Masonic God: Before I explain the plot points we edited out of the first movie, please consider purchasing some Powerade and viewing the Animatrix for best enjoyment!
Jesus: Whoa.
Masonic God: Don't forget to play Enter the Matrix: the game that makes history... out of video game history, and make sure you continue the adventure in The Matrix: Revolutions, in theaters November 2003! Now go improv us up another 5 minutes to put us over the 150 minute mark. It'll be classier that way.
Seriously, though, this Matrix wasn't any worse than the last one. It's like AICN talkback emigrated over here to bash Reloaded the last few weeks. It was a good movie. Christ, if they came out with Casablanca today you'd be bashing it even faster.
By the way, using "violence" "less glorified" and "NRA" that close to each other makes my head hurt.
Actually, you can't. Most places that have a lot of fine art hanging around have laws against that kind of thing. Usually the art has to be displayed in a museum or something to get protected, but in France, buying a Renoir and painting little bunnies in the corner is actually worse than just stealing one out of the Lourve. The painting has a cultural value to everybody, so damaging it is a crime against The People as well as the owner.
You spend a lot of time at Li'l Julie's BarbieBlog too?
I think you're looking at this too much through your own perspective. Wander around some time and check out the edges of the blogsphere. Every blogger is not a heroic crusader against the Man. A lot of them are outright liars that have a very real impact on the thoughts of a great many people. If Fox News started vigorously promoting the idea that a multinational Jewish conspiracy blew up the WTC, this would be a bad thing, yes? But it wouldn't be libel. There's no name in there, it's not even necisarially a literal lie. There are a few safeguards against that sort of thing in the TV arena, but there are bloggers that aproach the viewership of a mediocre cable network that do this sort of thing regularly, and there's no recourse.
Now take that crazy blog and let a Saudi high school access it. They don't get real news on TV. They have to depend on the internet. And this is what they end up finding. It looks good. It sounds good. It's as far off from what they see on TV as the truth is. It's a crap shoot whether they go for the truth or for the nutcase.
National Geographic interviewed some high school kids in Saudi Arabia about 6 months ago. They heard about the Jewish conspiracy on the internet, they believed it. The interviewer was about ready to start crying over the crap these kids were telling him. You can't give somebody common sense to detect this shit unless you give them access to the truth at least as often as the bullshit.
I don't like this either, but not knowing what's real is worse than government-enforced debate. By a big fucking margin. I'm still hoping crap like this can get held off and we'll find out that people are actually capable of getting off the comforable fiction and back to the real world, but I don't have that much faith in humanity.
No fucking kidding? I actually have a mix CD a friend gave me with a couple of things from them on it. I think I'm going to kill this friend for not mentioning this very pertinent detail. They hadn't really stood out too much for me, but they're not bad. They're kinda halfway between something like The Pixies and the kind of thing that gets put in ads for WB dramas. Sorta weird, but not in a bad way.
It's a little creepy that, if anything, she sounds more like a 12 year old girl in the band than she does in the movie, and in at least one of these songs, she's upgraded from "He touched my breast!" to "Would you fuck me?/'Cause I'd fuck me." and being pressured into an orgy. Hmmm. Maybe my friend made the right choice to keep me in the dark. I think this song was better when I didn't have to spend it fighting back VHS-quality images of child actors.
Actually, the more I listen to these, the better the songwriting gets. I think I'll need to wait a few months for a bisfully ignorant enough mood to really enjoy their tone, but they seem worth a bit of the old non-RIAA CD budget...
You sure? I definately remeber John Glenn comparing the shuttle with Mercury after he went up, and saying something like how the shuttle felt like an actual rocket, while Mercury felt like it was trying to haul itself up a ladder or something. That could just be the difference 50 or so years makes, but I remeber Buzz Aldrin saying something similar when they had him commentating on Columbia.
