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Return of the Killer Tomatoes was George Clooney's best work..

Hollywood could make a whole movies based just on that monster and the "time-eater" concept.

Somewhat done.

Firefox, an early 80s film starring Clint Eastwood who is sent to steal a Russian thought-controlled jet.

No fair! You're eliminating the symptom of their fear of Santa Claus.

Female voice: "Linux. Just like a Mac, but Free".

I'm thinking something more along the lines of PC = Natale Portman at the beginning of V for Vendetta, and Linux is her about 3/4 of the way through.

I never actually saw that, I was thinking of this film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111218/ where Quentin Tarantino explains how Top Gun is a movie with blatant amounts of homosexuality.

I wonder when we're going to hear about the alien that escaped?! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433883/

Kate and Leopold

I've never got the Seinfeld thing. [...]

I'd have to say, don't bother. His show was based off his stand-up. Simply put, it's comedy by observation. He see's something odd and then mentions it. For example, He see's sky divers wearing helmets and asks: "What's the point? Is a helmet going to save your life when falling out of the sky? Really?" Then he turns that into an even funnier (by some people's tastes) simple comment. It's sort of a "funny because it's true" scenario.

Most of the TV show was based off this premise then expanded by the writing crew. Perhaps something you might find more interesting is not Jerry Seinfeld's comedy but how incredibly tough the guy has it and how he's become the victim of his own success. There's a great documentary showing this called Comedian. You see Jerry get up on stage just after the end of his series and people laugh at every stupid thing he says (even when it's not a joke). Then you see him sweat bullets as he totally fails at remembering any of his jokes and the crowd just gets sort of shocked.

The documentary is a little dull (particularly considering when it's about comedians) but there are some pretty true parts in it.

Woosh.

It was a Monty Python quote ("what have the Romans done for us") from The Life of Brian. You can all hand in your geek license at the door on your way out.

Woosh.

It was a Monty Python quote ("what have the Romans done for us") from The Life of Brian. You can all hand in your geek license at the door on your way out.

Granted, not many dogs in it, so if that's for real, the scheme is not as lucrative as collecting parking tickets.

This reminds me a little of the film Brainstorm where they invent a device to record & playback sensations (audio/video/taste/touch/smell), but like any new & wonderful invention the military see what use they can use it for and develop recordings to torture people with.

I submit to you that the reason to be optimistic is that you now live in the most enlightened times known to man. The fact that we are having this conversation over a matter of hours despite us living a world apart is one aspect of these times.

You can point to various current developments and call them signals of the End. But people have been pointing to supposed signs of the End throughout recorded history. Indeed, mankind's collective history does contain plenty examples of decay. Yet here we stand today.

When I was growing up, people knew that the end of the world was neigh; it would end in a nuclear fireball. This is reflected in popular culture (Dr. Strangelove, WarGames, The Day After, Missile Command). In a Cold War era, it was hard to maintain optimism. I even grew up to be stationed in Germany - part of the preparation for when your country was the battleground between NATO and the Warsaw Pact for Europe. And so I was there when the Berlin Wall fell. And here we stand today; The End still a distant fear.

As for hope - that's the nature of things. You can never be sure. You can't know until you've been tested. But we can prepare. We can be vigilant. And we can hope when, not if, we are tested we stand.

I submit to you that the reason to be optimistic is that you now live in the most enlightened times known to man. The fact that we are having this conversation over a matter of hours despite us living a world apart is one aspect of these times.

You can point to various current developments and call them signals of the End. But people have been pointing to supposed signs of the End throughout recorded history. Indeed, mankind's collective history does contain plenty examples of decay. Yet here we stand today.

When I was growing up, people knew that the end of the world was neigh; it would end in a nuclear fireball. This is reflected in popular culture (Dr. Strangelove, WarGames, The Day After, Missile Command). In a Cold War era, it was hard to maintain optimism. I even grew up to be stationed in Germany - part of the preparation for when your country was the battleground between NATO and the Warsaw Pact for Europe. And so I was there when the Berlin Wall fell. And here we stand today; The End still a distant fear.

As for hope - that's the nature of things. You can never be sure. You can't know until you've been tested. But we can prepare. We can be vigilant. And we can hope when, not if, we are tested we stand.

I submit to you that the reason to be optimistic is that you now live in the most enlightened times known to man. The fact that we are having this conversation over a matter of hours despite us living a world apart is one aspect of these times.

You can point to various current developments and call them signals of the End. But people have been pointing to supposed signs of the End throughout recorded history. Indeed, mankind's collective history does contain plenty examples of decay. Yet here we stand today.

When I was growing up, people knew that the end of the world was neigh; it would end in a nuclear fireball. This is reflected in popular culture (Dr. Strangelove, WarGames, The Day After, Missile Command). In a Cold War era, it was hard to maintain optimism. I even grew up to be stationed in Germany - part of the preparation for when your country was the battleground between NATO and the Warsaw Pact for Europe. And so I was there when the Berlin Wall fell. And here we stand today; The End still a distant fear.

