Indeed... the entire "cash is a part of Swiss soul" argument reeks of bullshit rationalization. The fact is that the country is and was a financial hub for a LOT of shady transactions and deposits for at least a century. It's not a part of their soul - it's their law. Also, monetary policies are not determined by your average Joe's soul while "paying for coffee with a 100 CHF bill" - but by the combined interests of government and business. And BOY do banks have them interests...
Also, if you're looking for "soul" - Swiss are notoriously xenophobic and conservative. There's reason women didn't have full voting rights everywhere in Switzerland until 19-fuckin-91. It's a country of grandpas and people living off of Nazi gold. Of course they don't want it traceable.
And privacy my ass... They are STILL practicing conscription. You know... the ability of the government to strip you of all of your possession and rights and shove you into a fenced off area in order to "train" you to defend the said government. A notch away from prison.
A conscript is NOT your average Hollywood-depicted volunteer who gets to "wash out" and oh lordy what shame on family and clan... They are drafted, removed from their civilian life, family and profession, stripped of personal identity and possessions and trained to be "soldiers". And every single moron with a piece of brass on their shoulders gets to do with your body and personal information what ever the fuck they wand - and call it training. Running laps as you watch a corporal rummage through your personal items is not torture or invasion of privacy - it's training and inspection for contraband.
And they love it! Cause they are by and large xenophobic, right-wing and conservative up their Swiss ass. "500 years of democracy and peace and only a cuckoo clock to show for" is not a failure of democracy and peace - but a strong indication that the Swiss are the gun-totin hillbillies of Europe. Who just happened to have figured out that it is much more profitable to bank than to keep serving as hired thugs. And who had the good fortune of geography which allowed them to maintain all that.
It's basically impossible to live an ethical life these days because the world is too integrated and interconnected. Every action can be eventually traced back to some badness of some kind.
That's exaggerated nonsense. Even in Scotland, let alone outside of it where true Scotsmen are REALLY difficult to ferret out.
You just have to get used to the fact that you can't make sweeping feel-good generalizations and that you need to evaluate each moral or ethical choice on case by case basis, following the best information you got at hand at the moment. That's all there is to it. That way you can still have a family containing members who happen to not give too much of a fuck about your particular economic boycotting preferences. Particularly those of the underage kind who can be really difficult sometimes and who stubbornly refuse to accept that they are at fault for ruining everything for everyone by eating that particular brand of sugary... stuff.
Downside is that, besides spending time and calories on each choice, you must actually have morals and ethics - you can't rely on those borrowed from other people. But it's OK, most of those are sweeping generalizations and cherry-picked nonsense anyway. That is when they are not neolithic nonsense masquerading as moral high ground while giving you a carte blanche to stone to death or otherwise murder people you don't like or who happen to have the stuff you'd like for yourself.
Nobody is forcing anyone in Eastern Europe to be criminal, that's a ridiculous claim. So many Gypsies in Eastern Europe live in poverty because those countries are, by European Union standards, quite poor themselves. A lot of people there live in poverty - some of them are Gypsies.
Poverty IS the major cause of crime. There's no better proof of that than observing exact same practices as done by the poor and by the rich. In the case of the poor it's a crime. In the case of the rich, at worst it's a "legal issue". At best it's "aggressive and shrewd business practice".
And that's disregarding the epigenetic burden of generations of poverty (all them fun diseases that weren't really a burden on poor people before all food became cheap processed carbs and fats), inherited psychologicaltrauma and downright segregational injury one might "luck into" by choosing to be born poor. Particularly when choosing to be born into a poor country where such health issues will tend to be ignored, untreated or too expensive to treat - for much longer than in the rich countries.
If the Fiat is now "cleaner" how can the Tesla not be "dirtier"?
It's actually very simple to demonstrate. I'll sit in a Tesla, with a hose running from its exhaust right next to my face, and you can do the same with a Fiat. Then we turn on the cars and see who gets a better mileage. It is THAT simple and easy!
Or... you know... you might want to learn to distinguish a metaphor from a thing it designates. Particularly when it is in a form of a trademark which can be applied to a whole range of products, company policies, executives, stocks... It also helps if you understand the concepts of taxes, regulations, reality, policy, incentives, subsidies... and a couple of others but those should do.
Would you like some cock down your throat too? Aw hell, why not... It's not like I'll run out of copy/paste any time soon while you try to block me for calling you out as sniveling racist cunts that you are. Anyway... as I was saying to that racist scumbag Penguinisto up there...
