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Dude. It has the Chuck Norris grip!

Exactly why he died a virgin.

Well, not according to this documentary.

It was polish movie Seksmisja: http://imdb.com/title/tt0088083/

The next time you have a thought? Let it go.

I remember there is an old Czech SciFi movie about an utopian society where men are obselete and women procastrinate by cloning. Anyone remember then name?

That movie is not Czech, but Polish, original title is "Sexmisja" (Sexmise in Czech dabing). Some early 80', I guess. In after-nuclear war epoch, women consolidated a society in underground bunkers-mines system, ruled by two opposing organizations, Genetix and Archeo, struggling each other with different ideologies... until they found a hybernation chamber with two frozen men in excavations.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/?___412

Well, seems a story writer is a Czech :)

I believe you're talking about "Seksmisja"
It was made in 1984 (?!) in Polish.

Obligatory IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/

That's not what Woody Allen told me!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/

Actually, first thought was that of the robot 'SID v6.7' from "Virtuosity". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114857/

OH CHRIST... This seems to happen every week or so...

so mark this up as an unintended consequence of ridiculously strong labor unions

...Time to die.

That's Batty (Rutger Hauer) from Bladerunner.

I mourn for our future...

forgot the other link, oops

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493464/

I'm a grad school dropout so I'm not close to a PhD, but he's talking about this movie. HTH.

As soon as they make one that's cheap and looks cool enough so that it makes Jennifer Connelly fall in love with me I'll be on board. Until then, I wanna try one of those sweet wing suits out over some Norwegian fjords!

There's just one problem with that data: it's based on the top 1% of wage earners . The wealthy do not earn wages. It is my opinion that wage earners define the middle class, although the notion of class distinction in a democratic Republic is open to interpretation.

For that matter, any assertion involving the term "middle class" is open to interpretation.

It's not so much that Limbaugh isn't popular with technically-minded people, it's that he is not nearly as interested in facts as he is in attention. He himself has admitted as much. He makes money by remaining popular, by inciting listeners to excitement. That's the stock in trade of talk radio: Current events plus interpretation with a clear agenda, designed to leave you feeling a certain way.

There's nothing wrong with choosing that flavor of entertainment. The problems crop up when you begin to use data from an entertainment source as fact. For example, I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Clayton, but if I wanted facts about corporate crime, I'd look elsewhere.

If Limbaugh inspires you, great. Inspired people move things forward. One of our biggest problems lately is that the inspired don't step out and think for themselves. My recommendation is that you maintain the distinction between entertainment and news. Get your facts from a reliable source, i.e., from a different source than your inspiration.

If you like thinking for yourself, that is. If you'd prefer to just listen without asking any questions, go right ahead. Just don't expect anyone who isn't plugged into the same source to treat you with any respect.

T.V. Interviewer: How do you account for the fact that the bombing campaign has been going on for thirteen years?
Mr. Helpmann: Beginners' luck

James Bond's enemy Zao http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000333/ (in Die Another Day) has a phone that does this!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483726/ Touch screen or ballot paper, just remember to vote early and vote often.

Feeding obvious trolls here, but you probably have not watched this, I guess? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468094/

I'm very surprised that The Host wasn't mentioned earlier.
The Host was amazing, and Cloverfield looks like a Blair Witch'd version of it The Host, without The Host's fun factor.
I haven't seen Cloverfield yet, I'm not sure if I will. There's so much "You HAVE to see it in the theater! It won't be the same on a small screen!" hype, it makes me wonder if the studio is paying everyday people to hype it up. And I don't like the social engineering in advertisements.

Regina: Is Blu-Ray a carb?

Cady: YES.

Wasn't part of the plot of "The Day The Earth Stood Still" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/ that Gort, the giant robot, was actually an intergalactic law enforcement agent with the task of seeking out interplanetary violence and eliminating it?

Seems to me that this article is actually trying to set out an approach to build a similar group of robots.

I still don't think this is that great an idea in the greater scheme of things. I was an engineer on a college autonomous robotics project http://mdrc.rit.edu/igvc and our robots, which tended to have tank treads and weigh 500+ pounds, did have a tendency to try to attack us if we left out semi-colons in its code (its default state seemed to be set to kill).

