And I'm totally unaware of any scenario under which an aircraft smoke screen was ever used in exactly this way. By vague report, aircraft generated smoke screens might have been part of the landings at Iwo Jima (ineffective---and I'm not sure about this) and the Philippines in WW-II (can't find a reference for this). In terms of aid from a fleet's own aircraft, the closest I can think of is the distraction and cover attacks of Taffy 1, 2, and 3's disparate air craft at the Battle of Leyte Gulf---but they didn't drop a smoke screen---they just attacked Kurita's battleship task force while the destroyer escorts made their runs until Kurita's nerve broke and he turned.

good one, bob. always good for dark humor.

i won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. (borrowed that from bill buckley)

tho' bk, will match your morbid bit with this...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/eric-trump-says-democrats-trying-to-milk-coronavirus-shutdown-media-stoking-fear

...the candles, dad's hat, dim lighting? gives off a memorial vibe. like the big screen will be used to show the father's life in pictures. he's talking from a funeral home, then saying the other party is politicizing the 90K deaths?

shameless.

No screen time for little shit Charlie

I'll just leave this light reading here....

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza emerged in Mexico in March 2009 and by June 10 had rapidly spread to 74 countries (1,2). Nonpharmaceutical interventions for pandemic influenza at the community level were recommended by the World Health Organization before and during the pandemic (3,4). One such nonpharmaceutical intervention was quarantine of contacts of persons with confirmed cases. A key question in closed settings (e.g., military barracks) was how to prevent a secondary outbreak of influenza among those quarantined.

The first identified case of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in mainland People’s Republic of China was imported from the United States and reported on May 11, 2009 (5). On May 29, the Chinese Ministry of Health required that each confirmed case-patient and each contact be isolated and quarantined in 1 separate room to contain transmission of the virus

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/8/09-1787_article

https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/guidance/exclusion.htm

There weren't shutdowns because H1N1 wasn't spread before symptoms show, wasn't as easily spread, and wasn't 1/10 as deadly. By denying travel to and quarantining the visibly sick, it was relatively easy to stop the spread. There were many travel restrictions including travel bans, but they were mostly voluntarily. There was screening of passengers and sick ones were denied travel. Also, thanks to preparations, a vaccine only took months to create.
Yes, we got lucky, but we certainly didn't JUST get lucky, we took action AND got lucky.

Cops definitely shouldn’t be allowed to just barge into a person’s home BUT with that said, given her agitated and aggressive state and the way she is screaming at the person off-screen, I can somewhat understand why the cops may have thought there was an issue. Especially considering that the front door was open and they were responding to a disturbance. As a home owner myself, it’s not the way I’d have handled the situation but we don’t have the entire context either.

Edit: ...and I guess not being a black person in the US, I typically don’t fear the police shooting me or immediately feel the need to act aggressive towards them. But still, even though she was likely in her rights, she was escalating that situation. Then again, maybe she had tried to calmly ask them to leave prior to the start of the video...

Lysol wipes work well on phones and screens and don't damage them

sorry those embeds from vimeo don't give the video on screen anymore

This is one of those original videos on the internet. Before video sharing site, before YouTube. This video was passed around at LAN parties and hosted on private web servers and downloaded for about an hour.

What is amazing about this version, is that it is stabilized, as you can see from the E logo that is whipping around on the screen.

That is what makes this a treasure.

They changed it again. You have to click into the video so it gets it's own screen. Then hit the 3 dots bottom right of video. Embed is now an option. Of course VS doesn't like the embed, so I always go to advanced, then get code, then iframe, and copy that.

Still have to play with the code sometimes, size should never be more than 500 in any location or it doesn't fit the screen. also have to add &mute=0 in the string or it wont start with sound.

I'll send you the embed.

Well... the cliché is as old as cinema, true, BUT, if there's THE one female badass that truly would behave as such IRL, it would be Post-T2 Sarah Connor, isn't it? Both character (Sarah) AND actress (Linda Hamilton) EARNED the "calmly walk away from explosions" shtick in my book.

The All-time Greatest On-Screen Female Badass #1 & #2 gotta be between Sarah Connor or Ripley from Alien. For me I'd pick Sarah as #1. My jaw dropped so hard seeing the changes of Hamilton from T1 to T2. Freaking amazing.

OK, I am in the minority that hate the recent Batman trilogy. The stand out was Heath Ledger, but even that movie had some serious issues that his amazing performance couldn't fix. That guy was genius. But this...this... This is on a whole 'nuther fucking level. I can't wait to see this. If it is anywhere near as good as these trailers make it look to be it will be amazing. Phoenix just owns the screen in these trailers. You can physically see him metamorphosing into the Joker and even in the trailer it 'feels' real. The way he cuts that laugh off... damn.

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@TRRazor That was exactly my reaction...

THIS is the footage you got??? The edge of the screen showing something happening off screen, lots of empty idle ground mid-frame, and the very tail-end of the tower hitting the ground?

SUCCESS! not so much

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