There is no "Wikileaks organization" any more, there's the Cult of Assange, and Assange clearly had a personal vendetta against Clinton. I wouldn't believe a single thing Assange said.
And that's the problem here. The people denying Russian involvement and denying evidence know damned well that no security service is going to fully elaborate on how the intelligence was gathered.
But really, Trump is nominating Rex Tillerson has Secretary of State. That says it all. Putin is getting everything he wants, a direct inside track in the Oval Office.
I'm not going to say Swift doesn't have any talent, I do believe she does, but in general I agree with your observation. As the labels have become more and more simply a department of larger corporate machines, the willingness to go out on a limb has faded. There are no more Led Zeppelins, or even U2s. It's just a bunch of autotuned R&B acts.
But that's the real problem. In the long run the Internet means traditional labels will die. The artists will increasingly seize control since they no longer are as reliant on traditional record labels. As it is, the labels themselves have suffered a kind of institutional rot. A&R, which was the heart and soul of the record labels well into the 1990s has faded as the suits are increasingly unwilling to take chances, and want to prefabricate artists as much as possible.
Right now I listen to a lot of newer indie music, and there are guys out there marketing their own music, selling directly via their websites, who are every bit as good, if not better, than most of the labels' big artists. A person can now put together a functional recording studio for well under $50,000, and distribution is basically the cost of some online storage and a website. Marketing is still an issue, but for those of us who are no longer interested in what the big record labels have to offer, there's Bandcamp.
I think the bigger question is "Why Ewoks?" The whole shield generator battle sequence is absurd, and, so far as I can tell, only existed to sell Ewok action figures. Rogue One's final battle sequence shows how the similar sequence in RotJ could have been done. Instead we get the idiocy of a pack of midget teddy bears taking out a legion of the Empire's finest troops. I get that Lucas was trying to channel Vietnam a bit, but the Vietcong had a lot more than logs and ropes.
At any rate RotJ, and even Empire to an extent, softened Leia too much, playing down the notion of her as a Rebel leader and paying up the more traditional damsel in distress. Thankfully the Alien films never pulled that with Ellen Ripley.
Lots of things have an bad effect on people. If you're interested in public health, ban fried foods. As it is, keeping drugs illegal does little but make drug cartels rich and in a position to destabilize entire nations, not to mention leading to huge amounts of taxpayer money going into law enforcement in a hopeless and doomed attempt to keep these drugs off the streets. Legalize it, tax it, use some of those taxes for treatment, and stop trying to pretend the law is the appropriate instrument to deal with narcotics.
I just rewatched A New Hope tonight, and my observation was that the character of Leia was a bit more than just a popcorn heroine. She plays the Princess in the early scenes while interacting with Vader and Tarkin; aloof, proud, haughty, which would make sense if she was portraying a member of the Old Republic nobility interacting with a pack of usurping Space Nazis. But from the moment she's rescued, Fisher plays Leia as a soldier and rebel leader. She's the one that gets them out of the prison cell and into the garbage crusher, and basically exerts control over both Luke and Han. While it's easy to read a bit into this, it's pretty clear that while Leia wore a princess's outfit, she really was a soldier, and someone used to being in a position of authority and command. I'd say Fisher and Lucas created the prototype for the scifi female lead; sexy yes, but smart, and not willing to take a bunch of macho crap.
I'd say the leads basically made the original trilogy more than just a special effects extravaganza. Watch the prequels and the more wooden acting just underlines Lucas's shitty dialogue and plotting.
It's a matter of you being an asshole because you think your apathetic contempt makes you feel special. It doesn't say much about Fisher,, but it sure shows the quality of person you are.
Calling out a racist doesnt make it bigotry. Bigotry is unreasonable and irrational prejudice. Disliking racists is rational, just like disliking rapists and murderers.
Thousands of years? I can point to the Southern Baptist Convention, which just abandoned its white supremacist credo a decade ago. Christendom's history is not a wonderful story of tolerance, and it was just as often spread by the sword as Islam was. And when Christendom in Europe had forceably destroyed the last vestiges of paganism in the Baltic principalities via the kindly ministrations of the Teutonic Knights, Christians turned on each other.
A fair number of posters here despise women, and view anyone who advocates for female empowerment as an SJW who needs to be derided, trolled, threatened with rape, or any other mechanism possible to silence anyone with a vagina.
Of course you're serious, because your a malignant 4chan sociopath whose got bored of that big ol' psychopath and goes out on the Intertubes looking to shock people. Basically, you're incurable scum.
I would normally shrug this off, but for a lot of us who were kids in the 70s and 80s, Star Wars was THE THING. After I saw Star Wars at five years of age in 1977, I pretty much ate, slept, lived and breathed Star Wars. My dad bought me a bunch of the action figures, I had a friend who had an X-wing and another who had the Millennium Falcon. During recess and lunch, and when we were waiting for the bus, we pretty much talked about nothing else. So, as silly as it may be, when one of the cast of the original films dies or gets sick, particularly one of the big three, I sit up and pay attention.
I do hope she's alright. She's really not that old, but she has freely admitted she lead a pretty unhealthy lifestyle for many years.
I have a hard time seeing Trump run in 2020, but if it happens I doubt even he's daft enough to make Ivanka his running mate. The reality is that she is going to be functioning as his First Lady, since it's pretty clear his wife has no interest in a full time White House residency.
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And so is retaliation
That I leave the back door open isn't an unlimited license to steal
There is no "Wikileaks organization" any more, there's the Cult of Assange, and Assange clearly had a personal vendetta against Clinton. I wouldn't believe a single thing Assange said.
And that's the problem here. The people denying Russian involvement and denying evidence know damned well that no security service is going to fully elaborate on how the intelligence was gathered.
