Indictin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo

@ Snowberry

Was James Watt the guy who said, when asked about the personnel in his department “We have two Jews, a woman, and a cripple”, or something along those lines?

I was in middle school when I read about that. His remark generated some eye-rolling, even all those years ago.

Hello.

> Allandrel
Ha ! Welcome to the club… Steam can be the haunt of your wallet. At least, with dematerialisation, non used games do not take space on shelves…

> Lakitha Tolbert
In addition to what Allandrel said, it may be also worth noting that even if it may be useful to look at some reviews of games or comments of the community, Steam is clearly not a “safe” space/place. And do not expect a lot of moderation of comments here. Also be aware that while browsing sometimes the “suggestion queue”, you will be (it is not even a “may”, it is, alas, a near certainty) presented with very problematic games. A game where Hitler xxx a hentai loli ? It exists, and can be suggested to you, even if you do not ask that (the only remote possibility to avoid that is disabling the “adult” suggestions). The only few censored games that i am aware off were games with some christian thematic inside but were considered as bad by some christian associations (one was a spanish beat them all with Jesus and Juda figthing zombies : one association had found that Jesus fighting along Juda was intolerable and disrepectful for christians…).
On the positive side, as Steam is open to almost anything, you can find some pearls and some really open minded games (and sometimes both, the best ones).

And to answer your other questions, yes, women full teams exists for various games, notably for the big ones. Can not name you ones, cause i am not in those games, but there are certainly for League of Legend, Counter Strike and other famous games.

Have a nice day.

@Alan Robertshaw: To be fair, Ukraine wasn’t technically a country during the Chernobyl Disaster, it was a part of the Soviet Union back then. Still a really weird way of putting it though.

(For reference, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is located within Ukraine, specifically near the point where the borders of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus meet.)

also “dam collapse” implies it was an engineering failure rather than a deliberate act. whoever wrote this headline sucks

Chernobyl is also undoubtedly one of the many reasons Ukrainians aren’t particularly eager to be under Russian occupation again.

To be uncharacteristically on topic…

As you will know Trump was meant to be arranged tomorrow (well, today now). Here’s the court listing.

There are two things to note. First, no lawyer is listed for Trump. Second, the matter is only listed for surrender and first appearance. There’s no mention of arraignment. Those two facts may be connected.

Apparently Trump is having a hard time finding anyone to represent him. Some lawyers did try but they were rejected by the court (as the rules compel). But even if he can find a non Florida lawyer, the rules dictate there must still be a local lawyer on record.

So what may happen is Trump will be given a public defender to just deal with the first appearance (basically just confirming name and a few other details) and then be given a bit of time to try to find lawyers to act for him on the actual arraignment. Although if he can’t find anyone sharpish the court can just say PD or pro se. That is the local rule, and as one judge is already under scrutiny for supposedly being biased towards Trump (personally I don’t think she was) the court might be over careful not to look like it’s giving him any special treatment.

@ gss ex-noob

It looks like that letter might be a standard one they’ve sent to every out of state lawyer volunteering their services. But it is interesting no actual FL lawyers want to go near it. One of my twitter friends is an FL lawyer and quite conservative leaning. So I’m at the “Go on; it’ll be a laugh…” stage. Not biting so far.

Oh, and the Atari joystick was the best one ever. Commodore certainly thought so as they ripped it off (I know how you all love IP law). But I genuinely loved it. All the degrees of freedom you need for a 2D screen and one button. It got really complicated when multi button joysticks came along.

@Alan: Your twitter pal is smarter than many, many other RW lawyers.

I personally liked the Atari joystick — so simple, so elegant! but These Kids Today would find it unusable. You and I could take ’em. And no sissy save points back then, you won or you started over.

Trump has found a lawyer.

Check out that last sentence though.

@Victorious Parasol:

The bearer of the Brawn Standard is wearing what seems to be a Cuban flag, I notice.

(Which prompts a further thought: I can’t speak for Cuban(-American) flag protocol, but didn’t wearing the American flag as clothing use to be blasphemy, sacrilege, and treason back when hippie Vietnam War protesters were the ones doing it?)

@Alan Robertshaw:

Ooh, I do love me some flag code trivia.

Before checking out your link, I’m going to make a wild semi-educated predictive guess: before-and-after the Hayes Code.

ETA: Not quite, the Flag Code having become U.S. law in 1942; I lie corrected.

ETA II: Although I note that the revision has Columbia suffused with rainbow lighting.

That is one stupid lawyer. He’s taking on a complicated and polarizing case, and realizes he isn’t going to get paid — and he signed that anyway? He apparently works for a law firm (or some kind of LLC). @Alan, any more info you can find? Maybe his bosses made him be the sacrifice.

@FM Ox: We are obviously the same age, and that’s how I remember it too. It was completely un-American to do that, or let your flag get tattered. I learned that in Brownies.

Now these chumps got it plastered all over their clothes, letting their flags touch the ground or wear out in the sun and wind. While holding pig’s heads, ewww.

A lot of Cubans in Florida have been staunchly RW since they escaped from Fidel. Ignoring, of course, that today they’d be mistaken for Mexicans in most of the US and hated. Or Puerto Rican, which has the red and blue swapped.