According to this, Leahy claims CNET was incorrect in its original article and that he never supported the warrantless wiretapping. When he tried to clarify this stance, CNET comes out with this article saying that he backtracked because of the backlash caused by their article. Not going to make the judgment call on which side is right, but it should at least be noted that there are two sides to the story.

Let's not forget the disaster that is the new "Pending Changes" window...

I never did understand why Americans were always lamenting about China taking all the manufacturing jobs. Seems like if we weren't losing them to the Chinese then we would have lost them to automation. Although now that automation is starting to replace the Chinese workforce as well, there's really no reason for American companies not to move their manufacturing back to the US and save on overseas shipping and export/import regulations and taxes.

Maybe you could ask Mitt Romney where he got his!

I don't see how Whedon could possibly have time to do Avengers 2 and the Marvel TV show (which are what his current contract is for) and still have time to work on a Star Wars movie in any capacity.

Doesn't even have to be a foreign power. Just look at how vehement some Americans are in their anti-Obama or anti-Romney stances.

Seems to me that Wreckless Driving is a good thing.

And I suppose the GWAMM title wasn't grindy at all...

Because if global warming was man-made, then presumably it is possible to be man-unmade.

The difference in GW2 is that there are very few spells that just do pure damage. Most have secondary and sometimes very powerful effects attached to them, which means you will want to use them wisely and not just "as soon as your cooldown timer clears".

For example, one spell may have a blind effect which causes your enemy's next attack to miss. Another may have a knockdown effect. Another might launch you forward while leaving a trail of fire in your wake. Hopefully it's obvious how this forces smart use of skills and not just whack-a-mole whatever's off cooldown.

As a side note, I find mana to be a very bad resource system (large pool, slow/cumbersome to regenerate) and it seems to have stuck around only because it's "traditional". It is essentially unlimited in the short-term, and has a hard limit in the long-term, which means that in the heat of battle, you might as well not have a resource unless you are engaged in very long fights. And if you do run out of mana, it's a very unfun mechanic since there's basically nothing you can do except sit there and reflect on your character's poor life decisions that led to this point.

Energy (small pool, fast-regenerating resource) seems like a much more interesting resource for forcing resource management, as it forces smart, controlled skill usage and heavily prohibits button mashing. However, a purely cooldown based system like GW2 basically creates the same thing.

Elementalists do not have a weapon swap, due to their attunement mechanic. 4 attunements with 5 skills apiece = 20 skills, compared to standard classes who just have a weapon swap with 5 skills apiece for 10 skills. If eles also had a weapon swap, they'd have 40 weapon skills which would be obviously overpowered.

Reminds me of this excellent scene from Game of Thrones.

I'm guessing you've never played DotA or anything in the genre? The target dummies you refer to have this annoying habit of always ending up on your team. Considering that even one weak link on a team will usually cost the game, this is what creates the rampant noob-hostile community in the genre.

I actually think the opposite of what you said will happen - everyone will game the system to report the terrible players (skill-wise, not personality-wise) from their team, and new players will eventually be turned away because they keep getting reported and having to pay more.

What could possibly go wrong?

Sincerely,
The Winklevoss twins

Well that's just silly - obviously only the comments that are +5 are true.