But really, Trump is nominating Rex Tillerson has Secretary of State. That says it all. Putin is getting everything he wants, a direct inside track in the Oval Office.
I'm not going to say Swift doesn't have any talent, I do believe she does, but in general I agree with your observation. As the labels have become more and more simply a department of larger corporate machines, the willingness to go out on a limb has faded. There are no more Led Zeppelins, or even U2s. It's just a bunch of autotuned R&B acts.
But that's the real problem. In the long run the Internet means traditional labels will die. The artists will increasingly seize control since they no longer are as reliant on traditional record labels. As it is, the labels themselves have suffered a kind of institutional rot. A&R, which was the heart and soul of the record labels well into the 1990s has faded as the suits are increasingly unwilling to take chances, and want to prefabricate artists as much as possible.
Right now I listen to a lot of newer indie music, and there are guys out there marketing their own music, selling directly via their websites, who are every bit as good, if not better, than most of the labels' big artists. A person can now put together a functional recording studio for well under $50,000, and distribution is basically the cost of some online storage and a website. Marketing is still an issue, but for those of us who are no longer interested in what the big record labels have to offer, there's Bandcamp.
And once again the Clinton Crime Family conspiracy gets spunk . You have zero evidence for the claim
Indeed. Walmart and Target are probably the biggest welfare queens in the world.
The poster is posting on a network originally developed with taxpayer money. He's just another whack job libertarian Freeman on the land type.
I think the bigger question is "Why Ewoks?" The whole shield generator battle sequence is absurd, and, so far as I can tell, only existed to sell Ewok action figures. Rogue One's final battle sequence shows how the similar sequence in RotJ could have been done. Instead we get the idiocy of a pack of midget teddy bears taking out a legion of the Empire's finest troops. I get that Lucas was trying to channel Vietnam a bit, but the Vietcong had a lot more than logs and ropes.
At any rate RotJ, and even Empire to an extent, softened Leia too much, playing down the notion of her as a Rebel leader and paying up the more traditional damsel in distress. Thankfully the Alien films never pulled that with Ellen Ripley.
Lots of things have an bad effect on people. If you're interested in public health, ban fried foods. As it is, keeping drugs illegal does little but make drug cartels rich and in a position to destabilize entire nations, not to mention leading to huge amounts of taxpayer money going into law enforcement in a hopeless and doomed attempt to keep these drugs off the streets. Legalize it, tax it, use some of those taxes for treatment, and stop trying to pretend the law is the appropriate instrument to deal with narcotics.
I just rewatched A New Hope tonight, and my observation was that the character of Leia was a bit more than just a popcorn heroine. She plays the Princess in the early scenes while interacting with Vader and Tarkin; aloof, proud, haughty, which would make sense if she was portraying a member of the Old Republic nobility interacting with a pack of usurping Space Nazis. But from the moment she's rescued, Fisher plays Leia as a soldier and rebel leader. She's the one that gets them out of the prison cell and into the garbage crusher, and basically exerts control over both Luke and Han. While it's easy to read a bit into this, it's pretty clear that while Leia wore a princess's outfit, she really was a soldier, and someone used to being in a position of authority and command. I'd say Fisher and Lucas created the prototype for the scifi female lead; sexy yes, but smart, and not willing to take a bunch of macho crap.
Chick was a champion of ignorance and hate.
I suppose that makes him an alt-right icon
I'd say the leads basically made the original trilogy more than just a special effects extravaganza. Watch the prequels and the more wooden acting just underlines Lucas's shitty dialogue and plotting.
It's a matter of you being an asshole because you think your apathetic contempt makes you feel special. It doesn't say much about Fisher,, but it sure shows the quality of person you are.
Calling out a racist doesnt make it bigotry. Bigotry is unreasonable and irrational prejudice. Disliking racists is rational, just like disliking rapists and murderers.
Thousands of years? I can point to the Southern Baptist Convention, which just abandoned its white supremacist credo a decade ago. Christendom's history is not a wonderful story of tolerance, and it was just as often spread by the sword as Islam was. And when Christendom in Europe had forceably destroyed the last vestiges of paganism in the Baltic principalities via the kindly ministrations of the Teutonic Knights, Christians turned on each other.
Thank goodness! Now we can get back to destroying large areas of land populated by wild animals!
A fair number of posters here despise women, and view anyone who advocates for female empowerment as an SJW who needs to be derided, trolled, threatened with rape, or any other mechanism possible to silence anyone with a vagina.
Of course you're serious, because your a malignant 4chan sociopath whose got bored of that big ol' psychopath and goes out on the Intertubes looking to shock people. Basically, you're incurable scum.
Go read your Old Testament. The Bible is hardly any better.
We should cull those who demand a culling.
Yes, I'm sure you were the weazily kid in the corner who thought Escape from Witch Mountain was the cinematic event of the decade.
I would normally shrug this off, but for a lot of us who were kids in the 70s and 80s, Star Wars was THE THING. After I saw Star Wars at five years of age in 1977, I pretty much ate, slept, lived and breathed Star Wars. My dad bought me a bunch of the action figures, I had a friend who had an X-wing and another who had the Millennium Falcon. During recess and lunch, and when we were waiting for the bus, we pretty much talked about nothing else. So, as silly as it may be, when one of the cast of the original films dies or gets sick, particularly one of the big three, I sit up and pay attention.
I do hope she's alright. She's really not that old, but she has freely admitted she lead a pretty unhealthy lifestyle for many years.
I have a hard time seeing Trump run in 2020, but if it happens I doubt even he's daft enough to make Ivanka his running mate. The reality is that she is going to be functioning as his First Lady, since it's pretty clear his wife has no interest in a full time White House residency.