They DO fuck with the movies, and I will NEVER forgive those cocksuckers for completely changing the meaning of the entire Castle in the Sky film.
The asshole main character is shooting essentially nuclear blasts at the ocean under Laputa, and in the dubbed and "hearing impaired" version of the subtitles, Shita says "No matter how many weapons you have... no matter how great your technology might be... the world cannot live without love." What a bunch of bullshit pablum, written by and for suburban born again christians in Beigeland.
The japanese and correctly translated subtitles version says "No matter how powerful your weapons or numerous your poor robots, you can't survive apart from the Earth." BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE. Miyazaki-san should sue Disney for breach of contract. And make them totally reissue every DVD sold. The extras even show the couple who write all the adaptations (except the one Neil Gaiman redid). They look like a couple of mormon evangelizers. Conformist blandofuckers. And we can see from recent events just how serious the consequences are for ignoring our environment. They should be dragged from their beige townhouse and driven over repeatedly with their own SUV.
Maybe you should get your mom to figure it all out for you when she's done doing your laundry. Oh, and maybe she can stay home during the day to answer the door; after all, UPS and FedEx aren't going to be able to hire anyone to make deliveries during the evening and night hours. (Delivery drivers don't like getting shot, robbed or attacked by dogs, pigfucker.)
>>but, seriously, why do so many people try to equate a fun, powerful car with penile size?
Because these things are mating strategies. Chimps and other primates (people) make loud noises in public to attract attention and express dominance in the local group. People now have very complex dominance hierarchies, but the behaviors are still ingrained from the quite recent past when we all lived in small groups just like chimps. Chimps and gorillas yank on branches and throw things around. People rev their engines. But it's all fucked up and nobody understands it because these guys can BUY loud engines/harleys etc. We do it without understanding why, just like all instinctual behavior. Of COURSE it's fun! Being at the top of the dominance hierarchy means you get the most sex, food, places to hang out, and you also get to push around those lower-ranking doofs. And doing these behaviors (revving engines, playing loud music etc) are going to FEEL fun to our brains, because the unconscious part of our mind knows it's going to pay off in mates, food, position etc.
People equate these things with 'small penis' as a shorthand way of saying 'this guy wouldn't even make beta male in a real primate group.'
I have a question for all you folks out there: why don't women ever rev their engines, burn off their tires etc? Nobody talks about "whoa, she must be making up for her tiny vulva" or something.
Think so? Go rent a copy of The Quiet Earth; film from new zealand, came out back in the early 80s and only watch the part up 'til the girl appears. You could be just like that guy, living in an empty mansion by candlelight, dressed up in clothes of the opposite gender, looking in a mirror.
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Still clinging to the past, and stuck on your idiotic view of some things as bad. Rampant promiscuity? Hear hear! I personally have shagged over 60 different women, a magnificent feat I could not have accomplished under your christian/victorian repression without spending a lot of damn money on prostitutes and exposing myself to greatly increased risk of the STDs you're on about. People haven't changed; they're promiscuous and non-monagamous by nature. Divorce? Yeah, now a woman can get away from a control freak like you who starts beating her 6 months after their marriage. Or people who married too young/naive/stupid etc can learn from their mistakes and make better choices next time. Come to think of it, it DOES sound like an improvement. Why don't you? Oh, yeah, it's dark in the place you've got your head stuck up into. You can't see how much better things are.
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One entry found for fascism.
Main Entry: fas·cism Pronunciation: 'fa-"shi-z&m also 'fa-"si- Function: noun Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces 1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition 2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.
Nothing in the above definition (from merriam webster online) says a thing about the majority. And why would it? Fascism comes from the idiot majority getting too much power in their walmart-grubbing hands. If my recollection of history lessons is accurate, I believe the vast majorities of nazi germany and fascist italy both strongly supported the policies of "strong autocratic or dictatorial control". Mussolini himself defined fascism as "the merging of state and corporate power."
Fascist policies on how a neighborhood looks may seem minor in comparison to the Patriot Act for example, but it's all part of the same mojo, snowballing its way up to mandatory church attendance and prayer-based corporate control of the minds and pocketbooks of america. It starts with small-minded suppression of dissent.
