The striking thing is how small it is. This, of course, means it has limited capabilities, but even those limited capabilities should give one pause. Furthermore, it also puts such a vessel within the capability of small countries.
How Times Have Changed
While channel surfing, I recently discovered that Kill-La-Kill is playing on Cartoon Network. Now it's running after midnight, but there seems to be little or no censorship of this show, at least in what I saw.
Those unfamiliar with the show may wonder why this is surprising. For those people, I have linked to this comprehensive and NSFW overview of what Kill-LaKill does not sound like.
Despite what some commentors have suggested the ribbon appears to be completely explainable using basic engineering without any allowances being necessary for quantum mechanics special relativity or Fortean phenomenae.
The ribbon is tied around the arms between the elbow and shoulder and spaced so that it passes directly beneath the wearer's bosom. This does not provide any meaningful orthopedic support as tension varies widely with arm position and has considerable potential to chafe over time. Rather its purpose is accentuating and display that part of the anatomy in a way that is similar to a push-up bra but can be turned on and off at the whim of the wearer (See Figure A) .
Figure A
Furthermore, this arrangement makes it visually quite obvious that the displayed anatomical region has a certain minimal volume. Unlike with the aforementioned push-up bra this cannot be faked as the ribbon simply will not serve its accentuation purposes if the cup size is below a certain level , dependent only to a limited degree on the amount of tension kept on the ribbon (see figure B)
Figure B
"Next time I'm going as Queen Emereldas."
That physical limitation makes this attire choice of particular use to young ladies who have been blessed in a certain way and wish to make this abundantly clear to certain individuals and at times of their choosing.
As to the precise method by which the ribbon is tied, see Figure C
Figure C
As you can see the ribbon is....not actually tied, it just sort of is looped and there is no way to regulate it's position on the upper arm....
OK Figure C is probably inaccurate, because...physics, so we'll go to the original source material...
Figure D (Pun Inevitable, But Not Intended)
OK as one can see from Figure D, Figure C does seem to be an accurate representation of the way in which the ribbon is tied. This indicates that the ribbon material is one that has a very high elasticity and may need to be similar to bungee cord. This arrangement also requires some awareness and discipline on the part of the wearer to keep tension on the ribbon .
Additionally, the wearer, for obvious reasons cannot raise her arms over her head as in Figure E
Figure E
That can't...
If it's not tied...
...
...
OK. Ignore everything prior.
The ribbon is a cosmetic application of a technology that is sufficiently advanced to achieve the observed effects.
I hope this was helpful and answers your inquiry.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Jun 3 11:12:51 2015 (ohzj1)
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Sacred honor requires that I mention that Figures A & B above were by Ueyama Micherou.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Jun 3 11:20:59 2015 (ohzj1)
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It must be glued to her arms. It can't be glued to her arms.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Jun 3 16:38:31 2015 (RqRa5)
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Figure C's "how to cosplay Hestia even if you haven't got the rack" offers a plausible way of emulating her Divine Gravity, but I suspect frequent re-taping will be necessary. Describing the less-gifted as "oppai ga samishii" seems a bit harsh, though.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Thu Jun 4 00:37:03 2015 (ZlYZd)
I think it's been Don who has posted pictures of cosplayers from conventions he's gone to. (I don't think he's done so for a long time, though.)
My main impression from looking at those pictures usually is that the women doing it (I don't look at the guys) usually are totally miscast, particularly in the figure department. Usually they just don't have what it takes in terms of natural equipment to pretend to be the characters they aspire to. It's sad.
A lot of Japanese cosplayers, on the other hand, really are outstanding, especially somewhere like Comiket. But... most of the really good ones are models, hired by someone or other to do it, or they're aspiring idols hoping to get scouted. In both cases it means they're the top bracket of an extremely deep bench, the Japanese equivalent of Hollywood starlets. They ain't hobbyists, that's for sure.
Even so, I doubt there will be many willing to try to do Hestia, and damned few who will do it well, for reasons I think should be obvious.
