Have you watched any good movies lately?

[All Darc]

https://wikidiff.com/pregnant/impregnation

Is female soldier impregnatiopn, during war, in case it's not a rape, considered a desertion, like in the same way when a male soldier intentionally shot his own leg or own foot to scape battlefield ?
After all, it's a good way to scape the war and save their as...s.

Originally Posted by Xist

Veteran here. While away at war, servicemembers generally have difficulty procreating, although I knew several female Soldiers that got pregnant right before deployment, and several more that got impregnated while we were in Afghanistan.

I am confident that many Soldiers that deployed with me got pregnant or got someone pregnant when they came home.

Of course, personnel in World War II, Korea, and maybe Vietnam hooked up with local nationals. It very well may have happened in Afghanistan, but I did not know of anyone walking out the gate for any reason, including seemingly shapely women.

I once shared a source that showed that worldwide, there was a strong correlation between women not finishing high school and having kids early and often.

I am sure that I have made plenty of decisions that caused me financial troubles, but I came into money last year, and paid down my student loans.

I hope to pay them off this year. Then I am neutralizing my credit cards.

Anyway, I need to read seven chapters in the next twenty-two hours, watch hours of lectures, take a quiz undoubtedly designed with a different textbook than we were assigned, do it all over again tomorrow, and then take a test on Sunday.

Please have a good day.

[All Darc]

And some leftwings will tell you that drug users have the holly right to use any drugs they wish, that's their decision, and that you must pay for the medical care and homecare of them. Some even will tell you to pay for medical facilities whre they came in to use drugs while a doctor and nurse are available in case of he need medical attendion due the effects of drug, overdoses risk etc...
I'm pro help ´people, but against spent money if they refuse left away the things that destroy thenself, and off course I refuse to accept the state to give them what leaft thenselves in disgrace.

No kiding, I saw a TV News showing a center for drug users came in and use drugs while a health professionals was present to help in any problem. All with public money. Don't remamber if was in San Francisco or in some european country.

Abortion to them it's another holly right, even after 3 or 4 months, but esterilization of people in these conditions, people who usualy get pregnant and generates babies with neural problems (due drugs during pregnancy) it's a abomination.
In this particular point uncle Jordan is right when he says the leftwing don't want to see the responsability people must have.

On Brazil minimal wage increased a bit in last 18 years, but here people to have some decency needs to pay for health (since public health it's a mess), needs to pay for security or security system or neighboorhood less dangerous, and needs to pay for schools, since public schools are horrible.
So, let's supose in a european contry or scandinavian country the minimal wage can't pay for private schools and private health for a family of 4 people, since private services are expansive there. But the difference to Brazil it's giant, since in such countries the public services, schools, security it's usually very good and people can spent their money in other things, to make their life more confortable and pleasant.
USA in these terms it's between Brazil and European countries with good public services. USA scholl are not very good, and health system also not very good. Security varies from state tostate, and in some cases, some cities as as violent as some cities on Brazil.

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I've got lots of personal examples of people who were poor because of their poor decisions, not because of their poor circumstances. A coworker I knew made twice as much money as me, and was a single guy living in a single-bed apartment. He'd sometimes ask to borrow money to pay rent because he is poor at managing his money. He would spend everything, not saving for any unexpected event such as car problems.

My cousin received a windfall of money on 2 occasions ($60k and $100k+). He was broke inside of 3 months when he got the $60k. Prior to that, he had worked 2 years as a cook. After that he was on the streets. Then he inherited $100k+ and was broke within about 4 months. Started doing meth, lost what little mental capacity he had. Died last year at 44.

People in the US are just as insane as anywhere else. They will say that minimum wage isn't a "living wage". First, minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage; it was intended to get new workers foot into the workplace. Second, I could raise a family on minimum wage. It wouldn't be extravagant, but it would be a living wage. In the US, you won't be stuck with minimum wage for long if you aren't an idiot or lazy.

That isn't to say those at the lower ends of the economic spectrum are to blame; as genetics and environment are the only 2 things that affect a person's outcome, and neither are within their control.

[freebeard]

Anime schoolgirls have an odd effect on some people's affect.

Veteran here.

Perhaps you can appreciate the part I like: An overturned smoking tank pops up a white flag and everyone is Okay. Then they go home to their respective aircraft carriers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF1A...wG76dd&index=3

Part 1 has more tank drifting and less reference material. Then there's the music:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...6b7jXgxCeYJRXI

[Xist]

Has anyone watched "For the People?" Tonight's episode was about a gamer that called S.W.A.T. on another player, but had the wrong address, and when S.W.A.T. charged in, a little boy ran out. His visiting grandfather--a Senator--chased after him and the police shot and killed him on sight.
This is one of the What If scenarios that regularly goes through my head, so it was of particular interest to me.
I went to shower and Mom told me I could finish watching the show afterward, but changed the channel, so I cannot go back and watch it.

So... did anyone see the end?

[freebeard]

"For the People?" or "For the People"? [?] What hardware platform/software platform/network/channel?

I don't even try to keep up. Maybe DDG can fill you in: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gamer+SWAT+gone+bad

Lots of choice.

[Xist]

It is on ABC and they will air it again next week. I tried to program it to record, but it kept telling me to connect it to the Internet.

Apparently the ethernet does not count, nor does giving it the wifi password again. It keeps saying we need to call the Internet company.

The Internet company is the cable company.

You can watch "For the People" on-line, but it does not say anything about this season, so eventually?

[niky]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

The script said nothing about who is right or wrong, or who is good and evil. If you felt those things, you've projected them onto what you were watching.

I'd say the movie was perfect and brought up endless amounts of philosophy. What's to say that choosing the red pill actually woke the person up to "reality"? Perhaps the red pill was another layer within the Matrix to prevent people from experiencing reality.

Did you actually watch the last movie to the end?

The problem with every conceivable philosophy being considered equally valid is that it isn't useful. What's to say that humans destroy the earth? There's no inherent definition of what destruction is vs improvement.

The second movie was a long drawn out in-betweener that could have been cut down to an hour. It would have worked better that way. The Wachowskis oft suffer Peter Jackson Syndrome, and just stretch out and overstuff their movies because they can.

Well, maybe it should be Wachowski Syndrome, since the Matrix came before the Lord of the Rings movies, but Jackson does it worse.

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The third movie was interesting, in a way, as I thought it more pointedly blurred the line between human and machine. The humans in the story only reacted along pretty predictable lines of action, to the point where the scene in the Architect's room with the various "Ones" shown on the monitor seemed to suggest a near lack of independent thought for "humans" like Neo. Like the Matrix was a learning algorithm for barely intelligent programs.

In contrast to the machines, who showed initiative, independence and a rebellious streak that was more unpredictable than the cyclical human one.

[jakobnev]

I wholeheartedly recommend "Behind the curve".

It's a documentary, but it's more entertaining that many Hollywood movies.

[Xist]

I enjoy "Fathead"--at double speed. Curiously, the creator described himself as a comedy writer.

I have difficulty believing that.

The idea is that he had many questions about "Supersize Me," but Morgan Spurlock did not answer any of them, so

[redpoint5]

Supersize me was garbage. Pure entertainment piece with no scientific value at all. Basically a doctor said it's not a good idea to have the McDonalds for every meal diet and supersize it anytime he was asked. That's not science.

I wanted to do a counter-documentary where I eat McDonalds every day and get in the best shape of my life.