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FIFA is currently trying to force places to pay back the bribes that FIFA issued to them, now that there's proof of the bribes happening. I think that tips FIFA to the shadiest for the moment.
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FIFA got caught with its hands in the cookie jar about a million times by—surprise! The US. Big footie lovers here. The Olympic committee is probably at least as dirty but while the US celebrates soccer games we only lose by one point or so Jesse Owens killed it right under Hitler's brushy nose hairs at the Berlin Olympics. Draw your conclusions how you like I guess.
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Douku posted:I usually find the prospect of posting on SA intimidating but I'm willing to give these sub forums a shot. Thanks! If you need any help, feel free to PM me - I can't guarantee I'll be helpful but I'm happy to try. 
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Mar 22, 2016 00:54
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Smoking Crow posted:What's shadier, FIFA or the IOC
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Why do crime shows have so many spinoffs?
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Jake Snake posted:Why do crime shows have so many spinoffs? Crime shows make  so if you make a spin off you can now have 
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Jake Snake posted:Why do crime shows have so many spinoffs?
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Jake Snake posted:Why do crime shows have so many spinoffs? It's easier to adapt the formula to a new location or subset of cops in the same city, then it is for say, a sitcom to successfully branch off multiple other sitcoms, or more typical dramas to branch out other dramas.
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Mar 22, 2016 01:49
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Does anyone have a favorite android game that doesn't require an internet connection to play? My commute is changing to be significantly underground, and most things seem to require a constant connection so they can pester you into paying for freemium content.
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Gravity Pike posted:Does anyone have a favorite android game that doesn't require an internet connection to play? My commute is changing to be significantly underground, and most things seem to require a constant connection so they can pester you into paying for freemium content. I played the hell out of Crashlands earlier this year. Requires a connection to sync up saves but apart from that, you're fine to play offline.
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Mar 22, 2016 03:32
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Gravity Pike posted:Does anyone have a favorite android game that doesn't require an internet connection to play? My commute is changing to be significantly underground, and most things seem to require a constant connection so they can pester you into paying for freemium content. You might try going for a port of a non-mobile game. For instance, square-enix has been putting out some fairly decent iOS and Android ports of their final fantasy games.
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Mar 22, 2016 04:22
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Gravity Pike posted:Does anyone have a favorite android game that doesn't require an internet connection to play? My commute is changing to be significantly underground, and most things seem to require a constant connection so they can pester you into paying for freemium content. One More Line and Infinity Loop. I think Plague, Inc also doesn't need internet.
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Mar 22, 2016 04:45
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Do Armenian-Americans favor a particular party? Has the POTUS ever involved himself in their territory issues?
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Mar 22, 2016 05:04
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Enourmo posted:IOwnCalculus does a fine job of modding AI, thank you very much Hey man Bernie eccelstone is clean, he paid the German court to dismiss his bribery claim perfectly legally
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Captain Novolin posted:Hey man Bernie eccelstone is clean, he paid the German court to dismiss his bribery claim perfectly legally Well, if it's a crime to love one's country, then I'm guilty. And if it's a crime to steal a trillion dollars from our government and hand it over to communist Cuba, then I'm guilty of that too. And if it's a crime to bribe a jury, then so help me, I'll soon be guilty of that! My stupid question: why is it that I can plug my android phone (Nexus 5 16gb) into my PC and it tells me in Explorer that it has 400mb memory free, but when I check Internal Storage in the settings, it says I have 4.7gb free? This phone doesn't have an expansion slot, so it can't be an SD card it's not taking into account. Hitting F5 on the Explorer window doesn't do anything.
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Captain Bravo posted:You might try going for a port of a non-mobile game. For instance, square-enix has been putting out some fairly decent iOS and Android ports of their final fantasy games. Last time I played Chrono Trigger, it didn't download all the files at once, but it instead download a new chunk once you'd reached certain points in the game. So you periodically needed an Internet connection to play it, but only at those points. I don't know when they were, whether this has been changed with recent updates, or if it even applied to all their games, though.
