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  1. Getting back to the OPs point, a "Critical Thinking" class is a valuable thing in-and-of itself, but a class for "Critical Thinking to Fight Misinformation in Media" is a fucking mine field. The world is not black-and-white and the nuanced grayscale of politics makes picking case studies for the class a lot harder than it may initially seem. I think there are far fewer cases of "Holocaust didn't happen" level of misinformation than people pretend. While there are a lot of stupid people out there, I always keep in mind that for every opinion I hold, there is some equally smart person that has the exact opposite opinion.
  2. Not sure I'd call that a sucker punch. Dude pulled up his pants, had his arms loose and ready, was looking at and walking toward his ex. His dumb ass just couldn't defend a no-nonsense-first-strike at the beginning of the launch window.
  3. When a battery breakthrough happens and these things can run for weeks at a time on a single charge, it will be time to freak out. Until then, we only need to play keep-it-away-from-the-charger for 60 minutes before humans win.
  4. Oh God, I can't imagine how terrible that would be.
  5. My one and only time seeing Van Halen live was at the Monster's of Rock Tour in 1988 at Candlestick Park (SF). The band order was: Kingdom Come, Dokken, Metallica, Scorpions, Van Halen. Van Halen was riding high with OU812, and without a doubt had the largest crowd, but Metallica figuratively stole the thunder. "Master of Puppets" had been out a couple years and "And Justice for All..." was going to be released a few months later. On top of that, they were a Bay Area band; this was like a home-game for them. The Scorpions were the big losers. Squeezed between Metallica and Van Halen. The Scorpions quote hard rock unquote sound just wasn't built to follow Metallica and wasn't as grand as Van Halen. If they were following Dokken and leading into Van Halen, they would have been in a great spot, but the way it worked out, they came across as old and stale. The biggest thing I remember from the Van Halen set was Michael Anthony had probably the worst Bass solo I've ever heard. I have no idea if he was drunk, stoned, or just sucks at solos.
  6. Dave may have been the perfect front-man for VH at the beginning, but after six albums he had hit his celling. You can only hide the fact that he's a terrible singer so many different ways. If DLR had stayed in the band, VH doesn't evolve and they just put out more of the same stuff; it would have sounded a lot like Dave's solo crap but with better musicians. I have no insights in to the back-stabbing that may have gone on, but Sammy rejuivnated that band and gave it a 2nd life.
  7. Do we know what the "jaw dropping surprise" is? I care enough to read this thread, but not enough to google the answer. I'll hang up and listen.
  8. CSN/CSN&Y created some of the greatest music of that period.
  9. There are a few edge cases where a movie round has to look exactly like the real thing. Think closeup of loading a gun. But those cases are rare, and if it looks real, it should be treated like the real thing. We still don't know the exact scene they were working on, but if the actor need to load real-looking ammo, fine, BUT there needed to be a 'cut', a gun-swap, and a visual confirmation of fake/blank/dummy/plastic ammo before getting to the part where the gun is pointed at the camera part. It more-than-likely didn't require real looking ammo for what they were rehearsing, so Baldwin _should_ have looked at the gun and said "Hey, this looks like real ammo, can we get the plastic stuff". Not doing that is just crazy.
  10. It was certainly spun that his company was just one of many after the incident. The sheriff and DA have access to all emails and text messages, so they must have found a smoking gun.
  11. We've been through this shit, let's not rehash it all again. Sometimes on a movie sets they use various blanks and dummy rounds. Many guns need a firing pin to make a small bang and some smoke; telling an actor to "pretend the gun recoiled" will make your movie look like a high school production. There are all kinds of scenarios that require different tools. If you need to shoot a front closeup of a western revolver, you don't want a bright orange safety tip showing. As was posted a dozen pages back, some rounds look like the real thing, but simply have no powder and a dummy primer. A actor isn't going to know the difference. It hasn't been released what exactly the scene they were shooting called for, as far as I know, so we don't know what was appropriate. But we can know that a live round had NO business being there and whoever lead to that should have be charged. It will be interesting to see if Bladwin was pressing folks as Producer to go faster and cut corners; that would be my guess why he's being charged. I wonder if the assistance director (who handed Baldwin the gun and said it was clear) who cut a deal opened up on Baldwin-the-Producer.