Like remember how things were in Berlin in the 20s and 30s? Restrictions on travel and dissent, paranoia, fascist takeovers. So the next question is, who's going to come in here in ten or twenty years and kick OUR asses and restore democracy and freedom?
>Granted, some of the reconstruction is being done by US firms (and why not? - they're the best in the world)
Because they're corrupt? Because there's an obvious conflict of interest in how they were selected to do the job (Halliburton). BTW, yes it's obvious to anyone with a brain it's not about the oil. People have gotten wise to that scam and there's plenty of other gravy to be had such as the reconstruction billions mentioned above.
>The invasion of Iraq was not about conquest and subjugation, but liberation and freedom from a tyrannical dictator No, there's obviously more to it than that or we'd be kicking ass/getting our asses kicked in Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, China, Tibet, etc etc etc. It's about GW Bush's desire to bully the bully and thereby kick some ass without having (in his own mind) to look like the bully. Oh, and to avenge Saddam's plan to assassinate his daddy.
>- one whom *all* parties and governments in the western world (including the UN) believed to have large WMD stockpiles Um, no, nobody believed he had large WMD stockpiles except a few rabid talk radio nutbags and their listeners. People who've lost the desire or capacity for independent thought.
>>People in the western world (or anywhere in the world) spend less time working than they ever have before.
Bullshit! They work less than they have since the beginning of the industrial revolution. There is little documentation one way or the other prior to that, but in general people living in hunter/gatherer societies don't 'work' per se, they hang out all day doing things we do for leisure (such as hunting, and gathering things from the garden).
BTW, people in the USA work more hours now than they have in a long time due to corporate management of our democracy. French people have 5 weeks of paid vacation per year, and retire at 80% of their former pay. Saving for retirement? they don't. No need to.
I'm addicted to sugar; except 3 times a day doesn't see all that much really. Try 6 or 7 times a day, small sugared bits a coworker leaves out for everyone to nip at, the skinny little bitch.
Yes, the variable sword had the molecular bond thing covered; the blade was supported by a stasis field. Other similar weapons in books have been help up with different things; I remember Walter Jon Williams' version was held up with a static charge. I always wondered if these things could do much good. Wouldn't cutting through somebody's arm just heal the tiny wound? I also wonder about needle guns. If the tiny needle just pierces a hole in you, wouldn't it kind of pass through and leave a tiny hole you'd barely feel? Just curious.
>Why is there so much water on Earth?
Because it's in the right temperature zone, and comets (made of ice) from the OORT belt have been bombarding our planet for billions of years. Same goes for Europa, though I was under the impression they had tons of ice but the only liquid water might be deep beneath the surface.
People saw the commercial that said "No late fees" and showed people rushing into the streets to celebrate. No matter how often people are told to read the fine print etc, people jump to the most ludicrous of conclusions based on very scant evidence, from a VERY suspect source (a tv commercial). Yet they have the nerve to get pissed for thinking they got to keep videos forever for the price of a rental! Stupahd!
Why can't it be modded Ignorant? I mean, the guy even goes on in his post about how much he doesn't know. Why even bother posting, you yutz? You can't even do basic math. Why are you commenting about things you don't use? I, one among many, love Netflix. I mark my calender when I receive and send a movie, and while they seem to be slowing down the churn slightly I still get 12-15 movies a month for the $17 plus tax; about half what I'd pay per rental at most rental places, minus the hassle of going in, finding something I like by browsing shelves, and then having to take it back. Netflix also has the advantage of their review system, which I find invaluable. And you, Bill Firstpost, don't rent, don't like hanging out at Blockbuster, and do like lurking in Walmart in your polyester pants, too small t-shirt, and white sneakers, buying movies on the cheap to keep (oops to Own. Own it now on dvd!). Look at your "collection" right now: how many of them have you watched only once? How many of them do you expect to ever watch again? Of the ones you really like, how many have you watched in the last year? You're not only a nitwit with an empty first post, you're a perfect example of what is wrong with modern western society: a bottomless pit of selfishness and uninformed, unsolicited opinions, living simply to consume, working like a dog somewhere to enrich someone else and distract yourself from how miserable you truly are with shiny trinkets and empty entertainments.