As for hope - that's the nature of things. You can never be sure. You can't know until you've been tested. But we can prepare. We can be vigilant. And we can hope when, not if, we are tested we stand.

I'm surprised a movie hasn't been made about him.

Not sure if you were kidding with that line, but a movie was made about him.

The Flying Scotsman

It was!

Are you refering to the Disney movie that Doglas Adams wrote the screenplay for?

OK, first, Adams didn't work in a vacuum or finish the screenplay himself, what with being dead and all. Second, why does everyone assume that the potential for that movie to suck, to miss the point of the original books, etc. is inversely proportional to the extent of Adams's involvement in the project? I don't care if they held a seance to get Adams to review the script before they started shooting - the movie has real problems. And a few high points, but mostly just a lot of problems.

Are you refering to the Disney movie that Doglas Adams wrote the screenplay for?

I think there was a documentary on this subject.

So you're saying they don't even know what they're requiring us to agree to?

Am I going to find myself dropped into a deadly puzzle cube someday?

Admittedly the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline was, would the average American fit in a Fiesta? The only redeeming feature of the film Loch Ness was the scene where Ted Danson tries to squeeze himself into one of the 80s/early 90s models (which admittedly were a lot smaller than the current models).

I thought it meant she murdered someone by forcing them to watch Brainscan...

In GP's hypothetical scenario, skin colour wouldn't either.

I don't understand where you get that idea from. Perhaps you can explain it a little more.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=960885&cid=24961545: "If tomorrow someone developed a method as easy and cheap as hair dye to change your skin colour..."

It shouldn't matter that they are white or black, they shouldn't have to pretend to become the other for a job or anything that others enjoy freely.

Actors for movie characters are chosen based (at least partly) on their race all the time. You want to be the guy telling a producer "No, sorry, you can't specify that this character has to be played by a white actor... that's racist"? How exactly would you attempt to cast "White Chicks"?

As far as "ethnicity" vs. "race" goes, I really don't understand why you brought that distinction up in the first place.

The first thing that came to mind when I read the headline:

All right. We're gonna do this the scanner way. I'm gonna suck your brain dry! Everything you are is gonna become me. You're gonna be with me Cameron, no matter what. After all, brothers should be close, don't you think?

She wouldn't be the first one.

business plan

"The world must think England is a country of Evil Geniuses and Super Spies. Oh, and drunk effeminate pirates."

Johhny Depp grew up in the USA you insensitive clod!

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/TECH/09/11/immersive.cocoon/art.cocoon1.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2894960128/tt0091064

fellacious (GNAP) Intercourse, PA - Windows Vista appears to finally be taking off, at least within one Fortune 100 company. The GNAA had for the past 13 years been using Red Hat Linux and it's successor, Fedora Core, but growing discontent with the free software operating system forced CTO Jmax to declare on Wednesday that the company was to be switching its entire infrastructure to the new version of Windows, effective immediately. "I'm not going to theatrically claim that I wasn't expecting to have to do this," Jmax said. "This has been coming for quite some time." The GNAA's troubles with Red Hat's Linux system included chronic governance problems, a persistent failure to maintain key repositories, a complex and undocumented submission process which has kept the GNAA's free trolling utilities off the Red Hat-based desktops of thousands of would-be trolls, inability to keep RPM up to date, and a failure to address the problem of Firefox not crashing a entire computer when the user loads Last Measure. "The deal-breaker, though, was when a key Last Measure server remained down for four hours while our entire Intercourse development team tried desperately to bring it up despite not having statically-linked package manager binaries." What had happened was Dikky, visiting from Norway, wanted to play the child pornography mod of Doom 3 on that server- which had to drag several libraries with it. "In addition," said Jmax, "several key software applications used in the GNAA's corporate workflow are proprietary software- which means that they had to be run in an Ubuntu compatibility environment anyway." However, being as those unnamed applications were written in C#.NET, "We expect that our transition to Windows Vista will come off without a hitch."

About Jmax:

The CTO of the GNAA, Jmax also has a seat on Microsoft's board of directors. His resume can be accessed at http://goatse.fr/.

About Windows Vista:

The fastest-growing desktop operating system on the market, Windows Vista combines the legendary security of Windows 98 with the legendary ease of use of those computer interfaces you see in the movies into one ultra-fast, ultra-stable computing platform.

About Red Hat:

A failure of a computer company, Red Hat burns through investor money while giving its products away for free. It is currently under investigation from the SEC for misuse of invested funds, and being sued by the GNAA for breach of contract for sucking more than specified in the GNAA's contract with Red Hat.

About the Linux community:

Trolled.

About GNAA:
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If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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I saw a documentary about this once.

Have you ever seen the movie Did you take note of how the kids purchased drugs in the movie?

There's a reason why you'll hear the phrase "it fell off the back of a truck."

