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The Professional and The Fifth Element.fresh_42 said:
Never saw Lucy.
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Weird when I read " See x live in New York". I took it to be ' live' as in 1st person pf ' Living'; a strange statement.
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Neither did I. That's why "looks like Luc Besson" without knowing it worked.BillTre said:
He also wrote the second part of the Crimson Rivers. Two brilliant movies.
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And used the force.fresh_42 said:
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442 = 1/9/36WWGD said:
702 = 4/9/00
972 = 9/4/09
1022 = 01/04/04
1082 = 1/16/64 (MM/DD/YY only)
2012 = 04/04/01
2042 = 4/16/16 (MM/DD/YY only)
4012 = 16/8/01 (DD/MM/YY only)
Reddit found another square property: 9/27/2025 = 30452 and 27/9/2025 = 52052, both formats are a square.
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Power functions grow too fast to try powers beyond cubes like 1/8/27 or 8/1/27 or 1/8/64, 1/27/64. Or all combinations of 1, 8, 27, 64, unless we use dd/mm/yyy or dd/mm/yyyy with yyyy=1728 being the last and 2197 the next one. For 4th powers we're restricted to the numbers 1, 16, 81. 1, 16 for dd or mm and 01, 16, 81 for yy. For n=5, we only get 01 for dd or mm and 32 as yy. For 6th powers, just 01 for dd or yy and 64 , and beyond 6, we're restricted to 01 /01/ 64 for dd/mm/yy and for 7 or higher, only 01/01/01.
I used to think too of dates that are possible scores in a Tennis game ( albeit neither a square nor cube), like 6/5/64 , a match 6-5, 6-4, bounding up with 7, despite games in theory games going above 7, these are very rare, if possible.
I used to think too of dates that are possible scores in a Tennis game ( albeit neither a square nor cube), like 6/5/64 , a match 6-5, 6-4, bounding up with 7, despite games in theory games going above 7, these are very rare, if possible.
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I just saw Lucky Number Slevin, once more. It is the second movie I know of with Bruce Willis and a watch as an important requisite. The other one is Pulp Fiction. Are there any more?
It is similar to movies with Will Smith: always a dog in there.
It is similar to movies with Will Smith: always a dog in there.
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I’ve been woken up at 3am by 5 week old kittens. It was a planned, coordinated attack.
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Death Wish, the 2018 remake of Bronson's original from 1974; haven't checked the rest of my Willis collection...will keep you posted.fresh_42 said:
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" A dog in there"?fresh_42 said:
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When you check it, ask Willis what he's talking about.Bystander said:
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..., and Die Hard, Bedelia's Rolex, mentioned at beginning, gets released at end of movie, allowing Rickman to fall to his death, not Besson; Fifth element, no watch that I picked up on, Besson.fresh_42 said:
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"Zed's dead."...?WWGD said:
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my wife came back from the fancy store- with- everything today with a bag of polenta, and a photo of the bag of "gluten free polenta" next to it, priced at a dollar more. then she reminded me that all polenta is gluten free, being corn. The two bags had the same brand name and same ingredient list, i.e. "corn". The only difference was the words "gluten free" on one of them, and the price.
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Looper; only watched couple times, and not all that clear to me yet, but Willis plus "plot critical watch," so, ....Bystander said:
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My wife got a really lazy spam call just now. You know those ones that tell you it's your HR department and we want to talk about your promotion, please add me on WhatsApp? This one hadn't even bothered to put in a reason, so it said "Hello. We want to talk to you about your. Please add me on WhatsApp."
I dunno. What's the world coming to when you can't even trust conmen to do a good job.
I dunno. What's the world coming to when you can't even trust conmen to do a good job.
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Oh, we don't get them often - maybe every couple of months. And the phone did correctly flag it as "probably spam".
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I found this particularly appropriate, given I was born in the early 40's
Think about it!
Many of our friends are no longer with us. And those of us still here are lovingly called “the elderly.” But what a journey it has been.
We were born in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
We grew up in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
We studied through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
We fell in love, built families, or chose our own paths in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
We settled into the 2000s.
We grew wiser in the 2010s.
And here we are, still going strong into 2020 and beyond.
Think about it. We have lived through eight different decades, two centuries, and two millennia. We have truly seen it all.
We went from making long-distance calls through an operator to holding the world in the palm of our hands with video calls.
We went from handwritten letters to instant messages. From black-and-white TV to 3D. From vinyls and cassettes to streaming music online. From standing in line at a video rental store to watching anything we want on Netflix.
We learned on typewriters and punch cards, and today we carry gigabytes in our pockets.
We wore shorts and Oxfords, mini-skirts and bell-bottoms, Palestinian scarves and blue jeans.
We lived through polio, meningitis, tuberculosis, swine flu, and even COVID-19.
We went from tricycles to hybrids and electric cars.
We played marbles, checkers, and Monopoly on a table. Today, kids play Candy Crush on a phone.
We drank milk from glass bottles and ate vegetables fresh from the garden.
And through it all, we adapted.
We are the generation that witnessed the birth of molecular biology, the discovery of DNA and RNA, and the rise of gene therapy. We are the generation that has lived an analog childhood and a digital adulthood. We have faced more change than any other generation in history—and we made it through.
What a life. What a story. What a gift.
To everyone who belongs to this very special generation—congratulations. We are, and will forever be, unique.
