...SO WHAT .0001% of the population who are film-geeks or industry insiders saw the script ? i read LOTR a dozen times, yet I STILL WOULD HAVE KILLED to see just about ANY movies done of it... i can't IMAGINE ANY movie -whether i had an abiding interest or not- that i would NOT see because i read a story, or novel, or screenplay of it, that is just weird... but that fucker always struck me as more than weird enough...
"Prostitution, they say, is the oldest of professions, which sort of has to be bullshit, because if selling sex was the first job ever, how could anyone ever pay for the sex? "
@ that one guy- dude, i agree with your posts 99% of the time, but on this one you are spitting into the wind...
1. i guess you aren't married ? UNLESS your spousal unit shares your disdain of the MAFIAA, etc AS MUCH as you do, you have lost right out of the gate... *I* can declare i'm going to boycott the MAFIAA, etc until i'm blue in the face, but that don't mean shit if SWMBO decides we ARE going to go to the movies... 2. EVEN IF we told relatives that we didn't want movie gift cards, i bet we would still get them... 3. hell, i couldn't get SWMBO to go more than two months cutting the cord before she got delerium tremens and had to re-up our stupid satellite shit... 4. further, you don't have kids or grandmonsters do you ? so YOU are going to be geoffrey dahmer, hitler, al qaeda, and a somali pirate all wrapped into one scumbag person for telling your grandmonsters that No, we *aren't* going to go see the latest disney crap because they are EEEE-VIL... yeah, that will go over real well... (WORST grandparents evah! ! !)
1. actually, i STILL think people walking around with headphones on are stoopid; NOT from a 'oh they look stoopid' standpoint (although they do), but from a 'do you WANT to get hit by a (fill in the blank) because you couldn't hear them bearing down on you ? ? ?' walking around IMPAIRED like that in normal city/suburban settings is cutting off one of your senses... especially idiots on bicycles, HEARING traffic is an extremely important cue to what is going on around you... (speaking as a formerly bike-based lifeform who commuted for years on a bike... no, my commute wasn't 'years', but i did it for 12-15 years...)
2. i think google goggles will be GREAT for a number of occupations: headsup display field manuals ? Great idea... a bunch of applications that would make great sense and provide a better product/service in a BUSINESS context...
3. BUT, i REALLY don't want to be around ANYONE who is videoing in general; don't care if it is with a tripod mounted studio camera, a big teevee camera, a little consumer recorder, a lapel 'spy' camera, OR GOOGLE GOGGLES... the goggles are just more insidious... 4. tell me WHO likes to be photographed under NORMAL everyday circumstances, and i'll show you an unalloyed narcissist...
wow, they just aren't bothering to hide the descent into a 1984-style police state, are they ? ? ? NO DOUBT that similar tactics ARE being used against various activists, dissenters, etc... this is very, VERY scary: it is ALREADY a joke that due process, etc are NOT being followed, even for gutted laws that are totally slanted for the state's convenience... but, now they simply extra-legally, extra-judicially smother someone by removing their ability to function at any level in society... HOW do The They (tm) think this turns out when you push desperate rats into a corner ? ? ? again, like another poster opined the other day: are they TRYING to get us to revolt with this shit ? ? ? 'cause i have gotten to the point where there is NO 'saving grace' for this system: its shit through and through...
u seem to be too uptight to imagine a world without being shifty... besides, its HARD for us cockroaches to hit both keys at once... hee hee hee ho ho ho ha ha ha ak ak ak
yes, i'm getting the same thing under chrome/win7... has gone through two different versions, one which says just that and is black, and one as you describe with disney alternates shown...
IF this were actually a rational world, and there were probative (oh for fucks sake: probative is a fucking word, PLEASE, techdirtia, ditch your idiotic spel czech which is CONSTANTLY flagging real, common words) and reasonable process which took into consideration parent's recommendations (or denouncements) of books/teaching materials in an open and fair-minded manner, THEN there would be SOME validity to your charges...
such a system does NOT presently exist...
the system which exists is: 1 or more -generally- CONSERVATARD and/or fundie xtain parents scream bloody murder about some book/factoid (that -in all likelihood- they have never read or understood), and said book/factoid is NOT TAUGHT simply to avoid the ginned up 'controversy', NOT BECAUSE their complaints have any actual validity... THAT is what ACTUALLY happens...
not some sort of reasoned debate that INCLUDES ALL PARENTS OF ALL VIEWS, but a couple loudmouth, butthurt fundie assmunchers who steamroll the schools to capitulate to their demands... because it is easier to go that route, NOT because it is the 'right thing to do'...
