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So, Vladimir Putin, who's used ultra-nationalist sentiment to stir up shit in other former Soviet satellite nations in order to give cover to an invasion, has his personal news agency telling us how much trouble Finland is in because of "refugees".
Damn, there's nothing new under the sun, is there? Next we'll be hearing how the Jews are defiling the morals of women in towns all across Belarus.
I'm not saying that the Oscar winners in the '70s were the films that challenged the status quo, but rather that the movies that came out in the '70s did so.
Of course the Oscar winners were all movies that celebrated the status quo. The Academy was even less diverse in the '70s than it is today.
And if you really need a list of movies from the '70s that challenged the status quo, then you don't know anything about movies in the '70s.
I really wish I could find the statistics, but the percentage of black Oscar winners was within 1-2% of the overall black population. So uh, I fail to see the point you are trying to make. If you don't believe me, crunch the numbers starting in 2000. It matches up.
Yes, I wish you could find the statistics too. It's a shame that there's not some way we could look up information like this:
Since the Academy Awards was founded 85-years ago:
Only one woman of color (1%) has ever won the Academy Award for Best Actress Only seven men of color (9%) have ever won the Academy Award for Best Actor Only one woman (1%) has ever won the Academy Award for Best Director
Now I don't know what your "within 1-2% of overall black population means", but I don't think it means what you think it means.
[note: the percentages are actually a bit smaller, because these statistics were as of one year ago, when no people of color were nominated. This year, no people of color were nominated again, despite there being several performances of note that would have garnered nominations if the actor had been a white actor.]
Whenever the discussion turns to audiophiles, I have to post my favorite audiophile gear of all, the $150 cable elevator. (currently on sale for $119, but on back-order)
"By moving cables away from surrounding surfaces the negative dielectric field interaction is completely removed, preserving the delicate audio signal's purity. "
This would be a much better story if this had been a proper rap battle and Neil deGrasse Tyson had dropped a real rap joint and done a video with girls with big round butts and guns and low-rider cars with hydraulics.
But aren't those some of the very parameters that SHOULD be voted on and count highly as movies/performances that rate high...regardless of the race involved?
I don't think so, unless you believe the Oscars should only be for family fare. I'm not sure if you remember the movies that came out in the '70s, which was something of a golden age. These were movies that challenged those conventions and changed the way films are seen for a generation.
The Oscars should be a measure of quality, not broad appeal, IMO. And artistic quality is a subjective measure in which culture is the only reasonable yardstick.
While I don't think 9/11 was an inside job, I also don't consider it beyond the pale for the U.S. government to pull it's own Reichstag Fire. [wikipedia.org] Didn't Rahm Emanuel say "You never want a serious crisis go to waste?"
That was pretty slick how you managed to imply that Rahm Emanuel was behind 9/11.
I don't think it accounts for those at all as it CAN'T. The fact is 99% of conspiracies could be wildly successful, but because they are successful we won't know or it could be every one of them has eventually failed, he is working from incomplete data, worse he is working from a heavily biased section of the data (i.e. data that leant towards failure). we don't know the data behind what leads to a successful conspiracy only what leads to failed ones.
This is just a guess here, but it sounds like the study didn't really examine whether or not a conspiracy "worked" or not, but whether a conspiracy unraveled. And by unraveled, I assume he means that people found out about it. So even Nixon's conspiracy to keep the War in Vietnam going until he could be elected president eventually unraveled because we've found out about it and we know it happened.
So, if we start from an adjusted definition of conspiracy that means "conspiracies that managed to be kept hidden", the study makes a lot more sense. The more people you get involved, the more likely it is to unravel because human beings are notoriously bad at keeping secrets in groups. Eventually, somebody tells a wife or friend or spills the beans at the bar.
They should have argued that it was a "taking" and the government had to reimburse them for their losses.
The tail end of the Fifth Amendment reads
I'm sure the energy industry lawyers who argued the case before the Supreme Court will make sure to check Slashdot comments in the future so they don't miss such an obvious winning ploy.
I wonder, is it entirely possible, that there was no racial bias
Oh yeah, it's very possible. The more than 6000-strong membership of the Academy are heavily weighted in favor of very old, white people who remember the days when Hollywood made decent family movies without all the shvoogies and the hooers showing their business every second. These are people who still yearn for the old star system when you got one black actor (Sidney Poitier) and that was it and he knew his goddamn place. They may not have a racist bone in their body, and just think that it's all OK. It's part of the privilege of being privileged that you don't have to feel like your privileged because it's always been this way.
To be fair,there has been an effort to bring more diversity to the Academy to better reflect both the people who work in the industry and the audience. Rosario Dawson, Danny Trejo (!), Chris Tucker and Lucy Liu were all invited to join a couple of years ago (along with Jason Bateman, Jason Swartzmann, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lance Henrikson and a bunch of other white people. So there's definitely an effort to at least make it seem a little less like it's just a bunch of old white people making these decisions. But it's going to be a while before there's enough turnover in this organization of more than 6000 people, and the Academy will probably always be about 20-30 years behind the times because that's how the organization is structured.
Price wars, if they go on long enough, can lead to or reinforce oligopolies. Larger firms can sometimes afford to lose money for a while to drive out competition, which is arguably what OPEC is doing to fracking.
