Rhyno posted:

Except Catch Me if Your Can.

He played himself with a super lovely Boston accent.

Josh Lyman posted:

Just finished pilot of Counterpart. Good but not great, but that's mainly a script issue with pacing.

I would describe it as Fringe x The Americans. Which you can't say no to.

Rocksicles posted:

Watch it again, and see if you feel the same way. I thought once you get past the concept and style of the show, the burn is ok.

Looten Plunder posted:

I'm no expert on accents, nor am I even American but what is with the abundance of super lovely Boston accents?

Spielberg and Scorsese are all time great directors but how do they let poo poo like Hank's accent in Catch Me If You Can and Dicaprio/Baldwin/Whalberg in The Departed slide?

Looten Plunder posted:

Spielberg and Scorsese are all time great directors but how do they let poo poo like Hank's accent in Catch Me If You Can and Dicaprio/Baldwin/Whalberg in The Departed slide?

Looten Plunder posted:

I'm no expert on accents, nor am I even American but what is with the abundance of super lovely Boston accents?

Spielberg and Scorsese are all time great directors but how do they let poo poo like Hank's accent in Catch Me If You Can and Dicaprio/Baldwin/Whalberg in The Departed slide?

lelandjs posted:

That said, if you're in an ground floor apartment on the wrong side of the building, that may be too much for even the best antenna you can get.

IRQ posted:

That's exactly the situation, both directions the signals are coming from have to go through a building, so really no antenna is going to overcome that.

Rhyno posted:

Talk to the building management about running a cable to the other side of the building.

lelandjs posted:

DiCaprio did a fine job, he’s actually quite good at accents in general.

Iron Crowned posted:

Rhyno posted:

Why is this funny? I've lived in three places that allowed me to do it.

Medullah posted:

Counterpoint, Blood Diamond

Timby posted:

Your landlords are the exception to the rule, then. I've lived in precisely one rental property that allowed me to make any changes to the property (putting in a satellite dish on a pole in the backyard), and even then the landlord demanded a six-month extension to my lease. Generally speaking, landlords are scum.

Timby posted:

Four to seven years on a plea deal for possessing more than 50,000 images of child pornography seems like a comically low sentence.

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/958401424626520064

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/958401424626520064

Popelmon posted:

gently caress me sideways the first episode of Banshee does NOT gently caress around. Does it keep going like this?

Popelmon posted:

gently caress me sideways the first episode of Banshee does NOT gently caress around. Does it keep going like this?

FactsAreUseless posted:

He agreed, that's why he opted for the death penalty.

Rhyno posted:

Yeah well, fame and all that.

Did they ever clarify if his character was named after Puck from the Real World?

FactsAreUseless posted:

Here's the real question: why do you need 50,000 child porn pics. Even if you're a pedophile, that's too much. I guess it's conspicuous consumption.

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Due to technological advances and the nature of peer-to-peer networking, users can download large batch files. One offender, with a collection of 16 gigabytes, shared that he did not view all the images he possessed: “Honestly, I don’t have this catalogued in my brain. I honestly didn’t look at 85 percent of what I had. A lot came in clumps, [I would] look at one or two” (A12).

While the interview did not ask about the content of child pornography images and videos, one offender disclosed that he organized his collection into three folders: clothed, unclothed, and HC (hardcore). Serious, longtime offenders were extremely knowledgeable about series, which are sets of images. These offenders knew when series became available and would look to specific clues to identify the location of images. Results from the 2000 National Juvenile Online Victimization Study found that 27 percent of child pornography offenders were “organized child pornography collectors,” which researchers defined as intentional cataloguing organization or files. They determined that these offenders were more likely to have larger collections and use advanced methods to secure their collection (Wolak, Finkelhor, and Mitchell 2005).

In their interviews with 13 men convicted of downloading child pornography, Quayle and Taylor (2002) found that offenders compared collecting child pornography to collecting stamps or baseball cards, which served to normalize the activity by equating it to an innocent pastime. Jenkins (2001) reports the common terminology on child pornography bulletin boards is to refer to collecting as a “hobby.”

As Taylor and Quayle (2003) describe, indexing collections and completing series could be pleasurable in itself, even when the offender was not attracted to the material. This was evidenced by one offender, for whom the act of collection became an obsession, even though he rarely looked at all the images within his collection:

I was addicted to the collecting aspect of it. [It was] all so stimulating. It’s funny, all during collecting, I’d rarely ever go back and revisit what I collected. [It was] about acquiring more and more. (D23)

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Sharing child pornography is reciprocal; both parties must provide material to conduct the trade. File sharing on mIRC generally ensures users give and take equal numbers of files by counting the number of bytes transferred, though users could inflate the number they shared by renaming duplicate files:

It counts how many bytes [go] back and forth, so you have to trade equally … Duplicates are hard because people rename the files so they seem like a new file and then trade with them. Some people rename photos that aren’t that type of file and then just trade it so it counts as bytes (A11).

For individuals just starting to build their collection, they may resort to “begging” for images:

Initially if you don’t have anything, you beg. Probably get one or two pictures from someone … I’d ask for a picture, eventually a Good Samaritan will send you a picture. Then you start with a small collection, start trying to barter. (A12)

Coordinating concurrent trades is another strategy, which could potentially lead to a rapid accumulation of images over a short period of time:

Interviewer: People would talk to you if you didn’t have any pics?
Respondent: Yes. Or if you waited for a couple guys to respond, then one guy would send [an image] to you and you could send that to another guy. If you spend an hour in a room, you could get 50–60 pictures. You’d end up with some duplicates, but get a lot of individual pictures. (C7)