Seeing that in Moonwalker he already established that he is a Transformer (capable of transforming into a Lancia Stratos prototype, a starship, a very lifelike android and of course a robot) it's not that much of a stretch to assume he went back to Cybertron. Either that or he ran out of Energon.
I actually have trouble placing him. His heavy armament, his actions during the Smooth Criminal segment and the fact that one of his forms is a starship suggest Decepticon, although him going out of his way to protect the children would suggest Autobot. Of course he has no insignia whatsoever and his human mode reminds me of Animated's Sari Sumdac. Perhaps he is some kind of experimental Decepticon and the children are Sari-type protoforms he was to recruit. Yeah, that makes sense.
Did anyone see a suspicious red-blue truck nearby prior to his death? Maybe he was after further protoforms and the Autobots intervened.
I maintain that the Smooth Criminal scene from Moonwalker was better, even though the rest of the movie was just bad. Okay, except for the part where he turns into a giant robot and kills a dozen mooks. The cognitive dissonance is almost palpable.
+1, Funny? Come on. What the parent said is pretty much true - allegiations alone can seriously damage your reputation, possibly forever. Even the best of arguments won't help as the (currently ongoing) Tauss case has shown in Germany: Even someone who has "investigates child pornography" in his job description and who needs to look at the stuff to do said job can be dragged to court and subsequently slaughtered by the press for posession. As only reporting half of the story does not count as libel, the press have to fear little to no repercussions.
(Just to clarify: Tauss resigned from his position over differences about the methods used to combat child porn. Certain politicians then immediately revoked his right to posess child porn and reported him to the police. The thing the courts are deciding right now is not whether he posessed child porn but whether it was actually illegal for him to do so. Nonetheless, most media only get to "Tauss is on trial for posessing child porn" and will undoubtedly never clarify.)
In short: As soon as you end up in court over anything involving child porn you can essentially kiss your reputation goodbye, even if you are found to be innocent or the judge throws out the entire case. You don't even need a court case if someone just points at you and yells loud enough for a newspaper to print it.
However, should we demand psych treatment for people who enjoy BDSM?
No, but we should get dom(me)s and shrinks together so the dom(me)s can learn to more effectively torment their subs.
What about furries?
Depends on whether they use terms like "realself" and mean it.;)
Where exactly do you intend to draw the line with acceptable fetishes that demand medical treatment, and ones that don't?
Those I do are A-okay, all others are vile and evil and must be purged with fire and sword. Obviously.
Actually, I completely agree with your post. Fetishes and sexual orientations, even pedophilia, are nothing we can just decide not to have and jailing people for having certain fetishes/orientations sounds too much like eugenics to me.
We should offer psychological counseling, self-control courses for those who want to make sure they don't screw up and self-help groups for pedophiles - because they can't live out their sexuality without breaking laws and/or hurting someone without informed consent.
And we should really figure out whether allowing them pornography wouldn't be a good idea. Of course the only allowed porn for them would be productions where no actual children are involved, enforced through random autits of the producers (and certification only for those who submit to these during production).
In short: Don't dehumanize people for something they have no choice in. Knee-jerk reactions are often not the right way to treat something.
Well, deciding to develop things like a tank weighing in at 1500 metric tons didn't really help. Hitler did make some very questionable technology decisions.
Actuall, I'd put the immediately useful Celsius range at somewhere between -10 and 200 C. Amazingly, most ovens don't produce good results when you try to bake stuff at forty degrees (aka "what I bathe at"). And as to bathing water: Not much fun with that when the boiler's thermometer doesn't show the usual 65 C so even without cooking 40 doesn't cut it. And it rarely gets colder than -10 C in my part of Germany. So that's -10 to 200 C or 14 to 392 F. Yeah, I can see Fahrenheit being more intuitive.
Why they can't come up with a UNIVERSAL clothes sizing guide for every place is beyond me.
