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Very cool. I'd seen the notation but never how it directly correlates to the instrumentation. Is this the same system Qbert came up with?

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Zinn's a fool. He means well, but so did Stalin.
"expanding not our military power but our humanity"; This sort of insipid, simplistic idealism is the stuff of Bush.
It's amazing what the Iraq war and two terms of the Bush administration has done to people. Many of these comments are shockingly stupid.


Out of all of the comments in here, most of which I didn't read, this one stood out.

What the fuck are you talking about? This comment is so non-sequitur that I get the feeling your world view is war is peace; which it is clearly not. Did you support the Iraq war? What is so shockingly stupid? Are you implying that people are stupid because they do not support war? Or the spending of tax dollars on military expansion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States

Wars, the war on drugs, the war on terrorism and other wars are the biggest reason for government expansion and the destruction of civil liberties.

Don't get me started on unemployment in the private sector, and the public sector gaining employment. That is another box of spiders.

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Oh yes, that's what the war in Afghanistan is about, killing brown people. Sure! I mean, the Taliban "aren't exactly feminists", as this exceptionally morally-discerning creature has noted, but it's not like they refused to turn OBL over for trial after he murdered 3000 innocent people from 80 different countries, its not like the Taliban crushed the minds and souls of hundreds of thousands of innocents under a steel fist of barbarism, and defecated, just for good measure, on the treasures of Bamyan. These Taliban, they are misunderstood, and just because they treat cattle better than women, and believe that democracy and tolerance are evil, this doesn't mean we can't negotiate.


The Taliban did offer to turn over OBL if the USA would only give them evidence of his involvement. They never did, and I doubt it exists. OBL was the boogy man for an inside job. 9/11 was an attack from within.

I'm also tired of people being called "terrorists" when all they're doing is fighting against the uninvited army occupying their nation.

We haven't achieved shit in Afghanistan, and we never will.

Because we will always use military methods to solve our perceived problems, and that is, in and of itself, the real problem.

qbert, it's way more than a moral question: it's a legal one. Every one of those guys that punched the male would be found guilty of battery in a court of law. "Teaching someone a lesson" is not a valid legal reason for throwing a punch. You are only allowed to use as much force as necessary to stop the assailant and it's clear in the video that the guy is being clocked AFTER being separated from the girl.

For all the knight-in-shining-armor wannabes who seem to be posting here, let me give you a reality check. My roommate in college was best buds with one of his male cousins--they used to hang out all the time. Anyway, this cousin overhears his sister telling their parents that her boyfriend had raped her. Said cousin gets two other guys together and they go out to "teach the guy a lesson." They find him, drag him out to a deserted spot, and proceed to beat the living crap out of him. Justice served right?

Problem is, one of the guys my roommate's cousin brought along was a little overzealous. He was packing heat and when they were through beating the guy he pulled the gun and shot the alleged rapist in the head. But hey, the guy deserved it right?

Well not exactly. Turns out the sister was lying about the rape. See, my roommate was Filipino and everyone in his family is strict Catholic. The girl had gotten pregnant and couldn't admit to her parents that she'd had premarital sex. So she made up the rape story to cover.

My roommate's cousin and his two friends all got life in prison. Even though two of them didn't know the third was even carrying a gun, they were considered accessories to the murder by virtue of the fact that they had set out with the intent to cause the victim harm. So all through freshman year of college my roommate got to spend his weekends visiting his best bud in a maximum security prison. The cousin was 18 at the time of his arrest (same age as me and my roommate at the time). He basically threw away his whole life in order to "teach a guy a lesson."

Think it can't happen to you? People can die from a single punch. Maybe you didn't mean to kill the guy. Won't matter in court. You can kiss your life as you knew it goodbye with at a minimum a felony manslaughter charge. In this video, in all the confusion, someone (like some of the bystanders you can see scrambling to get out of the way) easily could have gotten knocked unconscious accidentally by a missed punch and slipped underwater before anyone realized what was happening. Is that justice?

Vigilante violence doesn't teach anybody anything. Supposing the guy in this vid truly is a chronic woman abuser, all these guys did by kicking his ass is to make him take his embarrassment and emasculation out on the next girlfriend by beating her twice as hard. Good work.

Make no mistake about it: if you're willing to jump in there to throw punches at this guy, you're not interested in justice or protecting the woman. You're interested in stroking your own ego by actualizing the over-glorified bullsh*t cultural stereotype that equates "justice" with ass-kicking. And even though you see yourself as the good guy--like my roommate's cousin did--you will be in for a rude awakening about how the world really works in the event the police do show up and start sorting things out.

@ Qbert: lolwut? Are you a real Scientologist, or did I just not get the joke..?

I hope it's the former, having a pet Scientologist on the 'Sift would make things more amusing.

Let it go, qbert. DFT apologized. He's NOT a racist, though if you didn't know him I could see how his statement could easily be mistaken as racist in intent. He misspoke, he corrected himself, he apologized TWICE. What more do you want from him? A written apology three times a day, every day, for the rest of his life? A pound of flesh? Shit, if we can't learn to forgive then racism will be with us forever.

/\ Did you not comprehend a single word I wrote, qbert? PS: I like your screen name.

Haha I'm glad you laughed at that. You cannot even believe how hideously sarcasm has misfired for me in the past, when utilized on the interbutt, which consists almost exclusively of twisted drug-addled psychopaths, conspiracy theorists, bigots, and pornography.

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Wait. If that's an orange... Jews?!

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Wait. If that's an orange... Jews?!

@qbert - The subtitle is in Bahasa Malaysia, but it's not perfect.

Invocations (dead) cannot be called by qbert because qbert is not privileged - sorry.

It is by far the best things that I ever sifted/found.

It's heartbreakingly sad that more people don't check it out, but hopefully more promotes over time will keep it up there for more people to see, you're a one

I remember watching it for the first time, being totally riveted and blown away. I have watched it countless times since.

You should definitely order the DVD copy from the site. It's become one of prized possessions.

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This movie, of Roy's words, is truly an epic find. How terribly terribly beautiful. I keep checking back on the vid's upvote count, expecting to find 1000+ on it. Maybe that's all we have, eh?

Thanks for making it available,

Peace,

Q

Regarding "5 to 10 times the interest you'd get in a bank", Qbert takes 4.5% interest on his no-limit money market account with PSECU, and over 5% on his Paypal balance (which he aggressively maintains).

Who here thinks John Stewart or any other eat-the-rich populist bellyacher shops around for a good rate? No, the guys who bellyache about how unfair the system is just refuse to accept that it is within their power to optimize their own experience.

Like it or not, the Fed system is designed not to protect the rich, but rather to maintain stability (and thus peace) in the world. It is perfectly within the power of our elected officials to tax *ell out of the top 2% to stimulate social mobility, and I'm all for that. Just as it's a traditional rightist canard to blame regulation for all societal ills, it's a traditional leftist canard to insist that someone or something must necessarily be to blame for the inequality that has always and will always exist in the world.

I don't want rich people shooting craps and poor people slaving. But the world resembled that dramatization even more BEFORE the Fed came to be.