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On the flip side, many people don't realize how much CG they're actually seeing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
   

A lot of the stuff done for Mad Max was just adding matting to enhance the look of the landscape to better suit the tone and feel of the movie or combining effects from multiple shots. They still had real vehicles and a lot of stunt work, which several videos showcase. Of course they're going to use the standard editing tricks, but other directors would have put even more CGI into the film in place of those practical effects. In Mad Max the CGI was there to enhance the film, not to make big chunks of it.

Here, hear the pronounciation.

I've found also a phonetical transcription linked from here.

The stress and depression on display in "Getting the Brush", for example, is hilarious.

A customer feedback vindaloop? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

With all the power of robotics, you've taken a task that takes a human less than five seconds, and reduced it to 1.2 seconds? Wow. I'm impressed.

That's what she said.

With all the power of robotics, you've taken a task that takes a human less than five seconds, and reduced it to 1.2 seconds? Wow. I'm impressed.

Eloi say that fire can't melt steel. But this Morlock will show how he's smarter than Eloi. I know which side I'll be on.

I don't remember that one, but I do remember another demonstration where the car was supposed to automatically brake for a stopped truck in front of it, and instead plowed right into it. As I recall there was a dummy in the car so no one was hurt, but still pretty embarrassing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNi17YLnZpg

...he told you that "you shouldn't change your behaviour" in response to government surveillance. Clearly, that message has gotten across. :)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

According to Youtube the webcams are much more entertaining than printers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here is one where the victim calls cam tech support, and tech is clueless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

According to Youtube the webcams are much more entertaining than printers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here is one where the victim calls cam tech support, and tech is clueless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

you might have bothered to try youtube first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Because that's easy. Volvos were already pretty much tanks on the roads. You do NOT want to get into a crash with a Volvo. Believe me that much. If you can either crash into a M1 tank or a Volvo, choose the M1. It sure is not only the softer target but also will cause less unnecessary damage on your car.

Take a look at some crash videos involving Volvos. Then ponder being in the "wrong" car. Not funny.

they didn't weigh that much. officially the 240 was a compact. i'm one of those dorks who weighs his car at truck scales out of curiosity, and a 240 with the usual amount of random junk in it (such as me) was less than 2900 lbs. my 7 year old honda civic weighs like 400 lbs more than that.
but the passenger compartment indeed did not deform on impact. the front and rear might, but any further impact is going to be absorbed by the other car.
the first clip here is a volvo station wagon turning an opel into tinfoil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

i wish i could find it; i'm pretty sure i remember correctly a crash test of a mercedes sedan in the 80s where the car was so rigid that it just stopped instantly on impact, and the inertia made the seat rip out of the floor. modifications ensued.

I reported a felony exactly two weeks ago and an officer just handed me a witness statement form. Filled it out, went down to the station to hand it in. Took about 20 minutes. I might have to testify if it goes to trial someday, but I think it's more likely they'll just plea.

I would never cooperate voluntarily with the police as you did because as an individual citizen I have no legitimate interest in helping them to solve crimes. At best I expose myself to indictment and prosecution merely by becoming involved and for no possible benefit to myself. Speaking with the police about a criminal matter is dangerous, whether you're a suspect or not, and no attorney would advise their client to do so voluntarily unless they were already unavoidably involved in the whole affair and making deals was the only way to get out. If I cannot remain unknown to the police then my response to them will be "5th amendment, speak with my attorney".

Why You Should Never Talk to the Police

I love these Heartland AC's using words like "opaque" in a very word salad kind of way

I don't get it. What's the problem? It's perfectly cromulent, in every fashion imaginable..

What is "pollution" other than a temporary imbalance? The survivors will grow more nose hair to filter out the particles in the air, and their eyes' frequency spectrum will shift slightly towards red/infrared to "see" through the smog. What the polluters need to do is add some nicotine to the mix, and people might complain a little less, but, you know, the tobacco companies rule, that's why weed is still illegal. Prosperity awaits!

