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//Followup// I agree that we all knew "torture" was happening; I don't think anyone knew the degree, or lack of oversight it was committed under. I was under the naive thought, still, that the United States of America was better than this. Water boarding was always a grey area for me, but to read that it actually caused several drownings where paramedics had to bring detainees back to life, is a shade much. Letting someone freeze to the concrete floor and die of hypothermia, because you took away his clothing, and chained him to the floor, in a detention facility, in Poland, in November, with no heat, because you wanted to go home to your family......... Yea thats some nazi level shit When you leave a detainee in isolation, for 48 days, with 1 meal a day, and only a bucket for his own waste, because you needed a break to go on vacation, and see your family..... Really? Anally probing someone so many times that their rectum prolapses...... thats fucked up. I can't help but flip the narrative as I read this. I keep swapping the term "CIA" for ISIL or Al'Qa'ida, and my blood boils at the thought of someone doing this to Americans. That made me realize that my reaction should be the same when it happens to anyone. Especially when we have gained ZERO credible information, as the report and committee tried to find instances of credible information, and didn't.

I edited in a point that was made early on in the PDF. That might have been missed. here it is again: there was no relationship between the cited counterterrorism success and any information provided by detainees during or after the use of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques. In the remaining cases, the CIA inaccurately claimed that specific, otherwise unavailable information was acquired from a CIA detainee “as a result” of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques, when in fact the information was either: (1) corroborative of information already available to the CIA or other elements of the U.S. Intelligence Community from sources other than the CIA detainee, and was therefore not “otherwise unavailable”; or (2) acquired from the CIA detainee prior to the use of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques. The examples provided by the CIA included numerous factual inaccuracies. In providing the “effectiveness” examples to policymakers, the Department of Justice, and others, the CIA consistently omitted the significant amount of relevant intelligence obtained from sources other than CIA detainees who had been subjected to the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques—leaving the false impression the CIA was acquiring unique information from the use of the techniques. Some of the plots that the CIA claimed to have “disrupted” as a result of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques were assessed by intelligence and law enforcement officials as being infeasible or ideas that were never operationalized. ----------------------- In other words, Nothing of value was gained from this.

I still need to do VoG, but now I am wondering if I should skip it and just focus on the new Raid. I read a similar thread on reddit earlier, and the consensus there was WoG was pointless as they hadn't updated the loot table for the level 31-32 stuff, and the buff was now gone. (No idea what buff they are talking about) I don't know how accurate this is, but there ya go

Thats not necessarily true. Every publicly released instance in the past where the CIA has said we got X from torture has been proven false within this report. In other words they have lied. Seriously, read the report, it clearly shows how we received no credible information of any future or passed attacks on us or any of our allies. In fact it shows that the information we did receive was already known, and the prisoners only confirmed that information after being presented it. (In other words, I tell you its raining outside, I then drown you a few times, or break your leg and make you stand on it, and as you if its raining outside) Link for those that want to Download it: http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf The report is long as hell and will most likely depress you, so be careful. Its 525 pages, I am only about 100 into it. Also, another urban myth is that all of these prisoners were "Bad" is false, in the few cases brought to trial, the majority have been found innocent. I can start citing passages here soon, if you all want me to. EDIT: This point is fairly early on: there was no relationship between the cited counterterrorism success and any information provided by detainees during or after the use of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques. In the remaining cases, the CIA inaccurately claimed that specific, otherwise unavailable information was acquired from a CIA detainee “as a result” of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques, when in fact the information was either: (1) corroborative of information already available to the CIA or other elements of the U.S. Intelligence Community from sources other than the CIA detainee, and was therefore not “otherwise unavailable”; or (2) acquired from the CIA detainee prior to the use of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques. The examples provided by the CIA included numerous factual inaccuracies. In providing the “effectiveness” examples to policymakers, the Department of Justice, and others, the CIA consistently omitted the significant amount of relevant intelligence obtained from sources other than CIA detainees who had been subjected to the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques—leaving the false impression the CIA was acquiring unique information from the use of the techniques. Some of the plots that the CIA claimed to have “disrupted” as a result of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques were assessed by intelligence and law enforcement officials as being infeasible or ideas that were never operationalized. My opinion: At this point, I can say without a shadow of a doubt, that our country was wrong, we were lied to, we were made to believe things that were patently false, and we tortured and mistreated people (Leading to several deaths), to cover up what we were doing. I think Bush was a "Useful Idiot", and I honestly think that Cheney was some sort of Sith lord for scamming most in the way he has. I still love Rumsfield though

