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Real Life / Secret Confessions
« on: May 30, 2013, 01:54:59 AM »
In 9th grade history class, I convinced a classmate that the Romans feared Spartacus because of his towering, scorpion like tail. I then went on to draw a picture for him of a buff Spartacus with a giant tail about to sting a centurion. I still prefer to think this is how history went down.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / What the tarnation, Texas?
« on: May 19, 2013, 02:16:37 AM »
Judge orders lesbian couple to split using or lose custody of their child

The judge uses a seemingly archaic "morality clause" in the divorce papers Page Price, saying she will lose her kid if she has anyone who is not related "by blood or marriage" to her after 9 p.m.  The guy she is divorcing doesn't seem to care about the kids, and was arrested for felony-stalking in 2011.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / School shooting in Connecticut
« on: December 14, 2012, 10:15:39 AM »
Can't find the shooting thread, but apparently there's been a mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut. At least 20 dead, including 10 kids.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Reading List
« on: September 26, 2012, 07:31:17 AM »
Every day I read a variety of fascinating articles on a wide-range of subjects, and many I found thought-provoking for one reason or another. But often I don't feel they warrant a huge discussion or any fit with the general conversations going on in other threads. So this thread will be a Food-For-Thought thread, just posting articles you've read that are interesting but don't necessarily need more than maybe a short paragraph of summary.

How a broker spent $520m in a drunken stupor and moved the global oil price

A Comment on Soros - Anti-capitalist blog The Current Moment discussions the political and economic ramifications of George Soros's comments on Germany and the Euro.

Boycotting Apple Won’t Help the Rioting Foxconn Workers Who Built Your iPhone - Gawker interview with Eli Friedman, who also wrote China in Revolt for Jacobin Magazine

So what are you guys reading?

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Shooting in a Wisconsin Temple
« on: August 05, 2012, 07:30:55 PM »
As sad as just changing the title to "Shootings" would be, well:

Gunman opens fire in Sikh temple in Wisconsin, kills 7

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Media / That Spider-Man Thread
« on: March 22, 2011, 05:31:14 AM »
Since we have one for Batman AND Wonder-Woman, felt it was time we showed Spider-man some love.

First teaser video for Ultimate Spider-man premiered at C2E2. Get it before a copyright claim takes it down

Spider-man Cartoon Coming in Early Summer 2012

Looks interesting. Much darker than Spectacular Spider-man, which I always liked for its vivid colors.

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Media / TETSUOOOOOOOO
« on: March 22, 2011, 05:24:00 AM »
I didn't even know a live action Akira was in the works, but the idea that it could potentially star Robert Pattinson as Tetsuo and Justin Timberlake as Kaneda is nothing short of spectacular

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Real Life / First World Problems!
« on: February 23, 2011, 11:17:16 PM »
I just moved into a new apartment, and everything is great except I won't get internet until Wednesday!

::(:

Plus all you bros are invited to my apartment, just drop by anytime.

Also my favorite leftist restaurant is shutting down in like two months because some jerk bought the building and wants to put a pizza place in there, which is good because we only had like 268 pizza places and we really needed 269.

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Assorted Creations / SMALL GODS
« on: January 08, 2011, 01:22:18 PM »
So here is my band, the Small Gods, playing in Fort Worth

Small Gods - Anti-Matter Man (12-31-2010)

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Wikileaks
« on: December 06, 2010, 09:05:59 PM »
The latest attack on Wikileaks comes courtesy of quickly fading standard bearer CNN, who claim that Wikileaks released a document detailing the locations of security risk targets in America and abroad

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WikiLeaks has published a secret U.S. diplomatic cable listing places the United States considers vital to its national security, prompting criticism that the website is inviting terrorist attacks on American interests.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the disclosure "gives a group like al Qaeda a targeting list." The sites are included in a lengthy cable the State Department sent in February 2009 to its posts around the world, asking American diplomats to identify installations overseas "whose loss could critically impact the public health, economic security, and/or national and homeland security of the United States."

The diplomats identified dozens of places on every continent, including mines, manufacturing complexes, ports and research establishments. CNN is not publishing specific details from the list, which refers to pipelines and undersea telecommunications cables as well as the location of minerals or chemicals critical to U.S. industry.

