CitizenVectron

Classic Nintendo.

Technical Analyst, School Division

Install and fix things for teachers and students.

16 minutes ago, Jason said:

Do former presidents typically get security clearances upon leaving office? Because they technically don't have one while in office, having been elected to the office is considered their clearance.

As far as I know it is normally for life, precisely because they are often contacted to help out, both with advice and actual calls/visits to other countries.

Accommodating to what?

8 minutes ago, PaladinSolo said:

I think you mean his tunneling company to make more flamethrowers.

Maybe Trump will give those Russians security clearance to make up for taking others away.

1 minute ago, JosephManderley said:

So what you guys are saying is, the more digging the investigation does, the more leads they find to follow?  This thing is in danger of going on longer than  Trump is in office then! 

Oh I have no doubt that it will go on after he is gone.

19 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

I don't see it as a First Amendment issue.

 

This probably falls under due process or some other provision, but I don't see this as a strictly freedom of speech one.

I agree with this for this case, but I do see how it could be a first-amendment issue for the government to take any reprisal against you, even if it doesn't prevent you (technically) from speaking. but instead suppresses/cools your desire to speak because of the threat.

If Mueller was allowed to continue, he could probably keep this thing going for 20 years with all of the stuff he is likely uncovering that is tangential to the original investigation. These are people who have gotten away with what they have (in their careers/lives) not because they are intelligent and conniving, but because the rich and powerful tend to be untouchable in the US. That's not to say many would (or will) face actual punishment, but I'd bet that they haven't covered their asses very well due to simple laziness and complacency.

7 hours ago, ALIEN-gunner said:

The new spotting mechanic sucks ass.

You liked the doritos? They were way too powerful and needed to be nerfed. Maybe it's because I started with the original Battlefield 1942, but you shouldn't need to spot enemies with giant glowing arrows. To be fair, Dice puts way too many distracting effects in their game which make it hard to see enemy soldiers (and all of them look the same colour). But you can just spam Q over a screen and see where everyone is, which is bad.

Haven't heard about Blackwater in a long time.

I agree with most people here that Scape's opinion is wrong on some of this, but there is no need to call him stupid and make fun of him.

3 minutes ago, Scape Zero said:

 

Fine fuck it whatever guys.

 

Trump won't win, Hillary will, I'm just an idiot, right?

That's a separate issue, why do you keep going back to it? You were correct, that doesn't mean you can't face criticism in other areas.

1 minute ago, Scape Zero said:

 

Didn't say that.

 

You said that the US didn't want to enter WWII because it didn't like both sides. But for much of the war one side were Nazis while the others were just Western capitalist countries. Your opinion didn't jive with actual accepted wisdom that it was a "let Europe solve their own problems" attitude that kept the US out of the war, not some belief that the side holding the UK, France, and Holland was detested by the US.

Scape, I think one of the big factors is just volume. If there are 10 or 20x as many right-wing attacks in the US than left-wing, then while both sides deserve blame, one side deserves a lot more. Especially when much of the violence on one side is in response to the other, not an original provocation.

I'm pretty sure in Canada that jurors aren't allowed to speak about their experience, and courts routinely put publication bans on certain trials. If the press ignores it they get big fines.

That's true, but there are also street clashes between the alt-right and anime fans so I don't think these things always lead to world war.

Yeah but is there any punishment? Like maybe if the fine was 2x the donation then campaigns would actually care.

Probably was Trump phoning him under his alias.

6 minutes ago, Scape Zero said:

 

The growth of communism is what motivated some of WW2. The fascists seeked to destroy it, as much as the Communists seeked to destroy capitalism. It's why the US wanted nothing to do with most of WW2. We didn't care for either side.

What? Hitler invaded like 10 capitalist countries before invading the USSR. The US didn't enter because the public was tired of Europe's shit from WWI and isolationism was believed to be the best path. Are you saying that France, England, the Netherlands, etc were equivalent to the USSR or Germany?

Even if the washroom was in use...why not just find a corner where nothing will be ruined? Or just in your shirts which you can wash?

15 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Depending on where you place the cutoff the oldest millennials are mid-late 30s.

And the youngest are something like 18 to 22. It's just a pet peeve, but I wish the media would start calling high school kids Gen Z.

Kids in high school aren't even millennials.

On 8/12/2018 at 7:30 PM, skillzdadirecta said:

Only certain movies... my girl recently introduced me to several classic rom-coms that I had deliberately never seen before and I was pleasantly surprised.  I in turn am planning on introducing her to a few of my classic favs.

This is the best way to do it. I watch rom coms and she watches Starship Troopers.