On a related note, my local grocery store stopped carrying National Enquirer after who knows how many decades. I haven’t thanked them yet, but I plan to let them know.
Look! Completely coincidental smear campaign!
Batboy was funny. Demon-possessed appliances were funny. This Pravda-esque propaganda outlet bullshit? Not funny.
On a related note, I don’t understand how women like Kellyanne Conway or Sarah Huckabee Sanders can look themselves in the mirror and not just cringe for going along with this shit, and even more so for actively defending it.
For some, politics is how society decides how to govern itself. For others, it’s an acting gig where you read your lines and you get your check. For others, it’s a war that ends only when your enemy is destroyed. Take your pick.
Collusion ho!
Sadly, any more information on this will need to come from another source. Mr. Smith died very shortly after speaking to the press about this.
LBGT-Q is the farthest I will go.
All that monologue just to get the acronym mixed up anyway.
My MGB-GT, she’s a runner now.
Project Threepio has subs for the film soundtrack only. If there are commentary subs, and they’re not included with some preservation, then they’re not stored in any easy central location I know of. They may still exist though–I just don’t know about them.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/22/news/companies/boeing-layoffs-south-carolina-dreamliner/index.html
The South Carolina Boeing plant where President Trump gave a speech promising to protect U.S. jobs says it’s laying off workers.
Boeing confirmed to CNNMoney Thursday that it’s cutting about 200 jobs at its plant in South Carolina. This is the first round of layoffs at the factory since it began making the 787 Dreamliner there in 2009.
Speaking at the plant in February, Trump promised a crowd of assembly workers, managers and executives that “jobs is one of the primary reasons I’m standing here today as your President, and I will never, ever disappoint you.”
What?? Next thing you’ll be telling me those jobs he said he saved at that Carrier plant weren’t actually saved.
I will never, ever disappoint you.
To be fair, so far he’s kept that promise, with me at least. Low expectations can make for a lot of winning, apparently.
Who knew Trump was such a Clinton fan?
“I believe the time has come for new immigration rules which say that those seeking admission into our country must be able to support themselves financially and should not use welfare for a period of at least five years,” Trump said on Wednesday night at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
President Clinton signed this into law in 1996, and it is still in effect over twenty years later. I guess Trump’s work is done, so he can chalk up another win (after getting the Panama Canal built, at that!) and still have enough time for another round of golf!
Grenfell Tower will forever stand as a rebuke to the right
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/16/grenfell-tower-rebuke-right-rampant-inequality
^ this is well worth a read.
I thought it was unaffordable and pointless green energy initiatives and the “progressive” outfits that peddle them that were the cause of this.
“The Right”, left to itself, never would have placed immigrants in that situation.
No.
We’re gonna need a bigger No.
I wonder if there are any good Republicans or good Republican ideas.
My opinion of Jon Huntsman (once my standard for how far right you could go while remaining decent) has taken a nosedive, Evan McMullin is still in the “not sure if good or delusional” category, Justin Amash seems decent. I know a number of Republicans in my area who are really torn up about the rise of white supremacists in the Republican Party–like their family home has been taken over by squatters, and people keep asking them why they don’t just move out. Because it’s their house! But of course my take on this is that they were perfectly happy with the squatters in their house as long as they stayed in the basement out of sight. And now the metaphor has gone on too long.
Good Republican ideas: I was initially pretty skeptical of Obamacare, but it turns out to have worked well enough, so that’s one good Republican idea. I would have been much happier with Nixon’s healthcare plan, so that’s another one that didn’t make it. Nixon’s negative income tax (which was also never implemented) was an excellent social-science-research-backed welfare reform idea that would have made Bill Clinton’s welfare reform look like a Dickensian nightmare, and an expensive one at that. The EPA and OSHA were good Republican ideas. Teddy Roosevelt’s anti-trust enforcement was laudable.
On the non-policy side of things, I have a great deal of respect for Chief Justice Earl Warren, who was a Republican. And while I pretty much think of Goldwater as the epitome of the right-twice-a-day clock of libertarian Republicanism, I have to wholeheartedly endorse his statement: “Every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.”
