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How many people were sent there for being journalists? I think you should shut the fuck up now, dick.

While this technology would be great for helping addicts overcome their addictions, I hestitate to think that it would be a good idea for anyone to require such a vaccine as some comments have speculated. Who knows? Maybe this drug could open the way to other drugs that allowed to block a more wide range of physical and emotional responses to external stimuli other than narcotics.

One drug blocks this, another blocks that, next thing you know we're all doped up waiting on Christian Bale to save us. But then again, I didn't RTFA. Maybe I'm just stretching it a bit :)

But I'm at the age where I can be a member of the 'Grumpy Old Men' club (Excellent BBC TV Series).

I don't know if this series you're referring to is a spinoff of the movie with the same name or not. However, you forcibly reminded me of a Usenet post that I saw on mn.general (Minnesota General interest, obviously) years ago. It was patterned after comic Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a Redneck if.." bit that he still does as part of his standup routine.

Naturally, it was titled "You might be a Minnesotan if...". Among other gems, it included this line:

-the first time you saw "Grumpy Old Men" you thought it was a documentary.

It's a much funnier line when you read it in the context of the whole post. A quick Google of the phrase turned up several archived copies of it online. One can be found here. Here's a sampling taken at random:

-you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping the food will swim by.

-you keep the snow tires on your truck all year because it ain't worth taking them off for only two months.

-someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there.

-your Dad's sun tan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead.

-you have ever worn shorts and a parka at the same time.

-you never had to rewind any part of "Fargo" because you missed some of the dialogue.

Who says Americans can't poke fun at themselves? :)

If I read the GP question right, the question is what are _SETI_ scientists hoping to learn there. Since, you know, SETI = Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Those rocks probably didn't have much intelligent populations in the first place, since that tends to mean large multi-cellular organisms, not at most a few frozen bacteria in the cracks of a rock.

Even if such a system did exist, it would be utterly useless due to the number of false positives it would produce.

Well, indeed. It's not clear what "positive" and "negative" mean in this context. How would you measure success? The problem is that there are so many presuppositions here that it's hard to know what the agenda is, or what the metric of success is.

From the article:

"When someone lies or tries to be deceptive, ... there are behavior cues that show it. ... A brief flash of fear."

We are to take this as fact. But what if the trained terrorist does not in fact show fear because they are comfortable with their training? We are led to believe not only that this technique is professional but that the techniques of the passengers are amateurish.

Also, suppose it comes down to taking some sort of action. Suppose these techniques reveal something but the searches reveal nothing. Will it stop here? If someone is arrested, on what authority will it be? Something like The Minority Report? The problem is that this can't just be a technique in isolation. It will have to become a matter of law if it is to be usefully prosecuted. What will be the nature of the crime? The evidence that can be examined and challenged? Who is the accuser? What law is broken?

Another commenter (timon) made an excellent reference to 1984. In that regard, I wonder not only the question of what the crime will be but what the punishment. When it becomes impossible to show useful evidence of a suspicion, the only tool of prosecution perhaps becomes making someone an unpassenger. I would hope we would have some minimal requirements that such "special screening" unto which people were ushered were open to public view, but why do I assume that the next suggestion will be that it's too dangerous to allow that, and that a nice place, comfortably out of sight and mind of the rest of us is next... Or perhaps an alternate flight--say, to Guantanamo.

Dreams involving nudity always seem to involve cops, underage minors, icky relatives, or coworkers. They never happen at beaches, and the sort of people around whom you'd want to be naked are furiously absent. (Apparently no "training" is necessary for those situations.)

I had a great nightmare a few weeks ago. I was traveling somewhere with my wife, sitting at a pleasant outdoor cafe. My hands were developing hives or pimples or some sort of skin condition. So I said, "there's a pharmacy, let me go get some cream or lotion for this crap." It was one of those big chain pharmacies- I think it was a CVS. (Not the version control system, which has also appeared in nightmares.) My wife said she'd wait at the cafe, and I never saw her again. But during the rest of the dream, I "knew" she was waiting there.

