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Re: The 1986 Miami FBI Shootout
More detail here from the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout
By: decavolt
Re: They're Made Out of Meat
That link is toast. This one works:
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
By: decavolt
Re: Videogioco: Stopmotion Fight Viodeogame
Great little movie.
Stopmotion: check
Fight: check
Videogame: uh, not at all.
Stopmotion: check
Fight: check
Videogame: uh, not at all.
By: decavolt
Re: Don't Show ID In New York State
I was told by the court that filing a civil suit against the police would be "pointless". Conveniently for the cops, the police report was expunged. The court didn't just dismiss the case against me, it was purged from record with the reasoning that the police report it was based on was inaccurate. Golly gee, thanks for disappearing my case, but since it was wiped that meant the police report was toast too… and thus couldn't be used by me as evidence to file a suit against the police. When I pressed the issue I was told my case was resolved and was instructed to leave the court house. You can imagine how cheerful I was that day.
If I had filed suit afterward, it would have been my word against 3 police and no police report to even prove that the incident happened in the first place. Nice, eh? This is how the system protects its own ass while f**king us in ours.
Later that year I was pulled over by the cops a dozen times in that same city, often twice in the same day, without ever being given a ticket or charged with anything. What a coincidence. I remember asking one female cop that had pulled me over (15 minutes after I was stopped by another cop a mile away) why I was being harassed. She calmly said she didn't know what I was talking about.
If I had filed suit afterward, it would have been my word against 3 police and no police report to even prove that the incident happened in the first place. Nice, eh? This is how the system protects its own ass while f**king us in ours.
Later that year I was pulled over by the cops a dozen times in that same city, often twice in the same day, without ever being given a ticket or charged with anything. What a coincidence. I remember asking one female cop that had pulled me over (15 minutes after I was stopped by another cop a mile away) why I was being harassed. She calmly said she didn't know what I was talking about.
By: decavolt
Re: Don't Show ID In New York State
After having cops arrest me without cause, blatantly and repeatedly lie on the police report to put me in a hole I have an earned and healthy distrust of anyone with a badge. I had to fight it all in court, and I won because I had multiple witnesses who saw what really happened and refuted the outright lies the police told. Thankfully I wasn't alone that night or they would have been able to do whatever the hell they wanted.
No, they're not all bad. But I don't give a damn if Mr. Officer is tired, or annoyed or overworked. None of those give him the right to deprive us of OUR rights. That badge means he is required to protect our rights - all the time - not shit on them just because he's had a long day, or was given too many wedgies in grade school, or his mommy didn't hug him enough.
To turn the tables on Officer "love it or leave it", if his job is so f@$%ing hard, or so annoying... he needs to leave it and do something else.
No, they're not all bad. But I don't give a damn if Mr. Officer is tired, or annoyed or overworked. None of those give him the right to deprive us of OUR rights. That badge means he is required to protect our rights - all the time - not shit on them just because he's had a long day, or was given too many wedgies in grade school, or his mommy didn't hug him enough.
To turn the tables on Officer "love it or leave it", if his job is so f@$%ing hard, or so annoying... he needs to leave it and do something else.
By: decavolt
Re: The Golden Age of Video
I was able to get most of them at first glance. I have no idea what the ones in brackets are. Here's the list in the order that they appear, with repeats removed:
Freaks
Ghostbusters
School of Rock
Simpsons
South Park
The Godfather
Robocop
Sesame Street
Back to the Future
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Silence of the Lambs
Seinfeld
[ rooftop dude with a gun?? ]
A Night at the Museum
2001: A Space Oddyssey
Star Wars
The Prisoner (brit TV series from the 60's)
Citizen Kane
Knight Rider
On The Waterfront
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Airplane
The Shining
Duke of Hazard
Top Gun
Mystery Science Theater 3000
The Man Who Knew Too Little
The Car
30 Rock
Family Guy
[ trippy cartoon ?? ]
[ brit talk show ?? ]
Starsky & Hutch (remake)
Naked Gun
Blow
[ black & white, stage ?? ]
[ brit show ?? ]
Jaws
Anchorman
Cars
Short Circuit
[ man with fake ear ?? ]
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
Blade Runner
This is Spinal Tap
The Big Lebowski
Back to the Future 3
Pulp Fiction
Bobby Brown's Ghostbusters Theme video
[ russian dancer ?? ]
The Life Aquatic
Freaks
Ghostbusters
School of Rock
Simpsons
South Park
The Godfather
Robocop
Sesame Street
Back to the Future
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Silence of the Lambs
Seinfeld
[ rooftop dude with a gun?? ]
A Night at the Museum
2001: A Space Oddyssey
Star Wars
The Prisoner (brit TV series from the 60's)
Citizen Kane
Knight Rider
On The Waterfront
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Airplane
The Shining
Duke of Hazard
Top Gun
Mystery Science Theater 3000
The Man Who Knew Too Little
The Car
30 Rock
Family Guy
[ trippy cartoon ?? ]
[ brit talk show ?? ]
Starsky & Hutch (remake)
Naked Gun
Blow
[ black & white, stage ?? ]
[ brit show ?? ]
Jaws
Anchorman
Cars
Short Circuit
[ man with fake ear ?? ]
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
Blade Runner
This is Spinal Tap
The Big Lebowski
Back to the Future 3
Pulp Fiction
Bobby Brown's Ghostbusters Theme video
[ russian dancer ?? ]
The Life Aquatic
By: decavolt
Re: Anti-Smoking Ads: It's Gay To Smoke
Directly from The Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_anti_smoking_ads_warn_teens
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_anti_smoking_ads_warn_teens
By: decavolt
Re: Rep. Alan Grayson on the Situation Room
Because when real rebuttals based on facts and solid logic are not available, people resort to personal attacks. It's the first and most obvious sign that the other side is unable to refute or otherwise rationally debate an issue.