In this case, you tell the client what program can be used for copying DVD's, and then let the CD with the rippign software "fall" out of your case or bag of tools or whatnot as you're walking away. Obviously, this is a CYA tactic, and not really necessary, as the use of ripping software is still legal for the moment. It's a CYA tactic in that in case distributing ripping software becomes illegal itself. With a good enough lawyer, you can get away with claiming the software fell out of your bag on your way out. Without a good lawyer, YMMV of course.

The AC is actually quoting an Italian American character from Johnny Dangerously

Oh, you mean like in this gem?

"When a man doesn't have less on..."

I was not aware that society's subjective judgment of whether someone has made "enough" money from one's intellectual property was a factor in copyright law.

It isn't. It is a fair way to judge if someone is a douche bag however. Which it seems J.K Rowling clearly is. She didn't have to file a lawsuit here and the lawsuit was clearly about promoting her own, yet unpublished lexicon over this work.

You may disagree, and that's all well and good. But don't try to make Rowlings douche baggery into whether she's legally right or wrong. It's clearly about greed. (I note that Steven Spielberg didn't sue the kids who re-made this extremely dervivative, and copyright infringing version of Raiders of the Lost Ark in their basement.. so not everyone is a sue-crazy douche-bag).

Doctor Hans Zarkov: Check the angular vector of the moon!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/quotes

Damn it you insensitive clods, we're stuck in a time loop!
Somehow I was immune to its effects and have been reliving this day over and over and over, at least 100 times now!
I've been watching Groundhog Day and 12:01 to try to work out what's happening and how I can stop it but... oh crap here it goes ag~~~

Damn it you insensitive clods, we're stuck in a time loop!
Somehow I was immune to its effects and have been reliving this day over and over and over, at least 100 times now!
I've been watching Groundhog Day and 12:01 to try to work out what's happening and how I can stop it but... oh crap here it goes ag~~~

Already been done. The Black Hole explains it all.
The bad guys go to hell and the good guys survive.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869/plotsummary

Call me when he can create an 20-something Kelly LeBrock and I'll be more interested.

(Disclaimer: Actually I find this kind of science fascinating, but that doesn't aid in making a joke)

and true classic. I miss Bruno Lawrence.

Pretty soon Mother Nature will be doing the same to the animal known as Homo sapiens... the food shortage will be caused by idle farming equipment, and the 'insert less sophisticated race' will no longer be able to sustain their 250 and 500 million citizens.

Isn't that a well regarded theory how Homosapiens adapted and became? Stick around for another 10,000 years and see what we have? It's either going to be Idiocracy or something I've not thought of.

it helps if you are Untraceable

It appears that they have copied the plot of this movie.

Paramount Pictures has levied a lawsuit against these researchers, citing prior art.

The movie The Island deals with a couple interesting concepts relating to memory.

Firstly, the clones are all given memories of a false past life (through audio and video stimulation) to ensure their mental well-being. The memories consisted of a childhood, and being rescued from the aftermath of a biological war or something, and being brought to this facility to recover. The story goes that they tried to just grow human bodies with no active minds or something, but that didn't work and whole batches were lost. They had to give them social interaction, jobs, education, and also keep them physically fit (for the health of their yet-to-be-harvested organs) in order for the clones to have any useful lifespans. The existing clones were told that new people are being constantly rescued from "outside". The clones were like insurance policies, and when the policy holder had an accident or required a transplant, the clone would 'win' a trip to "The Island", another implanted memory. The Island is a utopian paradise free of disease. Everyone is implanted with this desire.

Secondly, it deals with the concept of cellular memory. Ewan MacGregor's clone character remembered things that his counterpart did in real life. The clone knew how to drive a car very well, despite not having any prior experience. The clone also drew a perfect copy of a boat sketch done by the real person. He, having an American accent, was also able to speak exactly like the real person, who had a Scottish accent. In fact in the end he fooled the hired guns out to kill him into killing the real person instead.

I once heard of people in real life experiencing things like this after receiving organ transplants. They claim to have memories from the donor's life, some even claim to have changed preferences for things, like food. Upon investigation, they found out that the donor's preferences matched the ones they now preferred.

We'll all just be reduced to wearing collars provided by the "Gamesters of Triskelion" (from the STTOS episode). Or, we'll be forced to enter a "Battle Royale" type of game. We'll be specifically selected based on our "threat potential" and suspicious activities.

Then, those gait-watching satellites and Predators will give the rulers of the world a whole new wargame. But, instead of dropping bombs or lasing the targets, they'll play the Bruce Dern number: "Black Sunday", and flechette the designated target/s of the hour.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075765/usercomments?filter=love

Spinal Tap

Given the tenor of Morgan Spurlock's celebrated 2004 documentary movie "Super Size Me", that statement of OLPC "super sizing" itself was most likely not intended as a compliment. More like they're trying to say that the OLPC is getting obese like Morgan Spurlock did after binging on McDonald's for every meal for a month (there is something of the nature of McDonalds food in Microsoft software by the way...). Nevertheless I agree with the main points of your post wholeheartedly.