Because people in different countries have, on average, different body shapes. This is reflected in different (and not entirely convertible) sizes.
What I don't get, however, is why we didn't move to a measurement-based system. Have people know their basic measurements (really, it's not that hard to know at least rough estimates*) and specify all relevant clothes measurements in centimeters. For example, you don't buy a shoe in size 47.5 but for 30 centimeters (30x11 if we measure foot width as well).
We can still classify but then it's just things like measuring in 5 cm steps. The important thing is that we don't use arbitrary sizes but actual measurements. That also prevents size creep like in the States where they introduce negative numbers for sizes that were positive before...
* I think of something like bust, waist, hips, leg length, foot length. Measures like arm length or foot width are only neccessary to know if you do fall outside the local norm. Torso length might be neccessary, too, but I can't tell right now.
I actually still convert back to Marks occasionally... but just when I'm about to buy something (relatively) expensive and want to double-check whether I really want to spend (Euros x 2) Marks on it.
However, the changeover has really benn helped by the fact that prices over here have been adapted so nonlinearly that it's pretty difficult to compare pre-Euro prices with post-Euro ones.
Unless you're in Germany where everyone expects the pound to be 500 grams - a definition from 1854, IIRC as a stepping stone towards metrication. Even though the 500 g pound has been struck from the laws back in 1884, it's still in use as a customary unit for measurements between 500 grams and a few kilos (however, the equivalent kilogram values are often used as well).
This can lead to some confusion between unaware British and German speakers.
We should relaunch the C64 as a handheld. The C64F (the F is for freedom). For the marketing campaign we can get David Hasselhoff to perform "I've Been Looking For Freedom". It'll surely be successful. Well, at least in Germany.
We're actually getting there. While dry ice has a sublimation temperature of ~194 K at normal pressure, the hottest current superconductor Wikipedia knows about becomes superconductive at ~138 K, well over the boiling point of liquid nitrogen (and worlds above that of liquid helium). Granted, that's still 90 degrees Celsius below zero but much better than 268 below zero.
Minor nitpick: Kelvin is a unit of its own and not used with "degree".
Actually, caffeine is pretty addictive if you overdo it. Plus, coffee overconsumption is a good way to prepare your stomach for an ulcer. Tea is reasonably safe; coffee only if taken in moderation.
Actually, wasn't cannabis banned on behest of the wood and cotton lobbies who wanted to get rid of hemp? IIRC that was one of the reasons why Hearst campaigned against it.
Actually, how about factory exhausts? Is the pollution in the exhausts too much to handle for a turbine or do they maybe even use their exhausts to reclaim some energy? Also, some places like steel plants produce prodious amounts of heat. Does some of that go out exhausts? I'd imagine that a place with very hot exhaust gasses could use a heat exchanger to extract heat from them.
Not just politicians produce hot air and I'm fairly sure I'm not the first one to think about using it.
And when they've searched my phone they'll sue me again because mine is too old to use downloaded ringtones, which celarly illegally deprives them of income. Great.
"Sending someone a meeting request in Outlook" has cliché power, though. And it conveys the office-like nature of a relationship where you have to make an appointment just to see your girlfriend. GroupWise would be a sufficiently enterprisey subsitute, however.
It all depends on what you want. If you want a party/beach girl you need to go to parties/the beach and look the part. If you want something else that won't work as well.
For example let's assume someone is really into goth girls even if he isn't a goth. Working out would do fairly little to him while getting a wardrobe full of fetish gear and wearing the stuff in the right clubs would. Conversely, showing up on the beach covered in D-rings is unlikely to help one get anything but ridicule.
I would assume that someone looking for a careful, socially conscious woman ought to find one while volunteering.
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Seeing that in Moonwalker he already established that he is a Transformer (capable of transforming into a Lancia Stratos prototype, a starship, a very lifelike android and of course a robot) it's not that much of a stretch to assume he went back to Cybertron. Either that or he ran out of Energon.
