DANA-kin Skywalker

I hear they're going to add saber sais as a means to defend and disarm Jedi in the next movie

Don't do heroin either. You only have one body, don't screw it up with that crap. Too addictive and dangerous, and so cheap it can easily ruin your life.

The point of the scene was the nonresponse from the cops. Logically, after Beth got killed, I instantly thought "okay, Dawns a corpse real soon." then she gets killed by Daryl. Then I thought "oh shit, that means the cops are going to open fire!" but they didn't. They backed down, and didn't come to the aid of Dawn because they knew she was a douche. That, and they knew Darryl is immortal and cannot die on walking dead, since the audience told the writers that if they kill him off the show will get cancelled.

Tarantulas do it for me. What can I say? I like hairy legs.

I answered yes for me, even though I probably should have voted no, since if applied to everyone, it would destroy most other people's marriages.

Now for my opinion:

I'd say the hardest drug is meth. Statistically, it's by far the most addictive, it does the most damage to your brain chemistry, and its both easy and dangerous to make. People blow themselves up making it all the time. It is número uno on the DEA's hit list.

Please please please everybody: Don't do meth.

To answer the original question "how do you define hard drugs", the DEA classifies drugs in a schedule. Schedule one narcotics are high risk of abuse with no acceptable medicinal use, and are illegal to posses or obtain even by a prescription. This (still) includes marijuana. Yes, despite having some medicinal use, and relatively low risk for addiction, it is schedule one, but in some states doctors can prescribe it. More on that later. Other schedule one drugs include meth, LSD, ecstasy.

Schedule two narcotics have a high risk of abuse with acceptable medicinal use and are only legal to posses or obtain by a prescription, or inpatient doctors orders (which is the essentially same thing). These include oxycontin, methadone, morphine, dilaudid, cocaine, ritalin, adderall. Vicodin was recently reclassified and is now schedule two.

Schedule three narcotics have a moderate risk of abuse and schedule four have a low risk of abuse, both with medicinal use. Both are handled identically by doctors and pharmacists. These include klonopin, valium, ativan, ultram, phenobarbital.

Schedule six includes most all other prescribed drugs. Low risk of abuse, or none.

About marijuana being prescribed in some states despite being schedule 1 narcotic:

A year ago I went to a seminaar sponsored by the DEA and this topic came up. Questions were asked and answered by a representative from the DEA. When asked: "how can a doctor prescribe marijuana in some states when the federal government says it's schedule one", he answered: "I DON'T KNOW. Federal law supersedes state law, so technically they can't unless it gets reclassified by us. They can nerd the penalties though, and that's what's happening".

Benedict Cumberbatch has been seen on the set. He's not credited to be in the movie, and he denied being cast a long time ago. However, when confronted about his appearance on the set, he was asked again if he was to be in the film, he didn't deny it, and said no comment repeatedly.

Add all that up, I don't know what the heck it means, but I would LOVE Benedict Cumberbatch to be in the film, or even a voice over for whatever Andy Serkis is playing.

The voice in the trailer sounds an awful lot like my boy, the big batch of cumber himself, Benedict Cumberbatch. I called it therefore I am awesome.

Well, all the other women in the zombie apocalypse are so filthy you can't tell if their hair is blonde or not.

So, Daryl and Carol share a bed....and DONT do the deed? My god, the sexual tension; clearly the writers want to torture us. They know 90% of the viewers want them to shack up.

Daily verbal abuse is what marriage is all about.

Wow, you guys sure are CHEAP. ; )

I usually spend upwards of $2500

Big extended Italian family.

Well if it makes anyone feel better, in a few hundred years (maybe sooner) the US won't be a superpower anymore, if you compare it's birth-rate to that of the roman empire around it's "fall". I put fall in quotes because it didn't fall overnight, but the point is its theorized that countries with high birth rates of today eventually become the superpower of tomorrow. Essentially citizens of the rich countries want to hold on to their wealth, so the birth rate plummets as to avoid diluting inheritance value to the next generation to the point where the nation can't sustain itself and over time loses power or gets overrun by it's enemies. It happened to ancient Greece, the roman empire...and someday us.

I guess what I'm trying to say is the poor nations you feel bad for now will probably outgrow and overpower us eventually. Ups and downs on the socio-economic cycle, and you hit the jackpot. Just be grateful you were born at the right place at the right time.

Quite honestly, I find eastern culture to be a complete snore. No idea why, I just find it very uninteresting.

You find samurai and ninjas uninteresting? Wow. Ive been interested in them since I was like eight years old.

Yes, I do. Mostly.

 

I do actually live in a very conservative part of the world. There's a possibility that I feel more left-leaning solely as a comparison to the extreme right I'm surrounded by every day.

 

I feel the same way about my scores, except I'm the exact opposite of you. I live in a very blue state thats borderline communist, so as a reaction to that and my background in business, The test shows I lean right in economics...but not as much as I thought.

My state is very liberal, but I consider myself conservative; however the test puts me smack dab in the middle.

My internationalism score was high, but honestly I don't care that much. Yes/No/maybe doesn't scale how strongly you feel about each issue, but you have to choose something. I intentionally avoided all maybes.

