Hurry, HU-rry hurry, step right up and seeee the gremlin...WATCH and LEARN as he lures the probies and weak of sift, into the arena to stir up the rabble...ONE thin dime, two nickles, five and five pennies, one tenth of a dollar...Hurry HU-rry Hurry!

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So far I'm really liking this show. Great premise and good performances. AMC is really making a name for itself in quality drama. This makes up for the Gremlin.

Enzo, after 8 years of Bush, I'm sure very few would argue against you in saying that corporate influence within the government is a bad thing. However, I think it is more than a bit naive to believe that lessening our own civic power would somehow magically cause corporations to suddenly behave themselves. In fact, without a public government to stand in its way, a large corporation would be pretty much free to do as it likes.

Let's be honest. 'The free market will regulate itself' is pure bullshit. It's a statement taken on faith and regurgitated by every Milton Freidman fearing freemarketologist as Gospel truth. If you'd like to pull your head from the sand and see what a free market - unfettered by government tyranny - actually looks like, then book a plane trip to Darfur and open up a small business. That free market will regulate the shit out of you.

Anyway, if we can both agree that corporate influence in government is one of our major problems, then why don't we get pragmatic and join forces to pry these gremlins out of our civic engine?

>> ^spoco2:
All seems to work for me Mr Lucky.
I'll go round the perimeter with chemicals... should keep those gremlins out for a good six months or so. Make sure you get me back before then to redose the area though, don't want them getting back in when the residual poison gets too weak.
Little bugger get in any opportunity they can.
Don't spray on me though!!

All seems to work for me Mr Lucky.

I'll go round the perimeter with chemicals... should keep those gremlins out for a good six months or so. Make sure you get me back before then to redose the area though, don't want them getting back in when the residual poison gets too weak.

Little bugger get in any opportunity they can.

All those problems should be fixed now. Please do a hard reload (ctrl+shift+R).

Sorry for the temporary inconvenience. Damned gremlins got fed after midnight!

oh hang on let me preempt and diffuse QM.. he'll like this:

Let me remind you, poopsy, you're the little gremlin who called me out FIRST, so you reap what you sow.

I don't disavow your enthusiasm. The SSD remark was shorthand to suggest that there is no technology or amount of "truth", education, whatever to create a socialist utopia, which will never be real until AI-machines take over, and at which point life won't be worth living anyway.

Transparency is no ultimate solution. It just means we can all look through the bay window of the U.S. Treasury and watch Obamarx and Geithner sneak around wearing black eyemasks as they loot the place. There is already tons of information about this lawless Administration and the incompetence and waste of government at all levels, but without a real media in place to challenge them, it makes little difference. The truth never set anyone free.

Liberty is what allows the toleration of fools, especially the ignorant-of-history, power-hungry fools running the schools, government and Hollywood. The very free market that created all this wealth they want to redistribute, they're not grateful for that, nor for the right to spout off at people too polite to kill them, but as the Big Government noose tightens, these tyrants are going to find out how much Revolution there is in real patriots.

If liberty is in its death throes, moonbats will soon find themselves flopping into mass graves right behind it. The commies always kill the so-called smartest first, teachers and intellectuals and other "big thinkers" are the first to go. Ever read 1984? In some ways, the quarter-aged of this generation are very much like Syme, an over-educated Big Bro Believer who delighted in thinking about the future of Thoughtcrime. His very intelligence made him a target and he got disappeared.

Tubes, you're desperate to have me banned? You don't even see the irony in that: a peace-loving, freedom-liking liberal like yourself demanding voices of opposition be silenced? Is it you're not used to being challenged or having your dogma challenged? I don't fear you or your ideas, I've outgrown them. Don't you know the internets is where everyone doesn't agree with you all the time?

Attacking me on a personal level reveals your immaturity. Either you'll outgrow it or you'll become another Noam Chumpsky, that charming fascist fraud.

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I'm fed-up with these America-hating pissants. Not their beloved fey, patty ass, NPR, reality-challenged Wimpmerican dream, the REAL America where not everyone has a happy ending and life is risk, and people own and shoot guns, smoke, drink and eat junk food. The Libertarians are right 90% of the time. They're not for anarchy, they're for CHOICE, and they reasonably accept that there are some people who are too stupid to live and no matter what you do FOR them, no matter how many government programs you create, they're just dumb and will kill themselves with bad decisions. Just like they do now in Obamarx' socialist prison.

There are also lots of intelligent people who ruin their lives with ONE bad decision, but that's what FREEDOM is: the freedom to fail and to fuck up. Socialists want a safe, predictable world (that they run). Maybe that works for Europe (dying and turning Muslim) but not for the USA.

The 2008 (P)resident IMO is an affirmative action asshole who sneaks smokes, kisses the asses of tyrants and complains about the price of arugula to his Teleprompter. I'm ashamed of the United States being led by these cowardly pukes. They're not America, they're some marxist kollij professor's wet dream of a sterile, safe America that does nothing, is nothing. There are no pioneers, explorers, daredevils in this bunch. This gang of sniveling bureaucrats would never have the guts to board the Mayflower or drive a covered wagon out West. Fuck 'em.

