Ok that’s maybe where I’m getting mixed up.
I’ve always thought his performances in The Godfather & Part II were the best of the lot - played the character to perfection.
I haven’t watched Dog Day Afternoon for years I’ll need to remedy that soon.
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Funnily enough, I just watched it a couple of weeks ago. Pacino’s best performance IMHO
I haven’t watched any of those films in more years than I care to know, but recently bought a fancy-pants version of Deer Hunter on Blu-ray, which I’m hugely looking forward to seeing again. The others will follow.
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I agree.
I do have a kind of love / hate relationship with Pacino. I much prefer his acting in Serpico, Bobby Deerfield and Cruising to his more usual “I shout a lot” ones.
It is a masterpiece and the only time I’ve ever heared my Mum swear was at the Viet-Cong water prison scene. 
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I will remember that when I watch it. If Sam swears as well (Sam never swears except - very rarely - at me, when I achieve peak irritatingness), I will consider it “full set collected” 
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That would be most excellent if Sam does as well
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Wonder if anyone has told Elon, Jeff or Beardy Branson…
Once you acquired them, Herpes viruses are always ready to spring into action when someone’s immune system is compromised in any way - other illnesses, stress, bad diet, radiation exposure…
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@Valvebloke may understand what’s been done here.
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I haven’t checked the details, but X-ray microtomography I imagine. You can use the X-rays to ‘look inside’ solid material and the same tomography techniques developed for medical CT can then generate a 3D image, only in medicine the patient stays still and the X-ray beam is rotated around them, whereas with a big X-ray source like Diamond the source has to stay still and the object being studied does the rotating. The degree of detail you can resolve depends on how point-like the source is - strictly speaking on the beam’s ‘emittance’, low emittance being good. Diamond is an exquisitely low emittance source.
I ran a laser-plasma X-ray source for a few years and we were once approached by Shell to see if we could put together a more compact rig (than Diamond) for doing this. The spec was to fit it inside a 20ft ISO container so it could be helicoptered out to drilling platforms. The problem the oil people had was finding out how trabeculated their oil-bearing rock was. I think they borrowed the t word from the medics, who use it to describe bone where the internal pores are all connected together. If rock is largely trabecular then crude oil can flow through it, if it (the oil) can be made runny enough. They do that by heating it, and they do that by setting some of the oil on fire. This is quite an exciting thing to do, and it essentially can’t be reversed. If it turns out the rock is insufficiently trabecular then making the oil runny won’t help much and you’ll lose a lot in the burning. Which is expensive. So they need to know about the rock properties as soon and as accurately as possible.
In principle they could take a rock core to a public facility like Diamond and check it out there. Indeed some people do. But others are prohibitively scared of doing so. The results are commercially very sensitive, and even revealing that they are concerned about it, by showing up at the facility’s reception desk, can hit the share price. There are spies everywhere, apparently. So they’d sooner have their own kit which they can take to the platform and use where the competition can’t see them. We did get to work on a feasibility study. But then the oil price dipped and the people funding us suddenly didn’t have any money (and then some of them suddenly didn’t have jobs, I believe). So it came to 0 in the end.
VB
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Hampton Hawes
Struggling for many years with a heroin addiction, in 1958 Hawes became the target of a federal undercover operation in Los Angeles. Investigators believed that he would inform on suppliers rather than risk ruining a successful music career. Hawes was arrested on heroin charges on his 30th birthday but refused to cooperate and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. In the intervening weeks between his trial and sentencing, Hawes recorded an album of spirituals and gospel songs, The Sermon.
In 1961, while at a federal prison hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, Hawes was watching President Kennedy’s inaugural speech on television, and became convinced that Kennedy would pardon him. With help from inside and outside the prison, Hawes submitted an official request for a presidential pardon.In an almost miraculous turn, in August 1963, Kennedy granted Hawes Executive Clemency, the 42nd of only 43 such pardons given in the final year of Kennedy’s presidency.
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I wonder (though not much) if the UK and US will ever admit defeat on the ‘war on drugs’ and take a more sensible approach…
Nip, political class still think it’s their role to tell people what they can and can’t do. It wasn’t that long ago the same people banned alcohol and/or encouraged temperance.
They used to employ actual geologists (and palaeontologists) onboard rigs to report on the nature of rock porosity (trust the fucking engineers to borrow the wrong jargon) and a 1000 other things they need to know, but being engineering-led operations they always want machines if they can have them, so the geologists went… Accuracy of things like palynoflora assessment has decreased, but engineering jobs have increased, so everyone’s happy.
It will happen… One day.
Probably the closet the UK got in recent history
Yes but fuck Liberals.
