MrHoatzin

I wouldn't call it facetious so much as fatuous. But yes, some shit seems to be going down... On the face of it it doesn't, however, look like any of it is related. Plus, Kroms, your definition of Middle East is kind of broad. Tunisia and Sudan, really?

I am really bothered by the bukk([a-z]+) thing. My mind fails to notice what $1 is, it just makes me automatically think of horrible things.

Last time I tried to install it, I had to also install Quicktime 2 or something. Maybe it is time I buy it again... This was on XP and it ran fine. I dunno about 7.

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I am a bit bothered by the fact that Keynes is portrayed as the pimp with the hangover and Hayek is the level-headed geek who gets no respect—especially considering that the Austrian school of economics has been ruling all US economic considerations for the past quarter century. Fuck that shit.

Because the Obligatory horrorshow YouTube thread doesn't exist: p9kfcEga0lk

Heh, when is domestication going to become a thing? I need to be able to make a courtyard full of technicolor sheep.

I think Notch revels in having his million residents scurry and panic every time he changes the way the world works... I would still imagine that spiders will not be able to walk on ceilings, so put eaves on top of all your walls.

This is all really neat stuff. I wonder what all the dyes are. What can you use them for? Just dying wool/spiderwebblocks?

I was willing to give them the benefit of doubt until the scene where they had the cars flying over the picturesque terra-cotta roofs.

It seems like the spread of the trajectories is too random. I would expect most play-troughs to follow the more-or-less same path, no? Unless there is a bunch of cars in each race...

You know, I am not even sure what is going on here, but I am glad I live in a world in which things like this vid can be made with relatively little effort, by a relative layman with an idea, for no reason whatsoever.

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As the self-appointed Universal Labor Agitator Laureate, I feel it is my duty to point out that 1909—in addition to falling smack in the middle of the golden age of child labor, when all decent people were commies—is way before there were any non-summarily-squelched labor organizational attempts in the US (ACLU was created in 1920), and a good 60 years before OSHA was established. Might as well find a precedent from before the Emancipation Proclamation to support your cruel robber baron ways. Besides, OSHA is shockingly toothless as it is—having handed out a ludicrously small number of proper criminal offenses against corporations in the past 40 years, so just take that and be happy. You should at least provide a safe place for your workers to spend the night, armor while they're working on your stuff, and some means of recuperation (i.e. food). It is only fair! Also, among your many crimes against humanity falls the following: it is "cite" and "precedence" not "site" and "presidence".

That cut (the happy ending cut) is actually included in the box set, as a curiosity of editing, with a foreword by Gilliam. It is interesting to see how completely and thoroughly crappy editing can nerf a story. I tried to watch it and was bored, couldn't finish. They've somehow managed to completely decharm the story. Also, I'd say Fear and Loathing is my favorite of his movies.

Interesting article about the collapse of higher learning in Britain (precipitated by good ole Maggie Thatcher) and, later in the article, in the US: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/grim-threat-british-universities/ There is a lot of talk about Oxford in this thread, although I could've as well posted this in the lectures thread as it neatly illustrates the collapse of the management model of running things in cerebral/creative environments. TL;DR, corporate/capitalist dogma is digesting the western world.

Black Swan, really? I left the theater amused by how cartoony it all was. I didn't feel the same sadness for the world at large I had after Never Let Me Go. Black Swan's a good movie, effective, but kindof silly in places. It is most effective when it is at its subtlest.

Is that on our server? If so, HOW THE FUCK?!

I do! Ok, maybe not, not entirely. I have a strong reaction to injustices perpetrated by societies. You may be fine. The trailer, I feel, tells you pretty much everything you need to know without leaving much to organic discovery, which is a strong suit of the movie's storytelling.

It is a slow, psychological sci-fi film that creates a kind of inter-human space and tells its story through it (it works somewhat similarly to Y Tu Mamá También in this regard, though the movies have basically nothing else in common). It takes a little after Blade Runner thematically.

Never Let Me Go fucking broke me. A really difficult movie. And a strange one to see in this day and age. If you have the balls to see it, DO NOT watch the trailer beforehand.

You should hide a portal somewhere nearby so that it makes that eerie monolith sound.

In general, though, I always took the left to favor a new power alignment and progress, whereas the right favors the existing power structures and tradition. That has been the more or less traditional definition since the French Revolution. It can get pretty muddled, what is left and what is right, depending on the country and tradition. In Serbia for example, the ultra nationalist (AKA Radical) Party is aligned with the Socialist party and the remaining former communists (who have not rebranded themselves into Socialists, which is the party of Milošević), but they're all essentially disgusting reactionaries that live in a fantasy land and kowtow to all things Russian over the West—these guys are the right. In economic matters, they would prefer to privatize all institutions by giving them to their cronies, like some sort of third world criminal enterprise. The left are the Democratic parties (they go in several flavors, some crazy). They tend to favor a middle-way capitalism and the EU. Because this is all so convoluted, you don't really hear much talk of the left and the right over there.

I am all for letting in friends of residents and established community peeps and expanding our outpost on the frontier thusly. Also, we are tracking stealing: every time someone opens a chest, the coordinates and time are logged. Ditto for fire, lava & tnt griefing. Still, we've had some immaculate fires in the past. The more difficult to track are the unwanted "improvements" people may take upon themselves... We can't very well log every single common block that is ever placed down, so as to prevent someone from filling your house with dirt, cobble, sand or whatever. I think we have a good thing going right now.

Ack. I hate it when people invoke abstract equivalence between positions. Not all flipsides are created equal. In fact, almost every position from the right I have heard since I started paying attention to politics has been utter bullshit—bullshit that is birthed from the fear of the different and base tribal impulses (some of which in turn have been usurped by the powerful monied interests for their own profit). Generally, bullshit with a veneer of plausibility tastes differently than truth presented with conviction. Both can be distilled down and the premises of bullshit end up a lot more glaringly false, fraudulent, unjust. And truth is generally complicated and messy. Still, most people believe their own bullshit. One of the most interesting things that has come out of Wikileaks is the trail of propaganda that the GWB administration unleashed upon its own diplomatic corps. No one is immune to bullshit. At the end of the day you have to trust someone. Here's a good person to listen to on the subject of propaganda (it's infuriating tho!): _0OnTHz--7I This is vid 1 of 7; for your convenience: , , , , , and .