Tags for this video have been changed from 'limit to your love, james blake, bass, singer, cover, feist' to 'limit to your love, james blake, minimalist, experimental, bass, cover, feist' - edited by EndAll

You are the world's biggest fool if you pay for bottled tap water in bottles shipped across the country from Coca Cola bottling plants. It is exactly Coke without the sugar and coloring.

With the minimalist carbon filter, any US tap water is way better than any untested, unregulated bottled water that bakes in warehouses in plastic containers.

It is the same municipal water in all of these sources, plus you are using up oil and destroying our roads when you subsidize shipping bullshit water to your grocery store because you want to pay an idiot tax.

Did not see many movies this year, so I've only got 6 total on my list, which you should be thankful for, because I can't write film reviews worth a damn. Thanks for posting your list Sarzy, you've got great taste.


The Good

1) Drive - Awesome, like a more commercial, modern day Vanishing Point. Minimalist, tightly paced male action-fantasy with art-house nuance and an effectively simple score by Angelo Badalamenti. A real human being... and a real hero....

2) Super 8 - A nice homage to the Speilberg of the 80s, with some violent Abramsisms tossed into the mix. Not as deep as Spielberg, but still a great time at the theater.


The Bad

1) Harry Potter: Part 7: Part 2: Part 1 - booooooooooring

2) Melencholia - boooooooooooring. Remember when Lars Von Trier used to make good movies like Dogville and Dancer in the Dark? No more. The movie focuses on a loathsome, uninteresting family during the last few days of the Earth's existence. Very little happens. Then they die. The opening credits are beautiful and have more to say than the entire rest of the film.

3) Cowboys & Aliens - Complete failure to combine some tried and tested elements (The Western, Sci Fi, Harrison Ford and Jon Favrau).


The Ugly

1) Sucker Punch - It's a bold, beautiful, ambitious and highly imaginative disaster. Ridiculously stupid story. If you like terrible movies, this is one to put on your list. Supposedly the directors cut is even better/worse.

Makes me wonder if he ever played even older Zelda games. Going back to older titles and finding out they were actually better (or just as good) than their modern versions is pretty common, especially for Nintendo games. I've never played the newer Zeldas (don't own a Wii) but I doubt they can hold up to even the old Gameboy Zelda; with its black & white visuals and minimalist approach it had more depth and quality to it than most modern games, of any genre.

from animal - Ukrainian topless FEMEN activists protested by the Georgian Consulate in Kiev today clad in minimalist, semi-militant costume of “press” panties and prop-cameras. A consulate employee proceeded to shove them, kick journalists and beat down their gear.

The band is called "Get well soon", Le Cargo is the excellent French webzine ("Webzine musicale" as it calls itself) whose youtube channel I've been mining for content... and a rich seam it is too

I'm not the first to observe that between Le Cargo and La Blogoteque all the cool and interesting bands seem to be covered! The two have slightly different focus though, Le Cargo specialises in minimalist "unplugged" acoustic sessions.>> ^Opus_Moderandi:

That was great! Lecargo is the band name? Pardon my ignorance...
(and laziness for not just googling it )

Upvote for:

Nice song.
Clear and beautiful tenor voice.
Clean guitar work.
Minimalist arrangement.
Great busking feel to the entire clip.
Sweet cello/cellist.
Paris.
Sacré-Coeur.
The accent et gu over the 'e' in 'Sacré.' That was a nice touch.
No Auto-Tune.

You know, they couldn't get any more minimalistically perfect than this. Excellent music choice, great art direction, and a nice little packaged win at the end.

Like very much.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

Let's see.
Conservatives say tax cuts on the rich help the economy.
Yet, taxes on the rich have hardly ever been lower, the economy sucks.
Liberals say that the tax rate on the rich does not have a major impact on economic growth. Let's see who's right.
http://kemstone.com/Journal/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/marginalGrowth
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Oh, would you look at that! Back in the 1930s when tax rates on the wealthiest were 90% Yes, 90%! The growth rate averaged about the same as it does now, perhaps a little higher even. Rapid drops in the marginal tax rate did not have any appreciable impact on the economic growth rate.
Imagine that. The conservatives have been lying to everyone all these years. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that conservative politicians get most of their financial support from the wealthiest citizens?


