"Still think truthers are crazy? 9/11 victims family members don't. This is what we've been talking about all along...."

No I don't think they're crazy, what I think is that the Truthers have not provided verifiable or demonstrable evidence to back up their claims. Of those 1300 engineers and architects how many have done an experiment or produced a model or even theoretically tested a hypothesis about Building 7s collapse. It's not that we're just saying "Shut up and believe the government" it's that we're being like Dr. Neil Tyson...we need more than just "I SAW IT!"

Give us something we can test in a lab...bring your findings to a reputable engineering or architectural journal. Give us some evidence we can test and verify...don't just repeat the same shit over and over and over. You sound like you're advocating "Intelligent Design".

Wow! 1300 engineers and architects think there's something fishy about WTC7's collapse. Why that's almost one twentieth of 1% of all the Engineers and architects in the USA. Wow!

>> ^ctrlaltbleach:

dead


Fixed (sort of) and thanks.

A bit late, but here are some for 2009 (with the best 1st):

1) Mastodon - Crack the Skye
2) Malefice - Dawn of Reprisal
3) Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
4) Architects - Hollow Crown
5) Disarmonia Mundi - The Isolation Game
6) It Prevails - Capture & Embrace
7) August Burns Red - Constellations
Lamb of God - Wrath
9) War from a Harlot's Mouth - In Shoals
10) Born of Osiris - A Higher Place

>> ^quantumushroom:

Did anything make Carlin happy? Just being unhappy.


It seems unhappiness and creativity go hand and hand.

Firstly, to deal with issues - any issues - in a christmas-list style prioritized manner is absurd. You point out some valid issues that do necessitate a response, but the idea that we should exclude "lesser" problems from consideration until the big ones are dealt with is, I'm sorry to say, patently ridiculous. You simply cannot defend that approach rationally in any way that holds water.

Secondly, the premise that these people have choice, and that they are destroying their lives and becoming indoctrinated by their own election : yes, they are. There is something vaguely audible in me which says "when people are the architects of their own suffering or misfortune, let them suffer". However, humans are not sublime creatures and are flawed in a great many fatal ways. People's minds are accessible by the forces of manipulation, indoctrination and propaganda. These people are not acting autonomously. If they were, I would agree with your idea that they're making these decisions independently, for themselves, as intelligent and self-determining agents. I think that argument must fall to pieces when confronted with the fact of how completely people's minds, and intelligence, can be compromised, distorted, abused and subjugated by the sorts of techniques that Scientology employs.

So those are my dreams
And these are my eyes
Stand tall like a man
Head strong like a horse

When it's all mixed up
Better break it down
In the world of secrets
In the world of sound

It's in the way you're always hiding from the light
See for yourself you have been sitting on a time bomb
No revolution maybe someone somewhere else
Could show you something new about you and your inner song
And all the love and all the love in the world
Won't stop the rain from falling
Waste seeping underground
I want to break it down

Break it down again

So those are my schemes
And these are my plans
Hot tips for the boys
Fresh news from the force

When it's all mixed up
Better break it down
In the world of silence
In the world of sound

" No sleep for dreaming" say the architects of life
Big bouncing babies, bread and butter can I have a slice
They make no mention of the beauty of decay
Blue, yellow, pink umbrella save it for a rainy day
And all the love and all the love in the world
Won't stop the rain from falling
Waste seeping underground
I want to break it down

Horsin' around
Pray to power
Play to the crowd with your big hit sound
And they won't simmer won't simmer, won't simmer down
Play to the crowd
Pay to the crowd
Play yeah yeah

It's in the way you're always hiding from the light
Fast off to heaven just like Moses on a motorbike
No revolution maybe someone somewhere else
Could show you something new to help
With the ups and downs
I want to break it down
Break it down again

Break it down again
No more sleepy dreaming
No more building up
It is time to dissolve
Break it down it again
No more sleepy dreaming

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Inception was not that good a movie IMO - too contrived, too simple a concept trying to be deep. I'll take an M. Night hook over Inception any day.

I forgot to mention that I actually thought The Village was a good flick too. I can't helpt but think that if Hitchcock was alive today- some of you would be railing against his repetitive schtick. Always seeking the new new you are. M. Nnight is soooo 2003.

>> ^direpickle:

>> ^Payback:
Personally, he needs to stop grabbing you by the scruff of the neck and saying "THIS! AND THIS! SEE THIS?!?! LOOK AT THIS TOO!!! HERE SEE WHAT THAT BACK THERE MEANT?!?!" People are smarter than he treats them. Say what you will about Inception's different problems, but at least Nolan doesn't treat you like a complete moron.

...Inception was 1:45 of The Architect scene from the Matrix: Reloaded! It was all The Explainer, except occasionally when guys were shooting other guys.

>> ^Payback:

Personally, he needs to stop grabbing you by the scruff of the neck and saying "THIS! AND THIS! SEE THIS?!?! LOOK AT THIS TOO!!! HERE SEE WHAT THAT BACK THERE MEANT?!?!" People are smarter than he treats them. Say what you will about Inception's different problems, but at least Nolan doesn't treat you like a complete moron.


...Inception was 1:45 of The Architect scene from the Matrix: Reloaded! It was all The Explainer, except occasionally when guys were shooting other guys.

>> ^Deano:

Er what? It's got MRI equivalent radiation levels? You can't bring metal near it? MRI machines have very high radiation levels, far greater than x-rays. Not sure about this at all. It looks cool though.


MRI doesn't have any radiation. It has large static magnetic fields and radio waves - that's not what most people would term radiation. It's very powerful but hasn't been shown to have negative effects like x-rays (which are an ionizing form of radiation).

I wonder how it took them 7 years to develop what appears to be a pair of large permanent magnets with some shielding. Probably costs a fortune too.

"We've commissioned a well-known architects firm to create this stunning scale model"

If you made it past the notion of telekinesis being used to generate energy amd carried on taking it seriously beyond the quoted statement please contact me, I'd like to tell you about a serious investment opportunity...

I downvoted once I saw the planes. I agree that the "chemtrail" people are idiots.
>> ^bananafone:

So I stopped playing it as soon as he showed the plane. Anyone who thinks that those are "brainwashing" the population is, in fact, an idiot. Downvote if I could.

Your video, Hong Kong architect builds 24 rooms in one apartment, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

I know you're kidding but I didn't see any sign of a toilet. I wonder if there's a shared bathroom in the building or if it just wasn't shown?

Also, it's Asia... You don't need a toilet to do a #2, you can just crap on somebody's chest.

>> ^HenningKO:

Oh shit! I have to use the toilet but it's behind 20 walls!
jk, it's neat... and I'm sure any room with a sink doubles as a bathroom.

Respect the architect.
RIP Guru.
*promote