It's backwards because psychology often works in weird ways. But yeah, lowered. As Captain Kirk said, we need challenges to strengthen us or we weaken and die. This means being told no. If somebody gets whatever they want the second they demand it, yeah, they end up spoiled but their self esteem is only inflated on the outside; inside they're afraid people won't like them. The bluster just is a coverup. And as far as low self-esteem people not being a threat to anyone, that's ludicrous. Gangbangers that KNOW they're nothing but a piece of shit won't take flack from anybody because they know they suck but must bluster to make up for it, and kill people to prove they were right. Another example: Jeffrey Dahmer. Gay guy, driven nuts by his fundy parents' attitude about homosexuality. Do you think he had inflated self-esteem or low?
>avoid confrontation even when you think the child is wrong. In this case, the child will learn the same pattern of behaviour, and will grow to not argue his case as a teenager. This leads to the low self-esteem etc,
--Well, how else are we supposed to get porn stars?;)
>The middle approach? --Damn straight. It's called authoritative (as opposed to authoritarian). Or as the Buddha pointed out 2000+ yrs ago, the Middle Way, and it still works great.
Okay, question number 1: Why are you acting like he's bigger than you? Does he have a key to your gun cabinet or something? 2: Why is this kid not playing outside? Ignore the parent poster, 3 hours a day of ANYTHING for a 5 year old is just wrong. Get him a dog and a stick.
but solids obviously do flow. How about sand? Cat litter? Gravel? I can pour flour out of a jar into a mixing bowl, etc etc. Really anything made of individual bits in a pile can flow, I s'pose..
Your points are all excellent AFAIK. I didn't watch hardly any Enterprise, because I can smell a stinker a mile away. Notice how the Trek topic immediately got suborned by people talking about good SF: B5 and Firefly. The Blalock head above is the wrong icon for this story; it should have the foot! Get a life you trekkie nerds! Quit watching crap and good stuff will have a better chance. Trek is dead, and should have a good long fallow period.
I think the point of slugthrowers in a ship is that we know they work, and aside from B5's PPGs, every single space show out there had ray guns of some type. Avoiding cliches is a point of good writing, and slug throwers are cheap, they carry their own energy, and jeez, who says you can shoot through a spaceship hull with a handgun? Come on. Any hull that'll stop meteor impacts will stop bullets, especially hollow points. And this whole "explosive" decompression thing. Too many explosions in current entertainment has got people thinking a little hole in the wall will make the ship blow up. Just put a patch over it adn the vacuum will hold it in place 'til we can get it correctly repaired.
Lightly rehased(?) western set in space? What's unoriginal about that? What was repetitive about it? BTW, the original Star Trek was just a lightly rehased(?) cop show set in space. You may not have liked the western themes (and who could like those ridiculous gingham dresses and the humongous sun bonnets?) but the ideas made sense and the plots were great. The lethal blow was Fox's idiocy. The demographics on the show were virtually identical to the demographics for Buffy The Vampire Slayer, which was on WB. Different networks, same ratings; one got what, 11 seasons? while the other got 13 episodes. The difference? Idiots in charge. Same thing that fucks up everything.
I realize this guy has been labeled 'troll', but I think that's an over-reaction. I'd just like to point out that whether it's government or private, no amount of you flapping your big stupid mouth is going to make any difference. Oh, dear me, I had to go move my own trash cans! Oh, no, those guys have a route they have to do in a limited amount of time and won't clean up garbage when one of my cheapass bags from Sam's Club broke? Oh, what a world, what a world. People getting hacked to death with machetes and you're bitching about nothing. Move to another city, hell move to another hemisphere you think you got it so bad.
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They DO fuck with the movies, and I will NEVER forgive those cocksuckers for completely changing the meaning of the entire Castle in the Sky film.