Titillating!  I am literally agape with fear, ready to vote for whatever politician projects the most manly demeanor and promises to use the highest level of lethal force to alleviate my fears.  But being the curious citizen that I am, I decided to look up the cable in question.

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State Department sent in February 2009
...
The cable is classified secret and not for review by non-U.S. personnel.

Here we are: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION:CRITICAL FOREIGN DEPENDENCIES (CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND KEY RESOURCES LOCATED ABROAD) created 2009-2-18

Unless I'm mistaken, that's under the classification of SECRET//NOFORN, which I assume means Secret and not for Non-US.  Either way, it seems to describe the cable mentioned in the CNN story.

It does indeed list potential targets.  At least, that they exist.  And are located somewhere.  Assuming you can make out what the massive wall of text at the bottom is actually saying.

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CNN is not publishing specific details from the list, which refers to pipelines and undersea telecommunications cables as well as the location of minerals or chemicals critical to U.S. industry.
Emphasis mine

I, unfortunately, lack the scruples of CNN and will gleefully publish this data (again) and not just how to find this data. 

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Straits of Malacca  Japan: C2C Cable Network undersea cable landing, Chikura, Japan C2C Cable Network undersea cable landing, Shima, Japan China-US undersea cable, Okinawa, Japan EAC undersea cable landing Ajigaura, Japan EAC undersea cable landing

Yeah, that certainly does tell me that undersea telecommunications cables existed.  I guess if not for this document I would have assumed the islands around Japan and the mainland got their internet by unicorn magic.

In short, this story is a bunch of crap, and CNN is trying to get some shots at Assange in.

Also:

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Diplomats also identified sites of strategic importance for supplying U.S. forces and interests abroad, such as in the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf and the Panama Canal

I didn't need a Wikileaks document to tell me that shit.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Maintaining an Election
« on: October 26, 2010, 07:36:03 PM »
So things are heating up going into the 2010 midterm elections.  Of course we already have the story of the Rand Paul Campaign County Coordinator stomping on a woman's head, then refusing to apologize, and now there are - of course - watchdogs for the old canard of Voter Fraud™, which teabaggers view as the largest threat to democracy since Adolf Stalinoullini Jong Il Pot III.  In reality though, vote fraud scare tactics are in reality just voter suppression tactics:

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Tea Party members have started challenging voter registration applications and have announced plans to question individual voters at the polls whom they suspect of being ineligible.

In response, liberal groups and voting rights advocates are sounding an alarm, claiming that such strategies are scare tactics intended to suppress minority and poor voters.

In St. Paul, organizers from the Tea Party and related groups announced this week that they were offering a $500 reward for anyone who turned in someone who was successfully prosecuted for voter fraud.

The group is also organizing volunteer “surveillance squads” to photograph and videotape what it suspects are irregularities, and in some cases to follow buses that take voters to the polls.

In Milwaukee last week, several community groups protested the posting of large billboards throughout the city that show pictures of people behind jail bars under the words “We Voted Illegally.” The protesters said the posters — it was not clear who paid for them — were intended to intimidate people from voting.

But that's a minor detail.  In reality, nobody bothers with such at the polls fraud these days, as stuffing ballots is a hell of a lot of work.  Instead, the quicker way is just to buy whichever candidate wins.  Which is probably why the US Chamber of Commerce has been opening the floodgates to whatever foreign company wants a crack at American democracy.

It's like the old saying, "If you can't beat 'em, buy a majority share in their operation and force them to fulfill your wishes by any legality possible."

On the actual election front, the Democrat's "Make the Vote Stay Home" initiative they've been running the past two years is going about as well as planned, even if their opponents have been trying desperately to throw the game.  In reality though, the Tea Party success is varied, with some doing better than others.

So what's the news for the rest of you?  Have you stuffed a ballot with 5 or 6 votes done early voting yet?

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Real Life / July the 4th
« on: July 04, 2010, 06:22:05 AM »
Happy America Day!

Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner (Live At Woodstock 1969)


Time to go throw a well-marinated brisket on the grill and enjoy the sort of okay weather!