I actually have trouble placing him. His heavy armament, his actions during the Smooth Criminal segment and the fact that one of his forms is a starship suggest Decepticon, although him going out of his way to protect the children would suggest Autobot. Of course he has no insignia whatsoever and his human mode reminds me of Animated's Sari Sumdac. Perhaps he is some kind of experimental Decepticon and the children are Sari-type protoforms he was to recruit. Yeah, that makes sense.
Did anyone see a suspicious red-blue truck nearby prior to his death? Maybe he was after further protoforms and the Autobots intervened.
I maintain that the Smooth Criminal scene from Moonwalker was better, even though the rest of the movie was just bad. Okay, except for the part where he turns into a giant robot and kills a dozen mooks. The cognitive dissonance is almost palpable.
+1, Funny? Come on. What the parent said is pretty much true - allegiations alone can seriously damage your reputation, possibly forever. Even the best of arguments won't help as the (currently ongoing) Tauss case has shown in Germany: Even someone who has "investigates child pornography" in his job description and who needs to look at the stuff to do said job can be dragged to court and subsequently slaughtered by the press for posession. As only reporting half of the story does not count as libel, the press have to fear little to no repercussions.
(Just to clarify: Tauss resigned from his position over differences about the methods used to combat child porn. Certain politicians then immediately revoked his right to posess child porn and reported him to the police. The thing the courts are deciding right now is not whether he posessed child porn but whether it was actually illegal for him to do so. Nonetheless, most media only get to "Tauss is on trial for posessing child porn" and will undoubtedly never clarify.)
In short: As soon as you end up in court over anything involving child porn you can essentially kiss your reputation goodbye, even if you are found to be innocent or the judge throws out the entire case. You don't even need a court case if someone just points at you and yells loud enough for a newspaper to print it.
No, but we should get dom(me)s and shrinks together so the dom(me)s can learn to more effectively torment their subs.
Depends on whether they use terms like "realself" and mean it. ;)
Those I do are A-okay, all others are vile and evil and must be purged with fire and sword. Obviously.
Actually, I completely agree with your post. Fetishes and sexual orientations, even pedophilia, are nothing we can just decide not to have and jailing people for having certain fetishes/orientations sounds too much like eugenics to me.
We should offer psychological counseling, self-control courses for those who want to make sure they don't screw up and self-help groups for pedophiles - because they can't live out their sexuality without breaking laws and/or hurting someone without informed consent.
And we should really figure out whether allowing them pornography wouldn't be a good idea. Of course the only allowed porn for them would be productions where no actual children are involved, enforced through random autits of the producers (and certification only for those who submit to these during production).
In short: Don't dehumanize people for something they have no choice in. Knee-jerk reactions are often not the right way to treat something.
Well, deciding to develop things like a tank weighing in at 1500 metric tons didn't really help. Hitler did make some very questionable technology decisions.
Well, depends. Was your friend a horse?
For me, "too cold" stops at around 25 C, about 77.5 F. 50 is way too damn cold.
Actuall, I'd put the immediately useful Celsius range at somewhere between -10 and 200 C. Amazingly, most ovens don't produce good results when you try to bake stuff at forty degrees (aka "what I bathe at"). And as to bathing water: Not much fun with that when the boiler's thermometer doesn't show the usual 65 C so even without cooking 40 doesn't cut it. And it rarely gets colder than -10 C in my part of Germany. So that's -10 to 200 C or 14 to 392 F. Yeah, I can see Fahrenheit being more intuitive.
Because people in different countries have, on average, different body shapes. This is reflected in different (and not entirely convertible) sizes.
What I don't get, however, is why we didn't move to a measurement-based system. Have people know their basic measurements (really, it's not that hard to know at least rough estimates*) and specify all relevant clothes measurements in centimeters. For example, you don't buy a shoe in size 47.5 but for 30 centimeters (30x11 if we measure foot width as well).
