MattPie

I wouldn't hand my correspondence over to my "enemy" either. You know that the Republicans (and Democrats in the same position) would be reading though every message trying to find "gotcha" fodder for the smear campaigns sure to come. "Look, look! Clinton once said something bad about a serviceman! She hates the military!" Or, "Look! Rand Paul once wrote that he thinks the welfare issue is overblown!". 4am is later than anywhere else I've lived. Most places have been 1am during the week and 2am on the weekend. I'm past the age (for the most part) that I'm out drinking that late, so it's tough for me to get riled up. The benefits are people that work late (2nd shift and restaurant works) can to go drink for 5 hours after work. The benefit is to the bar workers that don't have to work as late. And as a friend that used to do sound gigs once said, "it sucks packing up sound equipment at 4:30am when we work in Buffalo."

Finished the book last night, it was a lot lighter on dystopia than I expected, although there is a healthy dose of corporate fascism thrown in. The vast majority of the book is set in an immersive online universe where many people spend all their time because the world is crumbling (or the world is crumbling because they spend so much time online; you decide!). If you've read Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash or Reamde, it's very similar to the online world in those book. Or think The Matrix but people know there's a reality, you're on the right track. It was a fun read with all the 80s references to TV, movies, Anime, and video games (and game systems), but I'd give it a B, which is "I enjoyed it, but I'm not going to go around telling people they have to read it!". The acknowledgements mention something about Warner Bros. and movie rights, so we might see it on the screen down the road. There's an excerpt from the author's next book, Armada, at the end. In the few pages I read, I think I can give a profile of the author as a young, video game loving guy that dreams of using those skills to save the world. The protagonist is similar to Ready Player One, and I'm guessing it's "write what you know". I can't fault the guy for it, if I was selling books I'd keep writing too.

Good point! At best, you take the average career of the five guys from 21-26 and figure that one of them would have been TM's pick.

You've been a pretty good poster from what I remember; thoughtful and adds to the conversation.

While the grey area *may* be part of it, I think it speaks more to the Puritanical streak in American society than anything. There's a population of folks that think "If you act proper and "ladylike", it's not going to happen to you." The murder parallel is an interesting one, but I think someone beat me to making the point. If I walk down Busti Ave (is that still a rough part of town?) and get shot, some people will say "that was a stupid thing to do" but very few are going so say "he had it coming, why else would he be walking down that street?" or "What else was the shooter supposed to do?". But some people say those things about rape regularly.

Apparently, some systems do not let you into the BIOS. Or at least you need to do some magic to do it. The Dell 5000 did not give me an obvious method. Guides for other Dell systems would say, "Hit F2 at boot" which did nothing, or "Go into the recovery options in Windows 8 and ...." which I'd do but there still wasn't a BIOS setting in recovery boot like the instructions said. I'm guessing there may be some jiggery-pokery that may have worked on that model, but for other reasons I didn't keep the system long enough to find out.

Take your hockey news some place else, man, this forum is for the Bills, grills, PKane, and politics!

September 2016, assuming she's on the ticket in some form.

I think you're jumping the gun. Theoutline up to "NO" seems possible and maybe even likely. After that, speculation.

I thought we were having a debate, where I ask questions about your stance and you try to elaborate your thoughts. Except that you're not answering my questions. I'll ask directly: if, as you stated, a woman is not responsible for being raped, why would her demeanor in a bar beforehand matter? Note that we're not talking specifically this case.

Of what? That one poster has made up his mind but isn't sharing that with anyone since he knows that it's speculation?

First bold: Turns out, none of that matters. Again, how hard is this to understand? Second bold: If you're saying she's not responsible, how does any of her behavior up to the point she said no matter? General thought: I don't think anyone here has even suggested that he did it. I certainly don't know and don't have the facts to make a guess. I'm not sure who you're yelling at.

That hardware went back (Dell Inspiron 5000 15 (AMD A10 version)). We've bought a Dell Inspiron 7000 13 now, which seems to be a much nicer piece of hardware. It was pre-loaded with Windows 10. I'd say if it wasn't for the privacy stuff, Windows 10 is at least as good as Windows 7. It's nowhere near the disaster of the Windows 8 interface. I did check the floor model that I can enable legacy boot and whatnot before buying. As for GIMP, I asked the same question. Yes, she's used it but made the very good point that's not that similar to photoshop in terms of interface and capabilities when you get deeper into it. Kind of like saying Linux and Windows are the same because you can browse the web and look at pictures with them. In any case, it's not a fight I'm going to pursue. :)

Even when I spell dystopian wrong? :)

That's because a man should never force himself on a woman, no matter what happened leading up to it. A woman has no role in getting raped, unless you feel like men have no control over themselves. How hard is this to understand?

I'm only a few chapters in to "Ready Player One". Distopian future with millions of people trying to solve an eccentric billionaire's puzzle that's based on 80s video games and culture. The person that solves the puzzle is the heir to his fortune. http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448 After this, Seveneves. http://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0062190377/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439180111&sr=8-1-spell

Dude, it is NEVER THE VICTIM'S FAULT IF THERE'S A RAPE. It doesn't matter when, where, or how they got there. EDIT: I re-read your posts and I see you're kind of saying that. But it doesn't matter if she went back to his house expecting Scrabble, Connect 4, or sex; as soon as she was unhappy with the situation that's it. ---- Re: Croce: he's saying (I think) he didn't over-serve Kane. Can the same be said of the women? Are there legal ramifications if someone is served too much at a bar and they are injured by another party?

dudaCHUK.

Is that for fun or you tipping us?

This isn't really a topic for humor, but I can't help but laugh that the server is "www.BJs.gov".

A friend of mine's was very similar, except substitute lots of guns and clays for boats.

Skipped signing into a MS account initial setup. Win! :)

There was a quote some years back that, "If Pat Buchannon and the ACLU agree on something, you're living in strange times". It's not a circle though, it's a grid (or even more dimensions than that). You can be fairly libertarian in terms of person freedom and government interference while still believe that the government can be a positive force in the world. Syria/Iraq and ISIS does lend credence to the anarchy theory.

This all has to go through a jury (Grand and Petit), right, unless PKane accepts a deal? I suppose jury nullification could happen. Others have answered the oath question, but I'm not sure it's perjury though, isn't there a "Filing a false police report" charge?