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I assume you're offline; you haven't replied in a while. However.

You keep saying "child". A 15-year-old is not a child. A 13 or 14-year-old, now that's debatable. However, this whole preventing kids from growing up trend is what I was originally protesting. People used to get MARRIED at those ages. Now they're treated as if they are children. Sheltered. Protected.

There's absolutely no justification for the claim that a 15-year-old WAS coerced just because she chose to have sex with an adult.

There's a troubling double standard, too. If we hear about a 15-year-old boy who had a relationship with an adult woman, we say "lucky"! But if it's a 15-year-old girl with an adult man, he's a pervert. NO, says I: you're just JEALOUS. Learn to admit it. Seriously.

Besides which, the double standard also projects another implication: sex violates women, sex is solely for the man's pleasure, etc. News flash: Girls can enjoy it too. If the 15-year-old girl enjoyed it, why the fuck are we so high-and-mighty to tell her she's immature and SHE WAS COERCED, DAMN IT – as if we're more capable of making her decisions for her.

I suggest you look up the movie "Smile Pretty". It addresses both the darker and the grayer areas of this topic. However, be forewarned. It's quite graphic.

I don't have first-hand knowledge of your ghoulish 'health'-care system but was disturbed by Michael Moore's (*) 'Sicko'

To those who've seen it, does it seem representative of the US 'health'-care system?

(*) Cue ghoulish howls of 'liberal!'

She looks like Jerry O'Connell with make-up on to me: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm167155968/nm0005278

Can anyone remember a, probably, fictional German movie from maybe thirty years ago that told the story of someone being hounded/murdered(?) by a massive oil conglomerate for producing a non petrol-burning car?

Are you talking about The Formula? It was an american movie, about a secret Nazi formula for turning coal into oil. The whole beginning is set in Nazi Germany, and then later in the film they return to Germany.

Check out "Malcolm":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091464/

You need to go watch the classics...

Spaceballs
Spaceballs Quotes
YouTube - They've Gone Plaid!
YouTube - Ludicrous Speed

E.g, i.e. f*** you!

Hacking into digitally enhanced humans (and robots: androids/gynoids) in the future. Excellent animated SciFi movies.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347246

Hacking into digitally enhanced humans (and robots: androids/gynoids) in the future. Excellent animated SciFi movies.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347246

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target. Magnum Pi in 1984

Chapter one: "The night was humid."

reference shows by year created

"Doctor Who (2005)"
from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/

"Original run Classic series:
23 November 1963
6 December 1989
Television film:
12 May 1996
Current series:
26 March 2005present"
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who

Maybe we'll actually see Mark Hamill in a motion picture again, after all these years! He was pretty fantastic in robot chicken, though.

No, I'm shamelessly ripping off A Few Good Men.

My own opinion is that the world is simply too big and complicated to say that nothing ever needs to be kept secret.

Though I find it hilarious that a movie - a work of fiction - is considered sufficiently important as to be modded 4 - interesting.

At $100 for a reader, who is to say they cant screen job applicants to see if they will have future medical issues and deny them a job (and health insurance).

Who is to say medical insurance wouldnt require such a test, to flag any possible "pre-existing conditions"

Gattaca, here we come

Rejected, plagiarism. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/quotes

[...] I have to say I'm one of those people who deeply resent the invasive fingerprint taking entrance to the USA. It's a shame that stupid border procedures prevent me from visiting an otherwise beautiful country...

Here are some alternative identification methods. I definately prefer the right-most one, since it wouldn't allow for my iris to be used for flashing commercials at me, like in Minority Report, and at the same time it would allow me to accurately convey my opinion about the Border Control.

I would settle for being put to death at 85 to keep population under control, if it meant my bones, mussels and organs didn't age.

I'm reminded of Logan's Run.

"It says 'Romans Go Home'." "No it doesn't!"

"He has a wife, you know..."

Oh, heck, just see here.

Will you idiots please stop prefixing stuff with "cyber"? I know you're trying to make yourselves sound all cool and tech-savvy, but all you're really doing is sounding like someone from a bad 80s sci-fi movie.

Is was 1995. Oh, come on! You liked it. :P

You should watch this movie.

No More Mr. Nice Guy!

The Swordfish Net N102

So if you take a couple Hollywood movies about hackers and that kind of stuff, and shove the names together, voila! Colombian computer.

Personally, I'm holding out for their upcoming Tron Matrix laptop. I hear the graphics are really good.

The Swordfish Net N102

So if you take a couple Hollywood movies about hackers and that kind of stuff, and shove the names together, voila! Colombian computer.

Personally, I'm holding out for their upcoming Tron Matrix laptop. I hear the graphics are really good.

The only reason I knew how to spell it was the magic of IMDB.

[I had to go check because I almost referred to Samuel L Jackson as that guy from Pee-Wee's Playhouse and had to go verify that it was indeed Laurence Fishburne, not Jackson. Sorry Sammy. My bad - It's been a while since I watched that show.]

