and for the final coupe de gras I was just about to mod you +1Funny (I'm sure others will take up the slack) when I noticed the way you spelled that... It's "coup de grâce" (with the little hat over the 'a' that I think the/. encoding is going to chew up), as in "mercy". What you wrote is "slice of fat" which just sounds like you'd add insult to injury by stabbing them in the blubber.
It's real easy to scream "flame bait" then run away. Why don't you just address what I say? Alright:
Stupid viewer. The movie is a live-action cartoon, were you expecting it to have the realism of a documentary? I have already assessed the part about cartoons and realism, what's left is your attack on my intelligence and your claims that I must have mistaken that weak sci-fi movie for a documentary.
So to address point 1- "I know you are, but what am I?" And to address point 2- I expect the rules that apply for one part of that fictional world to apply to all parts of that fictional world. When those established rules are ignored where they are inconvenient to the story, the movie strolls into the stupidity which it is decrying.
there are no laws that govern the visual arts, as it's just a matter of taste - fiction, satire and comedy are not ruled by mathematical laws that you seem to have laid upon them. It's up to the imagination of the artist. Your ignorance of those rules does not negate that I had an A+ in the college class covering such rules. It simply means that the person calling me stupid for noticing something they did not was in fact doing a bit of projection.
And do rewatch those Looney Tunes, you are WILDLY off in your example of a cartoon without internal consistency (the ones made from the late 60's and 70's excluded, the franchise owners raped the work of the artist that created it by then).
Many of the problems with mice went away when optical mice became prevalent. No more wrestling with goopy rollers. I used to routinely dismantle other people's mice and rip off the gooked up sticky rings on the roller. That usually required the use of a small fold up tool I carry around to pick out the bits of sticked-on dust lodged in the rolling bars and sprockets. Now I mostly just wipe off the little cushions... the lens hole is usually unobstructed.
Stupid viewer. The movie is a live-action cartoon, were you expecting it to have the realism of a documentary? With a bait like that you shouldn't expect anything but flames, but why don't I just educate you instead: Internal consistency is vital for cartoons just as much as for anything else.
In the Victorian era, the celebrities of the time were engineers and scientists - the people who shaped the world, rather than the vapid, talentless bimbos we celebrate today. We can only hope that at some point in the future, it will once again be cool to be smart. Man, I wish I was born in the Victorian era. Sigh. I don't. I'd be insane and dying of syphilis by now. I'll take universal health care over the black lung if the price to pay is celebrity bimbos instead of celebrity scientists.
High IQ teens stop and think and realize that risks of Sex as a teenager (STD, Pregnacny) will get in away with their life plans being with higher IQ society expects more from them with their life plans so they stay away from such risks. Basicly I am not going to let a Baby get in my way to become a doctor. After I get my degree and a steady job then I may focus on having a family, Logical reasoning by people with higher IQ. Actually, the smarter one don't get taken in by the abstinence nonsense and learn that sex != babies if you take countermeasures.
It's more that you can either focus on getting laid, or focus on your grades.
Since so few defecators through the years have taken it upon themselves to do the civilized thing and ensure that nobody around them has to experience their vile backwashed fumes, the victims are banding together to help the defedators learn what should have been common courtesy. Hey, jackass, it's been illegal to take a dump at your table in restaurants this whole time.
Actually, no. The theatre industry hasn't. You mean that upping the price and making the experience more unpleasant than ever isn't helping them draw people away from DVDs? That's unpossible!
Those are the ones piracy hurts. If you don't like the prices a company offers for its services, you can find an alternative or do without. You don't have the right to steal the product. Canada has had the highest number of camcorder incidents, particularly in Quebec, according to the National Association of Theater Owners. It is getting to the point where Canada might not get first released pictures unless they prevent theft of services. Tell me, how many normal DVD burners are those camcorder incidents numbers equal too? 128? A gazillion? That industry who's hurting? It's been MAKING MORE PROFIT EVERY YEAR THEY'VE BEEN MAKING DOOM AND GLOOM PREDICTIONS ABOUT PIRACY.
The neoconservative label has been around for at least a few years in public political circles Neoliberal has been around too. Try to keep up people, that's why the lord gave us wikipedia!
Every single aspect of Rumsfeld's policy was a failure. Every single failure was predicted in advance [...] Incompetent failures caused by deliberate ignorance. They're idiots Ok: "Idiot" was originally created to refer to people who were overly concerned with their own self-interest and ignored the needs of the community. Declining to take part in public life, such as (semi-)democratic government of the polis (city state), such as the Athenian democracy, was considered dishonorable. "Idiots" were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term "idiot" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgment-individuals who are "stupid". In modern English usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme folly or stupidity, its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed). [...] Otherwise intelligent individuals may also become stupid when their rational thought is derailed by strong opinions or rigid beliefs. In this case the victim falls into confirmation bias and begins selecting data: becoming intentionally blind and deaf to contrary evidence, while at the same time collecting evidence which supports the beliefs. Rather than being based on low intelligence or missing knowledge, this is the stupidity of closed-mindedness and willful ignorance.
