Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The cure for stupidity.




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Black Hawk Down (2001)


Pilot: Mike Durant, we won't leave you behind.










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Fleet Admiral (United States)

Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy (FADM), or more commonly referred to as Fleet Admiral, is a five-star flag officer rank and is presently considered the highest possible rank in the United States Navy.


The Fleet Admiral rank is reserved for war-time use only










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Ronald Reagan

XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989

Address at the United States Naval Academy Commencement Exercises in Annapolis, Maryland

May 22nd, 1985


America's independence and freedom, since we were but 13 Colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast, have relied on the bravery, the good sense, and leadership of her officer corps. We've leaned heavily on men of the sea, on our Navy and Marine Corps. Your careers will be no less significant to future generations of Americans than those of past naval heroes.

You will hear during your career, as I've heard during times in my life, that maintaining the military at peak readiness-keeping our forces trained and supplied with the best weapons and equipment—is too costly. Well, I say it is too costly for America not to be prepared. As Presidents since Washington have noted: The way to prevent war is to be prepared for it.

And as obvious as that is, it's not always appreciated. There's a story about John Paul Jones' chief gunners mate. It was during the gore and thunder of that most historic battle. He was loading and firing cannon and carrying the wounded to the medical officer, cutting away the tangled rigging. And apparently in the midst of that first fight, John Paul Jones went below momentarily and changed into a new uniform. And as he emerged on deck a voice rang out through the smoke and fire—it was the British captain asking, "Have you struck your colors?" And the gunners mate, sweat and blood dripping from his body, turned and saw Jones now in his fresh uniform reply: "I have not yet begun to fight." And the gunners mate said, "There's always somebody who didn't get the word."










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Survival of the fittest

"Survival of the fittest" is a phrase which is commonly used in contexts other than intended by its first two proponents: British polymath philosopher Herbert Spencer (who coined the term) and Charles Darwin.

Herbert Spencer first used the phrase - after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species - in his Principles of Biology (1864), in which he drew parallels between his own economic theories and Darwin's biological ones, writing “This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."

Darwin first used Spencer's new phrase "survival of the fittest" as a synonym for "natural selection" in the fifth edition of On the Origin of Species, published in 1869. Darwin meant it is a metaphor for "better adapted for immediate, local environment", not the common inference of "in the best physical shape". Hence, it is not a scientific description, and is both incomplete and misleading.










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Dawn of the Dead


:10:50
(# johnny cash: The man comes around)
# There's a man going round taking names

:10:55
# and he decides who to free

:10:57
- # and who to blame










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The Outer Limits

Season 1, Episode 1

The Outer Limits: The Sandkings

Air Date

Sunday March 26, 1995

Scientist Simon Kress finds himself the master of a colony of Sandkings — creatures from Mars that look like insects, but have the intelligence of much higher beings.





"The Outer Limits" - TV.com

"The Sandkings"

26 March 1995

00:51:41


Dr. Simon Kress: Nothing goes in, nothing goes out. Got that? You hungry again? Too bad. From now on, it's survival of the fittest. You only get what I give you. No more manna from Heaven.










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Saga of a Star World, Part 2

Description: When the fleet stops at the planet Carillon to refuel and pick up supplies, a newly-elected member of the Council seizes power from Commander Adama.

Related Titles: Battlestar Galactica, Saga of a Star World


00:21:49


Athena - Battlestar Galactica bridge officer: Father? Father, are you all right?

Adama - Battlestar Galactica Commander - Council of the Twelve: If anyone amongst us can say that he's all right, after what has happened, I recommend the treatment.

Athena - Battlestar Galactica bridge officer: That's not the Warrior I'm used to. Whatever happened to the joy of living to fight another day?

Adama - Battlestar Galactica Commander - Council of the Twelve: Ah, yes, the joy of living. You were aboard the Galactica. You didn't see them down there; their faces. The old, the young. Desperate. Begging - screaming - for a chance to come aboard. A chance to live. And there I was like God - passing out priorities as - as if they were tickets to a lottery.










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[first title card]

Title Card: BASED ON AN ACTUAL EVENT

[second title card]

Title Card: Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Title Card: Plato










2007 film "28 Weeks Later" DVD movie:

01:00:12


Scarlet: Who are you?

Sergeant Doyle: Sergeant Doyle, Delta, Rooftop Unit.

Scarlet: Why aren't you at your post?

Sergeant Doyle: Why aren't you?










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Navy Seals (1990)


Curran: [to Dane over the radio] God, I've got company up here...

Terrorist: You're American?

Curran: God, come in God...

Terrorist: Your God does not help you now!