Monthly Archives: August 2018
Sacred Games & Mr Sunshine – The Review (preview) (with age conundrum)
Either because the censorship goons block things or because Netflix severely restricts content by region I don’t have access to most of my queue out here. As a result I’ve watched a lot of random stuff lately.
If I get around to it (hopefully tomorrow) I’ll review all of Sacred Games and the first few episodes of Mr Sunshine.
In the meantime, help me, please help me with this huge crisis.
From Mr Sunshine, Lee Byung-hun is how old? See him below here in his US Marine Corps regalia and snazzy early 20th Century bespoke suits? How old?
Wrong. Dude is 48.
Now here’s Kim Tae-ri. She’s how old?
Wrong. She’s 28.
At first I couldn’t get around the fact that to me, Kim looks like she’s 16. So it got weird where Lee is involved in this relationship with an underage girl and all.
But she’s not, she’s 28. But I still think she looks under 20.
Then there’s Lee. Dude looks like he’s 28 but is in fact 48.
And so:
1) I’m an idiot.
2) There is nothing that makeup or costumes can’t cure to make actors look two decades younger than they really are. Think science will conquer death? Wrong, immortality lies in a makeup drawer. I guess.
3) Should it be considered a little weird that these two folks have two decades age between them in what is at least half a love story’s worth on content? Maybe. But this happens all the time in the entertainment industry. And probably is accurate to the period as well.
4) In real life, the situation would be reversed. They’d each look two decades older than they really were. Korea was a complete mess of tears, conquest, unforgiving weather, and brutality during that time. In many ways, it still is.
5) Is Lee supposed to be 48 in the Series despite his looks? If so, it makes sense that he’s only just a captain because it shows flashback scenes where he’s fighting as an enlisted man.
6) Is Kim supposed to be 28 in the Series despite her looks? If so, it makes sense as she’s essentially referred to as an old maid for not being married yet many times in the Series.
7) In conclusion, I”m still and idiot. See you soon.
TSA: “Nothing to see here.” [shifty eyes]
“It’s perfectly normal for an employee who makes $9 an hour to be able to steal a 20 ton commercial aircraft,” says representative of government agency that fails at its mission over 90% of the time.
the establishment hasn’t caught up with the reality of our new distributed planet
Yesterday a judge blocked the online publication of blueprints for a 3D printed gun. The States who filed the complaint called it, “a bell that cannot be un-rung”. The judge said, “There are 3D printers in public colleges and public spaces and there is the likelihood of potential irreparable harm,”.
So apparently all these folks don’t understand how the Internets works, haven’t heard or understood the word Torrent, and don’t understand the reality of how the planet currently works.
To borrow their term, I can guarantee you that 3D printing of firearms is going to be rung. And it’s going to be rung very, very soon. Soon it’ll be possible for anybody with access to cash to print any kind of gun they want, handgun, shotgun, assault rifle, whatever. It’s going to happen. That’s one of the fearful miracle implications of 3D printing, fueled by an Internets that enables the distribution of any knowledge whatsoever.
For over 15 years terrorists have been capable of teaching 19 year old disgruntled street urchins from Paris and Brussels how to make nail bombs. All of this knowledge is easily accessible online. It’s never going away. If the establishment thinks 3D printed handgun designs will be any different because some judge says so, they’re hopelessly naive.
As another example please kindly gaze upon the disaster that is killing more Americans than cars in oxy and fentanyl. The cops, judges, and legislators went after oxy because it was stacking five figures of dead Americans each year. But then fentanyl materialized out of thin air.
If you haven’t heard, there’s a new villain in town called carfentanil. It’s even more powerful than fentanyl. The number of American overdosing each year is higher than ever. Would you care to take a bet on if the number of dead is going to fall, or if you think carfentanil will be the last drug created out of thin air and pushed on the streets?
The establishment hasn’t caught up with the reality of our new distributed planet. This is the reason Trump was elected, not Russia. But understanding that our planet has changed irreversibly is really fucking hard to grasp. It’s a lot easier for folks to demonize Putin (a cardboard cutout well deserving of the asshole appellation) and move on.
But the opioid epidemic is an example of a massive problem that the establishment cannot solve. Folks want results and government can’t or won’t deliver. Because government hasn’t adapted to a changed world.
What to do? Well, for the drug problem this belligerent degenerate blog has always been about legalizing absolutely everything. Because the government is never going to be able stop drugs. Especially in an age where you can factory manufacture lethal opioids in a lab like it’s aspirin.
Let folks get high, who gives a damn? Treat addiction like the disease it is. Let folks shoot up or drop pills in clinics where they can get help when they inevitably OD and can get advice and support on how to quit. Treat the problem, don’t criminalize it when criminalization hasn’t worked for over 100 years of drug crime fighting.
For 3D printed guns, I don’t know, I haven’t gotten that far yet. But my guess is the answer is probably in the ammunition. I have no idea, but I’m guessing it’s probably a lot harder to make ammo from nothing than to 3D print a gun. Put since the establishment isn’t thinking things through (again) all they’ve got is the order of some judge to try and stop it. It will fail.
Behold that which cannot be stopped.
The Arcturus Project 