The asshole main character is shooting essentially nuclear blasts at the ocean under Laputa, and in the dubbed and "hearing impaired" version of the subtitles, Shita says "No matter how many weapons you have... no matter how great your technology might be... the world cannot live without love." What a bunch of bullshit pablum, written by and for suburban born again christians in Beigeland.
The japanese and correctly translated subtitles version says "No matter how powerful your weapons or numerous your poor robots, you can't survive apart from the Earth."
BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE. Miyazaki-san should sue Disney for breach of contract. And make them totally reissue every DVD sold. The extras even show the couple who write all the adaptations (except the one Neil Gaiman redid). They look like a couple of mormon evangelizers. Conformist blandofuckers. And we can see from recent events just how serious the consequences are for ignoring our environment. They should be dragged from their beige townhouse and driven over repeatedly with their own SUV.
>And the article itself is completely lacking in any substance.
Like your penis, and every argument you make against online shopping. Go live under a bridge, Troll.
Maybe you should get your mom to figure it all out for you when she's done doing your laundry.
Oh, and maybe she can stay home during the day to answer the door; after all, UPS and FedEx aren't going to be able to hire anyone to make deliveries during the evening and night hours. (Delivery drivers don't like getting shot, robbed or attacked by dogs, pigfucker.)
This is real life. It's not for pussies.
BTW, go to http://youaredumb.net/ and read the Be A Better Nerd Manifesto.
Ooh, aren't you sesquipedalian.
>>but, seriously, why do so many people try to equate a fun, powerful car with penile size?
Because these things are mating strategies. Chimps and other primates (people) make loud noises in public to attract attention and express dominance in the local group. People now have very complex dominance hierarchies, but the behaviors are still ingrained from the quite recent past when we all lived in small groups just like chimps. Chimps and gorillas yank on branches and throw things around. People rev their engines. But it's all fucked up and nobody understands it because these guys can BUY loud engines/harleys etc. We do it without understanding why, just like all instinctual behavior. Of COURSE it's fun! Being at the top of the dominance hierarchy means you get the most sex, food, places to hang out, and you also get to push around those lower-ranking doofs. And doing these behaviors (revving engines, playing loud music etc) are going to FEEL fun to our brains, because the unconscious part of our mind knows it's going to pay off in mates, food, position etc.
People equate these things with 'small penis' as a shorthand way of saying 'this guy wouldn't even make beta male in a real primate group.'
I have a question for all you folks out there: why don't women ever rev their engines, burn off their tires etc? Nobody talks about "whoa, she must be making up for her tiny vulva" or something.
Think so? Go rent a copy of The Quiet Earth; film from new zealand, came out back in the early 80s and only watch the part up 'til the girl appears. You could be just like that guy, living in an empty mansion by candlelight, dressed up in clothes of the opposite gender, looking in a mirror.
Still clinging to the past, and stuck on your idiotic view of some things as bad. Rampant promiscuity? Hear hear! I personally have shagged over 60 different women, a magnificent feat I could not have accomplished under your christian/victorian repression without spending a lot of damn money on prostitutes and exposing myself to greatly increased risk of the STDs you're on about. People haven't changed; they're promiscuous and non-monagamous by nature.
Divorce? Yeah, now a woman can get away from a control freak like you who starts beating her 6 months after their marriage. Or people who married too young/naive/stupid etc can learn from their mistakes and make better choices next time.
Come to think of it, it DOES sound like an improvement. Why don't you? Oh, yeah, it's dark in the place you've got your head stuck up into. You can't see how much better things are.
One entry found for fascism.
Main Entry: fas·cism
Pronunciation: 'fa-"shi-z&m also 'fa-"si-
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.
Nothing in the above definition (from merriam webster online) says a thing about the majority. And why would it? Fascism comes from the idiot majority getting too much power in their walmart-grubbing hands. If my recollection of history lessons is accurate, I believe the vast majorities of nazi germany and fascist italy both strongly supported the policies of "strong autocratic or dictatorial control". Mussolini himself defined fascism as "the merging of state and corporate power."
