Drunken Hobo

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Driving a car slowly into a very large crowd of angry people? That Darwin Award levels of stupidity. The discussion has been fairly sensible & most importantly non-partisan. Nobody's come out with any needless blaming of any particular group, rather there's a consensus that it's just a sad state of affairs brought about by an unwinnable situation.

A few people have mentioned the correct word - "media". With 24-hour news channels, the internet, newspapers & radio needing to fill so much time & space, they've got to invent their own news. How else are they going to sell their subscriptions & adverts? Media constantly do this, whether it's creating unfounded health scares (e.g. MMR, mobile phones) or glorifying mass-shootings (too many to list). It's a weird situation though, as I don't believe there are shadowy figureheads sitting in smoke-filled boardrooms, plotting what the days news will be. Rather, it's just the way that the media works, almost like a hive mind, and nobody wants to change it. Another "convenient" side-effect of riots such as these is that it drives a wedge between people. Black people are portrayed as fighting against the man. But it's the wrong man they're fighting against and just distracts them from the real reasons so many will spend their life in poverty. White people see the rioting as nothing but mindless savagery & thuggery. (Note: These are just generalisations, there will be blacks who condemn the riots & whites who support them.) There ends up being distrust between whites & blacks, further driving them into their own "communities" and creating enemies of each other. Whilst their true enemies sit back and laugh, knowing the proles are too busy fighting themselves to make any concerted attack on the elite. Divide & rule worked for rulers 2000 years ago, and it works for them today.

A new PC hasn't made much of a difference to download, but upload is considerably higher and I can actually download files at 10 MB/s without it committing seppuku.

It was hilarious at the start, but I began to lose interest when it went full pseudoscience. Just broke down into an incoherent babble (exactly the right word, TMS).

It could even be the exact opposite problem. Because ESA is made up of so many different countries they don't have the same sense of national pride that USA/Russia have, and don't need a flagship manned spacecraft. They have no problem in using others' equipment. Whereas it's pretty embarrassing for the USA to currently have no manned capsule and have to piggyback off of the Russians.

Always remember to scout around for discount codes too. I managed to get £20 off of my Medion PC from just typing "Medion voucher code" into Google. Either you'll spend a little less money or you'll be able to move up to a better PC on the same budget. Some shops also give student discounts, so you might want to check that out too.

Pfft, typical SJW trying to shut down debate. I agree, I was just joking. As others have said, it's a bloody shirt. In the context of a comet landing, it's not really an important detail. Although it is certainly amusing that the shirt was made by one of the guy's female friends. I think most people can agree though - the guy has absolutely terrible taste in clothing. It's kind of annoying there are more photos of the shirt than ones from the Philae lander. What's taking them so long?

The town where I live gets its name from the number of crows that inhabit it and I live about 100m away from their favourite nesting place, so I'm well experienced in crows! They seem to be one of the few birds that actually make noise for a reason, as if they're using it for communication rather than to just wake me up at 6am (stupid blackbirds). This is another good crow-related video:

Maybe if the consumer stopped pre-ordering, buying overpriced DLC & paying real money for in-game cash, then there'd be a reason for them to be pro-consumer. Until then, it's an easy way to make money out of people that will never learn. Shame, as it ruins games for the rest of us. It's quite amazing how much they dropped the ball after the fantastic Black Flag. Similarly how their Reflections studio produced Driver: San Francisco and then Watch Dogs.

I have the most respect for animals like rats, pigeons & gulls. Whilst other animals have gone extinct due to human activity, these guys have thrived. Screw your endangered condors or giant pandas, the rats haven't cried in the corner about losing their habitat, they've gone on and made their own habitats within human settlements. I'd like pandas a lot more if they nested in your guttering & fed off of scraps outside fast food restaurants.

Love that it included a man riding an elephant. Shows we're the frigging boss of this planet. Also love the classic Mustang in (what I presume is) India:

Oh well, no pictures for a couple of hours. Better go and peel some potatoes then. I can pretend I'm taking surface samples from irregular Solar System bodies.

Microsoft to sue over use of the word "Forza".

Cut all the touchy-feely co-operation crap, I want some pictures dammit!

Not to mention the couple of minutes required to airbrush out any evidence of ancient aliens.

I'm just watching it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X30PphYIBco Only 1000 viewers! For some reason there's a 40-second delay, but means I can watch it on my TV through my PS3.

Let's be honest, this is an American political party. What they'll say they'll do and what they'll actually do have absolutely no correlation, especially when you're looking two years into the future.

I'll say the same thing that I always say when female kerbals are discussed - I don't view kerbals as sexual beings. They have English-language male names & that's about it. They're little green things that give funny expressions in the bottom corner when I'm flying a poorly-designed rocket in a video game. To me they have no gender, no reproductive system, no biology & never need to go to the bathroom. I simply don't consider these things.

What!? You've witnessed the birth of the most significant invention in the history of humanity - the internet. Back on topic, I wonder if we'd attempt a Phobos or Deimos landing before a full-on Mars landing. Would be a long trip just for an asteroid, but Apollo 8 & 10 were vital missions, this could be their equivalent.

I actually don't mind Brussels sprouts, but I wouldn't go out of my way to eat them. Broccoli is just a new level of terrible. The taste, texture, smell and probably sound of it is all repulsive. I also wouldn't trust someone who likes uncooked green peppers. They're supposed to be red/orange/yellow you fool; let them ripen!

I have a hard time trusting anyone that actually enjoys broccoli. I know different strokes for different folks, it takes all kinds to make a world & numerous other clichés, but liking broccoli is just going too far. Cauliflower is equally disgusting. Sugar snap peas are probably my favourite green vegetable. Cabbage can be quite nice too when cooked properly. All served with butter, of course.

Whilst I don't think this will be the end to space tourism, there is a bit of a conformation bias going on here. There have also been cases of single events effectively ending progress. 1937 - Hindenburg disaster results in almost complete death of airship industry. 2000 - Concorde crash ultimately results in Concorde being retired & the end of commercial supersonic flight. I wonder if the SpaceShipTwo design will survive this.

Typical Steam fanboy - can't handle criticism of your overpriced, overhyped DRM masters so have to threaten to shut the topic down. Origin FTW!

Dull, unmemorable grey city with no character. Horrible characters, especially Niko. A focus on "gritty realism". Poor music & poor radio in general. Annoying friends. Almost completely ignored comedy. No aeroplanes, tanks, trains, jetpacks or other fun stuff. Just a general lack of fun things to do. I played Vice City for countless hours after completion. Same with San Andreas, Just Cause 2 & Driver San Francisco. That's what a great open-world game should be like. I think it can be summed up in one aspect of the game - you get a 4-star wanted level for entering the airport. That's a big chunk of the map - and one of the very few unique areas - completely off-limits. Why? What possible reason could they have for doing that other than to add a layer of tedious realism. If you like it, then that's fine. But you're still wrong.

I feel sorry for you that you've never heard of Just Cause 2. I put IV behind III because of what a colossal let down it was. After Vice City & San Andreas it should have been a true epic of a game. It wasn't.