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I haven't played Saints Row 1, but is SR2 really shit compared to it? I mean, SR2 is an absolutely fantastic game, and from what I've heard of Saints Row 1, it's much more of a GTA-esque game, with a lot less of the ridiculousness that characterizes the Saints Row series (SR3 is, I agree, not good; SR4 is basically a different thing entirely with some of the same characters).

Fuzz remains my favorite policing game mode.

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Correction: To justify *conviction* on criminal charges. The standard to bring charges is probable cause, which is "a reasonable person would think that this thing (e.g. a charge that a person has committed a crime) is probably right". Reasonable doubt, to my ears, sounds like "No reasonable person could *possibly* think that there's any real doubt about this, besides extremely remote aliens-came-down-and-manipulated-evidence level doubts. If you have serious doubts about this, that's kind of weird." That's just me, though. The best way to think about it in legal terms is the standard of proof needed to send someone to prison - there's reasonable doubt about something iff you don't believe it strongly enough to be willing to send someone to prison over it (if it were illegal, that is). Outside of legal contexts, reasonable doubt just means "I think there's a chance this isn't right". In non-legal contexts, it doesn't have a formal meaning, just the standard combination of "reasonable" and "doubt".

Attempting to militarily defeat (i.e. defeat and occupy) a nuclear power is also not something one would expect a sane leader, especially not one who leads a nuclear power themselves, to do.

Either that, or someone will have to modify the GTA V cars to take templates. Rockstar does not use whole-car templates when they can avoid it; they try to do more memory-efficient ways (e.g. the IV police cars' stripe is not made with a texture, it's set to the secondary color which is set to blue; that's much more memory-efficient than using a texture), and while making a single texture covering the whole outside of the car is flexible, it's not needed for the simple designs used on GTA vehicles. Most likely, any texture that doesn't substantially resemble the GTA V default textures will simply not work without a model edit to change texture mappings. For instance, if you want to make the Interceptor use the Stanier's markings, you'll probably need to do such an edit to make it look right (as I'd bet that there's one POLICE decal on both sides, so just replacing that would result in a seal on the front door on one side and the back door on the other).

Source? The US active-duty military is larger than Russia's; the reserve is smaller, so Russia has more total troops, *but* Russia has conscription and the US does not, and the US has far more room to expand the military.

Japan also doesn't have that big a defense industry. Nor do they have a very large military, and the US provides a substantial amount of Japan's security. Well, by definition underestimating someone is a bad idea, but Russia is not in anywhere near the sort of position the Soviet Union was in. Not a chance. Many countries in Asia are very much not allied with each other. Russia and China are not allies; they are closer than they were in the Cold War, but tensions still exist. China and Japan have approximately negative chance of an alliance -- Japan has an alliance with the US (there are over 50,000 US troops in Japan, more than in any other foreign country), and Japan and China do not like each other. Russia and Japan are not allies in the slightest (Japan has among the highest percentages of the world of citizens who view Russia unfavorably). India has border tensions with China. In terms of superpowers, China might be becoming a superpower (though having power in the area around China does not make them a superpower; superpower requires global power, so you need to be able to have significant influence around the world); Russia is also a regional power, but as of now not a superpower; India is not a superpower, nor has it ever been (as it doesn't have anywhere near the requisite degree of global influence). Size alone does not make a country a superpower; the UK was a superpower in the era of the British Empire, although the UK itself is fairly small. Superpower status has to do with global (not regional) influence.

I think it's a common belief in the US that Russia and China are allied (maybe dating from the Cold War). As far as I know, this is very inaccurate -- they basically haven't liked each other since like 1960, but since neither one is a US ally (and both were communist states in the Cold War), people lump them together.

The US has about twice the population fit for military service that Russia has. Russia does *not* have a large population - it has only half the population of the US, with a dip at the teenage years (which is where people are entering an age where they could reasonably serve in the military). You may be confusing Russia with the substantially larger Soviet Union.

For future reference, a more helpful title would be something like "Door, wheels missing on car mod - why?", and more helpful post something like "On this car mod (video), the left rear door isn't showing up, and a few of the wheels aren't showing either. The car still drives normally. Any idea what the issue is?" It's best not to make people click a link to a Youtube video to view your problem.

Yes, just like there were interesting moments with the 0.91 helicopter, and are still interesting moments with the driving AI.

And threads merged. Please do not post two threads about the same topic.

I think ALM won't adjust liveries of vehicles closer to you than some cutoff distance. Traffic Spawner is probably spawning vehicles closer to you than that distance.

You're smarter than an 11-year-old. Congratulations on your amazing achievement. You must feel so proud to have bested a 6th grader in a battle of wits.

And saying his opinions on TV is literally his job; if he's saying things he shouldn't, that means he is failing at the primary component of his job.

Breaking news: 11-year-old does stupid thing he heard about, hurts self doing so. Sources suggest young boy "did not have the foresight and judgment of an adult; he acted impulsively, without carefully considering consequences". Are our 11-year-olds losing that mature, calm, and thoughtful decision-making ability for which children of that age have long been famed? Details at 11.

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He sued for libel, not slander, and the book was published in 2012 (so there's no way a lawsuit would possibly have started before then". Furthermore, the claim wasn't "he hurt my reputation by talking about this thing that happened" (truth is an absolute bar to any claim of defamation); the claim was "he made this story up in order to hurt my reputation", which is much more serious. Libel claims start with "this didn't happen, the person I'm suing said something false". Public figure libel suits start instead with "the person I'm suing lied, saying this as fact even though they actually knew it was substantially false or at least thought there was a good chance it was substantially false".

Let's see if it holds up on appeal (it's really hard for a public figure to sue someone in US court for libel; it takes an extremely high standard of "actual malice" to matter); but because libel in the US provides so many protections for talking about public figures, if it does hold up, I'd tend to believe it probably was libel.

False, I'm a useless bucket of meat. The user below me should really be in bed (as should I, probably).

False. The person below me will say a person below me thing that has basically appeared before in this thread.