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In the United States, Libraries usually participate in a program called ILL (Inter-Library Loan). You can request the book be sent to your nearest branch and they'll find a library that has it in stock. Just look up "[Your library name] interlibrary loan" in your preferred search engine

Dunno where a non youtube short clip is, sorry

Front man is Bob Vylan, recently at the Glastonbury Festival

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/47163316

Tagline 1

A $50 million heist
A ski resort held hostage
A cop with nothing to lose

Tagline 2

Jack take a vacation? Not on his life.

Elevator pitch

Die Hard at a ski resort (but without any skiing, that shit's expensive!)

Summary

Troubled loose cannon cop Jack Wild (yes, really) is persuaded by his brother and sister-in-law to take a break from it all and accompany them on a ski trip... only to find a mobster at the resort. And then a team of baddies take over the place to get the mobster's diamonds.

Trailer

• https://youtu.be/3nNdRYNmVHo

Personnel

• Director: Michael Mazo
• Writers: Micheal Bafaro & Jonas Quastel

Cast

• Thomas Ian Griffith
• Nastassja Kinski
• Christopher Plummer
• Plus several actors you've seen in stuff shot in Vancouver (X Files, SG-1 etc) over the years

Info

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crackerjack_(1994_film)
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109494/

Opinion

When I say this is Die Hard at a ski resort, boy, do I mean it!

Die Hard checklist

• Unmarried cop on vacation: check!
• Family member/s on site for higher stakes: check!
• Assorted Euro baddies taking over a buildingful of hostages: check!
• Led by a respected, international actor playing a well-dressed, well-spoken East German killer: check!
• Cop talks to himself sarcastically about how well his vacation is going: check!
• Cop disbelieved when reporting the hostage crisis to the authorities over the radio: check!
• Cop takes out baddies one by one: check!
• Cop and lead baddie exchange snappy repartee via stolen walkie-talkie: check!
• Baddie threatens to kill hostage unless hero gives himself up: check!
• Baddies already prepared for the inevitable response from the cavalry: check!
• Bye bye, cavalry: check!
• Baddie identifies the cop and cop's family member/s: check!
• Baddies have a plan to kill all the hostages and make it look like they're dead, too: check!
• Baddie reveals his motive is not what he made it seem: check!

Just about the only thing they didn't include was comic relief or a Christmas theme. And the snow was right there, fer crying out loud!

But given just how many Die Hard rip-offs there have been, and how bad most of them are, Crackerjack comes off as one of the better ones, especially given its low budget ($4 million Canadian, which is, what, a buck fiddy in real money? ;). Plummer's accent is not in Rickman's league, Kinski doesn't get to make us care much about her, and it lacks the little comic touches of its role model.

On the other hand, things move along at a fair pace (once the trouble starts), and when it comes to the hand-to-hand combat, it feels genuinely punishing, with Griffith pulling off some sweet moves. (I thought he was an actor!)

Spawned two more movies: in 2, Jack Wild is played by a different actor. And 3 has no other connection to the other two apart from the title. Always a sign of quality! :D

Movie

All movie links are for free (no account required), legal & licensed (AFAIK) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.

• https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/534922/crackerjack *
• https://watch.plex.tv/movie/crackerjack-1994

Screenshots

I just found out that my neighbor that I share a wall with is moving out because of "the mouse issue." This is the first I've heard about it. I'm pretty sure I don't have mice. I haven't found any chewed food packaging or what looks like mouse droppings. I do have a cat but I'm not confident he would know how to kill a mouse. I've never seen him chase anything on the floor but I know he will chase flying insects. I also haven't been presented with any "presents." Could he really be keeping the mice from my apartment by just his scent?

Wild orcas on more than 30 occasions in four oceans have attempted to share their prey with people, potentially to develop relationships with humans, researchers have found.

In each of the instances recorded over two decades, orcas approached a person within a length of the orca’s body, and dropped freshly-hunted prey in front of the human, then waited for a response, according to a paper reporting the behavior published Monday in the Journal of Comparative Psychology.

Orcas of every age tried to share their prey, and just about everything was on the menu: sea otter, harbor seal, common murre, gray whale, green turtle, eagle ray, starfish, jellyfish, on and on.

Orcas are the ocean’s top predator, and their brains are second only to modern humans in terms of their size in relation to their body. Their capacity for advanced communications and cognitive, social and emotional intelligence is well known. Prey sharing is common in orca culture.

So just what are the orcas doing, offering food to people?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32520924

Che argues that all faith in the bourgeois systems must be shattered and shaken to the core for any chance of revolution to occur

Thought this up yesterday.

The only thing flipped more often is USB-A.

(Translation: A nappy is a diaper)

Can't we just ship Cruz off to Cancun permanently at this point?

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a plan for spectrum auctions that could take frequencies away from Wi-Fi and reallocate them for the exclusive use of wireless carriers. The plan would benefit AT&T, which is based in Cruz's home state, along with Verizon and T-Mobile.

Cruz's proposal revives a years-old controversy over whether the entire 6 GHz band should be devoted to Wi-Fi, which can use the large spectrum band for faster speeds than networks that rely solely on the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. Congress is on the verge of passing legislation that would require spectrum to be auctioned off for full-power, commercially licensed use, and the question is where that spectrum will come from.

When the House of Representatives passed its so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," it excluded all of the frequencies between 5.925 and 7.125 gigahertz from the planned spectrum auctions. But Cruz's version of the budget reconciliation bill, which is moving quickly toward a final vote, removed the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions. The Cruz bill is also controversial because it would penalize states that regulate artificial intelligence.

Instead of excluding the 6 GHz band from auctions, Cruz's bill would instead exclude the 7.4–8.4 GHz band used by the military. Under conditions set by the bill, it could be hard for the Commerce Department and Federal Communications Commission to fulfill the Congressional mandate without taking some spectrum away from Wi-Fi.