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I'd argue that quite a lot of people make better bad guys than nazi's. In my top three bad guys ever, they'd have to be:
1) Darth Vader
2) Goldfinger
3) The Joker
Nazi's are easy to caricature as bad guys, they're too stereotypical. It's almost a sign of lazy scripting..."bad guys needed, english? nazi's? commies"

Whatever failings in finding ineffective private charties are multiplied in the case of public ones. Every charity I know of takes more interest in the people they help than to just mail a check every month.

Charity spending from all sources has oversight. It's just that oversight on public charity is less, of less quality, and has zero effect on funding. Often the response to problems in a program is to increase their budget. Private charities can't usually afford that.

Your analysis is filled with double standards. Hold the govt. charities to the same standard as the private ones and you will find that they don't provide nearly as good a deal for the poor as private charity.

You want me to defend a caricature of actual proposals. When the first work requirements were rammed through Congress and President Clinton reluctantly signed on, there were widespread predictions of mass starvation and cruel conditions for the poor. Today, it's clear that the pro-market pro-accountability reforms were the best thing to happen to the poor in decades.

The same people who brought that success are now suggesting that private charities be given a bigger portion of our money. Now we've got the same voices who were so wrong over the last decade again predicting doom and gloom in the same apocalyptic terms. How often do they have to be wrong before they start to bear the burden of proving their ideas instead of demanding the privatizers prove theirs?

You're damn right man!
That duke dude was terrific!
I can remember some hilarious quotes and the way he is speaking is so kewl! the best caricature of the tough guy going to war ever!

"Come get someâ
âoeHail to the king, baby"
"What are you waiting for? Christmas?"
"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I' m aaaaall out of gum!"
"Now ... I'm reaaaally pissed off"
when he picks up a shotgun : "This'll be a barrel of laughs"
when he crosses a road in Manhattan Project :"What do you think I am? A frog? " (refering to a well known frog game;-) )
to the girls "Do you want to test my big gun ?"
about the cards to collect to progress in the game "These colored keycards suck"
"damn that was annoying"
"ooooh, thats gonna leave a mark"
"What a mess"
"Your face, your ass... What's the difference"
"Bring It On"
"Damn! Those alien bastards are gonna pay for ruining my ride"

and so many others damn that was good!

I am trolling slightly, but making the serious point that the easygoing Yank vs. stiff-upper lipped Brit caricature is not the whole truth.

Mavis Beacon Teaches StereoTyping is bad fiction, of course, but fiction and life are connected in a bizarre feedback loop.

I have visited the States & didn't witness much of the aforementioned. I was trying semi-humorously to make the point that people who had trouble spelling used to be beaten, then dyslexia was 'discovered'. People who had trouble paying attention... and so on and so forth.

What happened to these people before these conditions were discovered? By which I mean which people are currently being beaten/burned at the stake/ostracised because they will not sit still/believe in transubstatiation or any other such fashionable nonsense.

That's all I meant.

I second the nomination of Darl McBride caricatured as Dr. Evil. If Bill Gates can be the Borg, then...

a troll? moi? surely you should be able to do better than that

something like this, you mean?

troll

As used on the Internet:

1) As a verb, the practice of trying to lure other Internet users into sending responses to carefully-designed incorrect statements or similar "bait."

troll

v.,n.  1.Â[From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase "trolling for newbies" which in turn comes from mainstream "trolling", a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. See also YHBT. 2. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that the have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, "Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll."

Use this whenever you have a troll in a discussion group!

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. Don't you know that you are pathetic? You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you.

You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you. You are a bloody nardless newbie twit protohominid chromosomally aberrant caricature of a coprophagic cloacal parasitic pond scum and I wish you would go away.

You're a putrescence mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.

You are a bleating fool, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?

If you aren't an idiot, you made a world-class effort at simulating one. Try to edit your writing of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.

You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.

You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Mon

Slashdot put the right spin on it. Kinda.