I see what you mean. But listen to what this guy has to say about Rumsfeld, especially from 3:26 to 5:04, because where I disagree with you is where I feel your are dismissing him as an idiot, and therefore underestimating him. I know what he's capable of, so I do not deny his keen intellect: I refer to him as evil... another charged word that I'll gladly abandon as soon as I find an upgrade to this placeholder.
I thought you were going to tell me how what looked like failure actually wasn't, because this failure somehow fit in with their nefarious plans. I don't have any conspiracy theories about failures that are actually clever moves. I believe he had two years to get a job done, and that the main objectives were met. Once his two years were up, he took his leave. He would have gone for two or four more years, had he had the chance, but luck did not favor him. But what he did cannot be undone, and he's leaving others to clean up the mess he did. I think that's... unethical, but not stupid per se.
The fact that pawns were lost at what seems to us to be an alarming rate does not mean that he failed to topple the sad little king of a sad little kingdom, as he set out to do. Before 2003, American forces only flew over and occasionally bombed a spot here and there. Now they still do that, but also occupy the land, pump the oil, rebuild at great cost the infrastructure that they bombed at great cost, wrote the constitution, and offer 'suggestions' of constitutional laws that will allow for more profitable ventures in the future.
(While I'm thinking of it, why do organic vegetables cost more? They're all organic...) Organic foods are produced according to certain production standards. For crops, it means they were grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, human waste, or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without ionizing radiation or food additives.
If the obesity problem were simply a result of us not being used to availability of food, we would have seen nearly constant levels of obesity for the past two or three generations. Instead, we're seeing an order of magnitude increase in morbid obesity (>40% BMI) since the mid 1980s. We weren't all struggling to find food in the mid 1980s. If this study were done in the 1950s comparing against the 1930s (Great Depression), I might believe that explanation, but it just doesn't make sense in this day and age.
In reality, the mass obesity problem coincides perfectly with the rise of processed foods. This got worse after the U.S. government started giving huge corn subsidies and putting high import duties on sugar to encourage use of high fructose corn syrup. Fructose is processed by the body very quickly, but does not trigger the same insulin response as glucose. Thus, your body A. does not feel satiated, so you consume more, B. does not gain the metabolic surge that normally occurs in response to elevated insulin levels, and so does not use all that energy, C. stores the resulting excess energy as fat. Replacing that same amount of fructose with glucose will cause a significant weight loss.
Mid 80's you say? Ronald Reagan, elected amidst the morass of the Iranian hostage crisis, included Donald Rumsfeld as part of his transition team. The day after Reagan took office in 1981, Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval of aspartame. The new commissioner of the FDA, a Reagan-Rumsfeld appointee named Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr., named a five-person Scientific Committee to review the earlier findings. When the vote went 3-2 against approval of aspartame, Hayes did what any fair-minded citizen might do, and appointed a sixth committee member. The committee voted 3-3, leaving Hull to cast the deciding vote, approving aspartame for use in dry products. Aspartame was then approved for use in soft drinks in 1983.
fat people are th elast socialy acceptable peer group to abuse. I'm jonesing for a big batch of greasy Freedom Fries, so I'm getting a kick out of your reply.
As for me, my personal experience leaves me inclined to trust this study's results. Logic makes me trust their results. You hang around fatties, you're hanging around fattening food and people who aren't very willing to engage in physical activities.
Just like hanging out with your friends you end up talking the same way, seeing the same movies and playing the same games, hanging out with your friends you end up eating and living the same way, because you're together doing the same things.
we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;
we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad;
we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.
Do take into account that they aren't wizards. They have setbacks and failures, but that doesn't make them stupid.
Oh, and parse the bits like "global responsibility" and "freedom", you get the ideology behind it, when they say inspiring things like that they mean "American hegemony".
Rumsfeld's only actual military experience is in naval aviation -- why he or anyone else would think that qualifies him to completely re-write over a hundred years of U.S. military strategy overnight is beyond me, but the test was issued, and he failed. Spectacularly. Rumsfeld: Are you helping me? (Laughter.) Do you think I need help? (Laughter.) What do I think about it? Well, there isn't anyone alive who wouldn't prefer unanimity. I mean, you just always would like everyone to stand up and say, Way to go! That's the right to do, United States. Now, we rarely find unanimity in the world. I was ambassador to NATO, and I -- when we would go in and make a proposal, there wouldn't be unanimity. There wouldn't even be understanding. And we'd have to be persuasive. We'd have to show reasons. We'd have to -- have to give rationales.