  12. So if I understand what you're saying, he should have stepped back and given her an opened handed Bitch Slap.
  13. They Hate us, cause they Ain't Us.
  14. Cool. I had to google this one, it turned out to be a little ol band from texas.
  15. Who the hell talks to neighbors? I live in the burbs and my direct neighbors could be neo-Nazi and I'd never know it. My life is interesting enough, I have no interest in listening to the political rants of the people in my community. A friendly wave, and a tall fence.
  16. Not what, Who.
  17. Nothing wrong with a little loyalty to a friend to start with, but the accused's story doesn't add up. smokebomb is 100% correct:
  18. And I'm not sure a police-run sting for kiddie porn could/would use actual kiddie porn. A police-run sting would more likely befriend you and try to get you to share your porn with them. Again, I think your friend is lying and is in deeper than he is telling you.
  19. An email provider would be able to scan a mail box and read your mail. They could see links to bad stuff, and they can scan attachments for bad stuff, and when you read a specific mail, there is an "Unread/Read" attribute that gets update in the mailbox; the email provider could know you read a specific email. But an email provider has know way to know what links in an email you clicked. When mail is up in a browser or mail reader and you click a link, your computer talks to the host from the link via the Internet connection; it doesn't go through the email provider. Nothing gets updated in the mailbox when you click a link in an email...the browser has that info and that is out of reach of the email provider. If the email provider reported this, is was NOT because of a clicked link to kiddie porn, it was because there was actual kiddie porn _files_ in his email.
  20. Talking to the police is bad, lying to the police is worse. Seems like a good time to re-post this: I have 4 kids now in the 19-25 range. When they were in high school, I _required_ them to watch that video and regurgitate back to me what was in it. It's never a bad idea for adults to rewatch it. tldr; The first rule about police is you don't talk to the police.
  21. When you say "content was earmarked and as soon as my friend clicked on the link, the information was reported to local authorities", it smells of BS. Either your friend is lying, or you are intentionally or unknowingly mis-reporting the details. Who exactly reported it to the authorities? The ISP? What exactly was reported to authorities? What does 'earmarked' mean in this context. That term is not one that is used in the tech field. If the link was an 'http" and not an "https", the ISP can in fact see what file was being requested, and see the actual content of that file being sent back. If the ISP does something called "Deep Packet Inspection", which many of them do, a child porn link very well could trigger a report to authorities. But, 1) It's unlikely an illegal porn site or hacker collective is going to send out "http" links. That would draw attention to them. So who sent the mail? 2) NOBODY, is going to charge for a single link. Many email clients download embedded images automatically in email...those are all links. A link could says it's a go fund me campaign. A link could be hidden by a URL shorteners making it impossible to see where the link is really going. One time is explainable....but spending an hour on the same site....clicking multiple other links on that site...saving the images to your hard drive. That's different. Get a copy of the arrest warrant; I suspect what your friend is telling you is not the full story.
  22. 0xdeadbeef

    Jeff Beck RIP

    The weird thing about Jeff Beck for me was that it didn't look like he should be making that sound. Take almost any of his videos and turn the sound off. His right hand looks like someone at Guitar Center who is picking up a guitar for the first time. He's got that mostly open palm where the thumb just lightly touches a few string. There is no way in hell he should make the sounds he does. And yet, here we are. It's such a huge dividing line between rock music and what came before it that when the music stars of the 30s, 40s, and 50s got old and died in larger numbers, it didn't really impact me because I didn't know them or their music. Now that the young stars of the 60s are are starting to pass, it feels more personal. U.S. life expectancy for men is 77. Beck was 78. Sadly, there are a lot of other Rock-Gods queued up: Gilmour (76), Knopfler (73) , Gibbons (73), Young (77), Clapton (77), Santana (75), Richards (79), Page (79), May (75), Betts (79)
  23. Most cops that make it onto Youtube are there because they suck at being cops. This guy gets a A+. I watched it again and that motorcycle cop should train other cops. He got the guy out of the street then realized the guy was not right and he calmed everything down. He went with a softer voice, he gave the guy space, he let the guy talk, he didn't cuff the guy initially (which he probably was justified if he wanted to), when the guy didn't want to sit against the wall because he "wanted to be seen" the cop was cool and said fine sit other there and be seen. Deescalate and defuse. Unfortunately it still ended badly.
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