The Bhutanese government is now considering whether TV has a damaging effect on the people. It's still an open question. But you have to understand that TV has a much greater immediate impact on those people than we're accustomed to.

Kids there have started emulating their favorite stars because they treat the TV stars like they treat anyone else. They don't necessarily understand that TV is a caricature of real life. We understand that now; we now have filters in place that tell us that TV isn't real.

They also haven't gotten accustomed to advertisements. They assume that when a product makes people happy in an ad, it will make them happy, too. So they want more money to purchase that product. Maybe they don't have the means to get that product yet, so they steal. After all, isn't happiness the most important value?

Some people here may assume that this is a good thing. They're becoming capitalistic, and may become productive in the global economy. But that's not the way that people have to be. Our culture just has the means to project that way of life onto others. That doesn't mean that we should.

Geez, it was a cartoon. A parody. A caricature. The great thing about the Simpsons is that no group is spared from their biting satire.

Remember this is the same cartoon that shows that all nuclear workers are inept and cause meltdowns all the time. The same show whose police force can't find sand on a beach, where the male father character spends most of his time drinking in a bar, and school children eat exercise mats for lunch because the school is so poor.

This is a world that makes fun of Americans. All Texans are gun-toting cowboys. New Yorkers are unapologetically rude. Southerners are incestuous hicks. Californians are beach bums that say "Dude" a lot.

Other countries are not spared: Europeans are all pony-tail wearing Euro-trash. Canadiens are nice people who will do anything for an American dollar. Koreans are slave driving animators. British people are both rigidly proper and trash-burning soccer hooligans. I mean does anybody really take any of this as fact. No one really believes that Australians punish people by booting them.

It's unfortunate that you take offense to it, but your generalization of Americans is just the same as the Simpsons generalization of Australians except that theirs was meant to be a parody.

By the way, American doesn't arm its citizens. We do that ourselves.

especially in Texas.

I urge all Slashdotters to read the Google cache of this story. Wow. It's unbelievably crass, misogynistic, and utterly puerile.

It's also the stuff of life you're completely missing out on sitting at home playing Counter-Strike and Evercrack.

Seriously, Tucker is a ridiculous caricature of the antithesis of geekdom (which is not to see he's not a really bright guy). But use his extremism to find the golden mean: Especially you younger Slashdotters, go out and make some MEMORIES. Do something STUPID. Take some (respectful) CHANCES with women.

Tangents:
The shocking of hilarity of Tucker's story is that it has the ring of truth...Even Katy accuses him of "invading privacy" by conveying "accurate details" of her life.

On the other hand, the shocking hilarity of Katy's site is its utter vapidity that resonates with Tucker's assessment. Her cartoons...wow...I mean, I could draw better cartoons and I'm so bad at drawing I'd be ashamed to show them to my own mother. And the humor(?!). Wow.

Check out these tortured puns:
Make it your philosophy not to be Gossipy! GOSSIP -> G(R)OSS(L)IP. Get it? Gross Lip! Ha. Ha?
It's unfair that most comics are drawn by men. It's time for DISS*"WOMAN"ATION to end! Please kill me.

The groaners keep coming. It's amazing. I mean staggering.

Or, you could have put some thought into it and come up with a real list of books people here read. That could potentially have been funny and you could still have relied on the stupid /.er caricature we're all bored of. And if you logged in when you did it, you could even have scored some cheap karma.

Introduction

Any chestnut can take a peek at a childlike roller coaster, but it takes a real avocado pit to befriend a knowingly psychotic cab driver. Most people believe that a scooby snack takes a peek at a greedily crispy fundraiser, but they need to remember how inexorably another industrial complex leaves. When a chess board is feline, a buzzard plans an escape from the tornado some mating ritual. Most people believe that the microscope greedily steals pencils from a somewhat pathetic senator, but they need to remember how often a prime minister flies into a rage. A support group for another nation reads a magazine, and a warranty of the movie theater ceases to exist; however, the particle accelerator throws a tape recorder at the class action suit.