We can still classify but then it's just things like measuring in 5 cm steps. The important thing is that we don't use arbitrary sizes but actual measurements. That also prevents size creep like in the States where they introduce negative numbers for sizes that were positive before...
* I think of something like bust, waist, hips, leg length, foot length. Measures like arm length or foot width are only neccessary to know if you do fall outside the local norm. Torso length might be neccessary, too, but I can't tell right now.
Hmm. Just how likely are bars in the UK to serve correctly when asked for a Maß?
I actually still convert back to Marks occasionally... but just when I'm about to buy something (relatively) expensive and want to double-check whether I really want to spend (Euros x 2) Marks on it.
However, the changeover has really benn helped by the fact that prices over here have been adapted so nonlinearly that it's pretty difficult to compare pre-Euro prices with post-Euro ones.
Then why not 1 gallon = 2 quarts* = 4 pints = 8 cups = 16 fluid ounces = 32 tablespoons = 64 teaspoons? Much more consistent.
* Yes, I am aware that calling a half of something a quart is stupid. Rename it to "half" and everything's fine again..
Unless you're in Germany where everyone expects the pound to be 500 grams - a definition from 1854, IIRC as a stepping stone towards metrication. Even though the 500 g pound has been struck from the laws back in 1884, it's still in use as a customary unit for measurements between 500 grams and a few kilos (however, the equivalent kilogram values are often used as well).
This can lead to some confusion between unaware British and German speakers.
Actually, even the completely metric Germany uses horsepowers everywhere outside of technical or legal texts.
We should relaunch the C64 as a handheld. The C64F (the F is for freedom). For the marketing campaign we can get David Hasselhoff to perform "I've Been Looking For Freedom". It'll surely be successful. Well, at least in Germany.
We're actually getting there. While dry ice has a sublimation temperature of ~194 K at normal pressure, the hottest current superconductor Wikipedia knows about becomes superconductive at ~138 K, well over the boiling point of liquid nitrogen (and worlds above that of liquid helium). Granted, that's still 90 degrees Celsius below zero but much better than 268 below zero.
Minor nitpick: Kelvin is a unit of its own and not used with "degree".
Actually, caffeine is pretty addictive if you overdo it. Plus, coffee overconsumption is a good way to prepare your stomach for an ulcer. Tea is reasonably safe; coffee only if taken in moderation.
However, cannabis is used as an excuse for hemp to be illegal in the States, because the police can't possibly tell them apart (as they say).
Actually, wasn't cannabis banned on behest of the wood and cotton lobbies who wanted to get rid of hemp? IIRC that was one of the reasons why Hearst campaigned against it.
Actually, how about factory exhausts? Is the pollution in the exhausts too much to handle for a turbine or do they maybe even use their exhausts to reclaim some energy? Also, some places like steel plants produce prodious amounts of heat. Does some of that go out exhausts? I'd imagine that a place with very hot exhaust gasses could use a heat exchanger to extract heat from them.
Not just politicians produce hot air and I'm fairly sure I'm not the first one to think about using it.
And when they've searched my phone they'll sue me again because mine is too old to use downloaded ringtones, which celarly illegally deprives them of income. Great.
"Sending someone a meeting request in Outlook" has cliché power, though. And it conveys the office-like nature of a relationship where you have to make an appointment just to see your girlfriend. GroupWise would be a sufficiently enterprisey subsitute, however.
You really should work up the nerves and talk to her.
It's even better if both of you have worked retail. You can bond over wartime stories and indulge in your common PTSD!
It all depends on what you want. If you want a party/beach girl you need to go to parties/the beach and look the part. If you want something else that won't work as well.
For example let's assume someone is really into goth girls even if he isn't a goth. Working out would do fairly little to him while getting a wardrobe full of fetish gear and wearing the stuff in the right clubs would. Conversely, showing up on the beach covered in D-rings is unlikely to help one get anything but ridicule.
I would assume that someone looking for a careful, socially conscious woman ought to find one while volunteering.