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I'm gonna choose evil so I can use the Helm of Disintegration!

"Paladins can't use the Helm of disintegration!"

3x9[1]. What a coincidence[2]. :-))

[1] http://xkcd.com/759/
[2] http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0016356/
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There was a recent Indian movie which revolved around the name Khan. Its called 'My name is Khan'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Khan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188996/

And all Khans are not terrorists

Gopla

The Stars We Are
Note: His co-star in the this film Kalle Grogarn has also died. Looks like Henrik Hirseland is next on the list...!

no, it's Ice Cube that's the popular one.

...that Vin Diesel was this popular.

Yeah, how backwards is this text method? Put the phone on one of those old modems al la Wargames and send data like it's 1989!

but when fashion designers have their hands on nuclear technology, i think we can pretty much declare the effort to contain nuclear technology over, and just start writing the epitaph for civilization. we're doomed

Oh come on, how else is Edna Mode going to make all of those cool suits for The Incredibles?

No Capes!!

Reminds me of a episode of "Duckman." Duckman and the gang have car trouble near the nastiest, filthiest, most inbred trailer park ever to grace a red state. As they're talking to the hillbilly, meth-head residents, they keep noticing weird boxes on their TV's. When asked about them, the head hick replies "Oh, those are Nielson boxes--we all gots 'em!"

Corrected? The movie says what it says, there's no "correcting" to be done. Han's bragging line is what people call "techno-babble". Neither of the sequels make any explanation of this bit of techno-babble, nor do they need to, any more than someone would need to explain what a "hydrospanner" is.

Techno-babble permits inane crap to help move the story from one plot point to the next. When done well, it works like this:
Brandon's Mom: Where are you going with those fireworks?
Brandon: Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole, and it, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable, obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation.

The Island (2005) was already a remake. I was pissed because in LR you got to see tits. Not so with Scarlett Johansson. Damn Hollywood.

I guess it's due to the Office Space reference.

You raise an issue worthy of further consideration. It was first posed succinctly by the fictional character from Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery. Dr. Evil: "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" (Similarly, Scott Adams states this as the Dilbert Principle, we are all stupid, about most things, most of the time.) With the rise of civilization and technology has come increased complexity. Unfortunately, we seem, on average, to be ill equipped to cope with it. It's amazing we can get things done at all, really, when you think about the difficulty we have making what ought to be simple decisions.

Consider this week the news is full of European countries enacting substantial budget cuts. We know that's the wrong thing to do. It times of economic prosperity, we should run balanced budgets or pay down national debt. When faced with a recession so enormous that people invoke the Great Depression as an analog, though we have only about 20% unemployment, rather than 30% or more, this situation is dire. We know that we must run deficits, large ones, in order to create a demand stimulus large enough to moderate this trough of the economic cycle. Nonetheless, we have politicians trying to score political points by railing against deficit spending -- which didn't bother them for the past 8 years when they were in charge.

The problem is profound, widespread ignorance, but not merely ignorance as in the mere unawareness of relevant facts. It's ignorance that makes one blind to the limits of one's own ability to asses one's own capability. Smearing lemon juice on your face doesn't make you invisible to security cameras. If you think it does, then you're not qualified to be a bank robber, but you're also not qualified to assess many, many other issues -- foremost among them, you're not qualified to assess your sills as a bank robber, and are likely to be utterly ignorant as to the possibility that you might not be able to assess those skills without outside assistance. Presented with relevant facts, these people remain impervious to rational assessment of a situation. They are so poorly equipped that they can't evaluate their own ignorance.

The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but You'll Never Know What It Is (Part 1)

After the first disaster which destroyed a Space Shuttle and killed all the astronauts aboard, a presidential commission was appointed to investigate, by President Reagan. Its members included the nobel prize winning physicist, Richard Feynman. Feynman wrote his own appendix to the official report of the committee. It's one of the most fascinating documents, and should be required reading for any engineer, politician, manager, or judge . It ranks up there with The Selfish Gene, Goedel Escher, Bach, and The Mythical Man Month.

Richard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering

Feynman's Appendix to the Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

The lesson of the Challenger disaster directly applies to the Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout disaster. Simply because we haven't had a disaster yet does not in any way imply that we are not doing things, lots of things, which are likely to lead to a disaster.

This problem applies to big problems, like managing national budgets, building and flying reusable spacecraft, drilling a mile under the ocean surface for oil -- and to small problems, like using mod points on Slashdot.

I'd second guess that. If I had the choice of hitting a BB a block away, I'd have a movie in my hand in 15 minutes. With a torrent, it would take probably 3-4 hours (if lucky) to get the movie. If the movie is available to stream, I'd be watching that even sooner.

