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Messages - Frumple

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It's certainly getting crotch stomped by the GOP just a titch, at the moment, if nothing else. Depends on how badly tattered it is in 2-4 years, and whether/how much of the rest of the world can be convinced this shit was a fluke at that point. Hopefully most of us will still be around to find out, ha.

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General Discussion / Re: RedKing's East Asian Politics Megathread
« on: June 02, 2017, 10:12:08 am »
Hey man, people can be allies with more than one political entity. Can even be a pretty good idea when a previous one has started to act in a way that could be uncharitably labeled "bugnuts".

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General Discussion / Re: Brexit! Conversation Continued
« on: June 02, 2017, 10:05:25 am »
Little checking (momentary curiosity is a hell of a thing when you have internet) suggests he was actually off the board (oct. 2006) before the company in question (Lundin Petroleum) set to work in Ethiopia (Nov '06). Does seem some sketchy stuff scattered around with the guy, and the company may have done some shitty stuff earlier, but that particular issue is one it doesn't look like he had much (or any, considering the nature of what being a board member involves) interaction with. Other stuff of questionable nature you might could peg the guy with, though.

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General Discussion / Re: Brexit! Conversation Continued
« on: June 02, 2017, 07:48:47 am »
... and that, ladies and gents, is (one of the ways) how your preferred political party loses an election :P

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Ah, well... no, the US gets around that by just kinda' casually shitting on the 4th. Back-scratch civil spying is part of that, but I'd probably be pretty comfortable wagering it's not a majority of it.

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Imagine for a moment, desc, the bit you wrote spoken by, say, sean connery. If that does not explain I'm too sleepy to do better and tap out.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 01, 2017, 10:33:06 pm »
EDIT: In case it isn't obvious, yes in the US you should still tip.  Not tipping isn't going to force the employer to give a living wage, it just screws your server if you don't.
Nothing's going to force an employer to give a living wage, heh, save absolutely everyone refusing to work for them. Still, far as I'm aware most places in the states actually are legally mandated to meet minimum wage if tips fall below it, for positions that have that sort of payment system. May be caveated to full time only, can't quite remember. Still definitely not talking living wage in a lot of areas, but... still.

'Course, all that said, the difference between "legally mandated" and "worker living off tips but otherwise minimum wage that's able to get someone to enforce that mandate" can be... wide. Particularly considering "And no longer has a job" is fairly likely to get appended to the latter if it's an actual possibility.

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General Discussion / Re: Be careful what you 'like'
« on: June 01, 2017, 10:13:59 pm »
You know, wouldn't it be better to sue the creator of the facebook message for libel? Seems like targeting 'likes' is going after completely the wrong target, the person can't spread the libel if the libel isn't even there.
Nah. Forget the exact fiddly bits of it, but we've got safe harbor laws for that, or something along those lines. Running a platform or medium nets you a lot more slack than using a provided medium, by and large.

Which is generally a good thing, because otherwise internet soft infrastructure (websites, etc.) would resemble an eternal sisyphean hell of legalistic sodomite orgies.

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Yeaaahh, first poll I noticed on the paris agreement had support for at 60ish percent and against like... sub thirty. Was from last year, if it's not already slipped my mind. Whatever else this may have been, what the american population wants it was not.

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General Discussion / Re: Do you own firearms?
« on: June 01, 2017, 05:00:20 pm »
I do own a longbow, and while I royally suck at its usage, I can at least reuse the ammo.
Hey, technically you can reuse shell casings. Know that's from a couple days back, but whatever. It's not necessarily the most intelligent thing in the world to do (if you do it right it's not a serious issue, but quality degrades regardless and the effects of a malfunctioning bullet can rather easily turn a gun into a hand-detonated bomb), but you can do it.

Actually did a little bit of that, at one point, iirc. Don't even remotely remember what was involved, don't think the things ended up being used, and from what I remember it was only, like, single digit of end product involved, but still. Not really terribly complicated or whatev'.

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Entirely too lazy to dig stuff up, but so far as I'm aware the initial stuff and pull-out writing bitsies has a period the process of withdrawl proceeds over, which'd finish up around 2020, which is where that's coming from.

In other news, apparently trump/the WH has now stated they're considering shutting relations to cuba back down. Chalk another one up for being able to predict this shit by going, "Did obama do it? Okay, whatever reverses that and then does the opposite."

E: Also neat, USCA. Seem's trump's shit has caused the governers of a few states to come together and announce the formation of a coalition type thing intended to uphold the Paris agreement and aggressively pursue mitigation of climate change related issues. Announcement looks to have been made by the cali, new york, and washington governors.

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Other Games / Re: Pocket games thread
« on: June 01, 2017, 04:09:09 pm »
Looks like there's a PSP version. If you're okay with that (and probably have an android phone), you shouldn't have much trouble, relatively speaking, getting it to work on your phone. The major PSP emulator floating around works on android, has features (customizable on-screen controls) meant to let it work on tablets et al, and looks to be more or less entirely compatible with that game in particular (and pretty close to the entire PSP library, too).

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Nah, you've more or less got it. We bred up a lot of different breeds but we kinda' didn't actually know what the hell we were doing, and doing it on a time scale that makes evolutionary processes basically sit in a corner and cry, with the tears spreading across the floor the results. Unfortunately, and from what we know now completely unsurprisingly, for a lot of the poor mutts it shows pretty hard.

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Honestly, this is such an unexpectedly positive result for the current political climate that I can't help but feel that there'll be massive caveats that render it ineffectual. The implications for all kinds of intellectual property could be incredible, but it's felt impossible for so long to see progress that I can't help but be skeptical.
I mean... you probably should be? Far as I'm aware the decision doesn't really mean much of anything so far as IP rights go.  You can repair, resale. You can't repair, copy, and resale, reproduce, whatever. The big fiddly bit with IP so far as digital/immaterial stuff goes (and by extension, largely the problem period) is something pretty much completely inapplicable when you're dealing with physical goods. Most knock-on effect I could see is with transformative works (which are already pretty protected, so far as I'm aware), and even that would be pretty sketchy.

It should clarify some stuff for aftermarket/resellers and whatnot, but that's really just kinda' it, far as I'm aware.

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One reached it by evolution, the other by inbreeding, basically, far as I'm aware. Turns out slipshod genetic engineering via relatively short-term eugenics has consequences unforseen, at times :V

You probably could have a healthy canine species with a flat nose, it's just the ones we have weren't exactly implemented well.

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