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Been done.

That last 1% is very, very nasty.
Ever seen this? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090094/

Huh? Are we thinking of the same movie?

If you're still talking about the movie "Falling Down", then yes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/plotsummary

The guy went crazy at the burger joint on his way to kill his wife and daughter at her birthday party. The cop (Prendergast) tries to talk him down but ends up having to kill him. It's about a guy who loses his job and his family and snaps. It has funny moments but it's a very dark film.

it's already been used to scrutinize helicopter pilots and Philly cab drivers

This sounds a lot like the plot of the movie Conspiracy Theory where Mel Gibson plays a paranoid cab driver who publishes a newsletter of various conspiracy theories jumbled together from random public sources (this was before the age of blogs) and is chased by personnel from a shadowy government agency in black SUVs and helicopters (ala the USSS).

Ask, and ye shall receive... Salvage

Would Crimson Tide be less disturbing? In that movie, the crew nearly nuked Russia because they couldn't get the encrypted signal.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/

It can still end like this...

I don't think there's a legal way to obtain the movie, so you know where to look for it... If you really think you want to. It's not something you can unsee.

Sadly, the modern American brain contains a short circuit that associates any mention of "Korea" with images of "puppet sex". Adding "South" to "Korea" doesn't overcome this effect. It's all Kim Jong Il territory to US. Amuhrrikuh, fuck yeah.

Reminds me of another movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/

That reminds me of a scene in one of my favorite movies. Michael Douglas takes a fast food joint hostage because the burger doesn't look like the picture ;)

"Turn around. Look at that picture. It's big, it's juicy, it's three inches thick. Now look at this sorry sad squashed thing. What's wrong here? Can anybody tell me? Anybody at all?"

I can agree with you on this topic. Falling Down was a great picture about a guy pushed just a little too far and his vengeful but hopeless Odyssey to get back what he's lost. Definitely a guilty pleasure to watch, sort of like A Shock to the System a rung or two down the social status ladder. It helps that I was looking for work as an engineer when this movie came out just as the cold war wound down. It's sort of The Swimmer, except with RPGs.

That reminds me of a scene in one of my favorite movies. Michael Douglas takes a fast food joint hostage because the burger doesn't look like the picture ;)

"Turn around. Look at that picture. It's big, it's juicy, it's three inches thick. Now look at this sorry sad squashed thing. What's wrong here? Can anybody tell me? Anybody at all?"

And the movie for which it was the soundtrack is pretty mindblowing too.

You may want to add a movie to your Netflix queue, because I think you may be missing something :)

a documentary which showed a dutch guy who had Parkinson's disease (I think) before and after taking MDMA (XTC). The difference was day and night: before he couldn't stop shaking, afterwards he had enough control over his body to do gymnastics

I think that "documentary" was called Austin Powers: Goldmember.

Oh I agree that it's like Pascal's wager, but that's more of a bad thing than you'd think. Granted, I've never raised a kid so I don't know how difficult any of this is, but the Pascal's wager logic is just weird.

Yes, Pascal's wager is a decent justification for being religious but it proposes a pretty terrible way to get into a spiritual life, as a way of basically covering your ass in case God exists. It's basically the tattoo on the ass of the "Archbishop" in Johnny English: "Jesus is coming - look busy." Sure, you end up with a lot of people going to church, but they're going 'just in case,' rather than honestly believing that God is someone who should be praised. It's a lousy excuse for showing up to mass, and you'd probably be better off concentrating on being a decent, moral, secular person than faking that you believe in God, however well you manage to halfway convince yourself.

Same thing with this watch. I mean a protection "just in case" your child gets abducted sounds great, but it's also a lousy excuse for not teaching your child to think about what they're doing when a stranger in a van offers them candy, or , or just in general. Sure, you end up with a lot of parents feeling safe about their children, but it's because they trust some strange device they're paying a monthly fee for, not because they trust their actual child, and which would you rather trust, some company called Lok8r, or your own offspring?

Plus, there's plenty of technical reasons why this is a terrible idea. Ignoring the very real possibility for someone other than you to track your kid, you're saying you can't think of a way for someone to get the watch off without "forcibly removing" it in the ways they've come up with? I can, and they're more horrifying than a simple abduction.

> Exactly. like karate lessons. How about teaching your kid how to defend themselves,
> along with all the goodness that comes with learning a discipline and being able to
> utterly kick the crap out of the playground bullies.

Um... So how does this address the little people getting abducted or lost? Even if they were 2nd degree black belts, it's not like they have the mass to defend themselves against most adults. Sounds like somebody has watched Ninja Kids one time too many.

(BTW: I am enrolling both my toddlers in karate when they're old enough, but mostly for the discipline and a physical outlet.)

Having a surefire way to get at that back catalog would be highly important. The real key is getting business to focus on marketing in "long tail" manner. Something like Netflix is interesting because they are a business that really pays no penalty for keeping extra DVDs in the warehouse.... but how do they get people interested in WATCHING them.