BB (at least here) has a terrible selection of movies. Try asking for "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring" or any movie that doesn't come from Hollywood's crap factories*.

*Not to diss on all US movies, just the crappy ones

"Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless." -- Belloq

Robert Conrad > Chuck Norris

So all the rage and frustration gets totally bottled up.
What could possibly go wrong?
It's not like its a "Serpent's Egg" farm, or anything. Right?

The slow, oblivious drivers never look in their mirrors, so a light on your front plate would never be seen. Likely they don't even know your car is there.

In that case, rocket launchers, machine guns, or some other type of offensive weaponry behind the headlights would be much more effective. Think early James Bond, or XXX. (Not porn, you bunch of wankers. The Vin Diesel movie!)

There really isn't any pretty way to end a life but of the available methods that our technology allows I would argue that being shot is the most humane. If the shooters do their job right you will be dead in seconds.

There was actually a 2008 Horizons documentary on this subject called "How to Kill a Human Being"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228865/

It doesn't seem available on the BBC website, so here ya go (Warning, 50min video.. sorry bout that on a Sunday night folks!)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8068091823725414405#

I won't spoil it, but after discovering basically every method of execution employed is or can be extremely agonizing, he finds a way to kill someone and they would be happy it was happening it was happening before nodding off asleep and having natural brain failure afterward.

Enjoy

Now... if the system sent automated drones out to deal with everything it thought was a crime... that would be a different story.

Yes it would, and it's called RoboCop ;-)

But it has won eight Oscars!

you always have kids making the same mistakes over and over.

But everybody, well many people, repeat mistakes. There's a chance your grandparents told your parents the music they listened to was bad, evil, or sinful and your parents may of said the the same to you.

And adults aren't going out of their way to tell them either.

That's the parents' fault. As Sidney Poitier's character in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner tells his father parents owe their children everything they can do to make their lives better.

All of this talk about test scores wont help.

On it's own, no. But the first step in rationally solving a problem is recognizing there is a problem.

All tools have to be used to better oneself

No they don't, tools can but don't have to better one's self. I garden and use tools. Those tools don't better myself, they are so I can do what I love doing. This computer might not better myself but it's a tool I use anyway.

Falcon

There's nothing new about using vegetables as electrolytes, [...]

Of course not. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0669713/

Perhaps he wants to stem the tide before his government gets to the point that it tends to be listed alongside the ones you mention.

Or perhaps I just like a geek movie....

Prophetic at least in name(s) and effect.

The majority rule has been replaced by minority tyranny through abusing rules that protect minority rights to influence (but not control) decisionmaking. That's the automatic and universal filibuster at work

If you really believe filibusters are bad then you need to watch the movie Mr Smith Goes to Washington with Jimmy Steward. Talk about corruption, that is what the filibuster is for, to fight against corruption.

Falcon

funny how stories tend to come in packs. The Movie "Unthinkable" was ranked #3 at IMDB prior to the release of the DVD/BR (it was a straight to video release). The producer ended up asking on the IMDB forums the people who had rated it where they got it from and about ideas on how to make things fairer for both sides.
As someone who saw it ~early~ too, I can only urge you to watch it (if possible through a legal rental or by buying the DVD or BR ... it IS worth it), as it is a really interesting movie.
I wonder whether this and TFS are linked somehow.

Poor religious nutballs will just become rich religious nutballs. And if anyone thinks that the Afghan mainstream aren't a bunch of religious nutballs, go rent a documentary called Afghan Star (about the Afghan equivalent of "American Idol") and watch what happens when a female contestant dares to dance on stage.

Your new LCD monitor is sold to you as a 22 inch, but 1/4 of the screen is actually an ad server

Mike Judge beat you too it...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

Neither I nor many others want to gamble with other people's money

Then you either have insurance and are whining about nothing at all or you have several million dollars on tap and are whining about pocket change.

WOW, you know me. NOT!!!

Neither, I have insurance, specifically Medicare so I know how bad government insurance is. I'm broke too.

What I want is the choice as to how I will spend my own money. So long as I am not harming anyone else I should be able to do what I want, and when I do harm anyone then charge me with a crime.

Without insurance, if you get hit with cancer or a bad accident you're all but certain to be unable to afford to pay the bill yourself, which means other people pay or we let you die.