If you have a nine year old child who does not know how to properly handle a weapon then you are a piss poor parent who does not deserve the responsibility of raising a child.
My nine year old can field strip an M-16, is proficient in all edged weapons and can bring down an airliner with a SAM. She's got 103 confirmed kills to her credit.
What's the difference between a "price war" and "competition"? Are you suggesting companies shouldn't be allowed to set prices for their products as they see fit?
Having more things hooked up together doesn't make things more reliable, it makes them more vulnerable to both common mode failures and cascading system collapses.
Which is why the internet is always experiencing catastrophic system-wide shutdowns.
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That's my question to you.
Who's that?
So, Vladimir Putin, who's used ultra-nationalist sentiment to stir up shit in other former Soviet satellite nations in order to give cover to an invasion, has his personal news agency telling us how much trouble Finland is in because of "refugees".
Damn, there's nothing new under the sun, is there? Next we'll be hearing how the Jews are defiling the morals of women in towns all across Belarus.
But does the Optigrab do anything for "negative dielectric field interaction"? That's what I want to know.
I'm not saying that the Oscar winners in the '70s were the films that challenged the status quo, but rather that the movies that came out in the '70s did so.
Of course the Oscar winners were all movies that celebrated the status quo. The Academy was even less diverse in the '70s than it is today.
And if you really need a list of movies from the '70s that challenged the status quo, then you don't know anything about movies in the '70s.
My god, that wins hands down. I have a new favorite audiophile gear.
Yes, I wish you could find the statistics too. It's a shame that there's not some way we could look up information like this:
Now I don't know what your "within 1-2% of overall black population means", but I don't think it means what you think it means.
http://www.ibtimes.com/oscars-...
[note: the percentages are actually a bit smaller, because these statistics were as of one year ago, when no people of color were nominated. This year, no people of color were nominated again, despite there being several performances of note that would have garnered nominations if the actor had been a white actor.]
Whenever the discussion turns to audiophiles, I have to post my favorite audiophile gear of all, the $150 cable elevator. (currently on sale for $119, but on back-order)
http://www.reddragonaudio.com/...
This would be a much better story if this had been a proper rap battle and Neil deGrasse Tyson had dropped a real rap joint and done a video with girls with big round butts and guns and low-rider cars with hydraulics.
https://youtu.be/fJuapp9SORA
I don't think so, unless you believe the Oscars should only be for family fare. I'm not sure if you remember the movies that came out in the '70s, which was something of a golden age. These were movies that challenged those conventions and changed the way films are seen for a generation.
The Oscars should be a measure of quality, not broad appeal, IMO. And artistic quality is a subjective measure in which culture is the only reasonable yardstick.
Jet fuel can't melt logic.
Her nephew is Alex Jones.
That was pretty slick how you managed to imply that Rahm Emanuel was behind 9/11.
This is just a guess here, but it sounds like the study didn't really examine whether or not a conspiracy "worked" or not, but whether a conspiracy unraveled. And by unraveled, I assume he means that people found out about it. So even Nixon's conspiracy to keep the War in Vietnam going until he could be elected president eventually unraveled because we've found out about it and we know it happened.
So, if we start from an adjusted definition of conspiracy that means "conspiracies that managed to be kept hidden", the study makes a lot more sense. The more people you get involved, the more likely it is to unravel because human beings are notoriously bad at keeping secrets in groups. Eventually, somebody tells a wife or friend or spills the beans at the bar.
I'm sure the energy industry lawyers who argued the case before the Supreme Court will make sure to check Slashdot comments in the future so they don't miss such an obvious winning ploy.
This means more porn for me.
Oh yeah, it's very possible. The more than 6000-strong membership of the Academy are heavily weighted in favor of very old, white people who remember the days when Hollywood made decent family movies without all the shvoogies and the hooers showing their business every second. These are people who still yearn for the old star system when you got one black actor (Sidney Poitier) and that was it and he knew his goddamn place. They may not have a racist bone in their body, and just think that it's all OK. It's part of the privilege of being privileged that you don't have to feel like your privileged because it's always been this way.
To be fair,there has been an effort to bring more diversity to the Academy to better reflect both the people who work in the industry and the audience. Rosario Dawson, Danny Trejo (!), Chris Tucker and Lucy Liu were all invited to join a couple of years ago (along with Jason Bateman, Jason Swartzmann, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lance Henrikson and a bunch of other white people. So there's definitely an effort to at least make it seem a little less like it's just a bunch of old white people making these decisions. But it's going to be a while before there's enough turnover in this organization of more than 6000 people, and the Academy will probably always be about 20-30 years behind the times because that's how the organization is structured.
#WhatsaMatter
Or maybe some subliminal messages.
Sounds like a "free market" to me.
My nine year old can field strip an M-16, is proficient in all edged weapons and can bring down an airliner with a SAM. She's got 103 confirmed kills to her credit.
So that makes me a good parent.
What's the difference between a "price war" and "competition"? Are you suggesting companies shouldn't be allowed to set prices for their products as they see fit?
Wouldn't dream of it.
You haven't met my pervy mailman.
Which is why the internet is always experiencing catastrophic system-wide shutdowns.
You know what else loses money? Shale oil fracking. It's why so many facilities are closing.