That bomb detection device must be one of the most ridiculous succesful hoaxes ever.

"The ADE 651 is a hand-held wand with no batteries or internal electronic components, ostensibly powered by the static electricity of the user, who needs to walk in place to charge it."

WHAT THE FUCK?!

Pretty shitty CGI --IF-- it was rendered...

They also would have hid the Atlas better, you can see it walk into place before you go through the smoke.

>> ^imstellar28:
curiousity,
The argument that you can't find a job without a phone is just nonsense. Especially a minimum wage job typical of someone rising out of poverty. If a poor person walks into a business with a "position available sign" what is stopping them from being hired on the spot? Or have you forgotten that you can walk to places of work, without calling them? Whats stopping them from submitting a resume in person and checking back the next day to arrange an interview? Whats stopping them from checking back the next day or week to see if they got the job? Nothing.
Even if I grant you that its impossible, the reason its impossible is because of the government. If they are hired immediately, why do they need a phone? In order to be hired immediately they could offer a great deal on their labor. Why can't they do this? Why can't they just walk in and offer to work for less than the employer is asking? Why can't they offer such a great deal that the employer would practically have to hire them?
Because they aren't legally allowed to work for the wage they want. Rather than work for only $5 an hour, they can't work at all. Thats not my fault, thats YOUR fault for supporting such policies. You do support minimum wage laws don't you?


I can see that you have no idea what you are talking about. It's not worth continuing this discussion because you have no real world experience with this and that wonderful quality of assuming that you already know everything. Please continue to be angry and ignorant from your armchair.

peggedbea,

If you or others like you want to work and give some of what you have to him, or others like him, do it.

Why should I be your children's father's slave, and how do you have the nerve to ask me to be? That $1000 doesn't come from the "state" or some other magical entity, it comes from your friends, neighbors, coworkers, other people you see when you go out in public. That $1000 in your pocket is $1000 less in someone else's pocket. Why do you think you, or him, deserves it anymore than anyone else?

People might call my position "selfish" but I'm not the one who thinks I deserve anything more than anyone else. That would be the "selfish" position.

curiousity,

The argument that you can't find a job without a phone is just nonsense. Especially a minimum wage job typical of someone rising out of poverty. If a poor person walks into a business with a "position available sign" what is stopping them from being hired on the spot? Or have you forgotten that you can walk to places of work, without calling them? Whats stopping them from submitting a resume in person and checking back the next day to arrange an interview? Whats stopping them from checking back the next day or week to see if they got the job? Nothing. How do you think people get jobs in countries without phones, or how people got jobs before phones were invented? If it truly is no longer possible, how is that progress, and why is your culture (and you) so narrow minded as to be unable to hire someone without a phone? Clearly there is no physical barrier, so any barrier must be mental. If this is what you are arguing, then I have yet another complaint about this disease of a culture we live in.

Even if I grant you that its impossible, another reason its impossible is because of the government. If the applicant is hired immediately, why do they need a phone? In order to be hired immediately they could offer a great deal on their labor. Why can't they do this? Why can't they just walk in and offer to work for less than the employer is asking? Why can't they offer such a great deal that the employer would practically have to hire them?

Because they aren't legally allowed to work for the wage they want. Rather than work for only $5 an hour, they can't work at all. Thats not my fault, thats YOUR fault for supporting such policies. You do support minimum wage laws don't you?

Westwing is boring and annoying, and SNL terrible green-screen, fake walking in place, and obvious reading cue cards is worse.