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Actually, his name is Lewis Black.

Well if Stuff is to believed... The delectable Rachel Sterling, erotic model(caution, siren may sound!), juggy dancer(TM), all around Stone_Fox, is not only a raver chick, but a Crunchy Vegan who likes fast cars.

As you can see, her hobbies include, being smoking hot, and pouting.

A) Not a stalker.
B) Yes, I'm well aware, that if you've got too much porn to even attempt sorting, there might be a problem.
C) Yes, I know I've got exactly 1 in a billion chance for each dollar I have (cummulative). That's why I have pictures.
D) Maybe that's not what Al Gore invented the internet for, but 100 million horny guys can't be wrong.

How's that flamebait? Sounds about right to me. I guess I'm biased, because I totally agree.. Seems like all that matters in election politics anymore is money. Noone gives a fuck about whether a candidate is total asshole or not, if I gets his face plastered all over hell's half acre, he stands a chance of winning. Bush came to town recently. It costs $2,000 to fucking attend his speech. That doesn't even guarantee eye contact! Only the "privelage" of hearing that stupid moron's voice in person, spewing the same old shit. Plus, the debates are utter bullshit. Watch the "Bush vs Bush" debate on the Daily Show's site to see what I mean.. (it's actually quite funny to watch though, I'm just in a pissed-off mood right now) daily show

Yes, but if the license doesn't fit, you must acquit. Beef cake!

Considering that the English language is a hack of various European languages you shouldn't be surprised that a huge portion of our language was borrowed from French. As for subverting English, if you removed all the "Euro words" you'd have nothing left but a handful of colloquialisms and various names.

America is now the owner of the English language. America bought the copyright and patents for the English language from Novell who purchased them from AT&T who purchased them at a Sothebys auction.

And as for my knowlege of history, it's derived mostly from the Emmy Nominated "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Comedy Central. I actually can't stand Springer.

That is the dorkiest thing I've ever heard of you fucking nerd. Now get back into the damn locker before I give you another wedgie.

You haven't given me my first yet, Mr. FancyAss! And if you do I'm gonna pinch you thho hard you thilly goose!

Scriptiing The Enterprise With Java And PHP

PLEASE! God damn! Two headlines today with such obvious spelling errors?!

"Tihm-mayyy"

Haha that show was hillarious.
You can see the video here, r kelly remake (need real player)

Your friend is a real pig fucker!

Hey hey, don't look at me, I learned it from the cartoons :P

This is otherwise an interesting article about a white racist who was actually black

Sounds like the NYT is now copying stories from Dave Chappelle. He had a bit where a black guy joined the KKK.

When someone told him he was black, he immediately divorced his (white) wife for being a "N----- lover"

One of TV Funhouse's best bits

"Because retards in wheelchairs are funny."

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Actually, buying legislation is quite cheap these days. For about $12,000 you can get a congressman to introduce almost any legislation, (no matter how bad it is). In fact when I send my rants to my legislators now, I simply ask them, "How much would it cost to get this legislation implemented?"

Note to all elected officials. I will personally raise $12,000 for the congressman that introduces legislation the eviscerates the DMCA. I actually think the Slashdot has enough critical mass in terms of readers to form a PAC (Poltical Action Committe) and get some serious work done in Washington. It's time for the geeks to unite and kill off the dinosaurs so we can get the *NEW* economy moving. Geeks were able to get it moving before and I am quite sure we can do it again. Also, if you are offended by the word geek, replace "geek" with "enlightened user of technology."

Who is getting the contracts to rebuild Iraq again? As a matter of fact I do get my news from the Daily Show.

www.comedycentral.com/dailyshow/

eg. Trigger Happy TV.

Are these anything like Chef's Chocolate Salted Balls??

http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/southpark

check the dialy show online's clips with Steve Carell here:

http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshow withjonstewart/videos_corr.jhtml?p=carell

click on all the ad nauseam clips to laugh and fully understand the evil that is advertising :-)

if you can afford it, it will pay for itself

If you had a TV, I'd recommend you check out The Daily Show. Its informative, insightful, and funny. Although, yes, it is kind of a news show.. ..So I take it you're not a Buffy fan? :)

A very amusing parody of the switch ads. (fair warning it's in real media format)

1. Overindulge in Tweek's fine coffee
2. See the underpants gnomes
3. ????
4. PROFIT!

QED

This seems like the way that shows like Insomniac get started.

