Gfted1 Posted August 9, 2017 Posted August 9, 2017 Just read an article about people being upset with the court sketch artist for how Taylor Swift was portrayed in her current court case. Bahahahahaha. I would suggest replacing that antiquated method with...I dunno...cameras, but then I would suffer the wrath of the unemployed court sketch artists. Cant win for losing. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Gromnir Posted August 9, 2017 Posted August 9, 2017 Unlike the unemployment report, the employment report takes those masses into account, which is why I posted it. You'll notice that employment is still way down from the 2000 peak. Thanks Obama! to be fair, the current employment rate has very little to do with any recent President, save for clinton. clinton's bank deregulation (yes, it were championed by a democrat president) were the major cause o' the recent economic downturn. otherwise, Presidents have had only minor impact on such numbers. blame market forces and Congressional impotence would be more appropriate. obama's stimulus actual likely prolonged the economic crisis, but not by a huge degree. 'course such did have measurable impact on the ever growing deficit, so chances are in 5-10 years you will be cursing President ______ when you should be blaming obama. Presidents get too much blame and too much credit. and usual the wrong President gets the blame and credit. HA! Good Fun! 2 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Malcador Posted August 9, 2017 Posted August 9, 2017 Just read an article about people being upset with the court sketch artist for how Taylor Swift was portrayed in her current court case. Bahahahahaha. I would suggest replacing that antiquated method with...I dunno...cameras, but then I would suffer the wrath of the unemployed court sketch artists. Cant win for losing. Don't allow cameras for privacy reasons and a distraction as well (though I guess they are not noisy these days). Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
HoonDing Posted August 9, 2017 Posted August 9, 2017 The fire and the fury. So where is it? The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Malcador Posted August 9, 2017 Posted August 9, 2017 The fire and the fury. So where is it? In a Taco Bell near you 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Gfted1 Posted August 9, 2017 Posted August 9, 2017 Don't allow cameras for privacy reasons and a distraction as well (though I guess they are not noisy these days). Whoa, whoa, whoa, there aren't cameras in every single courtroom? I know Ive seen various YouTubes where all hell breaks loose in a courtroom during a trial but maybe all courtrooms aren't equipped with cctv? Id honestly be shocked if every single word and action weren't being recorded. Now that I think of it, whats up with still using a court stenographer in todays day of digital recorders? "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
smjjames Posted August 9, 2017 Posted August 9, 2017 (edited) Don't allow cameras for privacy reasons and a distraction as well (though I guess they are not noisy these days). Whoa, whoa, whoa, there aren't cameras in every single courtroom? I know Ive seen various YouTubes where all hell breaks loose in a courtroom during a trial but maybe all courtrooms aren't equipped with cctv? Id honestly be shocked if every single word and action weren't being recorded. Now that I think of it, whats up with still using a court stenographer in todays day of digital recorders? I guess it depends on the trial, like how OJ's trial was heavily televised inside there while Cosby's wasn't. Though OJ's trial was just as the 24 hour news phenomenon was starting to take off. Edited August 9, 2017 by smjjames
Gfted1 Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head...Lets see whats on the radar for this mornings dose of fauxrage: Walmart apologizes for sign marketing guns as back-to-school items. LOOK LOOK EVERYONE! WALMART WANTS TO KILL KIDS! 4 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
BruceVC Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head... Lets see whats on the radar for this mornings dose of fauxrage: Walmart apologizes for sign marketing guns as back-to-school items. LOOK LOOK EVERYONE! WALMART WANTS TO KILL KIDS! Classic "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Malcador Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head... Lets see whats on the radar for this mornings dose of fauxrage: Walmart apologizes for sign marketing guns as back-to-school items. LOOK LOOK EVERYONE! WALMART WANTS TO KILL KIDS! You're seeing a lot of outrage? Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
smjjames Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head... Lets see whats on the radar for this mornings dose of fauxrage: Walmart apologizes for sign marketing guns as back-to-school items. LOOK LOOK EVERYONE! WALMART WANTS TO KILL KIDS! It didn't make me rage, but it does raise eyebrows, like "what the heck are you doing/why the heck are they back-to-school-items?" Just another corporate marketing fail really.