You *don't.*

Star Wars and Indiana Jones are rightly bargain-bin items. That's because everyone has seen them in every imaginable permutation (in theaters, on re-release, on TV, on cable, on VHS, etc.)

The "long tail" has nothing to do with age. It has to do with obscurity. Titles like Bigger Stronger Faster (a recent documentary about steroids) or God's Sandbox (an Israeli film about tribal female circumcision) are better examples of the long tail. Or quality Anime imports. Or Adult Swim's output. Or foreign-language films.

Netflix has great ways of promoting obscure titles. Which is why I've seen the two that I mentioned.

Having a surefire way to get at that back catalog would be highly important. The real key is getting business to focus on marketing in "long tail" manner. Something like Netflix is interesting because they are a business that really pays no penalty for keeping extra DVDs in the warehouse.... but how do they get people interested in WATCHING them.

You *don't.*

Star Wars and Indiana Jones are rightly bargain-bin items. That's because everyone has seen them in every imaginable permutation (in theaters, on re-release, on TV, on cable, on VHS, etc.)

The "long tail" has nothing to do with age. It has to do with obscurity. Titles like Bigger Stronger Faster (a recent documentary about steroids) or God's Sandbox (an Israeli film about tribal female circumcision) are better examples of the long tail. Or quality Anime imports. Or Adult Swim's output. Or foreign-language films.

Netflix has great ways of promoting obscure titles. Which is why I've seen the two that I mentioned.

[..] predicting who might be a terrorist to the likelihood a person is happy, fat, liberal, or conservative.

Or? And an exclusive one too! You could as well go to the cave and bang on a piece of wood, "blarg good! wuoargh baad! ughwharrk!". You wouldn't stand out a bit.

Here, in the world of 21st century Homo sapiens sapiens, we aware of simple basic playschool-level facts, like that
1. Every property is a dimension in property space.
2. Every dimension has a gradient. (Possibly quantized on the Planck level of space-time, depending on what theories you believe in.)
3. If the properties are not exactly opposite to each other (making them one dimension with negative values), they are not exactly opposite.
4. The state of every position on every dimension may or may not be relative to any of the other positions of the other dimensions in property space, depending on their orthogonality.

My god, is this that hard to understand?

— Sheldon Cooper

Not the least of which is "The Darwin Awards."

--
Toro

Hardly Many other docu-dramas have been done by Hollywood about the other missions as well, although Apollo 13 certainly had a gripping story that is worth retelling in cinema.

Even earlier missions have made major theatrical releases from Hollywood as well. I don't think it is the fault for getting the message out. Perhaps not paying attention to this stuff when it does come out, but that isn't the same thing.

Hardly Many other docu-dramas have been done by Hollywood about the other missions as well, although Apollo 13 certainly had a gripping story that is worth retelling in cinema.

Even earlier missions have made major theatrical releases from Hollywood as well. I don't think it is the fault for getting the message out. Perhaps not paying attention to this stuff when it does come out, but that isn't the same thing.

Hardly Many other docu-dramas have been done by Hollywood about the other missions as well, although Apollo 13 certainly had a gripping story that is worth retelling in cinema.

Even earlier missions have made major theatrical releases from Hollywood as well. I don't think it is the fault for getting the message out. Perhaps not paying attention to this stuff when it does come out, but that isn't the same thing.

Hardly Many other docu-dramas have been done by Hollywood about the other missions as well, although Apollo 13 certainly had a gripping story that is worth retelling in cinema.

Even earlier missions have made major theatrical releases from Hollywood as well. I don't think it is the fault for getting the message out. Perhaps not paying attention to this stuff when it does come out, but that isn't the same thing.

Microsoft Vs Malware writers is like Megashark vs Octopus. In the end they both will destroy eachother so lets rejoice at this battle both sides will not win.

...they discovered the "dead ant" smell that would signal the colony that "this one is dead, go put it on the pile." When they put the scent on a live ant, the other ants would carry it off to the pile, ignoring the fact that it was squirming the whole way there...

Later made into a major motion picture.

It's actually Bullshit! Er... the blind taste test you saw was probably on the Organic Foods episode in the show Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, that is ;)

Wrong, all this plastic was going to be made into NEW plastics....

Some plastics don't recycle into other plastics well. Plus, a lot of people look at a recycle bin and trash can, and don't feel the urge to recycle if it just becomes plastic again. But announce that recycled plastics will be made into OIL and people will start recycling like crazy.

Unrelated: This thread reminded me of this cartoon: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037181/ http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/1944/plasticsinventor.html

Often RV'ers are gone for long periods of time.

Matthew McConaughey apparently spends most of the year doing just that.

He's claimed on several talk shows that it's "tricked out" with lots of communications gear. Hardly a geek's role model, but I'd like to think the article submitter may be able to find lots on Google given his celebrity status.

