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They've actually done studies on this. The brain actually works differently in ultra-high stress situations such as a firefight. Combine massive adrenaline running through your system, with extreme tunnel vision (sometimes, people simply don't notice anything except the suspect's gun; an officer whose mind can't process their torso can't hit it), and the need for instant action, and you get bad shooting.

I had a friend who was gay. I say "had" because he committed suicide, which they believe was a result of anti-gay bullying. Words can, in fact, seriously hurt people.

Who cares if he thinks he won? Let him live out his sad little fantasies. You son't have to reply to trolls. You don't lose an argument by not replying; there was no argument to lose in the first place. Ignore him. Google can block him, but I think they normally don't for offensive comments (in Germany, for example, it might be a different matter). If he PMs you, it can count as harassment. Try reading this page for more details.

A kid at a nearby high school forgot his backpack at a counterprotest (the Westboro Baptist Church protested the name of the school, so the students counterprotested outside the school). The police blew it up. Try explaining THAT to a teacher: "The cops exploded my homework."

In that case, the company that owns the music can take a chunk of the revenue that would otherwise go to you.

Normal Youtube URLs, when copy/pasted (at least in the plaintext box, not sure about rich text), embed the video.

I've never had this issue. You're sure they're installed to the right skin names? (xxx_sign_1, xxx_sign_2, etc.; replace xxx with the appropriate thing)

LMS and I figured this out (well, LMS did after I asked). If you aren't using multiplayer, block *outbound* connections from GTA IV or EFLC in your firewall (or just block them entirely). What's happening is that it's trying to talk to Rockstar's servers for RGSC stuff. Rockstar's servers are slow, hence the delay. We think the reason it's happening more now is GTA V related.

OpenIV's model viewer will only ever show the first livery; multi-livery support is not built in to OpenIV. To view any others, you have to go ingame.

Based on what I can tell, the officer absolutely should have shot him; it was the right call, among a lot of unenviable options. If you're holding something designed to look like a gun, you want to make it completely clear that it *isn't* a gun. If a cop draws a gun on you and issues orders, you follow them. If you point something that looks like a gun at a cop, he has to decide whether he is willing to risk death on the off chance it's a fake. The cop didn't shoot a guy with a BB gun. The cop shot someone with what was apparently a rifle. He had literally no way of knowing it was a fake; there's a reason self-defense law doesn't ever worry about whether someone was an actual threat to your life (the standard is that a reasonable person in your position would *think* there's an imminent risk of death or grievous bodily harm; the standard is never that such a risk actually exists).

Is that email still functioning with the site down?

This. Shooting a kid is never right. It can be, at best, the least bad option.

Do you mean that you're done with your high school classes, so you're taking classes at the college instead? I have a relative who did that for her senior year - she left high school after her junior year and had her freshman year of college, after which she got her high school diploma (not that it mattered at that point, as she was already in college).

That's not what he's saying. He's saying he wants to install it on a virtual machine for testing purposes. That's a very well-established way to try out stuff without messing up your computer: install it on a VM, and if it's good, install it directly. If it's bad, just delete the VM; you don't have to worry about reverting any changes, which is the advantage.

Depends what you're talking about. The LCPDFR computer triggers off the IV computer, to the best of my knowledge, so it wouldn't work in other seats. It'd require an edit to LCPDFR to make it work, and I don't think such an edit is likely in the cards.

Kids, *do* protest if you want to. Don't riot, but protest all you want. The ability and right to peacefully protest is fundamental to democracy.

Monuments under federal jurisdiction have to be maintained, secured, and served. For example, if someone is hiking around the Grand Canyon and gets hurt, they need to be rescued. Maintaining that costs money. Around the Statue of Liberty (and Ellis Island; they're part of the same national monument), you need a lot of park police, and a lot of staff to keep everything relatively clean, staff to repair things that are breaking, EMTs, park rangers, tour guides, facilities costs (all those guys need to be supplied). Running big operations is expensive. $15,600,000 a year or so isn't actually unreasonable for a giant operation; on average, it's about $4/visitor (the monument sees 4 million visitors a year).

