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Off Topic / Re: It's a hate crime in the UK to upset women.

« on: July 15, 2016, 05:42:23 PM »

yeah dna would only help if you already have a suspect, and even then it's probably more expensive than the state would probably care for unless it were a more serious case. at any rate, the vast majority of crimes don't even go to trial, they're settled with plea bargains, so evidence isn't always so much an issue, you just need enough to prove you have something to charge them with if they ask

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Off Topic / Re: It's a hate crime in the UK to upset women.

« on: July 15, 2016, 01:32:37 PM »

no you arent

i am

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion -- POLL: Who WILL win the election?

« on: July 15, 2016, 01:28:07 PM »

i wonder why Annoying Orange chose tea party republican as his running mate. that...seems like the opposite of what he would want to do. not very good ticket balancing there, probably going to lose a few more left-leaning voters now

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Off Topic / Re: [UK EU Referendum] - UK VOTES LEAVE | 51.89% // 48.11%

« on: July 15, 2016, 12:49:37 PM »

As far as I can tell you're just saying "GDP will drop".

Why? Give me some facts and statistics that show this prediction.

he's been pointing you to a post he made on the last page with all of the information he's talking about

HM Treasury brown townysis: the long-term economic impact of EU membership and the alternatives

If I could point you towards the summarizing table on page 8, you can see all the alternative models to EU membership are stuff.

also currency is a lot more complicated than "higher is better" a high-value currency means you can buy more foreign goods, but a low-value currency means that other people can buy more of your goods. iirc some countries like china(?) deliberately value their currency lower relative to the dollar to keep their exports strong; it's not so simple. of course higher-value currency is typically better for consumers, it's not always better for the economy. in fact, the last major deflation event happens to also be called "the great depression," but that's also quite an extreme scenario

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Games / Re: What will Nintendo do next?

« on: July 14, 2016, 09:07:22 PM »

how would you measure the success of a console other than by how many units it sells tho? considering nearly twice as many wiis were sold compared to NES consoles, i'd say the wii's earned its place in history.

we don't rly know much about the NX tho. it's probably going to iterate on the wii u somehow, but there's really not much to go from

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Off Topic / Re: [UK EU Referendum] - UK VOTES LEAVE | 51.89% // 48.11%

« on: July 14, 2016, 08:18:41 PM »

I understand the free trade zone is probably the biggest benefit, however I don't think likes of Germany will suddenly "cut trading with the UK's high economy" because it would be pointless and they'd just be losing out on making money by selling their goods. Heck we would still be trading with America which has a big economy too.

maybe, but it's still not quite as good as having the guarantee of trade free of barriers across all member states

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Off Topic / Re: [UK EU Referendum] - UK VOTES LEAVE | 51.89% // 48.11%

« on: July 14, 2016, 07:59:49 PM »

There's a whole list of costs to go with the EU which pretty much outweighs the benefits.

this is the debatable part

having access to the EU's free trade zone is a pretty big benefit, and they're not going to reward the UK for leaving by giving them access to it

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Games / Re: do you have any removed/purchase disabled steam games

« on: July 14, 2016, 07:52:43 PM »

Darkspore
Q.U.B.E.

wtf i didn't know these were removed wowe

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Off Topic / Re: [UK EU Referendum] - UK VOTES LEAVE | 51.89% // 48.11%

« on: July 14, 2016, 07:36:26 PM »

Isn't it better to take a year or two of instability and then recover than to carry on declining with the rest of the EU though?

maybe, assuming you convince people that the EU doesn't benefit them and can't make any changes and that they'll just have to deal with things sucking for a little bit until we promise things will be better. it's a much surer bet to stick with the EU and reap its benefits than it is to take a huge, unprecedented risk. and that's true politically and economically; as long as the UK is a wildcard investment, its economy is going to suffer. the fact is that nobody knows for sure what's going to happen next if the UK were to leave, all there are are promises and speculation.

the UK can probably survive on its own, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be better off economically.

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Games / Re: Nintendo's next console revealed

« on: July 14, 2016, 05:59:17 PM »

this is one of the only appropriate times to use the nes emoticon

No. Remove it

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Off Topic / Re: Why can't server preferences work with oRBs?

« on: July 14, 2016, 05:43:36 PM »

What is the advantage of using Greek2Me or Daprogs RTB over just the regular old RTB?

greek's iirc is stripped down so there's nothing but what actually still works, i think daprogs has (had?) an actual replacement server running for rtb connect

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Off Topic / Re: It's a hate crime in the UK to upset women.

« on: July 14, 2016, 05:14:38 PM »

yeah cultural pressures are bad enough in court, you definitely don't want to bake those pressures into your law enforcement procedures

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Off Topic / Re: It's a hate crime in the UK to upset women.

« on: July 14, 2016, 05:08:48 PM »

reminder that op told his girlfriend who was upset that her feelings were "only chemical reactions"

hahahaha brilliant thx for the reminder

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Off Topic / Re: The JonTron Megathread: 90% ECH 10% Birds

« on: July 14, 2016, 04:58:50 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-joYR7_zI8

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Off Topic / Re: It's a hate crime in the UK to upset women.

« on: July 14, 2016, 04:55:04 PM »

If you claim to respect women you are loveist for giving women special treatment.

the only person i can imagine that would think it's loveist to respect women is a loveist who's upset that you're not prejudiced enough for them. the entire point is that respecting hunks and respecting honies are not mutually exclusive. we're all HOEs, humans on earth.