Would you like some cock with that strawman? And that ignoratio elenchi you're peddling? Well, ready or not, open wide...
First of all, setting the argument as if it is about the "value of the victim" clearly shows that you are scum. That you're also setting that up as a strawman shows signs of mental retardation and sociopathy, as well. You think that you are smarter than the average bear, but you're actually so pathetic that you don't even realize how epic your dumbness and ignorance truly are.
See... the actual issue is with the severity of the crime due to its premeditated nature (there are no accidental hate crimes) AND the presented lack of remorse. You don't shoot up a synagogue, a mosque, a church, a gay wedding, an abortion clinic etc. due to a momentary lapse of reason - you do it because you believe such an act to be morally RIGHT.
That is why people who commit hate crimes deserve a harsher sentence. It has nothing to do with the "value of the victim". But thanks for pointing out to everyone that YOU believe it to be so. I.e. That lives of some people ARE inherently "more valuable" - and that said value revolves around hate crime issues. Like race, religion, sex, ethnicity etc.
Oh and that's not a real cock I just showed down your throat. It's a catheter for artificially inseminating swine. Only been used once. On your mom.
As for motive determining guilt or innocence... Do you even language motherfucker?
You DO realize that government agencies "responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice" have a duty and a mandate to act in order to enforce the laws of said government? Like... Totally on their own. No one has to tell them to do that. That is their job.
You get that, right? In your "secret rulers of the world" universe, that bit of info leaks through the paranoia, right?
And that ignoratio elenchi you're peddling? Well, ready or not, open wide...
First of all, setting the argument as if it is about the "value of the victim" clearly shows that you are scum. That you're also setting that up as a strawman shows also signs of mental retardation and sociopathy. You think that you are smarter than the average bear, but you're actually so pathetic that you don't even realize how epic your dumbness and ignorance truly are.
See... the actual issue is with the severity of the crime due to its premeditated nature (there are no accidental hate crimes) AND the presented lack of remorse. You don't shoot up a synagogue, a mosque, a church, a gay wedding, an abortion clinic etc. due to a momentary lapse of reason - you do it because you believe such an act to be morally RIGHT.
That is why people who commit hate crimes deserve a harsher sentence. It has nothing to do with the "value of the victim". But thanks for pointing out to everyone that YOU believe it to be so. I.e. That lives of some people ARE inherently "more valuable" - and that said value revolves around hate crime issues. Like race, religion, sex, ethnicity etc.
Oh and that's not a real cock I just showed down your throat. It's a catheter for artificially inseminating swine. Only been used once. On your mom.
As for motive determining guilt or innocence... Do you even language motherfucker?
This is an exciting line of research. If they can find a way to dull pain permanently it could help a lot of people with chronic pain. It's hard to describe to people who don't have it just had debilitating it can be. Even relatively low levels of pain have a huge effect if they are constant.
I wonder if these researchers will be forced to quit thanks to harassment by undiagnosed lunatics among the affected population, like their colleagues were?
Because 95% accuracy is GOOD ENOUGH for everyday life. And should the results of at least 19 studies agree... that would be more than enough.
Also, p-value of 0.05 doesn't mean one study out of 20 is a pure statistical fluke. It means that in 1 case out of 20 WITHIN the study - we don't know if it is a statistical fluke. Which is why studies needs large samples - so that way 2 guys out of 20 who just happen to be allergic to something in the room don't mess up the entire study. 56 guys out of a 1000 on the other hand... Now that's significant.
Presumably, someone who will study the condition properly rather than just pronouncing it's just a bad case of the lazies.
So far you're kinda only providing evidence that it is actually a bad case of the crazies. And that it is FAR WORSE than what the research shows.
But do keep shouting "I'M NOT CRAZY! YOU ARE CRAZY!" Your analogies, equating medical researchers with "perpetual motion cranks" are also REALLY helping your case. Well... not your actual case...
And just who is going to find that actual treatment if the activists drive out all the researchers?
Your question is kind of like who will solve our energy problems if we drive all the perpetual motion cranks away?
As I was saying before some pathetic incel froggy snowflake tried to match his pathetic mod points to my powers of copy/paste...
a team of full time tutors to follow the student around all day for 4 years.
How would that get them and their kids into the upper-class twit network where they'd be guaranteed the life-long benefits of hobnobbing with billionaires and "leaders"? You don't get to be in a billionaire club with mere millions. Why do you think Dumpy had to suck off the Moscow Midget?