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Penguissimo posted:Last time I played Chrono Trigger, it didn't download all the files at once, but it instead download a new chunk once you'd reached certain points in the game. So you periodically needed an Internet connection to play it, but only at those points. I don't know when they were, whether this has been changed with recent updates, or if it even applied to all their games, though. They must have done voice, animation and sprite work to justify that. Didn't the SNES one weigh in at 2 megabits or something? syscall girl fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Mar 22, 2016 |
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Gravity Pike posted:Does anyone have a favorite android game that doesn't require an internet connection to play? My commute is changing to be significantly underground, and most things seem to require a constant connection so they can pester you into paying for freemium content. A lot of people like to use android console emulators.
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syscall girl posted:They must have done voice, animation and sprite work to justify that.  
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Baron Porkface posted:Do Armenian-Americans favor a particular party? Has the POTUS ever involved himself in their territory issues? I am pretty sure none of the current presidential candidates has ever even spoken the word "Armenia"
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Earwicker posted:I am pretty sure none of the current presidential candidates has ever even spoken the word "Armenia" Bernie Sanders co-sponsored a congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide as did Hillary Clinton back when she was a senator. Ted Cruz made an unequivocal statement about the Armenia genocide last year. So the only real presidential candidate that hasn't taken a stance is Donald Trump and probably only because no-one has asked him yet.
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Mar 22, 2016 05:51
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Gobbeldygook posted:Bernie Sanders co-sponsored a congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide as did Hillary Clinton back when she was a senator. Ted Cruz made an unequivocal statement about the Armenia genocide last year. It's time we take a stand and recognize that all of our leaders are in the pockets of Big Kardashian.
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Gobbeldygook posted:Bernie Sanders co-sponsored a congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide as did Hillary Clinton back when she was a senator. Ted Cruz made an unequivocal statement about the Armenia genocide last year. Ok so maybe they signed some stuff or read out a couple statements that were prepared for them. But I still personally do not believe any of them could point to Armenia on a map and I won't believe it until I see them do so in person, unaided.
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Baron Porkface posted:Do Armenian-Americans favor a particular party? Has the POTUS ever involved himself in their territory issues? The two biggest concentrations of Armenian Americans are in Massachusetts and California. I'm in Mass and all the Armenian Americans I know are Democrats, for whatever that's worth.
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Gravity Pike posted:Does anyone have a favorite android game that doesn't require an internet connection to play? My commute is changing to be significantly underground, and most things seem to require a constant connection so they can pester you into paying for freemium content. If you like Picross-style games I have gotten like 200 hours of play out of Hungry Cat Picross, which changes up the instructions a little but has a ton of puzzles.
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is there some way to download (free) audio tracks from itunes.apple.com without having to actually download itunes itself?
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Nighthand posted:If you like Picross-style games I have gotten like 200 hours of play out of Hungry Cat Picross, which changes up the instructions a little but has a ton of puzzles. Simon Tatham's Puzzles is like 40 totally offline ad free puzzles. Not much action, but excellent. It has a sort-of picross, but randomly generated (not actually pictures).
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OK, here is a truly stupid question that seems obvious at first glance but on the other hand... So, I have a Capital One 360 account. Like many bank accounts, I can take a picture of a check I've received and endorsed, upload it to the website, and it gets deposited, whereupon I destroy the physical check. Let's say I have a $100 bill. Why can't I deposit the money in a similar manner, sending a video of me destroying the bill itself as the money is desposited (assume for the sake of argument that the website could verify it's not a counterfeit bill)? Again, it seems obvious: they don't have the physical money. But banks do bank-to-bank transfers all the time and there aren't trucks full of money travelling from Ye Local Smalltown Bank to Chase Manhattan --it's just digitally transferred with the polite and shared belief that Chase is now the owner of that money that only exists in its computers. Since I destroyed that $100 bill with its unique serial number, no one else can ever come along to dispute the ownership of that specific $100 bill. If we all agreed to accept that Capital One now had possession of that $100, who is there to dispute it?
