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I enjoyed the Brit-Cit portion of Dredd much more than the Meg side bit, so not really looking forward to the rest. Part of it's been the Texans being so basically sketched, with the TC CJ being so nakedly villainous from the start that I can't see what Hershey possibly thought she had to gain from the merger- hopefully the "alternative solution" will tidy that up. I've found some of the narrative turns made for plot expediency irksome as well, TC CJ just wandering in. on Hershey's private call, for example.

I know it's a holdover from the days of every other city having stupid stereotype judges, but do the Texans really have to keep those fucking hats? They look ridiculous.

A question about Water, if any will indulge me!

I work in a Warehouse which stocks many types of drinks. Just in our Depot alone there must thousands of litres of water sat on the shelf awaiting sale. Multiply that  across the UK and the rest of the World and we're looking at  millions of litres.

Could this contribute towards the many droughts seen across the World?*

Cheers

*in addition to climate change/man-made interference

It's almost certainly a minuscule contributor; as profligate and wasteful as I find bottled water, looking at some very rough calcs from googling: volume sold in 2005 (about 200 billion litres) vs total world volume of water in reservoirs (around 700 thousand trillion litres) and you're looking at probably less than a millionth of the world's freshwater being bottled. This is very rough, and ignores any local effects, but I'd be very surprised if it were ever a significant factor in droughts compared to, say, heavy industry.

New show will indeed be set in the classic timeline, most likely following the events of Undiscovered Country but before the introduction of Picard, Worf and the Enterprise-D.

This possibility is what most gets my nerd-boner going.  If they can replicate some of the feel of the Nic Meyer films, I'm in.  Ideally with the optimistic yet grounded utopianism of ToS, without the characters spouting propaganda like dead-eyed apparatchiks at every opportunity as in tNG onwards.  Plus Klingons with some nuance instead of the tNG shouty halfwits.

Jesus, what a knuckleheaded fratboy cretin DC have handed over their keystone franchise to.

Saying that, I found the neck-snap one of the least objectionable moments in MoS; one demigod killing another explicitly to protect people I can deal with, though my reaction was something like "why didn't you do that before you played metahuman pachinko, genius?".  I found it less tone-deaf and stupefyingly obtuse of the source material than Silk Spectre and Nite Owl  killing (neck snapping!) the alleyway muggers in Snyder's Watchmen at least.

I'm rather enjoying Dredd.  And those Klegg ships bring back fond memories of Bucky O'Hare.

I for one hope they take the opportunity to correct the current Christian-chauvinist (and ungrammatical) name and rebrand it as 2000 CE.

...which even makes reference to the Klegg-Sino alliance from The Corps that this story missed.  John Crace must be a Squaxx.

perhaps not, that may be why they chose there for the treaty signing? and nothing to do with Dragon statues

This is what I also was thinking.

Yeah me too but I thought there'd explicit mention of them having an alliance or something.

...which even makes reference to the Klegg-Sino alliance from The Corps that this story missed.  John Crace must be a Squaxx.

Re: the pun on the cover, see this Guardian article

So, with the Nevada caucus over another lowlife is defenestrated from the Republican clown car with Jeb Bush's concession.  With him goes the perverse schadenfreude of watching Trump wail on him, like a big dumb bully wedgying a little creep.

On the other side the brazen con-job the Clintons have managed to pull on black America paid off, and the mass-incarcerating racist, bellicose, asset-stripping neolib, beats the decent socialist.  The USA could have a decent person as president for the first time since 1977; that it will probably be yet another supine corporatist is heartbreaking.

I decided to have a look at the figures myself.
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The article specifically states it's the figure for England and Wales. And where did you get these figures?  Googling "Deaths Registered in England and Wales [Year]" gets a page like this, which gives a figure of 501,424 deaths in 2014. So the figure in the article is correct and it's a fucking huge increase.

I'd say you've got the beginnings of a Daleks' Master Plan there.  Hide your tarranium.

Okay then, some other examples...

Whatevs.  None of that trivial shit has anything to do with people being fed, roads being maintained, children not being sent up chimneys, minority rights being enforced, food not poisoning people, schools not being utter shit, endangered species being protected, or any of the other thousand and one things that actually matter and require central planning and the coercion of authority to stop greedy myopic dickbags stomping all over.  So yeah, the internet is a great example of anarchy if you think fucking 4Chan is equally as beneficial as any of those things.

[a scale in the millions of years]

The only point in debating with somebody like you is to illustrate to other people how egregiously, preposterously wrong you are.  So given that absolutely nobody on this forum swallows your obscurantist twaddle wrapped in your incredibly tiresome, "what me guv?" faux-naif act, it's probably utterly pointless. 

You've pinged around like a dozy wasp in a conservatory between so many mutually exclusive and strawmanned positions in this thread I've lost count; from "CO2 doesn't cause warming, look I've got this graph with a scale in the millions of years to prove it!" to "well okay it does cause warming but it'll be good, see!" to "look I can make a naive average to show it ain't no thang if I use the figures derived by the methods I've previously said are untrustworthy" to "AGW proponents say it's just the anthropogenic CO2 that causes warming!" to "we don't know for sure so the rational position is apportioning exactly a 50% probability to each!".

You don't get to refute the laboratory-observed properties of greenhouse gases from the confines of your head. The inference that adding to atmospheric CO2 will cause warming regardless of other factors (i.e. the natural cycles that you constantly irrelevantly bring up, that nobody outside your constructed-version of an agw proponent actually disputes the existence of) is such a solid one that the burden of proof is entirely on denialists to explain why CO2 would act differently in the atmosphere.  And no amount of Gish-galloping on your part will change that.

Reading your post TB, my advice would be get to your GP post-fucking-haste and get on the pills.  You'll almost certainly be offered an SSRI, which worked very well for me.  That feeling you describe is still there for me, but (most of the time) much more distant, muted, less intense.  Side-effects wise, all I really had was  some anorgasmia, which wasn't a huge deal- to put it crudely, it meant I could last for ages with my gf of the time.

Therapy wise you'll almost certainly (eventually) get a course of 8-odd CBT sessions.  CBT works very well for some people- personally not so much, annoyingly, but I'd at least give it a go.