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Or...Otisburgh?

It's not the CGI that's the problem, it's how it's used to create a spectacle rather than tell a story. Emmerich is the worst of the bunch. There's no emotional depth to his movies, just shallow manipulation and superficial stimulation masquerading as feeling. Literally, the definition of sociopathy. Personally, I can't judge him...but he is a sociopathic filmmaker.

Immediately after the officers leave, somebody robs the place and empties the cash drawer, and they complain "Where were the police?" They were in the extreme elsewhere, so you'd feel safe.

Go ahead then. Submit your flying broom. Tell me how that works out.

It's not the first time a brainless idiot has erroneously called me wrong.

I think the original poster meant "Too bad Tom Brady wasn't with him" in the sense that Mr. Bundchen could have laid hands on him or given him some magic water and healed him on the spot.

Like I said, it's a solid basalt cap out here. Earthquake waves travel far. The Mineral quake was felt in Canada, north of Toronto.

"Please don't publish photos that can be used as evidence in court." But they're peaceful. Sure.

Genius would have been doing it on his day off.

The big difference is that federal programs can't accept donations - it violates all sorts of regulations and has the potential for ethics violations. Even a congresscritter can't donate such - that could constitute bribery of government workers, and certainly violates separation of powers. Same reason trucks full of private donations were turned back from New Orleans after Katrina. Your church donating to another private organization in Mexico is completely different.

Except McClusky screwed up. He was a fighter pilot who didn't know naval bomber doctrine (he was promoted to air group commander just before Midway, and didn't have time to learn). During the ultimate bombing of the Kido Butai, he was leading the scout bomber squadron in the low position, and should have flown on to bomb Akagi while the bomber squadron in the high position dove on Kaga (as doctrine at the time was one squadron per enemy carrier). Instead, he incorrectly dove the scout bombers on Kaga, while the bomber squadron correctly dove on Kaga as well. That would have left Akagi completely uncovered, except the VB-6 squadron leader saw the error and pulled his flight out of his dive on Kaga. And instead dove his three planes on Akagi - which, from the trailer, is one of the things the new movie gets right. At 1:42 in the trailer, there's three planes diving (at roughly the right angle - about 70 degrees) on a carrier with the island to port and the Katakana letterア on the aft deck. That carrier's Akagi, so that's certainly Dick Best's flight. That and Ensign George Gay being the sole survivor of Torpedo 8 looks like the only things the movie gets right.

And cheating.

I remember the quake we had in VA about 10 years ago. Was at work, the desk started shaking gently. About ten seconds later, it got more energetic and things started bouncing up and down. People started running to the elevator (idiots) to evacuate the building, except me and another guy who looked at each other and said "So that's an earthquake? Let's do it again, so we can be sure." (Because science is repeatable, and amateur scientists are idiots.) Was also interesting because of the ten-second delay between the P- and S-waves. Earthquakes travel pretty far in the eastern US, since it's basically a solid basaltic plate, so the time difference meant it was relatively far away, so feeling it that strongly meant it was relatively strong (for the east). And DC still hasn't recovered from the "disaster."

Not difficult, so much as boring. It's not all it's quacked up to be. (If anyone wants to report that pun to the moderators and ask I be banned for it, I understand completely.)

The USPTO has some standards. Rowling couldn't submit a magic broom patent, for example, because "magic" isn't patentable. She'd have to describe how it works. At least one of those patents from Hedge's link shouldn't have been awarded, as it was a perpetual motion machine.

You better not be talking about his "I used to be able to work constructively with segregationists" comments. Because working with people you disagree with isn't racism, it's maturity.

I rest my case.

Well that's just stupid. Ducks are lousy public speakers. They make mistakes all the time.

The answer "ALL OF THEM" is clearly incorrect, as Millard Fillmore never made a mistake at the mic. That the microphone hadn't yet been invented is only relevant in that presidents that predated the microphone - such as Millard Fillmore - clearly could not have made any mistakes at a microphone. Which makes the provided answer of "ALL OF THEM" not just incorrect, but stupidly incorrect.

Which was not specified in the post I quoted, was it?

Yeah, I want to see Roland Emmerich thrown to a pack of rabid ferrets. I'd watch that movie.

"They're going to have their Confederate flags flying and their license plates and all kinds of trouble making..." NOOOOOOO!!!!!! Not LICENSE PLATES!!!!!! Go drunk, Chris, you're home.

I'm so used to you being late with these, I saw this and thought "Wow, it's already August? Where'd the month go...wait a minute..." Stop ***** with my brain, Vader.

Damn, I just ate. Guess I'll have to have a bacon cheeseburger tomorrow.

I'm arguing it's their right to determine the risk and act as they see fit. If that's the only conclusion you can draw, it merely demonstrates that you're a narrow-minded idiot. Which is not a surprise, since you're woefully short on facts and long on bull####. You didn't even read the articles you linked to, did you?