The City Watch

Total Icon Count: 150

Doctor Who, Season 1, mostly episode 11: 13 icons

Torchwood, Season 1, mostly episodes 11-13 and Season 2, episode 1: 59 icons

NCIS: 10 icons

House: 33 icons

Star Wars, Original Trilogy: 13 icons

Buffy: 22 icons, mostly Giles

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Total Icon Count: 153

Doctor Who, Season 1, episodes 5-10: 52 icons

Torchwood, Season 1, episodes 5-10: 50 icons

NCIS: 11 Tony icons

House: 40 icons

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Total Icon Count: 161

Doctor Who Season 1 Eps 1-4: 67 icons

Torchwood Season 1 Eps 1-4: 42 icons

NCIS: 21 icons

House: 31 icons

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Has anybody been hearing about the law being proposed regarding unionization?  It would provide for open balloting for unionization for industries/companies, instead of secret ballots.  The arguments are long and technical (and I'm totally simplifying), but how can people fall for this?  Secret ballots allow employees to vote for what they truly want, without fear of reprisal.  How is it better for workers to be exposed to retaliation and bullying?

Full disclosure - I'm totally biased.  I worked for years in a union company, and it bugged the hell out of me that the union would fight for every piece of dirt employee that got fired, even if they spent their whole shift in the bathroom or had no productivity whatsoever and forced their fellow employees to cover their lazy asses.   One guy I worked with got fired/rehired 14 times and was only finally booted when they caught him stealing ON CAMERA.  The union would fight every attempt of the company to improve the starting pay and benefits - in order to keep employees and stop churn - by demanding that every proposed raise in the minimum wage ($8) had to be mirrored for the guy who'd been there for 25 years and already made $38 bucks an hour and had 6 weeks of vacation and full health care.  The union liked having 85% new employees turnover because they could keep getting that initial huge union payment (on top of monthly dues) over and over again.  In that union, being a good, productive, innovative employee was a lot less important that having your ass in place longest.  They ate a huge chunk of my paycheck monthly and never did a damn thing for me.

I've studied a lot of history and understand the roles that unions have played in it.  I know that they have long kept workers from dangerous, horrible working conditions and insane workdays/weeks.   I'm never going to argue that they should all be outlawed, abolished or marginalized.  But you should definitely have the option of saying "No" without having to worry about hatemail and ostracism.

Whew!

Huh.  I think it's my Star Trek knowledge that puts me over the edge...

Total Icon Count: 109

Mostly Jack, the Doctor, Donna, Ianto, and the Tardis.

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MAH ICONS.

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HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 90

OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 105

IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: For cheap

DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: I like using the brightness-contrast feature

WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: House - 27

AND THE SECOND MOST: Torchwood/Who, NCIS and Discworld are about equal

WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: House Wilson

ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: Nope. Sometimes I take them to keep, but I only use mine.

DO YOU MAKE ICONS: Yup

ARE THEY ANY GOOD: I think they're good, but very basic. Not that great with brushes and textures.

ANIMATED ICONS ARE: Fun, but easily overdone, and often animated when non would be better

DO THE MEME. Coding can be found here

I've yet to upload icons successfully, but I shall never surrender! Here's a few I made in GIMP. Steal if you wish, but please comment/credit.

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ETA:  Okay, can't figure out the LJ cut on this one, sorry.  But, ICONS!

Those of you that know me in real life could probably imagine my reaction to the news today that Roman Polanski  is trying to get the charges dropped against him for the crimes he comitted in 1978. 

I am and always have been completely, mouth-frothingly irrational on the subject, incapable of discussing it without using language my mother would be ashamed of and yelling at the top of my lungs.  Mr. Polanski, I don't CARE if the judge and the district attorney had it out for you in 1978 - YOU DRUGGED AND RAPED A CHILD!.  And then ran away to France and immediately got yourself a 15-year-old girlfriend.

I lost so much respect for Harrison Ford when I found out he made Frantic in France for Polanski as a way to help him out.  I can't tell you how it horrifies me that Jack Nicholson is there for his buddy after Polanski used his house as the place to rape the girl.  I screamed like a banshee at the television when Polanski got the standing ovation and an Oscar for the Piano, despite the fact that he couldn't be there to receive it in person because, oh yeah, HE RAPED A CHILD!

I just don't understand the rationalizations.  Yes, I know Samantha Geimer, the girl in question, has gone on record saying she thinks he should be able to come back to this country and doesn't think he should go to jail.  I think she must be an amazing person to have created a good life and gotten past the anger - but the law isn't dependent on the wishes of victims.  And it's not dependent on the wishes of criminals.  I'm sorry (sarcasm) if Mr. Polanski didn't get to skate with 42 days of time served like he thought he should have.  I don't think that living in France is equivalent to jail, or that exile from Hollywood is either.  I don't care about the Holocaust childhood or Sharon Tate and Helter Skelter - it doesn't excuse a damn thing.  And I'd like to know if Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson, and all of those Hollywoodites who gave that standing ovation would happily leave him in a room alone with their 12-year old daughters.

CREEP.

Does anyone know why "Major Tom" by Peter Schilling isn't available on ITunes in the original English version?  There's the German version, and like 14 versions of the dance version, but no original.  Is it available anywhere else?