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That wasn't really my point... No, I did not, therefore I'm not going to comment on it. I'm not sure what the police can do either. State or local, their job is to fight crime. Eliminating poverty and all is someone else' job.

Yep, ev'ry time I'm a-hustlin' dat popo opresses me. Guy had a gun, officer had a bodycam. I'll be really surprised if the one who shot had zero criminal history. Yep, there're a lot of issues in the States, as far as I'm concerned. Poverty, crime rate, violence, all that. Is the police responsible for fixing those issues? No, they only fight crime, and if someone tries to mess with them, he gets shot. It's sorta not the cops' fault more and more young people choose to cross the line and become criminals. The country has other authorities for that (like Mr President, a huge friend of minorities, who didn't seem to help the problem much). Milwaukee is run by a Democrat, right?

I didn't really plan to discuss gun control issues (in my view gun control is more about weapons circulation among general population, not weapon usage by police and the army -- and my bad if I'm wrong:( ), more like training tactics. With regard to this, why would anyone need to bring real weapons to an event involving civilians, much less point weapons at them? Even in the army or the police, during training events with professionals, you never point anything real at anyone. I love guns, but you the only occasion when you need a real gun during training is when you need to shoot the target.

I'm sorta doubtful it has anything to do with gun control (police officers are usually armed, and during exercises no real guns are usually used to my knowledge). I'd call it stupidity/recklessness/criminal negligence.

Some sad shit happened in Florida. An officer, who was acting as criminal during a Citizen police academy roleplay, shot and killed a 73-year-old lady, who volunteered for the exercise. Apparently their used real guns during roleplaying, and somehow there was a live round in the cop's sidearm chamber. http://kxan.com/2016/08/10/police-woman-73-killed-by-officer-in-academy-exercise/ I've only two words. Firearms. Safety. That could have been easily avoided. During military training, there was a strict rule - if you even point an empty gun at anyone during firearms training, you'd be in immediate trouble. We don't have any kind of "role-playing exercise" involving civilians in my country, but I know they're popular in the States. Did anyone of you participate in them? How were those events organized with regard to the firearms safety?

Inside an ordinary Brooklyn parking lot (thanks Denis for taking the pic :))

You get frequent GTAV crashes?

Sounds good, at least with an IT degree you won't be starving if the LE gig doesn't go well. However, I'm not CJ or LE, I have Masters in Financial Law and Financial Security. Assets investigation, bankruptcy, that kind of stuff. Though I guess these are not the qualifications that will be useful on patrol.

Would my Master degree in law, some LE experience, an Army lieutenant rank and job history in one of the Big4 companies make me competitive? Never mind the citizenship, I'm just curious

> The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. His Honor Antonin Scalia, the best Justice the SCOTUS ever had. As a lawyer, I agree.

Well, Ford has a proud history

I kinda like that boxy thingie in top left, remains me of good old times of long square cars. All the others would look good in Europe I guess.

Waking up almost every day reading about more and more attacks and innocent people murdered all over the world makes me sick. I wish I could contribute to killing these savage murderers somehow. Maybe joining our corps in Syria isn't that bad idea. More than 80 people dead, from one delivery truck driving through the cheerful crowd. Insane and absurd.

Yeah. let's protest against cops killing black criminals. Never mind politicians who sorta supposed to create conditions for the crime to decrease and for young blacks to do something positive instead of becoming criminals. Police is supposed only to protect people and solve crime, but is always blamed for everything (and last I checked Mr. President joined the rally too and said police kills too many black people. Christ, it only shows the extent of your failure as a leader...)

I wonder sometimes, if I ever get that green card and that US citizenship, will foreign LE experience and military rank give at least any advantage?..