Actually, a lot of them are. While Comiket has a lot of booth babes they tend to be inside where photography is disallowed. Most of the photos are of people in the "Photos Allowed" enclave and the vast majority of them are hobbyists, often quite serious ones. They may sensibly be looking to monazite their hobby by parlaying it into a career in film, gravure, or (more likely) an internet following, but a lot of them do like the source material.
American fangirls get a bum rap. Comiket has half a million people and the photos that get passed around are the top percent of a percent of a pool that is orders of magnitude bigger than any US con. The few big US cons (far smaller than Comiket) produce some impressive cosplay displays and while Comicon is mostly booth babes and aspiring actresses, shows like Dragon Con have cosplayers that are truly impressive hobbyists. Like Japan, many of the fangirls that can do so attempt to monetize their hobby like Jennifer Nigiri did (which is perfectly rational and appropriate. You're only young once.) In my experience many of them also genuinely like the source material.
The other thing to remember is that one reason many people go to cons to have fun and be around people who won't judge them too harshly if they dress a bit goofy.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Jun 4 09:31:58 2015 (ohzj1)
Figure C's "how to cosplay Hestia even if you haven't got the rack" offers a plausible way of emulating her Divine Gravity, but I suspect frequent re-taping will be necessary. Describing the less-gifted as "oppai ga samishii" seems a bit harsh, though.
Tape and spirit gum can only do so much, and yeah, that was indeed harsh...
I'll take this moment to apologize to all of my female readers, not for posting some morphologically unlikely cheesecake (that's how this blog rolls) but rather for having the comments section devolve into DFC bashing, "fake fangirl inquisitions", just a touch of yellow fever, and the oppression that is spirit gum....all because I gave a snarkily technical tl;dr response to what was a rhetorical question.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Jun 4 09:50:33 2015 (ohzj1)
There was one American girl, maybe ten years ago, whose website I found who was doing cosplay, and she really did have the figure and the looks for it, and it was outstanding.
She eventually switched to a membership site and started doing soft-core porn.
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Yes.
That is what it does mean, and it is mean.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Jun 4 21:43:17 2015 (ohzj1)
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It will be interesting to see if fan artists and cosplayers embrace Hestia's
Clark Kent look as enthusiastically as they have her ribbon. And we now have a new look for Bell's dishwashing mentor Ryu, which opens up a DFC possibility for group cosplay, at least based on her initial appearance (the book 5 illustrations disagree).
Oh, and the description of book 5 includes a full-service hot springs adventure.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Fri Jun 5 15:31:39 2015 (ZlYZd)
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On topic, a quick image search for "hestia cosplay" turns up a number of qualified women, a disturbing number of men, several young ladies suffering from ribbon failure, and at least one Very Little Girl. I'm sure we'll see a lot more before the year is out.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Fri Jun 5 16:52:53 2015 (ZlYZd)
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I think I'm about to get my heart broken. Is Hestia
a switchhitter?
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Steven...Hestia is...well...
Hestia is a cartoon character. She's...Well, she's not real. It gets worse. If she were real, she probably wouldn't talk to us. Furthermore....How do I put this?....Boobs don't work that way. I'm sorry you had to find that out.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Jun 5 22:37:04 2015 (ohzj1)
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On the bright side
Moon Pies are quite real and easily obtained!
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Jun 5 22:40:05 2015 (ohzj1)
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The trick is for us to become cartoon characters. Then by the laws of harem anime, we'd immediately have a Strange Cute Girl move in with us, with more on the way. The house would get destroyed on a regular basis, but the way to solve that problem is to move into Tokyo Tower; they've gotten pretty good at rebuilding it.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Sat Jun 6 00:56:12 2015 (ZlYZd)
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Yeah, but also by the laws of Harem anime, if we ever DID get the notion in our noggins to sample the wares, all of the rest of the haremettes would take great exception to it and do everything possible to interfere.
There's a reason most of those heroes try to ignore the bounty around them.
You're better off with a Broken Doll, because then everyone's cheering for you to work it out, only she's really dysfunctional until you finally get to that point, and then poof, the series is over.
