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  1. Re:unimportant by TheGreatOrangePeel · · Score: 1 · on Blu-ray BD+ Cracked

    Not to mirror you, but I mostly agree with your argument.

    My problem with reviews (and I'll spare you the history and details of it all) boils down to, "Opinions are like butt holes. Everyone has one." For the really rather small education I have on Cinema, I still find most reviews miss the mark on what I care about.

    One of my points in my argument that maybe wasn't clear and your example misses, is that these are films I never would have seen otherwise. But I did see them only because of piracy and liked them enough to buy them.

    My turn for an example (I was going to use Adaptation , but I thought of a better one): Requiem for a Dream . I saw it it off a burned DVD in one of my college buddy's apartment. I never would have seen this film on my own as it wasn't the type of thing even close to anywhere on my radar at the time. He put it on, we watched and, having just finished a film course, I was in awe at the genius use of split screens and montage. As soon as I saw it for sale at the local rental store, I bought it, not to watch it again, but to make sure I was supporting the creative forces and people who made it. Did I miss out because I didn't see it in the theater? Absolutely! Would I have watched this otherwise? No way! In fact, my college buddy and I live in different towns. He's always telling me to watch one movie or another and I just keep putting it off. Will I EVER watch this movie again? HELL NO! It's WAY too morbid to watch twice. Am I glad I bought the movie? Yes! If I can ever put the fact that it's a very morbid movie aside, I'll be very glad to seeing all the directing and editing tricks again and, hopefully, share it with someone else who will go out and buy it as well.

  2. Re:Science of Political Agenda? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 1 · on How To Communicate Science to a Polarized US Audience
    I've got a friend who grew up in Eastern Europe. If he sees people in Che T shirts he makes a point of quizzing them. 90% have no real idea who Che was or what he got up to. They just seem him as a counterculture icon. Which is kind of ironic. Someone who used to accuse his minions of being informers, spies and then murder them with his gun and sent death squads out to kill the ones that escaped doesn't seem too counter culture friendly to me. I wonder how they'd feel if they had a boss who behaved like him.

    And the Cult of Che is anything but counter culture. As Paul Berman put it in slate in his review of the annoying, hagiographic The Motorcycle Diaries -

    http://www.slate.com/id/2107100/

    If you were to compare Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries, with its pious tone, to the irreverent, humorous, ironic, libertarian films of Pedro Almodóvar, you could easily imagine that Salles' film comes from the long-ago past, perhaps from the dark reactionary times of Franco - and Almodóvar's movies come from the modern age that has rebelled against Franco. The odd thing is that bin Laden in pictures seems to be (consciously or unconsciously) aping the famous Korda picture of Che. Maybe he will eventually turn into an religious icon, worshipped by the terminally gullible and the historically illiterate too.
  3. -1 Redundant by Myrcutio · · Score: 0 · on "Manhattan Project" For Prosthetic Arms

    It's already been done, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/

  4. Re:Statistics by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?

    The GP was pointing out the slippery slope and a legal "wedge" that could be used if the pentagon staged a coup

    If the Pentagon tried to overthrow the government in a coup I believe it would a cannon shot across the bow in starting a civil war. And not just military against civilians, but in the military as well. I don't know if you have but I served in the US Army and I along with a bunch of others I knew while in fully supported democracy. Now, I have a nephew in the Marines, stationed in Iraq, who fully supports Bush. That is he did when he joined, at the age of 17. If the Pentagon tried a coup Fragging, assassinating unpopular officers, would be more popular than it was in Viet Nam. Though this tyme popularity wouldn't as much a deciding factor.

    with instead of against the POTUS

    I'm wondering if you're referring to President Andrew Jackson's comment when the USSC and Chief Justice Marshall made a ruling against Jackson. Jackson said of the ruling "The Supreme Court has made it's decision, now let them enforce it."

    Falcon
  5. Re:You can walk on water.... by colinrichardday · · Score: 1 · on How To Communicate Science to a Polarized US Audience

    Yeah, but can he cross bodies of water by running on crocodiles/alligators?
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070328/

  6. Re:I don't get the big deal.... by rrohbeck · · Score: 1 · on The Real Body Snatchers

    Big deal is medics they are dealing with: if dead person is worth up to 250 000 $, how hard would you really work to keep them alive?

