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How should I vote in Euro election?

Conservative	0 votes - 0 %
Labour	1 vote - 11 %
Liberal Democrat	1 vote - 11 %
Green	2 votes - 22 %
BNP	2 votes - 22 %
No2EU	0 votes - 0 %
Jury Team	0 votes - 0 %
UKIP	0 votes - 0 %
Christian Party - Christian Peoples Alliance	0 votes - 0 %
English Democrats	0 votes - 0 %
Libertas	0 votes - 0 %
Socialist Labour Party	0 votes - 0 %
Socialist Party of Great Britain	2 votes - 22 %
Yes 2 Europe	0 votes - 0 %
Independent	1 vote - 11 %

9 Total Votes

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Tweeting Too Hard by ammoniacal (4.00 / 1) #1 Sat May 23, 2009 at 09:29:39 AM EST

So many cocks, not enough punches . . .

It was an unholy union of text and pulped wood that the Ancients used to distribute their blogs.

Contemporary audiences by ucblockhead

(4.00 / 1) #2 Sat May 23, 2009 at 11:24:31 AM EST

Just yesterday I was chatting with a coworker about movies and he brought up someone who had listed the summer movies of 1984.

Looking through those lists, I really can't help but think that movies really *were* better back then. At least, action movies were.
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[ucblockhead is] useless and subhuman

I think good action movies by TheophileEscargot

(4.00 / 1) #3 Sat May 23, 2009 at 11:58:22 AM EST

Are thinner on the ground now. Too many sequels and franchises: they're often fun to watch but they're not really going to stick in the memory.

"Watchmen" was great though, and "Outlander" was good fun.
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Butch and Petey are harsh and unforgiving in their estimation of female beauty.
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I dunno by lm (4.00 / 1) #4 Sat May 23, 2009 at 02:43:21 PM EST

Last summer was Dark Knight, Wall-E, Hellboy II, Indy and the Crystal Skull. I think all of those compare pretty favorably to that list you linked to. Crystal Skull certainly wasn't my favorite movie in the world, but its certainly better than Temple of Doom.

I think part of what is happening is that 15 years later, it's easier to remember the good movies from that summer rather than all the stinkers.

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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Really? by ucblockhead

(4.00 / 1) #5 Sat May 23, 2009 at 02:57:58 PM EST

Yeah, Temple of Doom wasn't great, but what about Terminator? Ghost Busters? Spinal Tap? Beverly Hills cop? Gremlins? Buckaroo Banzai? Repo Man? Nightmare on Elm Street The Karate Kid?

I actually didn't remember that as a good summer. I looked at the list recently and was stunned how many movies from that one summer I still remember now, 25 years later.

Compare that year with, say, 2003, which I'm hard pressed to find five movies I remember with any affection now.
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[ucblockhead is] useless and subhuman
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: 2003 was one year and five years ago by lm (4.00 / 1) #6 Sat May 23, 2009 at 03:14:32 PM EST

And, at least last summer, I think there's at least a one to one relationship for each of the great movies from summer of 1984.
Of the movies you mention, only Gremlins, Ghost Busters, Buckaroo Banzai and Karate Kid were releasaed in summer 1984. Spinal Tap, Beverly Hills Cop, Terminator, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Repo Man were all either released by March of 1984 or between November 1984 and the end of the year. And even then, I don't think all that many of them would stand up to a re-watching. Some would. But certainly not all of them.
There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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Wow by Scrymarch

(4.00 / 1) #8 Sun May 24, 2009 at 07:55:46 AM EST

I feel like I'm on the other side of a micro-generation gap or something. 80s Hollywood action movies shit me to tears - The Terminator is great and maybe Indiana Jones from that year. The slow fight scene style I just find tedious.

I guess I'm not really an action afficionado, but to me once the Matrix introduced HK speed into Hollywood I found things much more watchable.
_{The Political Science Department of the University of Woolloomooloo}
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Shuttle by OAB (4.00 / 1) #7 Sat May 23, 2009 at 07:10:14 PM EST

I thought the basic problems with the shuttle design where due to it being a design by committee, in other words a bureaucratic problem.

: I thought it was by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #11 Tue May 26, 2009 at 05:34:56 PM EST

that the concept was flawed and that it was sheer stubbornness that caused them to stick with a reusable vehicle when it was (and is) not feasible to make it reusable.

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Individual / small group selfishness by Scrymarch

(4.00 / 2) #9 Sun May 24, 2009 at 08:00:53 AM EST

Dunno, though selfishness / small group promotion is definitely everywhere, I feel like English (or maybe just London) work culture is at an extreme individualist end. Possibly a side effect of the Thatcher style slash and burn redundancy if you follow that theory of corporate / employee loyalty. Maybe it's just IT - I feel being a contractor or consultant made me more mercenary. Sometimes in the sense of less feeling of personal debt to the company (for benefits, opportunities etc), sometimes in the sense of feeling a sense of duty to the profession rather than whatever daft office political trend was afoot.
_{The Political Science Department of the University of Woolloomooloo}

a wonderful fantasy world by clover kicker (4.00 / 4) #10 Sun May 24, 2009 at 08:43:16 PM EST

I'll quote perhaps my favorite part of The Mythical Man Month -

The project was large enough and management communication poor enough to prompt many members of the team to see themselves as contestants making brownie points, rather than as builders making programming products. Each suboptimized his piece to meet his targets; few stopped to think about the total effect on the customer.

If I had a dollar for every time I've lived this...

If this quote was shorter I would tattoo it across my knuckles.
They should make MBA students read The Mythical Man Month, preferably Clockwork Orange style.

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