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You mean except for the 31% of your population that is armed?

The actual murder rate in the UK is about 30% of the U.S. (I forget the exact amount), but once again, distorting numbers to attempt to make an argument. Really, you can just go ahead and make non-bullshit arguments. The "three times as many" figure is still a powerful figure. I have no idea why...

I don't think the problem is with +stats. I think the problem is with the linear and narrow relationship those stats share with character roles and other elements within the game. It's also the fact that items carry too broad a range of stats, leading to players not so much picking the correct...

Young, extremely talented (Or has some special ability) character who ends up just being annoying. Nog, Wesley Crusher, Chekov, Kes

Mysterious alien that's kind of part of your team but also separate, with access to odd information that can dues ex you from a jam at the last minute. T'Pol Garak Guinan 7 of 9 and the annoying chick she replaced.

You said "murder" yet you use the gun related deaths which include suicide. And I KNOW you did this intentionally since the information is always kept together and you probably pulled it fromhere. 6.3 of those gun deaths are suicides. If we're talking about murder, like you fuckingsaid, the U.S...

Since 2009, 37 people have been killed in "mass school shootings" in the U.S....118 people were killed by lightning in that time frame. Seeing as my child is morethan three times more likely to be killed by lightning, than killed in a school mass shooting, I'm going to call you a fucking...

On an individual episode level, Deadwood and Rome really trounce most other shows. Each episode is great and the whole story is pretty solid. Breaking Bad, Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire are on the other end of the spectrum, individual episodes can feel weak, but as the story plays out, those...

I wonder if there are enough players to form the bone knight wall..

As underjoyed said, why the hell wouldn't I play an FPS then? Don't get me wrong, I damn near broke my keyboard when going for Glad in Season 2 and getting butt fucked by some other team who just happened to be getting luckier drops when they were raiding (We never got weapons, and I was the...

I'm not a doctor, so I know jack all about HFCS. I just know I let myself have 3 cokes a week (I'm addicted, and I won't cut them out completely) and I can taste the difference between sugar (Mexican/Pass Over) coke and HFCS coke (My wife's tried to switch it up on me, too. I've always caught it...

My father-in-law passed away early this morning due to complications from cancer (Cancer went into remission with the last dose of chemo last week, but he got an infection and his lungs were severely damaged due to being weak from the chemo)...I really admired him. Guy literally came from...

I'm always curious why people say this. The MMO market has had two major growths, it's initial, which came when it evolved from MUDs to graphic based (UO/EQ/And others) and then another serious one with WoW. Both of these periods of large growth happened with games that were considered...

It's not nostalgia. Yes, WoW is a better game. And yet EQ had numerous superior qualities in terms of it's MMO design. Those two statements can coexistwithoutone being false. That's because what made EQ great wasn't thegameaspect of it (The fact is, "the game" in most MMO's is pretty mediocre...

Boardwalk Empire RAPED Homeland Season 2. So did Breaking Bad. There should have been no comparison. This was Boardwalks year, and they got fucked because people are too interested in being trendy with Claire Daines Jazz induced crying seizures. The only person on this show who deserved an...

Because the Maester's are open to anyone (Even common idiots)--and the moment you explained why putting bread mold on wounds stops infection (IE explain the properties of Anti-biotics), while also explaining how they can build a microscope to see it, you'd instantly have the ear of every Grand...

The post said you could pass through the door--it did not say you'd be anyone special. You still wouldn't know how to fight with a sword, or use magic or do anything that sets you apart from any other peasant. In neverland, you'd be an adult, and so you'd be Captain Hook's bitch unless you...

I would pick Westeros...Because in Westeros they have the Maesters, who gather all the shit you'd need for science. Combined with not much magic, you could use Science to dominate everything. Equip my army with some muskets and build a steam powered tank and I'd be the new king.

To be fair. If you've ever had to deal with investors, the first thing you realize is that as the principle goes up and the time horizon goes up--the amount of control the investor wants increases. And if you've ever had to work in a corporate environment, then you know a bunch of people who are...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not here advocating against conveniences but this argument is deeply flawed. The reason people can't just turn their own maps off and "immerse" themselves is the same reason why people who hate mods still HAVE to use them. Because the competitive advantage in more...