Fascist policies on how a neighborhood looks may seem minor in comparison to the Patriot Act for example, but it's all part of the same mojo, snowballing its way up to mandatory church attendance and prayer-based corporate control of the minds and pocketbooks of america. It starts with small-minded suppression of dissent.
The uric acid conquers stinkfoot. And you nerds stink bad enough as it is.
Like remember how things were in Berlin in the 20s and 30s? Restrictions on travel and dissent, paranoia, fascist takeovers. So the next question is, who's going to come in here in ten or twenty years and kick OUR asses and restore democracy and freedom?
>Granted, some of the reconstruction is being done by US firms (and why not? - they're the best in the world)
Because they're corrupt? Because there's an obvious conflict of interest in how they were selected to do the job (Halliburton). BTW, yes it's obvious to anyone with a brain it's not about the oil. People have gotten wise to that scam and there's plenty of other gravy to be had such as the reconstruction billions mentioned above.
>The invasion of Iraq was not about conquest and subjugation, but liberation and freedom from a tyrannical dictator
No, there's obviously more to it than that or we'd be kicking ass/getting our asses kicked in Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, China, Tibet, etc etc etc. It's about GW Bush's desire to bully the bully and thereby kick some ass without having (in his own mind) to look like the bully. Oh, and to avenge Saddam's plan to assassinate his daddy.
>- one whom *all* parties and governments in the western world (including the UN) believed to have large WMD stockpiles
Um, no, nobody believed he had large WMD stockpiles except a few rabid talk radio nutbags and their listeners. People who've lost the desire or capacity for independent thought.
>>People in the western world (or anywhere in the world) spend less time working than they ever have before.
Bullshit! They work less than they have since the beginning of the industrial revolution. There is little documentation one way or the other prior to that, but in general people living in hunter/gatherer societies don't 'work' per se, they hang out all day doing things we do for leisure (such as hunting, and gathering things from the garden).
BTW, people in the USA work more hours now than they have in a long time due to corporate management of our democracy. French people have 5 weeks of paid vacation per year, and retire at 80% of their former pay. Saving for retirement? they don't. No need to.
I'm addicted to sugar; except 3 times a day doesn't see all that much really. Try 6 or 7 times a day, small sugared bits a coworker leaves out for everyone to nip at, the skinny little bitch.
Yes, the variable sword had the molecular bond thing covered; the blade was supported by a stasis field. Other similar weapons in books have been help up with different things; I remember Walter Jon Williams' version was held up with a static charge.
I always wondered if these things could do much good. Wouldn't cutting through somebody's arm just heal the tiny wound? I also wonder about needle guns. If the tiny needle just pierces a hole in you, wouldn't it kind of pass through and leave a tiny hole you'd barely feel?
Just curious.
>Why is there so much water on Earth?
Because it's in the right temperature zone, and comets (made of ice) from the OORT belt have been bombarding our planet for billions of years.
Same goes for Europa, though I was under the impression they had tons of ice but the only liquid water might be deep beneath the surface.
People saw the commercial that said "No late fees" and showed people rushing into the streets to celebrate. No matter how often people are told to read the fine print etc, people jump to the most ludicrous of conclusions based on very scant evidence, from a VERY suspect source (a tv commercial). Yet they have the nerve to get pissed for thinking they got to keep videos forever for the price of a rental! Stupahd!
Why can't it be modded Ignorant? I mean, the guy even goes on in his post about how much he doesn't know. Why even bother posting, you yutz? You can't even do basic math. Why are you commenting about things you don't use? I, one among many, love Netflix. I mark my calender when I receive and send a movie, and while they seem to be slowing down the churn slightly I still get 12-15 movies a month for the $17 plus tax; about half what I'd pay per rental at most rental places, minus the hassle of going in, finding something I like by browsing shelves, and then having to take it back. Netflix also has the advantage of their review system, which I find invaluable.
And you, Bill Firstpost, don't rent, don't like hanging out at Blockbuster, and do like lurking in Walmart in your polyester pants, too small t-shirt, and white sneakers, buying movies on the cheap to keep (oops to Own. Own it now on dvd!). Look at your "collection" right now: how many of them have you watched only once? How many of them do you expect to ever watch again? Of the ones you really like, how many have you watched in the last year?
