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So then it would be able to see my pro-Imperial design before I changed it to a pro-Rebel Alliance design?
Just kidding - the Rebels were nothing but a bunch of terrorist anarchists hell-bent on destroying any semblance of a centralized federal government, balanced budgetary spending, or responsible trade, immigration and monetary controls; I could no more get a Rebel tattoo than I could join some petarded ELF cell.
@Odin: You do know that Star Wars was an anti-Imperial propaganda film, don't you? Or do you think that every movie that demonizes the elderly and the crippled is objective?
@green or blue: What are you talking about?! Star Wars is so clearly propagandist claptrap.
Look at the beginning of Star Wars. The worst thing that they could say about the Galactic Empire was that it had recently adopted a laissez-faire approach to governance, preferring to not micromanage and giving planets home rule.
So what do the filmmakers do? They play up on Vader's handicap, making him into some kind of monster. Tarkin becomes an overconfident, effete incompetent, in spite of his decades of fair and responsible civil service.
Star Wars is nothing but a hit-piece on those who see the Jedi as a corrupt organization that ruled through fear, intimidation, and violence, coupled with the dangerous eugenics program that was developed on Kamino.
What if there was a documentary like Star Wars, but instead of taking place during the Galactic Civil War, it took place during WWII? If there was a part where Emperor Hirohito started throwing fireballs at American GIs, would you believe that was true as well?
Face it - Star Wars is an anarchist screed centered on fracturing Galactic culture to the point of dysfunction.
More like a sanitized version of Commandant Jar Jar Binks, a Rebel sympathizer, who duped the Naboo into organizing a secondary anti-Imperial Republic movement, helped install a puppet government on Naboo, headed by grossly inexperienced and naive Padme Amidala, and then sold his own people into subservitude.
Binks gained special notoriety when he destroyed his army's own shield generator, saying his troops would not be permitted to cower beneath a shield and they would either advance and fight or "burn like the cowards they are."
Once Binks became a Senator, his infamy grew as he frequently bribed other Senators with Naboo sex slaves and was known to use his Senate Guard as his own personal hit squad.
He also ordered the carpet-bombing of Ryloth, saying that "the only good tailhead is a dead tailhead".
But of course, apologist "documentarian" George Lucas paints him as some kind of harmless, lovable buffoon.
@MePerson: Yeah, like McPerson said, HD video really isn't what makes this possible. You can do this sort of thing with any camera that has time lapse shooting...in full resolution, I may add (not low res "HD").
$60?? I now have more than enough info to make this for about $2. Less if I use some old straps and connectors I have lying around.
It's a good idea. I have been using a neck strap and a single point of connection like in the video for a while now. I made it myself, works great. I can detach the camera in seconds and still have a wrist strap just in case.
Seems cool. I'm not a photographer so don't know the real benefit to it. But I kind of think instead of the backpack style clips. They should use something else like maybe a caribeaner (totally spelled wrong.) The plastic clips seem to easy to pop off. Just a thought. 60$ does seem like quite a bit for that little strap though.
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I was going for Pink
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Just kidding - the Rebels were nothing but a bunch of terrorist anarchists hell-bent on destroying any semblance of a centralized federal government, balanced budgetary spending, or responsible trade, immigration and monetary controls; I could no more get a Rebel tattoo than I could join some petarded ELF cell.
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Government is all well and good but I draw the line at blowing up planets for the hell of it.
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Look at the beginning of Star Wars. The worst thing that they could say about the Galactic Empire was that it had recently adopted a laissez-faire approach to governance, preferring to not micromanage and giving planets home rule.
So what do the filmmakers do? They play up on Vader's handicap, making him into some kind of monster. Tarkin becomes an overconfident, effete incompetent, in spite of his decades of fair and responsible civil service.
Star Wars is nothing but a hit-piece on those who see the Jedi as a corrupt organization that ruled through fear, intimidation, and violence, coupled with the dangerous eugenics program that was developed on Kamino.
What if there was a documentary like Star Wars, but instead of taking place during the Galactic Civil War, it took place during WWII? If there was a part where Emperor Hirohito started throwing fireballs at American GIs, would you believe that was true as well?
Face it - Star Wars is an anarchist screed centered on fracturing Galactic culture to the point of dysfunction.
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If that's so... then what is Jar Jar a metaphor for?
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More like a sanitized version of Commandant Jar Jar Binks, a Rebel sympathizer, who duped the Naboo into organizing a secondary anti-Imperial Republic movement, helped install a puppet government on Naboo, headed by grossly inexperienced and naive Padme Amidala, and then sold his own people into subservitude.
Binks gained special notoriety when he destroyed his army's own shield generator, saying his troops would not be permitted to cower beneath a shield and they would either advance and fight or "burn like the cowards they are."
Once Binks became a Senator, his infamy grew as he frequently bribed other Senators with Naboo sex slaves and was known to use his Senate Guard as his own personal hit squad.
He also ordered the carpet-bombing of Ryloth, saying that "the only good tailhead is a dead tailhead".
But of course, apologist "documentarian" George Lucas paints him as some kind of harmless, lovable buffoon.
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Ah I get it now. My last question though.... who shot first?
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There are many kinds of plastic.
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It's a good idea. I have been using a neck strap and a single point of connection like in the video for a while now. I made it myself, works great. I can detach the camera in seconds and still have a wrist strap just in case.
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