Posted by: Mauser at Sat Jun 6 04:09:44 2015 (TJ7ih)
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Well, yes, but even without being able to seal the deal, we'd still be surrounded by flirtatious eye candy with whom we constantly end up in Compromising Positions. And unless Lum is involved, the consequences aren't nearly as bad as real-world college boys face; sending someone to prison for consensual sex is too wacky for anime. Now those dolls are really broken!
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Sat Jun 6 11:21:04 2015 (ZlYZd)
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I dunno about those consequences being not that bad. Explosive Nosebleeds at the moment you accidentally cop a feel is pretty worrying. I had a nosebleed once that required two applications of Silver Nitrate to stanch, and that is an agony I wouldn't wish on anyone (well, maybe with a few exceptions...).
Posted by: Mauser at Sat Jun 6 22:24:45 2015 (TJ7ih)
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You know... I don't think those are moon pies at all. Croquettes?
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Tue Jun 9 18:45:05 2015 (pWQz4)
Apropos of nothing to be sure, but noting that Putin has gotten very vociferous in his defense of the sanctity of the Russian Orthodox Church, I looked up their views on cremation. Golly....
It is unclear what the HELL is actually going on in Kharkov and the Donbass but there are indications that the Ukranians are not collapsing quite yet...
Happily, we can all rest assured that none of the above is of any concern, because all of these things are denied the position of "top story" by the fact that Bruce Jenner looks quite hot for a 65 year old in a one piece, presumably meaning that we can now use plastic surgery and photoshop to make the scary stuff go away.
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The Vanity Fair picture shows that if you take a top photographer and a team of stylists, you can make Bruce Jenner look like a male athlete with a boob job. This is clearly a metaphor for Obama's foreign policy.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Tue Jun 2 10:51:14 2015 (ZlYZd)
Two Hours Well Spent
Here is an FPRI panel with three scholars giving talks on on the First World War. The whole thing is worth your time. The first covers just how unexpected the disaster was and why that was. The second talk (25 and a half minutes in) is also quite interesting, with Rutger's Kate Epstein debunking some long held misconceptions about the British Empire's position and strategy at the beginning of the war. To me the third is particularly fascinating. In it, John R. Schindler (who blogs at Double Cross Committee) goes into detail about role Austria-Hungary played in the genesis of the catastrophe. That one starts about 43 minutes in.
I was aware that things went to worms for the KuK early on, but Schindler makes it clear that their setbacks were far worse than is generally supposed, making the fact that held on till the end a fairly impressive feat.
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Great panel; after listening to Mr. Schindler's segment, I went back and watched the whole thing. Fascinating stuff. Coincidentally , I sat down with Hitman (dunno if I've mentioned him much before) for a boardgame about WWI. By the end of September 1914, I was having to redirect German armies to prop up the Austro-Hungarians, who'd come to grief in the exact same area as history showed--after an initially successful offense turned into a disaster. The KuK really do need that 7th army.
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Origins (the gaming convention) traditionally has a really good military history/contemporary military discussion track. One year they did several presentations on WWI Canadian stuff, which was fascinating. I had NO IDEA that Canadians invented motorcycle blitzkrieg.
In people's heads, WWI seems to be associated more with stereotypes than facts, sad to say.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Tue Jun 2 20:55:13 2015 (ZJVQ5)
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Oh, and I forgot to say that Brandon Hedges has a pretty darned decent WWI novel he's been writing and serializing on his and his wife's blog.
Right now it's called <A HREF="http://www.thegreatwaranovel.com/p/volume-one.html">The Great War</a>, but I don't know if he'll be changing the title.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Tue Jun 2 21:05:44 2015 (ZJVQ5)
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Er, sorry about that. I always forget how to link here. Lemme try that again.
The Great War. The blog is at darwincatholic.blogspot.com, but the link has it in reading order and not all dispersed as blog posts.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Tue Jun 2 21:07:58 2015 (ZJVQ5)
Serial Gruberings and Other Worries
Discussions of life's little irritants is below the fold. To keep perusal of this site in the domain of leisure rather than masochism, here is a whopping 35 feet of pulchritude (and an aspie).
