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clumsiness and misfortune aren't stupid
like the animal example.. it is not the cow's fault it is genetically destined to be clumsy
2/3 of these were good old fashioned stupid though

Nice! Any update on film festivals and such?

And I know what you mean about the quality difference in the footage... I have a friend who just shot a feature on the Red, and as we were shooting we were looking at the full resolution footage on a nice big HD monitor, and it looked absolutely stunning. But now I'm working with crappy little proxies in Final Cut (the director had the misfortune to select me as his editor , and it barely looks better than DV. Well, okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but the quality difference is pretty huge.

Well, they do manage to keep me employed fixing these things. Just about every week I get a machine from a friend that requires attention for the low price of free... at least they hope.

The combination we use these days for free stuff is malwarebytes/super antispyware/avira anti-virus together, and that usually clears up most things.

Personally I have had the misfortune of getting conficker on a laptop, however it is pretty easy to remove (and spot) apart from having the nasty habit of attempting to infect usb flash drives placing a binary autorun.inf on the things.

Unfortunately, this will likely never end as most malware is developed outside the US and its exceptionally easy to hide ones tracks these days with botnets that are traded like commodities.

I often wonder if some of the anti-virus vendors cook up some of this crap since there is the occasional "BEWARE OF (virus/malware)" scare and it always is fronted by companies who want you to buy their software, which likely would not protect you againt most of this crap anyways. There is no software that can fix PEBKAC.

These days I solve "questionable website" problems by visiting them in a VM. You would be amazed at how much you can fuck one up and then when you reboot you snapshot it back to how it was before. VirtualBox is free and *really* good these days and with 1TB disks becoming the norm one can easily afford the 10-20GB of a virtual install of XP.

The 'everyone is here for a reason' concept is a total fallacy. It is the other way around.

We are here, thus we must make a reason for our existence. Assuming we are here for a predetermined reason assumes that something beyond ourselves and our own actions predetermine what we will do and what we will become. That is just plain stupid and makes about as much sense as finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Now if this girl does reveal a biological condition to help better understand aging and potentially result in technology that extends human life, then great. All the better.

It is sad she suffers from this rare condition for sure, and it must certainly be difficult for her family.

Ultimately, we need to thank medical researchers for advancements in modern medicine on all fronts. We should say thank you doctor for the heart or liver transplant that saved a child's life. "Thank God", is not who should be thanked. A so-called 'God' giving a child a failing organ, requiring the harvesting of a good organ from another individual with the 'misfortune' of dying due to apparently god-planned circumstances is totally nonsensical.

A lot of the world's ills would be remedied if we lived for THIS life, rather than a magical NEXT life that no-one can prove even exists.

BicycleRepairMan admires and defends Christopher Hitchens.

Christopher Hitchens admires the great pleasure he would receive, observing BicycleRepairMan's misfortunes.

-anonymous quantumushroom, playful netter of moonbats.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
Go to any news site you want and peruse the comments on a hot button story. Neolibs are not erudite intellectuals politely lamenting philosophical differences they oppose. They are cruel, foul mouthed ideologues spouting some of the meanest filth it has been my misfortune to encounter.


Observation: Some cruel, foul-mouthed people on internet message boards promote neolib policies.
Conclusion: Neolibs are cruel, foul-mouthed people.

Perfectly rational generalization.

It's because Fox news sucks WP. In comparison, the other news sources don't seem to suck as much

I suggest that is because you aren't looking at them critically because you like what they are saying and so you've chosen to put your blinders on. Since Fox's bias is one you DISlike then you are hyper-sensitive to it, and you choose at that point to take the blinders off.

Thankfully, I'm not party affiliated and so I'm not a stooge. I vote on an issue by issue basis where I'm staunchly conservative on fiscal issues, and tilt left on social ones. I heartily condemn Fox News for crappy reporting and airing the opinions of sleazeballs. I have no problem with calling Fox trash. But I can also say MSNBC, et al are also trash. If there are those who can't bring themselves to admit there is trash on both sides, then exactly who is the slave to bias?

Go to any news site you want and peruse the comments on a hot button story. Neolibs are not erudite intellectuals politely lamenting philosophical differences they oppose. They are cruel, foul mouthed ideologues spouting some of the meanest filth it has been my misfortune to encounter. Take Palin... Neolibs on MSNBC are currently making jokes about raping her daughters thanks to Letterman. Classy stuff, eh wot? By comparison, calling Obama by his middle name 'Hussain' and saying he's a socialist is pretty tame isn't it?

Shepherd put his finger right on it. The problem is the terrible 'us vs them' bias in the AUDIENCE. It isn't the news channel's fault per se (though they shamelessly profit from it). The problem is the mouth-breathers cheering the news channels from both sides.

When you only call one side of the debate to the carpet, but give the other side cheers, ratings, and money - what kind of lesson do you think the news guys take from that? They got your message neolibs and neocons... Sleaze and bias sells. BraVO! (golfclap) If you don't like it, then next time don't put up with it from YOUR team... You can't create an environment of bias and anger, and then get all upset when the team you don't like does the same thing right back at you. Unless you're me, because I have no team.

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Fucking labour and conservatives.. what's the phrase, giant douche or a shit sandwich? We'll need another couple of alternatives to cover all bases.

God i hate british politics. Biggest bunch of public schoolboys masonic handshaking each other up the echelons of the westminster clique i have ever had the misfortune to be governed by.

And when i say governed, i mean they have habitually and with regularity stolen from me, treated me like a blind fool, lied to me, and allowed my country to turn into a pile of shit.

I swear to god if i could find it i'd sift it. A video of some tory CUNT being the latest bastard to get caught stealing under the guise of 'expenses claim' to have his fucking moat cleaned, or a floating duck island put in his mini-lake.

His response to having been caught red handed? "It's jealousy. Nothing but jealous! I have an excedingly large house and these people are simply jealous."

When i saw that on the news, it brought my piss to a boil - i nearly ripped open my shirt hulk hogan style and turned my street into a crater.

Misfortune not malfeasance.

as much as I like gloating over blankfist's misfortune, I think this hobbiting business is fucking stupid to say the least. no harm was done, so let's forget about it and move on. shit, I never thought I'd be defending that big, beautiful, veiny prick...

The most awful bollocks tripe i have ever had the misfortune to see, and this interview is about the same

Don't get me wrong, this was ridiculous. I couldn't imagine a whole beach of these type of people, and anytime I see this type of behavior and mentality I just shake my head...

But this wasn't anything too crazy for me. You generally run into these type of people anytime you enter a College/Bar town here in the states. I have the misfortune of running in to these type of people on a consistent basis because I'm located near a University.

Oh god, this wasn't too crazy for me? Oh no, what am I saying?! I think I've been desensitized to human stupidity.

This place will be the death of me.