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regulargonzalez posted:OK, here is a truly stupid question that seems obvious at first glance but on the other hand... Follow-up question: Could we conceivably have a 'hard-copyless' economy, using plastic and online transactions exclusively?
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Sure. It might seem silly, but the only difference between dollar bills and green napkins is government endorsement as a currency; the same would be true of a hypothetical all digital currency vs, say, bitcoin.
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regulargonzalez posted:So, I have a Capital One 360 account. Like many bank accounts, I can take a picture of a check I've received and endorsed, upload it to the website, and it gets deposited, whereupon I destroy the physical check. DavidAlltheTime posted:Follow-up question: Could we conceivably have a 'hard-copyless' economy, using plastic and online transactions exclusively?
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All of a sudden my laptop (windows 10) is simply not spell checking anything.. my lil red wiggly line is MIA. This effects every single thing/place/item i use on the net, im kinda assuming ive managed to turn it off by randomly banging keys? You fix!
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regulargonzalez posted:OK, here is a truly stupid question that seems obvious at first glance but on the other hand... Ignoring the verification of the bill and the destruction, you are forgetting the very real cost of making currency of all sorts. Suppose "they" allowed this process, and charged $15.00 for the convenience per bill destroyed.
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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Tiggum posted:if you forge one then you have essentially created money, You essentially create money constantly, not only from forging it. Want some gum and have a dollar? Go to a store and buy a dollar worth of gum. There is now one dollar in the store owner's pocket (and one fewer temporarily worthless pack of gum) and one dollar worth of something in your pocket. You and the store owner created a dollar. It's a bit more complicated when you eat the gum, but only in that it's harder to resell or represent the utility you've gained from doing so.
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regulargonzalez posted:OK, here is a truly stupid question that seems obvious at first glance but on the other hand... A law had to be passed to make depositing checks by photo legal - specifically the "Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act" of 2003. Although the law was primarily meant so that banks would no longer have to send the physical deposited check to another bank in most circumstances, it also made it legal for the same sort of scanned/photographed check images to be used between consumer and bank. If any bank wanted to get into remote depositing cash in the way you describe, we'd probably need a new federal law to be passed to allow the practice. Note that if you have a torn up bill, but with serial numbers still readable if put back together and at least 51% of the total bill with you, it can be turned in at a bank to be replaced with a new bill of the same value - so you'd probably have to prove you'd burned the bill beyond recognition or some other extreme method of destruction. As a side note: there's absolutely no requirement to destroy the physical check after you deposit it remotely. In fact most banks recommend you hang on to the check for a while just in case the physical check ends up being needed. So if you've been tearing up those checks, stop it!
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Earwicker posted:Ok so maybe they signed some stuff or read out a couple statements that were prepared for them. But I still personally do not believe any of them could point to Armenia on a map and I won't believe it until I see them do so in person, unaided. A lot of US air strikes in Syria and the surrounding area are based out of Turkey. I reckon most politicians up to date on foreign policy are aware of the Armenian genocide but turn a blind eye for this reason. I'm also pretty sure the UN has had at least one resolution proposed to officially designate what happened as a genocide - try and look up how the US voted.
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504 posted:All of a sudden my laptop (windows 10) is simply not spell checking anything.. my lil red wiggly line is MIA. This effects every single thing/place/item i use on the net, im kinda assuming ive managed to turn it off by randomly banging keys? You've probably somehow turned off the "check spelling as you type" option. I don't recall off the top of my head exactly where it is in options but I know that's more or less the wording of it, if that helps. ETA: wait, you mean everything on the laptop was being spellchecked and not just Word? I have no idea then beyond it's probably a similar option and you should just go poking around in your windows options for it.
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Really, the global economy should just use bitcoin
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Baron Porkface posted:Is there still a Juggalo or Everest climber mock thread in GBS? Not sure about the ninjastomper58 thread, but the Everest annual thread can be found at http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3762301.
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