What can 100-plus kilowatts kill? Hardy was cagey about specific targets, but a study from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments suggests that it could destroy enemy cruise missiles, drones, and even manned aircraft at significant ranges.
"A 150-200 kW laser could be capable against surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles,†said CSBA’s Mark Gunzinger...
One of the Brickmuppet's Crack Team of Science Babes, is here with an overview of what all this means.
"The fellow doing the analysis of the LASER CANNON is named GUNZINGER! Anime is becoming real!"
They work for the love of it. Brickmuppet is a stud.
...moving right along...
I don't believe in this as a weapon for a jet, not even a heavy bomber. But it's perfect for the Navy. A Navy destroyer is an ideal platform to mount a weapon this heavy, which requires this much power.
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Electronic warfare and the limits of stealth are waaaay outside my bailiwick, but given the lethality of even current systems, we may rapidly be approaching the point where 'if it flies it dies' and planes are limited to standoff platforms and perhaps utility/liaison work. We may already be there with first world air defense systems like the S-300, Sea Viper, Aegis and Patriot. With lasers and railguns, it might just be a skeet shoot.
So even in the vanishingly unlikely event that Mao (from GJ Club) is right about her analysis, it probably won't be one of the genres that has dogfights. Hopefully it won't have zombies or hopping cyclops umbrellas either.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tue May 26 17:27:29 2015 (ohzj1)
2. As the article points out, it's pretty easy to put a power source and mechanism onto a big plane, fly it somewhere literally in the middle of nowhere but air, and test things. You need a little more logistics with a boat.
3. As the article points out, once you know how to put a power source on a plane and then it gets small enough, it will probably be pretty easy to move the power source and mechanism onto a boat.
4. If you don't put it on a fighter but you do put it on a plane, it either has to be a Stealth plane or the fighters are going to come and kill your laser plane before it can do anything.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Tue May 26 19:37:38 2015 (ZJVQ5)
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PS. I've seen the Laser 747 at the air show (on the ground), and some stuff they burned up really good with the laser. I've never seen the Laser Ship. The unit patches are cool.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Tue May 26 19:39:42 2015 (ZJVQ5)
I have not seen Rin-Kan previously and dropping uninitiated into episode eight I was initially surprised by the jerky animation and the freaky-deaky see-through hair on two of the young ladies.
"Oh Lord, it's like colored cellophane wigs!"
However, it really was a charming, poignant story.
I guess it is a sign of the times that the McGuffin that allows the non-psychic characters to interact with the supernatural is a smartphone ap. That's one hell of an ap.
It isn't a special app; it's just the ordinary camera app. Which is even stranger and a bit hard to digest. Why didn't anyone notice before?
As best I can handwave, it's because there weren't any ghosts around before. There are suddenly a lot around because they follow Amami around. It's been like that her whole life, so she doesn't consider it remarkable. But before she entered the high school, there weren't any ghosts there, so no one noticed them in their phone cameras.
There is an interesting interview with the Latvian Defense Minister here, which discusses amongst other things, that the little country is spending 27% of their budget on defense in light of current events.
Actually, China just dumped $50 billion dollars to help Brazil build infrastructure including a Transcontinental railroad to take Brazilian resources to ports in Peru (for shipment to China). It's unclear what other agreements are involved but with Argentina getting money and military kit gifted to them as well and Namibia getting a Chinese port, the South Atlantic is going to be a darned cozy place for Chinese ships.
Russia is playing chess, China is playing Risk and we are playing golf.
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And we're not warning anybody off the American hemisphere, either.
And yes, it does look like that thing with China in Panama and Nicaragua was related. Great, just what we needed.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Sat May 23 05:24:15 2015 (ZJVQ5)
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I would not oversell the railroad. The Tran-Siberian railroad has the highest utilization in the world. It has 3 to 4 lines on its whole length where Chinese influx hops on it around Blagoveschensk. Yet it only delivers about 7% of the shopbourne traffic from China to Europe and it took a century to construct and continuously improve for the smooth flow. Brazil's trade to China is going to be carried mostly by ship, especially if we're talking raw materials.