"I was pretty sheltered as a child and turned out just fine."
um, that is for the rest of the inertnet to make a snap judgment about and condemn with equal parts holier-than-thou fervor and laissez faire hipster ennui...
virtually all remedies open to a citizenry have been rendered moot, rigged, and/or corrupted... THERE IS NO RECOURSE, we can't even get 'redress for our greivances'; we are subject to fucking "free speech zones" FOR FUCK'S SAKE: fascist authoritarianism is right in your face, unless you avert your gaze as Empire wants you to... injustice you say ? KARDASHIANS, BOOBS, SEX, etc ad nauseum... civil rights you say ? bread and circuses, citizen, bread and circuses... now, shutup, eat your crust, and laugh, slave, laugh...
before an idea/meme becomes current, precursors must prepare the way... semper paratis, kampers...
whoa there kamper... you had some good stuff, but then ruined it by wondering why the players would want to keep him... i know NOTHING about the guy and the situation, but from a lifetime of experience, reading contemporary his story, etc, I KNOW that if he is kept around by the puppetmasters in spite of otherwise disqualifying factoids, that is because he serves their purposes quite well... um, what' that ? ? ? you *really* thought these public/gummint institutions are there to serve the purposes of the 99% ? ? ? silly wabbit ! ! !
no doubt you google yourself on the hour, so here's a small sampling: due to your extreme copyright trolling, i did NOT go see the hurt locker -even though i wanted to- and will not (willingly/knowingly) patronize or buy any of your movies, etc...
have NEVER 'pirated' ANY songs/movies/etc EVER; don't generally plan to do so; BUT, the extreme measures and attendant arrogant entitlement by MAFIAA and fellow travelers, makes me want to do so to simply spite you pukes...
YOU are impediments to culture/society, NOT brave artistes casting pearls before swine... kindly FOAD...
yeah, we'll see, but not 'happy' about it at the mo'... colbert as, well, you know, colbert is a NATIONAL TREASURE, and as alluded, one of the few MINOR ways we can get shadows of real news, not to mention political commentary with MORALS AND BALLS... while he might get some shots in as a letterman replacement (not a big fan of him, anyways), he will probably not be 1/10th the political influence/inspiration he is now... it will be a net loss, as far as i'm concerned... AND, as big a fan as i am, ain't stayin' up to watch him, they better do next-day replays, 'cause otherwise, they won't get one eyeballs worth of viewing from me and spousal unit...
right, this is ALL about annoying punishments for the 'bad' guys, NOT any 'real' or 'practical' impediment to them developing nukes... (WHO are the 'bad guys' again, i can't seem to remember...)
1. not sure, but it seems most states only require the rear plate; PLENTY of rear plates here get beat to shit, because they have a bumper hitch and it is constantly getting dinged when getting the boat/trailer/whatever hitched up... not to mention 'dirty' plates from our limerock roads... i'm sure that will make the readers more accurate... 2. a LITTLE annoyed at the blase reaction of 'oh, that's okay, then...', to 'SOP that both officers approach with their guns drawn and targeting...' no, that's NOT 'okay'; it may be perversely "NORMAL" for these police state times, but it is NOT 'okay'... 3. to emphasize my point above, i will repeat a factoid that needs telling to deflate the BIZARRE kid-glove treatment given to a cohort which terrorizes and MURDERS 8-10 times more people than so-called 'real terrorists'... in 2011, 33 donut eaters were shot/killed on the job... 33... the lowest number since 18-fucking-87... kops aren't being killed in ANY kind of out-of-control numbers, CITIZENS are being MURDERED by KOPS in out-of-control numbers... (which -conveniently enough- the dept of (in)justice has NO IDEA what the exact numbers are, because NOBODY IN POWER CARES how many mere citizens the kops kill...)
kops are NOT your 'friend'... when good kops start SHOOTING bad kops (LIKE THEY DO TO INNOCENT CIVILIANS ALL THE TIME), THEN i'll cut those overstuffed bullies some slack...
