a story that paints the cop in the worst possible lite. Recently, a cop shot an 18 year old non-white, who had ostenisbly fired HIS weapon at the police first. The community reaction? "The cop planted the gun, and the empty cartridges around the body, to frame the kid."....... And the Micheal Brown case as well. It was demonstrated that a fair few of the witnesses flat out LIED about what happened. Some of them, weren't even near the scene.... yet they saw what happened..... Unfortunately, I see this as a problem, that does not have a solution. At least, not something that would be acceptable to all parties concerned. This is a problem we have been poking at for decades, and quite frankly, not much has changed.....

:laugh: Now THAT was funny. :) Thank You.

If the UK is anything like the US in this respect, how is borrowing money from one country, simply to give it away to another country, with zero chance of it ever being paid back.... make any sense whatsoever? Especially when a fair bit of that foreign aid goes to countries that actually hate us? How is sabotaging our own national budget helping US??? I will grant, that its pretty much a drop in the bucket in the overall scheme of things.... (right about 50 billion per year for the US.) But, if we are going to borrow money, I am thinkin' that 50 billion per year could go a long way towards upgrading our failing infrastructure.......

Once you click "apply" to sort your load order, LOOT will generate a report. Just click on the 'details' tab, and it will tell you which mods need cleaned.

I had considered upping my system ram to like 64, or 128 gig, creating a "ramdrive" at about 35 gig or so, and have the entire game loading from ram. THAT would yeild some good performance. (at the price of waiting initially for everything to load to the ramdrive.) You *might* be able to bump settings, ugrids, texture res, when loading directly from ram... but, you wouldn't be able to load the whole game. As bben stated, the 32 bit architecture makes sure of that..... I would love to see an option for a 64 bit game engine in the next round of Beth releases..... considering most newer machines are going that direction anyway..... it wouldn't cut substantially into the customer base.

Well then, that was certainly convoluted.......

Now that, I don't know...... it's possible, but, I haven't heard anything about it yet. Probably DX12 isn't common enough for them to play with just yet. After all, it's a Win10 thing, and Win10 hasn't even made it to a "real" release yet. Probably within six months of that event though.... maybe. :)

Don't use quicksaves......

Nope. Skyrim uses DX9, it doesn't understand any of the new stuff in 12. (or 10, or 11.....)

conservatives giving away power? That's odd.... As for getting stupid with it........ Don't hold out a lotta hope there. :D

What makes a house "Green"? Is it a lack of walls you cant see thru? How much energy it uses? Where it gets its energy from? Is a greenhouse really green???

If there were any gangs/cartels nearby, I would agree with you...... Personally, I think someone higher up on the food chain in the police department wanted a "tank" to play with, discovered that they break when folks that don't have a clue play with 'em, and are hideously expensive to fix....... I live in a podunk little county, thats main source of employment, is farming...... (legal stuff.... for the most part.) I think we aren't big enough for any large organization to pay any attention to. (cartels) there are zero gangs, aside from some assorted bikers, but, they don't seem to be really into the drug scene... (from a money-making standpoint, using, on the other hand.......) Nope, there was no reason to have it, that made any sense to the casual observer.... (that wasn't hyped on testosterone anyway....) But then, I gave up expecting government to be "intelligent" a LONG time ago. In fact, the outright stupidity our government can demonstrate on too regular of a basis, has now come to be expected. Want to REALLY screw something up? Put a government agency in charge........

Your logic is impeccable. Again. So, I am going to go install another door in my window. :)

Yeah, just because a solution is logical, does not imply that it will actually work. Humans have this odd tendency to be totally ILLOGICAL...... and that tends to throw the proverbial wrench into the works. The last round of mid-term elections were indeed at least partially about money, but, it was also a LOUD statement from the american people on the direction the dems were taking national policy. Sometimes, elections actually serve the purpose they were intended for, although, I will admit, that has become an extreme rarity of late...... If we ever want to get our country back from career politicians, and their corporate masters, (or, their union masters for that matter) we need to get the money out of politics. I don't see that happening voluntarily though..... too many people with money (or, politicians wanting money....) are dead-set against it. So, short of a second civil war, nothing is going to change. As for armed police..... They have to be. As you pointed out, with private ownership of firearms being commonplace, and therefore, CRIMINAL posession of firearms.... the cops also need to be armed. Militarizing the cops does seem a bit over the top to me though..... (why some city with a population of less than 50K needs an APC for their SWAT team is beyond me.....) Although, there was a point when the criminals were MUCH better armed than the cops...... Still holds true in too many cases, but, not nearly so bad as it once was. What I found amusing...... The city nearby, (population around 35K) Got an APC for their drug enforcement 'special' group....... they had it for about two years, of which, it was operational for about three months...... they finally came to the determination that they simply couldn't afford it, and gave it back. :) (and they had gotten it for FREE.....)