Wrath of Dagon Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 (edited) This is kind of funny, at least to me: https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/08/10/politically-correct-hollywood-is-doomed-n2365954 Edit: There's really no way to parody the left: https://yalealumnimagazine.com/blog_posts/2695-disarmament Edited August 10, 2017 by Wrath of Dagon "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
Elerond Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 https://twitter.com/carney/status/895689228146946050 "We're going to have to create a full #MAGA shadow cultural industry because the Opposition Media can't even do fashion without attacking us" - John Carney (I run Breitbart's finance and economics coverage. Formerly: WSJ, writer/editor, Wall Street lawyer, DealBreaker EIC, BI managing editor, CNBC NetNet founder.) Hint: Pictures of Statue of Liberty are attacks against American right wing
Malcador Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 I miss the Internet in 2001. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Agiel Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 (edited) "Kinda makes you wonder doesn't it? Whether she's naked under that toga. She's French, you know that?" Edited August 10, 2017 by Agiel Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
smjjames Posted August 10, 2017 Posted August 10, 2017 Maybe those right wingers should totally create a fashion magazine so that they aren't offended. Oh wait, there aren't enough right wing celebrities to go around, oh well. /s
213374U Posted August 11, 2017 Posted August 11, 2017 I miss the Internet in 2001. I miss the left in 2001. Remember when they were all about that class warfare? - When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
Orogun01 Posted August 11, 2017 Posted August 11, 2017 Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head... Lets see whats on the radar for this mornings dose of fauxrage: Walmart apologizes for sign marketing guns as back-to-school items. LOOK LOOK EVERYONE! WALMART WANTS TO KILL KIDS! I wonder what glorious channer came up with that one. I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you.
Malcador Posted August 11, 2017 Posted August 11, 2017 (edited) I miss the left in 2001. Remember when they were all about that class warfare? Hm, not so much up here, the left seems the same for the most part - though I suppose that may change next election cycle. Every random prole online certainly has ruined the online experience though, maybe nostalgia talking Edited August 11, 2017 by Malcador Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Gromnir Posted August 11, 2017 Posted August 11, 2017 For example, the wise woman from Dr Strange, who comes from Tibet in the source material, ended up being Nepalese. quick correction: the ancient one were originally an asian man in the comics, but in the movie, she were a celtic woman. is noteworthy that the change of the ancient one from asian to tilda swinton, arguably the whitest woman on the planet, resulted in significant negative backlash and widespread accusations o' whitewashing. *shrug* oh, and as an aside, the most annoying pandering to the chinese we has personal seen in a movie were the additions to the martian. the selfless and humanitarian chinese helped save the day in the movie version. such scenes were not in the book. clear were added solely to makes the movie more attractive to a chinese audience. if am recalling correct, the recent ghostbusters reboot were not shown in china for the announced reason o' the depiction o' the supernatural and ghosts. the great wall (or whatever it were called) with matt damon were a bomb. as much as hollywood attempts to replicate success by reusing same old formula, it likewise avoids failure like some kinda misbegotten leper. sure, am expecting a continuation o' the trend o' movies to throw an occasional bone to chinese audiences in the guise o' chinese actors and pro-chinese plot lines, but serious west-chinese film partnership may go into a kinda hibernation. as to the original issue, diversity, in general, sells. wonder woman did well. as bad as were lucy, it also made money. atomic blonde? dunno yet. regardless, hollywood has figured out that men like to watch hot women kicking arse. *feigned shock* the thing is, women apparently like to watch hot women kicking arse too. ubiquitous supermodels in movies were offensive to women a few years ago, but female action heroes is somehow empowering? whatever. don't ask too many questions. the point is we expect to see a whole lot more female action stars just as long as such movies make money. oh, and moviegoer demographics does not match national demographics. compared to national demographics, a few ethnic groups is disproportionate more likely to go to movies. gotta be kinda obtuse to fail to notice how successful has been the fast and furious franchise, yes? diverse casts and terrible acting is trademarks o' those films, and yet they is universal's most successful franchise to-date. personal, am not caring 'bout diversity in movies. denzel washington as don pedro in much ado about nothing? why the hell not? will give denzel washington the benefit o' the doubt 90% o' the time. bad acting. bad direction. bad production values. such stuff bothers us, but take some kinda source material and make a change to increase diversity while also acquiring good acting talent, then am not seeing a downside. where diversity forces a bad actor or director into a project, then Gromnir grumbles, but otherwise... meh. diversity is good for the bottom line, so as long as it don't impact quality, we have difficulty seeing a problem. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
BruceVC Posted August 11, 2017 Posted August 11, 2017 (edited) I miss the Internet in 2001. I miss the left in 2001. Remember when they were all about that class warfare? Oh I remember class warfare. It was as divisive, antagonistic and misplaced back then as it is now You never want to be part of a narrative that can lead either intentionally or unintentionally to "us vs them " mentality. Its unhelpful to a more constructive and conducive positive social environment in any country or culture Edited August 11, 2017 by BruceVC "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Guard Dog Posted August 11, 2017 Posted August 11, 2017 Grom & Ben's post remind me why I don't go to the movies and seldom watch them on TV. Oh, and speaking on whitewashing and cultural appropriation, this was an actual thing: John Wayne actually played Genghis Khan! "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
redneckdevil Posted August 11, 2017 Posted August 11, 2017 To be honest, wouldn't consider John Wayne whitewashing since most importantly he's got the face for it and in a very minor second is most likely related to him like most of us here
Pidesco Posted August 11, 2017 Posted August 11, 2017 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/895970429734711298 "Military solutions are now fully in place,locked and loaded,should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!" This is fine. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist I am Dan Quayle of the Romans. I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands. Heja Sverige!! Everyone should cuffawkle more. The wrench is your friend.
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