(yes, really! anyone sending an "Underage" spam pretending to be less than 16 could technically be sued for distributing kiddie porn, even the models are of legal age)
Most places work that way. I don't think the US has a federal law about that, but most states see no difference between a 30-year-old represented as 16 and an actual 5-year-old. That's the whole reason for the 18+ disclaimer. Maybe Norway works with a stricter interpretation, since most of the US can get away with those creepy-ass shoots of tits-the-size-of-Ohio porn stars in pigtails, fake freckles, and schoolgirl plaid, so long as they put a *18 somewhere.
And Dick Armey gets on all the defense comittees...
There's others I've noticed from time to time, can't remember any now. I'm pretty sure I've posted something before about whether that Asan Akbar guy that grenaded that tent would have been on the fast track to admiral if he'd joined the Navy instead. How can you not do that? Even if you don't take it as a Message From GodTM, it's Admiral Akbar. Worst case, he gets you all killed, and then you can die knowing Admiral Akbar ordered your ship into a trap...
I don't really know what you mean by "socially" fair, which might be part of my problem, but I don't get your point at all. Your first problem is just a artifact of not taxing based on your second-to-second income. I guess it would be fairer to have tiny elves zip tiny ammounts of money in and out of your pockets constantly, but they're all making cookies right now.
Second, why would we want to promote living in an unlit hovel and hoarding money? That doesn't help anybody. I still don't know what "socially fair" is, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean punishing people for using currency for it's intended purpose. I don't have a problem with sales tax, particularly, but I wouldn't say it's more fair than any other tax. It's just convenient and doesn't require too much infastructure to collect.
Mostly I just want to know what social fairnes is, and I guess, why Ebenezer Scrooge is the model of it.
I agree with you, but practically, it's a nightmare. You need exceptions for people who still have dependents, for one thing. That's not hard, but people are going to want exceptions for willing to charity, which you're going to have to really nail down to avoid stupid crap like charities for people named Gates from Redmond. Then you have to make sure some posessions don't get just auctioned off. Losing all the family photos because you let Grandma hang on to them too long is stupid, but you don't want people buying a 600 pound cube of gold and calling it an heirloom. Plus, you have family businesses, farmers, etc, who you're going to want to exempt some of, although if they get rich enough they're pretty good at protecting themselves. The Gallo wine family alone has about 5 pages of the current tax code (ask any IRS employee about the "Gallo pages") geared almost exclusively to keeping their vinyards going.
Still, it would really be a pretty good idea to just change the default inheretence tax to 100%. Money has gotten so much more fluid since the 1700s that there's really no reason for most inherentence anymore. When most people spent 5 generations in a row farming the same chunk of land it made sense, but now it's free money for nothing more often than not. Even with stupid accounting gymnastics, it might be enough to close the defecit we've got going.
Hey, we aren't slowly starving our print news media for nothing! Being a TV commentator means never having to say you're sorry!
Actually, the TV news is quite Zen-like. A series of unconnected instants, no past, no future, just the present. Each bridge is crossed as it is reached, and even though it's probably the same bridge you crossed the last 12 times you reached it, you never have to notice. It'd probably be enlightening if they didn't yell so much.
Shhh. Don't tell anyone, but those "Canadians" are just Americans that don't want to get shot. The real Canadians all died the first winter they had, back in the 1600s.
His argument was quite nicely thought-out, thank you. He not only condensed a potentially lengthy rehash of an age-old argument down to 2-1/2 words, he also made it funny.
Honestly, though. Shit? The most abused 4-letter word? I don't know much time you've spent communicating with 10-15 year old girls throughout the years, but I can tell you, the role "shit" and "fuck" can play in replacing "like" and "really" as incidental filler words is a godsend to anyone with any literary sense at all. "Shit" is at least a noun. "Like" is some sort of diseased punctation.
"Suddenly, the company realizes its in deep financial shit, and starts making cut backs." or "Suddenly, the company realizes its in, like, really, really bad financial trouble, and starts making cut backs."
I'll take the one that doesn't look like it was written based on the sentance structure of ancient hunter-gatherer hand-signals.
