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I'd forgotten about the ill tempered sea bass part

How could anyone forget about the ill tempered sea bass? It was the best scene in "Dumb and Dumber".

But what are we evolving into at such a breakneck speed? Morloks? Eloi?
Or maybe we are evolving along lines similar to the movie 'Idiocracy' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Maybe instead of worrying about it, we should just shut up and drink our BRAWNDO.

Oh man, tell me someone else knows what he's referencing. I'm on 24, I can't POSSIBLY be THAT old:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0089886/

Dr. Evil: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
Number Two: Sea Bass.
Dr. Evil: [pause] Right.
Number Two: They're mutated sea bass.
Dr. Evil: Are they ill tempered?
Number Two: Absolutely.
Dr. Evil: Oh well, that's a start.
Mandatory: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118655/

How about time traveling alien dinosaur slave hunters? http://imdb.com/title/tt0113135/ The most painful MST3K ever.

Cats must be incredibly resilient not even considering their ability to fall from great heights.

Great... How long before someone creates genetically modified flying fish that can see in ulraviolet and they hunt down all our poor glowing kittens in a primal bloodlust! No thanks. In fact, I'd rather have a cat that emits powerful gamma ray bursts or something so it could at least take out the neighbors cat.

ping mcmurdo.gov
ping: unknown host mcmurdo.gov

What happened? Their ice foundation melted already? Roving gangs of starving polar bears finally cracked their nut? Some kind of cosmic driveby took them down? Or maybe the South Pole Station IT department repair to McMurdo's WAN is just glacially slow...

Reminds me of Dark Star.

Ah but what about Chavez? Good old Hugo Chavez, I guess he's been demoted to backup with Kim Jong-Il, remember him?

The Revolution Will not be Televised is required viewing for any discussion regarding U.S. international relations and media shenanigans.

As for what the U.S. government thinks when it goes to war check out Fog of War with McNamara, a tell all from the man in charge of a war.

I don't know if they got him drunk or what but damn if he isn't honest and scary, not honest like he doesn't lie. Honest like his lies are honest.

And Stuey Gluck fell out of a plane and survived, too.

Oh, wait, that was a film. My bad.

And then we'll start watering our crops with sports drinks.

So this "Should" vs. "Shall" is a mute point, they meant what they said.

The word "moot" has a strict meaning in this context, there is a dictionary for that kind of thing.

Or, to quote The Princess Bride, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

The main question is now, is intelligence in any way still being selected for? If it isn't, then it seems likely that there will be a backwards slide in human intelligence until the situation changes.

Mike Judge... is that you? :-)

Unless it's taught by Anthony Michael Hall, you can forget about it.

The problem with that is that he'll know your grade before you even take the class.

MPAA: We have ways of making your pronounce the letter "O"!

And popcorn. LOTS of popcorn!

I just love mad science, particularly when taught by Mr Medulla. Just don't confuse your rays with your beams...

I welcome our new Kelly LeBrock Overlords!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090305/

Truly one of Canada's great contributions to the rest of the world. Kelly ROCKS!!!

"I just don't know how much computers had a firm grip (or no grip at all) on the public zeitgeist in the pre-Internet (or at least pre-Reagan-80's) days."

Rent this movie for a popular culture view of computers in 1969.

This bears an eerie resemblance to the movie Final Cut. From the IMDB plot summary:

The story is set in a world where implanted microchips can record all moments of an individual's life. The chips are removed upon death so the images can be edited into something of a highlight reel for loved ones who want to remember the deceased.

Not nearly the same, admittedly, but I couldn't help but be reminded.

The guy from Memento could have used this! Even using Microsoft products has to be less painful than constantly tatooing yourself.

Because Superman is dead?
Ok, how about we fund it by using the left-over fractions of a penny from bank transactions?

Because Superman is dead?
Ok, how about we fund it by using the left-over fractions of a penny from bank transactions?

Already been done: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/

Dark Helmet: Careful you idiot! I said across her nose, not up it!
Laser Gunner: Sorry sir! I'm doing my best!
Dark Helmet: Who made that man a gunner?
Major Asshole: I did sir. He's my cousin.
Dark Helmet: Who is he?
Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole sir.
Dark Helmet: I know that! What's his name?
Colonel Sandurz: That is his name sir. Asshole, Major Asshole!
Dark Helmet: And his cousin?
Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole too sir. Gunner's mate First Class Philip Asshole!
Dark Helmet: How many asholes do we have on this ship, anyway?
[Entire bridge crew stands up and raises a hand]
Entire Bridge Crew: Yo!
Dark Helmet: I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes!
[Dark Helmet pulls his face shield down]
Dark Helmet: Keep firing, assholes!

apparently, "prote" is short for "protester"

I thought prot was an alien...or was he?

Prot.

(pronunciation be damned)

On the other hand, Scott has brought us enough quality entertainment over the last forty years that I, for one, don't particularly mind. I garnered a lot of respect for the man after the original Alien film. When I look back, I'd say that Alien and Star Wars are the two movies that stick out in my mind from the Seventies.

The guy is probably the same person as in

Thank you for smoking

Nice comedy :)

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Anyway, after the first few times someone giggled

sssshhhHHHHHHhhh...heh...ssssshhhHHHHHHhhhh...

Next time someone else giggled. A few more times and everyone was trying hard not to laugh. A few more times and the whole audience was in hysterics. It was one of the funniest cinematic moments ever, and it was just a bunch of credits played over some static. I think that was all the study I needed to know that "Film Enjoyment Is Contagious".

No, it's a magic dance move, and it's the only shot we have to save the community center.

