Someone missed the obvious Batguy and Spiderdude silhouettes in the recognition manual, among others. Although only one is a Disney property. Poppins and Hook have similar silhouettes in their completely non-Disney originals (and non-Disney other productions), whether acted or illustrated.
Again, not that Disney doesn't have some claim here, but it's a pretty stupid one, and unnecessary. On other counts, Disney just likes having it both ways, for itself, but not others.
Disney just likes playing one of their own hilariously archetypal bad guys. Even if they are technically in the right, they take it out on the weak and the children.
I wonder if Disney also owns THX1138 from the purchase of Lucas properties. Lol.
The even bigger clue, as a subset of all that, is that they won't seize the property if it comes with too much liability or isn't worth it unless there is a compelling law enforcement reason to do so.
Almost none of it is about removing the ability of criminals to commit crime.
What is simply wacked-out is that these guys are so intent on exercising their real and imagine powers like bulls in a china shop that this one was essentially attacking a fellow officer, using the incident with a fleeing suspect as leverage. Irony at the very least.
I wonder how this all would have flown if he had managed to get a blood sample through someone more easily frightened into submission, and the victim officer had survived...
The unfairness is that he failed at claiming the privilege belonging to 99% of his co-occupationists. So let's make it fair and start applying the same scrutiny and standards and the rule of law to all the rest of them. Fairness and equality for all.
It would also probably help if they knew something of the law, and had room for less authoritarian type of people in law enforcement.
Local newspapers have generally been crap since long before the internet, and suffered from die-off and mergers into giant corporations. Hell yeah, support a real independent newspaper that actually runs good stories if you can find one. (There are some, I am sure.) But randomly supporting local papers (if they are, in fact, even decently local)that showed no signs of reversing the dumbing-down trend since ages ago won't do any good, although they will happily take your money.
On the other hand, supporting local journalists who do quality work is probably cheaper and easier.
Re: Re: Re: HEY MA SNICK: WHAT STOPPED REPORTING SIMILAR IN THE PRIOR, OH, HUNDRED YEARS?
Good question! Although the rest of your senseless outburst is both hilarious and sad.
And the answer is: The same thing: Power. Any story that was not so insanely egregious that it had to be published was simply buried. If there was even much of a story, journalism-wise, to run with. Why don't these things come out? Probably for the same reason that victims are afraid to speak today, same as ever. Only there was enough of a change with the avenues the internet provides for both wider peer-to-peer communication and journalistic opportunities of various sizes, and growing trend of victims of power speaking up. Of course, we have been seeing the growing backlash against victims speaking, and the victimization of those who spoke about anything (even trivial shit) that groups with more privilege just don't like. (Although sometimes they seem to like it fine, as long as they heard it from one of their own first.)
How about you go whine senselessly in a closet and play go filesystem check yourself until you might actually form a proper thought on why you don't like the things you don't like. What is your evidence for... wtf ever you are on about?
Sure. Everyone can just stop using the internet. Or buying food. Or going to hospital. Or paying for energy or water. And stuff. Until the corporate and government worlds get their act together.
Regardless of the potential for derailment or whatever there, I see no reason why you can't offer deeper insight into your estimations of how Google botched it. You may have both the personal experience and knowledge of what Google was doing (I have seen some of the stupid things they and local governments have done already, e.g., San Antonio), but we don't know what, specifically, those things are unless you elaborate a bit. I, for one, would read a lengthy article on it for sure.
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Again, not that Disney doesn't have some claim here, but it's a pretty stupid one, and unnecessary. On other counts, Disney just likes having it both ways, for itself, but not others.
Disney just likes playing one of their own hilariously archetypal bad guys. Even if they are technically in the right, they take it out on the weak and the children.
I wonder if Disney also owns THX1138 from the purchase of Lucas properties. Lol.
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Re: Re: "Readers of this site will hear" -- AMAZING! However, I heard nothing.
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The even bigger clue, as a subset of all that, is that they won't seize the property if it comes with too much liability or isn't worth it unless there is a compelling law enforcement reason to do so.
Almost none of it is about removing the ability of criminals to commit crime.
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Re: Two for the price of one
I wonder how this all would have flown if he had managed to get a blood sample through someone more easily frightened into submission, and the victim officer had survived...
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It would also probably help if they knew something of the law, and had room for less authoritarian type of people in law enforcement.
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Re: Subscribe to your local newspaper
On the other hand, supporting local journalists who do quality work is probably cheaper and easier.
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Re: Re: Re: HEY MA SNICK: WHAT STOPPED REPORTING SIMILAR IN THE PRIOR, OH, HUNDRED YEARS?
Good question! Although the rest of your senseless outburst is both hilarious and sad.
And the answer is: The same thing: Power. Any story that was not so insanely egregious that it had to be published was simply buried. If there was even much of a story, journalism-wise, to run with. Why don't these things come out? Probably for the same reason that victims are afraid to speak today, same as ever. Only there was enough of a change with the avenues the internet provides for both wider peer-to-peer communication and journalistic opportunities of various sizes, and growing trend of victims of power speaking up. Of course, we have been seeing the growing backlash against victims speaking, and the victimization of those who spoke about anything (even trivial shit) that groups with more privilege just don't like. (Although sometimes they seem to like it fine, as long as they heard it from one of their own first.)
How about you go whine senselessly in a closet and play go filesystem check yourself until you might actually form a proper thought on why you don't like the things you don't like. What is your evidence for... wtf ever you are on about?
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cabs refused to pick up fares in the downtown area and instead just honked their horns a bunch
So, like, it wouldn't be a problem if someone "accidentally" ran over the cabs, right?
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serialized radio shows faded out about 1950
In the States, maybe.
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