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Without the hangover is not real fun... check the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119646/

You can always hope the current crop of Neanderthals will be bred out as their namegivers had.

I wouldn't bet on that.

I was expecting to see warlock as well. But Gattaca has Gore Vidal, so I guess that wins.

I'm reaching stratospheric levels of dweebiness here, but when I read it I suddenly remembered a Star Trek scene:

Worf: Very well... Room service.
Dax: Really?
Worf: Really.
Dax: Oh, that was easy.
Worf: Did you want to fight over it?
Dax: No, it's just, I didn't expect you to surrender so quickly.
Worf: Surrender?
Dax: Bad word.
Worf: Very bad.

Source:

Even if there's a lesser of two evils, you might not want to vote for that person. They still might be "too evil" for your tastes. Should you vote for candidate A who says they'll kill 1 million people when elected or candidate B who says they'll kill 2 million people when elected? (Obviously, this is an exaggeration, but it's meant to drive the point home clearer.)

Third parties are an option, but the problem with them is the votes get spread out. Let's say that 31% of people vote for candidate A and 30% of people vote for candidate B. Now let's suppose that the remaining 39% of people vote for 3rd party candidates. You'd think this would look impressive, but in the real world, there would be probably about 10 candidates to choose from. Each candidate would get less than 4% of the vote, trailing far behind A or B.

Perhaps we need to take an idea from 80's movie Brewster's Millions and form a "None of the Above" party. The candidate "None of the Above" would appeal to both right-wingers who think the Republican candidate doesn't go far enough to the right, left-wingers who think the Democrat candidate doesn't go far enough to the left and people who think the candidates aren't "in the center" enough. If "None of the Above" captured even half of that hypothetical 39%, it would make an impressive 18.5% showing. That kind of general dissatisfaction with the choices presented would register where a few 4% third party showings wouldn't. And it would need to be a visible option on the ballot because otherwise people wouldn't pick it.

Of course, this wouldn't solve the problem of "I'm voting for Candidate A because he's in the party I always vote for and if I don't I'll be effectively helping Candidate B (from that party I don't like) get into office."

Not only that, a critter much like Dyna-Soar makes an appearance in the wonderful Apollo-era space thriller, Marooned. Those were the days... Apollo Applications Program, sigh.

Highly recommended just to see a young Gene Hackman as an astronaut gone space crazy.

Agreed.

My brother works with the poor in Brazil, and I've seen Rio favelas first-hand. There may be sewerage problems, but people there typically have satellite TV to watch the football. And lots of cellphones.

People have jobs. They party hard. It's not all crazy gunfights and despair.

It's really pretty darn cyberpunk. And beautiful in a strange way. Even the crime is just applied capitalism.

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An excellent movie (and TV series) about the nature of everyday life in a modern Brazilian slum is City of Men (sequel of sorts to City of God, about the rise of the slums/gangs in the 1970s).

Otis? Is that you?

Most people in any profession, if they can't let go of their insistence on reality, dislike or down right hate movie portrayals of what they do.

Tell me about it. I've worked in the TV/film industry and even though I liked FX The Series, I couldn't help but regularly scream at the screen, "It's not that freaking easy!", "It doesn't work that way!" and/or "That's not how you do that!". It was especially bad if you took into account that the show debuted in 1996 (and the movies it was based on in 1986 and 1996, I think), and was for the most part set in the pre-digital-video era.

Man, if douche-bags had friends you'd still be too big of a giant douche-bag to have any friends.

I bet you think other posters on /. are entwined in one of your 'conspiracy theories'. Well, guess what fucktard, we just like seeing you shoot your semi-cerebral wad while some form of reality Deliverance makes you squirm. You work on your next post while I go make some popcorn.

More cool videos:
* Zenith Zero G
* There also was a video for the Harry Winston Opus 7

A. Lange & Söhne
Patek Philippe - Birth of a Legend

And so on, unnecessary? Maybe. Guess new phones often are to. Atleast some people actually buying this kind of watches may want to wear them for longer than 2-3 years.

The Gerald Genta Arena above had up to 1100 pieces and took a year to pick together. If you want to get and experience some of the magic in a mechanical timepiece which actually manage to keep the time may I suggest watching Longitude the TV-series?

Personally I would prefer something which looked awesome though. The mechanic masterpieces cost way to much anyway (towards a million dollars.)

Their problem was that they were running it against Parker Lewis Can't Lose.

I believe he may have been referring to the film Pi, and not the number.

Er, but what are we going to do with all the people who just don't "have" the brains? They get a free ride?

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

In some ways I think we are already there.

It's possible, but I would also wonder why Big Media wouldn't have attempted it. They certainly have the resources, and it's not like they like having their livelihood at the mercy of the self-restraint of a public who are increasingly despising them. If they can find a way to wean themselves off their business model, without taking huge hits to their profitability, I'm sure they would at least investigate it.

Lack of imagination, not wanting to open the door for smaller players to enter, not wanting new artists to bypass them entirely, take your pick.

