Member of Anonymous tortured and charged with child pornography
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[QUOTE=Xubs;44939124]My point is not that this news is more or less of an example worthy of a 1984 reference, but just that the reference itself is overused, and it's very much getting into the same territory that Godwin's Law now covers. I've heard 1984 comparisons for just about any move that expands the reach of the government. It's getting very annoying.
This news may or may not be an example worthy of the comparison, I don't care, I'm just very sick of hearing 1984 any single time anything bad involving government and their powers happens. Where I'm from, referencing 1984 is like referencing the Nazis, but there's no meta rule saying that Nazi comparisons are an inevitability, so nobody but me is hyper-aware of their overuse.
I'm just getting tired of the reference is all. If need be, you can make references to other works, or just flat-out state what you feel and, you know, not need to invoke references to make your point, but the 1984 reference has lost all meaning to me and passed the threshold into an annoying one.[/QUOTE]
On that note - Godwin's law is dumb. In any conversation the chance of anything being said the longer the conversation goes on approaches one for the same reason that if you had a monkey on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time it would eventually type out anything.
It also doesn't really mean anything. It does not prohibit the comparison or make the person making the comparison any less or more intelligent. It's just someone pointing out that people make comparisons to the Nazis a lot - which is to be expected given that they were a major historical event that most everybody is familiar with.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;44946579][img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53757408/orwell.png[/img]
How's that for a start?[/QUOTE]
Button pusher should have this face:
[img_thumb]http://cdn.mhpbooks.com/uploads/2013/06/tumblr_m7s3uvp8TP1qglffgo1_1280.jpg[/img_thumb]
[QUOTE=Jeep-Eep;44950005]Button pusher should have this face:
[img_thumb]http://cdn.mhpbooks.com/uploads/2013/06/tumblr_m7s3uvp8TP1qglffgo1_1280.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
Updated it trying to recreate the facial features on the smiley, how's it look now?
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;44953737]Updated it trying to recreate the facial features on the smiley, how's it look now?[/QUOTE]
Not that bad - move the eyes down a little for more forehead and you've got it.
[QUOTE=Jeep-Eep;44954703]Not that bad - move the eyes down a little for more forehead and you've got it.[/QUOTE]
Moved the eyes and brows down a pixel, if that's all would anyone be willing to animate it? I'm afraid I don't know how.
[QUOTE=outlawpickle;44943369]Lol. Just read the torture part. My family has had several members in the FBI from agent to the administrative level. Let me assure you that the FBI does not interview suspects hooked up to an[B] IV drip with some truth serum.[/B]
CIA or NSA, I can believe that, FBI? Take your tinfoil hat off, sir. Especially the whole "I didn't do that." "I know." thing :tinfoil:
And to add, I have a few family members in the CIA as well, and they truly can't tell me a lick of what they do compared to what my family in the FBI can tell me.[/QUOTE]
It was most likely water so he didn't dehydrate enough to die from it.
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