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• bls commented on 1965 skateboard movie: Skaterdater
  Wow!!!!! I think of this movie, still, from time to time. I grew up in so Cal in very early 70's and we were shown this movie in school every time it rained and we couldn't go outside for recess. As a girl, it sort of confused me, especially the part where the boys were staring at the fountains breasts, always made me uncomfortable....
• Rickysbeachouse commented on 1965 skateboard movie: Skaterdater
  THANK YOU,THANK YOU,THANK YOU.I have wondered about this short movie since we lived in long beach in the mid 60's.I saw it on TV after school and kept watching that show to see it again,I was in third grade.I just got a shwinn stingray for my birthday and my older brother(in high school)had some scateboards I would ride down the street.I never remembered very much of the movie but this is it ,another mystery solved via the internet.My brother probably remembers the Rolling hills theater.I'll have to look up Malaga cove,thanks again,Rick....
• arkizzle / Moderator commented on 1965 skateboard movie: Skaterdater
  Bare feet + gang jackets...
• zyodei commented on The White House switch to open source: Tim O'Reilly's thoughts
  See, you are confusing the idiot Rush Republican government=bad corporate=good. However, many corporations got as big as they are and maintain their dominance not through market forces, but because they in effect hire the government to be their hired muscle. Many on the left see government and big business as being opposed, but I find this view unfathomable and unsupportable in the real world. They are best buddies, despite what the propaganda might have one believe. Hell, even Microsoft has received loads of money from selling NT software to government firms. Their success is not purely the result of the...
• Itsumishi commented on The White House switch to open source: Tim O'Reilly's thoughts
  Are you talking to anyone in particular? I don't know any 'left-leaning' intelligent person that thinks Big Business and the Government are opposing forces, I think it's pretty well generally understood that Governments all over the world bend over and take it from big business on a daily basis. Also, if you can point me in the direction of one of these 'free markets' that you speak of I'd be interested in studying it....