Millionaires are the poor people of the one percent club. They make them walk around on all fours, naked, with a lit candle up their ass, for entertainment.
a team of full time tutors to follow the student around all day for 4 years.
How would that get them and their kids into the upper-class twit network where they'd be guaranteed the life-long benefits of hobnobbing with billionaires and "leaders"? You don't get to be in a billionaire club with mere millions. Why do you think Dumpy had to suck off the Moscow Midget?
Millionaires are the poor people of the one percent club. They make them walk around on all fours, naked, with a lit candle up their ass, for entertainment.
No one said it is. Or that the story must be either of those. But there should be a sense of some kind of motivation or pressure on the characters for doing what they do. In this particular story it's usually a desire to free oneself from the external pressure. Movie presents us with none of that.
Gally's selv development is a focus, action scenes isn't just choreography thrown into a camera blender with cuts, and there is some good ramping escalation, and the script isn't butchered randomly. The Kung Fu is good, and so is the entire 'fight to the death' angle that Hollywood generally completely chickens out on
Sorry, but no.
Granted... action was OK. But meaningless. Here's a hint. Several characters get sliced to pieces - and it may as well have been a scene of bread being sliced. ZERO engagement.
Also... there's a feeling that it is all soooo perfunctory. Action for the sake of action. Zero stakes. Zero reward. Fighting to death? Whom? She overpowers everyone easily. Except in that one scene where the supposedly ultimate opponent from a moment ago is chased away by some mechanic dogs and a couple of meatbags. Because plot. Hell... I almost missed the "wear you as a pendant" speech. Delivery and direction of that was just SO bland. Then again, that's Jackie Earle Haley for ya. Zero engagement. In it for the paycheck. Similarly, how things and people just happen to be there when needed... like that thing which grinds up the last motorballer chasing Alita.
Chiren character, and all her actions were also completely superfluous. But never as much as when she suddenly shows up just standing there when needed near the end. The entire scene felt like a Mexican soap opera. And then they just slap some character development on her right there... Because plot. Oh... and the scene right after where she just strolls out through the main door... well that was simply incompetence. Childlike incompetence. No need to show her at all - but just so that we don't confuse the audience seeing her in the next scene, here's a shot of her walking out. And less is said about that crashed ship the better.
As for "development" as focus... That was bad too. Also - wrong. It's not development - it's exposition. She is NOT supposed to have such strong preconceptions of her past as the movie gives her.
Her need to define herself is what is supposed to be guiding the story all the way until the end of the motorball arc. Not because that is a good place to dump that bit of info or because the info we get is so rich - but because there her epiphany coincides with Jashugan's. She is supposed to reach a higher level of self-actualization there, liberating herself from her past and any direct oppression that she knows of. Basically, she becomes an antithesis to Makaku's philosophy - second only to Jashugan, she is at the top of the pyramid and can't be subjected to terror or pain. Nor does she need to subject others to it in order to stay there. She destroys Makaku's philosophy and rejects Hugo's. She achieves negative liberty. And immediately jumps into achieving positive liberty through artistic expression. She is content and feels self-actualized. And then the whole determinism thing starts.
Movie has NONE of that. It has flashbacks and exposition and hollow as all fuck lines which signify ZERO development. Hell... She basically REGRESSES to a flashback illusion of her former identity. And even that is through her contact with an object - not her instinct or skill.
I got out of the movie feeling it was too long. Though the action was engaging. You could literally cut almost half an hour out of it and still have the exact same story. And that's bad. That's filler.
Naah... You are confusing return on an investment and turning a profit. They will ALWAYS present the movie as if it never turned profit. That is not the issue here.
Movie needs to take in about 200-250% of investment, at the box office, TO BREAK EVEN. About half of the cash from the tickets goes to distributors. Usually more, when the movie is shown in the foreign market. But the studio pays for ALL the marketing. Either directly through promotion or indirectly by taking a smaller cut - which is what happens overseas.
A big part of the Hollywood Accounting is hiding the marketing costs. Makes the product seem more profitable if you don't report all those extra millions you spent selling the product. Which makes the company seem more profitable. Which makes the stocks go up and future investment more likely.
Then later, when it comes the time to pay the net earners, studio presents all the costs.
Yeah, but all of those had shitty potential and incompetent directors. As in people not competent to lead a production of a franchise starter. Mortal Engines was literally given to a storyboard artist to direct.
