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- Yesterday, 19:12
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Legal Eagle Question
- Replies: 162
- Views: 26853
Re: Legal Eagle Question
There's a Right of Publicity, an area of civil law about which I'm only dimly familiar, not being an entertainment lawyer. But unless I'm very much mistaken, his prior and continued association with the Republican Party pretty much kills that racehorse at the gate. He can, of course, sue for misrepr...
- Yesterday, 19:06
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Star Trek Wankery
- Replies: 1418
- Views: 160146
Re: Star Trek Wankery
Most Star Trek movies, like most Star Wars movies, suck. For that matter, half or more of the episodes of Star Trek:TOS sucked. They were just good in their time compared to, well, to nothing at all. Same with the first Star Wars movie or, as I like to call it, Star Wars. I mean, geez, most of them ...
- Yesterday, 12:52
- Forum: Hit & Run Over
- Topic: Kentucky Bill Would Make Insulting a Cop a Crime
- Replies: 8
- Views: 113
Re: Kentucky Bill Would Make Insulting a Cop a Crime
The ACLU will contrive a test case almost immediately. Until it turns out that the cop suffered emotional distress, at which point young staffers will stage a walkout and demand a safe space for the cop. (OK, not really, but still. The ACLU is not what it once was.) It's still what it once was when...
- Yesterday, 12:00
- Forum: Hit & Run Over
- Topic: Kentucky Bill Would Make Insulting a Cop a Crime
- Replies: 8
- Views: 113
Re: Kentucky Bill Would Make Insulting a Cop a Crime
So the rap will be beaten, but not the ride. Assuming they survive. If the person lobbing insults subsequently made a furtive gesture that was not apparent from the angle of the cop's body cam, well, somebody is going on paid leave. The ACLU will contrive a test case almost immediately. Also, unles...
- Yesterday, 11:58
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: That's a lot of money for a damned Turing Machine!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 474
Re: That's a lot of money for a damned Turing Machine!
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- Yesterday, 11:49
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Random covid-19 observations
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 113430
- 06 Mar 2021, 14:23
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Heroes and zeroes of the animal kingdom
- Replies: 444
- Views: 73831
- 06 Mar 2021, 00:51
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The New Grylliader Welcome Wagon
- Replies: 32
- Views: 490
Re: The New Grylliader Welcome Wagon
*shrug* I haven't seen the entire Cage oeuvre, but aside from Leaving Las Vegas, for which he deservedly won Best Actor, I've never seen anything he's done that impressed me. I've thought he was okay in a few films, but I think he has a Shatneresque tendency to chew the scenery.
- 05 Mar 2021, 20:53
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Music for the Masses
- Replies: 1463
- Views: 196877
Re: Music for the Masses
And to think that people accuse CPAC of being tone deaf to the needs of the masses!
- 05 Mar 2021, 17:49
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The New Grylliader Welcome Wagon
- Replies: 32
- Views: 490
Re: The New Grylliader Welcome Wagon
I have a feeling you're going to get along with D.B. Cooper and dhex just fine.Professor Professorson wrote: ↑05 Mar 2021, 17:23Um...Valley Girl? Vampire's Kiss? If you think "not the bees!!!" is crazy, watch Vampire's Kiss.
- 05 Mar 2021, 17:03
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The New Grylliader Welcome Wagon
- Replies: 32
- Views: 490
Re: The New Grylliader Welcome Wagon
Cage good when dying of alcoholism; Cage otherwise bad.Professor Professorson wrote: ↑05 Mar 2021, 16:09I missed them, I was working on my "Nicholas Cage, Good or Bad?" course at the time. I still don't know the answer to that, because there is no answer.
- 03 Mar 2021, 11:05
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: PS 411
- Replies: 293
- Views: 37507
Re: PS 411
Yes, I was making a lame joke. People are typically at their very worst in the immediate aftermath of the death of a close family member or friend and clergy and I'm sure funeral parlor workers usually have both horror stories and hilarious stories about the antics of some of the survivors. I have ...
- 03 Mar 2021, 10:28
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: PS 411
- Replies: 293
- Views: 37507
Re: PS 411
Entire California school board resigns after caught mocking parents over school reopenings I do want to snicker at them just for the way they got caught, but honestly, if you've ever known any teachers, you'd know they complain about parents a lot. And I would say they're probably justified too. Is...