Perhaps you should watch that show a few times and see where he goes. Nothing like a good tour of a brothel to add to your church group tour plan.

See also Sports Night, now available in a no-frills but nonetheless complete DVD set -- both seasons in one box.

Sports Night was canceled by ABC, who didn't know how to market it (it was a highly intelligent comedy -- imagine that). The final episode was a beautiful dig at ABC: "Anybody who can't make money off Sports Night should get out of the money-making business," spoken by the billionaire tech geek who bought out the fictitious CSC cable network and its "Sports Night" news show.

Sports Night featured one of my favorite characters ever, Jeremy Goodwin, a sports/computer nerd and a /. reader if there ever was one on TV.

Brilliant show. I wish they'd strip out the laugh track from the first season (as with the comparable M*A*S*H, the network didn't think viewers would know which parts were funny), but hey, that's for the Special Collector's Edition, right?

Note: You can check out Sports Night on Comedy Central, but they re-cut the episodes for different commercial breaks, which screws up the act structure.

Europeans not allowed, and it is not slashdotted.

To give credit where credit is due, the parent poster ripped this from a show called Trigger Happy TV. It's a bit like Jackass, but with UK humor. This particular quote is from a skit where Dom Joly caries an loud and oversized cell phone around with him screeming into it. It is usually done in places such as movie theatres, plays, symphonies, etc... Pretty funny actually. Here's a still from the show.

To give credit where credit is due, the parent poster ripped this from a show called Trigger Happy TV. It's a bit like Jackass, but with UK humor. This particular quote is from a skit where Dom Joly caries an loud and oversized cell phone around with him screeming into it. It is usually done in places such as movie theatres, plays, symphonies, etc... Pretty funny actually. Here's a still from the show.

Yet, there has yet to be a single artist who has achieved wide-spread popularity or fame through these channels.

Counterexample: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park. Their fame was earned by a single, badly-digitized QuickTime movie called The Spirit of Christmas that got copied all over the Internet. In the span of a few months, Comedy Central offered them a deal.

It's probably also worth pointing out that Parker and Stone didn't digitize or upload the QuickTime file themselves. One of the recipients of their original VHS tape did it. So Parker and Stone's wild success proceeded from a massive case of unsanctioned copying (or, to use the misleading slang term, "piracy").

Schwab

I remember the coverage from September 11. I didn't get to see much on TV, because I was at work. They let everyone who wanted to go home out that day. I worked in a quiet business park, and I just walked around it for hours - not knowing what to do.

Many people said things, but the best words I heard were from Jon Stewart of the Daily Show, from the first episode they aired after the attack.

Read Jon's Speech

Good evening and welcome to "The Daily Show." We are back. This is our first show since the tragedy in New York City. There is no other way really to start this show than to ask you at home the question that we've asked the audience here tonight and that we've asked everybody that we know here in New York since September 11th, and that is, "Are you okay?" We pray that you are and that your family is. I'm sorry to do this to you. It's another entertainment show beginning with an overwrought speech of a shaken host. TV is nothing, if not redundant. So, I apologize for that. It's something that unfortunately, we do for ourselves so that we can drain whatever abscess is in our hearts and move onto the business of making you laugh, which we really haven't been able to do very effectively lately. Everyone's checked in already, I know we're late. I'm sure we're getting in right under the wire before the cast of "Survivor" offers their insight into what to do in these situations.

