I hope you feel better, Clopin.
Hermes. I'm a ramblin' man.
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I hope you feel better, Clopin.
Hermes. I'm a ramblin' man.
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And okay, Appollo.
Which BRIC nation would you rather be born in?
None, but okay, Brazil. Lots of gangsters, but sweet ladies.
Come on, Russia all the way. Your question too.
Walked over 125 miles of the AT, it crosses the highway about five miles up the road. I would chose a section and leave a car at the other end. Most walked in one day was about 15 miles. Some parts I walked both ways, short sections of less than 6 miles. Two long stretches I walked part way in, marked my place, and then walked in from the other end to that place. About 12 miles both of them, six in and six out. Oh for those days again!
I am like Apollo.
Would you set off an a 15 mile hike with just the contents of a fanny pack and three bottles of water?
Oh sorry. No, Russia's too cold. Amazing culture/history, though. But after living in the Far East for a bit, I must say my favorite country is still the American republic. Freedom is everthing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
As far as the hike goes, it depends on what I was hiking through, what was at the other end, and what was chasing me. So maybe.
Would you convert to your fiancée's religion if it would make her happy and if her family insisted?
I would for sure, yes; doesn't really matter to me and I would happily observe the faith as well as long as I'm not expected to be REALLY devoted.
Would you ever become a priest/minister?
Only in the sense of the priesthood of every believer. I don't believe ordained clergy are necessary and I have little official use for them; same with churches (for me). Everyone is "in church" all the time as far as I'm concerned. Orthodoxies run by priests are highly problematic and, in my opinion, unnecessary and often very harmful.
Would you marry clergy from a religion you did not believe in?
a tough question, love is huge, but even as hopeful as I am, I cannot help but think the differences in worldviews would be likely insurmountable.
have you read some books that were better (or as good) as movies?
Um, yeah. Like all of them. :)
Would you marry someone you knew you wouldn't see for years afterwards?
hmm I think maybe you took my meaning oppositely pompey. have you read some books, and the movie versions were better?
I would say yes, but it depends on how many years and if there could be other communications in the interim.
who was your favorite james bond and your favorite bond movie?
Craig and Casino Royale win by default for being the only Bond I've seen, so somebody else should give a real answer.
What's your favourite food?
The only Bond is Sean Connery, and the best movie is--maybe Thunderball? It's got the cutest girls, plus, what does the title mean? Absolutely nothing!
If you have a chance, here is a hilarious audio interview with John Barry, the composer who wrote the music for the early Bond films. Really, check it out.
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/04/133372...ser-john-barry
Hamburgers, to my shame. I need to lose weight!
If you were training to be a priest and the "Oath of Celibacy" came up, would you quit the training?
Yes, but I would hope I had an idea about that before I started my training and wasted everyone's time.
Do you tend to vent your feelings or bottle them up?
Both. I have Bi-Polar2. When I am in manic phase, I vent. When I am depressed, I bottle things up.
Would you befriend someone with an incurable mental illness?
Yes. I always do :)
Do you believe that everything happens for a reason?
Yes and no. Fate is a process of universal interplay that, in effect, drives itself. That means we are in a world where almost anything could happen to us--including some really nasty things. But my belief is that there is a reason we are in such a place.
Would you be willing to sacrifice a significant amount of civil liberties if it meant a significant reduction in the risk of domestic terrorism?
Well reducing the risk from near zero to slightly nearer zero isn't worth ceding anything, and hypothetically I always go for civil liberties. However If I had children whose lives were constantly being threatened by terrorist activities (say a bomb, in my town, every week) I would be more inclined to deal with email and phone tapping or whatever else they want to do to reduce the threat. Oh and my town has a population of around eight thousand, so one bomb a week would be pretty grim.
Anyway I say no except in the most unbelievably dire circumstances.
Would you support someone in public office (politician, president, chief of police, etc) acting illegally or outside the confines of the law if it meant they were genuinely able to do a better job?
Not unless I get to break the law because of my own incompetence, too.
If you were a cop, and you discovered that your mother had been a political radical who had committed murder long before you were born, and no one else knew, and the chances were virtually nil that anyone would ever know that you knew, and even she didn't know that you knew, would you have her arrested?
Definitely not.
Police body cams, yes or no?
Yes. It protects all parties.
Affirmative action, yes or no?
Big no.
And yeh body cams are a great idea, I don't understand the debate.
Are slippery slope arguments serviceable or is it always just fallacious reasoning?
Police officers should not wear body cams.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
I'm really surprised there's seemingly so little debate on the matter; what of the privacy of those being arrested, and by law are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law? What of the privacy of witnesses being questioned, who may want to remain anonymous for various reasons, such as there own personal safety and threat of retaliation from the accused.
Body cams are a slippery slope, that inevitably leads to Global Warming.;)
Would you be willing to wear a body cam at work?
The videos aren't going to be uploaded to YouTube or anything... There are 900'000 officers in the U.S so you're looking at over a million hours of footage (at least) every day. This isn't feasibly going to monitored by anyone and will exist as evidence in cases where it needs to be looked at; such as when lethal force has been used and there is a question as to whether it was legitimate self defense or otherwise justified or a gross use of excess force. It's important to know.
As for witnesses, this has already been solved with voice scramblers and... not showing their face, so that's a total non issue.
