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Pretty creepy. How did it end up? I can't find a news article about a dead officer from Garland or a suspect with a knife shot that's from this year. There is an article about an officer from Garland, TX who shot somebody with a knife dead.

I agree that mostly all game development companies, not just Rockstar, are drifting towards the online market. The problem is that this game is at its biggest when it comes to the console market. Not noted for its MMO fanbase. Consoles are noted from their 10-30 y/o fan base with regular Call of Duty releases involving no-commitment, grab & go gameplay. Turning GTA into an MMO in the spirit of something like World of Warcraft will turn it into All Points Bulletin, which was a horrible failure, despite having the same creative director that worked on Grand Theft Auto III. It wound up being the shortest lived MMO of all time. Six weeks, before it was officially shut down. The company (Real Time Worlds) lost $100,000,000, going into bankruptcy and shutting down. Some other company purchased what was left of it for $1,000,000 and we now have the dog vomit pay-to-win bore fest that is ABP: Reloaded. I'm not saying that Rockstar can't make a GTA game last longer than its predecessors, but by going after the PC market only, they'd have to turn GTA into something that it's not, and to keep the console market, they'd have to tailor to people who get bored with the same sh*t after a year or two, and want a totally new map and all new content once per new release.

This would be a good opportunity to have OP of this thread contact OP of that thread for advice.

Do you have any idea how long it took to get Google Maps and Google Street view functional? Street View alone took 6 years from the beginning of a university study. Still not all of the U.S. is mapped, and currently the area of the planet that has been mapped takes up about 20 petabytes of storage space. Keep in mind this is two dimensional imagery at 11 megapixels. They are not using any kind of geometry, shadow, lightning, reflection, particle effects or water rendering here. These are purely 2D textures in a panorama. There's no telling how much space a 3D game based off of that much 2D map content with a higher resolution would be. If you tried to load that big of a "map" with pedestrians, cars, a weather system, day/night cycle, world events, indoor areas, interactive objects, mission content and more, you'd likely die of old age before the progress bar reached the other side of the screen, provided your computer would run that long. Computer hardware is going to have to advance a lot further before we see anything like this. Keep in mind that as big as Liberty City or San Andreas might feel, you can get across the entire city in a couple of minutes in a car. That's impossible in real life, even if your foot was welded to the floor of your car. The maps we use for these games are severely down sized compared to the real cities. And where would the content to cover all of that space come from? It would take an unimaginable amount of time to give the player something to do on every block of the map. Not to mention there would be no need to release another new Grand Theft Auto game, ever, as the map would cover the entire country or possibly the entire planet. What would be next? Grand Theft Asteroid? Oh sh*t, I better get to Mars and reduce my wanted level before the space police catch up to me.

Does it do multi button macros? You need a few buttons to make that happen.

No problem, sorry it didn't work out for you.

My understanding is that Rockstar has done this on purpose. Sit tight and cross your fingers for a solution.

It's a third party program (never heard of it prior to this conversation) that probably doesn't work with GTA V. It relies on macros and for all I know Rockstar may not allow the use of those. Or it may simply have a compatibility issue. Dunno why you'd use it for LSPDFR anyway, it takes longer to speak than it does to press a button. Last time I used voice commands was back when the game SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs was popular. "BREACH, BANG, CLEAR!"

Consider it done. Continuing on with the same arguments isn't doing you or I any favors.