All apart from Avatar, which still CAN end up at least making a lot of cash at the box office. Cameron knows how to make them. And perhaps more importantly, how to sell them. Hell... Most of the stuff that still works in the Alita movie is probably from his pre-production work. And there was a LOT of pre-production work on that movie.
Same thing as with Avatar... A LOT was invested in the world building. Though, with Alita there is the benefit of a complete (well... somewhat) story and all previous editing and tweaking of it. Plus it's a much more basic (as in regard to the human condition) and philosophically deeper story.
Also there was Alita, which rocked. Since I get to see about one film every quarter, that definitely had the more powerful lure for me.
Sadly, no it didn't. It wasn't god awful... didn't make me angry... But it was AT BEST serviceable.
That's if one ignores huge and pointless plot contrivances which would mar any movie (seriously, Rodriguez is barely a mediocre director), terrible dialogue and generally bad writing very much in the vein of Kalogridis' work on Altered Carbon and Terminator Genisys.
That movie should have been a new Star Wars... a work of fiction reshaping and presenting philosophical ideas to the general audience. Also it should have felt a lot more like Mad Max and a lot less like... hell... Zootopia. And I don't mean the uncanny valley eyes (an immediate giveaway that the movie makers don't understand the work they are adapting) - I mean the color scheme and the general feeling of cheeriness. Not one moment did I feel that anyone in that world was a survivor of any kind of hardship. It's supposed to be a post-apocalyptic world of cyborgs and mutants. A desperate world, built out of scrap and garbage of the old one. Not an occasionally somewhat dangerous yet oddly kid-friendly global melting pot with what I can only imagine as a Walmart on every block filled with brand new and colorful clothes and various other casually flashed gear.
But I did notice this fake "rivalry" online. Alita being somehow an opposite to Captain Marvel... and its "toxic feminism"... "toxic femininity"... by the usual members of the sad and pathetic ass-clown army.
One more reason I'm glad this movie has practically no chance for a sequel. Even on paper it barely broke even... And knowing how long it was in development (for a while it seemed all that would come out if it is a passing resemblance of Dark Angel to the source material) - I suspect that it drags a LOT more in pre-production cost and how much Cameron will be taking for himself. I'm inclined to believe its "break even" point is closer to 500 million or more. Hell... at one time it was Alita or Avatar. It was supposed to make THAT much.
...at games, confirming decades of player biases - says NVIDIA's shill.
That highly informative advertisement even ends with an Amazon Affiliate Link, suggesting you should buy a $500 graphic card. Earning hothardware.com up to 10% on all purchases made.
It's like an advertisement inside an advertisement. So you can earn money for the fake journalists while you make money for them. WHAT A VALUE!!!
You are confusing presentation of technological capabilities (a display of what certain technique and technology can do) with architectural design (the "comfortable, convenient and not an eysore" bit). Also, with science and research.
You do realize that ANY constitution is just a law - i.e. a contract of citizens with their own government, of citizens, by citizens and for citizens? Not some holy scripture chiseled into stone tablets by a toenail of god or by a delusional schizophrenic suffering from heat stroke and exhaustion?
As such... being nothing but just a law, it is no different than any other law and it is a subject to change just like all those other laws. Of which there are a bunch. Hell, much of the privacy laws and arguments calls back to the addenda to that very law. As in the first, fourth and fourteenth, parts of the fifth, thirteenth, nineteenth, twenty-fourth and twenty-sixth... and that big catch all - the ninth. And then there's the eleventh which provides for individual states to guarantee further rights.
AND THEN... there are individual person-to-person or person-to-legal entity contracts. Which is how NDAs can exist.
Pullin the constitution card regarding rights maybe not mentioned in there specifically, is as inane as an ISP arguing that since there is no mention of internet in the constitution they are not legally bound to provide uninterrupted service.
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Indeed... the entire "cash is a part of Swiss soul" argument reeks of bullshit rationalization.
The fact is that the country is and was a financial hub for a LOT of shady transactions and deposits for at least a century.
It's not a part of their soul - it's their law.
Also, monetary policies are not determined by your average Joe's soul while "paying for coffee with a 100 CHF bill" - but by the combined interests of government and business.
And BOY do banks have them interests...
Also, if you're looking for "soul" - Swiss are notoriously xenophobic and conservative.
There's reason women didn't have full voting rights everywhere in Switzerland until 19-fuckin-91.
It's a country of grandpas and people living off of Nazi gold.
Of course they don't want it traceable.
And privacy my ass... They are STILL practicing conscription.