That said, Chinese money funds a number of interesting railroads, such as the one they mean to build across the northern Mexico for the trade with Texas. The limited capacity of Panama canal hurts them enough to make all these railroads feasible.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sat May 23 12:10:03 2015 (RqRa5)
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And Panama is about to start using the bigger locks they've constructed to allow the larger container ships through. So thee might be some interesting competition going on.
Posted by: Mauser at Sat May 23 17:34:16 2015 (TJ7ih)
The real problem for the Panama Canal is water. The way locks work, a lot of water is released from above to down below for every ship that goes through. That water is coming from that lake which is in the middle of the canal, and thus traffic in the canal is limited by the amount of rainfall in the watershed that feeds that lake.
Unless they do something like building massive pumps to move water back up to the top, I think I remember that the limit with the current locks is about 100 ships per year. If they build larger locks, they'll use more water per ship.
The proposed Nicaragua canal has exactly the same issue. (The Suez canal does not, because the entire thing is at sea level so there aren't any locks.)
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And here I thought the only thing to watch this summer would be Gatchaman Crowds Insight. :-)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Wed May 20 19:07:45 2015 (ZlYZd)
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I lost interest in the manga when it became clear that it does not have any defined direction at all (right about the time Slime appeared). Hopefuly anime ends before that time.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed May 20 19:41:27 2015 (7aoDe)
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J, aren't you looking forward to Bikini Warriors?
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Sadly the Slime is in the credits... Like you I thought the Manga went downhill quickly after she showed up. (Though the SWAT team was mildly amusing). What strikes me as strange is just HOW risque the trailer is, and that the production values are indicative of a nontrivial investment. This series must have sold rather better than I would have thought.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed May 20 21:29:08 2015 (ohzj1)
Bittersweet Victory
Well, my trip to Kafkaland seems to finally be resolved.
This is kind of a shame as I was enjoying both classes. OTOH this is almost certainly for the best as it means I'll be caught up financially in a few weeks (I still need to get a car after all).
In any event, here is something that some of you might find clever.
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Good to hear.
Update: Yay!
I wonder if I could get unsuspended from YouTube. I got suspended about eight years ago when Sony Music first turned on their little bot and it found my collection of anime ops and eds, and I'm still suspended.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thu May 21 21:20:25 2015 (2yngH)
A Certain Irksomeness
Since the content below the fold can be nothing but a horrible, horrible warning, we decided to post some positive words to live by above it.
My girls are 14 and 12. I don't even speak of college anymore; just trade schools or marriage to a guy with a trade.
You've no 'donate' button on your site. That's one way to fix 1st world problems. I know that "charity" is a dirty word for those of us old enough to have pride, but caritas amongst us of the Remnant is another thing altogether.
Posted by: Clayton Barnett at Tue May 19 01:21:56 2015 (lU4ZJ)
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Tue May 19 12:21:43 2015 (ZJVQ5)
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First world problems only affect the first world.
You are talking about debt and bureaucratic obstructiveness and I am lead to believe they are fundamental properties that pervade the whole universe.
Keep pushing and you may be able to resolve it.
Posted by: Riktol at Tue May 19 14:26:19 2015 (MQZN9)
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I would not even bother with instructors, call the Reg/Adm office.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tue May 19 20:43:58 2015 (8hfbc)
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Yeah, my next stop would be straight into the Registrar's and/or Bursar's.
Posted by: RickC at Tue May 19 20:47:18 2015 (0a7VZ)
Yeah, my next stop would be straight into the Registrar's and/or Bursar's.
That was my second stop (after the attempt at online withdrawal).
Step FIVE was to go to the Old Administration Building and ask to speak to anyone named "Dean". That seems to have worked except that it appears that I'm still being billed for the classes. IIt seems that Dean is almost as cool a name as Maximilian.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed May 20 14:52:04 2015 (ohzj1)
I think the most profound difference between the US and Australia is not the lack of taipan funnel sharks over here, but rather the fact that Pixy did not have anything to say about "cultural appropriation".
Australia rocks!
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed May 20 14:58:58 2015 (ohzj1)
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"That was my second stop (after the attempt at online withdrawal)."