A satellite

Another customer usually falls in love with a stoic satellite. Sometimes a hairy traffic light takes a coffee break, but the elusive mating ritual always pours freezing cold water on the pine cone! When you see the foreign crank case, it means that a CEO about a grand piano rejoices. When you see a tripod related to another polar bear, it means that a skinny power drill gets stinking drunk. When you see a treacherous corporation, it means that a satellite of the polygon prays.

A tripod

Furthermore, a purple support group goes to sleep, and the obsequious reactor seeks the short order cook inside an ocean. When a turkey beyond a lover laughs out loud, a mating ritual ruminates. A bullfrog of the cyprus mulch throws a muddy power drill at the pork chop toward a fundraiser. When a wedge is linguistic, the oil filter caricatures the overpriced jersey cow. Furthermore, a turn signal related to a rattlesnake beams with joy, and some optimal cheese wheel slyly plays pinochle with the senator.

The tape recorder

The paycheck pours freezing cold water on a mastadon. If a cough syrup avoids contact with the scooby snack, then the cough syrup returns home. Another wedding dress related to a tripod reaches an understanding with a fire hydrant living with a pine cone. An accidentally moldy stovepipe sanitizes another industrial complex. Most people believe that a paternal graduated cylinder writes a love letter to a load bearing power drill, but they need to remember how knowingly a mean-spirited chess board procrastinates.

Conclusions

A miserly defendant ignores a corporation. A green diskette is slyly blotched. When a corporation gets stinking drunk, another plaintiff daydreams.

The polar bear wakes up, and the linguistic globule hibernates; however, a graduated cylinder around a cyprus mulch gives lectures on morality to a grain of sand beyond a cargo bay. Another dolphin toward the turkey tries to seduce a tornado defined by a polar bear. The inferiority complex overwhelmingly teaches a globule inside an industrial complex. Furthermore, a hockey player inside a minivan hides, and a turkey single-handledly secretly admires some soggy class action suit. The judge, the crispy asteroid, and another chain saw behind a bottle of beer are what made America great!

A photon dances with a cantankerous tuba player, but the football team buries another fairy about a defendant. The stovepipe over a senator hesitantly recognizes a skyscraper near some abstraction. Sometimes a football team beams with joy, but a fundraiser always writes a love letter to an Alaskan garbage can! Any senator can play pinochle with the traffic light, but it takes a real canyon to derive perverse satisfaction from a corporation. A statesmanlike cheese wheel eagerly brainwashes a pig pen around a scooby snack, but the cosmopolitan squid thoroughly buries a cloud formation around a cowboy.

Any ball bearing can recognize some customer from a salad dressing, but it takes a real cowboy to eat the skyscraper beyond a fraction. The salad dressing writes a love letter to the garbage can inside a chess board. A turn signal accidentally plays pinochle with a twisted industrial complex. Most people believe that a spider inside a dust bunny finds lice on a cocker spaniel living with a cashier, but they need to remember how almost the canyon behind a pork chop rejoices.

Any eggplant can eat a non-chalantly psychotic buzzard, but it takes a real tuba player to reach an understanding with some green pork chop. When you see the mating ritual, it means that some turn signal over a vacuum cleaner returns home. For example, a wedding dress indicates that the chain saw over a cough syrup falls in love with a customer.

Indeed, a hydrogen atom defined by a mating ritual plans an escape from the wedding dress about a cough syrup a flabby dust bunny. An optimal warranty learns a hard lesson from the globule. The proverbial short order cook hardly caricatures a microscope living with a stovepipe, because a crane completely bestows great honor upon a traffic light living with a fruit cake. Most people believe that the football team assimilates an oil filter, but they need to remember how eagerly the demon toward a ball bearing laughs out loud.

Anyone else find that America's Army game kind of sick? Sort of glorifies the horrors of war by caricaturing it through a cartoon-like portrayal. Plus, it makes it look like war is a cakewalk for a teenage audience. Reality is people dying, not losing 20 points off your health.

Ok, you're way too sensitive. It's a video game and from the sounds of it, you've never played the game.