- 02 Mar 2021, 21:02
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: PS 411
- Replies: 293
- Views: 37507
Re: PS 411
Entire California school board resigns after caught mocking parents over school reopenings I do want to snicker at them just for the way they got caught, but honestly, if you've ever known any teachers, you'd know they complain about parents a lot. And I would say they're probably justified too. Is...
- 02 Mar 2021, 19:54
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
- Replies: 586
- Views: 70060
Re: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
A GOP lawyer openly admits before the SCOTUS that the purpose of the various voting-restriction laws is to help Republicans, because they can't beat Democrats in a fair election: Asked what the Republican Party's investment in the case, GOP lawyer Michael Carvin suggested that a change in the statu...
- 02 Mar 2021, 15:52
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: The son of "What the hell are YOU staring at?"
- Replies: 8233
- Views: 477938
Re: The son of "What the hell are YOU staring at?"
Saw Rapture-Palooza , which had the potential to be absolutely great, and there were some funny (IMO) parts to it, but for the most part they completely squandered the premise. The narrator and main character is a teenage girl named Lindsey, who was out bowling with her boyfriend Ben when the raptu...
- 01 Mar 2021, 19:00
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
- Replies: 586
- Views: 70060
Re: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
There won't be any Trump dynasty. Whatever comes next may be better, it may be worse, but it won't be that.
- 01 Mar 2021, 13:23
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Worthwhile YouTubez Finds
- Replies: 618
- Views: 104408
Re: Worthwhile YouTubez Finds
Other than invading Poland?lunchstealer wrote: ↑01 Mar 2021, 03:24 Also is there anything more German than being excited about checklists?
- 27 Feb 2021, 18:59
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: OFFS: The Forsakening
- Replies: 7433
- Views: 439709
Re: OFFS: The Forsakening
Honestly, on reflection, if the net effect of such a law was that a department store simply stopped separating boys' and girls' clothing into two different store locations and stopped identifying clothing items as specifically for boys or girls, I don't see the big deal. That's not to say I think t...
- 27 Feb 2021, 16:19
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: OFFS: The Forsakening
- Replies: 7433
- Views: 439709
Re: OFFS: The Forsakening
Honestly, on reflection, if the net effect of such a law was that a department store simply stopped separating boys' and girls' clothing into two different store locations and stopped identifying clothing items as specifically for boys or girls, I don't see the big deal. That's not to say I think t...
- 27 Feb 2021, 16:02
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: You Learn Something New Every Day
- Replies: 4528
- Views: 323549
Re: You Learn Something New Every Day
once you've decided your song is in the key of D, it would be damned near impossible to write it without those four chords or at least the three major chords. (Okay, maybe I-V if you're punk.) "One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." -- Lou Reed There are ac...
- 27 Feb 2021, 13:19
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: OFFS: The Forsakening
- Replies: 7433
- Views: 439709
Re: OFFS: The Forsakening
Honestly, on reflection, if the net effect of such a law was that a department store simply stopped separating boys' and girls' clothing into two different store locations and stopped identifying clothing items as specifically for boys or girls, I don't see the big deal. That's not to say I think th...
- 26 Feb 2021, 23:22
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: You Learn Something New Every Day
- Replies: 4528
- Views: 323549
Re: You Learn Something New Every Day
I'm probably missing something here but basically Pachelbel's Canon in D is the following chord progression: D A Bm F#m G D G A D, the chords in the key of D are D, E min, F# min, G, A, B min and C# dim and the chord progressions in, well, everything in D major are D G A variations, plus on the gui...
- 26 Feb 2021, 20:39
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: You Learn Something New Every Day
- Replies: 4528
- Views: 323549
Re: You Learn Something New Every Day
I'm probably missing something here but basically Pachelbel's Canon in D is the following chord progression: D A Bm F#m G D G A D, the chords in the key of D are D, E min, F# min, G, A, B min and C# dim and the chord progressions in, well, everything in D major are D G A variations, plus on the guit...
- 26 Feb 2021, 14:33
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: OFFS: The Forsakening
- Replies: 7433
- Views: 439709
Re: OFFS: The Forsakening
Unfortunately, the citizens in question are Californians.thoreau wrote: ↑26 Feb 2021, 13:50Some problems require citizens' initiatives.Hugh Akston wrote: ↑26 Feb 2021, 13:44 Is there any problem that California can't solve with legislation?