You know... the ability of the government to strip you of all of your possession and rights and shove you into a fenced off area in order to "train" you to defend the said government.
A notch away from prison.
A conscript is NOT your average Hollywood-depicted volunteer who gets to "wash out" and oh lordy what shame on family and clan...
They are drafted, removed from their civilian life, family and profession, stripped of personal identity and possessions and trained to be "soldiers".
And every single moron with a piece of brass on their shoulders gets to do with your body and personal information what ever the fuck they wand - and call it training.
Running laps as you watch a corporal rummage through your personal items is not torture or invasion of privacy - it's training and inspection for contraband.
And they love it!
Cause they are by and large xenophobic, right-wing and conservative up their Swiss ass.
"500 years of democracy and peace and only a cuckoo clock to show for" is not a failure of democracy and peace - but a strong indication that the Swiss are the gun-totin hillbillies of Europe.
Who just happened to have figured out that it is much more profitable to bank than to keep serving as hired thugs.
And who had the good fortune of geography which allowed them to maintain all that.
It's basically impossible to live an ethical life these days because the world is too integrated and interconnected. Every action can be eventually traced back to some badness of some kind.
That's exaggerated nonsense.
Even in Scotland, let alone outside of it where true Scotsmen are REALLY difficult to ferret out.
You just have to get used to the fact that you can't make sweeping feel-good generalizations and that you need to evaluate each moral or ethical choice on case by case basis, following the best information you got at hand at the moment.
That's all there is to it.
That way you can still have a family containing members who happen to not give too much of a fuck about your particular economic boycotting preferences.
Particularly those of the underage kind who can be really difficult sometimes and who stubbornly refuse to accept that they are at fault for ruining everything for everyone by eating that particular brand of sugary... stuff.
Downside is that, besides spending time and calories on each choice, you must actually have morals and ethics - you can't rely on those borrowed from other people.
But it's OK, most of those are sweeping generalizations and cherry-picked nonsense anyway.
That is when they are not neolithic nonsense masquerading as moral high ground while giving you a carte blanche to stone to death or otherwise murder people you don't like or who happen to have the stuff you'd like for yourself.
Also, if the ethical and moral responsibility is shareable and transferable, that would mean that it is also dilutable.
After all, we can't be blamed today for all the shit the first primates did no more than can you personally be blamed for every shady action that someone in your extended human-to-human network did.
Clearly, individual guilt lessens as one moves away from the source, regardless of the increase in "interconnections and integration".
Just eat your strawberries, don't actively try to shit all over the place, clean up after yourself a bit and try not to think of the tigers too much.
Nobody is forcing anyone in Eastern Europe to be criminal, that's a ridiculous claim. So many Gypsies in Eastern Europe live in poverty because those countries are, by European Union standards, quite poor themselves. A lot of people there live in poverty - some of them are Gypsies.
Poverty IS the major cause of crime.
There's no better proof of that than observing exact same practices as done by the poor and by the rich.
In the case of the poor it's a crime.
In the case of the rich, at worst it's a "legal issue". At best it's "aggressive and shrewd business practice".
And that's disregarding the epigenetic burden of generations of poverty (all them fun diseases that weren't really a burden on poor people before all food became cheap processed carbs and fats), inherited psychological trauma and downright segregational injury one might "luck into" by choosing to be born poor.
Particularly when choosing to be born into a poor country where such health issues will tend to be ignored, untreated or too expensive to treat - for much longer than in the rich countries.
Which is where you should look for that "forcing".
Much like with those stereotypes of belligerent Irish drunkards and criminals - the real cause for prejudice may actually be older prejudice from centuries ago.
If the Fiat is now "cleaner" how can the Tesla not be "dirtier"?
It's actually very simple to demonstrate.
I'll sit in a Tesla, with a hose running from its exhaust right next to my face, and you can do the same with a Fiat.
Then we turn on the cars and see who gets a better mileage.
It is THAT simple and easy!
Or... you know... you might want to learn to distinguish a metaphor from a thing it designates.
Particularly when it is in a form of a trademark which can be applied to a whole range of products, company policies, executives, stocks...
It also helps if you understand the concepts of taxes, regulations, reality, policy, incentives, subsidies... and a couple of others but those should do.
Would you like some cock down your throat too? Aw hell, why not...
It's not like I'll run out of copy/paste any time soon while you try to block me for calling you out as sniveling racist cunts that you are.
Anyway... as I was saying to that racist scumbag Penguinisto up there...
Would you like some cock with that strawman?
And that ignoratio elenchi you're peddling?
