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That's still better than building your castle on top of a swamp!

This thing just won't die.

We need to hire Alice

The secret to embryonic stem cells was always cloning. Sure, Harry can't benefit from someone else's stem cells but if you first clone Harry and create an embryo you can now harvest the embryo for stem cells and they work for Harry just fine.

Now there is a little hitch there. If you let the embryo develop you now have a real life clone of Harry. This is unlikely to be like The 6th Day, but it gets pretty complicated. And very, very distressing for the religious types when it comes down to talking about Harry's soul and Harry's clone's soul.

Embryonic stem cells don't work without human cloning. You mean you didn't know that from the beginning? How could you miss it because embryonic stem cells are genotype specific?

He's pointing out that it's a lot harder coordinating the recovery of the probe from Vulcan while they simultaneously recover the probe sent from Earth. Otherwise, people would realize something was fishy. MORAN

Don't you mean bizzaro Alaskan Salmon?

I can't be the only one who thought of this scenario.. Does anyone else think the same as me?

Yes.

Reminds me of the Leave It to Beaver episode "In the Soup"--Jerry Mathers falls into the billboard bowl of "steaming soup." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0630257/plotsummary

Watchoo is one word.
see
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077003/quotes

If you're referring to this Goldeneye, it's clearly a case of a game based on the movie and not the reverse.

I think you need to have your sarcasm detector checked.

If you're referring to this Goldeneye, it's clearly a case of a game based on the movie and not the reverse.

I think you need to have your sarcasm detector checked.

That's why when someone says "DOS boot" I cry. 42

If you're referring to this Goldeneye, it's clearly a case of a game based on the movie and not the reverse.

If you're referring to this Goldeneye, it's clearly a case of a game based on the movie and not the reverse.

That's why I'm excited for the (potentially) upcoming Halo movie. They've have a whole universe to work with, the franchise's underlying concept is relatively accessible for a sci-fi movie, and the nature of the conflict offers a lot of opportunity for good action, breathtaking scenery and visuals, and interesting scenes. Other perks: good sized projected budget, potential Peter Jackson direction, huge fan base, and I saw blood in the brief live-action clip that was produced, so maybe it won't get mangled trying to make it "family friendly". But who knows, they might throw in some absurd romantic subplot between Master Chief and some trollop played by Megan Fox that never culminates in seeing her naked.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001280/

yes I cheated.

Woody Allen did it in 1973. Roll on the Orgasmatron.

When they're taking their revenge.

Uwe Boll.

On the other hand, the absolute best, by far, 9/11 joke is the opening scene of Boll's Postal movie. The rest isn't so bad either - it's got a 4.1 on IMDB, but my impression is that a lot of people gave it a crappy rating without even seeing it, because just about everything else he's done really has deserved a score of 1.0.

Sorry. Hollywood wants you to pay for it.

Wait, something like this could work to everyone's advantage:

1.) Set up a company hosting all music and movies to be shared. Encode said files with an identical MD5 checksum, to be used later.
        For irony, perhaps use 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0.
        The checksum will be used as evidence because checksums are very hard to fake.
2.) Everybody grab whatever they want.
3.) The RIAA/MPAA sues the company for $1.5 trillion, or whatever large number they'd like to come up with.
4.) Said company is found guilty (checksums prove it, and besides, they admit it) but they can't pay, and fold.
5.) The RIAA/MPAA can't come after you, since they've already been awarded damages covering the infringement.
6.) PROFIT!

(If you haven't figured it out yet, this is meant to be funny and I am not a lawyer. Laugh already!)

All in one spot hopefully. Let me get my straw.

I... drink... your... milkshake!

But then what abbreviation isn't taken nowadays?

B.N.C.S.

Actually wait...

"For us, it's a strange sport played by damaged people." - Robin Williams

There's just one problem with all this: there's no evidence that SPOT is actually effective.

That's not a problem, it's a solution. It means there need to be more studies, and bigger contracts, to figure out which bits of SPOT do work (read: "none, but who cares if it works as long as we can keep getting funding"), until such time as the political winds shift in favor of some other crackpot in the bureaucracy who's got more money to spend than brains to care about what it's being spent on.