You now seem to be arguing that the courts should support the MOST profitable business model, rather than just make sure that there is A profitable business model.

Besides, there's no reason why others can't use those systems. As I pointed out before, the existence of copyright does not mandate its use. You can compete with these other business models on even terms. See whether there is a drop in quality and/or quantity (as I would predict) with adopting these older business models, and if there is, see whether people prefer the freedom to the quantity/quality.

There's plenty of reason. The *AA have saturated the channels. Overcoming an old boy network requires large amounts of graft which will not be feasible to a small player in a big market.

That sounds interesting. Do you have a link regarding this?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0480674/bio http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/edison_trust.htm http://books.google.com/books?id=Oe07v8PfSvsC&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246&dq=hollywood+evade+edison&source=bl&ots=PorWHx-5J_&sig=3kcNMzzNoMaGApWxACcQeBOltms&hl=en&ei=FuqHS_aeLI21tgfViMmxDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCMQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=hollywood%20evade%20edison&f=false Search "founding of hollywood" for many many more.

You should read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting as well. It shows why one should be quite wary when any member of the *AA speaks of profits and losses.

[Simple lo-tech solution. I would urge all students] to put a piece of duct or electrical tape over the cam lens.

John McClane: [covering the webcam] You think you can, uh, find a track where he is?
Thomas Gabriel: Detective, covering the camera with your hand does not turn off the microphone.

By the way, splitting a sentence between the subject ant the text is rude.

Ever seen Swordfish? There's a laughably funny attempt at making Hugh Jackman hammering away on a keyboard look sexy and energetic.

"Colossus: The Forbin Project"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own. The scientists scramble to hack into it.

Not if it's Sandra Bullock.

Link.

Buy Lowe.
Sell High School Musical.

Buy Lowe.
Sell High School Musical.

*Yawn* this was already done in Australia in 1986.

Can't the Hungarians come up with anything original?

For an alternate view of a splittable car, see Malcolm .

For the film Malcolm http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091464/

D.A.R.Y.L.

It began way before they were in high school. They got them as preschoolers.

You need to put a television show on aimed at preschoolers. Make it have a fuzzy stuffed bear who helps kids with things they don't know how to do themselves. Make it a "special assignment" for this bear to help the kids.

The kids are told to do X or Y (make their bed, change the lining in their rabbit cage) by themselves with no parent guidance. That's key number 1.

So how does this external agent, this "stuffed bear" change agent, know how to visit the children to help them? How else? A flying ladybug, that conceals a camera in it. The camera flies in the neighborhood, sees the conundrum of the child, deploys the camera and takes some footage. It then flies to a line-of-sight position, and sends the signal to an orbiting satellite, from where it's beamed to the special agent bear's headquarters. His employer then takes him off of whatever he's doing to go help the child with what they want to accomplish. After all, "it's all part of the plan" (we'll make that a tagline of the show, too.)

Farfetched? I don't think so, unfortunately.

I don't think that there was anyone talking about forcing anyone to do anything. In fact no one forced you to argue via reductio ad absurdum, but you did it, anyway. Isn't freedom nice? :)

More seriously, most people could commute less. Many people could do without a computer (or ten). In fact, that's common in Asia, where gamers don't want to waste a bunch of money upgrading constantly. The game room absorbs the cost over many clients. More people could live in apartments or planned housing, which speaks directly to the AC that said he lives 50 miles from work in order to have a large house and yard. Not everyone needs to be Mr. Blandings.

People get to make that choice: I don't want to let them pretend that they had no choice or were required to buy a house or an SUV, unless they were. Most people just want to keep up with the Jones, even if that means going into massive debt, commuting an hour and a half each way, and getting all the massive stress that goes along with those things.

Me? I'll take a condo, a bike, public transportation, no debt, and two years' living money in the bank. It's better for my health. It's better for my future.

Please sell the movie rights to your idea.

Now you've got me thinking... There needs to be a movie, starring Chuck Norris, of course, and a whole slew of people who'll get paid tons of cash due to their notoriety but be left out of the opening credits, where Chuck goes on a non-stop beyond-godlike multinational testosterone-fueled spree of death and pillage, without care for his own safety, in a man-with-nothing-to-lose odyssey to obtain some personally invaluable McGuffin, with obvious spots of intrigue and investigation, HUGE explosions that he just walks out of, and small tactical nukes that he disarms using nothing but his beard, all while his hands are tied behind his back (for the challenge, not because he couldn't break or slip the bonds).

Something like a cross between Taken and 300, only so much manlier that he makes Leonidas look like a pussy.

The world needs more awesome, gripping, extremely manly films that have good plots, and I submit that a decent director and screenwriter need to put Chuck into this role. For all our sakes.

Please sell the movie rights to your idea.

