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Found 16 articles with "Ben Mendelsohn".




The Breakfast Club




There are only a handful of actors in the movie. But all of the teenagers are very good. Those are played wonderfully by Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall. There is also the school's principal played by Paul Gleason which looks suspiciously like Ben Mendelsohn. And there's the janitor with the most wholesome serial-killer smile ever, played by John Kapelos. All these actors know what they are doing very well. And the acting in the movie is pretty much, I think, what holds it together. Because there isn't much else to see, to be honest.



Why Jews Are Successful




The first and the most important habit that I see a lot of Jews have is the skill to bend rules. You can observe this habit in Richard Stallman with the famous GNU General Public License. That kind of hacking of law, or "playful cleverness" as he might put it, is basically the main Jewish trait that I see most of us have.



The Psychopathy Epidemic




Sheiny: Well, a software company, should in theory serve a customer too. They are developing software solutions so the customer could benefit from having them. But proprietary software companies care only about how to screw the customer. There is no empathy toward the customer. Because the company is psychopathic. Lacking empathy.



What Lies Beneath




The plot of the film is very Hitchcockian. If you find Hitchcock to be boring, you will find What Lies Beneath boring too. There are elements of films like "Rear Window" and "Vertigo" in this movie. I will not go into spoilers of this movie, because the movie holds on the plot development pretty much entirely. It's not a Europian drama, it is pretty much a plot driven movie. Though it is a drama. And in some aspect, it is a horror film. It has a ghost in it. And the movie doesn't shy away from having the ghost be just a real ghost.



Sinking In The Fire




The girl should be Jewish religious. She has a very fanatical orthodox mother which is impossible to live with. One night she sees a strange boy sitting on the bench below her window. It's raining and he seems to not care about the rain. In the morning, when she goes to school she sees him still sitting there. He moves so little that a bird comes to sit on him. This makes her afraid and wonder.



Schrodinger's Exhibitionism




Mendel: Well. Suppose I was jerking off on the street to some random stranger. Isn't that me using her body for my own benefit, so to speak?



Is BeamNG Drive a Free Software Game




Okay, say that they have released an addon for Blender for modders. Because Blender is under the GNU GPL the addon they release has to be at the very least compatible with the GPL and therefor it should be Free Software. They wouldn't care. I mean if people can make mods, and improve the addon, it will be easier for them themselves to use it to make assets and everybody benefits. Typical "open source" mindset. And guess what? They did exactly this. Their Blender Addon is under a GPL compatible license ( MIT ). So okay, they at least developed one Free Software thing.



Miami Vice




This movie is one of those films that has too many people that are way too hot. And for most movies this is distracting. Though in the case of this movie, it actually, surprisingly works. The sensory benefit of having everybody be so bloody hot is just insane. It increases tension since you don't want those people to get hurt, both because, by the end, you are invested in them, and because they are hot and your monkey brain doesn't want pretty people to feel bad.



Babylon




The main criticism of that film could be it's length. It goes for 3 hours. And with that much energy you feel like it is 5 hours. Long films usually benefit from slower pacing. For example the decision to make very few, but long, shots in Gravity ( directed by Alfonso Cuarón ) resulted in the film feeling like a short film. While some short films with insane energy might feel like proper movies. This is a long film with insane energy. Which feels like a very long film. The few slower scenes aren't nearly slow enough to give you the breathing room that you might need. A problem similar to 1941. Though I enjoyed it a lot simply because of how over-dozing it is. Perhaps I'm personally crazy and nobody should let me unhinge myself onto the big screen either. Imagine a 3 hours long version of Moria's Race.



The 8 Yr Olds




At school I written a draft scene for the beginning of the film that went something like this: A little 8 year old girl comes back from school, happy. She just turned 8 and her dad made a birthday party. They were waiting for the other kids to come. The father gives her a hug. She lovingly gives him hug back, but suddenly her gaze chances. And we see that the father just inserted a knife into her back killing both her and himself in the process. They fall dead and a puddle of blood spreads beneath them.



Sheiny The Hacker




software as you wish and for whatever purpose. Freedom one, to study how the software works. To read it's source code. And to make modifications to it. Making it so the software does only the things that the user wants it to do. And only the way the user wants. These two first freedoms insure that each user has total personal control over the software. But another two freedoms were needed to help people that were not programmers. Not everybody is a programmer. Chloe is not, for example. But she can benefit from Free Software because of the other two freedoms. Freedom two, to give or sell exact copies of the software. To share. To publish the software even if the original developer got bored of it, or has no more motivation to continue developing it. And lastly, the fourth freedom. Freedom three. The freedom to give or sell modified versions of the program. This way any user that has any problem with how the program works thus far, can publish a changed version. A fork, so to speak. And other users will be able to choose from the forks, the one that suits them most.



Why Morias Race Flopped So Fucking Hard




Paying online for advertising say on YouTube or on Facebook is a thing that some people do. But given the nature of the way this advertising model works, this is not something that I would be comfortable with doing myself. Facebook and Google ( YouTube ) advertise by first collecting as much data as they possibly can from the users. And then matching it with what they know about the product. This way of advertising requires undermining people's privacy. And I am very much against it. It is not even about me needing to sign up to Facebook or Google to do the advertising. But rather I would be benefiting from other people being spied on if I did this kind of advertising. And it's not something I would want to do.



The Story Of Great Struggle And Near Loss When the Status of Blender as one of Free Software Leaders Was Threatened




It’s one thing to decide to use the internet in a bubble that does not expose you to software code which is completely benign, but that doesn’t align with your personal ethics.



Political Engineering or The Lack Thereof




If I lost you here, perhaps I shall try to dive a bit deeper into what I mean, so you could have a chance at understanding it. There is a line between freedom and oppression, both of which are control of one type or another. And the line is very thin. When somebody has control over somebody else it is power. An injustice. Oppression. But control over one's self is freedom and completely justified, no matter how stupid it might look from the outside perspective. Freedoms you are more familiar with, like freedom of speech, are coming directly from this. If I control my body, I control my mouth, and so I have a right to use my mouth to do any sounds what so ever. Whether you like it or not. Notice how this is not about utility or anything. Free Speech is not useful and therefor has to exist. It is more fundamental than that. Controlling how another person can use his mouth is a direct oppression akin to rape. It is control over another person's body. And I'm not saying here that Free Speech or any other freedom isn't useful. Its just that the usefulness is a secondary benefit.



Kids-Should-Be-Told-More-Complex-Stories




On the other hand the kids just stole the car. I mean we just reached the cool first action scene in the film. There are 3 action scenes in this film ( despite it being a short film ). So it's really action packed, if you will. Moria just took the car from beneath the nose of Paps and drove it away as fast as possible. Paps got angry and is now trying to pursue her on a truck.



Dumb Phones




About 15 minutes later he stopped at a park. It was calm around there. And the park didn't have any surveillance cameras. So Tom sat on a bench and opened the computer again. It was hard, but he had to read it. So he did.