Polls just closed in Georgia Sixth… hold on to your butts.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/georgia-south-carolina-special-elections/
For election nerds–most news outlets are lumping in early voting with mail-ins, but mail-ins tend to lean Democratic and are counted very late. The end-of-day tally will definitely favor Handel, so don’t stay up late. Nevertheless, I have a bad feeling about this one.
Adding to the pile of letters to Santa, we now have a letter from ten major health insurance providers begging the Senate to not screw up the health insurance market as they seem hell-bent on doing. This of course follows several letters begging the Trump administration to end the federal negligence that led to the upheaval taking place in the market right now.
Oddly, I do not see any reports that anyone in the Nevada state legislature received one of these letters. Surely some mistake.
Have it your way, but that doesn’t explain where Garfunkel disappeared to, does it? All aboard Paul Simon’s traveling roadshow of horrors, that’s where.
Garfunkel confirmed.
http://theshizz.org/forum/index.php/topic/40371-what-the-fuck-is-up-with-paul-simons-chrome-egg-cup/
They’re all wrong. It’s a trailer hitch, which is a clue to his secret identity for those in the know.
Garfunkel confirmed.
In that case, the post-edit above explains a bit that “queer” was an attempt at such a word that failed.
Accurate terminology is important–for example, calling everyone under the LGBTQIA umbrella “gay” would be pretty dismissive/marginalizing to those who aren’t gay.
I disagree. Language is fluid and words mean what society wants them to mean. If a society wants to change a word’s meaning, then it changes. There can be an “umbrella” word to encompass the whole umbrella without having to explicitly enumerate each individual sect within it. Other minority groups in society don’t have to do this. I mean, what if the Native American tribes wanted to be known under the umbrella of combining the first letter of every tribe? The term “Native American” does not inherently marginalize the Cherokee or the Osage tribes.
Society at large wants “Eskimo” to mean all extreme-northern-latitude Native Americans. If we’re running with that metaphor, I’d say calling intersex people gay would be more like calling Inuits Eskimos. See how that works out for you.
I’m just saying–I get it that the acronym is unusual and a mouthful and ever-changing and even overused–but it works for the people described by the acronym, and that’s enough for me to accept it. Minority groups aren’t well-served when everyone votes on what a word means, because guess who always wins that vote? And I’m perfectly okay with the idea that I don’t get a vote on this matter.
EDIT: “Queer” was–and still is to some degree–an attempt to create a single overarching umbrella term for everyone. But it’s reclaimed, which is a problem (some people hate it because it will always be an insult to them), and even at the loosest definition, people tend to ascribe gender connotations to the word which still don’t really work for everyone. So the Q fails in its job to cap off the end of the acronym and it continues to grow.
Queer is the Q in LGBTQ. There’s also the chant “We’re here. We’re queer. Get used to it.” The word is used within the LGBTQ community as a catch-all umbrella term for any gender nonconformity–including LGBT, but also things that don’t quite fit neatly into those categories. Like all reclaimed pejorative terms, the meaning changes significantly depending on the context, and can present outsiders with some anxiety about when it’s okay to use it. For example, it also still gets yelled at LGBTQ-perceived people in a threatening manner (the pejorative usage). So if you’re not sure you’re using the word correctly, it’s probably best to steer clear. But the headline seems fine to me.
I really hate this LGBTQIA-EIEIO business. I wish they would just use the word “gay” and have done with it. Sheesh.
Accurate terminology is important–for example, calling everyone under the LGBTQIA umbrella “gay” would be pretty dismissive/marginalizing to those who aren’t gay. But it’s also pretty well acknowledged that things that start out in a relatively small group of people with specialized knowledge rarely make it out the door making very much sense to the general population–copping to not really getting the terminology is pretty much a rite of passage for straight people. And there are times when the whole mouthful doesn’t apply, so it’s completely appropriate to just say “gay”.
It’s also (at least to me) interesting from a historical perspective: read from left to right, the acronym is basically a timeline of the larger society realizing that people like this existed. First came L & G, then B, then T, then Q, then really just a few years back I broke popular consciousness (“Middlesex” hit Oprah’s book club, etc), and now we’re on to A.
