*eia for that crazy guy!

>> ^bobknight33:

Just because Ted slams OBAMA indirectly teh other day you have to bring this shit up. Typical of the left.


Uhhh... when is Ted Nugent ever not slamming Obama? That's the only thing he's capable of doing anymore.

Now I'm not one to call draft-dodgers cowards, and certainly not "the biggest coward in America." Dodging the Vietnam draft can probably just be chalked up to critical thinking, but it certainly is interesting to hear this story. As someone who threatens to kill people every day of his life for various reasons, it truly shows Nugent for what he really is: all talk and no cock. It also puts his "hunting makes me so tough" schtick in an entirely different light, namely: "I can kill a bear from really far away with a gun, but I'd never put myself in any actual danger."

I used to think Nugent was maybe just a crazy guy with some opinions that differ from what I'm used to. I always forget that a lot of famous people, radio guys especially, are simply presenting the contrived personality that gets them the most attention.

Rats! The closest I found is the same venue, but a different performance without the crazy guy:



That'll teach me to quality without at least watching the first few seconds to see it still plays
In reply to this comment by RFlagg:
"This video is private" *dead

There are other ArcAttack Doctor Who videos, but none that seem to be the same to be able to fix...

It makes me afraid to live in this city. As if there weren't enough fucking criminals, now I have to worry about the fucking people who are supposed to be stopping those criminals. This shit was all over the papers and the radio too. I used to think maybe he was just a fucking crazy guy and maybe the cop DID fear for his own safety. After seeing this video, I don't think so.

Hmm, let's see... Knife.. Gun.. I feel threatened by that short range weapon, so I'm gunna put half my clip in him just in case he's telekinetic.

Asshole.

What a wild and crazy guy.

Hey ghandi, remember me, the crazy guy with the crazy idea? I switched majors to biology but I keep on keeping on with the dreaming. Chemistry is a lot more interesting than a state university's current idea of computer science. My wait-and-see attitude, coupled with my tendency to only do things i enjoy, lets me stick to projects where I can make personally satisfactory progress. Other people will have to complete the LDP as I sort of always knew.

Check these out regarding logical discourse:

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http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/05/09/203221/Ask-Slashdot-Going-Beyond-Comment-Threads

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Truthy is a research project that helps you understand how memes spread online. With our images and statistics, you can help identify misuse of Twitter. Our first application was the study of astroturf campaigns in elections. Now we're extending our focus to the diffusion of all types of information in social media.

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United States Patent 7,805,291 Berkowitz Appl. No.: 11/137,594
Filed: May 25, 2005
September 28, 2010

Method of identifying topic of text using nouns


Abstract
A method of identifying a topic of a text. Text is received. Then, the nouns in the text are identified. The singular form of each identified noun is determined. Combinations are created of the singular form of the identified nouns, where the number of singular forms of the nouns in the combinations is user-definable. The frequency of occurrence in the text of each noun that corresponds to its singular form is determined. Each frequency of occurrence is assigned as a score to its corresponding singular form noun. Each combination of singular form nouns is assigned a score that is equal to the sum of the scores of its constituent singular form nouns. The user-definable number of top scoring singular form nouns and combinations of singular form nouns are selected as the topic of the text.

Inventors: Berkowitz; Sidney (Baltimore, MD)
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Director National Security Agency (Washington, DC)
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This paper was coming out about the time I started to get interested in the possibility of analyzing for semantics and stuff. Good thing someone smarter figured it out.

Modeling public mood and emotion: Twitter sentiment and socio-economic phenomena
Authors: Johan Bollen, Alberto Pepe, Huina Mao
(Submitted on 9 Nov 2009)

Abstract: Microblogging is a form of online communication by which users broadcast brief text updates, also known as tweets, to the public or a selected circle of contacts. A variegated mosaic of microblogging uses has emerged since the launch of Twitter in 2006: daily chatter, conversation, information sharing, and news commentary, among others. Regardless of their content and intended use, tweets often convey pertinent information about their author's mood status. As such, tweets can be regarded as temporally-authentic microscopic instantiations of public mood state. In this article, we perform a sentiment analysis of all public tweets broadcasted by Twitter users between August 1 and December 20, 2008. For every day in the timeline, we extract six dimensions of mood (tension, depression, anger, vigor, fatigue, confusion) using an extended version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS), a well-established psychometric instrument. We compare our results to fluctuations recorded by stock market and crude oil price indices and major events in media and popular culture, such as the U.S. Presidential Election of November 4, 2008 and Thanksgiving Day. We find that events in the social, political, cultural and economic sphere do have a significant, immediate and highly specific effect on the various dimensions of public mood. We speculate that large scale analyses of mood can provide a solid platform to model collective emotive trends in terms of their predictive value with regards to existing social as well as economic indicators.