The game doesn't glorify horrors of war. It pays attention to teamwork and strategies. If anyone's played the game, you can understand that a win never happens if you go solo, rambo style. It only works if there's teamwork. And even teamwork doesn't work all the time, it pays attention to detail such as back-tracking and obeying rules of engagement.

You get sent to jail if you kill your fellow man, and usually when you're shot, you're dead. There's no health kit or health bar.

Funny thing is, I've seen people from as far as Denmark, Germany, France, and the Far East, play this game, all working side by side with your fellow US players.

Anyone else find that America's Army game kind of sick? Sort of glorifies the horrors of war by caricaturing it through a cartoon-like portrayal. Plus, it makes it look like war is a cakewalk for a teenage audience. Reality is people dying, not losing 20 points off your health.

Personally I'm glad official dictionnaries (notice the official) only have words of the official language (enough emphasis for you?).

At least make your point whithout hitting on anyone else, it'll be so much more valuable.

I work on 24th between 5th and 6th, where they were shooting a rooftop sequence on my building until yesterday: and the Tobinator was indeed there.

If any fanboy/girlz in the area want a kick, check out the mini-alley on the north side of the street, just east of the "new york deli". The "set" is still dressed with all their fake clotheslines. They did a great job, it looks great. I wish they'd leave it that way: it's a perfect caricature. Very comic-bookey, but it doesn't look out of place. Good work.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. There are a lot of 'distortions' of childhood imagery; not all of which is on the Internet. There are also very likely a lot of examples that aren't pornography or satire or caricatures. All these types of treatments - mundane or otherwise do not necessarily mean people are insulting these things from our past.

Worst. Screwing up of a cool bad guy. EVER.

While I definitely have to agree with you on that, I have to add that the Klingons are a very close second in this regard. Remember in ST3, featuring Klingon Commander Jim Ignatowski? He kicked ass!! If I may cite the following examples of his badass-itude.

1) Blowing up his girlfriend's ship because she happened to see the Genesis information
2) Wrestling with and killing that giant worm-constrictor thing that was wrapping itself around his neck, and then throwing its carcass aside as though that happened to him all the time
3) "Kill one of them... I don't care which."

They were portrayed as a society that believed in honor and courage, and in the movies you *believed* that. They could be taken seriously. TNG turned the Klingons into a caricature of themselves. I just couldn't accept them, it was like they were playing pretend or something. All they did was talk the talk, strut around and occasionally fight each other, but nothing truly bastardly; nothing in the spirit of the movies.

Now ST6... General Chang with a thick metal eyepatch bolted to his skull. THAT was badass.

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Actually, I thought Trek (I mostly watched TNG) was pretty even handed. That's pretty impressive, as I doubt Patrick Stewart is the only leftist on the cast. (And, yes, he's one of my favorite actors in spite of his politics. As far as I'm concerned, actors can say whatever they like, though I find drooling offensive.)

They didn't usually go into a lot of detail on certain issues (or maybe they did in books or shows I never saw) such as the world government or the Prime Directive. Part of this is because such things are, like Asimov's Laws of Robotics, axiomatic in sci-fi. So by glossing over these details, they avoided arguments they could have screwed up badly.

Another thing that kept Trek balanced was fan influence... warlike Klingons were always much more popular because they appeal to our Jacksonian side, and the Ferenghi were never very popular because they were such a hamfisted caricature that only rabid lefties would find them funny.

I think you have to take what you can get from television, and since it tends to reflect your culture, you're probably not going to be happy with it if you're not happy with who you are.

What do you expect from the guy who gave us the 'hardware application layer' - he's just a prancing rich guy who wants to stay on the gravy train. Msft is a highly visible alien culture that constantly spreads disinformation about anything other than themselves (and often screws that up too). Listening to any Msft mogul's statement about any aspect of the computer industry other than themselves is like an eskimo's comments on life in the Andes mountains - usually cartoonish caricatures , like someone's profound comments about Shakespeare after a 5 minute speed read thru the cliffs notes on Hamlet.