Assassin

XBOX and PlayStation Have better graphics and are overall better than PC. That makes me wanna kill people. How can they be so ignorant.. Ugh.....they can go f*** themselves.

You buy it, and they "let" you play the game 24 hours earlier.

I'd believe that based on my experience with Android devices. As soon as I load them up with my usual apps battery life takes a crap. This gen is better (M8 noticeably better than M7) but idle power on "daily driver" Android devices is rubbish.

depends on what you install it from, if you use cd it is going to take forever, usb3 key takes no time.

I live in California and this is causing problems here because of the drought.
 
If you don't live in California and are doing this that's fine, but do you even know what ALS is?

oh @nicklmg
 
we do have a build log of a dual socket workstation running Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 for a total of 24 cores and 48 treads and dual Titan Zs
 
 
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/190513-dual-xeon-dual-titan-z-gamingworkstation-beast-name-tbd/

You may just be the first user on the forums to have a Titan Z.

The fact that it is called Google Play Music All Access is ridiculous. 

The fact that it is called Google Play Music All Access is ridiculous. 

That's a stupid name. Should've just been called Google Music.

I thought my English was pretty good but there are too many terms to decipher...

I agree you with you. 
On an unrelated note I tend to side over with reality than morality.

I just think he was trying to appeal to the general public at the time saying that hold your values as if god himself had appointed you to do so. You can read his handbook here for free. It's really short.
 
http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

Let's get one thing straight first : Stalin was a horrible dictator, responsible for a great many human deaths and suffering.
However, he put his foot down when necessary and made the USSR the superpower it was.
How much was he evil and not simply paranoid is debatable. In the end, he did a lot for his country. Incompetent leaders on the other hand just waste everybody's time.

For the sake of argument, let's keep to talking about governments, since companies are quite a different beast to slay.
And I will take my own safety as the measurement for good in my post. So, more safety for me = more good. This might be a wrong way to do it, but that's what debate is for. 
 
A malevolent government might be preferable in a war situation. Say the US was invaded by Russia. if the US government was malevolent (Alex Jones got his wet dream forfilled), but it still had an interst in preserving its citizens via military force, that would be better than incompetence.
I would prefere this malevolent government just for it's efficiency compared to an incompetent government.
This would also assume that the Russian invaders would be worse than what was already in the US:
 
Edit: This example doesn't necessarily need to be about war. it would be applicable to any sort of major crisis, where major actions are needed. 
 
Epicurus is a hard philosopher to crack, since we are missing most of his writtings. 
He might have started out as a materialist and moved into a philosophy more inspired by Plato. Or it could have been the other way around. 
He could also be placed somewhere between a theistic and a deistic worldview, where the god(s) did play a small roll in human sociaty, but we, as humans, didn't need to pay god(s) any attention. But this is just my speculation.
But this is neither here nor there, and I'll stop derailing the thread.

I'd take incompetence any day.
 
Malevolence implies that the party is doing intentional harm for their own benefit. This would also imply some sort of intelligence behind their actions, which I can't really combat.
Incompentace I would be able to work against on a grass roots level.

*facepalm* I didn't add the poll. Way to go me. I edited the main post and added it: Assassin, Volbet, and BrandedUpontheGrave.

My favorite piece of advice has always been this line from Epictetus's handbook.
 
If you have an earnest desire of attaining to philosophy, prepare yourself from the very first to be laughed at, to be sneered by the multitude, to hear them say,." He is returned to us a philosopher all at once," and " Whence this supercilious look?" Now, for your part, don't have a supercilious look indeed; but keep steadily to those things which appear best to you as one appointed by God to this station. For remember that, if you adhere to the same point, those very persons who at first ridiculed will afterwards admire you. But if you are conquered by them, you will incur a double ridicule. 
 
 
Also I agree on Stalin on that one although I should not get into the habit of agreeing with Stalin.

The below pictures are just examples and not explicitly what I'm asking about. Which would you prefer in any particular situation, where you had to have one, or the other directly influencing/affecting you (i.e. video game companies, the government, etc.)? Both or neither is not an option unfortunately.

Malevolence (Evil)



OR

Incompetence (Stupid)



Chart for reference:


Where "Greed" is "Malevolence (Evil)".

I personally would prefer incompetence. I can out-do incompetence. To a degree. Malevolence is harder to deal with since benevolence doesn't have a default (straightforward, understood) advantage.

I don't know. What about you?

I can get distilled water from the automotive section here. Just confirming that the ones I have is a no go before I do anything on my setup. thanks

Mine arrived when it still said "processing" on the website.
 
ordered friday 8th, arrived wed 13th.

Sterilized may contain minerals
Deionized may still contain organics
Distilled is the only free of everything but water.
 
Deionized can still be used interchangeably with distilled, however. Biocide or kill coils will prevent growth of whatever organisms if any are present in deionized.

Took this from ehow but the explanation seems reasonable. 
 
"Water can be both distilled and sterilized.Distilled water is made through the reverse osmosis of water. Some uses of distilled water are in automotive cooling systems, steam irons and home aquariums due to the lack of minerals and impurities. Sterilization of water requires boiling or treating the water and is often used when water is not otherwise safe to drink."
  So the water might contain impurities like minerals.