You do know that government spending is counted in GDP right? That isn't "real" growth this chart is measuring, just money being spent...even if that money was government debt. They weren't building the job of the future in many cases. The argument for taxation shouldn't start at what makes the economy the best as the first argument, but what is the most fair. Why are people that have more money less entitled to it than those that have less, perhaps not even substantially less? Obviously, you don't need to add incentives to getting rich with low taxes, but taxes shouldn't be the means of social change but funding the affairs of government. Anything else is a moral argument which shouldn't be in the realm of governments to answer. What you view as "good" in economic growth, a environmental-minimalist sees as a rape of the natural world...who is right, more important, who are you to tell either one they are wrong?

"a minimalist humanoid robot that recreates the physical presence of a remote user"... if that remote user is a worm-like creature with a hairless human head.

Funny stuff. The game itself seemed like a cool concept in need of a more fleshed-out story to me though, though I know Team Ico is all about the minimalist schtick. Going from one colossus to the other made the encounters feel like less of a reward than they might have been, to me anyway. Maybe I didn't play through far enough. I think I got to maybe the 5th colossus before I put the controller down. I might give it another go.

Oh this is great! I also did once a bunch of movie posters. Check them out: Alternative Movie Poster. Feel free to comment

guy should of run a minimalist experiment and just picked one of them up and brought it back 20 feet and seen what happened.

interesting.
minimalistic,yet wicked catchy.
just needs one thing...
MORE COWBELL!

Okay. First, I'll point out that you still don't have any sources that repeat your own claim that the Democratic-Republican party simply disappeared into thin air, and that there was a clear and clean break between that party and the Democratic Party.

Second, you either didn't understand my explanation of why the Republican party would be different, or well, I guess there is no other real explanation, because you laid out a straw man instead of responding to what I actually said.

Third, your fixation with the logo is unhealthy. Seriously, if we change the logo now to a Fox to mock Fox News, does that mean Bill O'Reilly founded the Democratic party? I'm not being entirely facetious -- if the Democratic-Republican party didn't have a logo before, but during the Jackson presidency they adopted it to spite the people calling him Jackass, does that make him the founder of the Democratic-Republican party? I think it makes him a Jackass, but that's not what we're talking about.

But really, this all comes down to #1. You said the answers.com page was accurate. Here's some of what you deemed accurate:

Encyclopedia Britannica:

In the 1790s a group of Thomas Jefferson's supporters called themselves "Democratic Republicans" or "Jeffersonian Republicans" to demonstrate their belief in the principle of popular government and their opposition to monarchism. The party adopted its present name in the 1830s, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson.

So, one party, that changed its name.

US History Encylcopedia:

By the end of Madison's presidency and throughout Monroe's two terms, known as the "Era of Good Feeling," the Democratic Republican Party largely abandoned its minimalism and supported tariff, banking, and improvements policies originally supported by its Federalist opponents.

After the retirement of James Monroe, the newly renamed "Democratic" Party came to rally around the candidacy of Andrew Jackson. Jackson steered the party back toward its minimalist origins.

The Law Encyclopedia entry starts with:

The modern Democratic party is the descendant of the Democratic-Republican party, an early-nineteenth-century political organization led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Also known as the Jeffersonians, the Democratic-Republican party began as an antifederalist group, opposed to strong, centralized government. The party was officially established at a national nominating convention in 1832. It dropped the Republican portion of its name in 1840.

They don't all agree about the exact timing of the change, but they say it was a change in name, not a newly founded party.

In the course of searching again today, I found a couple original-source documents:

Thomas Jefferson Randolph (Thomas Jefferson's grandson) said at the 1872 Democratic convention that he'd spent 80 years of his life in the Democratic-Republican party (source), and Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States By Martin Van Buren, where he discusses the topic at excruciating length, but frequently talks about the roots of the Democratic party beginning with Jefferson.

Look, you're just wrong. You can disagree with the history as it's written, but that makes you, not me, the revisionist.

It's okay. I don't blame you for being mad. You don't like the thought that Thomas Jefferson and William Jefferson Clinton were both from the same party. Here's a thought, maybe we should change the logo to a brunette sucking cock, to commemorate the founding of Limbaugh's Clinton's Democrat (as opposed to Democratic) party. The logo change, that's really all it takes to found a new party.

Someone call Hillary and let her know she won the nomination at the Democrat National Convention, where only Michigan and Florida count. Best not show her the new logo though.