I have a double major degree in Journalism and Political Science - trust me, I've "thought a bit" about media messaging for partisan gain. You argue that they're targeting children with their advertisements, the same way toy and cereal ads do. I looked up the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Pay attention to the language of the voice-over. This ad was not targeted at children. Compare it to an ad that was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I trust you'll notice some differences in tone and presentation. The famous bank robber Willie Sutton was once asked why he robbed banks. He replied, "That's where the money is." In other words, to reach your target demographic, you have to go to them. I never recall a single actual firearm advertisement ran during my Saturday Morning Cartoons when I was young, nor have I seen them show up when babysitting my young cousins in recent years. Plenty of cereal and toys, but no firearms. Cereal and toys tend to be a lot cheaper than a Crickett rifle (about 130 dollars USD on Cabellas as we speak,) and are much more like "impulse buys," which is why grocery stores place them low on the shelves; so kids can grab'em and chuck them in Mom's cart, and then make a fuss till Mom leaves them there. That's also why the ads are colorful and feature mascot characters so heavily - easy brand recognition for young children; the same imagery and face on the box and the commercial. The Nerf commercial I linked featured one of the most expensive blasters they ever made (50+ bucks, easily 70 or 80 with "accessories" like extra darts and such,) putting it closer to the "expensive holiday gift" price bracket the Crickett's are in, so that's as close to a 1:1 comparison as you can reasonably get. I've seen ads for Crickett rifles in Guns and Ammo and other firearm/sporting magazines; 5 year old's neither subscribe to these, nor read them.

Crickett firearms are not targeting child demographics with their ads, as readily evidenced by looking at advertising in media children actually watch. You're trying to manufacture a false equivalence by shooting your mouth off about things you don't understand and haven't made even a cursory effort to research.

Try thinking before posting next time.

I have a double major degree in Journalism and Political Science - trust me, I've "thought a bit" about media messaging for partisan gain. You argue that they're targeting children with their advertisements, the same way toy and cereal ads do. I looked up the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Pay attention to the language of the voice-over. This ad was not targeted at children. Compare it to an ad that was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I trust you'll notice some differences in tone and presentation. The famous bank robber Willie Sutton was once asked why he robbed banks. He replied, "That's where the money is." In other words, to reach your target demographic, you have to go to them. I never recall a single actual firearm advertisement ran during my Saturday Morning Cartoons when I was young, nor have I seen them show up when babysitting my young cousins in recent years. Plenty of cereal and toys, but no firearms. Cereal and toys tend to be a lot cheaper than a Crickett rifle (about 130 dollars USD on Cabellas as we speak,) and are much more like "impulse buys," which is why grocery stores place them low on the shelves; so kids can grab'em and chuck them in Mom's cart, and then make a fuss till Mom leaves them there. That's also why the ads are colorful and feature mascot characters so heavily - easy brand recognition for young children; the same imagery and face on the box and the commercial. The Nerf commercial I linked featured one of the most expensive blasters they ever made (50+ bucks, easily 70 or 80 with "accessories" like extra darts and such,) putting it closer to the "expensive holiday gift" price bracket the Crickett's are in, so that's as close to a 1:1 comparison as you can reasonably get. I've seen ads for Crickett rifles in Guns and Ammo and other firearm/sporting magazines; 5 year old's neither subscribe to these, nor read them.

Crickett firearms are not targeting child demographics with their ads, as readily evidenced by looking at advertising in media children actually watch. You're trying to manufacture a false equivalence by shooting your mouth off about things you don't understand and haven't made even a cursory effort to research.

Try thinking before posting next time.

How's this for tip number one. Logically if they have the technology to make it here, they will also likely have the technology to hide being here (as evidenced by slow but sure advances in our own stealth technology), so logically if they are seen it is only because they want to be seen. The only logical reason for them being here, of course the great show we are putting on, now that's some real reality TV, assuming advances in technology, 3D sensorama, feel what the short hair crested rock throwing monkey people feel. As for communicating look up into the sky and https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., try to avoid the stabby bits but don't forget to be entertaining.

