I Am Sam

Black Rain (1989) IMDB rating: 6.30 Plot: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.

Actors: Douglas Michael,Garcia Andy,Takakura Ken,Matsuda Yusaku,Koyama Shigeru,Spencer John,Ishimatsu Guts,Uchida Yuya,Wakayama Tomisaburo,Guzman Luis,Costelloe John,Root Stephen,Riehle Richard,Action,Crime,Drama,

How can I deal with wanting to kill myself because I'm old and living in the suburbs?
I am an 18-year-old gay man and I live in the suburbs with my parents. I feel very trapped and lost and I want a life of tragedy. Nothing much happens to me, I’m rather normal and lead a normal life, but I want to have a shocking love affair with a famous married man, have my heart broken in a opera, on one of those fancy balconies, whilst a tragic, loud song is being sang in Italian, have my heart broken at an airport in the rain with a trench coat on, go to a funeral wearing all black and black gloves and black sunglasses. I wish planes didn’t exist so that I could travel by boat and have a serf or two with me carrying my boxes and explain to them where to put my things in my cabin. I wish I was a Victorian. I know they didn’t like gay men and I like that. I wish homosexuality was still looked down upon so that I could be shocking and revolutionary. I want to shock society like Anna Karenina and be seen as corrupt. I want my life to end up in a crackhouse and od or something. I’m sure all of you agree that all those things ARE dramatic and theatrical. How can I deal with my life not being a movie?

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Easy

Move out. Discover the world.

You like drama? Move to a redneck state or town. There are plenty of closeted gays waiting for you to bring them out of their closet there…

Lucario | Feb 05, 2010

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Okay, here’s the truth. Life sucks all around. Your 18. Move out, live on next to nothing then let me hear you bitc# & complain. The only one screwing you over is yourself because your too scared to live the TRAGIC life knowing your not strong enough. PROVE ME WRONG.
Dr. PumpkinNuggets | Feb 05, 2010

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Has it occurred to you that your life already is somewhat tragic?

Get out and see the world is my advice!
Nora | Feb 05, 2010

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Get a webcam, stream yourself sitting alone in your room. Then your life will be a movie. A boring movie (like this question you repeatedly ask), but a movie nonetheless.
uva guy | Feb 05, 2010

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You want drama, go out and try to live life on what you can earn. Try to find someone who can love you. Travel today in an old cheap car is dangerous enough. I live in a small town where most people still look down on us and I drive around with a bumper sticker that says I am a lesbian. I attend protests, I live an exciting life like you seem to think does not exist. Just go out and choose it

Out and proud lesbian for decades
Kathryn | Feb 05, 2010

Black Rain (1989) IMDB rating: 6.30 Plot: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.

Actors: Douglas Michael,Garcia Andy,Takakura Ken,Matsuda Yusaku,Koyama Shigeru,Spencer John,Ishimatsu Guts,Uchida Yuya,Wakayama Tomisaburo,Guzman Luis,Costelloe John,Root Stephen,Riehle Richard,Action,Crime,Drama,

Dinosaur soft-tissue or Bio-film?
So, I’ve been reading something that has been kind of puzzling me. Back in the early 90’s Mary Schweitzer and her team paleontologists found a femur of a T-Rex that appeared to have soft tissue still connected. The team did their tests and found it to be about 68 million years old, and amino-acid sequencing showed the tissue to be a match to that of chickens (I think). Her team said that this shows more proof chickens and dinosaurs are a very close ancestor. The problem with this discovery, is that 68 million year old bones don’t have any tissue left. I read somewhere that the oldest bone found to contain tissue was around 1 million years old. Anyways, the scientific community shunned this discovery, nearly black listed her, and some big-wig paleontologist even told her they would never accept any of her data in the future. She eventually got her name back and after many years it has been accepted that the soft tissue is indeed collagen.

Recently, a theory has been brought up that the collagen could very well be a kind of bio-film. It has been compared to the film that grows on our teeth after a nights sleep, or a bucket left out in the rain for a week. The theory was researched by looking under the micro-scope at the collagen cells and cells of bio-films. They look very similar.

This is the problem I am having. Whichever is the true outcome, it could pose a huge problem with two important things. If the stuff found in the bones is indeed collagen, then that would present huge problems to the time-line of dinosaur existence.

If it is not collagen, but bio-film, that would present a huge problem in how DNA is examined.

I am not a biologist or a paleontologist, so I figured I may get some insight here. Thanks.