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Cheers,

Vairetube

in industrial cities it was probably "look, a terrorist filming tourist places"
in developing cities it was probably "look, a crazy guy with a camera"

that Kyoto bamboo forest at 3:42 was totally surreal.

Good lord, took me 3 seconds.

Copy and paste to see answer below:

the crazy guy from Ocarina of Time/Majoras mask that always has his organ grinder. Teaches the song of storms in OOT, and gives the conductors mask in Majoras Mask.

hoo man, about 1 minute in when the second ghost sits in, the guy reaches for his phone, and you just KNOW he's going to text someone about the crazy guy who just sat beside him.

he even mouths "What the fuck?"

>> ^garmachi:
I would give this guy a dollar to say "Warp nine, aye, Captain..."


"We are two... WILD AND CRAZY GUYS!!!"

I like how they all took bottles of "mystery liquid" from "crazy guy" and just started spraying themselves and each other. who knows wtf could have been in there?

Yes, it cures cancer! (side effect: you die from ebola first)

chilaxe,

I'm not interested in the psychology of the combatants, but rather the psychology and 'spin' of those viewing it, my own meta spin (that this video makes some white people feel comfortable in their pre-judgments) included. None of us are even remotely objective, and those who claim to be (lookin' at you Ayn) least of all. We see everything through the deforming prism of our own minds. Life experiences, upbringing, family, nurture, nature, culture, media, etc. inform how we view the world, which explains how a simple glass of wine can, at the same time, be a nice treat during a meal, a life-destroying addiction or the metaphorical blood of a supernatural being.

The various rationalizations behind the 'taking of sides' is what I find interesting about this particular internet phenomena. At its heart, this video is about one person kicking the shit out of another, but the defining descriptors in the comment section vary significantly from person to person: black vs. white, old vs young, big vs. small, short vs. tall, innocent baystander vs. shit talking jerk, racist white man vs. black guy, two crazy guys, etc... . We all bring our own baggage to the vague narrative of this fight, leading us to many different conclusions and many different meanings.

I'm not trying to say anyone is right or wrong. I'm not trying to patronize. Just making the point that there are highly subjective reasons we believe the things we believe, which have little to do with rationality or logic. Being aware of this is a good thing.

^if the church refused to marry a gay couple in the temple then the law would take away their ability to marry ANYONE in the temple.

However, it is their fear. They are afraid of discrimination laws. Men's clubs were forced to accept women under federal law. Why wouldn't the church be forced to marry gays?

One of the gay marriage laws that passed -- I can't remember which state it was -- added a clause that said that churches were free to NOT marry gays. That they would never be forced to do so.

I thought that was a brilliant move.

Take away their main fear, and would Mormons have been so monetarily willing to overturn the law? They would still be against gay marriage, but they wouldn't be so invested in protecting their turf.

Let their president get the word from God eventually, just like he did when blacks were no longer barred from being priests -- well after civil rights legislation and after they realized that the priest ban was preventing their growth into black-skinned neighborhoods and nations. I have no doubt -- and have predicted to my very conservative Mormon brother and his son, that the President will do so. Maybe not in the next decade, but it is coming.

As for the "hate filled" memos -- my nephew shared with me what was sent to him. He thought it would change my mind. The memos weren't hate-filled. Misguided, certainly. A complete lack of understanding of the biology of being gay. A complete lack of understanding that when they equate being gay with being immoral that that feels like an assault against a gay person's humanity. But not hate filled. Not like that crazy guy who pickets outside military funerals with signs that say "God Hates Fags."

Anyway. I repeat what a smart move it was on the part of that one state that protected a church's right to be stupid. There are plenty of churches who embrace gay people as fully human, expressing their full selves as God (if you go in for that) made them.

If gays walk away from the Mormon church, bringing their families with them, that is the quickest way to get the President to suddenly hear from God that it is okay to be gay.

(Does everyone know what I mean by the President talking to God? It's true. The head of the church is a committee of 12? 13?, the President of which talks to God. Or rather, God talks to him. Always him, of course. So this guy has the ability to change core documents and doctrines of the church.

Every man in the Mormon church is a priest, through whom the Holy Spirit flows.

However, until God told the President differently, black men were barred from being priests. They could be members of the church, but not priests. The original documents said that their black skin was the mark of Cain, they are descendents of Cain. So they couldn't be priests. But then -- after the civil rights movement -- God decided to finally forgive Cain once and for all.

The timing is just coincidence, of course.

The Mormon religion has, overall, been a great blessing to my brother, giving him a structure within which to raise his family and re-define himself outside his dysfunctional family of origin. Not my choice, but his and it works for him.

The Mormon religion is also one crazy ass thing. I swear.)

Tom Hardy is an AMAZING actor. Check him out as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and Bill Sykes in Olver Twist.

The guy really knows how to play a crazy guy.

That's like two diamonds now isn't? Crazy place, crazy guy. Congrats on all your sifts and hard work around this site.