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syscall girl posted:And that bending the law poo poo that is rewarded by always bending it towards guilty people somehow. Amazing how that works out. 
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Patattack posted:Yeah, but she doesn't even respect the Westerosi royals - why would she want to copy their iconography in such a dedicated way? She's been raised to covet it since birth and is utterly obsessed with the Iron Throne. Same reason she has a Queens Guard. Edit: So that I'm not just "well, actually...."-ing all the time: Missandei's dominatrix bra is loving ridiculous Sword of Truth bullshit. What was wrong with her toga? Strom Cuzewon has a new favorite as of 13:14 on Sep 15, 2016 |
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Gorson posted:One might say that a random asteroid destroying Buenos Aires being blamed on alien bugs as an excuse to invade (conquer) is appropriate for a movie that contains so much satire and fascist imagery. It makes more sense than an alien race being able to launch an asteroid from across the galaxy and coming anywhere near hitting our solar system, much less a major South American city, without some course corrections along the way. Yeah, that actually seems decently likely. The movie even makes a point of telling us that there's an anti-meteor defensive network around earth, which went conspicuously unmentioned after Buenos Aires was hit: https://youtu.be/S-s4lEk91ng?t=34s
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syscall girl posted:I liked the show when it started because of the leads but it went downhill fast. NCIS would regularly have the leads tell suspects that they were being considered enemy combatants and going to gitmo in order to get confessions out of them. This is in stark contrast to Homicide where they take great pains to show them reading the suspect their rights and then convincing them to waive them, and then getting the department sued.
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, that actually seems decently likely. The movie even makes a point of telling us that there's an anti-meteor defensive network around earth, which went conspicuously unmentioned after Buenos Aires was hit: https://youtu.be/S-s4lEk91ng?t=34s I would even go so far to say that the defensive network is a reference to the "Star Wars" system of the Reagan years. In other words, a multi-billion dollar boondoggle to protect against a threat that only exists in propaganda (In Reagan's case, Soviet Russia).
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I loving hate this show. This irritated me more than the virus that was scanned off bones to infect a computer with malware. That episode ranks up there with the SVU episode where they found a rapists hidden-in-the-woods secret cabin by using loving not-Second Life.
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Schubalts posted:That episode ranks up there with the SVU episode where they found a rapists hidden-in-the-woods secret cabin by using loving not-Second Life. I have a special place in my heart for a scene on that show where they get hacked, and the gothy computer girl can't stop it, so another tech comes over and they both furiously mash keys on the same keyboard to stop the hack.
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Sep 15, 2016 18:36
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Canemacar posted:I have a special place in my heart for a scene on that show where they get hacked, and the gothy computer girl can't stop it, so another tech comes over and they both furiously mash keys on the same keyboard to stop the hack. And then Gibbs just unplugs the computer.
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Canemacar posted:I have a special place in my heart for a scene on that show where they get hacked, and the gothy computer girl can't stop it, so another tech comes over and they both furiously mash keys on the same keyboard to stop the hack. Nope! They can't stop it together, so the curmudgeonly lovable old fucker main character unplugs the computer to stop the hack, because the show is for olds who love olds showing up the youth today with their computers and also the show doesn't bother pretending like understanding computers matters for the kinds of stories it wants to tell.
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Len posted:And then Gibbs just unplugs the computer. He unplugs the monitor IIRC.
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VanSandman posted:Nope! They can't stop it together, so the curmudgeonly lovable old fucker main character unplugs the computer to stop the hack, because the show is for olds who love olds showing up the youth today with their computers and also the show doesn't bother pretending like understanding computers matters for the kinds of stories it wants to tell. The worst part is when the mid-40s black dude that heads the agency and the lady that got him into it are playing 18 and 20 in a flashback.
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El Jeffe posted:He unplugs the monitor IIRC. Yep. That was a great scene all around.
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That was in NCIS, not SVU.
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The thing I remember from SVU was an episode where the SVU team - a sex crimes unit, keep in mind - have to investigate an exotic animal smuggling ring and the episode culminates in them finding a monkey that's being smuggled in a basketball, which climbs out and hugs the captain when he frees it. Is it SVU or one of the other police procedurals where practically every episode has a scene where the detectives go to interview someone and they're hefting something up on their shoulder and walking away while saying, "I dunno what to tell ya!" or some variation thereupon?
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Canemacar posted:I have a special place in my heart for a scene on that show where they get hacked, and the gothy computer girl can't stop it, so another tech comes over and they both furiously mash keys on the same keyboard to stop the hack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ Also, how hackers communicate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ Wheat Loaf posted:Is it SVU or one of the other police procedurals where practically every episode has a scene where the detectives go to interview someone and they're hefting something up on their shoulder and walking away while saying, "I dunno what to tell ya!" or some variation thereupon?
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syscall girl posted:
I'll put it this way, I served on a murder jury a few years ago and during the selection process the prosecution specifically made mention of how unrealistic police and investigative procedures on TV were.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Is it SVU or one of the other police procedurals where practically every episode has a scene where the detectives go to interview someone and they're hefting something up on their shoulder and walking away while saying, "I dunno what to tell ya!" or some variation thereupon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DpxwN1o43E&t=55s
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Alternative pants posted:I'll put it this way, I served on a murder jury a few years ago and during the selection process the prosecution specifically made mention of how unrealistic police and investigative procedures on TV were. That's very heartening.
