Just to dump more gasoline…
… Mary didn’t- and couldn’t- give meaningful consent.
Gabriel told her how it was, and she was like ‘okay’… but between the power imbalance and the consequences of not bringing the savior of the entire freaking world into the world… it’s basically a gun to the head of all humanity.
given his romantic arc with Vash, I’d imagine PIcard is into ‘crass’.
I object. Mostly because we don’t need more nazis. (at least use a condom.)
They impeached Clinton for less.
Sorry, but if you can’t explain it, then it’s not evidence.
If it’s not something you can demonstrate and we can reproduce, then all we got to go in is that you insist, and that gets into the second part of the problem. Religion isn’t just a collection of beliefs. Religion is also a prescription for “appropriate” behavior based on those beliefs.
But then again, we’ve been over this, and you still haven’t even attempted to disprove the Big Flying Dildo.
The BFD even sent a sign, that you might know him:
So. I just learned Musk is bald.
The three seashells. Heat, power, and pulsation pattern.
The same kind that takes the first humans, who, not having knowledge of good and evil, places them in a garden with a tree whose fruit would give them that knowledge, tells them, ‘yeah, but don’t eat that fruit.’, and then blames them when they eat the fruit.
if the story is to be believed… god set humanity up to fall. literally. so that he could then come down and rape teenage girl so that he could be born into this world, so that he could kill himself, to save us from himself…
Oh, absolutely.
Though it was a vague and unispired reference to Babylon 5.
in the second season, Sinclair (form commander of bab5) went to the station to… do a thing… (sorry, spoiler.) and get Sheridan (the current commander,) to help. When Sheridan agreed, Sinclair replied, “We’ll be like Lewis and Clark. Butch and Sundance. Lucy and Ethel.” to which Sheridan replied “Lucy and Ethel?” with a look of confusion.
Ozzie and Lala would make the Ride-or-Die-Classics though. On second thought, that would be an awesome movie.
Wait until you find out about the Soviet nuclear bunker that had a bunch of cannibal ants.
And that researchers let them out to see what would happen.
My conclusion is that polish researchers need to read and watch more trashy sci-fi.
If you think the problems are bad… wait until you see their solutions!
And to clarify, that’s probably something they’ll figure out eventually- even if you say nothing and just get the cat.
As a side note, if these two are a bonded pair… take them together or wait for the right cat. Imagine being the one to break up Lucy and Ethyl or Butch and Sundance.
This is so fucking embarrassing.
And tacky as fuck.
so all the other movies where all the action follows a set pattern… are not boring and depressing?
I think one of the reasons I liked Rogue One was that it’s “win condition” wasn’t “every one lived happily ever after”. although I will say, if you have enough time to find a beach and make out, you probably have enough tome to find a shuttle, or something.
(the other reason I liked Rogue One was Alan Tudyk as K2-S0)(okay, actually, that’s why I loved Rogue One. Sue me.)
I hope you’ll forgive me being sceptical that “used these systems” is enough authority to be able to speak for every make and model on the market… I’ve also used a few CCTV systems over the years and they’ve all been absolute lowest-bidder no-name dogshit that were packed full of weird idiosyncrasies.
I encourage skepticism! yes, the software were developed by the lowest bidder and every single one of them all had weird shit slapped in that got in the way of core functionality. I suspect part of that weird shit was that they were trying to keep people from accessing the files without their software. (As if the DVR didn’t save it as h.264 or whatever.)
I’ve been in contract security for over a decade now- and my first post way back ages ago was “slow” to get rid of theirs in 06. (they had ordered their VHS’s in bulk so they wanted to go through them first. I think they cracked open the last pack around the time I was hired.)
I’ve used more systems than I care to count or name; and usually became “the guy” that knew how to actually get it to do “the thing”. The worst part of that is most of the people selling the software clients would go tits up in a few years, which gets sold to another dev what doesn’t bother to learn the lessons from last time anyways. They just wanted one thing from the code or they had an idiot project manager that thought starting from failed code would be a good way to go.
In any case, because of how the multiplexing VCRs worked, the video playback was always choppy. they’d record using NTSC or PAl at 30 or 25 fps; just like any standard VCR, except that each camera would record each frame in sequence. a 4-chanel (four cameras) would reduce the NTSC’s 30 FPS to 7. which looks like this. a 16 channel system would go down to 2 fps. Given the nature of the facility, I would assume they’re using 16x systems.
so, speaking as someone whose used these systems for decades, DVR files don’t work that way.
The old, old school multiplexing VCRs did, sure. Those were recording to VHS’s, and basically everyone swapped over by the early 2k’s. What’s hilarious is the reason. VHS tapes are expensive and wear out inside a few months- they’ve usually only got about six hours of recording, after which the rewind and overwrite. The high-end tapes purpose built for that might last four or five. back then, depending on how much data you had going, DVRs basically paid for themselves inside of a couple years (and the disks were expected to last a decade or so.)
In any case, modern DVRs have no gaps. They continuously record in a rolling loop- typically 7, 15, 30, or 90 days. The DVR is actually a server running on a network, and the server manages the data stream coming in, and maybe streaming to a client wherever the security office or whatever is. (or clients, even. It’s all just software on the user end.)
there might be a system with digital storage tapes, and not hard disks, but that’s really just a question of what digital media the data is stored on, and was relatively short lived. the digital tapes were used for very-large numbers of cameras.
For the record, the fact that we have a single camera that was released and not an array of cameras (or video cropped out looking like a blown up thumbnail,) is because it was a modern system.
there’s actually a lot of things I don’t get with the video, so yeah, I’m not really taking anything off the table or fixating. But there being more time removed/spliced just makes more sense.
But it almost certainly wasn’t a multiplexing VCR. For one thing, the video looks like a bog standard export from a DVR-based networked system. (Which uses client software to access a server to play back video records. VHS tapes got dumped back in the very-early 2k’s because everyone saw the writing on the wall. They only last a few months in a record-rewind loop- four at most, and only if you buy the really expensive kind.
Further the black shadowbox around it is from the way they exported it off a modern dvr- the client they used to export it from added it. (probably also added their own shitty player to the file. the player is basically windows media player but even more useless.)
which… really just makes this whole thing shockingly incompetent. But then, that’s the problem with conspiracies. It’s the details that bite you in the ass.
for the record, it’s probably not 20 goons. that’s a lot of mouths needing silencing.
The other thing is that halways was in view of the other cells. they wouldn’t necessarily be rushing; at least not more than what might be ‘normal’.
This whole thing gets back to, the more you try to cover something up, the harder it becomes to cover that something up. Mistakes happen. This video is probably a mistake.
Bilbo never married!