You think he has failed? Then you do not see what he had set out to do.
I do not believe for a single instant that Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice are idiots
Oh, I do. I absolutely do. If they weren't idiots, the war would be going better. [...] They ignored any military adviser who told them something they didn't want to hear, such as that Rumsfeld's fast & light military strategy was retarded. They just didn't want to hear it, even though if they heard it and acted on it then their goals would have been better served. That means they're stupid. Rumsfeld served in the U.S. Navy from 1954 to 1957 as a naval aviator and flight instructor. [...] Rumsfeld resigned from Congress in 1969 -- his fourth term -- to serve in the Nixon administration as Director of the United States Office of Economic Opportunity [...] (1971-1972). In 1971 President Nixon was recorded saying about Rumsfeld "at least Rummy is tough enough" and "He's a ruthless little bastard. You can be sure of that." In February 1973, Rumsfeld left Washington to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, Belgium. He served as the United States' Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council and the Defense Planning Committee, and the Nuclear Planning Group. In this capacity, he represented the United States in wide-ranging military and diplomatic matters. [...] Chairman Emeritus, Defense Contractor, Carlyle Group (1989-2005);
You mistake their stated goals for their actual goals. Rumsfeld made sure that ammo would be needed in great quantities for years to come: He's ruthless, not stupid.
It's all balck, zippered Spandex for Steve! Pfff, that's SO 20th century. Steve hallowed-be-his-name Jobs is sprayed with a fine mist of the highest quality natural latex at the end of his morning shower, coating him in a form-fitting germ-resistant seal.
*looks into the future* How do you turn off the monitor? It's easy, you just use the touch screen button there. Oh, then how do you turn it back on?... My recently-dead LG monitor had capacitance buttons for the menu/settings, you didn't push down on them, they didn't click, they just felt your touch and beeped (a tech mostly used in tacky brass lamps).
That's the thing I miss most about it now that I have a spiffy new flat screen with boring ol' clicking plastic buttons.
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It's "coup de grâce" (with the little hat over the 'a' that I think the
So to address point 1- "I know you are, but what am I?"
And to address point 2- I expect the rules that apply for one part of that fictional world to apply to all parts of that fictional world. When those established rules are ignored where they are inconvenient to the story, the movie strolls into the stupidity which it is decrying. there are no laws that govern the visual arts, as it's just a matter of taste - fiction, satire and comedy are not ruled by mathematical laws that you seem to have laid upon them. It's up to the imagination of the artist. Your ignorance of those rules does not negate that I had an A+ in the college class covering such rules.
It simply means that the person calling me stupid for noticing something they did not was in fact doing a bit of projection.
And do rewatch those Looney Tunes, you are WILDLY off in your example of a cartoon without internal consistency (the ones made from the late 60's and 70's excluded, the franchise owners raped the work of the artist that created it by then).
Evolved mice FTW!
Man, I wish I was born in the Victorian era. Sigh. I don't. I'd be insane and dying of syphilis by now.
I'll take universal health care over the black lung if the price to pay is celebrity bimbos instead of celebrity scientists.
It's more that you can either focus on getting laid, or focus on your grades.
If you don't like the prices a company offers for its services, you can find an alternative or do without. You don't have the right to steal the product.
Canada has had the highest number of camcorder incidents, particularly in Quebec, according to the National Association of Theater Owners. It is getting to the point where Canada might not get first released pictures unless they prevent theft of services. Tell me, how many normal DVD burners are those camcorder incidents numbers equal too? 128? A gazillion?
That industry who's hurting? It's been MAKING MORE PROFIT EVERY YEAR THEY'VE BEEN MAKING DOOM AND GLOOM PREDICTIONS ABOUT PIRACY.
Ah, the Overrated bandit again, funnay funnay moderation abuser, you.
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Otherwise intelligent individuals may also become stupid when their rational thought is derailed by strong opinions or rigid beliefs. In this case the victim falls into confirmation bias and begins selecting data: becoming intentionally blind and deaf to contrary evidence, while at the same time collecting evidence which supports the beliefs. Rather than being based on low intelligence or missing knowledge, this is the stupidity of closed-mindedness and willful ignorance.
I see what you mean.
But listen to what this guy has to say about Rumsfeld, especially from 3:26 to 5:04, because where I disagree with you is where I feel your are dismissing him as an idiot, and therefore underestimating him. I know what he's capable of, so I do not deny his keen intellect: I refer to him as evil... another charged word that I'll gladly abandon as soon as I find an upgrade to this placeholder. I thought you were going to tell me how what looked like failure actually wasn't, because this failure somehow fit in with their nefarious plans. I don't have any conspiracy theories about failures that are actually clever moves.