And I would add some things that that overlooked: we went from women being housewives to women being a major force in the workplace. We went from Jim Crow to at least a solid pretense of racial equality. We went from gay people being castigated and shunned to being part of the mainstream, and we went from politicians who, for example, called America a Shining City on a Hill, to one that calls it ... well, I'll leave that one out in light of forum rules, but you get the picture.
Think about it!
Many of our friends are no longer with us. And those of us still here are lovingly called “the elderly.” But what a journey it has been.
We were born in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
We grew up in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
We studied through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
We fell in love, built families, or chose our own paths in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
We settled into the 2000s.
We grew wiser in the 2010s.
And here we are, still going strong into 2020 and beyond.
Think about it. We have lived through eight different decades, two centuries, and two millennia. We have truly seen it all.
We went from making long-distance calls through an operator to holding the world in the palm of our hands with video calls.
We went from handwritten letters to instant messages. From black-and-white TV to 3D. From vinyls and cassettes to streaming music online. From standing in line at a video rental store to watching anything we want on Netflix.
We learned on typewriters and punch cards, and today we carry gigabytes in our pockets.
We wore shorts and Oxfords, mini-skirts and bell-bottoms, Palestinian scarves and blue jeans.
We lived through polio, meningitis, tuberculosis, swine flu, and even COVID-19.
We went from tricycles to hybrids and electric cars.
We played marbles, checkers, and Monopoly on a table. Today, kids play Candy Crush on a phone.
We drank milk from glass bottles and ate vegetables fresh from the garden.
And through it all, we adapted.
We are the generation that witnessed the birth of molecular biology, the discovery of DNA and RNA, and the rise of gene therapy. We are the generation that has lived an analog childhood and a digital adulthood. We have faced more change than any other generation in history—and we made it through.
What a life. What a story. What a gift.
To everyone who belongs to this very special generation—congratulations. We are, and will forever be, unique.
And I would add some things that that overlooked: we went from women being housewives to women being a major force in the workplace. We went from Jim Crow to at least a solid pretense of racial equality. We went from gay people being castigated and shunned to being part of the mainstream, and we went from politicians who, for example, called America a Shining City on a Hill, to one that calls it ... well, I'll leave that one out in light of forum rules, but you get the picture.
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Albania has an AI as minister of procurement. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...r-and-democracy-raises-an-eyebrow/ar-AA1NniH7
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phinds said:
I've often wondered about the fact how lucky we are having been born into this (probably unique) period in history without world wars and genuinely global catastrophes.
I'm not arrogantly claiming that life is a cakewalk for everyone on the Earth, but for those of us being so lucky as to be born and raised in the industrialized western countries I think perhaps a little gratefulness is in order. Although to whom I'm not entirely sure.
I'm sure serving during WW2 was exciting, it's just not the kind of excitement I'd enjoy. Also The 30 Years War, The 100 Years War, famine, bubonic plague, the list just goes on...
This specific point in time with antibiotics, tetanus-shots (even Fritz Habers process!) and what have we, together make somewhat of a unicorn fantasy-land compared...
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" Our World in Data" supports the overall improvement in quality of life across the board.sbrothy said:
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I know it's a little naive. The cold war was no picnic. I had some interesting dreams as a child (probably spurred on by the film Wargames). And today there's the overall youth climate anxiety. Still....WWGD said:
EDIT: I mean people aren't dying left and right.
EDIT2: Again, in the western "democrazies". (Which is another funny thing. It's not called "communism"/"capitalism", rather "communism"/"democrazy". Go figure. ;)
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To say an improvement occurs, I guess it depends on how you define "quality of life".WWGD said:
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Well, educational achievement, life expectancy at birth, decrease in poverty rate, fewer wars and violence. Acess to all available knowledge and entertainment literally in the palm of your hand. Sure, still room for improvement, but we've come a long way .jack action said:
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Life expectancy is a measure of quantity, not quality.WWGD said:
Decrease in poverty rate doesn't seem to equal better quality of life, quite the opposite (source):
Animals in zoos have greater life expectancy at birth, better food supply and medical care, fewer wars and violence (pretty much none) and entertainment fully designed for them. Even assuming this means better quality of life, It will only be a few amongst the animal kingdom. Anyone would think it is impossible to built golden cages for all animals. Some even advocates for all animals to be returned in the wild because some animals are clearly unhappy in zoos. And even for the happy ones, being in the wild wouldn't mean they would be unhappy.
For one, I'm really unhappy in my golden cage. And I hate the fact that some slaves in third-world countries are doing all the dirty work to maintain my cage.
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Well, it's hard to tell which animals will prefer to return to the wild. Now that they've been domesticated , they wouldn't last long if returned to the wild. " Mother Nature" can be quite brutal. And people seem to flock to countries with the above higher indicators but not the other way around. So, yes, while there is a subjective angle to quality of life, the cknsensus seems to be in favor of such higher indicators, given people voting with their feet( migration). But you may choose/vote otherwise.jack action said:
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jack action said:
It seems to me you’re sugarcoatimg it a little here. Many of the animals in zoos are functionally extinct. The only thing keeping them alive are the breeding projects of the zoos themselves.
As for wars and violence - yes, even murder - animals have plenty of that. Even more when compared to humans (EDIT: murder specifically). This applies mostly to animals in the wild, I know. Still.
As for entertainment I’m not sure they’re occupied enough. I think their existence is a basically sad story.
Also, talking about “happy” animals sounds to me a little…. well, “misguided” for want of a better word.
EDIT: “Disneyesque” or “anthropomorphizing” was the words I was looking for.