    Hell, some could have idea of killing of healthy (aka, only minor issue like broken leg) patients to get body with top quality organs (people who get organ-preserving damage done to body like broken legs are generally healthy+active life types with bodies in good shape.). And medic can easily get untraceable kill. Embolism is bitch.

    And imagine if common thugs could cash you in too ... you would be walking quater million for them. Some kill for 100$, its quite imaginable them to kill for much, much more. My sister who is a MD told me to keep on riding fast, I'll make an excellent organ donor. She works in a hospital next to a crash prone section of Autobahn and has first hand experience. I hope she was only half serious.

    Yes I do have organ donor paperwork in my wallet and I don't care what happens to my body, but reading this makes me think of good old Coma.

  7. Re:Not a whine, just an observation by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 1 · on New BigDog Robot Video

    The only practical applications of this technology are Aibo-like robotic pets, alpine rescue/relief assistants (like St. Bernards of old), and military weaponry. What, entering one into the new BattleBots contest isn't practical?

    How about casting one in another adaption of Stephen King's short story "Trucks".
  8. Re:Not a whine, just an observation by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 1 · on New BigDog Robot Video

    The only practical applications of this technology are Aibo-like robotic pets, alpine rescue/relief assistants (like St. Bernards of old), and military weaponry. What, entering one into the new BattleBots contest isn't practical?

    How about casting one in another adaption of Stephen King's short story "Trucks".
  9. Repossession would be a real drag . . . by Domint · · Score: 1 · on The Real Body Snatchers

    I'm not as concerned about getting black market body parts as I am about the consequences of missing a payment.

  10. Re:Kick by 0111+1110 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on New BigDog Robot Video

    if you took two dogs and strapped them together, facing each other, with their forelimbs in the air and only their rear limbs on the ground... and made them telepathic... they might move a bit like that! The first time I saw this Boston Robotics thing (the earlier version), I had no context for the video clip, nothing to tell me it was a robot. So it reeaally creeped me out big time. And the loud engine actually made it even more scary. I thought maybe it was some sick, brutal, military experiment in commanding a real, but mutilated animal, a hybrid dog-machine, like those experiments being done with rats. Has anyone else here seen No Telling? I suspect that if I hadn't seen that movie I might not have been so creeped out.

    That gasoline engine really reduces its practicality though for anything other than a pack mule. They need to work on adding an RTG to it along with some of those newly developed high efficiency solar cells. So it will be nearly silent and not need recharging for like 80 years. Also they definitely need a head with video camera eyes with green lasers and/or high intensity IR lights behind them as well, a hydraulic jaw controlling a mouth filled with hundreds of hollow, hardened, stainless steel shark teeth filled and coated with a potent neurotoxin like maybe palytoxin or tetrodotoxin. A minigun hidden in its mouth is obviously mandatory. It should also be able to cough VX nerve gas from a small compressed cylinder in it's throat and spit concentrated nitric acid. And of course it would need microphone ears and a tail to aid in balance when running and some fur and leather/kevlar skin to help protect its electronics from the elements and the occasional bullet. If they could make it pass for a real dog they could even fill its belly with explosives to self destruct near enemy troops or if captured. And of course they should really add some wings and make it into an ornithopter as well. And how about a really cool howl like the one in American Werewolf in London or some even more creeptastic sound. Great for shock and awe. Also great for crowd control of anti-war protesters etc.

    Of course a nonmilitary version with the RTG and solar cells could be sent to explore mars.
  11. Re:From TFA by dpilot · · Score: 1 · on Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead At 90

    I meant the "most major" theatrical release: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/ I read the book long before that too, and credit the book for postponing the reality for at least a decade, though not two.

  12. Re:Statistics by TapeCutter · · Score: 1 · on Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?

    "Except an executive order like the NSA warrantless wiretap authorization isn't Constitutional."

    The GP was pointing out the slippery slope and a legal "wedge" that could be used if the pentagon staged a coup (with instead of against the POTUS), once you replace a couple of judges, who is going argue other than a few superpowers with their own problems?

  13. Re:From TFA by techno-vampire · · Score: 1 · on Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead At 90
    1984 was actually released in 1984...


    I find that hard to believe, seeing that I read it in the early '60s. The book Ninteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949 (The year I was born, BTW.) and the first feature film in 1956.