The movie "Toys" flat sucks in many ways, but there is a very interesting philosophical nugget in there. -----SPOILER ALERT------ In the movie, the antagonist creates a way that airplanes and other war machines can be linked to children playing a game at the arcade. The targets the kids see on the screen are actual living targets. The kids score more points, but they're unaware that they're taking lives.

Now imagine a Halo or Call of Duty style game that has a competition to get to play in a cash prize contest. Funded by the military, the best FPS gamers compete not against each other, but against live armies. Spooky, yet it would be the best way to do it if you really disclosed what you were doing.

It is the same rules as in a knife fight... "There are no rules in a knife fight" - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/quotes

Cool movie, but I actually preferred Crash and Burn. I'm a sucker for cute female hackers who stumble across abandoned giant robots, I guess.

Enter the horrendous movie Robot Jox. But hell, if settling international and territorial disputes means I get to pilot one of those bad boys, sign me up!

If the satellite was Russian and had nukes then we would have a Space Cowboy Situation

Where can you file anything at midnight?

Right here. I hear they filmed it for a long running reality series about people with no tans.

The short answer as to why the bots will not reappear is because they were sold at auction on eBay.

Of course, one could try and recover them, or rebuild new bots, but it would not be the same.

In Estonia, the juice weases YOU!

(Horribly weak Encino Man reference, I apologize.)

Sounds like another cloned story in I am legend

this one? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119675/

What we've got here is... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it...
well, he gets it.
I don't like it any more than you men.

I'm a believer in The Universal Torque Specification: Tighten it 'till it strips, then back off a quarter.

Similarly, when raising kids: raise them however you want, and if it turns out they're bad, do something else.

See also Better Off Dead: "Go that way... fast. If something gets in your way, turn."

(Note for the humor-impaired: please don't take any of the above advice seriously.)

Hell, Mario Brothers demonstrably makes a great game, but a poor movie ;) Not to mention Mortal Kombat (great soundtrack, but that's about it).

Games are just a new form of media, and should be treated as such. If your kid never goes outside and gets exercise because s/he's always reading a book, that's just as unhealthy as if they were always playing a video game, or always watching TV, or whatever. Balance and moderation are the key, as well as maturity. Just like driver's licenses, even though the law says 16, I knew some kids who I would trust driving at 14, and I know some 40 year olds and it scares the hell out of me that they still have their licenses.

Hell, Mario Brothers demonstrably makes a great game, but a poor movie ;) Not to mention Mortal Kombat (great soundtrack, but that's about it).

Games are just a new form of media, and should be treated as such. If your kid never goes outside and gets exercise because s/he's always reading a book, that's just as unhealthy as if they were always playing a video game, or always watching TV, or whatever. Balance and moderation are the key, as well as maturity. Just like driver's licenses, even though the law says 16, I knew some kids who I would trust driving at 14, and I know some 40 year olds and it scares the hell out of me that they still have their licenses.

This is the last straw....

Well, I was just wondering whether they know they had already been layed off a few years ago, but no one had the heart to tell them.

ref

So, you think untraceable might be propaganda? Cause that's what I keep thinking every time I see the commercial.

Never assume seriousness when sarcasm is a satisfactory explanation.

... but I'm assuming serious so ...

First mistake. Assuming sarcasm would have eliminated the need for your laundry list of reasons why my reasoning was flawed. Assuming sarcasm is a corollary of Occam's Razor.

This kind of thinking drives me crazy.

If you had assumed sarcasm maybe this kind of thinking would have driven you to be amused instead. See what kind of problems assuming seriousness leads to? Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time! You and all your silly English seriousness!

Hear, hear!

If Batman had a laptop, it would be black and bad. It could be curvy and organic, like a Wallstreet/Pismo era powerbook, true. But more recently I have ben given to think that if Batman had a laptop, it would be a Thinkpad.

Hear, hear!

If Batman had a laptop, it would be black and bad. It could be curvy and organic, like a Wallstreet/Pismo era powerbook, true. But more recently I have ben given to think that if Batman had a laptop, it would be a Thinkpad.