All in all still really childish to be scared into denial (please on please let there be no aliens in a universe of galaxies, or so sillily arrogant, oh yeah we are so special only we can exist in an entire fucking galaxy, uh huh ). Where life can exist it will and where environmental conditions promote the advantage of the adaptability of intelligence over slower physical evolution it will. When societies can advance sufficiently to travel the stars without destroying itself they will. Our location and the age of the galaxy, means the math puts us very, very (billions of years) late in the game. Suck it up and grow up, what does it mean, not much at all, live, eat, work, fuck, sleep, die. You can bet, logically they will not want the show to end, that mass carnage without being directly involved in it, would be a thing of fascination. What will the crazy monkey people do next, blow themselves up with nukes, GMO themselves to death with a bad mutation, render their planet uninhabitable for themselves, maybe they take bets, maybe they have their favourites, maybe they can pry right in there with quantum remote sensing at a distance (in that case giddyup dobin and make the ride interesting).

Then again just http://johnfenzel.typepad.com/..., if it makes you feel better, so be it. Likely wont alter the entertainment value at all, just make it last longer and just like us, we never want our favourite shows to end, our favourite characters dying off (even when the emotions are so fulfilling) and then love to discuss what has happened and tried to guess what will happen next. A possible audience of trillions, which mean thousands might find any one of particular one of you fascinating, still likely dibs for the best rides.

There are multiple videos of 3 year olds opening cheap safes. i.g: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Also some tragic news of it happening in the wild.

I recently modified my AK after obamas state of the union speech to be a bit smarter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So after "5. Eliminate False Positives", and "7. Examine Witness Documentation" how many **true positives** _still_ remain?

Because the Disclose project calls bullshit:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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~2022 Proof that we're not alone

William K. Black wrote a book with that title.

This is the introduction from his TEDx talk about bank fraud:

"So today's class is on how to rob a bank, and it's clear the general public needs guidance because the average the average bank robbery nets only 7,500 dollars. Rank amateurs who know nothing about how to cook the books. The folks who know run our largest banks, and in our last go-round, they cost us over 11 trillion dollars. They cost us over 10 million jobs as well. So our task is to educate ourselves so we can understand why we have these recurrent intensifying financial crises and how we can prevent them in the future. And the answer to that is that we have to stop epidemics of control fraud. Control fraud is what happens when the people who control, typically a CEO, a seemingly legitimate entity, use it as a weapon to defraud."

I'll trust what you have to say after you tell me how many Rockwell Turbo encabulators you have worked on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'm all for it.

I am constantly reminded that people seldom communicate well with each other; Why would they be expected to communicate well with machines?

The Wolfram Language seems to me to be a good way to learn to communicate (at least mathematically) with machines, and it looks to me like it could help improve communicating mathematically with people, too.

Charles Key Ogden developed a system he called "Basic English," based on the theory that anything can be communicated in 850 words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Notice how many English words are mathematical. They describe numbers, relations, space, etc., etc.. Yet people with huge vocabularies seem to lack precision; almost everything in their language is an abstraction rather than an operable fact.

I hold no hope for the Human Race, but after only two hours trying out the Wolfram Language, I can see how this will help new thinkers master communication with their tools, and the tools they have to communicate with every day.

Something like this perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Why people think this was an invention which came much later is beyond me, we started as animals, and in all the important ways, we still are animals.

I'll explain why people think that given that I've taken the trouble of reading some books, rather than just ranting on Slashdot about other people's stupidity.

The accepted idea, which this paper tries to overthrow, is that until the beginning of agriculture there wasn't much of a reason to fight. Human densities were quite low and food was available. As such, if one group tried, for whatever reason, to take the territory of another, it was easier just to flee than to risk confrontation. That is the reason this comes as a surprise and merits an article in such an important scientific journal as Nature.

It is known that people that moved from hunter-gathering to agriculture had poorer diets, were smaller, and had more diet/hunger -related diseases than the hunter-gatherers. Even today, (close to) hunter-gatherer societies have little trouble finding food. As such, there seems to be no problem with the reasoning that food was abundant. Perhaps scientists have been wrong all along thinking people wouldn't be willing to fight for it, and this case seems to bring some credit to that theory. However, it makes more sense to me (Occam's Razor and all) that his was just some sort of an isolated incident. There are assholes everywhere. Or maybe there was indeed something worth fighting for over there and these people were ambushed.