  14. Re:Mod parent up by penguin_dance · · Score: 1 · on One Minute of Science Per Five Hours of Cable News

    You know, science used to be a prestigious profession, and used to be respected. Now, the only persistent emotions I see towards science and technology is spite.

    Unfortunately, I think that's in part because science has jumped into the political realm, sometimes unintentionally, sometimes intentionally. Global warming, stem cell research, cloning, take your pick. Science is becoming a tool of the governments. And it no longer places ethical boundaries on itself. Environmentalism for some has become the new, secular religion. Tell the children mommy and daddy are hurting the cute penguins so we need to herd the people into urban areas and force mass transit.

    It all sounds nice and reasonable and the frog is enjoying his warm bath. Unfortunately, the news doesn't report much about history either.

  15. Re:Article doesn't have much to it. by hador_nyc · · Score: 1 · on 100-Year-Old Electric Car Design Makes a Comeback

    Not according to IMDB... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/ Mandy Patinkin ... Inigo Montoya

  16. Re:In other news by AvitarX · · Score: 1 · on Supreme Court to Hear FCC Indecency Case

    I'd say that an obligation to parent responsibly should have superseded the need for "decency timeslots" from square one. Just my opinion...

    As you use a logging system in a DVR. Parents can't watch their children constantly, and there is stuff I wouldn't want my children to see at the very least (or the neighbors honestly, but I will defer to them on that). Nothing so bad on broadcast TV or even cable, this would be a brief example fromt he top of my head of 15 minutes that should not be viewed by children.

  17. Re:Enticement by jackbird · · Score: 1 · on One Minute of Science Per Five Hours of Cable News
    Actually, that business model is more or less explicitly not supposed to include the news programming. The broadcasters got their monopoly of the airwaves way back when at least partially in exchange for a promise that some portion of their programming would serve the public good (i.e. news).

    The advent of TV news divisions being expected to make a profit, and the attendent nosedive in journalistic standards, is fairly recent. Watch Network now and it's hard to see how outrageous a satire the proto-reality TV news segments were back then - it's surpassed daily by all sorts of actual programming.

  18. Re:Trolls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on What's Your Favorite Monster?
    By fictional documentary do you mean Reign of Fire?


    Probably not, but I liked the movie.

  19. Re:Bigfoot is pratically unknown ouside the US by mlush · · Score: 1 · on What's Your Favorite Monster?

    Its pretty well know in the UK well know enough for 'The Goodies' to take the mic. Arther C Clark has a lot to answer for:-)

  20. Re:I know of... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on How The Latest in High Tech Works

    for the humor impaired http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/ off topic real genius

  21. rock monsters by Bill+Dog · · Score: 2, Informative · on What's Your Favorite Monster?

    http://www.scifi.com/rockmonster/ is sure to be cool.

    See also the Fantastic Four and The NeverEnding Story.

  22. rock monsters by Bill+Dog · · Score: 2, Informative · on What's Your Favorite Monster?

    http://www.scifi.com/rockmonster/ is sure to be cool.

    See also the Fantastic Four and The NeverEnding Story.

  23. Re:Lets hope this really happens by westlake · · Score: 1 · on Japanese ISPs To Cut Net Access For File Sharers
    That's why people making commercial software, games, media, movies, don't aim them at the slashdot / digg generation any more. Who wants to entertain people who are whining, thieving pains in the ass?

    High School Musical cost Disney $4.2 million to produce.

    HSM took off like a rocket with a young audience that bought the DVD. Tickets to the arena stage show. The home-town theater production...

  24. No Blade of Grass...? by $kr1p7_k177y · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Newly Discovered Fungus Threatens World Wheat Crop

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066154/

  25. Re:For fuck's sake by easyTree · · Score: 1 · on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'

    Something tells me that some people saw 1984, Brazil, Gattaca etc.. etc.. etc.. and interpreted them as blueprints for tomorrow rather than as hints that we should avoid the type of tomorrows depicted.

    People suck :S

  26. Re:For fuck's sake by easyTree · · Score: 1 · on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'

    Something tells me that some people saw 1984, Brazil, Gattaca etc.. etc.. etc.. and interpreted them as blueprints for tomorrow rather than as hints that we should avoid the type of tomorrows depicted.

