WTF? Someone actually believes this? *boggle*

I used to deliver pizza for a living. Sometimes you get mugged. Once as I returned to the store, battered and bleeding, there was a cop right there in the store, getting some free pizza.

He seemed annoyed that we interrupted his free-pizza-getting by asking him to at least write an incident report. He outright rejected the notion that the police should make the area safer, and instead chastised us for doing business in such a dangerous neighborhood. He also wrote me a ticket for something about my car. Presumably the only reason he didn't shake me down for the money I had on me was that someone else had already stole that.

0 interest in policing. 0 interest in making things safer. 0 interest in preventing crime in any way that required effort on his part. They don't do that. They take your money and extort businesses for free stuff. That's what the police do.

Of course not - nothing's free. And if the police officer executes you, your family will be billed for the bullet (as is the norm in statist utopias).

You listed a lot of reasons why someone would want to perform transaction at the police station.

You still haven't presented a single reason why police should investigate people who refuse to do transactions at police station.

Except that we can't know it yet, because DX12 specs are not yet finalized. It's still under development.

Please note that "features" and "specs" are two very distinctly different things. Former says what API can do while latter says what graphics card must actually do to produce working features.

1: I run my own mail server.
2: My friends run their own mail servers.
3: Mail servers today support encryption.

When a friend in sends me e-mail, there are no extra relays in-between. Their mail server contacts my mail server, establishes an SSL/TLS connection, and the mail goes.
I then fetch it from my server through pop3s or read it on the server.

There are a few vulnerable points here, but none of them are what you list.
- Someone could hijack a DNS server that the sender relies on, adding MX records pointing to a rogue server.
- Someone could man-in-the-middle, intercepting and substituting DNS server traffic real time to do the same.
- Someone could man-in-the-middle insert a mail server intercepting port 25 and 587, pretending to be the recipient mail server.
- Someone could arrest my friend and beat the living crap out of him.
- Or me.

But all in all, the majority of private e-mail I receive never lives in plaintext except at the end points, which are in our own control. I.e. we won't get caught in a dragnet where everything on an ISP's server is diverted and stored, or where a Big Mail Provider provides copies of everything. That's reassuring to me.
Even if it, like anything else, is not 100% safe, it does mean that anyone reading my e-mail will only do so if deliberately targeting me.

And the US government has shown is that they're perfectly willing to do large scale surveillance, intercepting communications of everyone. The prudent thing to do is not to swim in the seas they trawl.

tl;dr: Don't use servers you don't trust.

The real problem is that companies can be headquartered anywhere! America benefits hugely from having the US be the home of choice for corporate HQs. Lots of high-paying jibs here because of that. But enough BS like this and there simply won't be any large US corporations any more.

We don't need a corporate income tax anyhow. We tax wages, and we tax distributions via dividends and capital gains - what exactly do we accomplish by taxing the corporation itself? We're going to tax that same money anyhow, so we're better off keeping the US as the preferred HQ location for multinationals.

Its 100 million people who who need exercise watching 22 guys who don't*.

*Then again .....

Don't mind me. I'm just here so I won't get fined.

Yeah, I've never been much of a sports fan (helps when your high school, local university, and locally-based national franchises all suck rocks when you're in your formative years) but I've been able appreciate a well-executed play when I see one. It's a championship game for a sport that I don't play. For those that like it, good for them.

I won't be ignoring it, I'll be doing things that I want to do. Same as just about everything else that I'm not observing or doing while doing what I want to do.

You know, and I know, exactly what sort of person decides to come to the GP's conclusion and make that sort of assertion.

Only if you have google history of extremely pro-SJW searching, in which case it delivers you your circlejerk, just like if you only search for climate change denialist articles, it will deliver you only those.

Search through a proxy and results will be telling.

Explain the logic why they should. You presented none.

That would work. Pouring lead into weapon's barrel is a very efficient way if disabling it.

Ah yes. The "Mantle is AMAZING, DX12 is AMAZING, huge increases incoming because you can code to the metal with no driver overhead and otherwise more efficient CPU usage" argument.

Reality rained on it already. Only cases where gains are present are where CPU is extremely weak while GPU is extremely powerful. Gains are minimal if you're running even a half decent i5 and nonexistent if you're running i7. You're late with the hype.

That is why all the tech demos so far were done on ridiculously underpowered CPUs and top end GPUs. It does use CPU more efficiently, but almost all modern games massively undersubscribe the CPU, meaning no gains for using Mantle. This is what we already see in tests:
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/G...

Then I suppose we have nothing to talk about. Anyone who thinks that quitting the Union itself would be good for his country has a serious problem with reality.

Reality: even countries outside the Union, like Norway and Switzerland are effectively forced to adopt EU regulations, rules and directives. Not because they are members of the Union - they are not, and they don't get a say on those regulations at all. But because they know that they will have a financial crash of epic proportion if they were to try to quit the EEA which requires member states to adopt most of the EU regulations and directives.

Suggesting that quitting EU is going to help your country is effectively suggesting that leaving the table where decisions are made, but having to still adopt all the rules that were decided at that table (just without your input now) is a good thing for a country. It requires a massive disconnect with reality to argue such a thing.