Ooooh, look at meeee! I'm abandoning a million years of evolution in favor of a mathematical theory that would never work in the real woooorld! Oooooh! I don't need the help of others, despite all the well-documented evidence to the contraryyy! Lets just exterminate the weaker members of our species and eliminate the buffer zone that keeps us from going extinct when unexpected large-scale disasters occur! Then we'll be able to through the valuable members of our social group at a threat instead of the expendible ones! Fucking ooooh! I'm so fucking sure there's no reason for empathy outside the parent-child relationship, even though it occurs so fucking often! Whoop-de-fucking-oooh.
Well, they already do. Where do you think all the money the feds use to manipulate food prices comes from? And unless you've been planning on eschewing dairy products, I think it's well worth it to you.
Damn straight. Now shut up and burn your house to the ground for me. All you non-asbestos-coated freaks and your firefighters are draining my new laptop fund.
Quite. If you think greater acceptance of profanity is bad, you're a fucking ass-hocker. If you can't use phrases like leperous fuckwhore when you need to, you run into all sorts of problems, like how the fuck you're supposed to carry on a respectable academic discussion without using leprous fuckwhore at least once. I made up "ass-hocker" just then. Good? It probably means a pimp for male prostitutes. I can't think of any other profanity that refers to them. I feel it's important to fill those sorts of holes in our language.
I'm still looking forward to the point at which the prejudice in favor of blasphemous profanity starts to lift. For the love of god, goddamn, go to hell. All those are practically encouraged at this point, but what about those of us who don't have a god, hmmm? What the fuck are we supposed to do? Might as well be saying "Oprah damn!" for all the profanity-value we get out of those. We get stuck with a-thousand-and-one permutations of fuck. Fuck it, fucking, fuck you, and are those getting depreciated into acceptable vocabulary? Noooo, we gotta downgrade to "For the love of Bob" and that kind of sterilized, pussy-ass shit.
Now there's a fucking conspiracy worth shitting your panties over.
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Masonic God: Before I explain the plot points we edited out of the first movie, please consider purchasing some Powerade and viewing the Animatrix for best enjoyment!
Jesus: Whoa.
Masonic God: Don't forget to play Enter the Matrix: the game that makes history... out of video game history, and make sure you continue the adventure in The Matrix: Revolutions, in theaters November 2003! Now go improv us up another 5 minutes to put us over the 150 minute mark. It'll be classier that way.
Seriously, though, this Matrix wasn't any worse than the last one. It's like AICN talkback emigrated over here to bash Reloaded the last few weeks. It was a good movie. Christ, if they came out with Casablanca today you'd be bashing it even faster.
By the way, using "violence" "less glorified" and "NRA" that close to each other makes my head hurt.
Actually, you can't. Most places that have a lot of fine art hanging around have laws against that kind of thing. Usually the art has to be displayed in a museum or something to get protected, but in France, buying a Renoir and painting little bunnies in the corner is actually worse than just stealing one out of the Lourve. The painting has a cultural value to everybody, so damaging it is a crime against The People as well as the owner.
And that's why we gave all the good art to the French.
You spend a lot of time at Li'l Julie's BarbieBlog too?
I think you're looking at this too much through your own perspective. Wander around some time and check out the edges of the blogsphere. Every blogger is not a heroic crusader against the Man. A lot of them are outright liars that have a very real impact on the thoughts of a great many people. If Fox News started vigorously promoting the idea that a multinational Jewish conspiracy blew up the WTC, this would be a bad thing, yes? But it wouldn't be libel. There's no name in there, it's not even necisarially a literal lie. There are a few safeguards against that sort of thing in the TV arena, but there are bloggers that aproach the viewership of a mediocre cable network that do this sort of thing regularly, and there's no recourse.
Now take that crazy blog and let a Saudi high school access it. They don't get real news on TV. They have to depend on the internet. And this is what they end up finding. It looks good. It sounds good. It's as far off from what they see on TV as the truth is. It's a crap shoot whether they go for the truth or for the nutcase.
National Geographic interviewed some high school kids in Saudi Arabia about 6 months ago. They heard about the Jewish conspiracy on the internet, they believed it. The interviewer was about ready to start crying over the crap these kids were telling him. You can't give somebody common sense to detect this shit unless you give them access to the truth at least as often as the bullshit.