Currently in college, considering applying to work with the IT department as a student tech.

While this is apparently raw (so compression would work), any normal video format normally compresses extremely poorly. Once data is compressed once, further compression does little, and can even make the file slightly *bigger*.

I'm not that familiar with Canada; what department would I go to to suggest that all Canadian TV networks spend their whole budgets on making that a sitcom?

If the US defaults, other countries would be much, much less likely to loan to it in the future. This would force the US government to resort to printing more money (causing inflation; that's one way massive inflation and worthless currency happens) or, y'know, spend within the money collected from taxes (yeah, right). I'm not sure if creditors could technically repossess US government property, but good luck trying (as a general rule, don't piss off nuclear powers). Even if the US defaulted, it could still issue currency. The value of the currency would go down, but they could still print money to pay soldiers. Remember, the US literally has a license to print money. Or, if the whim should strike (it often does), the US may legally just declare itself to have more money. The Fed can loan to banks by just saying "You have X dollars now".

Except Congress still got paid. The shutdown didn't affect any money that's subject to permanent appropriation; that's why Social Security was unaffected. It only affected money that has to be reappropriated every year. Congressional salary isn't in that category; while most appropriations say "pay Y money out of the Treasury for fiscal year XXXX", members of Congress are paid under law that just says "pay Y money out of the Treasury". Even if Congress wanted to eliminate its own pay during the shutdown, it's probably unconstitutional to do so: The 27th Amendment, proposed with the Bill of Rights (yeah, it took ~200 years to ratify), says that any adjustments to congressional pay take effect starting in the next term; Congress can't change its pay for the current term (this is to discourage Congress from voting to give themselves ALL TEH MONEYZ; if they did so, they could be voted out before they had a chance to collect).

Er, yes, people have predicted that, but they aren't necessarily the sorts of people you should look to for actual analysis. The people who say things like "the US will break into states" generally have somewhat tenuous grasps on reality. This IS that far-fetched; people in the US overwhelmingly think of themselves as Americans, not as residents of their states (Texans are an exception, not the rule). This isn't like Scotland in the UK. As for the US defaulting on debt, the US debt-to-GDP ratio is lower than a LOT of other countries (including, by the way, the UK). As of now, the US can issue debt at very low interest rates. When debt comes due, they can issue more debt to make up for it. In the small scale, the US does repay all its debt; they just do it by issuing more. However, because the debt is repaid to individual creditors, there isn't serious risk in loaning the US money. The greatest risk of default is if Congress refuses to issue more debt, not that there will be a shortage of buyers.

Yeah, no. It's really REALLY REALLY that the US collapses soon, but it will not last forever. I don't mean "well, humans will go extinct eventually": so far, there have been untold numbers of civilizations, many of which lasted WAY longer than the US has so far, that collapsed. That said, @c13: In the whole history of the US, how long do you think we *weren't* in debt? The answer is "under a year, between 1835 and 1836". Other than that year, the US has been in debt. Around a third of the $17 billion is money the US government owes to itself. Of the rest, about half is owed to entities within the US. The US doesn't have that much foreign debt, especially compared with GDP. The numbers are big, but the US GDP is twice that of any other country in the world (unless you consider the EU to be a country, which I don't, at least not yet). Back to topic: I know a lot of people whose parents will be very happy because of this.

I play almost unmodded. I change the siren (I HATE the default siren, to the very core of my being), but use default cars, no ENB, default weapons, default peds (sometimes I use ped mods, but even when I do, the bits and pieces are basically all pulled from R* peds, so low-poly). I play with LCPDFR, Police Helper, Tow Service, and METT, with the appropriate Speedo mod for METT, the METT peds, and the body bag. That's it; it's pretty low-modded, and the mods are generally not resource-intensive, as they aren't high-poly. I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of people who play LCPDFR do so unmodded. Modding is somewhat complicated, while LCPDFR has an installer to make it easy. Most people active here do more modding, but most people who play LCPDFR are probably not active here. I'd be surprised if the majority of LCPDFR players used other mods.