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im sorry. I have to say it:
Don't you mean LDS?

... my predilections for some Cowboy guy...

A lot of folk here think that's a /. reference.

That may not be the case.

That would be phase II of IV.

Whatever you do, skip the yellow, it's no good.

Maybe you're thinking of this episode. A dime to retire.

Where Porky finds a motel that charges 10c a night. Alas Daffy the motel manager releases a mouse and charges $50 to release a cat. Then $50 for a dog and so on untill Daffy brings the mouse back to get rid of the elephant.

Can't find the episode on youtube but saw it a few months ago and it was still hilarious.

* "You wanna buy some weed?"

Got any dandelions?

* "If you'll give me $20, I'll give you head."

Already got the head. I just need to decide between a body or a frameset.

* "If you can come up with a porno starring a 6 year old, I'll pay you $250."

I'll see if Jennifer Lien will reprise her role as Kes.

* "If you'll shoot my wife, I'll give you $500."

Will that be with a regular or a telephoto lens?

* "You wanna buy some weed?"

Got any dandelions?

* "If you'll give me $20, I'll give you head."

Already got the head. I just need to decide between a body or a frameset.

* "If you can come up with a porno starring a 6 year old, I'll pay you $250."

I'll see if Jennifer Lien will reprise her role as Kes.

* "If you'll shoot my wife, I'll give you $500."

Will that be with a regular or a telephoto lens?

I think that before that, The Omnivores Dilemma and In Defense of Food should be read. Also, watch Super Size Me. I can honestly say that I don't like the idea of ingesting chemicals that are designed to fool my sense of taste, something that has been honed over thousands of years to identify food my body needs...

...don't buy this Bond - I wasted 10 quid on the DVD and it's rubbish!

"...but keep your finger out of my ass and your scanner away from my brain."

That first one has already been and gone. You could be hiding pirated films up there!

The Hole indeed.

such ads work so the majority of people must less intelligent than yourself

Not necessarily. Perhaps it's so much easier to sell things to extremely stupid people that advertisers always target their ads at them.

I haven't heard of a basketball in space since Hardware Wars!

If there were millions of cameras, how many analysts would be needed to go through the videos? People have been watching too many movies

Overall, I'd say surveillance cameras are much like guns, only less lethal. Yes, they can be used for bad things. Should we outlaw them? No. Just have a reasonable control over them, alway keeping in mind that they aren't guns, you don't need as much camera control as you need gun control.

People who hate or fear cameras have never lived in a bad neighborhood. I lived in Colombia for a few years when I was a kid. I was mugged in daylight in an upper middle class neighborhood getting home from school when I was nine years old.

Big brother doesn't scare me. I'd rather have the right to walk fearlessly through the streets that my taxes maintain.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/

Agreed. I went with a group of 15, made up of mixed company of 20-somethings that ranged from fans of the show(s) to people who had never seen an episode of any of the different series. Everyone in the group loved it, and about half already have plans to see it again (also split between the established show fans and the n00bs). I remember JJ Abrams advising purists to stay home as they would likely be the most disappointed, which seems to be true from many of the reviews I have seen. If you come to it with an open mind and an understanding that it's not a carbon copy of TOS, it can be a totally enjoyable experience.

Wolverine imdb=6.9
Star Trek imdb=8.6

Those unfamiliar with IMDB scores might think that is pretty close, but it isn't. Star Trek is nearing Dark Knight territory (8.9), whereas Wolverine is closer to the X-Files=6.8 (and I mean X-Files, not the first X-Men=7.4)

Wolverine imdb=6.9
Star Trek imdb=8.6

Those unfamiliar with IMDB scores might think that is pretty close, but it isn't. Star Trek is nearing Dark Knight territory (8.9), whereas Wolverine is closer to the X-Files=6.8 (and I mean X-Files, not the first X-Men=7.4)

Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB would seem to disagree with your friends. As would I: I think this is the best Star Trek movie I've seen (and I've seen them all). Wolverine was a vaguely entertaining but ultimately shallow and formulaic popcorn flick. Star Trek has breathed life into what seemed to many a dead franchise.

The IMDB already has it listed as #62 of the top 250 movies of all time.

The movie was awesome. It had enough trekkiness to satisfy the trekkies, and it was good enough to satisfy the non-trekkies. Amazingly, I have found more in the closet trekkies than I ever imagined, including my 60 yr old mother-in-law. Unfortunately, I now have dreams involving a remake of the movie Shaun of the Dead starring James Doohan

"At his request, as an act of good faith in pursuing these alternatives, we discontinued initiating new lawsuits in August."

Yes, and that they stated they beat their wives in earnest doesn't mean that they went to camp, or jail...

(Or, good God I didn't know they made so many, school, or africa, or splash mountain, or the window...)

"At his request, as an act of good faith in pursuing these alternatives, we discontinued initiating new lawsuits in August."

Yes, and that they stated they beat their wives in earnest doesn't mean that they went to camp, or jail...

(Or, good God I didn't know they made so many, school, or africa, or splash mountain, or the window...)

Where is the interaction between prime numbers and the praxeology of buying and selling securities?

The interaction is: if you find a relationship between pi and the behavior of the stock market, you will eventually wind up drilling a hole in your head. (source)

One of my cult favorites is the movie The Fifth Element. There are several great scenes in the tiny, but ingeniously-design "maximized space" apartment that the hero Corbin Dallas lives in.