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Bringing a concept over from another forum, I bring you guys science distilled to its purest form in CRAP/NOT CRAP.  CRAP/NOT CRAP is simple.  Someone suggests something to you, like a song, movie, trailer, act or whatever, and you have a gut, visceral reaction to.  Going off that reaction you determine whether it is CRAP or NOT CRAP.  It's that simple. No gray area, no debates, ifs, ands or buts.  You cast a judgement upon the entire thing, determining right there whether it shall be exalted and praised for being NOT CRAP, or despised and hated for being CRAP.

If you feel that something is CRAP or NOT CRAP, but there are parts of it you can tolerate/make you vomit in your mouth, you can append a Waffle Factor to it.  Try not to explain or debate, this is pure gut reaction to a thing, not some namby, pamby symposium on the subject.  Make your judgement swift and final.

Now that you understand the rules, let's get this thing going


The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer Official HD

CRAP or NOT CRAP?

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So society has gone down the shitter.  Obamacare has bankrupted America, causing Capitalism to wither and die and freedom-less socialism to creep over the landscape, consuming all in a horrible maelstrom of oppression and Nazism.  Your fellow, freedom-loving Americans are force fed into giant incinerators and the resultant fatty pulp processed into the widely available Obamaburger for everyone else.  Things are grim.  Hella grim.  There's just no place for one who loves liberty in this world.

And then as if to bring hope in these dark times, a secretive cabal made up of prominent businessmen approach you and announce that they have plans to secede a portion of the United States and create a conservative libertarian paradise, where man will be free and untaxed and not have to worry about welfare when they're older or having health care provided by the government - who use advanced machines to calculate your worth in society.  Their influence and vast wealth has allowed them to secure a parcel of land from the government, as long as they promise not to lead any anti-government freedom fighters against the state.  But they're given a choice between two different spots of land, and they've turned to you for guidance.

One piece is about 5 miles off the eastern seaboard in the Atlantic ocean.  There you would build an underwater paradise, where you would be free to live life as you see fit.  These titanic men of industry have developed technologies that allow you to farm land, breath freely, desalinize the ocean water and light up a cigarette or compressor without fear of producing a life engulfing fireball.  It'd be a pretty sweet proposition, and it totally wouldn't end up like in some games I could mention.

The other option is a parcel of land beneath the surface in Utah.  Massive drills are at the ready to begin digging through the surface and establishing a network of tunnels for which to begin building a a super-society.  Many of the technologies that would power the underwater city could also be beneficial here.  They can simulate daylight in a way that your body would feel good about, even if it doesn't quite capture the warmth and beauty of a real sunny day.  But the government would allow you to dig as deep as possible, and rock is easier to expand into than water, even if you don't get the stunning vistas or easy access to shipping lines.

The one catch, the businessmen explain, is that once you've begun your society you can never return.  Inside your underwater fortress or your underground society is where you'll live out the rest of your life, the only place your children will ever know, and the only land for their grandchildren and so forth.  You'll be responsible for a new world that must accommodate this new world order.

So, where do you want to live the rest of your life?

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Assorted Creations / AGGREGATE DEMAND
« on: April 29, 2010, 08:14:05 PM »
YEAAAAH.  AGGREGATE DEMAND is back, after 1 year of not having played anything, and several years of not having recorded anything new!

A blog post with my new music

GO CHECK THAT LINK OUT.  It's very rough recordings, down with the 3 of us around a microphone.  We have several cool songs!  One about being a cowboy, one about dead children, and another about losing faith in JESUS!  THESE SONGS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

GO!

:finnpoundingthegroundgoingIamsointothis:

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Real Life / HAPPY EASTER
« on: April 04, 2010, 06:48:27 AM »


IT IS THE HUMAN HOLIDAY KNOWN AS EASTER!

For those unfamiliar, Easter is the time once every 100 years when the vampire lord Jesus rises from his tomb and feasts for 24 hours on the fat of the living.  For most of us this means gorging on cheap candy and trying to avoid family.

Even though I'm a non-believer, I still have a bag of chocolate eggs and Milky Way bars and I'm going to get fat and probably play video games.  What are your plans to defend yourself against the blood-thirsty son of the lord?

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High-Context Discourse / Emoticon Only Thread
« on: February 26, 2010, 05:17:45 PM »
This thread is for emoticons only.

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polls are fun

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