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...That's why EFF published that analysis...

 

Hey guys, if any of you were interested in playing a forum game, @Zebe has made a pretty great one. If you've ever played Werewolf, Town of Salem, or Mafia, you probably already know how to play.
Here's the link to the current sign-up thread.

 

Had a math test today, it went horribly... I would be depressed and post it in the therapy thread, if I didn't open Steam! Thanks to the mid week update, I can play Afterbirth! Yaaaaaay!

 

I find it smart that they make these shady ass laws with the most complex and obscure english and legal terms you can think of, so the average citizen would take about 10 minutes to digest a single sentence.

 

So I managed to get my free copy of Van Helsing Final Cut after a train wreck of bugs and duplicate steam key errors.
Now I have to deal with this game's long ass loading times.

 

PHRASING
Alternatively: u know it, bby

 

guys

 

i don't get it, who's codsworth

 

The butler robot in the trailers for FO4. The PC's name gets voice acted by Cod if it's on Bethseda's list of names.

 

...seriously? It has to be complex because it's a complex deal. It has to lay out exactly how it works so there's no room for misinterpretation. The people writing the deal need to know what it does too, why would they purposely make it confusing and make it harder for themselves to read?

 

Why would it be harder for them to read it? That's like asking why a jailer needs keys to the door to a prisoners cell, is it better to just remove the lock and have the door stay unlocked for easy use? No they want the prisoner inside. Everyone involved in the deal has the keys. Incompetence like "Oh fuck looks like we forgot what we meant!" doesn't happen, everything is deliberate, from the loopholes to the language. How that gets wielded will be seen.

Anyway, it looks like standard legalese from the bits I decided to read so far. A lawyer could probably decipher it into laymans terms easily. That's not going to stop the frustration over lack of transparency. When the official explanation for TPP is "Free trade", the common man is going to be understandably frustrated that not even the document can straight up tell them what's up, that's what's happening now.

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Anyone post this here yet?

 

Looking at space shit for ideas on possible inventions, and I started wondering

Is it proved that black holes generate absolutely no light? or do they generate light, but the immense gravity doesn't let the protons escape?

 

I don't think they produce their own light, captured light would probably stay in there as some kind of light ring though I'm thinking.

 

Yes, but since all of the protons would be captured by the black hole, we wouldn't be receiving any light information from the black hole, so to us there wouldn't be a ring.

Anyway, apparently vinesauce Joel's YouTube account and several of vinesauce admins have been hijacked by a script kiddie named towel, he's basically just been posting music on Joel's account to get copyright strikes and threatening to delete his channel, and on twitch he's been just permabanning shit tons of people.

I hate it when kids rent a fucking brute forcer and brute force peoples passwords, and then are dumb enough to actually brag about it.

 

*Rent a brute forcer with their parent's money

 

This is why I think older people should learn some basic tech stuff. I'm tired of helping out my mom for stuff that isn't even tech support. Every time her sound is messed up she calls me and apparently its just the speakers are turned off.

Also toolbars and other downloadable stuff that seem sketchy. DONT INSTALL THAT CRAP!

 

Well I mean the Russian's have their credit card info now so it's not long until they're in financial ruins anyway.

The thing with legalese is a lot of those terms have a very specific meaning in a legal context which does not necessarily correspond to a word/phrases usage in common parlance. One thing that comes to mind for instance is that evidence of something "beyond reasonable doubt" has very explicit legal implications as to what constitutes that.