Waiting for the day when tv-hosts replace the vice-presidents...

It all seems to drivel down to picking your life-style camp, complete with station, label, blog, and bumper sticker.

Meh- as much as I think Romney is a disconnected douche. This is clearly an attack ad and should be taken and discussed as such

I am by no means a cutty stabby person, but after this I looked around a bit. This is basically kendo: ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxlqayAwG8&feature=related ) and you are right, it doesn't look like this at all.
What these guys are doing is called kenjutsu ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIxt3Zd6K0k ) which seems to be a whole other thing (kinda like comparing judo to karate). When you check out more of that kenjutsu stuff it all of a sudden looks a lot more "realistic".

Also, I am pretty sure that standing with your guard completely down and just moving your shoulders is probably not a valid sword fighting technique, but maybe this guy is just so bad-ass he doesn't care.

The stances employed according to far more geeky interweb friends is something like "Tamiya-ryu" or "Jigen-ryu" (somewhere between the late 15th and 16th century) and it actually involves mostly diagonal/vertical slices to the torso to try and kill your opponent in one blow. The goal was pretty much always to hit the enemy's throat and failing that slice the opponent in an up to down diagonal motion while denying your opponent to do the same.

>> ^mentality:

This looks ridiculous. When he "dodges" all he's doing is shifting his shoulders back while his head stays as stationary as a dead log. I guess it works if you're fighting someone dumb enough to consistently aim one foot to either side of the real target...


now imagine you were aiming for the head- giving his arms all the time to move... there is a reason why in pretty much in all sword and knife fighting schools (japanese and elsewhere) you are taught to aim for the body.

Also, a katana is usually used in semi-vertical slices since it wasn't specifically suited for stabbing (it'd get stuck).

Ofc this is a movie yadda yadda, but in a "real" fight the aim was to cut the shoulder/arms so you wouldnt hurt yourself charging in and could be ready for the next victim/attacker (that overhead stance is for fighting stuff on horses btw- forgot the name).

back to nethack :-p

>> ^bobknight33:

Sounds like the current Administration / DOJ protects the bankers more that the last bank loving President.
Bush prosecuted I believe around 1 thousand Banker type crooks. Obama rate is near zero.


Oh boy... someone's been ringing the imaginary unicorn bells... Even ignoring that you pulled your númbers out of your arse and establishing that I'm fine with stating that Obama is a tool of kinds...
... but trying to use that to white-wash the guys involved in the blackwater (now "Academi"-) scandal, the iraq/post-katherina reconstruction "inconsistencies", not to mention the establishment of the biggest and most "public" political prison in the western hemisphere is a tad far-fetched of an effort.

Let's just settle with both parties are made of similar material when it comes to employing the judicial apparatus and leave it at that, ok?

>> ^thumpa28:

Crap news about a crap person then. Hardly promotion worthy.


This is actually very much noteworthy. Even if you ignore the person they are reporting about it used to be pretty much common code that if you were to rip on other entities in the "news and journalism"-buisness, you'd do it in an editorial or sth titled oppinion piece- as a writer/editor you'd want to keep a door open in case of, you know, having to look for stories on the other side of the political spectrum.

This, in journalism circles equals to the NYT publicly stating to any other potential sources: "We will not accept your stories unless they are greenlighted or/and will potentially help backstab you if you come to us with yet unpublished information".

Good luck recovering from that, NYT

Sometimes, I catch myself thinking it would be a good thing if Assange faced a US court. The entire shabam would go up in smoke, a healthy prime-time debate about medial responsibilities, transparency and the judicial process of/with political prisoners in/around the united states would spawn...
...which far outweighs the personal freedom of one person...
-that's ususally the part where I wake up and shake the confetti out of frontal lobe.

BTW: Hey let's go invade an embassy so we can get some dude convicted of not using a condom in another country.

>> ^hpqp:

One of the many things I love about the Internet is how it allows individuals' creativity to be brought out and together like this; art for art's sake. Imagine all the art that would be lost if the greedy media industry fatcats had their way with the Internet!


"unfortunately this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights."

CREATIVITY ON THE INTERNET FUCK YEA!

Now if a feline scientist suddenly found a way to harvest the higgs boson particle for a clean source of energy and documented it on youtube ...
AND messenger would be the first one to find it...

Sifting it would make him a hypocrite amirite?

I think we can all agree that this turn of olympics is about as twisted as such an event can be. I can totally understand the need to somehow sabotage that.
However, there is a lot of things wrong with it that are not related to its economic impact which should be far more important to hate about it.

>> ^gorillaman:


Let's say you're paying for the party with other people's money, and you're so fucking arrogant every time something like this happens you act as if you have the moral high ground.

So let's say you got this giant party keg at your party of 150 of your friends. Some idiot runs up and knocks it over. You'd be pissed.

Now imagine the party-keg is a torch and the party is like a lot larger. They also just furiously debated about world politics, health and sportsmanship. THEY ALSO DID IT FOR A LONG TIME.

You might just as well walk over to mekka and shit on the prophet's stone. Being pushed off a road by a bunch of jogging, silly looking bodyguards seems pretty civilized to me.

If you want a world without symbols... dude, that's a mighty off-road plan.

There are many things I don't understand. This belongs to them.

wonder if the real assholes wouldn't be the people stuffing a 14 year old into a mascot costume ;-)

now this is just mean science.