Ok, you ask kids to dress as bad guys. A kid dresses up as Hitler. I can't see what he did wrong.

I guess next time it should be "sort of naughty but not too much" theme day?

The real issue here is people walking around with a chip on their shoulder looking for reasons to be offended. If you bend over to them, next thing you know you'll have to live in a bubble.

I wish somebody nearby would ask for the right to build a small chapel as well, just to see what the response would be. I don't know Scottish law and whether they have a 1st amendment situation there so it may not matter either way. On the other hand, it may actually have to do with the character of the land, we have a planning commission in a city that disapproves anything that isn't of the old "bavarian" style architecture for shopping and retail centers.

So when do they have a day of prayer for the victims of the Catholic Church? i guess it would have to be much more than a day.

it never ceases to surprise me that we still have so many people seriously following ideas made up by desert nomads thousands of years ago. In any area other than religion, if I asked you to do things the way they were done in 0 AD, you'd laugh or ask me what the last mushroom I ate looked like. But in the realm of religion, it seems that any idea is taken seriously. How does the Catholic Church have any moral authority to say anything about victims of sex abuse, or any other kind of abuse? We're not just talking about an institution who has repeatedly supported child sexual abuse by their own clergy, but who has come up with some of the most exquisite methods of torture ever devised by man, and used them liberally to "help save the souls of the perverted and sinful".

I agree. But first , scrape some skin off his penis,get a bottle of hot sauce and douse it on his penis and when he yells in pain,ask him why he didn't just keep his legs together. THEN shoot him.

The CTO posted a reply (interesting):

This is Charlie. I met the CEO (not sharing his name, though it is in this thread) through his brother in law, Jay. Jay worked with me at a prior company. He was a data scientist and factual. He mentioned his brother in law came to Silicon Valley to do a startup having made some money as an investment banker. As we talked, the CEO stated he is putting in $2M to fund the startup in November. In December, with $400k or so in the company with the rest coming, we started to build. We grew steadily till about April with a prototype. At which point, the CEO kept mentioning money was coming and with a few different reasons on why it did not arrive. I bridged May and June. As the stories piled up, I started to ask more pointed questions. I met Bernie, the lawyer who was real. Bernie has an office with Montgomery McCracken in NYC. I insisted the CEO to fly twice to NYC to meet with Bernie and resolve the funding issue. On the last trip, he claimed he got a $500k loan from his lawyer, Bernie, and his cousin, Tommy. The last payroll with ADP was made. I did not find out till the beginning of August that the money for the last payroll came from one of the employees. I thought there was $500k available starting July. It became apparent it was not available shortly thereafter. In July, Penny joined. We went through more stress at the company with the CEO stating every other week money was coming from a variety of sources – a line of credit from Mackie Research due to his personal connections, his money making it over, and different investors. None of it came to pass. In August, I thought it better to let some of developers go as there was no funds to pay them and ask the other ones not to come to work until money is in the bank. An investor did come in that allowed us to make July’s payroll a month late. I did not see any of the wire transfer confirmations till later as I was showed by a couple of the employees. I did not get a confirmation personally. The team was paid for that wire transfer (July). In August, I tried to validate his story with his brother in law with no success. I was not able to corroborate any of his story after contacting his educational institution and prior institutional employer. This lack of trust came to a head a week ago and we parted ways. The current story from the CEO right now is that the team will get paid for August on Monday to Wednesday this week. I have no idea if it is true. To this day, I don’t understand the game plan from the CEO. Why accelerate into a brick wall? None of it makes sense. I am currently out the bridge, expenses, August office rent and back pay. It never occurred to me, till too late, that somebody would misrepresent so much of his story. For being naïve and believing in the dream, I am truly sorry.

I see, so value is relative to whatever is valued at the time, such as now. That value is what, may I ask, stability? I might add that some may think the current policies have wiped out the poor and middle class, but that's just what some fringe people might be reading.

Yes, I read both of those before, which is the complication. Both words are, have been used for many years. The pre-junta group don't want to legitimize a name change that a military government made to throw off the old colonial name, which was a name, Bama, used prior to the Brits in spoken language. Once a legitimate government is put in place, they may want to ask the people of that country what name they would like to be called, since it seems two regimes, one colonial and one a military dictatorship didn't think to ask.

Sounds like he's just grasping at straws in order to push his agenda to me.

That's the problem I have here. I approve of Assange's work in the past. If he does actually have something incriminating to show us then I want to see it. It's the dog and pony show I'm having a problem with. I have no problem with Assange leaking information that reveals criminal activity. Guilty people should not be protected by secrecy even if they're on "my side." The problem I have is that Assange has been playing coy with this leak for months now and appears to be motivated more by political activism than reverence for the truth.

Let the truth come out. Reveal the information or stop talking about it.

All we had to do was ask Russia about this, Russia too wasted years there and left with nothing to show for it.

