You're right -- I can't imagine. I thought it was amusing, but those who like it? They are passionate!

My favorite bit is the bamboo ... rocket launcher? Bazooka? That cracks me up.

Took forever to sift -- glad it is now in the light of day, due to your SILVERNESS!!!!!!

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Yes, first!!1!!!

You would not imagine how many times I've watched this video, it gets me every time (my best friend became a fan too, and now we'll occasionally exchange an "action packed-eh movie!" and "movie movie!" to the bewilderment of our entourage )

No, I don't mean the assault weapons ban. Firearm regulation has a long history in the United States, and Bazookas are still heavily regulated federally and often banned locally. They are "Destructive Devices" under Title 2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_II_weapons

By heavily regulating or banning these weapons it has made it harder for bank robbers to acquire them.

The 95% and 5% numbers were hypothetical, as should have been clear. I imagine those numbers are approximately right, though. Huge amounts of Americans drink alcohol occasionally and never run in to a problem with it. I'm skeptical that there are many active, long term heroin users who are maintaining healthy lives. If you have contrary statistics on that I'm curious to see them.

Amsterdam has similar laws to Portugal. I actually don't know why you'd bring that up as it is contrary to what you've been arguing and supportive of what I've been saying. While the Netherlands has a "non-enforcement" policy for illegal drugs such as marijuana, they come down hard against hard drugs like the ones I am arguing should be illegal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands
Drug usage and imprisonment in the Netherlands is not really exceptional compared to the rest of Europe. "The rate of imprisonment for drug crimes is about the same as in Sweden, which has a zero tolerance policy for drug crimes."

Anyway, I agree with you that drug law in the Netherlands is quite reasonable, and I'm glad that you agree that it is "pretty goddamn close" to being a silver bullet. They emphasize treating addicts rather than putting them in prison, but still put drug traffickers in prison for a long time. None-the-less, any drug use in unambiguously illegal.

I take it by your rejection of my hypothetical situation that you believe that any drug use, even if clearly expected to be harmful to other people, should be legal. You are very strongly libertarian. But I believe that personal freedom ends where harm to others begins.

Also, you come across as very hostile for some reason. What are you trying to get out of this dialogue, exactly? I personally am pleased to see contrary opinions and re-evaluate the beliefs I hold.

oh you mean the federal assault weapons ban that expired in '04? so i can buy an ak or a bazooka if i want to now, whats your point? do you know what banning certain or all firearms does? keeps em out of law abiding citizens hands. do you sincerely think that Joe Bank Robber has no means to get a gun or even an assault rifle to commit his crimes with?

i hear that 60% of the time it works every time right? care to cite your 95%/5% findings or were you just pulling em straight out of your ass, confirming my suspicions?

by "these drugs" i can only presume you are talking about heroin eh? but what about cigarettes? are they not carefully engineered poisons? so whats your point again?

you conveniently left out amsterdam, while it may not be the fabled silver bullet, its pretty goddamn close. what was your point again?

what if there was a specific human brain synapse that caused one to violently rape ponies and shit on babies? should we still allow humans to function normally?
I can make absurd scenarios that serve absolutely no purpose other than to incite absurdity. isnt it fun?

im still anxiously awaiting you to present something original and valid to this table.

>> ^smooman:

>> ^rychan:
<em>>> <It just seems like a useless exercise to me to try to give people the freedom to use a drug like heroin when it will only cause terrible repercussions.

insert alcohol for heroin in that statement and you get the mindset that gave us prohibition. go the fuck away


I don't think "go the fuck away" is an attitude that's welcome on the sift.

As far as your statement about prohibition, yes, you're right. My attitude is the same that prompted alcohol prohibition, which clear didn't work out. But that doesn't mean that all types of prohibition are folly. We have assault weapon prohibitions, as well, which inhibit your personal freedom to buy a bazooka.

Also, I'd say that alcohol is used responsibly* about 95% of the the time, and heroin about 5% of the time. Unfortunately, alcohol, by virtue of being legal and relatively inexpensive, is used vastly more than heroin so that 5% of irresponsible alcohol use is extremely damaging.

*responsible usage means that your safety and the safety of those around you, your financial well-being, and your social relationships are not negatively influenced.

Prohibition has all sorts of nasty side-effects, as BansheeX points out. We could try to be stricter, like Singapore or China, and that seems to make the drug prohibition much more effective. Or we could decriminalize consumption of drugs, but still require mandatory treatment, like Portugal. Regardless, no country seems to have found the silver bullet to deal with hard drugs.

I think these drugs are well-engineered human poisons, which damage your brain, sometimes permanently, and damage a society enormously. Others disagree, or say that even if this is the case, it should be legal.

What if there were a drug specifically engineered to send a user into a murderous rampage? They might not actually go on a killing spree every time they use it, but it is a common and expected side effect. Should it still be legal to use such a drug?

Durring Celebrety Apprentice, Obama arrived to kick Donald on his face,
To announce they found Osama at 911 Jihad Street in Pakistan?
Shot dead in a pile of chocolate bars and Jack Daniels and
After hitting him with 200 bullets, they Used several bazookas on him
They then used their Phasers on him,
Then, they all stood around and urinated on his corpse (according to Islamic tradition).
Then, After "Belly-Bucking", the US officials started to party, as did the whole of the US
while Osama, went to hell with 72 virgins for a gang bang?
Only to be gang-raped by pigs instead?


Clearly *WTF
I think this goes down as some of the most realistic and fact-checked news-reporting ever!

It's like the stealth bush from Giants: Citizen Kabuto, only the cat probably isn't carrying a bazooka.

I hate these stupid animations, but this one reminded me so much of the PC game Postal.

The aide to Prime Minister harper (lowercase w/disrespect) with the bazooka was hilarious.

>> ^kulpims:

he was visited by the police 10 days after posting this on the net they took some of his weapons and ammo


...it was such a nice bazooka too...

^NetRunner

Ya net, I kind of felt the same way. It would of been nice to have all the story mechanics out of the way first then break into the meat. As it was, I still really enjoyed it. He did what he could with the time he had, and it was very nice. It got me thinking of how fun a dynamic it was and I started to create my own dream scape. That is how I know a movie has done a really good job, when I take it home with me and don't want it to end. I keep toying out the idea. In that, though, it did have a very rushed, hurried feel which like you said, made it seem like it was the climax of a trilogy.

I also wondered the same thing about some of the gun fights. Why would you design your guns to be pistols and not bazookas? Like bazookas for each arm, then back up bazookas? Instead, the plincked it out with pee shooters and the occasional high powered rifle.

It might be a neat new stratagem for movies like this, to release maybe 30 min or hour webisodes and establish the premises, then release the movie. Problem is, getting people to watch the webisodes. But if you make it foreknowledge that the webisodes are as much a part of the movie as the movie, perhaps it can work.

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