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Offline Eddie Mars (OP)

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What is corruption?
« on: 26/11/2024 23:05:41 »


Owning a piece of a hierarchy (state, firm, establishment, ...)

is

corruption.

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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt


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Heart of Darkness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness

Clean Slate / Coup de Torchon (1981)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_de_Torchon

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082206/?ref_=tt_mv_close


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Re: What is corruption?
« Reply #1 on: 30/11/2024 11:34:53 »
...

council meeting from blazing saddles


Rock Ridge Town Council

F. K. Johnson
T. R. Johnson
R. D. Johnson
...

 
- - -

conscience

noun

 1. An awareness of morality in regard to one's behavior; a sense of right and wrong that urges one to act morally.
"Let your conscience be your guide."

 2. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement.
"a document that serves as the nation's conscience."

 3. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct.
"a person of unflagging conscience."

The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition


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Conscience is a fear of society in the most abstract form. Most have the fear.

On the other hand, those who don't have it...

3:17 min.
"Mrs. Williams, you have no conscience..."



19:58 min.
"Leslie agrees to visit with him but it will be in her airplane."
/no fear of flying = no fear of society (you can kill)


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How this scene takes Pulp Fiction from good to masterpiece


How this scene takes Pulp Fiction from good to masterpiece


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If you have to ask, you probably can't afford it.

One lives in 0-d space.

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Re: What is corruption?
« Reply #2 on: 16/01/2025 16:59:25 »
...

 Crime is (a criminal) business.
 
 Legality/lawfulness is the monopoly (as a business).
 
 Any business wants to become the monopoly.
 
 
 
 Criminal/legal is a point of power
/a matter of having (who has who - who feeds who)

 

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...
 - Excellent plot line, imaginatively
   conceived. Good, clear narrative style.
   I'll give you nine out of ten, Poirot.
   I'm deducting one mark
   for total absence of proof.

 -  Is that true?
   We've sat here and listened to all that
   and you can't prove a word of it?

 -  I haven't a shred of evidence.
   Although that is unquestionably what happened.
...

https://www.scripts.com/script/evil_under_the_sun_7821/10


Evil under the Sun
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LqpvHSmcS_wC9itDTfzHwS9nVS3Pu88m/view?usp=sharing


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Death In Paradise (2011) S01E04
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wVe7z1t52fn7S5BVbEWfzb26wgJ9_OoE/view?usp=sharing

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"I love you too, Daphne"




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Re: What is corruption?
« Reply #3 on: 16/01/2025 21:43:02 »
This is a science forum, maybe an ethics forum would be more suited to your requirements?
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Re: What is corruption?
« Reply #4 on: 19/01/2025 19:31:58 »

...

 - Aesop's "The tortoise and the eagle";

 - Mind is made in a certain way (mind works in the same way whatever it does);

 -  Midnight Run (1988)

                   WALSH
    I'm in a big f*ckin' jam. I just need
    some money. All I 've got to do is just
    get this guy to L.A. and I'm out of
    this miserable business forever.
...

p. 65
https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/midnight-run-1988.pdf?v=1729114953


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If in the 70's it had been stated that English language "E" is exactly (well, almost) the same as

English language "B", then none of that nonsense would have been published here.

/ language English  and language B***, actually

/ "Serrano's got the disks."     (and no one dared to say that "E" and "B" are the same)



Midnight Run - The Airport scene (Serrano's got the disks!)


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Midnight.Run.1988
https://drive.google.com/file/d/171DctxawHwtYJ1XtWq9Ncz_RamsPbqNe/view?usp=drive_link


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The Most Sarcastic Comedian Of All Time. Bob Zany - Full Special

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King of One-Liners | Andy Huggins | Stand Up Comedy


= = =   = = =   = = =   

Jonathan Pie (strong language)

Nina Conti (strong language)


= = =

With time one grows bitter.


language E                                                  language B

definite article  - definite article (actually the same word):

no grammatical cases - no grammatical cases (except for pronouns (accusative, dative, (?)));

hob-nob  -  hob-nob
willy-nilly  -  willy-nilly

want/will  -  want/will


John has done  (past passive participle.)   -  John has done (past passive participle)
                                                                   -  John is done (past active participle)
                                                                      /the participles are slightly different, which is handy                                                             
                                                                     
 
- - -

Even the same mistakes are made.



= = =   

Mind is made in a certain way; mind works in the same way whatever it does.


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