I don't like this either, but not knowing what's real is worse than government-enforced debate. By a big fucking margin. I'm still hoping crap like this can get held off and we'll find out that people are actually capable of getting off the comforable fiction and back to the real world, but I don't have that much faith in humanity.
Isn't that illegal yet?
Crack, right?
No fucking kidding? I actually have a mix CD a friend gave me with a couple of things from them on it. I think I'm going to kill this friend for not mentioning this very pertinent detail. They hadn't really stood out too much for me, but they're not bad. They're kinda halfway between something like The Pixies and the kind of thing that gets put in ads for WB dramas. Sorta weird, but not in a bad way.
It's a little creepy that, if anything, she sounds more like a 12 year old girl in the band than she does in the movie, and in at least one of these songs, she's upgraded from "He touched my breast!" to "Would you fuck me?/'Cause I'd fuck me." and being pressured into an orgy. Hmmm. Maybe my friend made the right choice to keep me in the dark. I think this song was better when I didn't have to spend it fighting back VHS-quality images of child actors.
Actually, the more I listen to these, the better the songwriting gets. I think I'll need to wait a few months for a bisfully ignorant enough mood to really enjoy their tone, but they seem worth a bit of the old non-RIAA CD budget...
Well, if their plan isn't to terrorize you, then they aren't really terrorists are they?
You sure? I definately remeber John Glenn comparing the shuttle with Mercury after he went up, and saying something like how the shuttle felt like an actual rocket, while Mercury felt like it was trying to haul itself up a ladder or something. That could just be the difference 50 or so years makes, but I remeber Buzz Aldrin saying something similar when they had him commentating on Columbia.
No, no. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat shoots you!
Now the question is, which SCO is the better investment?
(yes, really! anyone sending an "Underage" spam pretending to be less than 16 could technically be sued for distributing kiddie porn, even the models are of legal age)
Most places work that way. I don't think the US has a federal law about that, but most states see no difference between a 30-year-old represented as 16 and an actual 5-year-old. That's the whole reason for the 18+ disclaimer. Maybe Norway works with a stricter interpretation, since most of the US can get away with those creepy-ass shoots of tits-the-size-of-Ohio porn stars in pigtails, fake freckles, and schoolgirl plaid, so long as they put a *18 somewhere.
And Dick Armey gets on all the defense comittees...
There's others I've noticed from time to time, can't remember any now. I'm pretty sure I've posted something before about whether that Asan Akbar guy that grenaded that tent would have been on the fast track to admiral if he'd joined the Navy instead. How can you not do that? Even if you don't take it as a Message From GodTM, it's Admiral Akbar. Worst case, he gets you all killed, and then you can die knowing Admiral Akbar ordered your ship into a trap...
I don't really know what you mean by "socially" fair, which might be part of my problem, but I don't get your point at all. Your first problem is just a artifact of not taxing based on your second-to-second income. I guess it would be fairer to have tiny elves zip tiny ammounts of money in and out of your pockets constantly, but they're all making cookies right now.
Second, why would we want to promote living in an unlit hovel and hoarding money? That doesn't help anybody. I still don't know what "socially fair" is, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean punishing people for using currency for it's intended purpose. I don't have a problem with sales tax, particularly, but I wouldn't say it's more fair than any other tax. It's just convenient and doesn't require too much infastructure to collect.
Mostly I just want to know what social fairnes is, and I guess, why Ebenezer Scrooge is the model of it.
I agree with you, but practically, it's a nightmare. You need exceptions for people who still have dependents, for one thing. That's not hard, but people are going to want exceptions for willing to charity, which you're going to have to really nail down to avoid stupid crap like charities for people named Gates from Redmond. Then you have to make sure some posessions don't get just auctioned off. Losing all the family photos because you let Grandma hang on to them too long is stupid, but you don't want people buying a 600 pound cube of gold and calling it an heirloom. Plus, you have family businesses, farmers, etc, who you're going to want to exempt some of, although if they get rich enough they're pretty good at protecting themselves. The Gallo wine family alone has about 5 pages of the current tax code (ask any IRS employee about the "Gallo pages") geared almost exclusively to keeping their vinyards going.
