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  1. Re:FB should did it on Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    idiots like this don't even realize they are enabling the existence of a police state.

  2. Re:FB should did it on Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    that is not deadly force.
    that is threat.

    deadly force is an action, not a threat of action.

  3. Re: FB should did it on Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you want a police state?
    This is how you get a police state.

    Also rofl at the concept that people are only worth ~4 hours of our public servant's time.

  4. Re: FB should did it on Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    and I can't fault the cops for shooting her

    so are we just going to ignore that the cops fired first?
    -
    i do blame everyone involved here.
    from her comments (not in the summary) it seems she ascribed to the sovereign citizen movement. which is utterly stupid.
    but then the cops also fired first, to no effect, prompting her to return fire, and then the cops fatally shoot her.
    i don't think they were unjustified necessarily, but i will fault them for creating the grounds for justification by firing first.

    kinda like instigating a fight, and then killing the person "in self-defense"....ala a certain Florida resident named Zimmerman.

  5. Re: FB should did it on Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    note that the cop also fired first.

  6. Re:If I thought it would help... on Ask Slashdot: Should The DHS Designate Elections As Critical Infrastructure? (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Knowing what an I-9 is and knowing what it actually requires are two different things.
    you've proven you are familiar with the first part, but not the second.

  7. Re:If I thought it would help... on Ask Slashdot: Should The DHS Designate Elections As Critical Infrastructure? (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    no, you just aren't familiar with the I-9 form's requirements

  8. Re:If I thought it would help... on Ask Slashdot: Should The DHS Designate Elections As Critical Infrastructure? (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    the ID required for an I-9 is different from that typically required to vote.

    I-9 is very forgiving and establishes eligibility to work, not identity. as such it includes birth certificates and SSN cards, while the voter ID laws typically don't:

    List A: Documents that may be used under "List A" of the I-9 form to establish both identity and employment eligibility include:
    -An unexpired U.S. Passport
    -A U.S. Passport Card
    -A Permanent Resident Card (often called a "green card") or Alien Registration Receipt Card with photograph
    -An unexpired Temporary Resident Card
    -An unexpired foreign passport with an I-551 stamp, or with Form I-94 (For the certain alien who is authorized to work with restrictions. The person should also attach the document(s) which indicate(s) an unexpired employment authorization)
    -An unexpired Employment Authorization Document issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security that includes a photograph (Form I-766)
    -An unexpired Employment Authorization Card

    List B: Documents that may be used under "List B" of the I-9 to establish identity include:
    -Driver's license or I.D. card issued by a U.S. state or outlying possession of the U.S., provided it contains a photograph or identifying information such as name, date of birth, gender, height, eye color and address.
    -Federal or state I.D. card provided it contains a photograph or identifying information such as name, date of birth, gender, height, eye color and address.
    School I.D. with photograph
    -U.S. Armed Services identification card or draft record
    -Voter Registration Card
    -U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Card
    -Native American tribal document
    -Driver's license issued by a Canadian government authority

    For individuals under the age of 18 only, the following documents may be used to establish identity:
    -School record or report card
    -Clinic, doctor or hospital record
    -Day-care or nursery school record

    Employees who supply an item from List B must also supply an item from List C

    List C: Documents that may be used under "List C" of the I-9 to establish employment eligibility include:
    -A U.S. Social Security card issued by the Social Security Administration unless it indicates one of the following: NOT VALID FOR EMPLOYMENT (generally issued to non-immigrant aliens unauthorized to work)
    VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH INS AUTHORIZATION
    VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH DHS AUTHORIZATION

    -A birth certificate issued by the U.S. State Department (Form FS-545 or Form DS-1350) Original or certified copy of a birth certificate from the U.S. or an outlying possession of the U.S., bearing an official seal
    -A Certificate of U.S. Citizenship (Form N-560 or N-561)[7]
    -A Certificate of Naturalization (Form N-550 or N-570)[7]
    -Native American tribal document
    -U.S. Citizen I.D. Card (Form I-197)
    -An I.D. Card for the use of a Resident Citizen in the United States (Form I-179)
    -An unexpired employment authorization card issued by the Dept. of Homeland Security (other than those included on List A)

  9. Re:If I thought it would help... on Ask Slashdot: Should The DHS Designate Elections As Critical Infrastructure? (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    most of them walk or take the bus, again assuming they get or can afford to take the time off work to do so.

  10. Re:If I thought it would help... on Ask Slashdot: Should The DHS Designate Elections As Critical Infrastructure? (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Bingo.
    Even if the card is free, this right here is the real but hidden cost that serves as a barrier to entry for low income workers, who just happen to be predominately democratic voters.

    Voter ID laws: vote suppression isn't a bug, it's a feature.

  11. Re:If I thought it would help... on Ask Slashdot: Should The DHS Designate Elections As Critical Infrastructure? (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    way to just ignore that whole voter registration thing, which completely satisfies your concerns.

  12. Re: comcast wants you to buy HBO with cable tv and on Cable Companies Urge Judges To Kill 'Net Neutrality' Rules · · Score: 1

    they meter for the water that's been pulled from the river/reservoir, filtered, disinfected, and delivered to your house.

  13. Re:don't trust uTorrent on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I second (or third) qBittorrent.

    All in favor say aye

  14. how can something be both intentional ("by design") and accidental ("gross negligence") ??

    at this point you're just a mini trump, spouting word salad without a care as to meanings.

  15. rofl

  16. rofl.
    HDS.
    like ODS.
    but chronic and incurable.

