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And most importantly, minimal drama (if your playing with them is a minor part of your friendship, you're unlikely to run into the sort of issues that clans can produce so easily).

For explorers, do they use the cuffs themselves, or do they just carry them so the sworn officers can ask them for spares if they run out? I was under the impression that explorers had no enforcement authority and aren't directly involved in arrests (so an explorer wouldn't be going up to anyone and putting handcuffs on them, even with a police officer supervising).

Because ISIS, the Crusades, and Obama's comparison of the two is what this thread is about. I know this thread has gone all over the place (at least half of it is really off-topic), but this particular direction is at least related to the topic.

Is zmod export more flexible, or how did this mod even get made?

How do I know you're not planning on committing an act of terrorism? What about my roommate? My best friend? My siblings? My dog? If you go by "I don't know everyone from X group is not a terrorist because I can't know what's going on inside their head," you have to realize that that argument applies to literally every single group whose members are physically capable of committing a terrorist act that you are not a member of. Every one. The only person who you can be sure isn't a terrorist is yourself. Your statement is akin to "I have no way to know that everything isn't just a hallucination of mine and that I'm not just a brain in a jar." You could use it as a jumping-off point for a philosophical argument about the limits of knowledge about other people's state of mind, but that's not really what this thread is about, nor is it how you seem to view the statement. If you actually think that the claim says something about Islam, then that opinion deserves absolutely no respect. "I can't prove group X isn't bad because I can't know what someone else is thinking" has no bearing on if group X is good or bad, because it applies equally well to every human being besides yourself.

I'd be curious to know if this is backed up by statistics, or if it's just that the banner being applied to attacks makes it seem as though attacks are more frequent than they are. I have seen studies suggesting that a number of things (e.g. suicides) tend to increase when the media covers examples of them, but enhanced media coverage also tends to make people think the rate of something is more than it really is. It also isn't necessarily accurate to say "these things are under the ISIS banner, so they were inspired by ISIS and wouldn't have happened without it." If you want publicity, and have any sympathy towards ISIS, going under the ISIS banner will increase your publicity.

You may not be able to talk about whether a decision was good or bad without turning it into a partisan slugfest; however, that doesn't mean no one else is able to separate one decision from all of the baggage associated with an entire philosophy of government. If you can't talk about this without turning it into "liberal vs. conservative," then stop posting in this thread. Anyone who can is free to keep participating.

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Lingering side effects from that time the military led them into a total war in an attempt to conquer their neighbors that ended with nuclear attacks on their cities and occupation by a foreign military, which military also essentially drafted the current Japanese constitution. Germany had similar provisions until they amended their constitution, for similar reasons; their amendments still restrict what their military can do, but seem to generally be more permissive than Japan's.

A bit of hockey broke out at the end.

Because "paramilitary" isn't really up to the standard of military, as a rule. Paramilitaries can range from full military-style training to just giving a rifle to everyone in the country in a certain age range and telling them "you're in the militia." Especially if they have around a quarter of the whole country in the paramilitary, I would be wary about considering it an effective fighting force.

Nope. That chart counts reserve and paramilitary personnel, neither of which are considered part of a standing army. "Standing army" refers exclusively to full-time military personnel who will serve in times of peace as well as war (what the US calls "active duty"). Militias and paramilitaries do not qualify, and neither do reserves. Now, if you choose to interpret "standing army" as referring exclusively to ground forces (the whole NK military is the KPA, as opposed to the US which has five branches), I think NK does edge out the US (the Army and Marines together have only around 750k, while the NK army has a bit over 900k); counting air forces, the numbers are around the same between the two (a bit under 1.1 million); counting navies, the US is several hundred thousand more than NK (and if we're counting air forces, you should probably count the US Navy's aviation personnel). The Chinese army's ground forces are around 1.6 million active personnel, which means that the PLA is the biggest standing army by any definition of "army." NK probably has a larger standing army than the US, but has a smaller standing military.

Honestly, I think most jobs have bits of it.

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AFAIK, Shomrim is also unarmed. It turns out that if you're recruiting people to keep an eye our for crime, the very last thing you want is people thinking they're actually like cops; giving members weapons and having them patrol for crime makes them ore likely to try to stage an armed intervention, which is not a good thing for a neighborhood watch group (keeping in mind that the role of a neighborhood watch group is to provide eyes and ears, not to actually directly stop crime, and yet it's more likely to have the kind of members who want to be cops but aren't qualified for the job). I have no problems with passing out CC applications; that's just encouraging people to exercise their rights. The problem comes when you try to set up an armed neighborhood watch group; there's a reason those groups tend to say that even members who have firearms licenses can't carry while they're on shift.

The installer will not be 65 GB. Installers make heavy use of compression to minimize file size, much more so than in the installed game (in the installed game, things need to be able to be quickly read into memory; in the installer, you aren't expecting it to be instant, so you can optimize for space efficiency (when running the game, you need to be able to access resources quickly and read lots of stuff into memory quickly, so you might put the same thing in multiple places or use low/no compression; when installing, you're decompressing *everything*, so you you don't need random access and don't need to duplicate stuff). Also, 65 GB is far from instant installation. A single-layer DVD holds 4.7 GB; a dual-layer holds 8.5. You'd need 8 dual-layer DVDs or 14 single-layer DVDs to *hold* a 65 GB game; not only would reading 65 GB take quite a long time (longer with the dual-layer disks, they read much slower than single-layer), you'd have to constantly monitor the process to swap out the disk at least 7 times. Steam lets you queue a download and not have to worry about it anymore.

