Iron Man 2 - Liked it a LOT. It's been a while since I've seen the first one, so can't give direct comparisons. I'd say 8/10. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/
Battle Royale - Japanese thriller/action movie, one of the first I've attempted to watch. Not very good. I bailed on it about halfway through, then decided I'd finish it up. Eh, the acting is often overdone or just not very good. There are a number of killings done with guns, and they are just SO inconsistent and hardly realistic: 9th graders taking like 10+ shots with an uzi, then jumping back up, or having a few dying words to say... or taking ONE bullet from one of the villains and dying instantly. Would not recommend - 3.5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/
Has pretty stellar reviews. I actually bought this book for $10 or so (was on sale) back in 2008, with intentions to give it to a friend that was smoking. I still have the book, but still plan to give it away. Will probably give it to someone I know personally.
Might consider purchasing a used copy of this though. Apparently the success rates of people that have tried it are quite remarkably high.
I just watched "Sherlock Holmes", the new one, with Robert Downey Jr. It was pretty good. Not amazing, but definitely entertaining and worth a look I'd say. Maybe 7/10
I can't respond to this video.. It's sick. You could sell the fucking puppies to a good home, Why would anyone do this..
This happened in Bosnia-Herzegovena, a little country in SE Europe. I'm not intimately familiar with that country in the slightest, but from what little I've read about this incident, it appears that Bosnia has a big problem with stray dogs, many of them diseased, as well as an overabundance of births from those strays. I'm imagining the ratio of available puppies to "good homes" that are looking for puppies is heavily in the favor of the puppies.
Considering the likely situation of the area this video was taken in, I don't find the method "sick". It's a tad cruel, and not something I believe I could partake in, at least not with the apparent lack of emotion from the girl doing the tossing. I can't really explain why they wanted to videotape this and share it on the web though. That is the main thing that brings this whole act's moral base in question for me.
I would agree that the video of the guy in Iraq doing a puppy toss is fucked up. He didn't throw the puppy into water, he threw a seemingly healthy puppy down onto rocks, and what he knew would be its unnecessary death. This was an American too. I see this current topic being much different than the one that took place in Iraq.
It seems this took place somewhere in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
I wanted to hear others' opinions on this video. What is your reaction when you see the video?
I read a lot about the video, last night actually, and decided not to watch it til today. After watching it, I didn't find it all that brutal. The puppies appear to be very very young, probably a week old at most. While I find it sad, I don't necessarily think these people were trying to cause pain to these animals. They weren't overly cruel in their actions IMO. They didn't spike them on the ground, or do their best to make sure they landed on one of those tree branches before they hit the ground. The girl did get a little "creative" with her tosses near the end, trying to throw them high.
In many countries, the US included, unwanted puppies, kittens, etc., are often killed quickly after birth, or thrown into rivers, etc. I know I've heard of people in the US putting a bunch of unwanted kittens, or ones that couldn't otherwise be cared for, into a bag with a brick and thrown into a river. I find the act sad, but I suppose it's one of the more humane, and inexpensive ways to discard animals that otherwise might have starved to death, etc. I'm not sure if they have the equivalent of a Humane Society in these other smaller countries, where they can take unwanted animals instead of dealing with them themselves.
I've seen that video or gif before, of the pig. If you look, you can see it's already thrashing/convulsing before he starts chainsawing it. I believe they either electrocuted it or hit it over the head or something before they started cutting. I seem to recall seeing a longer version of the same video that shows them incapacitating the pig beforehand. I doubt the pig felt much of anything when that happened, believe it or not.
if its a really big problem, just plug in a usb keyboard...
Thus making it NOT just a laptop anymore.
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i play with my keyboard in my lap when i can anyway
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onboard graphics... meh[/u]
my laptop[/u] doesnt even have onboard graphics anyway, it has a dedicated gtx260m
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i really dont see how a laptop is a disadvantage these days :/
if you dislike the keyboard touchepad and screen, plug a monitor keyboard and mouse into it
Then it's NOT a laptop anymore! lol It's a laptop with multiple DESKTOP accessories attached to it, to make it more desktop, and less laptop-like.
None of these are compelling arguments on the side of laptops being as good as desktops. You're just explaining why your particular laptop is good enough for you alone.
I was mainly surprised that I had never heard of these murders, as brutal as they were, 21 in all, until over 3 years after they were committed.
Supposedly they killed a pregnant woman too, and removed the unborn fetus from her body - "One of the victims was a pregnant woman, whose fetus was cut out of her womb". Who knows if they toyed with the fetus after it was removed; I wouldn't be surprised. I believe there were videos of just about all their killings, but only the one represented in "3guys1hammer" ended up being leaked to the masses.
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