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midnightclimax posted:Who was that? mccaine. he writes articles about Very Serious Things now. Gum posted:They also really didn't like Islam http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1372067 im loving the guy citing taqiyya there. guys guys, they think its moral to lie to the unbelievers!!
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:no one's ever complimented my posting before, and i aspire to be as great as swan oat one day I'm just curious, but in Westminster what would you say the proportion of Catholics amongst Vietnamese-Americans in that community is? I ask because my fiance's entire extended global family comes from the tiny minority of Vietnamese Catholics. First I'm curious if Catholics made up a disproportionate part of the refugees. Second, because I only ever hear about or deal with Viets that come from a Catholic/filial piety/even more patriarchal family background, and I'm kinda curious what the familial politics are like in Buddhist families. edit: quote:I don't think anyone would actually believe that D&D was full of Earnest Libertarian Discussions back in the day, or that one of the mods idealized Churchill. For a year we had a mod that idolized Nixon. If there are a good number of midterm toxxers can Joementum be given mod powers on election night? Homura and Sickle fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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The guy who runs Zappos built a shipping container park in downtown Vegas. Though they found out that it would cost more to cut up and reuse actual shipping containers, so it's made out of fake shipping containers instead. Jagchosis posted:If there are a good number of midterm toxxers can Joementum be given mod powers on election night? No.
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I haven't read it myself yet, but my understanding is The Hot Zone has a very good reputation for scientific accuracy, for pop nonfiction thriller writing. Gotta remember it was written in the mid 90s, though, so our understanding of the subject material may have changed since then. My understanding is that policies on containment, and treatment of Ebola, have improved radically in the intervening period. I definitely know Biosafety Level 4 requirements have been massively updated- so in that area the situation probably isn't as dire as the text makes it out to be.
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tentative8e8op posted:We'll see in two or three weeks how many countries Mr. International Airport managed to infect Well, we know a certain island nation that isn't gonna take any chances.
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Jul 29, 2014 13:03
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Joementum posted:The guy who runs Zappos built a shipping container park in downtown Vegas. Kind of amazing that it hasn't blown up in his face yet (or maybe it has).
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Jul 29, 2014 13:21
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Falukorv posted:Tripas are delicious. I think it came about because all the good meat got shipped out to the sailors, and people in Porto were left with the offals, so you get tripas (tripe). Huh, I didn't know that. I was staying in Guimaraes, and visited Braga and the national park to the north. Face it, you're the forum's Cincinnatus.
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Jul 29, 2014 13:23
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Majorian posted:Yeah, he's a rangy director, even in the space of one movie. Look at "Troy" - lots to like in that movie, but a lot to hate too. (seriously, who tells the story of "The Iliad" and decides to remove the Greek gods from it?)
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Discendo Vox posted:I haven't read it myself yet, but my understanding is The Hot Zone has a very good reputation for scientific accuracy, for pop nonfiction thriller writing. Gotta remember it was written in the mid 90s, though, so our understanding of the subject material may have changed since then. My understanding is that policies on containment, and treatment of Ebola, have improved radically in the intervening period. I definitely know Biosafety Level 4 requirements have been massively updated- so in that area the situation probably isn't as dire as the text makes it out to be. Preston wrote another book called the Demon in the Freezer which I like quite a bit better than The Hot Zone. Publisher's marketing being what it is, you'd think the book is all about the weaponization of the smallpox virus, but the meat of the book is actually the history of smallpox and the eradication program in the mid century. We all grew up after it was gone, but smallpox was just unbelievably bad and that we essentially eradicated it is one of the crowning achievements of humankind. Also my impression of Ebola is that it's too virulent to become the 12 monkeys virus.
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R. Mute posted:Makes me wonder what the situation is like in America's foreign bases. People have been up in arms about the nukes in Kleine Brogel here on and off again since they were put there in '61. If I go out in a blaze of nuclear fire, I'd much prefer it be because we royally pissed someone off rather than it being due to Americans being lazy, cheap and incompetent. This book then might be for you. quote:On January 23, 1961, a B-52 packing a pair of Mark 39 hydrogen bombs suffered a refueling snafu and went into an uncontrolled spin over North Carolina. In the cockpit of the rapidly disintegrating bomber was a lanyard attached to the bomb-release mechanism. Intense G-forces tugged hard at it and unleashed the nukes, which, at four megatons, were 250 times more powerful than the weapon that leveled Hiroshima. One of them "failed safe" and plummeted to the ground unarmed. The other weapon's failsafe mechanisms—the devices designed to prevent an accidental detonation—were subverted one by one, as Eric Schlosser recounts in his new book, Command and Control: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/eric-schlosser-command-control-excerpt-nuclear-weapons
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Joementum posted:Though they found out that it would cost more to cut up and reuse actual shipping containers, so it's made out of fake shipping containers instead. The floor in containers has to be treated with some really nasty pesticides (because Australia), they On top of all that, old containers tend to be in poo poo shape. These things get used hard. Edit: I occasionally see ocean containers in service with holes, and there are a bunch of things done to containers regularly that have to potential to damage them significantly.
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ReindeerF posted:The Hot Zone is a fascinating book. I have no idea about the science, but it's a great read. Outbreak, the movie, was pretty hilariously awful. I read that in middle school. The only thing I really remember (other than patient zero spitting blood on a nun in an airplane?) is a dude's testicles "swelling to the size of plums" and rotting out of his scrotum. That stuff sticks with you around the puberty era.
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And maybe gunning down some rhesus monkeys with machine guns near the end.