Don't use actual CAD software; it's optimized for a fundamentally different purpose than Zmodeler, 3ds max, or the like. CAD software is designed to create a model in order to represent an actual thing being manufactured in the real world. It doesn't care about minimizing polygon counts; what's most important is storing actual measurements of the sort that are used in manufacturing (e.g. it'll store a hole as "hole, here, this deep and this wide" instead of as a bunch of polygons), because its destiny is to be converted to technical drawings or (oftentimes) directly to commands send to CNC manufacturing equipment. That means that no consideration whatsoever is given to things like maximizing detail and minimizing polygons; accuracy is crucial, while demand on systems is generally sort of irrelevant (CAD software is often run on workstations, which are just about the most powerful computers that exist that are designed to be used by a single person sitting at the computer; cost is not a factor). It's not designed to produce a model as an end result for use in a game; it does not optimize for that.

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You were wearing a police badge in public. I'm not sure if that technically counts as impersonation in New York or if it's grounds to confiscate the badge (you should talk to a lawyer about that), but it's really not a very good idea to wear a police badge if you aren't a cop, and as a practical matter I'd expect to get stopped if you're doing it.

EFLC has (and IV supports) 10 police land vehicles (police, 2, 3, 4, b, noose, fbi, polpat, pstock, nstock), and 2 other emergency land vehicles (ambulance, firetruck), for 12 lights-and-sirens-enabled vehicles. V seems to add 5 (transporter replaces pstock, riot replaces nstock, unmarked cruiser replaces noose, FBI SUV replaces polpatriot, sheriff cruiser replaces police4, to which we add sheriff SUV, lifeguard, park ranger, and 2 North Yankton cars).

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Check your history. The UN forces absolutely did take over most of North Korea, until Chinese forces intervened. The Korean War was not one-on-one; it was UN forces consisting largely (but not entirely) of American and South Korean troops against North Korean and Chinese troops with Soviet advisers and pilots.

A Swede who knows absolutely nothing about what you're like as a person is not going to help a petition. The things that would support a petition for pardon or expungement or relief would most likely be people who know you personally but would not be expected to automatically support you, who can speak to your character, and who themselves are, for lack of a better phrase, upstanding citizens (while a felony conviction need not exclude someone from that group, and the whole point of the petition is that it doesn't, you know what I mean when I say "upstanding citizens"). For instance, an employer might make a good reference. Incidentally, further searching turns up this, where the ATF says that it's been delegated the authority to act on firearms relief petitions, but Congress has prohibited it from spending any money on reviewing or acting on petitions. So while the gun control laws allow for relief petitions, the government can't actually do anything one way or the other on them (as that takes money, and they can't spend money like that). So in practice, you'd probably have to get expungement or pardon, from the state where you were convicted of the felony. To be blunt: The chance that you will get an armed job is very small. If the military is in need of personnel, you might be able to enlist. The odds of a relief petition are low (unless there's a major change in the politics of the matter that gets Congress to let the government start giving them); other than that, pardon and expungement are the only possibilities for a non-government job, and you still have an uphill battle convincing people to take on the liability of having a convicted violent felon on their payroll and issued a gun. What you should do is start looking at broader career fields. That's a good idea anyways (it's not like anyone's guaranteed a police or security job), and plenty of people find such jobs extremely rewarding; it's also one of the best ways to convince people you're a productive member of society, which is something you'd like to establish.

I assume you mean 18 USC §922(g)(1)? (§921 is just definitions) Strictly speaking, that wouldn't actually bar you from police work - §925(a)(1) says that nearly all of the prohibitions don't apply to firearms issued for the use of a government department or agency. It doesn't exempt in the case of domestic violence misdemeanors, but that's the only class of person who a government agency can't issue a gun to (incidentally, domestic violence *felonies* can be exempt; if you slap your spouse, the government can't issue you a gun, but if you murder your spouse, that's just fine as far as §925(a)(1)'s concerned). You can also petition the Attorney General for relief, or failing that petition a federal district court. It's not the fact that law bars you from carrying a gun that *formally* bars felons from being cops (a police agency might in practice deny you in the belief that it does, but it doesn't, and they could legally hire you even if they think they couldn't). It's that a police department isn't likely to *want* to issue a gun to someone when carrying it requires them to fall into a special exemption in federal law. The military might do it if they really need personnel (that's probably the origin of the section, actually), but a police department doesn't want to find itself on the spot defending its decision to give Officer Jones a gun when it was a federal crime for anyone *besides* the government to give Jones a gun. For that matter, no police department wants to find itself explaining why it hired a convicted felon if there's a big media blowup about an allegation of excessive force by them (even if you specifically won't be involved with excessive force complaints, and they probably expect you won't or they wouldn't hire you, they still have to worry about if you are involved). Or, and this is something all cops *are* involved in, if a defense attorney mentions the officer's criminal record when there's a question about credibility (while assault doesn't make you more likely to commit perjury, a jury might act like it does). So yeah, you're absolutely correct that a police hire for a convicted felon, especially for a violent felony (or a felony involving misrepresentation; don't try to become a cop if you're a convicted perjurer). Just the reason is a bit different :P