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On Bullshit, Lies & Political Spin | Jon Stewart & Frankfurt
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So THAT'S why power companies are supposed to trim trees
Interesting how there is a jacob's ladder effect. It appears the main arc is branch-branch and the arc rises in the smoky plasma, as with a jacob's ladder.
So THAT'S why power companies are supposed to trim trees
The automatic reclosers are so power can be restored quickly if a stick or debris hits the lines and can be quickly destroyed by the electrical arc. This saves a trip by a lineman to inspect the area before restoring power.
The Problem With DC's Heroes in Movies and TV
He is a bit off about the Nolan batman, which I felt was highly focused, and dead wrong about Batman killing people. There have been quite a few arcs in the comics about a Batman who killed people due to certain circumstances.
He is correct that most of the DC directors just seem to ignore the everything except the most basic memes about the heroes. I can also sum up DC's failures in two words: Zach Snyder. The man simply doesn't know how to make a functional superhero movie (yes, that includes Watchmen, which I liked but was underwhelming compared to the source material).
Colbert To Trump: 'Doing Nothing Is Cowardice'
Really? You have a complete inventory of his arsenal, because I haven't seen one. He had many bump stocks.
Full auto what is 20 Hz? Different guns have different rates of fire, and he had many. Different bump stocks also deliver different rates, as do different fingers on different triggers.
When your target is a 15 degree arc, it's fine. For aiming, I agree.
Not in my experience at gun shows is all I'll say about that.
My point, these are legal. The traceability comes in if he had escaped.
You don't have to be squeaky clean, just not banned if you buy legally. There's no check at all for the bump stock or other rapid fire mechanism (there are many).
Ban of the rapid fire mechanisms would have at least forced him to buy them on the black market for far more money...if he could find them at all. That's a step, not a solution.
He didn't have full auto, he used a bump fire stock.
Full auto fires around 20hz. Well practiced bump firing is around 10hz. Well practiced semi auto pull is around 6hz.
Bump firing also sprays so bad it's not aimable beyond a few feet distance. The gun community is even more surprised than other people, most considered the bump stock as a joke doo dad for making noise and wasting money.
All vendors, even at a gun show, must do background checks.
All private sellers, regardless of where (at home, gun show, on the street, wherever), are not required to do checks - but are in practice held liable for subsequent gun crimes if they can't prove they had no idea the buyer was shady.
There is absolutely nothing special about gun shows. The gun show loophole is an entirely imaginary issue (I explained this earlier).
A traceable gun is just as capable of shooting a person as an untraceable gun.
Yes, anyone can put together that arsenal.
Especially anyone with a squeaky clean record who qualifies to be a gun owner no matter what the restriction - like the Vegas shooter.
Hence why *nothing proposed* would have had *any impact* on the Vegas events, short of confiscation raids nation wide and capital punishment for possession.
The reply was to : "You are more likely to be killed by a criminal if you have a gun than if you don't."
"Killed", not "injured".
EDIT : OK, I did misunderstand. I saw assault and understood the legal meaning (brandishing, threatening). Saw discharge and understood firing.
But they meant the opposite. Assault as in being fired upon. (And I don't know what discharge means in this case)
That changes the math.
1/24974 as caused by assault
That's a 99.995995835669095859694081845119% chance of dying by a cause OTHER than firearms.
Which requires around 17'000 trials for the chance of the next death to be 50% by firearm.
I.E. 99.995995835669095859694081845119% ^ 17'000 = 50.625%, or about 50/50.
AKA 226 lifetimes worth of time to have a 50/50 chance of death by firearm in the next year.
-schehearzade
Netflixs Marvels The Punisher trailer
Jon Bernthal is an awesome Punisher. I loved his arc in Daredevil.
Star Wars - The Last Jedi Trailer
Wow, absolutely the opposite reaction to me.
I thought Rogue One was a travesty of film making. The characters were bland and underdeveloped, the plot made little sense and the dialogue was awful. The only redeeming aspect were the special / practical effects and art.
I would criticise Force Awakens for treading safe in replicating the plot of A New Hope to a ridiculous degree but the characters had a sense of identity, purpose and relatability. Most of the set pieces (Han Solo, Jakku, Falcon escape) were memorable.
The lightsaber battle definitely suffered from FX over-use. What made the one in Empire Strikes Back compelling is the austere focus of it as a battle of wills. At least this one was less ridiculous than the lava clusterfuck of Revenge of the Sith.
For Kylo Ren, a lot will depend on whether he remains a bland, corrupted villain or develops into a repentant anti-hero. Hopefully they won't follow the Vader/Emperor arc too closely. In any case, he's certainly going to take back seat to Snoke as primary villain.
This teaser/trailer is weak. Yeah there's a little bit of intrigue, but it isn't giving me any sense of excitement. Gee, even the Transformers teaser/trailer is better than this.
I hope SW8 will be better than SW7. SW7 was a minor disappointment. Kylo Ren was laughable as a main villain and the ending duel set-piece was the weakest of all lightsaber duels, it's garbage non-sense.
I enjoyed Rogue 1 more than SW7 for some reason. Although I like Rey more than Jyn.
Teenager Builds Off Grid Tiny House (80% Recycled Material)
Have a look at the arc the blade's following when he's cutting the grass. If it came off the handle it would fly outwards.
Even by accident like slipping off its handles?
John Lewis Christmas Advert 2016 - #BusterTheBoxer
I love this but why are they so dumbfounded about the dog on the trampoline? Timing was perfect on all the shots but if my dog immediately started jumping on a trampoline I would be like, "Coooooooooooool -- doggy!" Then I'd be jumping along with him. Like immediately.
Now, I know it's not the same grounded story arc, but what if she walks outside and all the animals are still jumping about and there's a queue of additional animals leading out of the backyard into an enchanted forest? That would dumbfound me.
But it wouldn't be about the dog, so I guess it doesn't work.
But maybe he rushes past the other animals, knocking them over like dominoes, then rambunctiously jumps around the trampoline like a buffoon tossing around the critters who were once jumping in coordination. Now pan out: "Gifts that everyone will love"
Lookouts
As cool as this is, it's annoyingly typical of Penny Arcade. Amazing world building, great setting, but the barest of characters and no actual story arc.
It always feels like Jerry is only interested in the fun early part of creating a setting and bored by the mechanics of actually telling a story.
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Game of Thrones: How Religion Ruled Season 6
Ian McShane was one of the highlights of season 6. It would have been great to see more of him, but I think ultimately his arc was the right one.
Toph is Blind
Such a good series. Episodic cartoons are fine and all, but I loved that Avatar presented a well-planned, multi-season story arc that actually had a satisfying resolution. Shows, animated or live action, rarely seem to have a decent ending, but both Avatar and Korra nailed it in my opinion. If you've written it off as a show for kids and not watched it, do yourself a favor and get to it. If you need an excuse, find / borrow / steal a kid or two first (but really, no excuse should be needed).
Assassin's Creed Trailer
I have a pretty good grasp on the assassin's creed storyline, ignoring some of the story bending needed to obtain said artifacts and create gameplay elements that are quickly dismissed in the sequel.
From the looks of it, they did a good job finding an interesting time period (1478+) while allowing the movie arc to start early enough to make plenty of sequels. The game is quickly running out of the past already.
The animus interface looks stupid though.