By: decavolt
Re: Putting faith in its place
"One of the things this video doesn't properly adress is that many people still don't recognize that we live in a rational universe."
Indeed. And many actively choose this, rather than it being an accidental state. Martin Luther was sharply deliberate when he said "reason is the enemy of faith."
Indeed. And many actively choose this, rather than it being an accidental state. Martin Luther was sharply deliberate when he said "reason is the enemy of faith."
By: decavolt
Re: CNN's Rick Sanchez Exposes Fox News Coaching Tea Party Crowd
"All the proof any rational person could need."
Except for, ya know, facts, truth and reason. Other than those things, you're right, Newsbusters has all the proof any person could need.
Except for, ya know, facts, truth and reason. Other than those things, you're right, Newsbusters has all the proof any person could need.
By: decavolt
Re: CNN's Rick Sanchez Exposes Fox News Coaching Tea Party Crowd
They need to be told.
When the camera - in a fixed position - is continuously pointing their way with an anchor actively speaking into the mic in front of them.
Yep. That must be it.
Oh wait - why then has Fox said they will discipline the producer? Hm. Maybe because she was in fact coaching the crowd (as is blatantly obvious in the video) and because it is utterly and completely wrong?
When the camera - in a fixed position - is continuously pointing their way with an anchor actively speaking into the mic in front of them.
Yep. That must be it.
Oh wait - why then has Fox said they will discipline the producer? Hm. Maybe because she was in fact coaching the crowd (as is blatantly obvious in the video) and because it is utterly and completely wrong?
By: decavolt
Re: The Return of McCarthyism
"McCarthy didn't just accuse people of being communists and asked his fans to protest them, or to vote them out of office. He used the power of the government to enforce blacklists and censorship and tried to throw people in jail. The difference is night-and-day."
It isn't night-and-day different. McCarthyism started with the same sort of rhetoric - nearly word-for-word as this video illustrates - that the radical right-wing media pundits and politicians alike are using now. The difference is very slight, not massive. This is a big point, so maybe read those sentences a second time.
"Beck calling Obama a communist is not altogether different from Olberman calling Bush a fascist. So what. Don't watch if you don't agree."
Correct. I'm not debating what the other kids are doing, but the "this other guy does it too so that makes it OK" argument is incredibly weak. Same for the "don't like it, don't watch" argument. Neither do a thing to prove your point, only to reassert your opinion.
"Its not McCarthyism, either way, and it devalues the sufferings of those who were persecuted by McCarthy when you claim that it is."
An appeal to pity doesn't make your argument any stronger either. You may as well have said "nuh-uh!" and left it at that.
It isn't night-and-day different. McCarthyism started with the same sort of rhetoric - nearly word-for-word as this video illustrates - that the radical right-wing media pundits and politicians alike are using now. The difference is very slight, not massive. This is a big point, so maybe read those sentences a second time.
"Beck calling Obama a communist is not altogether different from Olberman calling Bush a fascist. So what. Don't watch if you don't agree."
Correct. I'm not debating what the other kids are doing, but the "this other guy does it too so that makes it OK" argument is incredibly weak. Same for the "don't like it, don't watch" argument. Neither do a thing to prove your point, only to reassert your opinion.
"Its not McCarthyism, either way, and it devalues the sufferings of those who were persecuted by McCarthy when you claim that it is."
An appeal to pity doesn't make your argument any stronger either. You may as well have said "nuh-uh!" and left it at that.
By: decavolt