They said to get back to work. There were no jobs available for a man in the fetal position under his desk crying, which I would have gladly taken. So I came back here. Tonight's show is obviously not a regular show. We looked through the vaults, we found some clips that we thought might make you smile, which is really what's necessary, I think, right about now. A lot of folks have asked me, "What are you going to do when you get back? What are you going to say?" I mean, what a terrible thing to have to do. I don't see it as a burden at all. I see it as a privilege. I see it as a privilege and everyone here does see it that way. The show in general, we feel like is a privilege. Just even the idea that we can sit in the back of the country and make wise cracks, which is really what we do. We sit in the back and we throw spitballs, but never forgetting the fact that is a luxury in this country that allows us to do that. This is a country that allows for open satire, and I know that sounds basic and it sounds as though it goes without saying - but that's really what this whole situation is about. It's the difference between closed and open. It's the difference between free and burden and we don't take that for granted here by any stretch of the imagination and our show has changed. I don't doubt that. What it's become, I don't know. "Subliminable" is not a punch line anymore. One day it will become that again, and Lord willing, it will become that again because that means we have ridden out the storm.

But the main reason that I wanted to speak tonight is not to tell you what the show is going to be. Not to tell you about all the incredibly brave people that are here in New York and in Washington and around the country. But we've had an unenduring pain here - an unendurable pain. I wanted to tell you why I grieve, but why I don't despair...I'm sorry. Luckily we can edit this. One of my first memories is of Martin Luther King being shot. I was five and if you wonder if this feeling will pass...When I was five, he was shot. Here's what I remember about it. I was in a school in Trenton. They shut the lights off and we got to sit under our desks and we thought that was really cool and they gave us cottage cheese, which was a cold lunch because there was rioting, but we didn't know that. We just thought that "My god. We get to sit under our desks and eat cottage cheese." That's what I remember about it. That was a tremendous test of this country's fabric and this country's had many tests before that and after that.

The reason I don't despair is because this attack happened. It's not a dream. But the aftermath of it, the recovery is a dream realized. And that is Martin Luther King's dream. Whatever barriers we've put up are gone even if it's momentary. We're judging people by not the color of their skin but the content of their character. You know, all this talk about "These guys are criminal masterminds. They've gotten together and their extraordinary guile...and their wit and their skill." It's a lie. Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters, these policemen and people from all over the country, literally, with buckets rebuilding. That's extraordinary. That's why we've already won. It's light. It's democracy. We've already won. They can't shut that down. They live in chaos and chaos...it can't sustain itself. It never could. It's too easy and it's too unsatisfying.

The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center and now it's gone. They attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity and strength and labor and imagination and commerce and it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that.

So we're going to take a break and I'm going to stop slobbering on myself and on the desk. We're going to get back to this. It's gonna be fun and funny and it's going to be the same as it was and I thank you. We'll be right back.

I am reminded of this comic....

It's not about making money. It's about providing better audio tools to more people to lower the barrier of entry into the world of "professional" audio recording. That's why the project is funded by the EU.

If you give people access to basic tools and let them be creative, you'll expand the number of people participating in a particular craft and change the dynamics of the whole group.

God knows the top-heavy music industry needs a good grass-roots level shake-up like the operating system market is experiencing with Linux now.

BTW, nice South Park reference. :)

I wonder how the dog will look now that we have Battle Bots.... can u say 16" Diamond Chip saw blade ;)....

This reminds me of something that was on The Man Show a few years ago. In the event of an untimely death, a (made-up) company could be enlisted to "correct" some things for you. The team came in and replaced items such as Playboy centerfolds, a bong, porn videos, and a - let's just call it a "sexual device" - with pictures of your family, Bibles, and other such things.

They showed a "with and without" sequence, where one's parents came to their dead son's apartment to discover the two different scenarios. It was pretty funny, and encouraged me to say to my roommate, "You know that bottom drawer of my dresser? If I die, burn everything in it."

For those who didn't see it, that title's from last night's The Daily Show .

Is Sally Struthers (blantent South Park Referance) the campaign sponsor? I refuse to donate w/out rich celebrity sponsors!

I just saw the commercial during Saturday Night Live. I'm surprised the commercial aired the same day as the story appeared on slashdot.

I wonder if it will be posted on the newly rivived Ad Critic, and itself distributed via the web and burned to CD-ROM?

Although I've never really been a fan of Gateway (home of Laptop Support Hell), but I'm glad they're doing this.

