The Wonders Reunite To Perform ‘That Thing You Do!’

Will Truman / April 29, 2017 in Ten Second News

On Tuesday night, three-fourths of the Oneders-turned-Wonders — heartthrob singer Jimmy Mattingly (Johnathon Schaech), unnamed bass player The Bass Player (Ethan Embry), and drummer Guy “Shades” Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) — reunited at the Roxy in Los Angeles to perform the fastest rising single in the history of the Playtone label, “That Thing You Do!” The gig was a last-minute surprise: Shades teased the unannounced performance on his Twitter with a link to the Goddamn Comedy Jam with Bill Burr. Hopefully no one broke their arm on a parking meter racing to get there.

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Slade the Leveller says:
May 1, 2017 at 4:58 pm
Not sure a catchier tune was ever written. That Thing You Do is a cinematic gem.
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Pinky says:
May 2, 2017 at 3:01 pm
Great movie. Obviously a labor of love, they captured the different musical styles of 1964 brilliantly. And it’s genuinely sweet. Movies about rock stars always have the treacherous record company, the heroin overdose, the psychotic groupie chick, et cetera, but this movie is so innocent.
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State of the Discussion

54 mins ago

to Brandon Berg

James K

+ @brandon-berg This is the only category he labels "bullshit jobs" I can get behind. Of course correcting an adverse equilibrium is a lot harder than [. . .]

@brandon-berg

This is the only category he labels "bullshit jobs" I can get behind. Of course correcting an adverse equilibrium is a lot harder than identifying it.

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David Graeber Publishes Book on BS – Jobs, That Is

1 hour ago

to Saul Degraw

Brandon Berg

+ Note that Graeber is explicitly distinguishing "bullshit jobs" from "shit jobs." It's not a question of how well a job pays or how personally satisfying [. . .]

Note that Graeber is explicitly distinguishing "bullshit jobs" from "shit jobs." It's not a question of how well a job pays or how personally satisfying it is, but whether it creates net value for society. You can love your job, make good money, and even provide value for your customers, but still create no net social value.

A good example of a job Graeber might classify as bullshit is developing low-latency trading systems. Up to a certain point, there is social value in having equities prices quickly change to incorporate all available information. But there's essentially no social value created by shaving a millisecond off the time you need to execute a trade. All the private value you create by doing this comes from beating the other traders to the punch, not from making the stock market meaningfully more efficient.

I suspect that sometimes Graeber simply decides that jobs are bullshit without actually understanding why they exist, but it's definitely a real thing, even if he doesn't get all the particulars right. However, the jump to a basic income doesn't make a lot of sense. Nobody's going to quit a high-paying finance job for a $10-25k basic income. The way to get rid of bullshit jobs is to fix the incentive structures that make them privately profitable without creating social value. This reeks of just prescribing the thing he wanted to do anyway.

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3 hours ago

Troublesome Frog

+ That's pretty cool stuff. Less waste and less pesticide runoff. People don't pay a lot of attention to it, but ag technology has [. . .]

That's pretty cool stuff. Less waste and less pesticide runoff. People don't pay a lot of attention to it, but ag technology has done extraordinary things for efficiency.

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Rise of the Weed Killing Agriculture Robots

5 hours ago

to DavidTC

Chip Daniels

+ If it were not so dark a topic this would make me think of those hilarious kinds of elaborate parsing that adolescents do about uncomfortable [. . .]

If it were not so dark a topic this would make me think of those hilarious kinds of elaborate parsing that adolescents do about uncomfortable subjects, like, "exactly what constitutes third base versus s-e-x" or "I am still a virgin because we did it in the butt".

They aren't actually confused about the reality of the situation. They are confused about how to handle the discord between their idealized understanding of themselves, and their actual behavior.

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Vindication of the Nuremberg Defense

6 hours ago

to Dark Matter

DavidTC

+ In the past we did define torture, and recently when our intelligence guys wanted to know where the lines were drawn, they went up to [. . .]

In the past we did define torture, and recently when our intelligence guys wanted to know where the lines were drawn, they went up to the line but not over

Uh, no.

18 U.S. Code § 2340 “torture” means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control;

The UN Convention on Torture, which was also signed, has basically the same definition. There's not some secret lines where you can water-torture someone exactly this much and not any more. It's any severe pain or suffering a captor is causing on purpose. (As opposed to incidental required stuff like 'handcuffed'.)