The pharmacy morphed into a hospital as I approached. A doctor was lounging in the doorway. He was a composite of two real life characters: an internist who had given me an unpleasant procedure when I was in college, and a jewelry store owner in Cupertino where I had a watch fixed a few days before (he sits in front of his store like that, waiting for business). I showed him my hands and he led me upstairs, told me to strip, and wheeled me down a corridor in a wheelchair. Meanwhile this stuff had been spreading up my arms and appearing on any skin elsewhere that had been in contact. So I was trying to avoid touching anything.

We headed into a dingy wing of the hospital (think Jacob's Ladder ). As the wheelchair creaked down the hallway, more and more lights were flickering or burnt out. Rainwater was dripping from the ceiling and accumulating in puddles underneath. People were abandoned, crying from their beds, strapped to gurneys and convulsing, and the ceiling was starting to drip blood in places. We reached a room with a few empty cots, and he told me to wait there. Then he was gone.

So I was sitting and waiting on this cot, trying to avoid touching anything, but the inflammation was continuing to spread- on my feet, ankles, up my knees, and all around my waist. My face itched like hell and the skin on my hands and arms was completely burnt and peeling off. Sometimes faceless nurses wearing masks would walk by, and I'd call out, trying to get their attention (I still needed that lotion I was hoping to get at the pharmacy). Usually they ignored me. I got the attention of a few, but when they saw the disease they ran away in terror.

In came a crowd of second graders on a school trip. Two teachers were telling the kids to behave, and I quickly covered up my privates with my diseased filthy hands. (This had predictable dermatological results, but if I hadn't done it, MSNBC's Chris Hansen might have shown up. MSNBC pollutes my subconsciousness with that garbage whenever I don't pay attention after Olbermann's show is over.) I motioned to one of the teachers and whispered, "Pssst, do you really think it's a good idea to bring a bunch of little kids to a place like this on a school trip?"

"Oh don't worry- they have their permission slips signed," she says, "and besides, you look great... except for your skin condition." (She was right- I've been getting exercise recently.) Meanwhile the kids had formed a semicircle around me and were pointing and giggling, calling me a monster.

I got fed up with this pretty quickly and lunged at them with my arms in the air, yelling, "Oh yeah, you little brats? Well how would you like this pox!" They all laughed and squealed, "Ewwwww!" and ran off in every direction.

Then I woke up, surely prepared for something, but I'm not sure what.

Androids actually dream of gunfighting with Rick Deckard.

-=rsw

How about sperm powered fembots? They could remake this movie!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270688/plotsummary

Has everyone noticed that Simon Baron-Cohen is in fact the cousin of Sacha?

Though I'm sure he's done plenty of important work of his own...

"Whistler is seen eating a box of "Cap'n Crunch". In the 1970s, "Cap'n Crunch" came with a small whistle in the box. A "phone phreaker" called "Captain Crunch" (John Draper) discovered that this whistle could be used to get free phone calls (one of many components in the practice of "phone phreaking", which digital phone switching-systems has made almost totally obsolete). Whistler is patterned after Joe Engressia, a blind telephone expert born with perfect pitch who was one of the original phone phreakers."

It seems like it, taken from the trivia page of sneakers from imdb.

It did better than that! It grossed $44 million world wide!

My dad actually bought that car, we sold our old VW Golf (mark 2) and bought Yugo. Damn that was like driving in a milk carton. My dad sold it, figured it's better not to own a car than have a 'car' like that.

Horrible horrible contraption.

Then again, there is whole yugo modification culture, with ingenious ideas such as this

oh btw yugo was in another movie

...It was called a Yugo The Yugoslav government claimed that it would be so cheap that it would drive all the evil capitalist carmakers out of business... Yeaaaaahhh..... That kindof didn't happen... Consumer Reports claimed that it, "barely qualified as a car." It had a 1.1 liter engine, barely enough to get it moving on a windy day... speaking of windy day, a Yugo was literally blown off the Mackinac bridge by high gales... Yeah, the whole Yugo thing didn't work out so well... I doubt this project will, either... but, the Yugo did get featured in the movie, Dragnet:

"After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car the department was willing to release to us at this point was an unmarked 1987 Yugo, a Yugoslavian import donated to the department as a test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology. "

Good times... Good times!! Maybe this Indian car will get a starring role in a movie, too.... at least it's got a shot at a Bollywood movie! ;-)

It's been obvious for a while that universal
surveillance is not as impossible as it once
seemed, but the surprise is that there is such
a large audience.