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i still don't get it...
i read LOTR a dozen times, yet I STILL WOULD HAVE KILLED to see just about ANY movies done of it...
i can't IMAGINE ANY movie -whether i had an abiding interest or not- that i would NOT see because i read a story, or novel, or screenplay of it, that is just weird...
but that fucker always struck me as more than weird enough...
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to answer your question...
wimpy: i'll gladly pay you tuesday...
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Re: Re: Re:
dude, i agree with your posts 99% of the time, but on this one you are spitting into the wind...
1. i guess you aren't married ? UNLESS your spousal unit shares your disdain of the MAFIAA, etc AS MUCH as you do, you have lost right out of the gate...
*I* can declare i'm going to boycott the MAFIAA, etc until i'm blue in the face, but that don't mean shit if SWMBO decides we ARE going to go to the movies...
2. EVEN IF we told relatives that we didn't want movie gift cards, i bet we would still get them...
3. hell, i couldn't get SWMBO to go more than two months cutting the cord before she got delerium tremens and had to re-up our stupid satellite shit...
4. further, you don't have kids or grandmonsters do you ? so YOU are going to be geoffrey dahmer, hitler, al qaeda, and a somali pirate all wrapped into one scumbag person for telling your grandmonsters that No, we *aren't* going to go see the latest disney crap because they are EEEE-VIL...
yeah, that will go over real well...
(WORST grandparents evah! ! !)
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Re:
1. actually, i STILL think people walking around with headphones on are stoopid; NOT from a 'oh they look stoopid' standpoint (although they do), but from a 'do you WANT to get hit by a (fill in the blank) because you couldn't hear them bearing down on you ? ? ?'
walking around IMPAIRED like that in normal city/suburban settings is cutting off one of your senses... especially idiots on bicycles, HEARING traffic is an extremely important cue to what is going on around you...
(speaking as a formerly bike-based lifeform who commuted for years on a bike... no, my commute wasn't 'years', but i did it for 12-15 years...)
2. i think google goggles will be GREAT for a number of occupations: headsup display field manuals ? Great idea... a bunch of applications that would make great sense and provide a better product/service in a BUSINESS context...
3. BUT, i REALLY don't want to be around ANYONE who is videoing in general; don't care if it is with a tripod mounted studio camera, a big teevee camera, a little consumer recorder, a lapel 'spy' camera, OR GOOGLE GOGGLES... the goggles are just more insidious...
4. tell me WHO likes to be photographed under NORMAL everyday circumstances, and i'll show you an unalloyed narcissist...
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Re:
you know, i do believe i will write him in for nearly every office i vote on...
hell yeah...
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Re: Re: this mahine didn't kill Faciests
this machine kills words...
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this is bad, this is really, Really BAD...
NO DOUBT that similar tactics ARE being used against various activists, dissenters, etc...
this is very, VERY scary: it is ALREADY a joke that due process, etc are NOT being followed, even for gutted laws that are totally slanted for the state's convenience...
but, now they simply extra-legally, extra-judicially smother someone by removing their ability to function at any level in society...
HOW do The They (tm) think this turns out when you push desperate rats into a corner ? ? ?
again, like another poster opined the other day: are they TRYING to get us to revolt with this shit ? ? ?
'cause i have gotten to the point where there is NO 'saving grace' for this system: its shit through and through...
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Re:
you simply aren't thinking reich...
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Re: Re: 2 inch screens !!!!
besides, its HARD for us cockroaches to hit both keys at once...
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
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Re: I see the following:
has gone through two different versions, one which says just that and is black, and one as you describe with disney alternates shown...
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Re: Re: Re: I'll argue the other side
IF this were actually a rational world, and there were probative (oh for fucks sake: probative is a fucking word, PLEASE, techdirtia, ditch your idiotic spel czech which is CONSTANTLY flagging real, common words) and reasonable process which took into consideration parent's recommendations (or denouncements) of books/teaching materials in an open and fair-minded manner, THEN there would be SOME validity to your charges...
such a system does NOT presently exist...
the system which exists is: 1 or more -generally- CONSERVATARD and/or fundie xtain parents scream bloody murder about some book/factoid (that -in all likelihood- they have never read or understood), and said book/factoid is NOT TAUGHT simply to avoid the ginned up 'controversy', NOT BECAUSE their complaints have any actual validity...