Ignoramus, I was hit in an accident without insurance and am now disabled. Do I want you or any one else who was not at fault to pay for it? No I don't I wanted the guilty party to pay. For those who through no fault of their own have an accident or become sick and can not afford treatment, I want civil society to help. Did the government start or does it operate St. Jude Children's Research Hospital? No, it was started by the actor and comedian Danny Thomas. The hospital treats children whether they or their parents can pay or not it does not ask to be paid. How are bills paid? By donations. Large businesses, small businesses, sports teams, and individuals donate to the hospital. Here's a partial list of funders. How about Shriners Hospitals for Children? Government didn't start it, and neither funds nor runs it. All that was done by the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Shriners for short.

I would much rather donate wealth to them, or heck even the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, than have government take my money at the point of a gun.

You want to pay out of pocket for the small stuff? Then get catastrophic coverage and pay out of pocket for the small stuff, same as me. Congratulations! You got what you want and have complied with the law.

Yes, that could have been done before, but the new law has "essential health benefit" requirements. Does catastrophic coverage meet those requirements? I admit I don't know.

Seriously? Those stories are supposed to show how not having insurance isn't gambling with other people's money?

No, they were to show that even those who can not now pay still get medical treatment. See unlike the boy in the movie John Q those who can not pay still get treatment.

Falcon

Standards have fallen in adult entertainment.

All we need is someone to write some amazing porn story... like Orgazmo.

There may be such a world, but I don't live there.

If this is billed as more than a physician-assistance tool, it is opening itself up to horrific misuse by, say, "the common clay of the new West... you know.... morons."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/

And yet, somehow we've recently seen lots of indie games on shoestring budges with excellent graphics and writing that were massively successful. Also, there was obviously something good about narbacular, otherwise Valve wouldn't have hired on the team.

Yes. The gameplay was good. I said that. But Narbacular drop was not an amazing game. It was an INTERESTING game with a lot of potential. And could you list all these amazing free games you're talking about? Because last I checked indie games still cost money. Which means they're still relying on the whole "people buying their product" model.

Sure they can. It's called holding a full time job and working on your pet project in your spare time. LOTS of teams have produced great games and mods like that.

Again. Can I get a list? Counterstrike comes to mind but really, beyond that... Flash games? Maybe? I'm pretty sure all of my favourite games were made by companies trying to make a living off selling video games

Have you heard of this great new film called Avatar? I've heard it's got some pretty interesting CG tech. You might want to check it out.

It didn't use JUST cgi. The CG was one step above photomanipulation, not pure rendering. They had actors do everything models do everything and then they went over it all with CG. You can, at best, replace the extras with that and that's making some pretty heavy assumptions about the degree technology will drop in price. Might I point out they had a MAKEUP DEPARTMENT. And scroll down the list of 3D artists they needed for that. I won't wait though, it'll take you too long. It's a VERY LONG LIST. No matter how advanced you make the technology you still need a crapton of people. The more art you have the more artists you need.

Of course there is more than just spit-shine i.e. pretty designed box over someone else's tech.
There is the huge marketing army and the all powerful distortion field.
Microsoft might be the evil empire, but Apple is simply a crazy cult. Somewhere between Branch Davidian and Scientology.
Actually, Dave and Steve might be twins, separated at birth.
Or clones, maybe?

"Product exhibits better taste"? Seriously? Taste?
Well, a long time ago someone said "De gustibus non est disputandum".
Roughly translated it means "Tastes are like assholes. Everybody has one, and everybody finds the idea of tasting someone else's disgusting. Unless you are kinky."

Are Apple users THAT stupid? Maybe. Personally I find them to be more like mentally deranged. Also, frighteningly uninformed. As if they are living behind an iRon curtaiN.
I mean... waiting so long for cut&paste (and other iNventions like camera and MMS) on the iPhone can be compared to waiting for that right-click.

What 20 year old product are you talking about?
I guess you also consider MacOS a 26 year-old product too?
And it doesn't even work on all computers... truly a piece of shit software, I'm sure you would agree.
I'm using YOUR logic after all.

And hey... 10 years to get to Win7 is still better than 26. Or however long it will take Apple to move on from MacOS.
When exactly will Apple release an actual new piece of software? Like... they are just sitting there holding their one-button mice since 1984, polishing the same old crud.

If you like that kind of movie I suggest El día de la bestia.

Maybe they're being sued for bad taste?

Sorry, Bad Taste http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/ was made by Peter Jackson.

A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must go to the Sun to drop a talking bomb (Freddy) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else...

If you think Uwe Boll is bad, try watching Atomic Twister sometime.

I dare you to find worse than Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. It has a kung-fu second coming of Jesus, a priest with a punk hairdo riding a vespa, and a newspaper headline reading "Critical shortage of lesbians". Other than that the movie has no redeemable qualities whatsoever, and the fact that video and audio aren't synchronized very well gets on your nerves pretty fast doesn't help either.