*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/

New York in 100 years? It will continue to be a maximum security prison.

One of the elements of this film I liked the most was the realistic depiction of the diversity of anthropoid types that existed in those times. This was executed beautifully and skillfully in the depiction of several diverse tribal groups, explaining the well deserved Oscar for makeup.

Another elements of realism that scores big with me was that there are attacks by wild animals as well as by anthropoids. I also liked the language used by the main tribe, there was a suggestion that the language was evolving right before us as the travelers, having been sent on a quest for fire, returned with quite a bit more to talk about.

"The Net" with Sandra Bullock

A socially retarded software engineer cannot tolerate intrusion.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/

She fought back!

I wonder what the trekkie said when he found out the item was not authentic.

"Target that auction house and fire!"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102975/

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Um, you're not thinking creatively enough. Might I suggest a freelance team similar to

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0084967/ :-D

Milton? Is that you?

Otherwise, once these ideas have been used in a movie, it's Disney's intellectual propery now. For example, Polar Lights had to rename their reissue of a 1960's Aurora model of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2000-01-27 (scroll down)

Ed Harris' character from the Abyss.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0096754/

This year's democrat-controlled Congress largely ignored technological issues in favor of social problems, CNet notes in another 2007 retrospective.

The issue of Hg content in CFLs is pretty well known. The real problem is that people are not educated about the recycling which can be done, and a sub-problem is cost. I take all of my electronics to the landfill where several types of hazardous waste products are recycled (supposedly, but that is out of my hands and another source of conspiracy theory altogether.) But I am only one of two people in my group of friends that does this.

So instead, most households will just throw the bulbs away like the do incandescents. It also comes up to cost. Now, the local landfill does not charge for household waste, but I am aware that some do. For ones that do charge, there should be some way to subsidize the cost so that people are encouraged to recycle. I have often proposed a small recycling fee added to hazardous waste products, like $1 each for consumer electronics, $.25 each for CFLs, etc., that is built into the price of the product.

My experience with CFLs versus old computers has been a harsh one. I no longer use CFLs in my computer lab because of the quickness of plastic yellowing which it appears to cause. Case in point, I had a Commodore 1080 monitor sitting on a desk in the room which had advanced yellowing on surfaces exposed to the fluorescent light, including lines where shadows fell. The front of my Commodore 128D suffered the same, as did a fairly young beige Antec PC case. No more. I use a halogen now and have not noticed any yellowing in this light.

I take issue with a legislative ban on incandescents period rather than a specific energy efficiency rating. General Electric announced a technology which increases the efficiency of incandescents. I wonder if this technology ever made it out of the lab and into the market.

I want to also quickly address two of your points. Firstly, lighting color (temperature) is a big issue for photography and videography, as well as make-up. Secondly, I have included here a link to a reliable source about fluorescent lighting and depression -- but in all seriousness, since different CFLs have different temperatures, it should not be a difficult leap to link those colors to psychological states.

On a personal note, I have found that cheaper fluorescents (CFL or otherwise) have a flicker which cause me to experience headaches, and that a brand available at The Home Depot called n:vision produces a series with a higher temperature and therefore whiter light which I enjoy.

Dr. No, that is!

Found it for free online as it was: a 12 part online serial (in Memento format).

Good luck selling 'dead tree' versions for 8.99 :P

The Internet makes copyable interlectual property 'worth' essentially $0.00 (thanks to sites like The Pirate Bay) so the only entities making the REAL money on the net are:

1) Big Internet Service Providers like NetZero and AOL

2) Physical economy facilitators like eBay and Amazon or

3) Ad agencies disguised as search engines like Yahoo and Google.

I've come to the conclusion that all the Internet is good for nowadays for the 'small guy' is as source of information or entertainment -- nothing more, nothing less.