Well, ready or not, open wide...
First of all, setting the argument as if it is about the "value of the victim" clearly shows that you are scum.
That you're also setting that up as a strawman shows signs of mental retardation and sociopathy, as well.
You think that you are smarter than the average bear, but you're actually so pathetic that you don't even realize how epic your dumbness and ignorance truly are.
See... the actual issue is with the severity of the crime due to its premeditated nature (there are no accidental hate crimes) AND the presented lack of remorse.
You don't shoot up a synagogue, a mosque, a church, a gay wedding, an abortion clinic etc. due to a momentary lapse of reason - you do it because you believe such an act to be morally RIGHT.
That is why people who commit hate crimes deserve a harsher sentence. It has nothing to do with the "value of the victim".
But thanks for pointing out to everyone that YOU believe it to be so.
I.e. That lives of some people ARE inherently "more valuable" - and that said value revolves around hate crime issues.
Like race, religion, sex, ethnicity etc.
Oh and that's not a real cock I just showed down your throat. It's a catheter for artificially inseminating swine.
Only been used once.
On your mom.
As for motive determining guilt or innocence... Do you even language motherfucker?
motive
noun: motive; plural noun: motives
1.
a reason for doing something.
I believe that the answer to that is Uncle Sam.
You DO realize that government agencies "responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice" have a duty and a mandate to act in order to enforce the laws of said government?
Like... Totally on their own.
No one has to tell them to do that.
That is their job.
You get that, right?
In your "secret rulers of the world" universe, that bit of info leaks through the paranoia, right?
And that ignoratio elenchi you're peddling?
Well, ready or not, open wide...
First of all, setting the argument as if it is about the "value of the victim" clearly shows that you are scum.
That you're also setting that up as a strawman shows also signs of mental retardation and sociopathy.
You think that you are smarter than the average bear, but you're actually so pathetic that you don't even realize how epic your dumbness and ignorance truly are.
See... the actual issue is with the severity of the crime due to its premeditated nature (there are no accidental hate crimes) AND the presented lack of remorse.
You don't shoot up a synagogue, a mosque, a church, a gay wedding, an abortion clinic etc. due to a momentary lapse of reason - you do it because you believe such an act to be morally RIGHT.
That is why people who commit hate crimes deserve a harsher sentence. It has nothing to do with the "value of the victim".
But thanks for pointing out to everyone that YOU believe it to be so.
I.e. That lives of some people ARE inherently "more valuable" - and that said value revolves around hate crime issues.
Like race, religion, sex, ethnicity etc.
Oh and that's not a real cock I just showed down your throat. It's a catheter for artificially inseminating swine.
Only been used once.
On your mom.
As for motive determining guilt or innocence... Do you even language motherfucker?
motive
noun: motive; plural noun: motives
1.
a reason for doing something.
It's a tarp.
This is an exciting line of research. If they can find a way to dull pain permanently it could help a lot of people with chronic pain. It's hard to describe to people who don't have it just had debilitating it can be. Even relatively low levels of pain have a huge effect if they are constant.
I wonder if these researchers will be forced to quit thanks to harassment by undiagnosed lunatics among the affected population, like their colleagues were?
Because 95% accuracy is GOOD ENOUGH for everyday life. And should the results of at least 19 studies agree... that would be more than enough.
Also, p-value of 0.05 doesn't mean one study out of 20 is a pure statistical fluke.
It means that in 1 case out of 20 WITHIN the study - we don't know if it is a statistical fluke.
Which is why studies needs large samples - so that way 2 guys out of 20 who just happen to be allergic to something in the room don't mess up the entire study.
56 guys out of a 1000 on the other hand... Now that's significant.
Presumably, someone who will study the condition properly rather than just pronouncing it's just a bad case of the lazies.
So far you're kinda only providing evidence that it is actually a bad case of the crazies.
And that it is FAR WORSE than what the research shows.
But do keep shouting "I'M NOT CRAZY! YOU ARE CRAZY!"
Your analogies, equating medical researchers with "perpetual motion cranks" are also REALLY helping your case.
Well... not your actual case...
And just who is going to find that actual treatment if the activists drive out all the researchers?
Your question is kind of like who will solve our energy problems if we drive all the perpetual motion cranks away?
Except the ones who are dead.
You should thank Bill Baxter for advertising that information.
Everyone should thank him.
As I was saying before some pathetic incel froggy snowflake tried to match his pathetic mod points to my powers of copy/paste...
a team of full time tutors to follow the student around all day for 4 years.