There are precedents that say certain things are torture, aka, cause severe pain and suffering, and that's about it. No one sits down and writes those as law. It's just, historically, what has been regarded as those things.

And the problem for your claim is that the US government immediately raced past any precedents, including things it described as torture in the past and had literally prosecuted as torture.

For example, there's a very clear precedent that 'waterboarding' is torture. (It's literally in the name. The actual name of that technique is 'water board torture'.) Likewise, there's a clear predecent that sleep deprevation is torture.

Solitary confinement is probably on the line, and stress positions sorta depend on the position and length of time.

Causing prisoners to freeze to death because the CIA poured cold water on them and left them naked from the waist down? I'm...gonna call that one torture too.

There is very little plausible legal argument that a lot of what they did was not torture in a legal sense. It's not even close to being debatable. We've literally convicted people of the crime of 'torture', in the US, for the exact things the CIA did.

The 'loophole' was that they did in such a place (On a military base outside the US), and to a class of people (Which they made up called 'unlawful combatants') that the laws against torture supposedly 'didn't apply'.

Granted, the _military_ was still 100% aware the laws still applied, which is why the CIA was in charge of the torture.

But this was all a lie: In reality, it's illegal for US nationals acting under the color of law (Which the CIA, as jailers, would be operating under.) to torture people, period, under the 18 U.S. Code § 2340. (And for the record, we passed that law in 1994, just in case anyone suspects it's a response to this.)

There is no exception given for the military or the CIA, and, surreally, that law is one of the very few laws that explicitly applies to US Nationals doing it in non-US jurisdictions, the exact loophole supposedly used!

If a US citizen gets hired as Mexican sheriff (Or whatever it has) and tortures someone under the color of law in Mexico, they can be charged in the US.

Or, if, for example, a US citizen is part of the CIA, and, as part of their job (I.e, under the color of law) has prisoners that it orders tortured in, say, Cuba...

There is no actual loophole here. There is no actual 'the laws were vague'. The laws are incredibly, incredibly clear. The precedents are very clear. Everything is very clear. There was a lot of stuff done that was maybe torture, who knows. But there was also a lot of stuff done that _everyone agrees_ was torture.

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Vindication of the Nuremberg Defense

6 hours ago

to Road Scholar

Jaybird

+ The existence and use of a technology, per se, is rarely if ever the issue. It’s precisely how it’s used that can be troubling. I assume [. . .]

The existence and use of a technology, per se, is rarely if ever the issue. It’s precisely how it’s used that can be troubling.

I assume that someone like Donald Trump will have it at his disposal when I measure the whole "precisely how it's used" thing.

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ACLU Object to Amazon’s Facial Recognition Outreach to Police

7 hours ago

to InMD

Saul Degraw

+ Every case I have done is on a contingency. I've seen some hybrid models or asking for upfront deposits so clients have "skin in the [. . .]

Every case I have done is on a contingency. I've seen some hybrid models or asking for upfront deposits so clients have "skin in the game." Sometimes you settle low and relatively easy. Sometimes high and not so easy. Sometimes you settle low after a battle.

It really depends on the Defendant. A lot of times a Defendants knows they did something wrong and/or the cost of litigation is higher than the cost to settle and you can resolve things without going to arbitration or litigation. Maybe these cases only settle for 5 or low-6 figures but as Burt said, if you find a smart and effective way to do it, that can yield enough income to stay afloat for the higher value cases.

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The Epic Supreme Court Decision

8 hours ago

Damon

+ I had a similiar conversatoin with a then girlfriend about this....the whole school buss full of kids and torturiing the terrorist to find out where [. . .]

I had a similiar conversatoin with a then girlfriend about this....the whole school buss full of kids and torturiing the terrorist to find out where the bomb was on which buss. I lowered the number of kids and increased the captured terrorists. Tell me along those two lines where you say "stop". She eventually summed it up with "anything we have to do to protect ourselves is ok with me". I asked her, a jew, why that argument didn't apply to the Nazi's in '42? She got pissed.

I've had other people straight up tell me that "it's not torture if we do it". Bullshit. Just cause you get show shady lawyer to write a brief saying it's not torture don't make it so. It is. Haspel participated in the destruction of gov't documents....our documents. For that alone she should have been drummed out of the service.

And if the sudden vote switch by that politician who was against her then was for her, doesn't convince you that the "deep state" exists, I don't know what will.

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