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posted to MetaFilter by keswick at 3:48 PM on November 30, 2006

Actually, anyone interested in this topic might do well to read "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer." It was a chilling book, and what chilled me most was the utter normalcy of it all. We do like to think, as McWhorter points out, that those "good Germans" knucked under only when the jackboot was at their throat. But that wasn't how it was at all - people embraced it wholeheartedly. They accepted what they were told by the government - believing,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kgasmart at 8:24 AM on November 29, 2006

Every time I've seen documentary footoage of a "knock and announce" prior to breaching a door the entire sequence happens in like maybe 3 seconds. It's KNOCK-"POLICE!"-BATTERING RAM thingy. Even if you were standing right by the front door I doubt if you would comprehend what was happening in that short amount of time. If you were in another room or sleeping all you are likely to be aware of is a loud noise and then a bunch of guys in black with guns screaming at you.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by well_balanced at 3:50 PM on November 28, 2006

This is so terrible, I pulled out my credit card and bought a membership to MeFi, just so I could say how terrible it is. That's right: five dollars of terrible.
posted to MetaFilter by bicyclefish at 11:59 AM on November 27, 2006

This is such crap.

-Is Charest more important than the other ministers?
-Does Quebec get it's own money?
-Does Quebec get a special veto?
-Does Quebec have undue influence in the parliament?
-Does Quebec get a seat at the UN?

The answer to all these questions is no. What do they get? They get more pissed off when they find out the only thing this will bring is a new generation of political... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jon_kill at 11:59 AM on November 28, 2006

I basically did the unschooling thing in highschool: while there was no explicit philosophy attached, I withdrew from public school and spent my days reading books, wandering around town, and getting engaged in the local art scene. I convinced my mom to let me try this unorthodox education scheme, mainly because there were no better alternatives for someone like me.

Right before I started highschool, the two of us moved to a new city. The neighborhood we were in was... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bookish at 4:41 PM on November 25, 2006

here is the PDF, which you can read without clicking through a pop-up ridden 'haxor' site.

The technique:

Navigate to the login page desired;
Type in the userid;
for (each pwd character){
Give focus to anywhere but the pwd field;
Type some random characters;
Give focus to the pwd field;
Type the next character of the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delmoi at 11:09 AM on November 23, 2006

I was going to add it as a favorite, until I found myself in one of the photos.
posted to MetaFilter by strangeleftydoublethink at 1:08 PM on November 24, 2006

Fifty years ago we would've hung'ed them from a tree. '.'

Fifty years ago we would've had them upside down with a fork in their ass!!
posted to MetaFilter by LilBucner at 9:30 AM on November 23, 2006

I think the way the next part goes is he uses it to power a hyperdrive he invented, and he installs it in an old train car he found out back, and he makes a spacesuit out of a wetsuit his friend's older brother outgrew, and he and his two best pals blast off to the moon and defeat the Nazis there. Right?

Damn, do I love these stories.
posted to MetaFilter by booksandlibretti at 6:45 PM on November 21, 2006

How many times must we explain:

The damn car is not powered by water!

It is powered by a a BATT-ER-Y!!! SAY IT!! BAT-TE-RY!!! THATS RIGHT AN ELECTRICAL BATTERY THAT WAS CHARGED BY A SMOG SPEWING POWER PLANT!!!

The water is being decomposed into Hydrogen and Oxygen by a BATTERY! The gases are sparked, which causes an explosion, which makes car go forward, and water comes out exhaust pipe... and the whole process very... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by StarForce5 at 3:02 PM on November 21, 2006

But on a government scale: just eliminate all metal and paper money. Make every transaction electronic.
posted by pracowity at 1:13 AM PST on November 20


I understand it worked pretty well for our voting system.
posted to MetaFilter by Uther Bentrazor at 7:41 AM on November 20, 2006

some of the ideas seem fine

blacklite: Don't deceive yourself. Scientology is pernicious mind-control wrapped around a core ideology of radical and limitless self-aggrandizement. They make the Objectivists look like a social club. Just because they claim to help people and to relieve human suffering does not mean they should be taken at their word. Dig around a bit and you'll find many many stories of people describing their experiences of turning... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by felix betachat at 5:02 AM on November 19, 2006

Oookay there's a wall in front of you... still there... you're really close to the wall.. OH you ran into it and hit your head. Ooh, that hurts. You're rubbing your head now; you're gonna have a lump there tomorrow morning. Your butt is itchy. You scratch your butt.
posted to MetaFilter by tehloki at 3:40 PM on November 17, 2006

History is written by the winners.

You haven't looked around a university history department. More often than not, history is written by the wieners.
posted to MetaFilter by pracowity at 1:03 PM on November 17, 2006

I keep trying to squish them but it doesn't work.
posted to MetaFilter by snsranch at 4:55 PM on November 16, 2006

what did he expect would happen?

I hope someone says the same thing of (and to) you next time you don't act exactly the way the cops want you to act and they beat the shit out of you, taser you, and/or lock you up and throw away the key. Brutal abuse of power is sickening but inevitable; pathetic justification of such by onlookers is, I guess, equally inevitable, but somehow I can never get used to it.
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat at 8:49 AM on November 16, 2006

Will someone help please Dubya find the G-Spot - he keeps rubbing the Middle East with his index finger and it's getting kinda sore.
posted to MetaFilter by CynicalKnight at 12:10 PM on November 16, 2006

what are the qualities of the knife that make it so much tool -- the grip? The blade?
Both mistermoore, on the mocotagan site there is a downloadable (in chapters) book. Pages 34-39 have information on 'The Anatomy of the Mocotaugan' and 'How a Modern Master uses a Mocotaugan'.
“He then picked up his crooked knife and held its grip in his upturned righthand, the blade poking out to the left. The blade was bent near its outer end (enabling it to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian at 6:10 PM on November 15, 2006

I did something else while I waited for this to buffer, then went back to it seconds before the 3rd girl casually fell over and broke in half. Needless to say, not knowing they were mannequins caused me some alarm.
posted to MetaFilter by tehloki at 12:33 AM on November 14, 2006

Unfortunately, I illegally duplicated the trailer on my computer and have now turned myself in to Interpol.
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 1:41 AM on November 14, 2006

The degree of supervision, indeed, is often a more eloquent class indicator than mere income, which suggests that the whole class system is more a recognition of the value of freedom than a proclamation of the value of sheer cash. The degree to which your work is overseen by a superior suggests your real class more accurately than the amount you take home from it. Thus the reason why a high-school teacher is "lower" than a tenured uni versity professor. The teacher is obliged... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by aeschenkarnos at 7:45 PM on November 12, 2006

No.
posted to MetaTalk by timeistight at 6:37 PM on November 12, 2006

There are lots of other examples linked on the site. For example,
one
two
three
four


From a review of work by Chalres Carpenter, also linked on the site (clips two and three above):
The resulting tonality shatters everything the well-tempered Western musical ear has spent a lifetime acclimating itself to. At first, it's extremely disconcerting—the music doesn't sound "in tune," but... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by PercussivePaul at 2:11 PM on November 11, 2006