As an Italian, I can tell you have avoided the crimes-ridden areas (though you were savvy enough to dodge the tourist traps). Naples, for example, is not Bogotá, but is proceeding in that direction; in fact, the local mafia (camorra) is routinely dumping toxic waste in landfills for a business, much similarly to what the 'ndrangheta did in this case.

There are differences between the main mafias: the Sicilian one (the "original" mafia) is structured and hierarchical. In a Sicilian village you can leave the keys in your car, and no one will steal it. However, sometimes when you turn the key the car may explode, if you irritated the wrong person or asked the wrong questions.

'Ndrangheta, in Calabria, is family-based (meaning blood-tied). Small groups with internal hierarchy, but no comprehensive power structure.

The one most dangerous for your immediate safety is camorra (Campania), clan-based and very violent. There was recently a nice film about it. Being pickpocketed in Naples is almost part of the tourist experience, but recently drive-by's have appeared.

To get a good impression of 'Ndrangheta's involvement with toxic waste, go see Gomorra

And to see the possible effects of their involvement with toxic waste, go see Gamera.

To get a good impression of 'Ndrangheta's involvement with toxic waste, go see Gomorra

And to see the possible effects of their involvement with toxic waste, go see Gamera.

To get a good impression of 'Ndrangheta's involvement with toxic waste, go see Gomorra. Excellent movie, even though it is somewhat depressing to realize that is based on reality.

Movicus Berateicus?

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1888197888/tt0213248

We nerds were shunned as parias and only started getting respect when computers started getting popular with non-nerds.

... but only until we fix their computer and reprogram their VCR/remote, then we get sent back to the basement.

What?! No mention of the free crackers-and-mustard/catsup sandwiches?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756891/quotes
Not quoted verbatim but somewhat on topic I'd say.

Wow. I am immediately going to apply for a national science foundation grant to recreate the historic travels of Hunter S Thompson.

No problem. If someone hates ads, and still does not use an ad-blocker, he's a retard anyway, and deserves it for being so lazy. ^^
I guess those people then will become the Fritos and secretaries of state of tomorrow.

Sounds a lot like buzzword bingo to me.

You know, for some kind of consumers buzzwords help in sales.

This is the theme for the movie Sneakers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

Yes, but being able to hammer a 6-inch spike into a board with your penis has its benefits.

Whoa. Sorry. Kinda lost it there for a moment.

I'm much better now.

Let me rephrase.

If Ron Perlman gets cast in this movie, I'm gunna fucking scream. If he gets cast as anyone but a PREVIOUSLY-TURNED-TO-STONE TROLL, I'm gunna start fuckin' shootin' people...

Check out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/ Ron Perlman rumoured to be in the movie...! Dare I say "Eeeeeek!"

Pan's Labyrinth sucked.

Like The Hobbit it was slow, depressing, and uninspired. The fantasy sequences were too short to draw in the audience. It was a ripoff of The People Under the Stairs that catered to dirty old men in trench coats who enjoy watching pre-pubescent girls scamper in their skivvies for 2 hours. It's a Hounddog for fantasy fans.

Pan's Labyrinth sucked.

Like The Hobbit it was slow, depressing, and uninspired. The fantasy sequences were too short to draw in the audience. It was a ripoff of The People Under the Stairs that catered to dirty old men in trench coats who enjoy watching pre-pubescent girls scamper in their skivvies for 2 hours. It's a Hounddog for fantasy fans.

Guillermo del Toro: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868219/

Director of Mimic, Blade 2, Hellboy, Hellboy 2, and Pan's Labyrinth.

I'm quite happy with him as director of The Hobbit as his body of work is excellent. And, yes, it will have a vastly different feel from the LotR trilogy. And that's not a bad thing given his vision for fantasy/faerie tales is beautiful.

The simple truth is that nuclear power is good technology that solves a variety of sticky problems. Anti-nuclear propaganda films irrationally scared the public in to rejecting a highly beneficial and useful method of power generation. With the passage of years, the public has come to the realization that the sky isn't falling and that a modern, safe nuclear power system is good economics and good social policy. We should celebrate this return to sanity: it's reason triumphing over irrational fear.

So, this is a case of US prevailing over Them?

He was refering to this actually. Great episode...

Yes, yes, model rockets are very nice, but lets see you put one in orbit :)

They're a stepping stone. Which is why I find it ironic a high school an hour's drive from where the Space Shuttle as well as a lot of rockets are launched didn't have a model rocketry club but a high school thousands of miles from the nearest launch facility did.

What I really want to see is the manned version of Dragon.

What Dragon? I hadn't heard of it before. Is it the SpaceX Dragon? I found that by searching wiki for space dragon and it was on the first page.

Oh, space salvage reminds me of Andy Griffith's late '70s TV series "Salvage". If you don't know it he stars as a junkyard owner who builds a space ship, if I recall right the capsule was a cement mixer, to salvage space junk.

Falcon

Maybe not yet...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027131/