How would that get them and their kids into the upper-class twit network where they'd be guaranteed the life-long benefits of hobnobbing with billionaires and "leaders"?
You don't get to be in a billionaire club with mere millions.
Why do you think Dumpy had to suck off the Moscow Midget?
Millionaires are the poor people of the one percent club.
They make them walk around on all fours, naked, with a lit candle up their ass, for entertainment.
You must first bounce the graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish.
a team of full time tutors to follow the student around all day for 4 years.
How would that get them and their kids into the upper-class twit network where they'd be guaranteed the life-long benefits of hobnobbing with billionaires and "leaders"?
You don't get to be in a billionaire club with mere millions.
Why do you think Dumpy had to suck off the Moscow Midget?
Millionaires are the poor people of the one percent club.
They make them walk around on all fours, naked, with a lit candle up their ass, for entertainment.
Dark isn't the same as gritty friend
No one said it is. Or that the story must be either of those.
But there should be a sense of some kind of motivation or pressure on the characters for doing what they do.
In this particular story it's usually a desire to free oneself from the external pressure.
Movie presents us with none of that.
Gally's selv development is a focus, action scenes isn't just choreography thrown into a camera blender with cuts, and there is some good ramping escalation, and the script isn't butchered randomly. The Kung Fu is good, and so is the entire 'fight to the death' angle that Hollywood generally completely chickens out on
Sorry, but no.
Granted... action was OK. But meaningless.
Here's a hint. Several characters get sliced to pieces - and it may as well have been a scene of bread being sliced.
ZERO engagement.
Also... there's a feeling that it is all soooo perfunctory. Action for the sake of action. Zero stakes. Zero reward.
Fighting to death? Whom? She overpowers everyone easily.
Except in that one scene where the supposedly ultimate opponent from a moment ago is chased away by some mechanic dogs and a couple of meatbags. Because plot.
Hell... I almost missed the "wear you as a pendant" speech. Delivery and direction of that was just SO bland.
Then again, that's Jackie Earle Haley for ya. Zero engagement. In it for the paycheck.
Similarly, how things and people just happen to be there when needed... like that thing which grinds up the last motorballer chasing Alita.
Chiren character, and all her actions were also completely superfluous. But never as much as when she suddenly shows up just standing there when needed near the end.
The entire scene felt like a Mexican soap opera. And then they just slap some character development on her right there... Because plot.
Oh... and the scene right after where she just strolls out through the main door... well that was simply incompetence. Childlike incompetence.
No need to show her at all - but just so that we don't confuse the audience seeing her in the next scene, here's a shot of her walking out.
And less is said about that crashed ship the better.
As for "development" as focus... That was bad too. Also - wrong. It's not development - it's exposition.
She is NOT supposed to have such strong preconceptions of her past as the movie gives her.
Her need to define herself is what is supposed to be guiding the story all the way until the end of the motorball arc.
Not because that is a good place to dump that bit of info or because the info we get is so rich - but because there her epiphany coincides with Jashugan's.
She is supposed to reach a higher level of self-actualization there, liberating herself from her past and any direct oppression that she knows of.
Basically, she becomes an antithesis to Makaku's philosophy - second only to Jashugan, she is at the top of the pyramid and can't be subjected to terror or pain.
Nor does she need to subject others to it in order to stay there. She destroys Makaku's philosophy and rejects Hugo's.
She achieves negative liberty. And immediately jumps into achieving positive liberty through artistic expression. She is content and feels self-actualized.
And then the whole determinism thing starts.
Movie has NONE of that. It has flashbacks and exposition and hollow as all fuck lines which signify ZERO development.
Hell... She basically REGRESSES to a flashback illusion of her former identity. And even that is through her contact with an object - not her instinct or skill.
I got out of the movie feeling it was too long. Though the action was engaging.
You could literally cut almost half an hour out of it and still have the exact same story. And that's bad. That's filler.
Naah... You are confusing return on an investment and turning a profit.
They will ALWAYS present the movie as if it never turned profit. That is not the issue here.
Movie needs to take in about 200-250% of investment, at the box office, TO BREAK EVEN.
About half of the cash from the tickets goes to distributors. Usually more, when the movie is shown in the foreign market.
But the studio pays for ALL the marketing.
Either directly through promotion or indirectly by taking a smaller cut - which is what happens overseas.
A big part of the Hollywood Accounting is hiding the marketing costs.
Makes the product seem more profitable if you don't report all those extra millions you spent selling the product.
