Wait which frontends don’t need that monster?

So if you’re name is Rick, who is Sourasish Das? On the about page, that’s who it says who owns and operates the site. Is Sourasish the owner and you’re just a fellow admin?

This is from the WHOIS lookup on ICANN:

Administrative:

Handle: 133880200
Name: Sourasish Das
Email: [on the WHOIS but redacting it here]
Status: active
Kind: individual
Mailing Address: West Bengal
ISO-3166 Code: IN 

The rules say “no illegal content” but where is the hosting? If it’s hosted in West Bengal, are the rules for “illegal content” different? A lot of this is just really, really vague. It’s also not entirely clear who the admins and moderators even are, since they have the final word. It seems like it could be one of those “free speech” places where the speech is “free” so long as it fits the owners definitions of “free speech” which often is “if you agree with me, then you’re free to speak.”

Genuinely not trying to be rude but looking for clarification.

Even when he thinks he’s telling the truth he’s lying because he’s fucking stupid and doesn’t realize someone else lied to him.

Look I don’t respect official titles, he’ll always just be Donkey to me.

Children of Men continues to be one of the greatest sci-fis of all time and it holds up so well (other than the CGI baby) because of its brilliant cinematography.

alias Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma="sudo rm -rf /"

(I don’t think it actually works this way in ksh but I already spent 10 minutes trying to figure out the command to get root privileges in ksh and that’s already too much time for this dumb joke.)

I’ve made a device which makes you read this in your head, in my voice!

Yeah unfortunately Blomkamp was in the running to be chosen to direct Halo movie and was working rough on drafts and concept art (he really wanted to be chosen) for a while before Microsoft canceled the entire project. He did make a short film for their ads (Halo: Landfall (2007)). I know that they put him on the shortlist on the strength of a short film (Alive in Joburg (2005)) whose plot eventually went on to be the seedlings of District 9 which would come out in 2009.

Once you recognize that they were trying to salvage a lot of the work they did in preparation for Halo, suddenly it becomes a little more obvious why it was an action movie instead of something more grounded with the same ideas. To me the alien weapon designs seemed very Halo style.

And I agree entirely, I think the film was held back by trying to be an action movie and social commentary at the same time. However, that somehow didn’t seem to hold back Avatar in the same way, despite it being an action movie about aliens and social commentary on humanity, environmentalism, impact of “progress” on native populations, and so on… and yet both my girlfriend at the time and I fell asleep for periods while seeing an IMAX screening of Avatar.

I know, fucking wild, right? So unrealistic. /s

Seriously though this film came out the same year as James Cameron’s bore-fest Avatar, and the contrast between the two ways of humanizing the aliens species is so stark and makes Cameron’s obvious reliance on making the aliens attractive so we are more naturally humanize them. Whereas Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 makes them ugly and filthy, and yet does so much more of a competent job of humanizing the alien characters, especially in regards of making them physically unpalatable but more socially palatable than any of the humans. The humanization relies entirely on character development and character action, as opposed to Avatars lazy fucking doe-eyed puppy-nosed blue fuckdolls.

fookin mantasprang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9

From the plot summary (no spoilers other than the first few minutes of the film):

In 1982, an extraterrestrial mothership arrives and hovers over the South African city of Johannesburg. Inside, an investigation team finds over a million starved insectoid and crustacean-like aliens and the South African government voluntarily relocates the asylum seekers to a refugee camp called District 9. 28 years later, District 9 becomes both a ghetto and a shanty town, and humans come to view the aliens, derogatorily called “prawns,” as filthy, violent animals who bleed resources from them. The Prawns have been systematically reduced to second-class citizens there and have been known to consume canned cat food.

Throw it on the pile.

bars

Interesting. I was fighting with KDEs implementation of ddc today because it’s fucking crashing my power management system when the monitors go to sleep. I didn’t realize it went that far back.

I choose this guys dad.

fookin prangs

10 to 1 the Police Chief has CSAM on his phone. I call and raise the bet.

It’s literally a documented design in the Windows store

Guess I’m going back to VGA then. Pretty sure old VGA shit doesn’t transfer metadata about themselves.

(just kidding, I use Linux)

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