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by tef
Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:13 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: The Dark Knight Rises
Replies: 219
Views: 122913

Re: The Dark Knight Rises

Someone's never heard about John Stuart Mill. You speak as if your taste were objectively correct and it isn't so. You also take shit way too seriously and never have anything valuable to add to any discussion. I used to read 3-4 books a day, every day. I was raised by a demanding family. I'm also m...
by tef
Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:17 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: The Dark Knight Rises
Replies: 219
Views: 122913

Re: The Dark Knight Rises

Says the uneducated illiterate who thinks he only wrote "Heart of Darkness". If you think Conrad's writing "sucks", your views on literature are probably garbage. Go read some "Twilight". I hold a PHD and have read every book Conrad ever published. I've also read over ...
by tef
Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:36 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: The Dark Knight Rises
Replies: 219
Views: 122913

Re: The Dark Knight Rises

I get math but I still don't really know what a number is. wat. A # is an abstraction meant to denote a discrete singular entity. Could be anything, indivisible by some standard. A $1 bill is worth 1 dollar, but it can be divided by other means. Conversion into cents, or by tearing it apart to make...
by tef
Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:21 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: The Iron lady
Replies: 72
Views: 26503

Re: The Iron lady

Didn't read the whole article and don't have time to respond to the whole post Stew. Let me just say that the idea that unions are the reason that our manufacturing workforce can't compete in high tech vis-a-vis China is basically insane. Even without unions, even if we had the engineers, wages woul...
by tef
Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:50 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: The Iron lady
Replies: 72
Views: 26503

Re: The Iron lady

You're making an assumption that isn't backed by evidence. The unionization rate in the private sector (US) has gone down by quite a lot to a current rate of only 7-8%. If your contention was true the prevailing wages would have gone down as well across that 50 year time span in which the unionizati...
by tef
Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:21 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: The Iron lady
Replies: 72
Views: 26503

Re: The Iron lady

Nowadays unions provide mostly fringe benefits, rather than wage superiority. The longstanding existence of unions in certain sectors requires non-unionized employers to mostly match the conditions of the unionized workforce, primarily in terms of pay/leave. So to state that as demand for labor drop...
by tef
Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Jason Statham: great, horrible, or in between?
Replies: 38
Views: 16938

Re: Jason Statham: great, horrible, or in between?

I think he's in between. He's charismatic enough, believable enough, but nothing about him draws me in. Stallone has a kind of working class shmuck thing going for him, or had when he was coming up. That final scene in Rambo where he falls apart because of his past is a beautiful thing to watch. I d...
by tef
Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: subtle look or gesture that changes a film
Replies: 27
Views: 10676

Re: subtle look or gesture that changes a film

Last scene in Taking of Pelham 123 (original).
by tef
Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:19 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: The Dark Knight Rises
Replies: 219
Views: 122913

Re: The Dark Knight Rises

I love the lyrical viewpoint of a person who says, "Maybe I need some rehab/Or maybe I need some sleep." Because when you've got a 'sick obsession,' those are the two methods to remedy it.