The question Hello Games (or whoever makes this decision) is probably going to ask themselves is whether or not those people make up a large enough part of the customer base to justify spending more developer time on (in their mind) making free content; regardless of whether or not it was presented as being part of the product in the first place.

"If a bully hits you, son, you just ask him: 'Please stop hitting me!' That'll work every time."

Have you guys heard of deflation? Maybe you can give a call to your former allies (Japan) and ask them how that's worked for them.

I think you responded in the wrong thread. But, that's OK, because we are on the same page, so to speak.

Great article.

"In the case of marijuana, this approach is flawed and not supported by scientific research."

That's pretty much the case for every single position the government takes regarding cannabis. They are so ignorant that it stuns me when people recite government propaganda. I just look at them and ask if they have lost their fucking mind?

Asks? Emperors do not ask, they tell.

Sure, but the state of mind someone has to be in in order to ask such a question, and multiple times at that! Even if it's just from a legal standpoint, I would figure the answer is obvious. Here is one, why can't we use chemical warfare to eradicate our enemies? I mean, it's way more effective than boots on the ground, we go in, deploy the gas, and watch everyone choke on their own lung juices like an exterminator in a room full of cockroaches. Simple, effective and undeniably cheaper than completely scorching everything.

Are you Muslim. Here's why I ask, Until there is an overwhelming Muslim response, a total and absolute fatwa and action that condemns this type of action and killing, you are a concern troll and nothing else.

Maybe the wrong place to ask, but I was wondering if Snapzu is independent? I hope you don't get me wrong, because I experience a near total freedom on this site. :-)

Let's ask Adelle...are you a feminist propagandist?

Don't ask me, ask Margaret Atwood!

Reminds me of a time asking an Australian friend why the outfits in Australian rules football are so revealing. She seemed surprised anyone would even ask, raised an eyebrow skeptically and said in stronger-than-usual somewhat-insulted Sydney accent “Why not‽”

As everyone is falling over themselves weeping over the dead officers I wonder just how stupid it is to have not seen this coming. And the police refuse to admit that their own actions are ever at fault and, indeed, promising to increase their military style law enforcement (to a large extent the very thing that is getting them shot) so the shooting will continue. Nervous, defensive officers will kill more innocent people and the public will be enraged to the extent that some desperate, horrified people will decide that the only thing they can do is fight back. The sad thing is that I think they are right. The white power structure will not and have ever listened to reason (just ask native Americans). It seems that all that will sway them is fear. I think the Black Panthers deserve more credit for the success of the Civil Rights bill. They scared the man and got listened to.

No, I don't. I know that it was somewhere in Baravia. That's something I need to ask him. He has a interesting story. On one occasion, he and a number of other POW's were sent into the nearby city to clean up after a bombing raid. As you can imagine, the locals didn't look too kindly on them. As he was working, the scapular that he was wearing came out from underneath his shirt. A nearby German woman saw it and asked him, "Katholisch?" He said, "Ja." Then she gave him a piece of bread.

Like a lot of folks, I want Clinton to be indicted for this. But I also talked to some similarly-minded lawyer friends about it. They made it pretty clear that there was both precedent in jurisprudence, and room in the law for interpretation, which allowed a decision to indict to hinge on the "intent" of the person being investigated - as long as the classified info was not given to, or taken by, outsiders. Since nobody came forward with evidence that her incredibly insecure servers were hacked, and because of the chance that evidence of such a hacking could be deemed top secret pending an investigation into the hacker(s), I gave up hope of an indictment. I didn't ask them about the DoS rules she broke, but I'm hearing that those are mostly punishable internally - firing, demotions, etc. - and since she doesn't work there anymore she's out of their reach.

Still, I'm not convinced she was ignorant of all of it (I think she thought that rules don't apply to her, a problem that will now continue), or that she wasn't hacked. And I think her defense, which boils down to "Sorry, I messed up. Computers are hard. Everybody used to do it.", is not the stuff of a good presidential candidate.

Really, really damned frustrating.

As if police victims' sentience had any effect on a cop's sentence, if any.

Ah, the Daily Star: an English language newsletter originally meant for oil industry employees and now pumped in viscous form into Anglosphere countries as if it were somehow local coverage.

Blinkered, willfully-ignorant reporting like this, of which we've come to expect ladle after steaming ladle at Snapzu, fails most in that by sensationalizing and surgically removing from context one apparent atrocity after another, it tacitly ignores atrocities and contexts that do not flatter their conceits.

It's one thing to frame events in terms your intended audience will understand, and quite another to pretend Sen. John McCain's Congressional foreign policy is self-consistent and sound.

Ask yourself, when exactly was it the U.S. entered the War on Terror on the side of Al Qaeda? Garbage reporting like this isn't going to get around to it. So take your time on working out that answer. Meanwhile, we can await our next regularly-scheduled mindless propaganda piece.