THAT is what ACTUALLY happens...
not some sort of reasoned debate that INCLUDES ALL PARENTS OF ALL VIEWS, but a couple loudmouth, butthurt fundie assmunchers who steamroll the schools to capitulate to their demands...
because it is easier to go that route, NOT because it is the 'right thing to do'...
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Re: Re:
um, that is for the rest of the inertnet to make a snap judgment about and condemn with equal parts holier-than-thou fervor and laissez faire hipster ennui...
geez, don't you know how these tubes work ? ? ?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
THERE IS NO RECOURSE, we can't even get 'redress for our greivances'; we are subject to fucking "free speech zones" FOR FUCK'S SAKE: fascist authoritarianism is right in your face, unless you avert your gaze as Empire wants you to...
injustice you say ?
KARDASHIANS, BOOBS, SEX, etc ad nauseum...
civil rights you say ?
bread and circuses, citizen, bread and circuses...
now, shutup, eat your crust, and laugh, slave, laugh...
before an idea/meme becomes current, precursors must prepare the way...
semper paratis, kampers...
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Re:
you had some good stuff, but then ruined it by wondering why the players would want to keep him...
i know NOTHING about the guy and the situation, but from a lifetime of experience, reading contemporary his story, etc, I KNOW that if he is kept around by the puppetmasters in spite of otherwise disqualifying factoids, that is because he serves their purposes quite well...
um, what' that ? ? ?
you *really* thought these public/gummint institutions are there to serve the purposes of the 99% ? ? ?
silly wabbit ! ! !
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heh voltage volk...
have NEVER 'pirated' ANY songs/movies/etc EVER; don't generally plan to do so; BUT, the extreme measures and attendant arrogant entitlement by MAFIAA and fellow travelers, makes me want to do so to simply spite you pukes...
YOU are impediments to culture/society, NOT brave artistes casting pearls before swine...
kindly FOAD...
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Re: Re: Re:
there, FTFY...
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Re: Re: And the media wonders why...
colbert as, well, you know, colbert is a NATIONAL TREASURE, and as alluded, one of the few MINOR ways we can get shadows of real news, not to mention political commentary with MORALS AND BALLS...
while he might get some shots in as a letterman replacement (not a big fan of him, anyways), he will probably not be 1/10th the political influence/inspiration he is now...
it will be a net loss, as far as i'm concerned...
AND, as big a fan as i am, ain't stayin' up to watch him, they better do next-day replays, 'cause otherwise, they won't get one eyeballs worth of viewing from me and spousal unit...
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Re: Like many good reports that go poof
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Re: Re: Re:
(WHO are the 'bad guys' again, i can't seem to remember...)
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Re:
not to mention 'dirty' plates from our limerock roads...
i'm sure that will make the readers more accurate...
2. a LITTLE annoyed at the blase reaction of 'oh, that's okay, then...', to 'SOP that both officers approach with their guns drawn and targeting...'
no, that's NOT 'okay'; it may be perversely "NORMAL" for these police state times, but it is NOT 'okay'...
3. to emphasize my point above, i will repeat a factoid that needs telling to deflate the BIZARRE kid-glove treatment given to a cohort which terrorizes and MURDERS 8-10 times more people than so-called 'real terrorists'...
in 2011, 33 donut eaters were shot/killed on the job...
33...
the lowest number since 18-fucking-87...
kops aren't being killed in ANY kind of out-of-control numbers, CITIZENS are being MURDERED by KOPS in out-of-control numbers...
(which -conveniently enough- the dept of (in)justice has NO IDEA what the exact numbers are, because NOBODY IN POWER CARES how many mere citizens the kops kill...)
kops are NOT your 'friend'...
when good kops start SHOOTING bad kops (LIKE THEY DO TO INNOCENT CIVILIANS ALL THE TIME), THEN i'll cut those overstuffed bullies some slack...
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