Now you've got me thinking... There needs to be a movie, starring Chuck Norris, of course, and a whole slew of people who'll get paid tons of cash due to their notoriety but be left out of the opening credits, where Chuck goes on a non-stop beyond-godlike multinational testosterone-fueled spree of death and pillage, without care for his own safety, in a man-with-nothing-to-lose odyssey to obtain some personally invaluable McGuffin, with obvious spots of intrigue and investigation, HUGE explosions that he just walks out of, and small tactical nukes that he disarms using nothing but his beard, all while his hands are tied behind his back (for the challenge, not because he couldn't break or slip the bonds).

Something like a cross between Taken and 300, only so much manlier that he makes Leonidas look like a pussy.

The world needs more awesome, gripping, extremely manly films that have good plots, and I submit that a decent director and screenwriter need to put Chuck into this role. For all our sakes.

You think that's bad... Try having a hospital you visited once start sending you bills for completely unrelated inpatient services and bizarre chemotherapy drugs. I had this happen once despite only going to that hospital once to have a mole examined. The hospital started sending the bills to my health insurance, who must have thought I was dying. It took six months to finally convince the hospital that I had never received the services and drugs they were billing me for. I'm thinking there must have been someone else with a similar name or SSN in the system that got confused with me. A real life Brazil experience for sure.

Why? At the risk of quoting John Wayne, war isn't about giving your life for your country - it's about making the other bastard give his life for his.

That was not John Wayne, it was George C. Scott in the movie Patton. The whole quote is "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

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Remembers me of the movie Toys (1992), A military general inherits a toy making company and begins making war toys, and recruiting kids to "play" a war simulation game that was in fact a remote control of the real thing. It took less than ten years to make it happen.

I'm seeing that a bunch of repliers to this opine that Gatto is a candidate for a tinfoil hat. However, I want to push the idea back upstream from the time that you first give up your kid to the state institution. It's too late by then.

What is REALLY needed to make acceptance of this sort of surveillance is to get them when they're preschoolers.

You need to put a television show on aimed at preschoolers. Make it have a fuzzy stuffed bear who helps kids with things they don't know how to do themselves. Make it a "special assignment" for this bear to help the kids.

The kids are told to do X or Y (make their bed, change the lining in their rabbit cage) by themselves with no parent guidance. That's key number 1.

So how does this external agent, this "stuffed bear" change agent, know how to visit the children to help them? How else? A flying ladybug, that conceals a camera in it. The camera flies in the neighborhood, sees the conundrum of the child, deploys the camera and takes some footage. It then flies to a line-of-sight position, and sends the signal to an orbiting satellite, from where it's beamed to the special agent bear's headquarters. His employer then takes him off of whatever he's doing to go help the child with what they want to accomplish. After all, "it's all part of the plan" (we'll make that a tagline of the show, too.)

Farfetched? I don't think so, unfortunately.

A really good documentary that relates to this situation. The Take.

So.. My Little Pony: The Movie is better than Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Avatar? Confirmed.

So.. My Little Pony: The Movie is better than Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Avatar? Confirmed.

So.. My Little Pony: The Movie is better than Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Avatar? Confirmed.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/

Watch this documentary

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/

Imagination? Will Kyle suck Cartman's balls?

Yeah, but the plot (minus potential homo-erotic activities) is at least this old: The NeverEnding Story

There are 3 Riddick movies out already. Pitch Black, Chronicles, and Dark Fury. It is animated but tells the story in between the two others.

No, he's not an experimental scientist. See The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization

Except that Phobos is in Inner Space.

LIES!!! Wikipedia is patently wrong in this case.

It is a well established fact that Innerspace is the area within the human body.

Personally I'd just like people to realize that dropping mentos in coke bottles isn't "doing science". Mythbusters is good as an introduction, as something to draw people's attention to what you can do if you understand the more fundemental nature of things, but Mythbusters in and of itself is not really educational in a meaningful way, and the same would apply for Make. I think that Gothmolly's overall sentiment is the same as a programmer watching hackers. In a way, making science "pop-culture" demeans it. OTOH, the ends justifies the means -- if it gets more kids (and, dare I suggest, adults) interested in science, then it's worth it in the long run.

Listen to us complaining that we don't have flying cars yet. :P

It's because we're afraid of being diddled by a german scientist with a foot fetish.

You will often find that movies with much dialogue and little action are adaptations of plays.

If you like that kind of thing then here's one you might like: Sleuth.

They made a movie about him http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110074/

Star Wars freely stole from^W^W paid homage to everybody. C-3PO is the Maria robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Tattooine is, as you note, Arrakis (they even had what could pass for a sandworm skeleton when the two droids are wandering the desert before being captured by Jawas), Corscant as Trantor. Heck, even the Jedi bear a passing resemblence -- in mission, if not detail -- to Christopher Anvil's Interstellar Patrol (which used advanced tech rather than The Force, and were generally more competent than the Jedi). And that borrowed from Doc Smith's Lensman series. (Indeed, there are similarities between the Lens and The Force. Maybe midichlorians are a kind of micro-Lens.)

You forgot "Hidden Fortress" and Joseph Campbell.

A better example are the films Baby Geniuses and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 which both make it onto the IMDB "worst movies" list. In fact, Superbabies is #1.