Did you read the article? This was a head-on collision with an F-250. Bicyclists ride with flow of traffic, so that means that Somehow Probably Not Going Down for Murder 2 up there crossed into the oncoming lane and then some to kill the cyclist. That cyclist could have been driving in pretty much anything smaller…

Or maybe it’s kind of unintentionally awesome that someone who played and loved these games as a child, with the virtually unlimited free time they enjoyed then relative to being a working adult with a family, can enjoy them again. I haven’t tried any of the FFVII reduxes yet, but one of my favorite gaming experiences…

The better way to write a rule like this, and the way that any contract drafter or legislator would recognize, is as follows:

Of all the things to complain about, this is the dumbest one. Unless specifically talking about the distinction between clips and magazines, “clip” is understood to include detachable magazines. This is like complaining about people describing shell fragments as shrapnel or turning maneuvers as flanking. In almost all…

So your view is that the History and Moral Philosophy teacher, who is clearly a mouthpiece for the author and literally a mouthpiece for the state, explicitly referencing FASCES in his description of their government indicates that it is not fascist.

Did you read anything else I wrote here, because repeating myself to person after person is getting really old. To the extent the book describes anything, it describes a fascist government. From elsewhere in this thread:

I can see this car being really great if you love the feel of driving and the sound of driving, but find the sight of driving terrifying.

There is literally a long, didactic dialogue between Rico and Dubois illustrating Heinlein’s view that the appropriate way to maintain order was to flog, beat, torture and kill people who broke the law.

So your position is that roughly 75% of members of the U.S. Army are not engaged in “military service.” http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/09/27/no-… (relevant quote “for every service member in a combat or combat-support position, there were more than three service members in non-combat-related positions”). The fact that…

Government enforces its will through routine violence and only people that have “earned the right” to vote by completing a term of military service have any say in said government. Yes, that sounds exceptionally “libertarian.”

Cite please.

Yeah, but the judges gave that 1080 an average score of 9.7 (damn Latvian judge). He’s definitely going to medal in Rhythmic Carnastics.

Three questions.

Elaborate snorkel.

At that height and his likely usage, I’d say 10 years is optimistic for those knees. But hey, NBA owners are still probably richer because of the absurdly overlong season, so fuck this kid and the game, right?

I didn’t say that Vonnegut was anti-military, nor am I anti-military. My point is that Heinlein fetishized the military, at least in Starship Troopers, in a way that is not explained by his simply having been in the Navy. This isn’t some retired Lieutenant filling his stories with needless detail about weaponry or…

How is that inconsistent with what I wrote? Also, as I’ve repeatedly pointed out in the comments, there is no textual evidence that you could satisfy the service requirement with non-military service. Heinlein just threw that out there decades later. Not only is it unsupported by what he actually wrote, it’s actually…

Heinlein’s presentation of the Federation is clearly idealized. I think it is unlikely that any implementation of a similar system would find a large, comfortable civilian class. More likely, you would have a small, aristocratic/oligarchic class of industrialists who benefited from military contracts and government…

That’s an interesting theory except that Vonnegut volunteered, and prior to the outbreak of the war had been in ROTC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonn…

Verhoeven says on the commentary track that he tried to present fascism in the best possible light because he thought that was the most cutting criticism. You’ve got actual world peace, and an actual enemy to fight to justify the insane militarism, at the same time avoiding the uncomfortable problem of killing human…