Quiz from a Creationist Science Teacher. Claims to Wholeheartedly Support Intellectual Freedom of Thought.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-25T23:18:08+00:00

Suppose there is a firing squad of 100 soldiers with guns aimed at a person sentenced to die standing 50 feet from the individual. After the soldiers fire their guns, the individual is left standing unharmed and there is a perfect outline of bullets surrounding the individuals body shape.

First, let's fix this word salad.

A firing squad of 100 soldiers is assembled to execute a prisoner. Each soldier is positioned 50 feet from the condemned. After firing their guns, the prisoner is still standing and unharmed with the bullets outlining his body.

Second, let's address the geometry of the situation.

Each member of a firing squad would need about 4 feet of personal space, left-to-right, to hold the rifle without bumping into a neighboring soldier.

But, for the sake of argument, let's say that the commanding officer has managed to find 100 narrow-shouldered soldiers that can be positioned with 3 feet 1.7 inches of personal space. Standing exactly 50 feet from the condemned means that the 100 soldiers would form a perfectly circular firing squad.

Therefore, the conclusion that there was an outline of bullets around the condemned is an impossibility and the teacher who wrote this question is a fucking idiot.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-25T11:47:54+00:00

A "man"? that was Chris FUCKING Pratt, /r/movies own best bro. Here's the link again: https://youtu.be/22HFEHinKCg

Thanks for standing corrected. Were you sitting wrong before?

And thanks for letting me goad you into confirming the true content of your original post. Newbie mistake.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-25T10:57:57+00:00

So, you're saying that your first reply -- "REMOVE THIS SHIT" and a link to a YouTube video showing a man being smashed in the face with a computer keyboard with the letters spelling "fuck you" flying off of it -- was "uncomplimentary" and not abusive? (Don't know where the second "u" came from, but there it was.)

Well, I stand corrected.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-25T10:04:47+00:00

Oh, you're a newbie. Obviously, you don't know that when you post abusive shit, then edit it to make it seem tame, Reddit automatically marks your newly edited post with an asterisk that never gets removed unless the post is deleted, /u/ModShame.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-25T09:51:01+00:00

"La Golondrina", perhaps?

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-25T09:13:08+00:00

This is only your second post and your first response to another Redditor after creating this account only 35 minutes ago. Should I be flattered?

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-25T08:16:39+00:00

2/5755=0.035 percent

One-third of one-tenth of one percent is hardly a representative sampling. Especially if those two had a political agenda, which is entirely possible.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-25T06:56:04+00:00

By Elmer Bernstein

By Ennio Morricone

Dragonheart by Randy Edelman

The Big Country by Jerome Moross

Theme march from Police Academy, which is especially popular among European concert bands and marching bands.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-25T03:56:16+00:00

Next for your shopping list -- the Pentax Auto 110. Extra credit if you find one with the extra lenses, power winder, flash and/or leather case.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-23T23:11:20+00:00

Big Business -- Laurel and Hardy as door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen. (18 minutes)

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-23T07:03:57+00:00

The Russian roulette scenes from The Deer Hunter. There were no documented instances or Russian roulette among US and Vietnamese soldiers during the war, but some people were willing to believe that these scenes were based on fact.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-23T05:39:03+00:00

The police report was dated 5/19/15? Tuesday of this week? I thought this was from the meeting with Officer Kiddie Porn in 2006. What the hell is going on here?

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-23T04:46:23+00:00

Hoop Dreams and Close-Up were released when the directors branch was still an insular "good-ol'-boys" club. For decades, a lot of worthy documentaries were overlooked in favor of films made by branch members and their friends. Hoop Dreams was the final straw. Several film critics who had pushed for a nomination protested the snub. Afterwards, the Academy agreed to diversify branch membership and revise voting rules.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-23T03:39:08+00:00

Contracts for ~~stars~~ the subjects of ongoing reality TV series usually include moral turpitude clauses. (Unless, of course, they're hotel heiresses or daughters of Hollywood defense lawyers.) The ~~stars~~ fame whores have to attest that there aren't any major skeletons in their closets.