The fridge descended into the floor and revealed a shower stall. The bed worked as a previous poster noted in a English flat, half-way out==couc, all-the-way-out==bed. Everything was stored in wall spaces.

Reminds me of this:

Dizzy: My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything.
Jean Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that.
[to Carmen]
Jean Rasczak: You.
Carmen: They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed.
Jean Rasczak: Correct. Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst.

To gp: Yes.

"Xiph" is actually from the Greek [encoding issues] (sword) by way of 'Xiphophorus' (sword-bearing, pseudolatin?) from the genus name of a fish (Xiphophorus helleri).

Googling for "Xiphophorus helleri" gives me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_swordtail which says genus=Xiphophorus, species=helleri.

So it's a fish with a sword---a swordfish.

Which is also a great movie (if somewhat cheesy). One of the characters is a Finn (not a fin!) named Torvalds; there's also some crypto going on, with the mandatory bogus terminology, some people blowing each other up, and Halle Berry's naked tits! ;)

imdb entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/

Might that have inspired Xiph?

I understand Caprica has started. Might be closer to what you're looking for. I haven't seen it, but I've heard it has practically no special effects, just a bunch of people talking.

I was about to say the same thing - this is actually a pretty well known incident

No kidding. And the movie Kelly's Heroes was true too. I mean, seriously - can't anyone do some research on WWII? It was a pretty well known incident.

The above post was stolen from an IMDB comment. Scroll down and you'll see that Smidge207's post is practically identical to the Star Trek comment except for the references to gay sex and homosexuality. Smidge207's "reviews" are always plagiarized and should be modded down. The other review that he posted in this thread was taken from a Rotten Tomatoes user.

So in a battle of Big Ass Spiders and Big Ass Cane Toads, who wins? Both have poison...

I'm guessing you're refering to Black Sheep, which should be on the top of everyone's netflix queue, but I think this situation more merits a call to William "Rack Hanson" Shattner.

I'm guessing you're refering to Black Sheep, which should be on the top of everyone's netflix queue, but I think this situation more merits a call to William "Rack Hanson" Shattner.

Them?

It's a Giant Spider Invasion of Savings at Menards! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762893/

Police then discovered Lutes' car, with a computer repair sticker on the door, was seen parked in front of the office on the night of the break-in.

Reminds me of that fantastic Christopher Walken quote from True Romance.

Cocotti: They snatched my narcotics, and high-tailed it outta there. They would've got away with it, but your son, f**khead that he is, left HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE in the dead guy's hand.

It's not the only western movie about Stalingrad.

Awaiting 5 votes.

More importantly, is there a torrent of this film? I highly doubt it will be coming to a theater near me anytime before The Singularity itself.

I remember one episode of 7 Days involved a cure for cancer having been found, but what they didn't know was that there was a long term side effect to the cure that reared an ugly head 15 years later when it wiped out 80% of the population or something.

This is also the premise behind I Am Legend, except instead of wiping out the human population, it turned them into crazed monsters.

Yep.

Actually I was paraphrasing from the TV series "Dinosaurs". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101081/ In that episode, the dinosaurs tried to remove everything from TV that was offensive to anyone and someone opined that he was offended by the name "Sue", so a the newscasters could no longer call each other by name.

Max Headroom did it. Season 1, episode 5: "War" had new staff reporter Janie Crane using an RR-7 camera gun. Camera lens was plugged into an interface at the end of the barrel, used for long-distance surveillance.

I'm pretty certain I've seen a film where that was the plot.

Federal agents used a video camera to sneak a weapon into a hostage situation in True Lies.

First line of the fourth paragraph in the Wikipedia entry on corporations:

"Despite not being natural persons, corporations are recognized by the law to have rights and responsibilities like actual people."

Basically, corporations have rights like an individual, so really, some corporate lawyer could find a sleazy way of misusing this.

I also suggest watching The Corporation.

Also, get off my lawn. Damn kids. And if you ball lands in my yard again, you're not getting it back.

Real men use a M1 Garand to keep the kids off their lawn ;)

Real men use use this. And just so it's not offtopic I compare the two. Google is massive and can do anything, alpha may be useful in some circumstances.

Also, get off my lawn. Damn kids. And if you ball lands in my yard again, you're not getting it back.

Real men use a M1 Garand to keep the kids off their lawn ;)

More importantly, if you're willing to pay 20,000 for a bottle of whiskey, you're never going to be drinking it.

Actually, you might, under the right circumstances.

Perhaps it happened when the nerds realized that now and then, a masterpiece of art appears among all those boobies and tentacles. :-)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/

Sounds like the plot to Office Space but in reverse order.

Moss grows fat on a rolling stone, but that's not how it used to be.

Think about this. Demolition Man was released 16 years ago. As much as I liked the movie, and as much as it remains as topical and entertaining as ever, in the meantime so many other good movies were produced that to simply focus on one good movie over the years is to miss out on everything else.

Bye bye, Miss American Pie.

There's a pretty funny film with an exaggerated version of this sort of thing as a backstory: The Adjuster.

...not another international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!

Uh, err... damn. That's the last time I post to /. after tasting our latest hooch production.

I meant They Live. Watched both movies back-to-back a few weeks ago, probably why I confused the two. 'They Live' is about space aliens who live hidden among us, aliens who came to earth to colonize it and us, because they view earth as a "developing planet." The key part is that they look just like us - unless you're wearing special optics, made for seeing their true image.

So... what exactly is an "avatar," in the context of story you retold us all...?