The libertarian and his cousin the conservative are NOT anarchists. They demand what the Constitution created: a limited government that is answerable to its own laws and to the people, and a federal government with power checked by the power of the States. Perfection doesn't exist.

Enjoy your safe, timid and guaranteed brief time running the show, moonbats. Your America is not the real America.

I'll be waiting for a reboot of the present unsustainable Lie that has replaced liberty. The Russians could only bear 80 years of bullshit. May America put up with only 3 more.

At the end, there is no way I would of taken my hand off the steering wheel to fist pump. Not at 320 km per hour.

And can I pre-empt those who would say "oh, its actually quite stable due to the immense down forces and gravity gremlins hanging under the bonnet".
Fuck that, white knuckles all the way.

I was a fiend before I became a teen
I melted microphone instead of cones of ice cream
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
cause I grabbed the mic and try to say, yes y'all!
They tried to take it, and say that I'm too small
Cool, cause I don't get upset
I kick a hole in the speaker, pull the plug, then I jet
Back to the lab ...without a mic to grab
So then I add all the rhymes I had
One after the other one, then I make another one
To dis the opposite then ask if the brothers done
I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine
But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
I'm raging, ripping up the stage and
Don't it sound amazing cause every rhyme is made and
Thought of, cuz its sort of...an addiction,
Magnatized by the mixing
Vocals, vocabulary, your verses, you're stuck in
The mic is a drano, volcanoes erupting,
Rhymes overflowing, gradually growing
Everything is written in the cold, so it can coin-
Cide, my thoughts to guide,
48 tracks to slide
The invincible, microphone fiend rakim
Spread the word, cause I'm in
E-f-f-e-c-t
A smooth operator operating correctly,
But back to the problem, I gotta habit,
You cant solve it, silly rabbit
The prescription is a hypertone thats thorough when
I fiend for a microphone like heroin
Soon as the bass kicks, I need a fix
Gimme a stage and a mic and a mix
And Ill put you in a mood or is it a state of
Unawareness? beware, its the reanamator!
A menace to a microphone, a lethal weapon
An assasinator, if the people ain't stepping
You see a part of me that you never seen
When I'm fiending for a microphone, Im the microphone fiend...

After 12, I'm worse that a gremlin
Feed me hip-hop and I start trembling
The thrill of suspense is intense, your horrified
But this ain't the cinemas of tales from the darkside,
By any means neccesary, this is what has to be done
Make way cause here I come....
My dj cuts material....
Grand imperial.
It's a must that I bust any mic youre hand to me,
Its inherited, its runs in the family
I wrote the rhyme that broke the bulls back,
If that dont slow em up, I carry a full pack.
Now I dont want to have to let off, you should of kept off
You didnt keep the stage warm, step off!
Ladies and gentleman, youre about to see
A pasttime hobby about to be
Take it to the maximum, I cant relax see, im
Hype as a hyperchrondriac cause the rap be one-
Hell of a antidote, something you cant smoke
More than dope, you're trying to move away but you cant, you're broke
More than cracked up, you should have backed up
For those who act up need to be more than smacked up
Any entertainer, I got a torture chamber
One on one and Im the remainder!
So close your eyes and hold your breath,
And I'm a hitcha wit the blow of death
Before you go, you'll remember you seen
The fiend of a microphone, I'm the microphone fiend

Hamster? or insatiable furry gremlin?

They are not gremlins

>> ^lavoll:
if you feed them, they will just multiply

Turning off all filters did bring 5 of the missing 6 back. I didn't realize they were in effect on my own videos. But there is still one missing - weird. There was that one video you yanked because of a copyright claim from harvard a long while back, but I'm pretty sure the vid and star count was updated immediately then (that's why I was so confused at the time).

The star point discrepancy is definitely not due to dead pool fixes. I remember I stopped fixing deads (when they still gave star points) when I had exactly 46. I was approaching diamond status and didn't want 50+ star points from dead fixes. 248 vids + 7 quality talk posts + 46 dead fixes + 3 applauded comments = 304. I'm only mentioning this in case there are some further gremlins lurking in the db that you'll want to find.

Also in that vein, I noticed that the dead fix count reported on the profile page has changed. Prior to the crash, it reported (about?) 78, and now says 65. Perhaps that's related? Again, I don't really care about the number personally (there's a few hundred not reported from when only the ones that granted star points were counted), just trying to ferret out any possible db corruptions.

Phoebe Cates from Gremlins and Drop Dead Fred is that little girl and the first song that springs to mind for me is the Dr Evil and Mini-Me version
http://www.videosift.com/search?q=dr+evil+hard+knock+life

Eloquent as always, Ann. Anyone else notice she's physically transforming into the gremlin she projects? Eerie.

Pre-gremlin = Mogwai. Mogwai = fuzzy ghost.