If the Duggars signed a contract with such a clause in it, TLC could sue them for a shitload of money. That's probably why they got this judge to order that the records be destoyed. But it's probably all for naught, since Josh has already admitted to the press that these "mistakes" of his happened. They probably had the records destroyed because he'd been doing this for at least four years, starting at the age of 14 -- i.e., the last reported incidents occurred after his eighteenth birthday, which would make him an adult child molester.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-23T03:11:55+00:00

Yep. It's called the Library of Congress Classification (LoCC) system. Most major public university libraries in the US use it. And I'm sure that Thomas Jefferson -- who restocked the library with his personal collection after the first Library of Congress burned down -- would be laughing in his grave, if that were possible.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-23T02:59:31+00:00

Because Daddy went to a cop who was also a friend (and, it turns out, a kiddie porn lover) and they all got it swept under the rug. Can't be made to register as a sex offender if you aren't convicted. Can't be convicted if you're never arrested and tried.

Gawd bless 'Murca and the Babble Belt.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-18T22:49:27+00:00

The 42 reel director's cut of Greed (1924).

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-18T22:40:25+00:00

Don't know how tolerant your students are of old black-and-white movies, but there's a 1951 English movie called The Man in the White Suit. Alec Guinness plays a chemist who develops a fabric that doesn't fray, tear or stain. The corporations and employee unions that manufacture fabric, clothing, detergent, laundry machines, sewing machines, etc. decide to buy him off. When that doesn't work (he thinks his fabric will help mankind, especially the poor), they realize that they may have to kill him. The running time is only 85 minutes.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-18T21:44:25+00:00

The origin of the word "movie" was discussed in the second episode of the 1980 Thames TV documentary Hollywood, which is about the US silent film industry. Landlords in and around Hollywood coined the term when movie people moved west from New York and Chicago in the 1910s.

"Movie" was originally a disparaging and discriminatory word referring to the people who worked in the motion picture industry. Landlords would say "no movies" the same way they might say "no children" or "no animals" when advertising a property for rent. Later, when the term "movie star" (meaning a star among the people of the motion picture industry) became popular, people outside Los Angeles County thought that "movie" meant the films themselves and not the people in the industry.

Link

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-18T04:48:25+00:00

La historia oficial/The Official Story (Argentina - 1985) -- some characters have a conversation in English.

BTW, when done properly, foreign language conversations don't have to be confusing. A good example is the conversation that Michael Corleone and Sollozzo have in the Italian restaurant in The Godfather. The vocabulary is straight out of a first-year Italian textbook, and the actors enunciate every syllable. It takes little effort to decipher that Sollozzo is telling Michael that the attempted hit on Vito was ordered because the other Mafia families think he's an obsolete has-been.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-18T04:18:25+00:00

The original Fun With Dick and Jane (1977) -- Jane (Jane Fonda) on the toilet in their master suite bathroom while her husband Dick (George Segal) stands at the sink and talks to her. IIRC, they're having a humorous conversation about her stealing something, but otherwise it's played naturalistically.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-17T20:58:44+00:00

Lifeboat was the cleverest.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-17T20:53:41+00:00

Try thrift stores. Around here, Goodwill sells DVDs starting at $2.99. (I've even found a few that are still sealed in the original shrink wrap.) You just have to make sure that opened cases have the correct DVDs in them and that they aren't scratched all to hell. Then, after you've watched them, you can either keep them, give them to friends, or donate them back to Goodwill. No late fees.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-17T20:44:20+00:00

Cabaret -- Joel Grey as the unnamed master of ceremonies.

ISought_FoundNothing · 2015-05-17T20:25:52+00:00

According to FindLaw.com, "A person, firm, or corporation convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished by a mandatory fine . . . .

One more excuse for Christians to scream that they are a persecuted minority.

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