You just said it yourself. No, it further destabilized the middle east, which has been a sh*t show for hundreds of years. Fighting only happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's not really what the war was about. The opportunity for democracy for an oppressed country was merely a selling point for the war to the U.S. citizens. There were indeed a lot of people suffering underneath Saddam's rule, but hindsight shows that we were better off letting Iraqis kill each other and everybody else under his supervision rather than without it. It's a lose-lose situation. They say politics isn't about the best decision. It's about the least worst. The presidents job is to choose the least worst option for each decision every day. George Bush and his administration chose incorrectly. And now we're picking up the pieces. I will grant you that the worst books every written are in the Old Testament. The difference is that the acts of violence in it are no longer practiced in the world of Christianity or Judaism. Nobody's saying that all Muslims are terrorists. If anything that statement looks more bigoted than anything else that's been posted on this forum. Criticizing Islam brings baggage with it. Besides the threats of death you may receive, non-violent people might from time to time try to accuse you of being racist. The words Muslim and Islam mean two different things. The first is an ethnic group, the second is a religion. I don't think anyone here has a problem with Muslims. The only person who seems vocal about that sort of thing in the media these days is Donald Trump. What the entire world, including the Muslim community itself, has a problem with is the values of the 2nd largest religion in the world being taken literally by a portion of Muslims that numbers in the millions that is causing a lot of death and destruction all over the planet via terror attacks, and continually immiserating, harassing and killing women, homosexuals, westerners and people of other faiths on a daily basis in their own countries. The fact that you call them 'mistakes' is a problem in itself. Is it not fair to call killing hundreds of people (in the case of the Paris attacks) or thousands of people (in the case of America's 9/11 attacks) terror or mass murder? Those aren't mistakes. I'm glad you believe that the members of ISIS are lunatics, but you and other people who wish to apologize for the other followers of Islam need to understand, and then be honest with the fact that the interpretation of the Qu'ran they are preaching is not far fetched or distorted. It's a very straight forward reading of it. They simply don't disregard violent passages that other people who practice Islam do.

That's not what illegal means, so I'd refrain from using that word. You can speculate on whether the events happened as they did according to Garner or the police officers all you want. The fact is the events Garner was accused of happened off camera. But I'm more inclined to believe the police officers based on Garners prior convictions. As far as trusting the police; Let me put it this way: Would you trust a cop to give you a ride home as an example, vs. someone who offers you a ride after informing you they're a convicted felon who's been arrested more than 30 times but that they haven't done anything wrong lately? Of course I've considered the fact that they aren't being truthful, but I'd tend to believe them first for good reason. Furthermore, this assumption of harassment is (and always has been during our discussion) a moot point considering that regardless of whether the charge was legitimate or not, all he had to do was go take a ride to the precinct, and then sign himself out of jail or wait out the night to see a judge. He didn't need to fight. Good. You can go dig up the coroners report if you want that notes he had a crushed trachea. The problem with the word crushed is explained by officer Dominic Izzo in a video he did about the choke hold that I also linked: Think of the word 'crush' in the form of a soda can. Crushed can mean dented, and crushed can also mean completely destroyed. Therefore the words 'crushed trachea' is why people leap to conclusions that the choke hold was the cause for his death. It wasn't. The cause of death would be listed as asphyxiation if it was, not a myocardial infarction (heart attack) that he had in the back of the ambulance far after he was handcuffed, still complaining. He maintained an airway all the way to his death. I'm not wasting my time anymore, since it's obvious I'm not going to convince you of anything. The facts are on my side because the video tells you everything you need to know about the altercation, which is the debate topic, provided you know anything about the human anatomy and police work. I explained the physiology of the two kinds of choke holds to you, I've explained what medical conditions Garner had, and I've explained to you the key events of the arrest and why it went down the way it did. I can't assist you any further with understanding those things unless you'd like to take a college level anatomy course, practice martial arts for a year or two and successfully go through a 10 week police academy course. I don't have time to teach you all of those things. You can go off on a tangent about what kind of a person he was, or how some cops in America have become corrupt or how white or rich people get treated better all you want. You're just wasting everyone's time since none of that actually has anything to do with the take down of Eric Garner in the video.

No, you weren't wrong, because that's the fact of it. Now its debatable that you were being presumptuous, but the particular group of people responsible for the majority of terror attacks over the last 30 years happen to be younger Muslim men who follow the religion of Islam in a way their parents did not. That's no fault of yours, just don't confuse that fact with the rednecks who think all Muslims are terrorists. They aren't. Oddly enough, this group of people seem to be of the younger generation, something people such as Richard Dawkins (ethologist, evolutionary scientist) and Maajid Nawaz (ex-terrorist, current Islamic reformist) have pointed out in various TV interviews about religion. The kids are more susceptible to radicalization based on observational findings.