Which makes the company seem more profitable.
Which makes the stocks go up and future investment more likely.
Then later, when it comes the time to pay the net earners, studio presents all the costs.
Sadly, they don't make glasses that could help you.
Reading comprehension is not an optical issue.
Nor is a sense of humor.
Yeah, but all of those had shitty potential and incompetent directors.
As in people not competent to lead a production of a franchise starter. Mortal Engines was literally given to a storyboard artist to direct.
All apart from Avatar, which still CAN end up at least making a lot of cash at the box office.
Cameron knows how to make them. And perhaps more importantly, how to sell them.
Hell... Most of the stuff that still works in the Alita movie is probably from his pre-production work.
And there was a LOT of pre-production work on that movie.
Same thing as with Avatar... A LOT was invested in the world building.
Though, with Alita there is the benefit of a complete (well... somewhat) story and all previous editing and tweaking of it.
Plus it's a much more basic (as in regard to the human condition) and philosophically deeper story.
There's a joke about that in there somewhere... just can't put my finger on it right now.
Might be I finally need glasses...
Also there was Alita, which rocked. Since I get to see about one film every quarter, that definitely had the more powerful lure for me.
Sadly, no it didn't. It wasn't god awful... didn't make me angry... But it was AT BEST serviceable.
That's if one ignores huge and pointless plot contrivances which would mar any movie (seriously, Rodriguez is barely a mediocre director), terrible dialogue and generally bad writing very much in the vein of Kalogridis' work on Altered Carbon and Terminator Genisys.
That movie should have been a new Star Wars... a work of fiction reshaping and presenting philosophical ideas to the general audience.
Also it should have felt a lot more like Mad Max and a lot less like... hell... Zootopia.
And I don't mean the uncanny valley eyes (an immediate giveaway that the movie makers don't understand the work they are adapting) - I mean the color scheme and the general feeling of cheeriness.
Not one moment did I feel that anyone in that world was a survivor of any kind of hardship.
It's supposed to be a post-apocalyptic world of cyborgs and mutants. A desperate world, built out of scrap and garbage of the old one.
Not an occasionally somewhat dangerous yet oddly kid-friendly global melting pot with what I can only imagine as a Walmart on every block filled with brand new and colorful clothes and various other casually flashed gear.
But I did notice this fake "rivalry" online.
Alita being somehow an opposite to Captain Marvel... and its "toxic feminism"... "toxic femininity"... by the usual members of the sad and pathetic ass-clown army.
One more reason I'm glad this movie has practically no chance for a sequel. Even on paper it barely broke even...
And knowing how long it was in development (for a while it seemed all that would come out if it is a passing resemblance of Dark Angel to the source material) - I suspect that it drags a LOT more in pre-production cost and how much Cameron will be taking for himself.
I'm inclined to believe its "break even" point is closer to 500 million or more.
Hell... at one time it was Alita or Avatar. It was supposed to make THAT much.
...at games, confirming decades of player biases - says NVIDIA's shill.
That highly informative advertisement even ends with an Amazon Affiliate Link, suggesting you should buy a $500 graphic card.
Earning hothardware.com up to 10% on all purchases made.
It's like an advertisement inside an advertisement.
So you can earn money for the fake journalists while you make money for them. WHAT A VALUE!!!
You are confusing presentation of technological capabilities (a display of what certain technique and technology can do) with architectural design (the "comfortable, convenient and not an eysore" bit).
Also, with science and research.
I'm sorry... but there is no award for that.
You do realize that ANY constitution is just a law - i.e. a contract of citizens with their own government, of citizens, by citizens and for citizens?
Not some holy scripture chiseled into stone tablets by a toenail of god or by a delusional schizophrenic suffering from heat stroke and exhaustion?
As such... being nothing but just a law, it is no different than any other law and it is a subject to change just like all those other laws. Of which there are a bunch.
Hell, much of the privacy laws and arguments calls back to the addenda to that very law.
As in the first, fourth and fourteenth, parts of the fifth, thirteenth, nineteenth, twenty-fourth and twenty-sixth... and that big catch all - the ninth.
And then there's the eleventh which provides for individual states to guarantee further rights.
AND THEN... there are individual person-to-person or person-to-legal entity contracts.
Which is how NDAs can exist.
Pullin the constitution card regarding rights maybe not mentioned in there specifically, is as inane as an ISP arguing that since there is no mention of internet in the constitution they are not legally bound to provide uninterrupted service.