    People suck :S

  27. Re:For fuck's sake by easyTree · · Score: 1 · on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'

    Something tells me that some people saw 1984, Brazil, Gattaca etc.. etc.. etc.. and interpreted them as blueprints for tomorrow rather than as hints that we should avoid the type of tomorrows depicted.

    People suck :S

  28. Life imitates Hollywood, badly. by palegray.net · · Score: 2 · on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'

    So the police want to use this sort of system as a way of predicting future criminal activity, which may or may not happen, the interpretation of which is by necessity highly subjective, and would represent an open-ended means of "justifying" targeted monitoring of specific individuals before they're even legally considered responsible for themselves? What a fantastic idea! Let's be sure to include ways to hold the parents retroactively responsible for breeding in the first place, or not drugging their children since they were obviously criminals in the making, or not putting them through intensive "preventive" psychiatric treatment for their future wrongdoings. It's just like Minority Report, only they're not even bothering to claim definitive knowledge of future events. Outstanding work, gents!

  29. Re:yes, but is it really intelligent? by ioshhdflwuegfh · · Score: 1 · on AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test

    Voight-Kampff was used to determine whether the subject was able to empathize with others. Interesting that the replicants were the ones who actually exhibited the quality (Leon and Rachael keeping photos of their "families", Batty breaking Deckard's fingers for killing Pris, even Deckard lying to Rachael that he was only joking about her being a replicant) while the humans in the movie seemed to lack it. Then again, I guess that was the whole point. In Alien: Resurrection, the most emphatic character turns out to be a robot, from some famous failed line of robots designed by robots. Not to mention Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with his "genuine personality" thingie.
  30. Re:yes, but is it really intelligent? by ioshhdflwuegfh · · Score: 1 · on AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test

    Voight-Kampff was used to determine whether the subject was able to empathize with others. Interesting that the replicants were the ones who actually exhibited the quality (Leon and Rachael keeping photos of their "families", Batty breaking Deckard's fingers for killing Pris, even Deckard lying to Rachael that he was only joking about her being a replicant) while the humans in the movie seemed to lack it. Then again, I guess that was the whole point. In Alien: Resurrection, the most emphatic character turns out to be a robot, from some famous failed line of robots designed by robots. Not to mention Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with his "genuine personality" thingie.
  31. The grand scheme.... by iknownuttin · · Score: 1 · on Yahoo!/Microsoft Execs Meet For Round Two
    If you should merge with MS, it will be used to tear apart the Internet. For all intents and purposes, this would be the endgame. The reason is that MS would assimilate the bulk of Yahoo's customers to add to their base. From there they would then move on to block Google and Linux. Sadly, I believe that this would work for them. Obviously, MS believes the same.

    Ah, but you're missing the grand scheme, sir. The rule of the internet is only one prong of the strategy. The primary goal is the eventual take over of the World by Microsoft. This is just one small step on the corporate level. On the social level is the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. See, they're in Africa, helping those people who are becoming indebted to MS. They will buy their products and one day, fight in her armies. Yes, that is correct. We are seeing beginnings of the corporate armies and corporate rule of the World as predicted in Robert Heinlein's "Friday". Who's to stop MS? IBM, Apple, Google, and possibly SUN and Oracle (ellsion's son is already making military propaganda films See Flyboys [actually a good movie!]...).

    I could go on, but I'm running out of space and the lights on my router are blinking ....they're on to me again...got to run!

  32. Re:Self limiting to a certain extent? by WaltBusterkeys · · Score: 1 · on The Uncertain Future of Global Population Numbers

    The expression "perfect storm" was popularized by the 2000 movie of the same title.

    The idea is that two or more bad things that are both rare individually happen at the same time, so that any response system is overwhelmed. In the movie, it was a typical Nor'easter (a big winter storm off the coast of Massachusetts) that was given additional fuel by the remnants of a hurricane moving in from the south. A fishing boat is big enough to handle either one of those, but not both.

  33. Re:Wrong day by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 1 · on Happy Pi Day

    40 digits of pi should be enough for anyone. That's all the digits you need to calculate the size of a spherical Universe with a radius measured in Planck lengths. Beyond that it's just mathematical masturbation.