I believe he had two years to get a job done, and that the main objectives were met. Once his two years were up, he took his leave. He would have gone for two or four more years, had he had the chance, but luck did not favor him. But what he did cannot be undone, and he's leaving others to clean up the mess he did. I think that's... unethical, but not stupid per se.
The fact that pawns were lost at what seems to us to be an alarming rate does not mean that he failed to topple the sad little king of a sad little kingdom, as he set out to do.
Before 2003, American forces only flew over and occasionally bombed a spot here and there. Now they still do that, but also occupy the land, pump the oil, rebuild at great cost the infrastructure that they bombed at great cost, wrote the constitution, and offer 'suggestions' of constitutional laws that will allow for more profitable ventures in the future.
If the obesity problem were simply a result of us not being used to availability of food, we would have seen nearly constant levels of obesity for the past two or three generations. Instead, we're seeing an order of magnitude increase in morbid obesity (>40% BMI) since the mid 1980s. We weren't all struggling to find food in the mid 1980s. If this study were done in the 1950s comparing against the 1930s (Great Depression), I might believe that explanation, but it just doesn't make sense in this day and age.
In reality, the mass obesity problem coincides perfectly with the rise of processed foods. This got worse after the U.S. government started giving huge corn subsidies and putting high import duties on sugar to encourage use of high fructose corn syrup. Fructose is processed by the body very quickly, but does not trigger the same insulin response as glucose. Thus, your body A. does not feel satiated, so you consume more, B. does not gain the metabolic surge that normally occurs in response to elevated insulin levels, and so does not use all that energy, C. stores the resulting excess energy as fat. Replacing that same amount of fructose with glucose will cause a significant weight loss.
Mid 80's you say?Ronald Reagan, elected amidst the morass of the Iranian hostage crisis, included Donald Rumsfeld as part of his transition team. The day after Reagan took office in 1981, Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval of aspartame. The new commissioner of the FDA, a Reagan-Rumsfeld appointee named Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr., named a five-person Scientific Committee to review the earlier findings. When the vote went 3-2 against approval of aspartame, Hayes did what any fair-minded citizen might do, and appointed a sixth committee member. The committee voted 3-3, leaving Hull to cast the deciding vote, approving aspartame for use in dry products. Aspartame was then approved for use in soft drinks in 1983.
You hang around fatties, you're hanging around fattening food and people who aren't very willing to engage in physical activities.
Just like hanging out with your friends you end up talking the same way, seeing the same movies and playing the same games, hanging out with your friends you end up eating and living the same way, because you're together doing the same things.
Big businesses maximize profits by squashing innovation. It's Edison VS alternating current all over again.
Do take into account that they aren't wizards.
They have setbacks and failures, but that doesn't make them stupid.
Oh, and parse the bits like "global responsibility" and "freedom", you get the ideology behind it, when they say inspiring things like that they mean "American hegemony".
What do I think about it? Well, there isn't anyone alive who wouldn't prefer unanimity. I mean, you just always would like everyone to stand up and say, Way to go! That's the right to do, United States.
Now, we rarely find unanimity in the world. I was ambassador to NATO, and I -- when we would go in and make a proposal, there wouldn't be unanimity. There wouldn't even be understanding. And we'd have to be persuasive. We'd have to show reasons. We'd have to -- have to give rationales.
You think he has failed?
Then you do not see what he had set out to do.
Oh, I do. I absolutely do. If they weren't idiots, the war would be going better.
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They ignored any military adviser who told them something they didn't want to hear, such as that Rumsfeld's fast & light military strategy was retarded. They just didn't want to hear it, even though if they heard it and acted on it then their goals would have been better served. That means they're stupid. Rumsfeld served in the U.S. Navy from 1954 to 1957 as a naval aviator and flight instructor. [...] Rumsfeld resigned from Congress in 1969 -- his fourth term -- to serve in the Nixon administration as Director of the United States Office of Economic Opportunity [...] (1971-1972).
In 1971 President Nixon was recorded saying about Rumsfeld "at least Rummy is tough enough" and "He's a ruthless little bastard. You can be sure of that."
In February 1973, Rumsfeld left Washington to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, Belgium. He served as the United States' Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council and the Defense Planning Committee, and the Nuclear Planning Group. In this capacity, he represented the United States in wide-ranging military and diplomatic matters. [...] Chairman Emeritus, Defense Contractor, Carlyle Group (1989-2005);
You mistake their stated goals for their actual goals.
Rumsfeld made sure that ammo would be needed in great quantities for years to come: He's ruthless, not stupid.
How do you turn off the monitor?
It's easy, you just use the touch screen button there.
Oh, then how do you turn it back on?
That's the thing I miss most about it now that I have a spiffy new flat screen with boring ol' clicking plastic buttons.