Does not suck. It most definitely does not suck. Considerable amount of violence, some pretty damn graphic. None of it is especially gratuitous, it's part of the movie.
The scene of a cartel member being necklaced was probably the most brutal part.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Look Down From the Sky
Passing overhead in commuter airliners.
Columbus, OH:
Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station, or it used to be that. It's now part of some joint-base mashup, purportedly because it "saves money". At least that's what some politically-connected weasel thought. The older runways seem to be not used anymore, they're barely visible by Hangar One in the background.
The summer smog and haze is very noticeable once you're above it.
Columbus, OH:
Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station, or it used to be that. It's now part of some joint-base mashup, purportedly because it "saves money". At least that's what some politically-connected weasel thought. The older runways seem to be not used anymore, they're barely visible by Hangar One in the background.
The summer smog and haze is very noticeable once you're above it.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
No Matter What Nation, Banksters are Thieves.
Over across the pond, the British banksters have been fixing the Libor rates. Libor is used to determine the interest rates for a lot of loans, especially variable rate loans. Barclays Bank has paid about $450 million in fines to settle charges that they were manipulating the Libor. The CEO of the bank eventually offered to forgo his bonus to show his contrition, but instead, he lost his job.
Boo fucking hoo. When are some of these guys going to start going to jail?*
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* And not just for good old insider trading, either.
Boo fucking hoo. When are some of these guys going to start going to jail?*
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* And not just for good old insider trading, either.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Fucking With Google
Someone told me that the captchas that Google use are not only to see if you are a real person, but to help Google improve its character recognition algorithms. Two words or numbers are presented-- one that Google knows what it is (the "are you real" test) and what that they aren't sure of (the "you'll help us refine our algorithms and like it" one).
I've tested this by deliberately entering the wrong answer for one of the two tests, not an answer that is completely wrong, but one that is just off a little. So far, the erroneous answers seem to be, more often than not, accepted as valid.
I've tested this by deliberately entering the wrong answer for one of the two tests, not an answer that is completely wrong, but one that is just off a little. So far, the erroneous answers seem to be, more often than not, accepted as valid.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Approval Has Been Granted By the Ministry of Silly Walks
The daily Closing of the Border ceremony at Wagah on the Indian-Pakistani border.
Monday, July 2, 2012
NEXRAD Weather in the Cockpit
If you are a pilot who has a GPS that receives NEXRAD weather radar data, the NTSB wants you to know that the time-stamp on the image is the time that the mosaic image was created. It is not the time when the weather was painted by radar.
The time difference between where the weather was when the radar painted it and the time stamp of the image you see can be as much as twenty minutes. So while you may think that you are in the clear and a safe distance from that line of thunderstorms, those storms might we right where you're going to be.
If you fly and rely on NEXRAD, click on the above link.
The time difference between where the weather was when the radar painted it and the time stamp of the image you see can be as much as twenty minutes. So while you may think that you are in the clear and a safe distance from that line of thunderstorms, those storms might we right where you're going to be.
If you fly and rely on NEXRAD, click on the above link.
On the Right: Get a Grip.
The Right has been going batshit nuts over the Supremes upholding the Affordable Care Act. They are talking about crap again such as "Second Amendment solutions" and arguing whether or not that is appropriate.
Get a grip, people. The guy you didn't want won the election in 2008. His party controlled the House from 2006 to 2010 and had enough people in the Senate to get what he wanted, though he needed a couple of people from your party to get it done.
Well, he got it done. And the Supremes upheld it. That's how the Constitution set up the government.
You don't like it? That's fine. You're free to your opinion. You're free to support the politicians who promise to reverse things. That is how it is done under our political system.[1]
But because you lost this one political fight, you're now talking about tearing the government down? That makes you sound, in essence, like dangerous children. You lost at the game, this time, and you're now talking about kicking over the board and scattering the pieces to the winds?
Are you all fucking nuts?
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[1] Although choosing as your standard-bearer the former state governor who enacted virtually the same system in his state may not be the smartest thing.
Get a grip, people. The guy you didn't want won the election in 2008. His party controlled the House from 2006 to 2010 and had enough people in the Senate to get what he wanted, though he needed a couple of people from your party to get it done.
Well, he got it done. And the Supremes upheld it. That's how the Constitution set up the government.
You don't like it? That's fine. You're free to your opinion. You're free to support the politicians who promise to reverse things. That is how it is done under our political system.[1]
But because you lost this one political fight, you're now talking about tearing the government down? That makes you sound, in essence, like dangerous children. You lost at the game, this time, and you're now talking about kicking over the board and scattering the pieces to the winds?
Are you all fucking nuts?
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[1] Although choosing as your standard-bearer the former state governor who enacted virtually the same system in his state may not be the smartest thing.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
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