Innocent until proven guilty means you somehow can't be filmed? Okay, why?
And my job? Well actually I work in childcare and if there was some reason the public wanted body cams installed (for example if childcare workers were molesting or suspected of molesting their charges at an endemic rate) then I would go along with it. The comparison is pretty stupid though; the police are targeted for body cams over say, office workers, or teachers, because they carry guns and are authorized to KILL PEOPLE in extreme situations, which is totally unique to law enforcement.
How much popcorn is too much?
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Really, you trust public servants to guard your privacy... are you insane?Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Will the police have to tell everyone they encounter, or even pass by, that they are being recorded – with the intent that the recording may be used against them? What of filming inside an eyewitnesses house, it would be a breach of an innocent’s privacy. How long is the video retained, where and what government entity would manage the millions of hours of footage, who all has access, will 'Right to Information' laws apply?
And btw, "deadly force" is not unique to law enforcement.
Self defense laws, especially here in Florida, include deadly force... why not force everyone to wear body cams? Public safety is certainly more important than individual freedoms, isn't it?
Uh huh, better to trust public servants to wield deadly force with little to no accountability right? Police body cams aren't so the police can institute a big brother state where they film the inside of your house (the horror), they are to protect individual freedoms in the face of excessive police violence, or to protect police officers from undue recriminations when suspected of using undue force, when the force was really justified.
Forcing everyone to wear a body cam at all times is not even close to analogous to having police officers wear them while on duty, performing their jobs as public servants who are given a very large amount of power, including the power to act with deadly force.
if I eat too much popcorn----somewhere just over a half a bag of the standard microwave popcorn size---I get a constricted feeling in my upper chest...
back to my earlier question---have you read some books that were better movies? (which ones?)
(and Daniel craig is my favorite bond)
Harlan Coben's novel Tell No One was very much improved by the French film version. I didn't read the original of L.A. Confidential, but enjoyed the movie and have read opinions that the movie improved on the book. Ditto the film versions of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, though people go both ways on that one. I also enjoyed the movie of The Bridges of Madison County, and have never seen anyone claim that book is better (or even good).
And while it may be sacrilegious to many, I thought the Lord of the Rings movies worked better as movies than the novels did as novels. I certainly genuflect to Tolkien's astonishing depth of world-building, but page-turners they are not.
While I like Daniel Craig's Bond very much, I really have no problem with any of them. All except Lazenby were excellent actors, and I think he was perfectly fine but gets much worse than he deserves just because he followed Connery. I do wish Dalton's run hadn't been cut short, though, because I liked his gritty Bond very much, and would have liked to have seen him develop it over a few more films. License to Kill is still my favorite Bond movie.
Continuing the anti-snobbery line (one of my favorites): Have you ever seen a remake that you preferred over, or even liked just as much as, the original? (Three of mine: Sorcerer/The Wages of Fear, The Ring/Ringu, and The Grudge/Ju-On.)
I prefer The Once and Future King to Malory's original Le Morte D'Arthur.
Aside from that, probably but I can't think of anything I've seen or read which is a remake off hand.
Life of leisure or life of accomplishment?
If I have a life of accomplishment, I'll be able to afford a life of leisure!
Travel or stay home?
ive not seen any old film adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac yet, but it would be hard pressed to top the steve martin/Darryl Hannah film Roxanne, which was just precious.
I thought the princess bride was a better movie than book, same with forrest gump, and the fault in our stars.
I like both---I live in a cozy place in the country and I love being here. but there is something gratifying and good about being in other places. that said, life doesn't really occur unless we at least "travel" some. so id have to say, it would depend on when you asked. right now id really enjoy some travel.
if you were going to be stranded on a desert island for the rest of your life, and could only have five foods (or small combinations, like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or macaroni and cheese, or a salad), which five foods would you choose? (assume you have fresh water)
Human flesh
The book was better (in my opinion) but both were overrated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
I like the (original) Lord of the Flies movie was better than the book, though. And David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, while not as good as Pasternak's novel, is a great movie nevertheless. I liked The Ring, but never saw Ringu, so I can't compare them. I don't think it had the kind of budget that The Ring got, but that doesn't always matter where scares go. The whole zombie apocalypse genre was started by George Romero for on about a dollar and change!
Even at the height of their beauty, were Elizabeth Taylor or Doris Day even remotely attractive?
Liz maybe, not Doris, but, hey, different strokes for different folks.
Why does a perfectly good movie suddenly cut to a gratuitous sex scene that has nothing to do with advancing the plot?
Two possible reasons
1. Sex Sells
2. The makers of the movie want an R rating
What is the most adventurous thing you have done?
it might have been hitch hiking around Europe for a couple of weeks during college years...
I started in England, went to Belgium from there, through Holland into Germany, up to Denmark, back down to Germany and then over to france.
what's the weirdest food combination you eat?
Porcupine-monkey stew. Rat if there was no porcupine to be had.
Okra: disgusting or slime-o-licious?
I grew okra in my garden a few years ago but didn't get to eat any. a sad okra story. I grew some last summer, and didn't get to eat any, another sad okra story...I might grow some again this summer.
I think ive only ever had it fried, so delicious minus the slime (more or less).
have you ever watched a movie (or movies) that have made you interested enough to go read the book that inspired it?