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I actually did a project once on how shows like CSI seriously gently caress with jury procedures because a lot of jurors will expect literal magic. One case I read about had a guy get declared not guilty of a sexual assault despite finding his semen all over the place because the jurors wanted to find out where the dirt on his boot came from. That project made a lot of people sad.  I dislike CSI.
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Sep 16, 2016 12:58
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Lawyers literally call it the CSI Effect.
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I remember reading somewhere that a lady had gotten robbed, and she called in with "evidence" and when the cops showed, she handed them a jar. Her reasoning was that it smelled like he farted, so she caught some air in the jar so they could do dna testing or something to help find him like on CSI.
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What if jurists had to binge-watch The Wire before they could legally preside a case? Then they would know that the authorities use methodical police-work and not cyber-magic.
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"The Following" with Kevin Bacon had the following exchanges in the pilot:quote:Every Tuesday, Carroll was shackled and transported to the Sussex County law library, where he was confined to a sealed room, one guard. quote:Carroll never visited same web address twice, which suggests he's using various URLs. Carroll was an english professor btw
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Do you rip apart the ethernet cable itself or take a hammer to the wall socket? And really, what are IP addresses but electronic Flu strains?
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quote:Carroll never visited same web address twice, which suggests he's using various URLs
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What if jurists had to binge-watch The Wire before they could legally preside a case? Then they would know that the authorities use methodical police-work and not cyber-magic. They would also realise that literally nothing they gave a verdict on mattered as the whole justice system is hosed and you'd have hung juries all over the place.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Well, there's the rub. Every time I access an IP address, it mutates. So this is how it feels to have an aneurysm.
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Fil5000 posted:They would also realise that literally nothing they gave a verdict on mattered as the whole justice system is hosed and you'd have hung juries all over the place. Any jury I'm on is a hung jury 
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The carrying thing came up today when I was watching Always Sunny. Mac and Charlie are investigating something down by the docks and pick a guy to question because "he's carrying something, those guys always know something"
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Schubalts posted:So this is how it feels to have an aneurysm. Dara O'Briain has a bit where he talks about the film 2012 and specifically how it contains the line "The neutrinos have mutated". It's like lovely writers just throw the word "mutate" in to scripts willy nilly.
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Fil5000 posted:Dara O'Briain has a bit where he talks about the film 2012 and specifically how it contains the line "The neutrinos have mutated". It's like lovely writers just throw the word "mutate" in to scripts willy nilly. 2012 was an amazing satire
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We need more media where step-parents aren't jerks by default, and aren't temporary obstacles who die so the "real" parents can reunite.
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In GATTACA the big reveal of how Vincent is able to beat Anton at swimming is that he doesn't save enough energy to swim back to shore. But he swims back to shore every time and the last time when Anton runs out of energy he is able to swim back to shore while carrying Anton. Obviously, you saved SOME energy Vincent.
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My favourite movie is The Blues Brothers but it sort of irritates me how the Good Old Boys show up after Bob's Country Bunker has closed and everyone's gone home. I mean, they're so late that the Blues Brothers are able impersonate them and play an entire set. And then Bob (and I get this is the joke) is more upset that the Blues Brothers stiffed him on paying for their beer than he is at them for not showing up until after the entire audience went home. I don't know why that irritates me but I suppose that's why it's irrational.
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Source Code: Instead of doing real investigative work, let's build a machine that costs god knows how many millions so we can create an entire alternate dimension of a terrorist attack scene (based on the incomplete information of a victim's last living moments) and ASK the bomber if he's going to bomb anything else later? Touted as being a powerful weapon against terrorism! Assuming of course the bomber survives and is going to bomb something else later on.
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Well to them it isn't creating another dimension its constructing a computer simulation to confront the suspect when they can't actually do that in real life. The fact they don't know what it's really doing comes up later.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:We need more media where step-parents aren't jerks by default, and aren't temporary obstacles who die so the "real" parents can reunite. The only movie I can think of where the parents don't magically get back together is Mrs. Doubtfire. Are there any others? Liar Liar was so poo poo for that reason alone. Oh nooo cool new guy can't do the monster noise the kid likes! Poor him, out you go! It is so hard to find a good movie that actually makes you pause and go, wait, in another movie ABC would happen and everyone gets what they want. I watched Paranorman with the kids recently, and the football player jock was a loving masterpiece. Naturally the blonde airhead sister cheerleader falls totally for the muscled hunk, and he is oblivious to her, which makes for the usual comedy. But after all the nightmare is over and the zombies defeated, she asks him out to a movie. And he squeals and says he totally wants to go to a scary movie but his boyfriend hates those so let's do a horror flick! It was just so well done without being over the top and "the more you knoooow" poo poo.
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Cowslips Warren posted:The only movie I can think of where the parents don't magically get back together is Mrs. Doubtfire. Are there any others? Ant Man is probably the most recent. The cop stepdad was completely justified in thinking the criminal-leaning Scott was probably a bad influence on the daughter.
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Cowslips Warren posted:The only movie I can think of where the parents don't magically get back together is Mrs. Doubtfire. Are there any others? It's been a while, but at the end doesn't he actually successfully drive away Pierce Brosnan though? They don't remarry, but Robin Williams wins over the wife and kids and basically goes back into a normal relationship.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:In GATTACA the big reveal of how Vincent is able to beat Anton at swimming is that he doesn't save enough energy to swim back to shore. But he swims back to shore every time and the last time when Anton runs out of energy he is able to swim back to shore while carrying Anton. It irked me too the first time, but it makes sense as a triumph of willpower; people think they've run out of energy well before they really have.
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