Under Asset Forfeiture Law, Wisconsin Cops Confiscate Families' Bail Money

redcolumbine · 4 days

Seems like if a number of people were gathering money from the bank an such on each their own time, the money would have been withdrawn from several locations at many different times. Especially considering they would make withdrawals as checks cleared and funds became available.

redcolumbine · 4 days

Kill you'reself.

HolySponge · 4 days

This could have been a game breaker like 2 weeks ago, but now it's just a "feature" as you are limited in the amount of times per 30 minutes you can attack anyhow.

secaa23 · 4 days

The white supremacists have decided their violence is justified. They are individuals. Therefore, their violence is justified because they have decided it is justified, by your logic.

Maybe think this one out a bit more...

FatalMegalomaniac · 4 days

The CPU should be alright but the video card is just not capable. Sorry, but I just don't think it is possible. Even my dedicated card on my laptop struggles. There is no way an older Intel graphics card can do it. That's why I play on my slightly better desktop.

I wish I could help but there is nothing that can be done about that video card other than buying a new laptop. :(

fuzzybeard · 4 days

Which website are you talking about? Thinkprogress? Yeah, that's a liberal website. The one the article on there is talking about is not, and does not describe itself as liberal that I can see. Can you show me?

FatalMegalomaniac · 4 days

What are your computer stats. Can you give a bit more information. I'd like to help you if possible...

milesawayfromthesun · 4 days

If the taint of sin is upon you, you will be cast out of Gods presence.

Doesn't the whole "forgiveness" route kind of invalidate this? I mean you could murder 70,000 people and be a brutal dictator, but in your last days repent and be baptized and go to the higher levels. Higher potentially than the atheist who led a humble and good life, but denied god.

It seems ridiculous.

Also, I don't think you are shoving anything down anyone's throat. I asked; I won't be offended if you choose to answer.

vidyagames · 4 days

Funny. All the machines at the laundry mat I used recently had big red shutoff buttons right on the front.

-jackschitt- · 4 days

This was for a small doctor's office with no in-house IT. The Doc is about the only one with remote access besides us.

fuzzybeard · 4 days

Looking at the website right now....

Which part is the liberal part?

vidyagames · 5 days

They usually have a big red EMERGENCY SHUTOFF button.

-jackschitt- · 5 days

Hahaha this goes for business clients as well. I've found NSFW folders on our clients SERVERS before. Who fucking browses porn on a SERVER? How reckless is that.

Marine54 · 5 days

Modding support was not necessary for DayZ (or, more specifically, something like DayZ) to exist.

Whoa whoa whoa. Big 'IF' there. There is absolutely no way to know that. All we know is that Dayz was possible through mods, not the other way around. Without modding a game like this could have failed a couple dozen ways up the development and funding food chain before consumers ever got the chance to know it almost existed.

Marine54 · 5 days

You logic is so circular that I have to wonder if you are too stubborn to admit you are wrong or too arrogant to bother to re-evaluate your position.

If people want a zombie game that is only possible through modification of the base game, then people want "mods". It's as simple as that. Just because they are being granted their desire by that mod doesn't invalidate their need to have that mod possible. The two are inseparable, as they are one and the same.

You plainly state that people are buying the game for a mod and might be interested in mods later but argue that mods are not a selling point. I don't know what to say.

milesawayfromthesun · 5 days

A better question is, "Why is the devil evil"?

Do you know the answer?

milesawayfromthesun · 5 days

What does it mean to "deny God" in the sense you use it here? Like say he still doesn't exist after you see him and he does some crazy stuff that proves he is a god? Does it mean to continue to rebel against him even after that? That sounds just childish, that if you don't like him he'll take his toys and go home. Doesn't sound like any kind of god that warrants worship.

milesawayfromthesun · 5 days

Haha, that's a pretty direct answer.

milesawayfromthesun · 5 days

Are non-believers living in a hell, as they have seperated themselves from God? Are good believers living in a heaven? Can an evil person ascend to heaven through simply asking for forgiveness and really believing (a sort of loophole to modern Christianity)? Can good, non-believers ascend to heaven? What is the criteria, really?

Some serious questions here for a curious atheist. I have some follow-ups.

I'm trying not to set you up (I know that sounds bad) but old skeptical habits die hard.

Marine54 · 5 days

People playing Arma and looking to purchase Arma are interesting in the Zombie mod, the ACE mod, and the Project Reality mod. People don't really play the base game. None of these were made as DLC, or as expansions. You might think it's irrelevant, but they are technically mods and it is technically what the people want. So that makes me technically correct, the best kind of correct.

superstarcrasher · 5 days

"Humans suck so why bother?"

Its not really a counter-argument. One also has to wonder if the reader feels so negatively and apathetic about people then why even respond. Why be here in the first place.

Even if that were true, it certainly is an even bigger argument against capitalism. If we can't trust people in a system designed for cooperation and harmony, we damned sure better not unleash them into a system of brutal competition. That's begging for disaster!

Marine54 · 5 days

It used to suck because manually making symbolic links is a hassle, albeit a one time hassle. However now when you run Operation Arrowhead it makes those links for you. Pretty easy to just run that once and there you go.

Marine54 · 5 days

Mount and Blade Warband had two (?*) free mods turn into paid DLC that both sold very well, so this is untrue. The DLCs were funded and feature rich, and the established fanbase already knew what they were getting. Plus the DLC developers had gotten to essentially playtest ideas and screen the market first through the mod before they were committed to a funded product. Essentially they got to sell an already successful product to their fans as an upgrade for a nominal price. In the case of the Mount and Musket mod turning into the Napoleon Wars DLC, we see that the M&M players dropped off the face the earth almost overnight when the NW DLC was released as all those players immediately purchased and came over to the paid route, and then a whole slew of new players joined them as well. What did the company get? An established Intellectual Property with active fans and dedicated developers who have already done a lot of work on their own for free that they could turn around and monetize in a short time (a few months was all it took) to an almost guaranteed market. The developers won, the fans won, and there was much rejoicing.

*I think With Fire and Sword was a mod, but I can't remember the mod.

Marine54 · 5 days

This is pretty pendantic. They DID release it as a mod and therefore people ARe buying it because of the "mod" feature. Sure they would have bought the standalone. But they didn't develop it as such so trying to point out that angle is irrelevant.

Marine54 · 5 days

Arma2 has ACE which was carried over the first and Project Reality and now DayZ. All the 'Craft games have custom maps which essentially enable custom game modes. BF1942 had a couple of really good mods, including a wicked Vietnam one; the studio must have taken note because after it was popular they released a Vietnam expansion. Halflife had a TON that became full fledged games, from CounterStrike to Day of Defeat, Natural Selection, and Team Fortress. I'm leaving a bunch out there. Quake had a few, though I can't remember names. Jagged Alliance 2 had no mod support, but the base game is a shadow of the glory of the unofficial fan patch which re-does everything to AWESOME. The Elder Scrolls series always had mod support as a selling point since at least Morrowind. Mount and Blade: Warband is a good small company example. Tons of good mods of which two have turned into paid-for DLC.

Don't forget about all the non-commercial mods whose members used that experience and work in their portfolios to land jobs in the industry. On the flip side of this discussion, I don't think we could find one example of modding being a bad thing. Anyone care to try?

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