But then people act all surprised and think war and violence was a modern invention ... our limbic system says we directly evolved from things with not much more advanced impulses than a lizard ... eat, survive, fuck.

It's an intrinsic property, and when push comes to shove, we'll revert back to it pretty quickly. Having higher brain functions doesn't mean those other things have gone away.

Yes, our limbic system tells us to eat, survive and mate. Gratuitous fighting over food that has no special intrinsic value over any other food source violates the second rule of our limbic system. So, there's no good reason to fight over food which you haven't planted and tended for, and is growing freely in trees... hence the idea that actual warring started with agriculture. After all, you don't see any other animals actually engaging in long term conflicts either. And if your comment is "well, maybe there was no food available!" the generally accepted answer is that hunter-gatherers have such little possessions that they can just move to another area to look for food. And having higher brain functions tells you, once again, that in a normal situation that is preferable to confrontation. As before, surviving to eat more and eventually mate. So what was the problem in this specific case? I have no idea, but maybe there were external factors. Maybe there were going through an extreme drought and food was indeed too scarce, which sets a different background to this whole story. Maybe this area had the best fruits ever! I guess we'll never know. But this is just one small bit of information, it doesn't make us a bunch of assholes that have to kill each other because of our limbic systems.

It's true that water vapor is the greenhouse gas that causes the most greenhouse effect but it's also true that water is present in all three phases of normal matter on the Earth and it easily transforms from one to the other. The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is strictly limited by temperature and to some extent by the availability of water to evaporate. If there's too much it precipitates out. And while there's a relationship between water vapor and clouds they are two quite different things when it comes to the greenhouse effect. Again the level of water vapor in the atmosphere is strictly limited by temperature. If we could magically reduce CO2 in the atmosphere to 200 ppm the cooling would cause the level of water vapor to also drop and pretty quickly we would be starting a new glacial period. Water vapor by itself can not drive climate change but is strictly a feedback of other things that do drive climate.

Nearly, but not quite. However, you do have an inkling of the idea - that temperature drives water vapor and that has a large effect on the climate. Now we have already established that the effect of CO2 on water vapor is negligible, with the low *OBSERVED* ECS and TCS.

We've already covered the effect of solar magnetic activity on cloud formation (and thus, climate) through the work of Dr Nir Shaviv and Professor Svensmark. Now you can learn more from the man who literally wrote the (post-graduate) textbook on atmospheric physics (although you probably cannot follow the math):
"Climate Scientist Murry Salby Demolishes the Global Warming Alarm"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Climate Scientist Murry Salby Returns! - Presents NEW SCIENCE"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ok, the optimum CO2 level from my point of view would be somewhere between 300 and 350 ppm, enough to conteract the slow cooling trend from changes in Milankovitch Cycles but not so much that it causes major warming. But it's still an irrelevant question.

Ah, here we have the reactionary wanting to head back to pre-industrial levels. Do you not understand that dropping the CO2 to this level will cut crop yields massively, and thus starve BILLIONS? as a zealot you don't care, right? the only thing that matters is your sanctimony and feeling of self-worth for propagating the warmunist groupthiink.

After the sea ice low minimum in 2012 (which was more than 2 standard deviations below the trend line) Arctic sea ice rebounded to slightly above the trend line in 2013. In science this is commonly called regression to the mean. 2014 ASI minimum was lower than 2013 and in 2015 it was the 4th lowest on record. None of the ASI minimums after 2006 are greater than the lowest records before 2006 (back to 1979 when the satellite measurements started).

And? What is magical about the cold year 1979? why is it superior to 2006? you don't know ! because there is no reason - apart from the fact you warmunists are the ultimate in conservative reactionaries. What matters is that the derivative of ice change is basically zero, with natural variability on top (dominated by wind effects, as it tuns out). You have no reason to worry about this - since the polar bears are increasing in number - but you are simply afraid of any change at all. It is irrational.