Still, it would really be a pretty good idea to just change the default inheretence tax to 100%. Money has gotten so much more fluid since the 1700s that there's really no reason for most inherentence anymore. When most people spent 5 generations in a row farming the same chunk of land it made sense, but now it's free money for nothing more often than not. Even with stupid accounting gymnastics, it might be enough to close the defecit we've got going.
That really makes me want to run over your mailbox with a big white Hummer.
But that's just me.
Hey, we aren't slowly starving our print news media for nothing! Being a TV commentator means never having to say you're sorry!
Actually, the TV news is quite Zen-like. A series of unconnected instants, no past, no future, just the present. Each bridge is crossed as it is reached, and even though it's probably the same bridge you crossed the last 12 times you reached it, you never have to notice. It'd probably be enlightening if they didn't yell so much.
Shhh. Don't tell anyone, but those "Canadians" are just Americans that don't want to get shot. The real Canadians all died the first winter they had, back in the 1600s.
His argument was quite nicely thought-out, thank you. He not only condensed a potentially lengthy rehash of an age-old argument down to 2-1/2 words, he also made it funny.
Honestly, though. Shit? The most abused 4-letter word? I don't know much time you've spent communicating with 10-15 year old girls throughout the years, but I can tell you, the role "shit" and "fuck" can play in replacing "like" and "really" as incidental filler words is a godsend to anyone with any literary sense at all. "Shit" is at least a noun. "Like" is some sort of diseased punctation.
"Suddenly, the company realizes its in deep financial shit, and starts making cut backs."
or
"Suddenly, the company realizes its in, like, really, really bad financial trouble, and starts making cut backs."
I'll take the one that doesn't look like it was written based on the sentance structure of ancient hunter-gatherer hand-signals.
Through should be throw. Not that that fucking means anything, whores.
Ooooh, look at meeee! I'm abandoning a million years of evolution in favor of a mathematical theory that would never work in the real woooorld! Oooooh! I don't need the help of others, despite all the well-documented evidence to the contraryyy! Lets just exterminate the weaker members of our species and eliminate the buffer zone that keeps us from going extinct when unexpected large-scale disasters occur! Then we'll be able to through the valuable members of our social group at a threat instead of the expendible ones! Fucking ooooh! I'm so fucking sure there's no reason for empathy outside the parent-child relationship, even though it occurs so fucking often! Whoop-de-fucking-oooh.
Anthopological troll #6! Booyah!
Well, they already do. Where do you think all the money the feds use to manipulate food prices comes from? And unless you've been planning on eschewing dairy products, I think it's well worth it to you.
Damn straight. Now shut up and burn your house to the ground for me. All you non-asbestos-coated freaks and your firefighters are draining my new laptop fund.
You mean their new Auntie Rosen's Unholy Family PlanningTM service? Now with more Vengeful DietyTM!
Quite. If you think greater acceptance of profanity is bad, you're a fucking ass-hocker. If you can't use phrases like leperous fuckwhore when you need to, you run into all sorts of problems, like how the fuck you're supposed to carry on a respectable academic discussion without using leprous fuckwhore at least once. I made up "ass-hocker" just then. Good? It probably means a pimp for male prostitutes. I can't think of any other profanity that refers to them. I feel it's important to fill those sorts of holes in our language.
I'm still looking forward to the point at which the prejudice in favor of blasphemous profanity starts to lift. For the love of god, goddamn, go to hell. All those are practically encouraged at this point, but what about those of us who don't have a god, hmmm? What the fuck are we supposed to do? Might as well be saying "Oprah damn!" for all the profanity-value we get out of those. We get stuck with a-thousand-and-one permutations of fuck. Fuck it, fucking, fuck you, and are those getting depreciated into acceptable vocabulary? Noooo, we gotta downgrade to "For the love of Bob" and that kind of sterilized, pussy-ass shit.
Now there's a fucking conspiracy worth shitting your panties over.