Argh. Well, I guess I'm glad you got a resolution that isn't horrible?
The one time I found myself in a literal Catch-22 situation (Registrar: "Can't have your class schedule without a copy of your bill". Bursar: "Can't give you your bill without a class schedule") I managed to deal with it by asking to talk to the Registrar Dean, too.
Posted by: RickC at Wed May 20 18:58:09 2015 (0a7VZ)
Space-X successfully tested its launch abort system recently. Instead of a disposable tower the system uses the landing retro rockets to remove the capsule from an exploding rocket and send it down range.
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Note that MaxLaunch system that NASA tested for Orion used disposable pusher engines. It was necessary for Ares V because it was too tall to fit into VAB with tower. It's my understanding that its reincarnation SLS is slightly lower, at least in the first block.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed May 13 10:06:36 2015 (RqRa5)
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I watched that launch, and I said "Musk could sell tickets for just that part of the flight."
Posted by: Mauser at Thu May 14 05:24:40 2015 (TJ7ih)
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sun May 10 22:20:05 2015 (jGQR+)
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So...Is it Sony's policy to only block GOOD videos of their music?
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed May 13 13:19:26 2015 (ohzj1)
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My understanding is that they use a bot. What it looks for isn't clear, but you can find a dozen other RWBY amv's that use Uptown Funk. None of them, as you say, are nearly this good.
"I didn't even like that song before." Blasphemy.
Posted by: Ben at Wed May 13 15:04:11 2015 (DRaH+)
A Straightforward and Forthright Answer
I just stumbled across this which contains a quote for the ages...
You have worked at the eating lab for some time. What is the eating lab? What does one do at an eating lab? The concept of an eating lab is really cool, but I have to admit that I don't quite know what it is. I don't want to make it sound any less cool, but it is a lab. And it is where we do eating studies.....
There's more to be sure, but the rest of the article merely detracts from the purity of that.
That response is tied to something that I've blogged about in association with matters of far less importance before, I've been working on another post on the topic for months but its so damned depressing to me that it still festers in draft form. Fortunately, Ace has nailed it: You really should read the whole thing, but here is a particularly important excerpt:
This is about, specifically, the careerist, cowardly, go-along-to-get-along mores of the Upper Middle Class, the class of people whose parents were all college educated, and of course are college educated themselves; the class that dominates our thought-transmitting institutions (because non-college educated people are more of less shut out of this industry).
It is a class which is deathly afraid of social stigma, and lives in class-based fear being grouped with the wrong people, and which is more interested in Career, quite frankly, than in the actual tradecraft of that Career, which is clarity of thought and clarity of expression.
That is the bit that is getting quoted everywhere and I DO think it is making an exceedingly important point about the larger issue facing society.
The idea of a 'problem class' is on the face of it is pretty obnoxious. However, the upper middle class is an important barometer of a societies' health. This is the group that in other times were often minor nobility and they produce the bulk of a nation's great thinkers and innovators when a society is healthy.
When societies are not though, this demographic also produces about 100% of the Robspierres, Ches, Maos and disappointed Austrian painters. The herd dynamics ACE is referring to are at the core of a whole host of societal ills right now, the most troubling being the inability of so many people to stand up for anything like classically liberal principals....which is where ACE gets down to brass tacks..
One does not "support" someone's right to free speech by name-calling them and advertising how far one believes they fall outside the smug Upper Middle Class (leftist-dominated) Consensus.
One supports free speech by supporting those who speak freely.
I am so disgusted by how so many alleged thinkers seem to care more about social positioning than actual thought.
I should not advertise any hostility I may have towards Ms. Gellar to prove I'm "among the acceptable ones."
What he said...
The winning submission to the contest was by Bosch Fawstin
I have little to add except for this....One of the more worrisome arguments I've heard concerning political correctness recently is the idea that "...as long as the GOVERNMENT isn't shutting people up, then it isn't censorship...So kindly shut up" That argument may be technically true and indeed government enforcement of such things is a bigger evil. Its also pretty hard to pass constitutional muster in this country which is why we have these examples of things that are not technically censorship.
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