Meanwhile, life once again imitates art:

SPOT agent: English or American? State Security. Your papers, please.
Clint Eastwood: Can you wait a minute?
SPOT agent: Very well. Quickly. (pause) Your papers, please. (pause) Are you ill, or maybe frightened?
Clint Eastwood: I've been having stomach problems.
SPOT agent: Your papers are not in order.
Clint Eastwood: They're in order. Look at them again.
SPOT agent: No. They are not in order.

Without giving away a spoiler to a movie that's 28 years old, Gant's papers were in order: the KGB goon was bluffing, trying to provoke a reaction.

Every time I travel by air, I watch the first half of Firefox, and every year, the part where Clint Eastwoodfails to bluff his way through Moscow's airport seems a bit less like an American director's 1982 portrayal of the USSR, and feels a little more like home. Problem is, there's nowhere left to fly to, even if you did get your hands on a Mach-5 capable thought-controlled stealth plane.

now that the Russians are our friends...couldn't we just ask them? They might need our Space Cowboys help putting their Global Annihilation satellite back in proper orbit....and Clint Eastwood only has so many years left.

Yeah, but they still haven't forgiven Eastwood for stealing that plane back in 1982.

(Kids these days. Nowadays they just browse the web for cultural references.)

But first try watching Primer, just to know what you shouldn't do...

It's one of the best movies I've ever seen, but watch it 2/3 times before judging -- as suggested by the director himself -- or use some reference timeline when in doubt (spoilers ahead).

One of them will be destroyed, as demonstrated by Bender

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119654/

... Harvey Keitel for those real problem messes.

Knowing didn't seem to help Earl Holliman (aka Mike Ferris) in the very first episode of The Twilight Zone.

Episode list. Click on an episode and then select "Memorable Quotes" from the left-side navigation. There appears to be quotes specific to every episode. Hope you have time to kill! I recall talks about "Bundynomics" and "Don't Bundy that book!".

Wrong link, sorry; I meant this film.

Well, those of you who think Alexander was such a great movie are lone voices in the wilderness, I am afraid.

Waterworld

I saw a documentary on this once:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/

Wasn't that the plot of Leviathan?

Right! Have we learned nothing from "Trading Places?"

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm forwarding this to these guys

I just don't like the idea of the justice system being subverted in such a way that a corporation can sue someone anonymously, and I don't like the idea of a family being destroyed financially because their kid downloaded a movie, when otherwise shoplifting the movie would be a petty theft charge.

I see what you mean, but I also find it incredible that people should be surprised when torrenting a recently released Oscar-winning film draws down an almightly shitstorm upon their heads.

It's not like the people who made the film are being particularly greedy. Look at the takings for the film, compared to the budget: it doesn't take a genius to guess that if the grosses barely add to the estimated movie budget, the people who made the film are probably still trying to break even. Is it any surprise that they're a bit touchy about piracy of the movie?

I would rather see them out of business if this is the only way they can make money. I'm a model mpaa customer. I have over 200 bluray movies purchased, but they would still label me a criminal because I have taken (at considerable effort) the evil step of digitizing all my movies (ripped and encoded to my fileserver in mkv). I have a live copy, and a backup, and the physical copy sits in a closet. They have never been shared. If I lived in America, they would undoubtedly sue me if they discovered what I have done.

Allowing me to rip movies harms their business plan of reselling the same movie every format change.

Fuck them.

Well, yes, to the extent that rightsholders froth at the mouth about how people who subvert region coding or format shift are filthy pirates, fuck that, or them, big time. I too am tired of being called a pirate for playing the content I bought legal copies of, in the privacy of my own home, or own head(phones). It is a particular insult when nobody gives enough of a damn about a movie to release it in this region (4, FWIW), or if the local release is done by clowns who screw the DVD authoring process and get the interlacing wrong. Yes, fuck that.