Having said that, if you like bad horror movies a good laugh is Bad Taste by Peter Jackson, but you probably already have seen it. And Braindead by the same Peter Jackson is still a b-movie classic, worth more than a few laughs.

A movie like Primer is a good example of the fact that not all low budget movies have to be bad. It's actually a pretty good movie, especially if you're a bit of a geek.

If you think Uwe Boll is bad, try watching Atomic Twister sometime.

I dare you to find worse than Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. It has a kung-fu second coming of Jesus, a priest with a punk hairdo riding a vespa, and a newspaper headline reading "Critical shortage of lesbians". Other than that the movie has no redeemable qualities whatsoever, and the fact that video and audio aren't synchronized very well gets on your nerves pretty fast doesn't help either.

Having said that, if you like bad horror movies a good laugh is Bad Taste by Peter Jackson, but you probably already have seen it. And Braindead by the same Peter Jackson is still a b-movie classic, worth more than a few laughs.

A movie like Primer is a good example of the fact that not all low budget movies have to be bad. It's actually a pretty good movie, especially if you're a bit of a geek.

If you think Uwe Boll is bad, try watching Atomic Twister sometime.

I dare you to find worse than Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. It has a kung-fu second coming of Jesus, a priest with a punk hairdo riding a vespa, and a newspaper headline reading "Critical shortage of lesbians". Other than that the movie has no redeemable qualities whatsoever, and the fact that video and audio aren't synchronized very well gets on your nerves pretty fast doesn't help either.

Having said that, if you like bad horror movies a good laugh is Bad Taste by Peter Jackson, but you probably already have seen it. And Braindead by the same Peter Jackson is still a b-movie classic, worth more than a few laughs.

A movie like Primer is a good example of the fact that not all low budget movies have to be bad. It's actually a pretty good movie, especially if you're a bit of a geek.

If you think Uwe Boll is bad, try watching Atomic Twister sometime.

I dare you to find worse than Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. It has a kung-fu second coming of Jesus, a priest with a punk hairdo riding a vespa, and a newspaper headline reading "Critical shortage of lesbians". Other than that the movie has no redeemable qualities whatsoever, and the fact that video and audio aren't synchronized very well gets on your nerves pretty fast doesn't help either.

Having said that, if you like bad horror movies a good laugh is Bad Taste by Peter Jackson, but you probably already have seen it. And Braindead by the same Peter Jackson is still a b-movie classic, worth more than a few laughs.

A movie like Primer is a good example of the fact that not all low budget movies have to be bad. It's actually a pretty good movie, especially if you're a bit of a geek.

Maybe they're being sued for bad taste?

That was Peter Jackson, not Uwe Boll ;-)

I agree. Me and my friends used to watch "so bad that it's good" movies a lot. Especially fun in before-parties. Good movies include

• Commando
• Conan The Barbarian
• All Steven Seagal movies
• All Chuck Norris movies

I agree. Me and my friends used to watch "so bad that it's good" movies a lot. Especially fun in before-parties. Good movies include

• Commando
• Conan The Barbarian
• All Steven Seagal movies
• All Chuck Norris movies

That is like saying it is the best porn musical, which sadly never made it past the late 1970's when the nation collectively ran out of the good drugs and had to start using blow.

Not sure why FB kept trying to sell me Jewish dating websites, when my profile clearly indicated that I was not Jewish... an Anglo-Norman name, 'Zen Buddhist' as my religion... seems like they missed the mark with that one

That creeps me out even more!

(Not the religion-centered dating sites. Those too, but just a little)

Showing me less, but better targeted ads should be a win-win situation. (Sometimes you don't mind spending money on something you saw in an ad)

But beeing presented with not just a random ad, but with an ad and the knowledge that someone thinks you would be intrested in it clearly is something different.

Might lead to this little gem...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118655/quotes?qt0367869

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0564476/
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/gerry-davis/mutant-59.htm

CC.

"the comments read "fascinating future" "imagination" "great stuff" etc. "

I guess I missed those comments, I saw spooky, porn and banned from theaters.

Seems more like a publicity stunt from a no name film maker... sorry there's no link, I couldn't find him on IMDB, unless he's this Robert Spence who's earned such illustrious titles as "additional assistant production office coordinator" in recent years (is that the assistant to the assistant to the coordinator?)

We all have cellphones, we've all see how teeny-tiny the camera chips can be (head of a pen) and pair that with wifi that fits in a SD card and your favor power source and you're done. Not really newest worthy, certainly not best invention of 2009.

Now if he could actually see with this device that'd be different, that's a bionic eye, but all he did was replace his false eye with a small streaming webcam. That's not a bionic eye anymore than a false arm with a webcam is a bionic arm.