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My grade school library had a copy of that book for some god forsaken reason. Gave me nightmares.
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Shageletic posted:This book then might be for you. Betcha it doesn't cover the one I know about with the F-111. First test of the nuclear device mount. They bring the bomb out, put it on the cart to hustle it to the plane. Cart gets pulled over. Starts to wobble. Both wheels on one side fall off. Bomb falls off the cart, starts rolling towards the crew chief. Sure, it was safed, but man, not a happy day. Apparently they forgot to reverse thread the ... I wanna say the right wheels.
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Warcabbit posted:Betcha it doesn't cover the one I know about with the F-111. First test of the nuclear device mount. They bring the bomb out, put it on the cart to hustle it to the plane. Cart gets pulled over. Starts to wobble. Both wheels on one side fall off. Bomb falls off the cart, starts rolling towards the crew chief. Safety activated or not, I'd still piss myself at the sight of "the bomb" rolling toward me in an accident.
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Swan Oat posted:any fans of white lung in the house? that is some good rear end music, in my opinion. "take the mirror" gets me amped every time. Saw them at sled island this year, great live set. Some chongo heckled them, yellin "show us your tits!" and Anne-marie caught him in the face with a beer bottle. Good poo poo.
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R. Mute posted:my greek teacher (as in, teaches greek, not as in, is greek) used to loving hate troy. actually, all of them did. i think it wasn't even 'oh, how inaccurate' - it was more about them wasting so much great source material. like, they didn't mind that they left out the bit where homeros goes full autism and starts listing boats, but there's more to the iliad than just achilles and paris. Also from what I remember of the movie far too few people get stabbed in the nipples.
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I can't find the orig. thread but this is the best version of the Iliad, imo.
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Favorite scene from The Hot Zone is when that guy's intestines slough out of him and he keels over. Wish I could find more books like Preston's.
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SlipUp posted:"take the mirror" gets me amped every time. Saw them at sled island this year, great live set. Some chongo heckled them, yellin "show us your tits!" and Anne-marie caught him in the face with a beer bottle. Good poo poo. that's an excellent story, i'm glad they don't put up with poo poo from bad men
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zoux posted:I can't find the orig. thread but this is the best version of the Iliad, imo. The whole thread is great, but Ingwit just kills it over and over.
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paranoid randroid posted:mccaine. he writes articles about Very Serious Things now. I actually kind of wish he still posted, because I feel bad about some of the things I said to him a few years ago and I would like to apologize to him.  Pope Guilty posted:The whole thread is great, but Ingwit just kills it over and over. That is a loving revelation. My favorite audiobook of The Iliad is the one Derek Jacobi does; we need to get him to read this one for us too.
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zoux posted:I can't find the orig. thread but this is the best version of the Iliad, imo. the ultimate hustler is the eighth muse.
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Mccaine's a cool guy. Speaking of Old Forums, I still occasionally see the picture screencapped from the start of the Iraq War of a poll someone put up asking how long the war would take, with a "comedy option" that was 6 months or more.  Ah, happy memories.
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illrepute posted:Mccaine's a cool guy. And then there's the grover post re: the Iraq War...
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zoux posted:And then there's the grover post re: the Iraq War... I showed up maybe a few months after that, so I don't think I ever caught it. Anybody have a link?
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Majorian posted:I showed up maybe a few months after that, so I don't think I ever caught it. Anybody have a link? A house divided against itself cannot stand
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zoux posted:I can't find the orig. thread but this is the best version of the Iliad, imo. this might be the best thing on the internet there is nothing about this that is not fantastic holy poo poo e. ahahaha grover is a forums treasure he is just so adorably dumb and wrong about everything
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V. Illych L. posted:this might be the best thing on the internet It's good to have a definitive answer to "what is the best post of all time on the SA forums".
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Oooh, this must be it:quote:How long will it take to capture Baghdad? 2 days e: I have to say, this post is a relief. Here I thought the occupation had brought about tens of thousands of innocent civilian deaths. But now I know most of them were evildoers. Phew. Majorian fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Yep, that's it, Staev.
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Gum posted:D&D used to be full-on conservative. I remember when saying that Saddam might not have WMDs would get you hounded out for being a crazy leftie.  In YOOL 2004! 
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To be fair grover's house is a pretty good monument to the Iraq War.
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ReindeerF posted:Has there ever been a disease outbreak movie (non-zombie, so no Boyle or Zombieland) that was any good? Like the scientific type? And, no, Soderbergh's piece of poo poo Contagion was not good. If you want a good chuckle, go back and watch the original Andromeda Strain. Holy poo poo is that funny. Angels in America?
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illrepute posted:Yep, that's it, Staev. That name only brings me shame, for the shitposting I have done. comes along bort posted:Angels in America? Boom.
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comes along bort posted:Angels in America? I think he meant movies about disease outbreaks, not movies that themselves constitute outbreaks.
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Gum posted:Is still my favourite part Mine is: In the long run, will this war be good or bad for the world? Good
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Majorian posted:Definitely, and that's what makes me sad about that movie: most of the performances were good. Orlando Bloom was weak, quelle surprise, but everyone else did good stuff with what they were given. But starting from the premise of taking a Greek epic poem set in the Age of Heroes, and then taking out all the gods and magic and monsters and other fun stuff? Honestly, how could anybody have thought that was a good idea? That's absolutely the most ridiculous decision you could make when doing a movie about Troy. It's like, wtf man, the Gods dicking around was the only way they could break up all the monotonous human stuff.
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