Actually, Duckman and The Critic are on Comedy Central late Sundays/early Mondays.

It was a reference to an episode of Southpark. The Underpants Gnomes were stealing underpants because underpants were big business. Step One is stealing underpants, Step Three is profit, but Step Two was blank. It was a lot funnier when it was seen on TV and not explained on slashdot.

In due fairness, Comedy Central is jointly owned by Viacom (yeah, that other mega-entertainment company) and HBO (which is an "AOL/TW Property", of course).

It is all over comedy central too. I watch that channel more than any other (by far) and Impostor is being promoed to death on that channel as well.

I would have thought comedy central, sci-fi, and dimension (film distributor) was all owned by the same company, but that is not the case, so actual money did change in promoting this movie.

Sci-Fi is owned by USA Networks (which was just bought by Universal/Vivendi, the same company that owns mp3.com)

Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, says this site.

Dimension is owned by Miramax, which is owned by Disney -- says this site and this site.

I don't watch too much tv, but you would think that Disney would plug the movie on ABC and ESPN, which it also owns, especially since they are hurting for cash right now. Why not promote in house?

How is this related to Impostor? Only tangentially. But be aware of the Big Six media companies. Three are involved in this film. It's more than six, but the other companies are AOL/TimeWarner, Sony, NewsCorp, and Bertelsmann (of Napster fame).

Others would add GE to the list, because they own NBC.

In any case, the entirety of our information and entertainment world comes nearly exclusively through those 8 companies.

No kidding. The outfits reminded me of the announcers on Let's Bowl.

They already have www.battlebots.com!!! This makes sense, because they are not a dot org! This is only happening because there are some lawyers who have way too much time on their hands.

I am a battlebots fan, and I am going to compose an email to comedy central alerting them that the "geek" fan base they count on is the same group that will abandon them if they pull this stuff. I suggest you all do the same.


www.battlebots.com contact page
Comedy Central Battlebots page (they have a message board)

I was starting to believe in Viacom, the owner of Comedy Central and, thus, Battlebots. Though I had my doubts, at first, Viacom actually seemed to be doing non-evil things with Comedy Central.

But, maybe I should have seen this coming. After all, Viacom owns such atrocities as MTV. Even worse, in my mind, is that they also own Blockbuster, which is driving out mom-n-pop video stores through unfair practices with the movie studios (Blockbuster gets the physical videos for wicked-cheap in exchange for profit sharinng with the studios). So, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised.

I think they have been using a special "Delta-Frame" algorithym for shrinking their file sizes.

Unfortunately, their claims of Full television quality video over
28.8 lines were aparently made by streaming old episodes of "Southpark"

Win Karma - Lose Karma

All this guy does is Jew/Gay bash. Ever. Why the hell doesn't someone ban this account and tell this GoatSex lovin closet pedophilisitic uncle fucker to just come out of the closet and stop being bitter about his true sexual orientation?

Viacom does however own the network that runs the best news program in America, the Peabody Award winning Daily Show on Comedy Central.

Viacom does however own the network that runs the best news program in America, the Peabody Award winning Daily Show on Comedy Central.

Since TV news coverage in the US is little better than entertainment programming, it's only fitting that an entertainment program should outdo the corporate news outlets.

I thought much of Indecision 2000's humor fell flat, but one of their more successful satires was their 'documentary', "George W. Bush: From Wealth to Riches" (RealMedia).

Seriously, we have to take a stand somehow against Sony's infringement on our culture (however conglomerated it is). We must stop Sony's attempt to "Japanize" American culture, before our children turn into this. One quote comes to mind when thinking about the resistance to Sony's Japanizing attempts: "Sushi? Where I come from, we call that stuff bait!"

Just look at most of the PlayStation games. There's an alarming number of them which feature scantily clad, toothpick-thin women with guns and nonesuch. There are even total Japanese 2D games which have gameplay similar to this. Personally, I think that Sony has one foot in the porn business already. Hell, they're already at least 50% responsible for building the video devices used to capture it on tape, so they're more than accountable for its promotion: they're responsible for its fruition.