Rayvin

Fair enough, I concede. Agree with the idea that it could be different these days though.

Yes but he became a political figurehead for the protests. There's no one in a similar position at the moment, I don't think. That said, you're totally right in principle. I think I just meant these thrown together marches that never really seem to accomplish anything.

Sounds like there are a lot of protesters around for his inauguration. Has protesting ever successfully achieved anything? I don't think I've seen it work a single time. But I'm sure there must be some that do...?

I fully accept that I'm not going to persuade anyone now but in one last effort I'll make a better pitch. FYI it's £10 on PSN. Background to the game: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/06/rocket-league-psyonix-online-sports-game-football-motor-racing-combat I strongly doubt anyone who enjoys football and gaming would regret playing this. Faster paced and far more satisfying (IMO) than the conventional football sims. It has a formal league table and ranking system with pro-gamers at the top and everyone else attempting to work themselves up through the tables. They have formal statistical breakdowns of player populations in each rank, live streaming of tournaments with commentators and actual budgets, strong developer responsiveness to player needs, etc. I'm on 480 hours of playing time so far. I think the reason it's so addictive is that how good you are is entirely down to you. You don't get better cars, accessories or anything - you just get better. And thus you improve in rankings. It's otherwise a level playing field. No they aren't paying me - I just want people to play with on PSN (I have it on both Steam and PSN now). This was one of the recent tournament finals - skip in about 1 min to see the game:

I know it's annoying but it's exactly the sort of thing they should do. They should use any competitive advantage they can. And (assuming Shelvey is fit) it won't save them anyway.

Is it not going to be a bit too easy for them though Trump is being parodied and made fun of by everyone - I'm not sure he needs any satirising! The trailer is good though

No significant/statistically relevant weaknesses. Which presumably means we don't concede the same types of goals very frequently.

I take the point but I was specifically referring to the UK where we give positions that suggest some knowledge of legal affairs to people who've no decent or credible background in law whatsoever. And we set up Boris Johnson as foreign Secretary.

Well played. Assuming it is just randoms off twitter then.

Ah ok - yes that does seem rather ridiculous of him. Another promising sign from the incoming administration. To be fair though, we give important dossiers to all manner of crap and incompetent people in this country so I'm tempted to argue that not knowing anything about the department you're responsible for is almost a democratic norm at this point.

So the energy secretary is going to be in charge of nukes... Why? Wouldn't that be the defense secretary?

Course it was Albeit tongue in cheek I guess.

Feel much more confident how Shelvey is back. Not that we would have struggled against Rotherham anyway but it's good to know they can now be properly put to the sword. 3-0 IMO.

If it was every 4 years it wouldn't be such a problem. I suspect it actually harms the chances of African players in terms of their careers to a degree as well, a two-yearly mid season tournament to play in - with a chance of returning with an injury.

Yep. Who exactly was the person on here claiming that Mitro couldn't hack it? Or is this another one of those vague 'someone on twitter said' claims?

Can't make it tonight but enjoy!

thanks for the score updates

My phone advises that we're 2-0 up but there's no reaction on here so I'm not convinced are we?

What on earth is the point in taking away the car if you're going to appeal ffs... how does that help anyone? It'll just sit in a lock up at their end until the whole thing is concluded anyway. Sorry to hear this mate, totally agree that this is willful victimisation, the purpose of which is entirely driven by ideology and misconceptions about the realities of many people's lives.

I bet whoever thought that up is very smug right now.

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If they don't pursue charges immediately while they have the window with the Sweden issue, what chance would they stand later. Plus, he'll go to Russia first chance he gets, you would think.

This is like a high stakes game of chicken. The US, if it actually cares about him at all, could have viewed the decision to commute Manning's sentence as a gambit to at least discredit Assange in the whole Russia/hacking/control of information battle that's going on. Now Assange makes clear that he will martyr himself as offered, which means the ball is back in the US' court. If they take him, Assange immediately gains the moral high ground (and may fancy his chances of an early release with Trump in power anyway). If they don't, then he still gains in credibility based on that tweet, and you'd have to say that he could take that as a sign that he should be ok to face charges in Sweden without being extradited. Sounds like he really does want out of that embassy now, I'm impressed with his resolve tbh.

I wondered about the terminology, but apparently clemency in the legal sense can also mean a commutation of a sentence - and he asked for clemency in that tweet, not a pardon. Not sure he can argue his way out of it through semantics.

I don't think so but his entire premise for being where he is was that he faces the death penalty in the US if Sweden extradite him. Plus, Hillary did threaten to kill him in 'jest'.