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Comment Re:Fair Use? (Score 1) 527

Consented and enjoyed the act? What fucking planet are you living on? He drugged her and she told him no, but was unable to stop him.

The girl testified that she left the Jacuzzi and entered a bedroom in Nicholson's home, where Polanski sat down beside her and kissed the teen, despite her demands that he "keep away." According to Gailey, Polanski then performed a sex act on her and later "started to have intercourse with me." At one point, according to Gailey's testimony, Polanski asked the 13-year-old if she was "on the pill," and "When did you last have your period?" Polanski then asked her, Gailey recalled, "Would you want me to go in through your back?" before he "put his penis in my butt." Asked why she did not more forcefully resist Polanski, the teenager told Deputy D.A. Roger Gunson, "Because I was afraid of him."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskicover1.html

Jesus, way to lie to make yourself feel better about sick acts done by adult men on 13 year old girls.

Comment Re:Fair Use? (Score 1) 527

Many states used to make rape a capital offense (Virginia and Louisiana, for example), Louisiana had it on the books as late as 2008 but the Supreme Court overturned it as cruel and unusual.

You are, of course, limiting yourself to the United States, since among the many capital offenses in the world are drug trafficking (Singapore), espionage (Algeria), witchcraft (Central African Republic), sodomy (Mauritania), kidnapping (Uganda), embezzlement and fraud (China), prostitution (North Korea), attempted murder of police (Russia), ... and, yes, rape (Egypt, Guyana, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Thailand, China, Kuwait, and so on).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_nation

Comment Re:laughable (Score 1) 647

Actually, the whole point of "inalienable" rights as defined by the Declaration were those instilled in us by "the Creator" (the higher power that made humanity exist.) So things like the right to live (and thus the right to eat, drink, breathe), the right to speak freely, the right to travel, the right to work and make use of your labor - these are things that when the word "inalienable" was written meant that they were not man's to give, nor man's to take away.

A lot of that stemmed from the early beginnings of the existential crisis, which at that time boiled down to, I don't have a choice to be created and exist on this earth, so all of my faculties must have some sort of higher purpose that is beyond me, so a life of solitude and selfishness (and nastiness and brutishness and thus shortness) is less ideal than one of community and the "common welfare." So the inalienable rights were declared - rights which were simply above man's pay grade.

Attributing any other meaning to that word, whether trying to shrink it (as you are), or enlarge it (as some more ardent socialists are), is beyond its scope.

We can argue about whether there are inalienable rights, but if you believe that such things exist, then no, there is no right of those around you to murder you in the street.

I mean, we had 500 years of philosophers arguing over these kinds of things, you're not the first to take a stab at it.

Comment Re:Music vs. Movies (Score 1) 378

Really, you're gonna say that, when we've had

No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Up, Ratatouille, Children of Men, Milk, In The Mood For Love, Lord of the Rings, The Incredibles, Dark Knight, Inglorious Basterds, Wall-E, Brick, The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Gone Baby Gone, Amores Perros, Babel, Pan's Labyrinth, A History of Violence, Eastern Promsies, You Can Count On Me, Adaptation., Boy A, Black Hawk Down, Finding Nemo, Coraline, Casino Royale, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Persepolis, Spirited Away, Ponyo, The Pianist, The Lives of Others, Downfall, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dogville, The Machinist, The Fall, Gran Torino, Far From Heaven, Mystic River, In Bruges, Catch Me If You Can, The Departed, The Royal Tenenbaums, Oldboy, Kill Bill, Walk Hard, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Letters From Iwo Jima, Triplets of Belleville, Monsters Inc, Moon, Toy Story 2, Mulholland Dr, O Brother Where Art Thou, A Simple Man, Once, The Prestige, Rescue Dawn, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Spider-Man 2, The Aviator, The Bourne trilogy, Fog of War, Capturing the Friedmans, The Hurt Locker, Zodiac, Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Last Hangman, The Others,The Visitor, Sweeney Todd, Training Day, The Descent, The Counterfeiters, Frost/Nixon, Doubt, Finding Neverland, Pirates of the Caribbean, Hotel Rwanda, Ghost World, Waltz with Bashir, The Station Agent ...

all in the past decade?

And that's me being kind of stingy with the list! This has been the greatest decade of film of all-time (doesn't have quite the peaks of the 30s or 70s, but all-around it's definitely ahead) and the next decade should only prove more exciting to see what these directors, actors, writers, animators, and (yes) movie studios can do.

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