  17. Re:Ain't no governor like a republican governor on Florida Regulators OK Plan To Increase Toxins In Water (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 0

    rofl @ "reporting on loosened regulations is a conspiracy/troll"

  18. Re:You made the bed. Now sleep in it. on 54C Recorded In Kuwait Likely Hottest On Record In Asia (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    assumptions ftl

  19. Re:You made the bed. Now sleep in it. on 54C Recorded In Kuwait Likely Hottest On Record In Asia (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    actually the greening was predicted.
    and its also known, proven experimentally, that the drawbacks of higher heat and CO2 outweigh the benefits.

    drawbacks that include:
    -changing plant biochemistry, turning some crops toxic, reducing insect resistance, attracting additional insects, or other various effects
    -plants that don't produce their crop in the higher heat, or simply don't grow in it

    but then, as I said: the fact its more complex than your naïve "well plants like CO2, so much be better" viewpoint has been explained to you before.

    and you've ignored it...again.
    hence youre a willfully ignorant troll, or possibly a paid one.

  20. Re:You made the bed. Now sleep in it. on 54C Recorded In Kuwait Likely Hottest On Record In Asia (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    oh stfu.
    you've had this explained to you countless times.
    the fact you ignore it every time simply makes you a committed troll.

  21. what Alex Jones level of delusion BS-monger website did you get that pile of ignorance from?

  22. Re:Man, animation must _really_ be evil then. on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Im quite sure you have no clue what youre talking about. Or rather, youre taking one method, and applying it to everything, and not everything and everyone has worked like that.

    Many of the most iconic scenes in movies have come from keeping actors in the dark, getting their genuine reaction. Other have come about because the director manipulated the actor in some other way. They may know the scene, and have an idea whats coming, but in some way, they don't know it all. Or the director say, spent months flirting with his lead actress, and then destroyed her emotions the day of the scene.

    Some famous examples:

    Goodfellas - "Funny how?" ... only Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta knew what was about to happen. the other guys in that scene thought Pesci was actually getting mad. their obvious unease and discomfort was real.

    The Informer - in the movie the The Informer, Victor McLaglen won an Oscar for Best Actor, largely because of one scene. the director, john Ford, already had a reputation as a hard ass, and for being unreasonably demanding, and berating his actors, even his friends, which McLaglen was a close friend. hours before this scene in which McLaglen was to be a shell of himself, reduced to tears, pitiful, etc.... Ford deliberately told him the wrong time to show up to work. when he showed up, Ford berated him in public for over an hour, just laying into him, calling him an awful actor, worthless, everything under the sun. McLaglen just took it, clueless as to why his friend and mentor was doing this to him.. Ford later said that he was sure he had destroyed their friendship, that maybe he had gone too far, and that Victor would walk off before they began filming. But he didn't, and when they started filming he just broke down into some of the most pitiful sobs ever filmed before. The final scene won him his only Oscar, and Ford another best director. (I highly recommend the movie.)

    The Alien chest burst was mentioned.
    the vomit scene of the Exorcist is another.

    Willy Wonka -the kids never really were told beforehand what would happen, spending nearly the entire movie seeing things for the first time, reacting in true surprise and shock.

    Glory - , the director had the offscreen guy keep whipping Denzel far past what they had talked about in setting up the scene. his pain, his anger, was all real.

    Casablanca - has such a scene, of true emotional investment, though not frm manipulation. Because the film was made during WWII, when the patrons of the bar begin singing the anthem to drown out the german signing, many of those actors in that scene were citizens of occupied countries, real-life refugees cutoff from their homeland, who had fled the Nazis, particularly France, countries that were occupied right then. and their emotion as they sang their anthem, directed at actors playing germans (several of which really were german) was real.

  23. Re:Man, animation must _really_ be evil then. on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    don't forget that some of the most iconic scenes in matrix were also done practically, or mostly so, with minimal CGI, because they knew the limits (mostly) of the technology. (unfornately they forgot some of that in the sequels, and that's how we got Rubber-Neo fighting hundreds of Rubber-Smiths.....)

    the slow mo swirl around Smith and Neo for example.
    now, we'd just mo-cap them and insert them into a nearly 100% CGI rendering.

    but at the time that shot was assembled from several hundred physical (and i believe high speed, since the action is still unfolding, ie they aren't simply stopped while the swirl happens) cameras surrounding the actors. the CGI in that shot was mostly to remove the opposing cameras from view and add the bullets/shockwaves. technologically, it wasn't that groundbreaking, as the cameras and wires etc were really new; what was really unique was the combination of that simple tech, along with simple level of resources (re: hundreds of cameras, and hundreds of hours editing time combining frames) needed to pull it off. the CGI itself there was a supporting/enabling tech, but not the main event.

  24. Re: Man, animation must _really_ be evil then. on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    oooo. good list.
    that needs a mod up.

  25. Re:Man, animation must _really_ be evil then. on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    part of it is also the simple oversaturation of large scale destruction, and these movies are too reliant on the mere spectacle of that destruction, using it (or trying) to cover other deficiencies in the plot or emotional content.

    when the first ID destroyed those landmarks (using practical effects, not CGI, though not relevent to the point im making), it was shocking, but also rather unique. it hadn't really been done before, on that scale or that convincingly.

    Now when the sequel has come out, no one cares really.
    because in the past 5 years we've seen countless cities destroyed hundreds of times. its beyond the point of viewer fatigue now. and movies need to out grow it. sure, it was cool, and bit shocking, the first time, maybe even the 2nd.

    but now its happening once every couple of weeks with each new movie, and no one cares anymore.