Rather than having adamantium grafted to his skeleton, Wolverine could have had glass grafted instead.

Man, you couldn't have included a Spoiler Alert? I was just about to start reading the Wolverine comics, but now that I know he's got an adamantium skeleton (thank you very much), I guess I'll just skip it altogether...

Ooh! Just got a M Night Shyamalan movie from Netflix starring that guy from Die Hard and that guy from Snakes on a Plane - Off to watch it!

I believe they meant in Tetsuo . Common misteak.

Here's one.

Imagine the Hollywood scripts that could come from this new material. Rather than having adamantium grafted to his skeleton, Wolverine could have had glass grafted instead. Then, rather than being a badass unstoppable killing machine, he could gimp around on a cane fantasizing himself to be a super villain before Bruce Willis discovers himself to be an unlikely super hero with absolutely no backstory who cannot be broken! We can call the movie "A Tale of Two Unbreakables" and make billiions!. Profit!

Imagine the Hollywood scripts that could come from this new material. Rather than having adamantium grafted to his skeleton, Wolverine could have had glass grafted instead. Then, rather than being a badass unstoppable killing machine, he could gimp around on a cane fantasizing himself to be a super villain before Bruce Willis discovers himself to be an unlikely super hero with absolutely no backstory who cannot be broken! We can call the movie "A Tale of Two Unbreakables" and make billiions!. Profit!

No, but being African, they can spread terror over American cities by killing thousands of people.

Sounds like you're saying "just bad luck is all - they way the law worked out..." but it's not. These cocksuckers and/or others like them paid for these laws. You can't expect the people to go all Dr. Moreau's animals, "oh it's the law so we must obey it". That's bullshit; one needs to take into account how that law came about. The only reason I can consider for bowing before the law is if its ancestry is valid - namely, everyone with an opinion gets to contribute to the process of lawmaking. The abomination we have at the moment isn't a match for that situation.

I think you're talking about Distant Origin, which is a Voyager episode. Part of the episode involved a "projection" of evolution, starting with a bipedal dinosaur and ending with the creature in the episode. Completely ridiculous, of course; evolution doesn't have a goal and can't possibly be fast-forwarded. This misconception of evolution also appears in the episode where Tom Paris travels at warp 10 and "evolves" into a giant slug.

Someone should arrange an appointment for him with Léon. I hear he's pretty good.

I have already seen this being deployed by the Blue Thunder helicopter. Way back in the 80s.

Children of Men fits great this time.

Finch? Is that you?

Or you all get jobs as bricklayers.

I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!

Forgot the cite.

Years ago there was a film with this exact premise. An offbeat scientist (Jeff Goldblum) invents the first artificial heart, and a cardiologist (Donald Sutherland) installs it to save a patient's life. The patient becomes anxious because her pulse has been replaced with a constant shshshshshsh sound. The film was Threshold (1981).

As kids we loved watching viking movies , here's our favorite The Vikings, an talked about how that was the way to go. Unfortunately I couldn't find enough flaming arrow archers, so to Plan B.

Discipline is an important aspect of education.

Headmaster [leading the school in prayer]: "Oh Lord, we give thee humble and hearty thanks for this, thy gift of discipline, knowing that it is only through the constraints of others that we come to know ourselves, and only through true misery can we find true contentment." - from Tomkinson's Schooldays, a Ripping Yarn by Michael Palin & Terry Jones http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075568/

Buhler?

Seriously? Is this the movie you are referencing? You're either really old, really young, or are privy to some joke I'm unaware of. If it's the last, then well played.

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni1029429/ Due to Disney firing Dick Cook (insert childish joke here), Depp has left the "Pirates" franchise. The Pirate Party should recruit him.

I want an autonomous robot which hunts down lying politicians and ass-rapes them. For reference, that includes their conspirators at Fox News and NBC and the like.

Would you settle for a semiautomomous killer robot that has angry sex with a midsized car? Might not be exactly what you want, but it'll be a good start...

If they'd of used Christine, the outcome may have been a lot different.

They cut self-repairing feature from the video. Apparently, the IIHS isn't ready to accept that cars kill people, people kill people.

There are a number of sources of evidence that many top executives today have little scruples and perhaps less intelligence.

You don't think the recent worldwide financial collapse began from the bottom up do you?

Wow
Watching that crash porn really got my engine revved.
For some reason I feel compelled to have sex with Holly Hunter now.

So they should tell you to shut your eyes before the nuclear bomb goes off, I presume.

Too young to remember Duck And Cover, eh? Part of the 'air raid drills' I lived through in the early 60's (pre-JFK assassination) included the teachers telling us to NOT look out the windows.

Or dead! I remember this movie!

Ahhh, fuck me raw with a chainsaw.

I thought it was "Fuck me gently with a chainsaw".

Somebody told me once that for any kinda perversion you can think up, somebody on the Internet already has a newsgroup about it. So, that being said, how can I subscribe to your newsletter?