You're not only a nitwit with an empty first post, you're a perfect example of what is wrong with modern western society: a bottomless pit of selfishness and uninformed, unsolicited opinions, living simply to consume, working like a dog somewhere to enrich someone else and distract yourself from how miserable you truly are with shiny trinkets and empty entertainments.
It's backwards because psychology often works in weird ways. But yeah, lowered. As Captain Kirk said, we need challenges to strengthen us or we weaken and die. This means being told no. If somebody gets whatever they want the second they demand it, yeah, they end up spoiled but their self esteem is only inflated on the outside; inside they're afraid people won't like them. The bluster just is a coverup.
And as far as low self-esteem people not being a threat to anyone, that's ludicrous. Gangbangers that KNOW they're nothing but a piece of shit won't take flack from anybody because they know they suck but must bluster to make up for it, and kill people to prove they were right. Another example: Jeffrey Dahmer. Gay guy, driven nuts by his fundy parents' attitude about homosexuality. Do you think he had inflated self-esteem or low?
>avoid confrontation even when you think the child is wrong. In this case, the child will learn the same pattern of behaviour, and will grow to not argue his case as a teenager. This leads to the low self-esteem etc,
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--Well, how else are we supposed to get porn stars?
>The middle approach?
--Damn straight. It's called authoritative (as opposed to authoritarian). Or as the Buddha pointed out 2000+ yrs ago, the Middle Way, and it still works great.
Okay, question number 1: Why are you acting like he's bigger than you? Does he have a key to your gun cabinet or something?
2: Why is this kid not playing outside? Ignore the parent poster, 3 hours a day of ANYTHING for a 5 year old is just wrong. Get him a dog and a stick.
but solids obviously do flow. How about sand? Cat litter? Gravel? I can pour flour out of a jar into a mixing bowl, etc etc. Really anything made of individual bits in a pile can flow, I s'pose..
Your points are all excellent AFAIK. I didn't watch hardly any Enterprise, because I can smell a stinker a mile away. Notice how the Trek topic immediately got suborned by people talking about good SF: B5 and Firefly.
The Blalock head above is the wrong icon for this story; it should have the foot! Get a life you trekkie nerds! Quit watching crap and good stuff will have a better chance.
Trek is dead, and should have a good long fallow period.
I think the point of slugthrowers in a ship is that we know they work, and aside from B5's PPGs, every single space show out there had ray guns of some type. Avoiding cliches is a point of good writing, and slug throwers are cheap, they carry their own energy, and jeez, who says you can shoot through a spaceship hull with a handgun? Come on. Any hull that'll stop meteor impacts will stop bullets, especially hollow points. And this whole "explosive" decompression thing. Too many explosions in current entertainment has got people thinking a little hole in the wall will make the ship blow up. Just put a patch over it adn the vacuum will hold it in place 'til we can get it correctly repaired.
Lightly rehased(?) western set in space?
What's unoriginal about that? What was repetitive about it?
BTW, the original Star Trek was just a lightly rehased(?) cop show set in space. You may not have liked the western themes (and who could like those ridiculous gingham dresses and the humongous sun bonnets?) but the ideas made sense and the plots were great. The lethal blow was Fox's idiocy. The demographics on the show were virtually identical to the demographics for Buffy The Vampire Slayer, which was on WB. Different networks, same ratings; one got what, 11 seasons? while the other got 13 episodes. The difference? Idiots in charge. Same thing that fucks up everything.
I realize this guy has been labeled 'troll', but I think that's an over-reaction.
I'd just like to point out that whether it's government or private, no amount of you flapping your big stupid mouth is going to make any difference. Oh, dear me, I had to go move my own trash cans! Oh, no, those guys have a route they have to do in a limited amount of time and won't clean up garbage when one of my cheapass bags from Sam's Club broke? Oh, what a world, what a world.
People getting hacked to death with machetes and you're bitching about nothing. Move to another city, hell move to another hemisphere you think you got it so bad.