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.

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.

This is actually the one argument that I keep pushing on more extreme nvidia fans I run into (I run nvidia card in my machine so I end up talking to quite a few when discussing things like specific optimizations, features and so on). We cannot have nvidia monopoly. Prices would skyrocket. No matter how much you are mentally invested in the green camp, right now you should not avoid criticizing nvidia for current problems. We need the competition, and we need to keep nvidia's marketing machine truthful.

Otherwise everyone will lose.

After 970 PR SNAFU where they marketed what is essentially a 3.5GB card with additional 0.5GB of crippled and largely useless VRAM as a full blooded 4GB card because it would otherwise look really bad next to AMD's 4GB cards, I would expect them to market these cards as DX12 compatible even if they really aren't.

Marketing's job is to deliver sales, even at expense of lying to customers by obfuscating potential and existing problems.

To be fair, Nvidia did a lot to undermine Maxwell's initial dominance with idiotic marketing SNAFU on 970 and massively cut down memory bus on 960 slowing that card so much that they had to end up comparing it to card from two generations ago in marketing materials rather than one generation ago. AMD has a chance to come back if they play their cards right.

The entire concept of taxi regulations is intended to provide notable background checks as preventative measure and knowledge of who drivers are so if they do break the law they will know that police will know who they are.

Uber's entire business model is about saying "all these taxi regulations are unnecessary". So cases like these are important because they remind lawmakers of one of the more important reasons why taxi regulations were put in place originally.

Sir, I object to your use of the term "speculation"!
Here, we do "rampant, mostly uninformed speculation*"!
* Of course, that's just a guess on my part...

And I debunked that particular side argument readily with facts by listing things in which Parliament factually gained powers. Which means that your admission remains the admission of increase of democratization.

P.S. If you really want to measure parliament's relative power increase, the recent debacle with the Commission President post was a great example of just how much more powerful Parliament got after Lisbon. Under previous treaties, there was no way that it would have gotten Juncker as head of Commission against the will of British PM.

And now, it was able to mobilize and effectively brutally push Juncker through crushing the opposition from Great Britain.

I want to emphasize my point again. There is a lot of work ahead to democratize the Union. But Lisbon was a step in a right direction because it shifter power from elite-chosen Commission and Council to the directly democratically elected Parliament which saw its power and influence increased significantly. That is the undeniable reality.
Now, the progress must continue, and in this regard Eurospeptics of the populist kind seem to be shooting themselves in the foot. Instead of getting involved with decision-making and shaping the Union closer to their ideals, they go for Anglo-style "all or nothing" argument. And then they lose, because overwhelming majority of Europe has a culture of being ruled by consensus and outliers who are unwilling to compromise get left out.

Which is a problem in my opinion, one that my country handled quite well by effectively forcing our anti-European populist party that gained prominence to come and work with the rest. Consensus and having to work with those you are ideologically opposed to tames the extremists in those parties and brings them closer to the mainstream, while at the same time giving them actual power over what will happen.

I am an insensitive clod, you insensitive clod!