Jsin cursed me, so today is MegaDave Day

Saw a trailer for this at the beginning of Big Hero 6 (Amazing movie BTW), it looked awesome, can't wait to see it

Yea, I think I was playing it way to much like CoD. I started doing the "Turtle" thing last night and was able to manage it far better. Now to get a decent Main Hand weapon and I will be all set

Anyone going to be around tomorrow during the day for some runs? Not sure what I am able to raid yet, but I would like to get some strikes in for faction and marks.

I am mentally incapable of playing WoW anymore. What they did to the game in MoP is horrible. What they are doing to the game now just expands on the ass reaming. Blizz Dev's literally have no idea what they are doing at this point, which is why they make changes, and then roll them back the next week. Seriously, if Bungie takes a page from Blizzard about how to handle expansions then the game will only get worse with teh Faction grinds, odd currency's that are only good for that expansion, and the gear that becomes redudnant. Let alone the completely arbitrary reworking of Talent tree's. I'd rather avoid my Titan Defender becoming a pure DPS class with zero defense abilities when the next Expansion comes out; but if they follow Blizzards lead, then thats what will happen. TL;DR - Fuck Blizzard, they have destroyed their game with every expansion since WOTLK

At what point does that fuckhead start mailing things? I am rank 7, damn near 8, and all he does is bitch at me about getting bored, and give me motes of light. Seriously, he is cruising for a cockpunch.

Marty Friedman is amazing, I think he is a great example. I love Tornado of Souls, also Five Magics and Polaris. Damn I guess tomorrow will be a Mega Dave day for me.

Sadly I am more of a casual player. I just do a few bounties and then endless patrols

That hurts my head and makes baby jesus cry. I am starting to see why some folks are really pissed with Bungie over this game.

From what I have read they are levelled up based on when you would level up if the game hadn't stopped counting XP at 20 which is weird, but seems to be borne out by Reddit. Also I leveled to 3 on my Vangaurd Rep last night, and no commendation You know for a fact that some dev was sitting there in a meeting and sarcastically said they needed to make the game more of a Grindfest, and then BAM! It actually happened

The Vanguard Faction armor changing makes me grouchy I was one piece shy on Monday night, so I bought the last piece with my Marks last night..... No more Armada Armor! Nope, its an all new Titan set! Oh and by the way! the colors and styles aren't the same