My tribalism score was high and that makes sense. Like people, I DON'T believe all countries are equal. Why would they be? some are better...not just different. For instance social tolerance isn't just different, it's better than countries that persecute it's own women/gays/religious outcasts/whatever. Religious freedom is inherently better than countries that blow each other to bits over the same pile of holy sand. Women who can live their lives as they see fit is better than having to hide in a burka like a deaf mute for fear of death. Having sexual freedom is better than having to hide homosexuality for fear of death. Why would all countries be equal?

driver: You're a Hollywood writer, right? Isn't it bad writing to establish characters, rules, etc just to have the movie break it's own rules in the end?

Saw interstellar yesterday and enjoyed it very much. I typically prefer movies with 2&1/2 hour run-times or less, and this was three hours. I felt it didn't need to be quite that long. Matthew McConaughey did a great job as the lead (Cooper) In this movie; I really like the comeback he's made recently.

The chemistry between Cooper and his daughter Murph was extremely well done and kept you engrossed well enough in what would be otherwise a slow start to a long movie. Since child actors aren't typically...good...because they are...well, children, I feel the need to give kudos when one does a good job; and McKenzie Foy did a great job as Murph. I felt that Cooper's son Tom was completely unnecessary however, and I wouldn't have felt bad if his character was removed from the movie entirely if only to shave minutes off the run-time. most of the supporting cast, played by various well-known actors all did very well.

The robot TARS was an interesting addition to the movie, and although I enjoyed the robot's character, I wonder why robots were included in the movie for reasons I will get into later.

The first 3/4 of the movie was very good and had some really impressive shots, for example the wormhole, and the black hole. The last 1/4 I felt was all over the place and a little...out there.

Now, I'd like to address some issues I have with the movie. Needless to say:

*****SPOILERS BELOW*****

The movie established robots in the movie. Despite not having survival instinct, they are perfectly capable of determining whether or not a planet can sustain human life, so there's no need to risk the humans from the Lazarus project. I don't buy the movie's explanation why you can't send the robots; so maybe they shouldn't have been included in the movie in the first place, because if they could send robots you wouldnt have had the crazy lonely Matt Damon issue on the cold planet. And then you wouldn't have a movie.

The wormhole. From what I understand about them, they exist, but we've only seen them on the subatomic level, and they open and close in milliseconds, and where they appear in space are unpredictable. You not only can't fly a ship through these, let alone observe them. In the movie, the 5-dimensional beings not only opened up a huge-ass wormhole big enough to fly through, but held it open indefinitely. Pretty rad! If they could do that, why not send it closer to Earth? Why halfway across the solar system? Why not have us come out closer to the planet we actually have to go to? Why keep us guessing? Because we wouldn't have a movie.

What happened to Ramon Atilla's Theory thread?

The thing that makes Krawlie saddest about cooking up a stew: HIV dies above 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Fortunately, it is less sensitive to cold. Could potentially survive on a popsicle, provided there are enough human fluids already present for it to survive on.

 

Never eat ice cream at Krawlie's house.

Or masturbate with his popsicles

 

I personally had to look up Cis. I had an idea what it was based on process of elimination, but never heard that term before.

 

Never heard of Cis in this context before, but I remembered cis and trans from organic chemistry. That was like ten years ago...roughly the last time I frequented nightly. It's like everything here is a time warp for me.

I legit just got home after seeing interstellar. I liked it, but I have some things I didn't like about it, but I'm going to wait until maybe tomorrow to talk about it because:

1). I want to figure out how I'm going to say what I need to say without giving away plot points

2). I don't yet know how to do the spoiler tag here to hide plot points that are unavoidably going to be spoilers

3). It might be prudent to give myself a day to let the movie soak in a bit

What if Leia is the bad guy?

Think about it, Luke attempts to train Leia in the force, she learns some. However she is still a political leader. Now though she has powers, powers to see th future. So when rival politicians make decisions against Leia she knows they are wrong, because she can see th future. She starts using her powers to gain political power herself. She starts to see anyone who disagrees with her as an enemy. She starts a French Revolution style reign of terror.

I could see something like this being enough to force Luke away, I means he's already had to kill his dad. Maybe he just couldn't do it again with his sister. It also explains why Han seems to be out there to go on an adventure wih Daisy Ridleys character. It also explains why there seems to be little or no rumors/info about Leias role in the movie.

That could work. Leia, being trained in the force by Luke, becomes increasingly Machiavellian, misusing her powers either for political maneuvering or to neutralize some outside threat, justified by what she sees as the greater good, but gains dark side points. Luke, being the paragon of morality, tries to straighten her out, winning light side points. Their opposing viewpoints clash, thus setting up the struggle.

IUD? Ewwwww I didn't think women still used those. Can't she just use the pill?

Drunk cleaning lady canceled on me again this morning. Said she hurt her back yesterday (so why no email yesterday) and will be having surgery tomorrow, so she can't reschedule for 3 or so weeks. Said she expected I would probably go with another company.

Translation: blah blah blah, please get rid of me.

You know your a star wars geek when you read it as: SITHLORD with a score of 150

I took it again, answering as Daenerys Targaryen would have and got:

Advantaged with a score of 35

Unexpected, since i made her richer than me, better looking, from Sweden, and made her a human dragon kin.