Baffin Island is really close to Greenland so it doesn't surprise me it shows similar trends. How about some records from Siberia, China, Chile or New Zealand?

Here is New Zealand - looks exactly the same as the USA
https://stevengoddard.wordpres...
And local bodies concur

It's true that water vapor is the greenhouse gas that causes the most greenhouse effect but it's also true that water is present in all three phases of normal matter on the Earth and it easily transforms from one to the other. The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is strictly limited by temperature and to some extent by the availability of water to evaporate. If there's too much it precipitates out. And while there's a relationship between water vapor and clouds they are two quite different things when it comes to the greenhouse effect. Again the level of water vapor in the atmosphere is strictly limited by temperature. If we could magically reduce CO2 in the atmosphere to 200 ppm the cooling would cause the level of water vapor to also drop and pretty quickly we would be starting a new glacial period. Water vapor by itself can not drive climate change but is strictly a feedback of other things that do drive climate.

Nearly, but not quite. However, you do have an inkling of the idea - that temperature drives water vapor and that has a large effect on the climate. Now we have already established that the effect of CO2 on water vapor is negligible, with the low *OBSERVED* ECS and TCS.

We've already covered the effect of solar magnetic activity on cloud formation (and thus, climate) through the work of Dr Nir Shaviv and Professor Svensmark. Now you can learn more from the man who literally wrote the (post-graduate) textbook on atmospheric physics (although you probably cannot follow the math):
"Climate Scientist Murry Salby Demolishes the Global Warming Alarm"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Climate Scientist Murry Salby Returns! - Presents NEW SCIENCE"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ok, the optimum CO2 level from my point of view would be somewhere between 300 and 350 ppm, enough to conteract the slow cooling trend from changes in Milankovitch Cycles but not so much that it causes major warming. But it's still an irrelevant question.

Ah, here we have the reactionary wanting to head back to pre-industrial levels. Do you not understand that dropping the CO2 to this level will cut crop yields massively, and thus starve BILLIONS? as a zealot you don't care, right? the only thing that matters is your sanctimony and feeling of self-worth for propagating the warmunist groupthiink.

After the sea ice low minimum in 2012 (which was more than 2 standard deviations below the trend line) Arctic sea ice rebounded to slightly above the trend line in 2013. In science this is commonly called regression to the mean. 2014 ASI minimum was lower than 2013 and in 2015 it was the 4th lowest on record. None of the ASI minimums after 2006 are greater than the lowest records before 2006 (back to 1979 when the satellite measurements started).

And? What is magical about the cold year 1979? why is it superior to 2006? you don't know ! because there is no reason - apart from the fact you warmunists are the ultimate in conservative reactionaries. What matters is that the derivative of ice change is basically zero, with natural variability on top (dominated by wind effects, as it tuns out). You have no reason to worry about this - since the polar bears are increasing in number - but you are simply afraid of any change at all. It is irrational.

Baffin Island is really close to Greenland so it doesn't surprise me it shows similar trends. How about some records from Siberia, China, Chile or New Zealand?

Here is New Zealand - looks exactly the same as the USA
https://stevengoddard.wordpres...
And local bodies concur

Here's one of 75 electric taxis that operated in London in the late 1800s. They're worth considerably more now than when they were first sold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ...and, electric taxis? Modern and innovative? Seriously?

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---

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.

Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.

And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers: Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!

You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts!

You don't hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery - Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!

In you!

You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.

By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!

Now let us fight to fulfill that promise!

Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.

Let us fig

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---

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.

Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.

And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers: Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!

You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts!

You don't hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery - Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!

In you!

You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.

By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!

Now let us fight to fulfill that promise!

Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.

Let us fig

Edwin Starr summed it up pretty succinctly.

As someone who often gets paid to integrate and troubleshoot already-built embedded electronics, I've been consistently shocked at how easily manufacturers have been able to log in and de-SNAFU the systems they've built.

Just to pick an example off the top of my head: Zetron paging terminals. For us to access it, we used our own accounts and passwords that we configured when we set up the box. When we called Zetron for assistance one day, all they needed or wanted was a phone number for the terminal, and from there they were able to quickly clickity-click their way in with the highest level of access.

