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Because Nintendo is the only company on the planet that I could legitimately see developing CD edge-softening tech to make their games less dangerous to children.
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I just has the site seemingly not load for about 30 seconds as well.

Consequently, I'm running Malwarebytes pro for the first time and every time I refresh the site it warns me that it blocked something malicious. So either Allen fucked up the site's code, there's a malicious ad, or gamefaqs.gamespot.com is data mining our PCs and there are checks to block people blocking said mining.
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That would be like Solid Snake being in Smash Bros.
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Theaters just have it showing on far more screens than normal because of the record-setting preticket sales. I doubt the numbers are inflated, but I'm sure cinema chains overcompensated a bit as well and that's why they're not all full all the time.
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Apple has never once done anything first.

EDIT: Outside of the first visual OS. Back when Wozniak was still involved.
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EastKingStar posted...

s0nicfan posted...

How much do you make? I hear a good server at a decent restaurant can pull upwards of $20/hr with tips.

Lol I mean I'm here drinking, not working

Oh... any idea how much they make?
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How much do you make? I hear a good server at a decent restaurant can pull upwards of $20/hr with tips.
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From the same article:

Kellyanne Conway, who leads the White House's anti-drug efforts, argues Trump's position is more nuanced, saying the president is talking about high-volume dealers who are killing thousands of people. The point he's making, she says, is that some states execute criminals for killing one person but a dealer who brings a tiny quantity of fentanyl into a community can cause mass death in just one weekend, often with impunity.

"The president makes a distinction between those that are languishing in prison for low-level drug offenses and the kingpins hauling thousands of lethal doses of fentanyl into communities, that are responsible for many casualties in a single weekend."

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I'll be curious how it does in countries like China (if they allow it to play at all given the central theme is questioning the ruling party). That'll be a big factor in whether it sets global records or "only" breaks a billion.
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"The logical conclusion of intersectionality is individuality. There's so many different ways of categorizing people's advantages and disadvantages that if you take that all the way out to the end you say well the individual is the ultimate minority and that's exactly right and that's exactly what the West discovered. The intersectionalists will get there if they don't kill everyone first."
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All the Kardashians
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At this point I'm less concerned with the roster and more concerned with the game modes. I can expect all the classic characters to be in, but the game REALLY needs an adventure mode like SC3 combined with the best character creator features from 4 and 5.
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He did not understand that life has many doors.
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Foppe posted...

The solution is to arm the pilots.

Instead after 9/11 they mandated that every pilot's cabin be reinforced by a big, beautiful door that was much harder to get past than the previous doors.
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DoctorPiranha3 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

DoctorPiranha3 posted...

Payzmaykr posted...

No dogs should be outside dogs. Thats negligence.

All dogs were outside dogs for millennia. It's only in recent decades did Fido and Rover move from the doghouse to the couch.

Dogs from millenia ago also didn't have hundreds of years of selecting breeding that took away their ability to be outside dogs. "All dogs were outside dogs" but Pugs didn't exist either.

True that. Humans have really fucked up the species, didn't they?

Fun fact: Pugs have curly tails because they've been bred into a permanent case of scoliosis and german shepherds have terrible hip problems because their sloping backs are considered the "standard for the breed" by dog shows.
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DoctorPiranha3 posted...

Payzmaykr posted...

No dogs should be outside dogs. Thats negligence.

All dogs were outside dogs for millennia. It's only in recent decades did Fido and Rover move from the doghouse to the couch.

Dogs from millenia ago also didn't have hundreds of years of selecting breeding that took away their ability to be outside dogs. "All dogs were outside dogs" but Pugs didn't exist either.
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Neither. If you can't get into a mobile game within the first month of it releasing, don't bother. The treadmill and power creep makes it nearly impossible for new players to catch up. The only exception I've ever seen to this is the Bleach Brave Souls mobile game.
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Anteaterking posted...

s0nicfan posted...

And YOU aren't properly putting those other studies in context of this one. If you're looking at the whole picture, there's nothing even close to enough evidence to conclude that teachers are more likely to shoot black students. Again: there's NO REASON to think that a study on minor punishments translates to murder rates.

Just looking at the methodology of the studies Antifar posted vs Fryer's, the first translate over more effectively to the type of situations we are talking about.

You seem to be trying to "disprove" the allegations by interpreting Fryer's study as claiming that police officers are less likely to shoot black people than white people. But what he claimed to have shown is that in duplicate circumstances less blacks were shot than whites. However, we're talking about adding guns to an environment which puts black students in these circumstances more often. E.g. If a security officer shoots a student 1% of the time they are called regardless of race, but security officers are called twice as often on blacks than whites for the same incident, then that leads to black students being shot twice as often.

Fryer's study looks at that and says "I guess race doesn't make a difference", because he's starting the equation at the point where the officer is called, not at the point of the inciting event.

But again, Antifar's studies have nothing to do with gun violence, and Fryer's study (even given your point) shows that there's a significant difference in how people act in minor infractions versus potential fatal ones. If we're being 100% rational here, Antifar's links do nothing to argue CNN's claim. My use of Fryer is primarily to show that how officers react in white v black situations varies depending on the severity of the interaction, and thus there's no reason to think that Antifar's studies correlate in any way with CNN's baseless claim.
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Webmaster4531 posted...

What are these points Rubio made?