But the people don't. Director Francis Ford Coppola was on TV today and said something to the effect of 'Islam used to be a beautiful religion of peace and love.' People will tend to believe a guy like him. He was the director of the famous Godfather movies. He's a man of high stature. He's also wrong. Islam follows the teachings of Mohammed. He was not a peaceful person. He was a conquering warlord who spread the faith by the sword, quite successfully, I might add. He encouraged people to attack unarmed merchant caravans to pillage and loot, he cut off heads of dissidents and apostates, and he made a six year old his first wife. People who comment on religions on TV are often people who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about, or are devout followers of it. Very rarely do you get insight from somebody who has studied religions as a scholar while maintaining a scientific atheist point of view.

It wasn't illegal. There is no statute in New York law that explicitly forbids what was done. Department policy is another story. The police and Garner debate the arrest for minutes prior to physical contact, and it was explained the man who bought off of him walked away. Garner just denied it. This kind of comment from you is what has me convinced you either didn't watch the video, or you're only looking at what you want to see. I'm leaning towards the latter, now. Google is your friend, as they say. I'm not turning in a term paper to someone. I don't need to give you a works cited list. This stuff is very easy to find.

Spawn body guards, attack a police station, gang area or army barracks.

I gave you a source: The link to the video. If you watch it in its entirety, and you know anything about police work, it stands on its own. The camera doesn't lie.

You can refuse to accept my argument all you want, that's your prerogative. I'm not going to waste my time anymore as I've made my points, repeatedly, and I'm obviously not going to convince you of anything. The bottom line is you're not listening to what I'm saying. I can only hope that other people reading this took the time to properly read and understand my points, rather than continually attributing Garners fate to police harassment and trying to victimize him despite the legitimate proof (video tape) of him resisting arrest and saying he's not going to jail.

Yesterday, London police arrested a man on board a subway in London who stabbed three passengers with a large knife. One man was severely injured and hospitalized, the other two victims received only minor injuries. All three victims are expected to live. Prior to attacking, the suspect shouted "This is for Syria!" before flailing away at random people. Passengers pelted the suspects with bottles before police arrived on scene. The suspect lunged at police before being tased multiple times, only letting the knife go upon the final tase. Police were then able to take him into custody. The last few seconds of the resistance against police was captured on cell phone video: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/london-underground-knife-attack-caught-on-tape The motive for this incident is being investigated, but it is speculated that it is due to the stepped up bombing efforts by the British against ISIS targets. The last recorded extremist attack in London was back in May of 2013, when an off duty soldier was stabbed to death. My condolences to the victims. I hope the British people stand in solidarity with France and America, and refuse to be intimidated.

You need to answer all of the questions you posed to yourself up above before you can consider getting a pet. A German Sheppard is not a dog you leave alone for a prolonged period of time, or have in a small space. It has a ton of energy that it needs to release every day through playing or performing a work task. If you have too much work to do, and you live in an apartment where it won't have a room of its own and wide open space to roam around, then its the wrong dog for you. Dogs that can be left alone and are low energy are largely in the terrier family. Examples of bigger or more masculine dogs you can leave alone in a smaller space would be: -Bulldogs (both American and British) -Great Danes (Scooby Doo! A dog I'm considering for myself in the future) -Akitas (Cousin of the Husky that doesn't bark as much but the apartment must be air conditioned, as they are built for cold temperatures, and will overheat easier than other dogs) -Bullmastiffs I recommend all of these dogs for single males who live in an apartment or house because they are nice, friendly, easy-going dogs that appear as though they can protect you, potentially making someone approaching you with ill intentions while walking your dog a lot less likely, or a home invasion a lot less likely. They still have energy to expend, but not nearly as much. Great Danes are very lazy. They enjoy lying around and they are nick-named the worlds largest lap dogs because they for some reason behave as though they are much smaller than they actually are. Ironically the Great Danes were bred as war dogs, meant to be large enough to take down infantry men, but all of the aggression has been bred out of them, so you have something that looks like it will gladly fight any human, but turns out to be exactly like Scooby Doo himself.

