The Super Bowl location is determined far in advance of the actual game. It's by coincidence, but I believe it's the case that a city hosting the Super Bowl has never had a team in it. Cities generally need some time to prepare, and given that it's only one game (as opposed to a series like in baseball), it does seem like it would be unfair for it to be played on one team's home field, unless that just happens to be how things turned out.
Also, dude - Indiana was blue last election. Not that I expect that to happen again, but there are a lot of Dems here.
Nor did Battle Royale borrow from the notion of a "battle royal," which is an Actual Thing Which Existed Before 1998!
I'd also note that the media practice not disclosing an alleged victim's name in these cases is just that - media practice. In the US, it cannot be enforced by law - it's been tried and has been found to be unconstitutional. While I can understand the goal in this, the law can't help either way - it's the media you'd have to appeal to.
Personally, I always liked that if I accidentally hit "images" when typing SOPA into Google, I'd get lots of pictures of delicious soup.
That was my takeaway. There are some things I still want to see, but the only movies I particularly enjoyed this year were HP8 and Jane Eyre.
I don't know about the whole deleting thing, but when it comes to DDoS attacks, it's just what they can do. I don't have any affiliation with this group and don't participate in this kind of thing, but I do have a basic enough idea of how a DDoS attack works to see why it's used so much. It doesn't require hacking in the sense of breaking into hostile systems or the like - a DDoS attack doesn't involve actually taking down a site from the inside. It involves making so many requests to the site that it overwhelms the server and forces it down. This can happen anyway if the site has relatively small server capabilities and just happens to get overwhelming traffic, but for sites like Universal that may anticipate large amounts of traffic (or DDoS attacks), those who want to attack would use programs that can make a computer repeatedly access the site a massive number of times. Some groups disseminate this kind of thing in the form of malware, but it appears that Anonymous generally distributes it to those who voluntarily want to participate in an attack (I guess, that's honestly just based on the Gawker post from the other day).
The point is, to "change" the content or whatever on these sites, it would require a whole lot more of the hackers involved to actually penetrate the site's security. (Though I guess that's what happened with the CBS thing, I don't know.) A DDoS attack really only requires some participants, making it a pretty simple and easily perpetrated form of cyber sabotage. And it can be effective - as someone who uses LiveJournal, I can tell you that I'm used to having my ability to use it be hampered by DDoS attacks (which are even suspected of being linked to the Russian government, given LJ's widespread use in Russia). It can take a while for a site to recover from such an attack.
But I can't tell you why Anonymous in particular thinks it's a good response to this situation. It's just pretty easy for me to see -why- Internet saboteurs use it as a tactic.
Somehow I feel more offended by the idea that this would offend middle-aged women than the team name itself. I mean, has it really it the point where it's "cougar" is synonymous with "middle-aged woman"? Or where it's anywhere on par with an actual slur? I mean, you wouldn't name a team the "bitches" even if it is also an animal, but I really don't think we're there with "cougar."
Then again, my middle school social studies teacher wanted our school mascot to be the jackasses. We had to settle for jaguars.
Yeah, I have to admit I've been a little more focused on the whole deviating off-course and running aground, possibly maybe just because he wanted to show off the boat/let someone wave to people onshore thing. I mean, yeah, Schettino comes off like an asshole, but to me that's not because he's a man but because he was the captain, and therefore had a duty to his passengers to... not deviate off-course and run the ship aground. Yep.
Oh good god yes on Midnight in Paris. It was also just incredibly sexist.
Yeah, I agree. I'll acknowledge that it's also different for me, as I'm pretty close to them in age and so "grew up" along the same track they did, so it's just not going to be as weird to me, but they are well into consenting-ability adulthood. It's not really weird anymore.
I didn't mind Home Ec, but it's interesting to see people here calling it and Shop "useful." All I really remember learning from Home Ec (sorry, we called it "Family and Consumer Sciences") was how to make a stuffed animal unicorn (which I still have!) and that egg baby thing. And in shop we made little cars that floated using magnets. All skills I use in daily life now!
I would promote this if it weren't already promoted.
I actually preferred the second two books, so I'm glad they'll be adapted. Despite that I preferred the first Swedish version, the second two were rather terrible, and hopefully the American versions won't make the same mistake of cutting out what actually made the books interesting.
Yes. I must know about it every time Libseth eats a Billy's Pan Pizza. EVERY TIME, DAMMIT.
I'll admit, I didn't even know they had Papa John's in NYC. It's really for when your only other options are Pizza Hut and Domino's.
At Penn Station they take your name, but it's because someone else actually serves your order, so they have to call it out when it's ready. So I don't imagine racist epithets would work so well for that.
I had the same impression about the beer and Dean's 36 hour nap - along with Dean seeming to think way more time had passed since he'd called Frank than according to Frank really had or something? I don't know, whatever was going on with that did seem to have some weird, ghosty-time-jumpy purpose.
The definition is included in this article, near the end:
It includes non-consensual oral sex acts, as well.
I don't think the Queen said it in the Disney version, but the fairy Merryweather did. Because she was The Spunky One.
1) Actually, I'd think as long as her hair was wrapped around a hook or something near the window (some versions actually show this, though I don't remember if Tangled does), it could work, as no force actually be exerted on her head. However, she'd have to have some impossibly strong neck muscles to have that much hair, especially when it was all braided up.