Ever hear of a "window wall"? :D You have a valid point though...... Just because you can see thru it, doesn't make it any less of a "wall"......

Of course they do. :D They have both fixed windows, that simply allow light in, and they also sometimes have windows that can open, to allow air circulation.

People still make their own ammo in their garage. Ban it, and the illicit manufacture of ammo would become a new cottage industry. Not to mention, our government has already tried banning ammunition of certain types, some, they have succeeded, (black talon ammo) others, they failed miserably. (tracer ammo..... which struck me as kinda odd, I don't really see the point in civilian use of tracers...... but hey....) Long guns are not registered, are not tracked, nor are records kept for more than three years of who bought them. That means that the AR rifle variants..... aren't tracked.... neither are shotguns, or any other firearm classified as a 'long' gun. That represents the bulk of firearms in the US. Fully one-third of the population of the US are gun owners. Wanna see a whole bunch of people heading for washington DC with guns? Try and ban them. Simply passing legislation isn't going to magically make them go away, no matter how much you may want to think so. Americans are NOT Europeans/British. If our government attempts to take away our guns, we WILL fight back, first at the soap box, then at the ballot box, and as a last resort, the cartridge box. We WILL fight for our right to keep and bear arms. It would also be political suicide for any administration to attempt anything like that. Even if they managed to pass it, (and they would have to control both house, plus the whitehouse to get it thru) you can bet your bottom dollar that come the next election cycle (two years) EVERY member of the party that passed it that was up for re-election, would be replaced with a member from the other party. Once the dust settled from that, control of at least one house would likely have changed hands, and there would be a barrage of legislation to overturn any bans. (be they ammo, or weapons) Statistics are meaningless without knowing what the questions were, who was asking them, and whom they asked. The polls/studies are pretty inaccurate predictors of legislation passing in any event, as even when the 'polls' were saying 90% of people wanted stronger gun laws, congress STILL could not pass a single one. And then what happened the next election cycle? The republicans (pro-gun) won in a landslide in almost every district that was up for grabs. Kinda puts the lie to "Americans WANT gun control!"........ So, let me qualify my 'impossible' statement...... It is impossilbe to disarm the american people without STAGGERING loss of life. Far more than would die if we did just the opposite, and let anyone and their cousin carry a gun. If you think the gun-toting crowd would simply shrug their shoulders, and turn in their guns..... well, I would suggest that you don't know americans very well...... And regardless of what legislation passed, the criminal element still would not turn in theirs..... considering that most of them would be in trouble if caught with one in any event. So what would be the point of hundreds of thousands, if not millions dieing, to remove a tool from the populace that actually kills about 13000 people per year? (I don't count suicides, as they would just find another way to kill themselves.) I would point out that there are MANY FAR more dangerous objects in circulation...... cars, doctors....... alcohol, that kill 10's, and sometimes hundreds of times more people every year than guns do. They tried banning alcohol, we can see how that turned out.......

Removing all privately owned guns from their owners, at the government's behest, isn't merely 'difficult', it is impossible. It would mean instant civil war. The government's only option for implementing said policy, would be to have the army go door to door, and search each house.......Somewhat less than practical, and also unconstitutional..... (using the army against private citizens is a big no-no.) Assuming that the army would even follow such an order...... The end result would be death on a grand scale. A 'solution' that would be far worse than doing nothing at all. Sure, some folks would turn in their weapons voluntarily, most, would not. NONE of the criminals would turn in their already illegal weapons..... initially, all this would do would be to remove firearms from the law-abiding....... I suspect we would see crime spike right along with this. Cops are already issued tasers, and pepper spray...... at least, in larger police departments..... I don't know if officer wilson had either of them though. But, given that Mr. Brown was 6'4", and 295 pounds, and charging at him.... not sure I would have trusted my life to a taser, and certainly not to pepper spray....... He was a threat, and needed to be put down. Officer Wilson did what he had to do. He did not TARGET Mr. Brown, he asked him to not walk down the middle of the street. Brown escalated the encounter, and is completely responsible for his own death. I have no sympathy for him whatsoever.