But, frankly, if people are so impatient to gobble up new shiny things that they torrent brand new movies and music, it is naive of them not to expect some trouble to come out of it sooner or later. A person who draws courage from the fact that they have already torrented a pile of new releases without getting sued is like a person deciding that nobody can catch them shoplifting because they have pulled it off a few times. How are either of them to know whether their efforts have gone unnoticed?

People, if you want to watch the film for little or no money, there is a sure-fire way:

JUST

GODDAM

WAIT.

There is such a flood of new stuff coming out, courtesy of our collective fetish for endless growth, that most games, albums and DVDs get heavily discounted within a year of release. Not only that, but the older a film gets, the more second-hand copies float around, or if you still want to hoist the jolly roger, you could get a cheap bunch of weekly rentals, and then, y'know... [looking around furtively] rip them yourself.

Bear in mind that for most of recorded history, incredibly harsh punishments have been meted to ordinary folk for trivial crimes, just to set an example. None of this trouble is new, or unexpected. For the moment, the laws are what they are; arguing over their justice is almost impossible when there is so much hypocrisy and willful confusion coming from both sides of the debate.

But nobody gets arrested for waiting to see whether a thing they want gets cheaper.

Bond 23 has also been delayed because of MGM's legal issues. http://www.imdb.com/news/ni2143090/

I was looking forward to seeing Mr. Craig shoot some guns, drive some fast cars, and flirt with some girls.

Bond 23 has also been delayed because of MGM's legal issues. http://www.imdb.com/news/ni2143090/

I was looking forward to seeing Mr. Craig shoot some guns, drive some fast cars, and flirt with some girls.

The use of "Howard" is a quote from the movie "Heros" with Henry Winkler and Sally Fields, in Winkler's first post-Happy Days movie. Yes, very old reference, 1977.

Actually Australia is bringing New Zealand in on this proposal just in case of the threat of aliens

I wonder how many of the Voice Actors can actually act?
It wouldn't be the same if the voices were different.

The actor that voices Tali has done some stuff.

P.S. Tali's voice makes me moist.

Joe Flanigan should play the role of John Shepherd.

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About CNN:

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The producer of the full-length, animated movie "Sita Sings the Blues" recently found herself in a similar situation.
She had an eye-opening experience when she went to license the music in the movie (from the 1920s) and found out that it cost $50K for the rights and another $20K for the lawyers to do the clearance work - for recordings that are in the public domain (but the lyrics are not).

Because of that she decided to release the movie under the Creative Commons Share-Alike license - which, I believe, is the version most like the GPL(and she also took out a loan for the music rights). The movie has been very popular, Roger Ebert raved about it, even the guys on his old TV show (now called "At the Movies") gave it high marks. So eventually Netflix came a-calling, they offered her something like $7K up front for the right to stream the movie. However, she insisted that they stream it without DRM and their system is just not set up to do that, it's like they never conceived of the idea of Free content when they designed it. Kinda ironic in retrospect because I'd be really surprised if, just like most of the interwebs, a whole lot of netflix's infrastructure didn't run on Free software,

Anyway, she was willing to compromise - she would grant an exception to the licensing terms and they could DRM it, if they would run a placard at the start of the movie telling viewers that it was Free and where to get it from. No dice said Netflix. So she no dice too.

So, my bet is that Apple goes the same way as netflix - unwilling to compromise because their world view has no room in it for Free software for regular users.

BTW:
Sita Sings the Blues - main site
Download page - including bittorrent of a very nice 4GB 1080p mkv, also streaming from Youtube, etc
IMDB Page
Ebert's review

that Vincenzo Natali is also the writer/director of Cube, an awesome move. Whereas Splice doesn't exactly look like it's going to be winning any awards (according to imdb, Cube won 13).

Splice comes out June 4th. IMDB

I have seen some of Vincenzo Natali's previous movies; Cube (very original), Cypher (cool SF thriller) and Nothing (funny and absurd fantasy). He is definitely an interesting director. But I have never heard of Splice. Is it worth tracking down a DVD of Splice?

Splice is a relatively new movie that I've seen floating around the interwebs lately. It looks very interesting. Haven't been able to get my hands on a copy of it yet though.