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But please, do continue parroting Sports Center about the virtues of one blood sport over another.
Clearly you enjoy attacking this class of sports without knowing and understanding the difference between them.
Feel better knowing your golfers will die much slower from skin cancer while entertaining you.
I must say that your statements are pure BS. Fighting in MMA causes just as much if not more brain injury, as (pure) boxing. Right now, almost every veteran MMA fighter suffers from symptoms of brain injury. Here's a partial list: Jens Pulver Gabriel Gonzaga Mirko Filipovic Frank Trigg Chuck Liddell Mark Munoz Antonio Silva Wanderlei Silva Alistair Overeem Phil Baroni Gary Goodridge Andrei Arlovski Josh Koscheck Cheick Kongo
and the list goes on. And it doesn't even include the journeymen that get punched in the head for a $300 payout on regional circuits, as a matter of fact for their whole careers.
And yet I just saw Josh Koshcheck fight in the ring a week ago??
Sorry, but you're going to have to do more than provide a list of fighters whom some are still active in the sport to justify your claim here. Obviously if they're still fighting and able to well, whatever "symptoms" they have are far from even career stopping, much less career ending.
Deaths have occurred in just about every other violent sport, both during the actual event and after the fact, and when comparing apples to apples here, UFC is still by far one of the safest violent sports running today. I emphasize the term violent here because I am not ignorant as to the class of entertainment this is. There is no denying there is risk of permanent damage to the brain and other parts of the body. You're a trained fighter. Take the risk or leave this class of sport altogether.
The only way this practice will stop is if users stop demanding every damn thing for free and actually come off their wallets and pay for the damn software.
It is up to the cheap-ass customer to decide whether that is through incessant ad revenue or a one-time charge.
Wrong. I am very happy to pay software I use and enjoy, but most of the time I don't have that option.
You represent 5% of society, which is why marketing departments are focused on the other 95% who acknowledge FREE as the only reasonable cost.
You can't blame this sort of thing on people being unwilling to pay when there is no option to pay at all, or paying doesn't get you a version of the software that is free of ads and tracking.
No, I blame this on an ever-cheapening society that demands it. You will see fewer and fewer pay-for options in the future. Downright ownership will become a joke at first, and then likely illegal in the end in our ad-subsidized society.
But hey, it's FREE right NOW, so the price is right. That's all that matters to society.
Post traumatic encephalopathy.
...from a fight in 1998 hosted by the Pride organization with considerably different rules that is now closed.
It's also undetermined if the CTE damage wasn't caused by an even longer career of kickboxing, a related sport to UFC but also with different rules and strategies. (and damage risk)
The UFC rules have morphed and changed over the years, and more often than not I've seen a fight stopped early (or my interpretation of early) in order to adhere to the overall rule of protecting the fighter.
I said it was hard to find a career-ending injury. And I was right. You found one in twenty five years of the sport.
I'm not some huge fan of UFC either, but I am aware of the difference that organization has brought to MMA in the way of safety, as their track record in a violent sport speaks volumes.
...beating people up for entertainment is something I wouldn't mind society moving on from.
It's not even like it's a high risk side effect of the sport - physically harming the other person (temporarily is necessary, but permanently is often the result) is the whole aim. For anyone with half an ounce of empathy, watching two people fight is like feeling you are being beaten up. That's not entertainment, but either sadism or masochism.
Slight correction needed here.
It's a touch of cruelty to watch two boxers beat the shit out of each other, which is likely why this sport should be considered the one the audience should be moving on from.
When it's hard to find even a career-ending injury in a sport like MMA, trying to overlay the deadly statistics of boxing on top of all fighting sports is not just short-sighted. It's downright wrong.
UFC has proven rather soundly for twenty five years that fighting can be done for entertainment and sport and NOT create life-altering damage.
So, you want to enable the audience to hold a judges card and help choose the winner, instead of the time-honored tradition of allowing Don King to buy the win?
Boy, this really is a shakeup in the industry.
Must've taken a Real Genius to build a laser system like that.
Yes, and it's probably a pretty sound assumption that the "spinning mirror" order has been placed as well.
What can the average person do if some whackjob starts running around the city or a shopping mall with one of these things targeting innocent people?
Probably the same damn thing you're going to do if some whackjob starts running around shooting an AR-15 rifle.
Duck and run.
Sorry, but even most bulletproof vests don't stop high-powered rifle rounds, so you've no more defense today against a 40-year old AR-15 platform than you do this brand-new thing.
The article said "The ground-based laser prototype burned through the engine manifold of a mounted truck in mere seconds." so at least two seconds and less than a minute, but you are correct the longer it takes the less practical it would be to use it against a moving target.
...until they develop an equally impressive tracking and targeting system...
...unless they already have...(yes, this would likely be the classified part you're not supposed to be thinking of)
Time to abandon utorrent. In fact, time to abandon all software who's owners bundle in adware/malware/anything-other-than-the-program-the-user-is-trying-to-install.
The only way this practice will stop is if users refuse to download and use software that does this.
Wrong.
The only way this practice will stop is if users stop demanding every damn thing for free and actually come off their wallets and pay for the damn software.
It is up to the cheap-ass customer to decide whether that is through incessant ad revenue or a one-time charge.
No one can compel you to talk. Oh they might throw you in jail anyway for "obstruction", etc, but you still don't have to talk. And if they claim obstruction they're going to have a hard time convincing a judge/jury that you are actually committing a crime. "We think he might have pornography on his phone" won't stand up in any sane court. Fishing expeditions are not allowed otherwise the entire population can (and will) be dragged in front of a judge in the name of job creation for law enforcement.
Yes, and your silence will only cost you $10,000 in legal fees. To start.
This isn't really a matter of having the right to stay silent. It's more a matter of questioning whether you can afford to, and how confident your attorney feels those legal vehicles to do so will be upheld in a court of law.
We may have a Constitution and Amendments, but I wouldn't trust them to be enforced worth a shit today, putting a fine point in the real issue.
Yeah pretty sure even in Canada, there's some degree of due process. Now if the cop decided to be an ass, and say "I have a hunch there's anti-US Al Qaeda propaganda on this phone", you can kiss it goodbye.
Due process...hmmm...why does that sound so familiar...oh yeah, I remember now. We used to do that in the US too. Read about it in history class once. Supposedly we even have laws that guarantee it.
I wonder if anyone remembers that as we deal with the onslaught of law enforcement running around using a "hunch" as their justification for illegal search and seizure.
How can they force you to give information you don't have?
By confiscating your phone until your memory returns.
Yeah, that guy crying in the corner sucking his thumb mumbling about his social feeds...he's only been here eleven minutes.
Clearly it's pretty effective. Don't even need a jail cell.
If your country does not afford an accused the right to remain silent, maybe it's time to overthrow the government. Luckily for Canada, it has the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, particularly section 11(c).
Yeah, and lucky for the United States, we have the Constitution! And the Bill of Rights!
(As you can see, ancient pieces of paper mean jack shit in the legal system anymore, so good luck with that fancy hyperlink you got there.)
They are not trying to get physical evidence from him. They're trying to make him tell them the password. You have the right to remain silent.
Uh, you do realize you usually only hear these words right before handcuffs are being put on, right?
Enjoy your vacation. And legal fees.
They always say Freedom comes at a price. What they don't tell you is it will cost an innocent citizen thousands to keep it if you are ever put in a position to defend it.
Of course, you tend to get pissed when forced to defend your Freedom in situations where you are not legally required, or have been illegally pressured to do so.
Never trust a computer you can't repair yourself.
