There will be no main Nazi badguy: after Schindler's List, Spielberg has vowed to never use Nazis as lighthearted villains again. Luckily, setting the fourth movie in the 50s gives him access to Commies, who are arguably almost as good at being cinematic badguys as Nazis. Almost.
I don't know if this specific case is the right or wrong way to go about it, but there are a great many American companies that desperately need to have the fear of law put into them.
There's only one problem with the second amendment: it was written in a period of history when the firepower a government could muster was not significantly greater than that of a group of well-armed individuals. I believe George Orwell wrote in an essay that historical periods can be divided by weaponry: when the ability to kill people was difficult to obtain, such as the middle ages, when rich people owned the battlefield, then personal freedoms were greatly restricted. The advent of the gun eventially allowed the average person to wield firepower the same as any soldier. Nowadays, though, there's no realistic way a civilian could stand up to today's modern, combined-arms military. In the event of violent government oppression, the second amendment pretty much just gives us the right to die with our boots on (so to speak).
I read somewhere a theory that the the Baghdad battery was used in gold-plating. You attach a copper wire to the iron rod and another to the copper tube, fill the pot with vinegar, and run the wires into a solution of gold and cyanide, then put something metal into it. The current, about half a volt, causes the gold to come out of solution onto the metal object, but it also releases cyanide gas. This process is still used today, but it's a little more sophisticated than giving some metal bits a grapejuice bath.
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There will be no main Nazi badguy: after Schindler's List, Spielberg has vowed to never use Nazis as lighthearted villains again. Luckily, setting the fourth movie in the 50s gives him access to Commies, who are arguably almost as good at being cinematic badguys as Nazis. Almost.
I don't know if this specific case is the right or wrong way to go about it, but there are a great many American companies that desperately need to have the fear of law put into them.
There's only one problem with the second amendment: it was written in a period of history when the firepower a government could muster was not significantly greater than that of a group of well-armed individuals. I believe George Orwell wrote in an essay that historical periods can be divided by weaponry: when the ability to kill people was difficult to obtain, such as the middle ages, when rich people owned the battlefield, then personal freedoms were greatly restricted. The advent of the gun eventially allowed the average person to wield firepower the same as any soldier. Nowadays, though, there's no realistic way a civilian could stand up to today's modern, combined-arms military. In the event of violent government oppression, the second amendment pretty much just gives us the right to die with our boots on (so to speak).
You mean colonialation?
I read somewhere a theory that the the Baghdad battery was used in gold-plating. You attach a copper wire to the iron rod and another to the copper tube, fill the pot with vinegar, and run the wires into a solution of gold and cyanide, then put something metal into it. The current, about half a volt, causes the gold to come out of solution onto the metal object, but it also releases cyanide gas. This process is still used today, but it's a little more sophisticated than giving some metal bits a grapejuice bath.