Part of the problem is that MMO's are simply pretty mediocre games. Lets be honest, they lose in almost every respect vs single player video games. Their ONE redeeming quality is that they have no equal when it comes to social gaming. The level of drama, competition and cooperation you get in a...

I don't think he meant it like that, if he did, carry on. But on the whole, illegal immigration is a huge issue in the U.S.--Now, I'm pro-immigration. NASA, the Nuclear Energy, U.S. world dominance--lots of great things happened because we were pro-immigration. But it's easy to let the...

20% of all immigration happens to the U.S., 3% goes to Canada. We would probably accept a higher % of total population too, if 1.) Our native foreign born population didn't already eclipse your entire countries population. 2.) We could pick and choose only high productivity, low social cost...

And all of this is why the Constitution can be amended--because it's not infallible. Jefferson even thought it should be burned with every generation (Not a direct quote)...So yes, even in their day, they didn't believe it should be a "document handed down by God"...Which given our numerous...

Your projecting really goes to some disturbing levels. You got caught saying something stupid, you got angry. Your rage is so transparent that it doesn't even make for good trolling. You're worse than dumb--you're sad. And it comes across in spades in your post. Anyway, I'm sure you'll keep...

Even if you did ban high capacity magazines from "assault" weapons.....There are some very high tech work adjustments one can make to bypass it, various special forces in Africa have perfected it. Duct tape--granted, I'm sure it will take Americans a long time to work out it's mysteries...

Book is great. It's not so much trying to tell the story of a single person in a zombie outbreak--like 99.9999% of zombie movies/books, it's mankind's story. Which, from a person who was always more interested in the "post apocalyptic world", rather than the the story, made it great for me.

Because even when you reduce these city populations, the U.S. still has more people living in urban areas? The U.S. has one of the highest urban populations in the world. Even if we lost Detroit, Baltimore and New Orleans, and all the massive, problem impoverished cities in the U.S.--we'd still...

I haven't done the numbers since 2005 when I wrote a report on it, I have a slow work day, so I'll do them again. Will need to use Wiki though. Essentially this list.Here..Which shows homicide per capita. I believe I was able to reduce below France's homicide per capita rate by stripping 13...

For France, the mechanism was simply very high property value rates combined with property taxes. Which would have happened here as well if it wasn't for a chain of events that lead to a far higher automobile saturation and use (Oil ect), which allowed for our "white flight"--Which lead to a...

Considering France has a higher rate of violent crimes, I can say that the state of your victim has nothing at all to do with the violence of the criminal. Also, as a video linked here shows--there is a correlation between both poverty and urban density in terms of total homicide rates. In...

Yeah, new actor is mediocre. He's not as charismatic as Andy, but he's by no means why the season lost some of it's luster. It's as others have said, without Batiatus playing off Asher's scheming, there was a critical element missing in the whole subterfuge of the house. Asher tried to carry it...

Seriously though, the word hipster was created specifically for these people. Someone who was pretentious would have just said the film had flaws which made it not work (Mildly negative)--it takes a hipster to say it's a terrible movie that will ruin the entire art of film because of how clean...

Saw it last night. Was good, I'd rate it slightly below Fellowship and about even with the other two. I can see why people said it had problems, so saying it's not a masterpiece is fine. But anyone saying it was a bad movie or even a mediocre film, like 30% of the rotten tomatoes critics, is...

It's pretty interesting to see how authors are so colored by their time. In Tolkien's time, it wasn't cliche to have a force that was nearly pure evil--because he witnessed first hand such a force. There wasalmost(You can make arguments for their science) nothing redeemable about the Nazi's, if...

Well, it wasn't really their choice. The Actor quit.

Well, she actually did need to hide. Her ring was still corruptible by the one ring. The only reason it didn't happen before was because the Elves only used it's power sparingly and even in the third age they only used it to preserve their immortality, and slow down the "diminishment". So she...

Gandalf showed his power quite a few times. He got into a magical fight with the Balrog before the bridge--when he tried to lock a stone door on him. The magic was so powerful that there was a bright flash of light and it caused the whole stone structure to cave in. (And these were stone...