Now I do like all those petitions for another referendum. It reminds me of an old Russian saying, 'the democracy is what the people say; if the people say things we don't like, let the people say again'. But sometimes I feel like the world is going back to isolated nations and the history (not Hystery :P) makes a turn around instead of going forward. (that's my inner socialist speaking apparently)

You sound like one of the government-paid trolls we have here in Russia. If you are indeed a foreign citizen who learns from online sources, that's OK. If you're Russian please let me know you're spreading tales knowingly and I would stop wasting my time arguing with you. We did sent forces to Crimea. Igor Strelkov (rings any bells?) had nothing whatsoever to do with our Navy there, and he was one of the key figures in the Crimea operation with his people, and he also played a key role in starting the Donbas civil war (he basically organised first armed groups of separatists), acting with Kremlin's blessing, as he is one of the Malafeev's people. A 13 billion deal? Yep, we were lending money to pro-russian politicians. How does that change anything? That's why I love you Putin fans, you leave logic behind. We're already in a huge crisis caused by the Crimean takeover. Joining this peace of land was a disaster for the economy, and after that our own government imposed sanctions that hurt Russians more than foreigners. This did not stop our president. He cares a little over our well-being here, but he cares a lot about the country's greatness, just like those Soviet leaders did. And yet I don't deny Crimean people were glad to join us. Of course, Russia is much, much better than Ukraine. But now they're feeling the crisis too. All in all, you're either a troll, or you don't have a single idea of what you're talking about. I'm not going to address all those NATO claims, but I hear enough bullshit about how great Putin is everyday on the radio, and reading it here is just too much.

Are there, like, dinosaurs? Sure looks like it :D

Anyone playing F4 right now? I bought it a long time ago but only recently found enough time to give it a good run. The plot is awful comparing to FNV, but FNV was exceptionally great even comparing to F1 and F2, so... I'll bear. But what really negatively surprised me is the apparent lack of attention to details. Take vehicles for example: there's an absurdly monstrous steam locomotive, more than 5 meters high, which would most definitely fail to fir under any bridge, with no couplings on its model. FNV had a decent modern-looking locomotive model, for example, which was enterable and the game strongly implied that NCR used those engines to transport cargo. Then there's a ridiculous tank, a weird van which was used as an ambulance, but the back door is so low no gurney with a patient would fit there, a weird black-and-white police car (a panda car? In Boston?), and so on. At the same time all the models are really neat. Scenery is great and it's a pleasure to view. I also like many new gameplay features and the setting itself. However, I can't stop thinking that beauty was favoured over logic in this game. There are certain Fallout lore contraints, but there always had been inner logic in the previous Fallout games. Anyone thinks this way too or am I the only one that picky?

No taxes paid on the vehicle I believe. I met three on three different game sessions a guy with the same name with no tax paid on three different luxury cars. On the third occasion I arrested him... Fore felony tax evasion :D

Lemme see. Well, apart from 250% inflation of national currency (a direct result of Crimea crisis), food import embargo (forcing us buy locally produced food which is two-three times more expensive), disbanding the investigative division of prosecution (making investigators and prosecutors fight each other instead of working together), cutting down public sector spending (40% layoffs in police, emergency and medicine, while a court clerk earns 100 USD per month), giving enormous donations to Muslim leaders and Northern Caucasus region to keep them loyal (and prosecuting those who express dislike towards that and Chechnya under hate speech laws), and making people hate the West while buying houses and sending kids in the US and Europe... Probably nothing worth mentioning. If you want to discuss anything, you're free to PM me. Sorry everyone, last reply from me on that topic.

The other way around. If you're Russian you're much less likely to be one, especially now. This is wrong topic, of course, but just a small note: a lot of things that Western people think of our president and country are wrong.

The last person you'd want to cite, believe me.

Well, it's actually a good amount of time before that actually happens. They might even forfeit that decision, depends on many things. I agree with you. A good strong economic union for the European countries is a good thing (like ECSC was a long time ago). As for the war at least Russians, had our fair share of conquering Crimea and I truly hope that's enough for our leaders. I really don't appreciate the idea of dying in frontline in an atomic strike for ideas I don't share and understand.