Rubio specifically called out what I had posted earlier:
s0nicfan posted...

The FBI was grossly negligent in following their own procedure in dealing with the 20+ actionable tips they received on the shooter. The officer in charge with protecting the school was caught on film doing nothing out of fear for his own life while the kid shot up the school. End-to-end the existing system that COULD have prevented this tragedy did not work as intended.

So I just don't get why Marco Rubio of all people is being painted with a target over this.

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Webmaster4531 posted...

Many citizens are against money in politics. I'd be glad to get rid of it corrupting influence.

I completely agree. Start with lobbyists, then move on to campaign finance.
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MC_BatCommander posted...

I wonder how many are missed?

The TSA is grossly incompetent and the fact that they're still contracted by the government instead of having to face competitive bids is a joke.
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Phantom_Nook posted...

s0nicfan posted...

So I just don't get why Marco Rubio of all people is being painted with a target over this.

Because of dancing around a question for five minutes, that question being "will you accept any more NRA money".

It's a dumb question designed to catch him in a "gotcha" that lets you ignore the other points he made. It shouldn't have even been asked. I can take ANY politician, look at their donors list, and then argue they should be disqualified from ever having an opinion.
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Anteaterking posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Oh sorry, I didn't realize that a Harvard study done by a black professor to try and prove racial bias that turned out as unexpected should be tossed out because it doesn't fit your narrative.

I'm not tossing it out. I just think you're misleadingly representing it as some sort of academic consensus, instead of properly putting it in the context of other studies.

And YOU aren't properly putting those other studies in context of this one. If you're looking at the whole picture, there's nothing even close to enough evidence to conclude that teachers are more likely to shoot black students. Again: there's NO REASON to think that a study on minor punishments translates to murder rates.
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Anteaterking posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Studies also show that when it comes to actually shooting people racial bias isn't a factor.

You mean your one new study.

Oh sorry, I didn't realize that a Harvard study done by a black professor to try and prove racial bias that turned out as unexpected should be tossed out because it doesn't fit your narrative.
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Balrog0 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

It was a Harvard study done a year or two back by a black professor looking to objectively prove police bias against black criminals in terms of gun violence. He was actually surprised by his results and considered not publishing them, but did so anyway in the name of truth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html

In shootings in these 10 cities involving officers, officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white.

yeah I mean there was a lot of pushback from others when he released this study, though

http://datacolada.org/50
https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfeldman/blog/roland-fryer-wrong-there-racial-bias-shootings-police

I do see what you're saying, but one novel study being looked at by the NBER is not the same as something having been rigorously proven. It is something to consider, though.

I just think you (not literally you, but "people") can't use a study that shows that black kids are more likely to get detention and extrapolate to "black kids are more likely to get shot" because when it comes to the severity of punishment, there are WILDLY different conclusions in terms of racial disparity. The studies are valid, but the logical leap being made isn't.

EDIT: Also, while those counter-arguments are interesting, I can't help but feel that they're coming from a place of bias. The harvard link, for example, BEGINS with "There should be no argument that black and Latino people in Houston are much more likely to be shot by police compared to whites." That preconceived bias is going to taint any counter-argument.
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Anteaterking posted...

(b) Studies that say that security officers in schools/discipline from teachers for the same "crime" has been disproportionately applied to black students.

Studies also show that when it comes to actually shooting people racial bias isn't a factor.
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Balrog0 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

And if you want to cite studies, we can reference the fact that police statistically are more likely to rough up a black criminal versus a white one, but less likely to shoot and kill a black criminal versus a white one. If you want to extrapolate based on actual gun data, there's no reason to think teachers would be lighting up black kids. You're just fear mongering and race baiting.

is that true? I'm only aware of that one study which shows that police are less likely to shoot a black person, by Roland Frye, and it isn't even published yet

though this isn't something I look at very much

It was a Harvard study done a year or two back by a black professor looking to objectively prove police bias against black criminals in terms of gun violence. He was actually surprised by his results and considered not publishing them, but did so anyway in the name of truth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html

In shootings in these 10 cities involving officers, officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white.

EDIT: Yea, we're talking about the same guy, though. I had just forgotten his name. Is there something wrong with his study?
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Antifar posted...

Yes, I do think the burden of proof is on those who claim such disparities wouldn't carry over to gun usage. Do you have reason to believe this beyond just dismissing the idea as self-evidently stupid?

Because statistics referencing the use of punishment in schools have nothing to do with gun violence. It's not even a logical leap. There's no correlative evidence that your studies would connect in any way to the use of firearms outside of your personal intuition.

And if you want to cite studies, we can reference the fact that police statistically are more likely to rough up a black criminal versus a white one, but less likely to shoot and kill a black criminal versus a white one. If you want to extrapolate based on actual gun data, there's no reason to think teachers would be lighting up black kids. You're just fear mongering and race baiting.
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The FBI was grossly negligent in following their own procedure in dealing with the 20+ actionable tips they received on the shooter. The officer in charge with protecting the school was caught on film doing nothing out of fear for his own life while the kid shot up the school. End-to-end the existing system that COULD have prevented this tragedy did not work as intended.

So I just don't get why Marco Rubio of all people is being painted with a target over this.
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Antifar posted...

Do you guys have a disagreement with the claim being made, or just the outlet it came from?

Do you really need someone to actively point out how stupid a claim it is?
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