Back doors aren't secrets.

For those of you who don't know who that may be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Don't think of it as a back door. Think of it as a front door with really big locks.

I'd rather it had great knockers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTw1lzxTAis

America was founded on freedom, asshole. I'm an American, and I love freedom.

Freedom means choosing your own values. Being forced to accept someone else's values is the opposite of freedom, asshole.

We should live in a society where people can do whatever the fuck they want. That's what "freedom" means, asshole. And since you are probably enough of an asshole to try and point out a contradiction where there isn't one, I am not advocating anarchy, as it is obvious that people should not be free to do things that directly harm others. The need to balance individual freedom against harm to others is obvious.

Breaking a promise to someone else is harmful, but not so harmful that we throw people in jail for it. That same principle applies to sexual practices between consenting adults, duh.

Take your moral dictatorship and shove it up your ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

99% of them sucked, in every decade. Memory wipes out the bad ones and reminds you of the good ones.

Here's my top 5 of bad movies that are unforgettable, by decade.

2010: Twixt (disclaimer: that's the only one in the list I was unable to watch until the end)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

2000s: Freddy Got Fingered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1990s: Passenger 57 (best scene ever: "Who's in charge?")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1980s: Smokey and the Bandit part 3 (which has no Bandit in it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1970s: Good Guys Wear Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

99% of them sucked, in every decade. Memory wipes out the bad ones and reminds you of the good ones.

Here's my top 5 of bad movies that are unforgettable, by decade.

2010: Twixt (disclaimer: that's the only one in the list I was unable to watch until the end)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

2000s: Freddy Got Fingered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1990s: Passenger 57 (best scene ever: "Who's in charge?")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1980s: Smokey and the Bandit part 3 (which has no Bandit in it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1970s: Good Guys Wear Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

99% of them sucked, in every decade. Memory wipes out the bad ones and reminds you of the good ones.

Here's my top 5 of bad movies that are unforgettable, by decade.

2010: Twixt (disclaimer: that's the only one in the list I was unable to watch until the end)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

2000s: Freddy Got Fingered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1990s: Passenger 57 (best scene ever: "Who's in charge?")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1980s: Smokey and the Bandit part 3 (which has no Bandit in it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1970s: Good Guys Wear Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

99% of them sucked, in every decade. Memory wipes out the bad ones and reminds you of the good ones.

Here's my top 5 of bad movies that are unforgettable, by decade.

2010: Twixt (disclaimer: that's the only one in the list I was unable to watch until the end)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

2000s: Freddy Got Fingered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1990s: Passenger 57 (best scene ever: "Who's in charge?")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1980s: Smokey and the Bandit part 3 (which has no Bandit in it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1970s: Good Guys Wear Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

99% of them sucked, in every decade. Memory wipes out the bad ones and reminds you of the good ones.

Here's my top 5 of bad movies that are unforgettable, by decade.

2010: Twixt (disclaimer: that's the only one in the list I was unable to watch until the end)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

2000s: Freddy Got Fingered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1990s: Passenger 57 (best scene ever: "Who's in charge?")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1980s: Smokey and the Bandit part 3 (which has no Bandit in it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1970s: Good Guys Wear Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Kind of reminds me of this MIT prank:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It is not possible to educate these peoples. Call them like you want, I don't care about political correctness any more.

I concur. I can only dream of a world where ads are banned. /oblg. and nothing of value was lost :-)

Instead, we ended up with this crappy state of affairs (Futurama - Internet Ads)

No, with a Jizzle

https://www.youtube.com/playli...

I'll watch Ep8 when it comes out, but only because I found a new way to enjoy them, picking the shit out of their weak production.

You must be one of those people who say that there's only 2 "true" Godfather movies. If we ever work in the same company I'll make sure you end up at the losers table for the Christmas party, with all the other naysayers and whiners.

Here's a bit of wisdom from Ke$ha:

When we fell in love
You made my heart drop
And you had me thinking 'bout you nonstop
But you cry 'bout this and whine about that
When you grow a pear
You can call me back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Nobody likes a whiner.