    (I hope to hear that line uttered in an episode of The Big Bang Theory. Whatever license permits it, you have it.)

  34. Re:Fingerprint scanners suck. by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Fingerprint-Protected USB Sticks Cracked

    "Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud."

    --Jimmy Rabbitte, The Commitments

    Black and proud, baby. Black and proud.

  35. Re:If this goes through.. by darthflo · · Score: 1 · on EA Launches 'Hostile' Bid for GTA Publisher

    I guess sometime around here. :)

  36. Re:That's an easy one! by Clueless+Nick · · Score: 3, Funny · on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow?

    Everybody knows that when you travel in time, your arrival at your destination is heralded by strong winds, electric storms, and thunder. Don't believe me? Refer to these:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118689/

    No rational car driver, sane bird or other sentient being would want to pass through that!

  37. Re:That's an easy one! by Clueless+Nick · · Score: 3, Funny · on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow?

    Everybody knows that when you travel in time, your arrival at your destination is heralded by strong winds, electric storms, and thunder. Don't believe me? Refer to these:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118689/

    No rational car driver, sane bird or other sentient being would want to pass through that!

  38. Re:That's an easy one! by Clueless+Nick · · Score: 3, Funny · on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow?

    Everybody knows that when you travel in time, your arrival at your destination is heralded by strong winds, electric storms, and thunder. Don't believe me? Refer to these:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118689/

    No rational car driver, sane bird or other sentient being would want to pass through that!

  39. Re:That's an easy one! by Clueless+Nick · · Score: 3, Funny · on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow?

    Everybody knows that when you travel in time, your arrival at your destination is heralded by strong winds, electric storms, and thunder. Don't believe me? Refer to these:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118689/

    No rational car driver, sane bird or other sentient being would want to pass through that!

  40. Re:Whatever you do . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on US Plans "Disposable" Nuclear Batteries

    No, like this

  41. Re:Caught by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Funny · on G-Archiver Harvesting Google Mail Passwords

    It's probably more like "with their pants down" AND "in the cookie jar." Then it makes sense.

    Son, I think it's time we talk, man to man.

  42. Re:Joe Rogan by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 1 · on BattleBots & ESPN Strike TV Deal

    Joe Rogan? Bah. They should bring in Buck Laughlin.

  43. Re:how about passing laws that have some... by Henry+Pate · · Score: 1 · on State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Anonymous Posting Online

    This is the movie, it's called "American Drug War: The Last White Hope" it's a good movie.

  44. Re:Offtopic -- personal request! by bograt · · Score: 1 · on State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Anonymous Posting Online

    Is this it?

  45. Just like the movie Runaway by dwarmstr · · Score: 1 · on Counterfeit Chips Raise New Terror, Hacking Fears

    Just like Runaway!

  46. Re:Oblig 50's quote slighytly edited. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on Endeavour Crew to Assemble Giant Robot, in Space

    You know they're remaking that with Keanu Reeves as Klaatu?

    "Dude! You totally melted that guy's tank!"

  47. Re:Offtopic -- personal request! by MannyO · · Score: 1 · on State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Anonymous Posting Online
    Looks like it's called "American Drug War" - The last white hope.

    Here's a link to the production company - http://www.sacredcow.com/

    IMDB link - http://imdb.com/title/tt1033467/

    Too bad I can't find in on Netflix yet.

    It looks very interesting....

  48. Re:The proper way to celibrate by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 1 · on Hitchhiker's Guide Turns 30

    Then to finally read the first three chapters of Salmon of Doubt was a double blow, because it was shaping up to be one of his finest books. /sob A pity though that a rhinoceros in a swimming pool had been done, though not nearly as well. It was a masterful chapter, a personal favorite.
  49. Re:Which method? by PortHaven · · Score: 1 · on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology?

    Look, geeks, nerds & scientists have enough difficulty reproducing. If we add even more criteria to inhibit our reproducing. Humanity will suffer far worse damage in the long run...

    Go watch this movie...
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

  50. In other news by GnuDiff · · Score: 1 · on Unreal Creator Proclaims PCs are Not For Gaming

    When asked about his future career, Sweeney indicated intention of opening a beauty parlour chain near the main offices of major PC manufacturers: - They certainly deserve the best, - he said. - And my hands are itching for work.