No, you turn in yours. The quote is directly from Star Trek: First Contact.

Even worse than the 'new' Bionic Woman is the 'new & improved' Flash Gordon.

EPA Official: S-sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power...
Russ Cargill: Of course I have. You ever tried going mad without power? It's boring. No one listens to you!
/simpsons

Yeah, whatever, I will still do research for unimportant papers via Wikipedia and its vast citations, because when I use other encyclopedias I only get ONE source for information. Jeez, what is the big deal? If your subject is controversial, what makes you think a single source is more reliable? If you just need to know the molecular structure for cuprous iodide or Mussolini's place of birth it's great! Only pricks are trying to turn it into another Myspace.

the Transformers to hack the military? Phht! Hollywood, so unrealistic these days...

They already have. Your memory implant keeps a perfect record of what you see, here, and experience. You've therefore made illegal copies of said works. Either pay the fines accordingly, or have the device destroyed.

    What? It would be fatal to remove it from your brain? Who cares.

    Those of us with flawed implants have nothing to worry about. :)

They already have. Your memory implant keeps a perfect record of what you see, here, and experience. You've therefore made illegal copies of said works. Either pay the fines accordingly, or have the device destroyed.

    What? It would be fatal to remove it from your brain? Who cares.

    Those of us with flawed implants have nothing to worry about. :)

Am I the only one that watched this video and couldn't help but feel the same way as when watching certain scenes from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366179/The Second Renaissance!

When Shall we Dansu was playing, patrons were seen ballroom dancing out of the theater.

I would say any visual stimulation that invokes strong emotions be they violent or exuberant will have an after effect on some people.

Nothing to see here, etc.

you make a good point, and I apologize for being a bit sarcastic.

No offense taken.

my fear is that with current technology available to the current administration, they have already co-opted the opposition's privacy, and used it as a weapon to stifle real dissent. [...] i wonder, given how little real resistance has risen to the current administration's policies and practices, if this scenario is not already the case...

Politics has always had a component of this to it. The term "character assassination" surely didn't come from nowhere. Mass media refines the raw product, as opium into morphine or heroin, allowing a more refined effect on and consequent control of the target audience.

But this isn't what I meant to allude to. In a way, it's benign, or at least abstract, by comparison. I literally meant to address the issue of real guns, etc. See the movie Enemy of the State if you want a concrete, worked example of the technique applied to our own people. (One would have thought But go a step further: What if someone else took power in the US, and had similar access to tools for spotting those who were trying to restore order? More like in Orson Scott Card's Empire (a pretty good read, by the way, full of the kind of tactical writing he did so well in Ender's Game , but applied to the more tangible world of modern America).

What seems a protection while we are in power becomes a liability if the feeble safeguard of "having a person we trust in office" shifts or falls away entirely. The US was founded on the simultaneous belief that government could be managed to achieve great ends, but that it must never be trusted to do so simply because it was government. It requires oversight to keep it running out of control.

Government has no brain--it is merely a powerful shell of armor and claws, waiting for an animal to climb into it and bring it to life, like a ready-made suit for a hermit crab.

Chinese? It sure is! Japanese, to be specific.

Hari Kiri.. Only uninformed or deceived Westerners refer to "Hari Kari"

http://home.no.net/harakiri/

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http://www.parida.com/seppuku.html

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

"Vocabulary and Etymology

Seppuku is also known as hara-kiri (, "cutting the belly") and is written with the same kanji as seppuku but in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, hara-kiri is a colloquialism, seppuku being the more formal term. Samurai (and modern adherents of bushido) would use seppuku, whereas ordinary Japanese (who in feudal times as well as today looked askance at the practice) would use hara-kiri. Hara-kiri is the more common term in English, where it is often mistakenly rendered "hari-kari.""

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http://www.answers.com/topic/seppuku-1

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(Probably the blame can be squarely laid at the feet of hollywood and any servicepersons and tourists from the West who "just didn't get it" or who just didn't give a damn...)

But, it is carried out with a "tanto":

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

If you want to see it performed in a film (quite messy in real life and somewhat in the film), see:

Brother,

Starring and produced/directed by Kitano Takeshi (of "Beat"...) and starring Omar Epps

http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/2001/brother01.shtml

http://www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/product.asp?sku=D27123

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222851/

http://global.yesasia.com/en/artIdxDept.aspx/section-videos/code-j/aid-30742/

and,

http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/brother

"this film sure is one violent sonofabitch. If you're not down for that, then maybe you should check to see if you can get into a session of Harry Potter instead. Some of the harshest violence in it is self-inflicted (that brother thing again, but taken to an illogical and hella messy degree). And all of it is LOUD. Handguns are like cannons. Kicks are like wrecking balls. Punches are like car crashes. Car crashes are like - well, like car crashes. I think the punches are louder."

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Anyway, I will always respect Kitano-san for how he ended the film, something rarely permitted in many western films. You have to see it for yourself...

But...but...Mars Needs Women...

Here is how you can beat the ban of humans on Mars:

Just go lobby the Congress into believing that the arid, Afghanistan-looking planet is a socialist state that painted itself all red, supplies illegal immigrants and exports products that could cause severe health problems. You don't even need to suggest it is in development of nuclear weaponry, once Mars gets the attention, any journalist looking for quick fame will release a "breaking news" that our spy satellites have found bomb testing sites. Not to mention the famous "they'll follow us home" scenario study with countless versions of simulations that can be slipped into the appendix section.

Then in no time you will see some 250,000 men up on the planet automatically without NASA having to spend/ask for a dime.

What is Mars trying to hide?

Santa Claus, you dope.