If you are a 'small guy' making money in an environment where intangibles are deemed as having 'no value' and not worth paying for if they can be obtained for free anyway, more power to you!

That's because the new cylons don't have the Cylon "eye".

Here's to hoping for a brighter future... for our children.

Alleged Chuck Norris Fact: "Chuck Norris' tears can cure cancer. Too bad he never cries. Ever." There was a man whose tears could cure cancer or any other disease, including the real cause of all diseases - sin. His blood did. His name was Jesus, not Chuck Norris. If your soul needs healing, the prescription you need is not Chuck Norris' tears, it's Jesus' blood.

Bad parenting is bad for kids. Movies and video games have nothing to do with that - except in the US.

Why?

I think Idiocracy explains that quite well.

Constantine has an aspect ratio of 2:35:1. Perhaps you'd like the sides cut off, hmm?

All January 18th releases

http://www.imdb.com/nowplaying/2008/1/#2008-01-18

Actualy in the origianal Viper only had the lighting balls that disable the other cars, a graple hook and unguided missles for claering obsticles. In the pilot Julian refused to put weapons on it. And it had the cool "hex snake skin" transformation. It was only in that crappy Viper Fully Loaded that they anded the Machine guns and who knows what else. along with the 4x4 form and cheesy morphing.

But I think This new KITT sounds more like Thunder in Paradise.

Actualy in the origianal Viper only had the lighting balls that disable the other cars, a graple hook and unguided missles for claering obsticles. In the pilot Julian refused to put weapons on it. And it had the cool "hex snake skin" transformation. It was only in that crappy Viper Fully Loaded that they anded the Machine guns and who knows what else. along with the 4x4 form and cheesy morphing.

But I think This new KITT sounds more like Thunder in Paradise.

Actualy in the origianal Viper only had the lighting balls that disable the other cars, a graple hook and unguided missles for claering obsticles. In the pilot Julian refused to put weapons on it. And it had the cool "hex snake skin" transformation. It was only in that crappy Viper Fully Loaded that they anded the Machine guns and who knows what else. along with the 4x4 form and cheesy morphing.

But I think This new KITT sounds more like Thunder in Paradise.

A car that can change color? Glen Larson already did that plot twist in his 1989 made for TV movie "Chameleons".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097040/

Never took off as a series though.

Is this it?

Koyaanisqatsi or at Amazon.

But on the more serious note:

Why not Linux?

A: http://www.openbsd.org/

Which at one time was a DARPA funded project.

...unless Tesla made a copy of himself and he's presently living on Mars...

::Colz Grigor

Please go out and find Who killed the electrical car

According to that documentary, there already were "electric charge stations" all over the USA, until someone decided they didn't want to produce those cars anymore.

exact megawattage

Chris Knight is that you? Did you build another http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/ megawatt laser ? Seen Jordan Cochran lately?

We're not talking about the Blue Thunder here. Police helicopters are usually well lit and very noisy so it's not terribly hard to figure out where it's going. If it'll cross the path of your laser, your instructional session can wait.

Tell that to India/Pakistan (silly displays of force) or Palestine/Iran/Syria (crazy enough to launch against Israel) or North Korea launching against the south.
Plus, you're forgetting the Spies Like Us scenario, where someone launches a missile from enemy territory at themselves, or between two enemies.
Imagine for example if China really wanted to screw with us, launch a nuke from Israel at Egypt.
I'm torn on the issue, I think public funded R&D should be "public", but at the same time recognize that publishing some of our most expensive tech details would be a boon to the economies of some pretty nasty leaders.

No no no. You see, when you hook a battery up to a LED - you may need some extra bits like resistors, etc, but basically you don't need much to make it work. Petrol doesn't quite work that easily... when you compare the footprint of a battery vs petrol, you have to include the engines too. Having said that, you can get remote control cars with combustion engines, so they don't need to be full car-sized engines. But I think if we're going down that road, lets leave petrol behind and go straight to nukular power. In this documentary I saw, you can get nukular reactors in back-pack size. And that was way back in 1984. By now they must come in sizes no larger than my left big toe.