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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: Nature yays

« on: December 13, 2014, 02:45:15 PM »

Thats crazy, anybody can think of a reason why she'd do this? Maybe she had just had cubs or something and wanted to protect and nurture something?

Yeah somehow she's mistaken the diver for a cub, bringing weak or dead prey to their young is pretty common behaviour for predators.

As for why she made that mistake? Not a clue.

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Do you do any sport?

« on: December 11, 2014, 04:33:57 PM »

I've done ITF Taekwon-do for 12 years now, currently a 3rd degree black belt. Trained with the WTF university club for 3 years as well. I did try out fencing, but couldn't get my head around not being able to move to the sides without going off piste!

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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: History yays

« on: December 09, 2014, 02:50:25 PM »

I've heard of similar ones allowing the shooting of any Welshman within bowshot of the walls of either Chester or Shrewsbury after sunset. I think it's not clear that there were ever actual laws to this effect; if there were, they have almost certainly been repealed at some point as conflicting with the law on murder.

If I remember rightly, these were royal edicts given in a time of conflict and that later laws banning killing by a citizen made these invalid.

What amazes me most about this Marlborough Statute is that some of the rights it gives to tenants are still useful!

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Ferguson, MO: Unrest Continues

« on: December 04, 2014, 05:59:03 PM »

Agreed, I don't understand how they managed to reach this decision

Systemic racism looks like the most likely reason...

Having said that, I've now heard analysis that says he was resisting arrest. Restraining someone who doesn't want to be restrained is damn hard, and supposedly the methods they used are approved methods. It was suggested that perhaps they should have paid more attention to his claims that he couldn't breathe. In all the situations being brought into the public eye there is some confrontation with police officers, perhaps the focus should be on why these conflicts happen?

The interview in question was with an ex-MET police officer from the UK, it was on tonights PM programme on radio 4 at around 45 minutes in. Don't know if international people can access that in any way, but if you can I recommend it.

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Ferguson, MO: Unrest Continues

« on: December 04, 2014, 12:33:09 AM »

Unlike in Ferguson, this looked like pretty much the perfect case

Agreed, I don't understand how they managed to reach this decision

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General Gaming - The Arcade / Re: Feminists call for Target to stop stocking GTA 5

« on: December 04, 2014, 12:32:06 AM »

Let's ban a thing because people can't separate fantasy from reality!

Yup, that makes total sense...

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Ferguson, MO: Unrest Continues

« on: December 02, 2014, 03:48:51 PM »

Cop shoots unarmed boy then holds him in his arms as he dies.

I've been looking and can't seem to find anything saying this. Where did you find this?

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Ferguson, MO: Unrest Continues

« on: December 02, 2014, 01:49:47 PM »

So I was sent this

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/02/hug-photographs-ferguson-protests-lie?CMP=fb_gu

I kind of agree with what he says, you can't jump on one image and assume the problem is solved, but equally I find it quite hard to believe anyone is actually doing that.

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Star Wars / Re: The New Movies: Discussion/Excitement/News

« on: November 28, 2014, 10:17:48 PM »

I've got an ingrain suspicion that it'll be rubbish. I'm still quite excited to see it, but I won't be getting my hopes up.

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Total War Discussion - The Balcony / Re: Attila: Total War announced

« on: November 28, 2014, 02:59:49 PM »

In my opinion MTW2 has the best playability and game mechanics so far.
RTW2 has some really nice and realistic battle animations and the battles tend to look less mathematical (at least on the surface). They seem to be more organic and nowhere as predictable as they used to be in the previous games.

I agree Wolfie, I prefer the battles in R2, but I'm not a fan of the province system and army limits.

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Sketches, Stories, and Steam / Re: Hannah Milburn's Concept Art

« on: November 27, 2014, 02:05:05 PM »

Hello nightmares

That's really impressive work!

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Ferguson, MO: Unrest Continues

« on: November 27, 2014, 01:27:17 AM »

I was using hyperbole. But the facts remain that several people HAVE been shot and fatally wounded by police, that they have been predominantly non-white, and that this keeps happening. If police are going to use rapid responses when they feel threatened, they should be carrying tasers not firearms for that purpose.

This.

The police have to have a way to defend themselves, but in my opinion they're too quick to jump to lethal force.

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Total War Discussion - The Balcony / Re: Attila: Total War announced

« on: November 26, 2014, 10:45:59 PM »

(or altering the descr_strat file) not though money

This.

This.

This.

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Ferguson, MO: Unrest Continues

« on: November 26, 2014, 05:28:26 PM »

Interview with the officer who killed him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CU2NPSxjho

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Ferguson, MO: Unrest Continues

« on: November 26, 2014, 01:24:31 AM »

For reference, here is the statement given https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuupBHUGbYo

Now from this I can kind of see why they acquitted the officer. I do still think the policy of shooting to kill is wrong, a taser could have disabled him without the need for killing him. But given the way US law enforcement officers are trained to act it seems that they didn't really have a choice except to acquit him.