Chances are you’ve got some random subset of Project Threepio then, because it’s always included a README from version 1.0. How did you get it? I’d recommend downloading the full project (lots of info in first post, no direct link). I wouldn’t be surprised if you just got a bunch of SRT files (included with the movie?), and that would definitely cause needless confusion and problems. The very least of which is, without a README and version number, I have no idea if you’re using antique subtitle files with tons of problems or the latest ones.
That said, the same naming convention rules apply, so you probably want either ESB-eng-native or ESB-eng-sdh-native, depending on whether you want SDH or not. SUP format is preferred over SRT, although for English it should not make a huge difference.
EDIT: I just PM’d you. Yes, I know the project is large. That’s probably why you ended up with a small subset of it 😉
Could it be that we’ve finally reached Peak Conspiracy? One can only hope.
There’s a pretty detailed README file included with the project files. That part would be covered in the “Project Threepio’s file naming convention” section.
SW-eng-native.sup: A set of subtitles that cover what most people would want.
SW-eng-sdh-native.sup: A set of subtitles that include SDH (deaf & hard of hearing) audio cues.
SW-eng-alien-35mm.sup: Greedo’s subtitles, for use with preservations that don’t have burnt-in Greedo subs.
SW-eng-match-35mm.sup: A set of subtitles for the rest of the film, designed to look like Greedo’s subs (similar font & style).
SW means Star Wars, ESB means Empire, ROTJ means Jedi. I’d recommend against using SRT files unless you have no other option.
So, in short, -eng-native is probably what you’re looking for, unless you want SDH cues.
I gotta say I’m a fan of the VertaBot
Ditto. And since the real Mike’s gone radio silent, I say we hook VertaBot up to a chatbot and then we can have an active Legacy thread again.
I’m working on the VertaBot now, and it’s looking awesome. More coming soon…
Please please please please please.
Lawrence of Arabia: Episode IX: The Motorcycle Menace: Special Edition
When Sherif Ali first appears, visiting his well, he is chased off by the sound of some guy yelling in a parking lot. After he leaves, Lawrence and his guide emerge, unhurt, from behind a rock.
Prince Faisal has no eyebrows. This alteration makes no sense unless you’ve also seen the revised Doctor Zhivago, which explains how Prince Faisal lost his eyebrows to frostbite.
After Lawrence rescues Gasim from the Nefud Desert, Gasim tries to shoot Lawrence at point blank range, but rather improbably still manages to miss. Lawrence returns fire, killing Gasim in self-defense.
The Arab alliance passes several wacky dinosaurs as they storm Aqaba, adding some much-needed physical comedy to an otherwise tense scene.
Sherif Ali steps on the Turkish Bey’s foot, adding some much-needed physical comedy to an otherwise tense scene.
After his imprisonment at the hands of the Turkish Bey, Lawrence blinks a lot more, causing his compatriots to feel uneasy around him.
When attacking the retreating Turkish soldiers, Lawrence does not issue a battle cry. In a later revision of the film, the original “No Prisoners!” battle cry is restored.
All of the signs in Damascus have been changed to Aurebesh.
Lawrence is discouraged because politics in Arab-controlled Damascus has devolved into a rather awful musical number.
Near the end of the film, General Allenby, played by Jack Hawkins, has been digitally replaced by a much younger-looking random different General played by Hayden Christensen.
As Lawrence is driven away in a staff car, you hear the random General screaming “No! Noooo!” although he’s not actually in the scene. The last two alterations make no sense even if you’ve seen the revised A Passage to India, also featuring Hayden Christensen, where this random General character is revealed to be General Allenby at a younger and more obnoxious age.
It might not be until the copyright expires and the films enter the public domain
Whether it’s 100 years from now, or 20,000 years from now, copyright expiration marks the point at which we’ll have a new, high-quality respectful commercial OOT release. Implanted directly into our brains by our machine overlords, sure, but still.
That’s a bit harsh. One can be unaware of what version they’re watching without being a moron.
Agreed. At some point, Star Wars is new to people–and new people are born every day. Today, the Special Edition Trilogy has been the only commercially available version to watch longer than the Star Wars Trilogy ever was. You can’t blame people for watching the crappy version and thinking it’s the real thing. Yeah, it’s technically ignorance, but it’s not like informed choice was ever part of the equation. Same for colorized films, etc. If it’s the only version on Netflix, it’s effectively the only version.