The correct measures to take in the middle east need to be a movement of the people. People are not motivated to challenge theology concepts that spur this terrorism. They're motivated to be scared of a non-existent small groups of radical Muslims. The citizens of the United States and other western countries are mislead by politicians and political pundits that the ideas that promote this kind of behavior are fringe. They aren't. Terrorist militias may have small numbers but they have an unending pool of replacements because their way of thinking isn't incomprehensible. This fact needs to be pointed out by people at the top level of our society. The military can only do so much without backing from the people. Otherwise most people will incorrectly think we'd be charging into another pointless war against people who we shouldn't be at odds with. I wholeheartedly agree with you that not enough (if any at all) Middle Eastern countries are standing up against extremist groups that not only cause problems all around the world, but even kill their own kind for not following the Qu'ran to the letter. Part of this is due to the fact that there isn't any motivation. They have no backing from their governments, because western countries aren't confronting them about the source of these problems. Countries should not run under Shariah Law. That might have worked in the bronze age when these books were written, but it's not applicable in 2015. Women should have basic human rights. Young people should be able to peacefully protest or assemble themselves for rallies against government policies if they so desire, without the penalty of being crucified alive, then beheaded. We can attack terrorist groups all we want, but the only two ways to completely solve this would be a war of attrition that we couldn't possibly win, or confront the middle eastern governments and the citizens they rule over with the truth. It all starts with turning people in the west towards that same truth first. With that knowledge, there will be motivation from the people to implement economic policies against countries that mistreat their citizens in the name of theology, and motivation to take more serious military action against countries or terrorist groups that repeatedly attack us or our allies.

What will it accomplish, you ask? We need to be able to identify a disease before we work on a cure. The common misconception or cop out answer is that these people are simply crazy and nothing more. That's simply not true, it comes from their own theology specifically. Killing Isis troops won't accomplish anything because this religion contains 1.5 billion people. There will be infinite reinforcements as such. Attacking people will do no good. We need to have the rest of the world confront the ideology head on and then empower moderate Muslims who do wish to reform the faith for the 21st century by giving them whatever resources they need. Money, books, internet access, and open denunciation of supposed allies such as Saudi Arabia. If we are to go back to the medical analogy I started with at the beginning of this reply; we are currently treating the symptoms, not the cause.

There's a mod that opens areas you can enter during certain missions that might work, but you'll get a wanted level that you can't get rid of if you set foot in there. G17's also already teased a working police station.

Really sorry to hear. All of your picture links are broken, by the way. Nobody saw where the getaway truck went? I'd imagine the FSB would be on this considering the amount of money stolen.

The FBI and CIA have been and still are tracking plenty of people, but unfortunately these two were not among them. Despite how irritating these attacks are, the best way I can spin it is this: There's a great quote from the movie 'The Recruit', which is about a new recruit to the CIA (Collin Ferrel and Al Pacino, go see it, great film). Pacino's character says of the CIA: "Our failures are known, but our successes are not." I'm quite confident that for every successful Islamic inspired terror attack on U.S. soil, our government has likely foiled tens if not hundreds hundreds of others. There's not much the average citizen or the police could have done to better prepare for this situation anyway. We can't all walk around in flak jackets and carry our own assault rifles 24/7 and report people with brown skin for being reclusive. That's no way to live life. Unfortunately, our "white privilege" phobia teaches a lot of us to ignore things we probably shouldn't, such as the U.P.S. driver for that neighborhood not reporting a strange amount of packages being delivered to the suspects house for fear of infringing on someones privacy, or the neighbors for not reporting suspicious activity for fear of appearing bigoted, or the suspects relatives and friends trying to cover up their concern for the suspects will to strictly keep to themselves. The director of the F.B.I. is encouraging Americans to report things like this now, and to not be afraid of appearing racist. And he's right. Ultimately people need to be able to point out problems with behavior regardless of skin color. These events certainly aren't limited to one ethnic or religious group. Today in Boston, somebody planted a backpack next to a homeland security SUV parked outside a federal building and walked away. The Boston Police had to shut down a section of the city for hours, and then detonate the backpack after picking it up with a robot. The guy who did it turned out to be a local criminal, Caucasian, well known to police, and he was arrested at gun point in Lawrence, further north later in the evening. Luckily it was a hoax bomb. Nobody knows why he did it as of yet. But as was the case with the Christian Planned Parenthood gunman the other week; being a sh*t head transcends all races colors and creeds. My biggest problem with the U.S. and perhaps even the entire western world right now is that we're not taking terrorism committed in the name of religion seriously enough, which unfortunately is predominantly influenced or committed by the Muslim parts of the world. The theology at play here needs to be discussed honestly, without fear of appearing racist. None of the problems we face today are going to be solved until that happens.