So, I ALWAYS look for armor that gives bonus ammo. and then I equip those weapons because it just makes sense to me. Yet, for the last few weeks I am always running dry on every weapon type. So I have been burning up my Glimmer with buying Synth's Then I saw this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2ousck/3_months_after_launch_dlc_out_all_new/ Yep, in case you hadn't noticed for yourself yet we are still losing ammo for any weapon type that we have a bonus to 'carry more' of. This is getting ridiculous - not only that it's still happening but that Bungie just doesn't seem to care. Almost all boots/gloves and chest pieces have a bonus to one ammo type or another and they basically do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to. It makes rocket launchers damn near useless in raids unless you are willing to use a LOT of synths. Not only is this bug still in the game, but Bungie continue to release every piece of armor with 'Increases amount of <weapon> ammo you can carry'. Today I got Dragon's Breath, I was so excited! Until I saw it has a 3 tube size perk and now I won't be using it in raids. Great. Here is the writeup I posted a while back, yet again (and still without answer). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to my original post on reddit[1] Link to my post on bungie.net[2] The Bungie post is still bumped by people (not me) every day or two. The Reddit post sits at #11 for this sub and was on the front page for days. Neither has attracted a response from Bungie at this point. What is the bug? Reduces the available ammo of a given weapon or weapon type. How long has this been around? Since game launch. When does it trigger? Death. Going to orbit. Returning from orbit. Cutscenes. What makes it trigger? Any item with the buff to increase the amount of ammo you can carry of a particular type. Rocket launchers with a bonus to tube size as a perk. Methods I have used to test. Equipping the item / using a synth and killing myself. Gathering ammo legitimately and killing myself. Multiple death types (suicide/jumping off cliffs and NPC death). Results of testing With items this has reduced ammo 100% of the time, without them it has never reduced ammo. This is not an intermittent bug, it is extremely easy to reproduce and should be a priority to fix. All tests were performed with the items of the type equipped then tested again without them. Each test has been performed at maximum ammo capacity and at varying levels of ammo. Results did not change. Items I have personally tested with and witnessed the bug Lucky Raspberry (Heavy ammo increase) Crest of the Alpha Lupi (Special ammo increase) Hezen Vengeance (Tube size increase from 2 to 3) Iron Regalia Boots (Increases scout rifle ammo) Various other items with the same buffs. Results unchanged and the above are my 'go to' testing set. Update post-DLC - I have retested with Dark Beyond armor. Bug still exists Ammo types I have tested and seen reduced All of them. Workaround: Items with the 'Field Scout' perk turned on are not effected by the bug. Other observations With rocket launcher tube size increase, the ammo drops until you are down to 2 (thus the bonus isn't active) With special/heavy increases the ammo drops until 1 rocket/minimal machine gun ammo With primary ammo it seems it only drops to a certain amount then stops, however when you respawn in any situation it seems you are given a certain amount of primary ammo to start with. This seems to be the threshold and is possibly just offsetting the bug. No way for me to confirm this. This bug has been acknowledged by Deej on the bungie forums in the past, but has not commented further than I can find. I have asked many many times to no avail. Link: http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/78765696/0/0/1[3] Text: Yeah. Known bug. Unsure of status. I see you leaving a lot of good feedback on this forum, though.

Rectal Hydration? Now I want to listen to some Led Zeppelin

I have seen almost every episode that is on Netflix. Right up to when Clay gets booted, the dude in prison kills that chick and starts getting tortured by her brother I need to watch more

My problem with every album AFTER the final cut is that it is really no longer Pink Floyd. If you listen to Gilmour's solo albums, you will see how Floyd has morphed into his personal band, that bows to his creative urges. There isn't anything wrong with that in and of itself. Its just that Pink Floyd was always about the Group dynamic, and its now gone. If you were to take songs from any album pre-Waters leaving, you can hear the passion and turmoil the band was going through, which created passion in the albums. The infighting between Waters and Gilmour is legendary; but out of that fighting we were given really personal and haunting pieces of music. With Momentary lapse of Reason, Division Bell, and Endless River, its missing. I'm not saying you're wrong in your opinion. I'm just saying that for me, I can hear a distinct difference in passion, anger, and creative leanings. I do enjoy the albums, but not in the same vein or with the same love I do the older Pink Floyd stuff. if that makes sense. @Jsin - I never really got into guitarists when I was younger. Now though I really pay attention to play styles and passion. I used to think that Eddie Van Halen was a god. Now, I think he is a really good technical player, but the dude has zero soul for music from what I hear. Marty Friedman - Dude! He never got the credit he deserved from Mega Dave! Don't get me wrong I love MegaDeth, but Mega Dave is a dickhole and he burns his guitarists out. Yngwie Malmsteen (Sp) - Give him a try - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yngwie_Malmsteen

Got this for the final Crota Crystal fight thing Also I got some sort of Ghost plugin that gives me bonus XP for my Fusion Rifle to level up.

The problem I was having was that there was literally ZERO ammo drops I got through it by buying ammo packs from the Gun dealer in the tower, and then punching my way through as much as I could. That is the first time I have never seen ammo drop in the game. Normally every third mob and his cousin will drop ammo of some random color. Not this time

Holy shit! Talk about Waves of assholes trying to kill you. At level 26, with the weapons I have, its damn near impossible to beat. I died 5 times before I didn't have enough ammo to get any further and called it quits. Stay by the control panel, and take your time Stay out of the green shit on teh floor Reserve your heavy ammo for the final dude (Whom I can't beat)

I got motes of light from the DLC

Pretty much exactly this Also, did you guys hear that if you didn't buy this "Expansion" then you don't get to do a daily or weekly

Post what you get from your engram hording The only thing I got of any use at all for my engrams was the titan Justicars Greaves http://www.destinydb.com/items/1666787408-justicars-greaves#1.MkmyX2R8