Feb 23
opticsdoug commented on Bikini Baristas Arrested.
Maybe instead of a sex-based coffee shop we could have a violence based coffee shop? One that depicted the type of stuff we see on network television?
Special Victims' Unit Espresso - bring the kids! It's wholesome and socially acceptable!
Special Victims' Unit Espresso - bring the kids! It's wholesome and socially acceptable!
Nov 15, 2012
opticsdoug commented on The IDF and Gaza.
@6 - Exactly. Blare some klaxons, make everybody go underground, and you've got a perfect Two Minutes Hate followed by airstrikes. It's a perfect gift for hawks on both sides.
It's the only attribute of the rockets that could possibly be called "efficacious."
It's the only attribute of the rockets that could possibly be called "efficacious."
Nov 15, 2012
opticsdoug commented on The IDF and Gaza.
It's cynical, but I'd have an easier time believing the rockets were primary if the rockets caused more casualties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian…
The rockets seem more like a political tool that *both* governments use to wag their respective dogs with a criminal indifference to primary or retaliatory casualties.
The rockets seem more like a political tool that *both* governments use to wag their respective dogs with a criminal indifference to primary or retaliatory casualties.
Apr 9, 2012
opticsdoug commented on Education Is Everything.
While I was in high school, there was an active discussion on tightening up the dress code or implementing uniforms.
I couldn't understand who a uniform could possibly help. It certainly wouldn't be anything but officious harassment for all us kids in the AP classes, and I certainly couldn't see it changing the habits of my less-accademic friends. As a nerdy, socially awkward kid, my greatest concern was that a uniform would make me a target for abuse in the wider community.
I came to the conclusion that folks in power implement uniforms because they get off on **visual evidence** of their power - much like we see in footage of North Korean pageants.
I couldn't understand who a uniform could possibly help. It certainly wouldn't be anything but officious harassment for all us kids in the AP classes, and I certainly couldn't see it changing the habits of my less-accademic friends. As a nerdy, socially awkward kid, my greatest concern was that a uniform would make me a target for abuse in the wider community.
I came to the conclusion that folks in power implement uniforms because they get off on **visual evidence** of their power - much like we see in footage of North Korean pageants.
Feb 9, 2012
opticsdoug commented on Amazon's Books Have Been Blockaded.
What we need are bookstores with educated staff, liquor licences, and pleanty of easy chairs. I'd go broke.
Feb 9, 2012
opticsdoug commented on Amazon's Books Have Been Blockaded.
@11 - Well, there was that list of titles Nancy Pearl assembled. It's like Sophie's choice for bookish hipsters.
Feb 9, 2012
opticsdoug commented on Amazon's Books Have Been Blockaded.
Don't stock books people want to buy! Be inconvenient! Brilliant business moves! https://www.google.com/search?q=jackie%2…
Feb 6, 2012
opticsdoug commented on Guess What State This Band Lives In.
Wait, is that a mid-2000s Queensryche with a Photoshop makeup-job, or a bunch of younger dudes trying to look like mid-2000s Queensryche?
Jan 26, 2012
opticsdoug commented on "The Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever".
This link provides a summary of how one of the earlier blue-marble composites was made. It is nothing like the Apollo 17 *photograph.*
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/e…
Lets be clear that the blue marble imagery that's everywhere today is an ARTISTIC VISUALIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC DATA, not a photograph. It's still super-cool though.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/e…
Lets be clear that the blue marble imagery that's everywhere today is an ARTISTIC VISUALIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC DATA, not a photograph. It's still super-cool though.
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