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There is, at least in Europe, a span between something being a secret, and something being public. We could call it "private". There are several homosexual members of the parliament whose sexual orientation is not really a secret. They live together with their lovers, the press know it, and for the more prominent members (such as possibly our prime minister[*]) the man on the street knows it as well.

But the press generally doesn't write about it, until they appear as a couple at an official event, in which case the more gossip oriented part of the press will cover it like any other famous or semi-famous couple. It is not really different from how heterosexual couples are treated, who your partner is is considered a private matter, until you choose to make it part of your public image.

[*] The press don't write about it, but the rappers rap about it, and one guy made a (state-sponsored) mockumentary about it.

"Corn is a horrible source for ethanol..."
Regarding fuel, YES. But, damn, I do like my corn likker[sic]!

Okay, my natural smartass need has been satisfied...sorry!

I like your style. I would have went with '+1 informative', but that doesn't seem enough here.
You make some valid points (with reference links) that are relevant to the discussion. Bonus Points! (sadly, this seems the exception lately-

The two things that caused me to reply are:

There was also a political/cultural aspect to the 1934 law aimed against immigrants from our southern border. The movie (various titles, but I saw it labeled as 'Reefer Madness') http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028346/ "Tell Your Children' helped get this law passed to a small degree.
The whole "Oh NO!-We're gonna be exposed to sin and corruption and fall into Hell" mindset of the masses keeps us from utilizing hemp as a resource. Back then, and still today.
Okay, here's a better link:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6696582420128930236(it's now in the public domain-Yay!) Pay particular attention to th scrolling text that 'announces the movie'. They admit to 'blowing it out of proportion' to get the public's attention to this new menace being brought across the border by Mexicans, and the cool aspects of the use of this new terror was being espoused by the popular jazz musicians of the day! The Horror! The Shame! The Idiocy!

Maybe I played too much CyberPunk back when, but it seems to be turning to a corporate-run world more and more. Hhmmmmm....Solo or Runner?....

The general public doesn't realise that hemp (as grown for rope-making, fiber, etc.) has no significant THC content. It may be related to marijuana(so are hops), but it it not the same thing. The US gov't. has managed/subsidised many hemp fields just for rope(IIRC it started during WW2), and as a teenager I found one and sampled the crop. UGHH!...not worth the effort- I doubt a human could smoke enough of this stuff to feel even a mild buzz, much less get high!

Hell, it's said that George Washington grew hemp! I would not be surprised if he did. Back in his day easy to work fiber for rope-making was surely marketable. I imagine his smoking habits were more into tobacco than his hemp.

Bach to the point, hemp would be a good addition to the biofuel solution. Easy to grow, prolific, and high yield if cultivated.

This kinda reminds me of the old puppet show Joe90

http://imdb.com/name/nm0923736/otherworks
Though that says he wrote an unused draft, many of his lines appeared in the film, e.g. "Do you know what happens to a toad when it gets struck by lightning?"

First of all, he had nothing to do with the original Buffy movie

My professor just made us watch Dinosaur . I thought that was a non-fiction movie?

But Mr. Obama sometimes seemed ambivalent about the law. In his 1995 memoir, "Dreams From My Father," he wrote that the law could be "a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power -- and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition."

[Frank is giving his summation to the jury]
Frank Galvin: You know, so much of the time we're just lost. We say, "Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us what is true." And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. But today you are the law. You ARE the law. Not some book... not the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion, they say, "Act as if ye had faith... and faith will be given to you." IF... if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And ACT with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts.
[he sits down]

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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attached to this story is more meaningful than at first glance, if any of you remember the movie

fractals, numerology, obsession, madness, religion, finding patterns in randomness, etc.

great movie if you haven't seen it

So much for trying to escape to an island when the machines take over, Bill.

"It isn't the comet. It's a broom. Imagine you're a race of aliens, right? And, you're looking for a new place to live. Say you're looking for a planet like you and I looking for a new place to live. A new house. So here's Earth. Only it's like this big old house. And, it's kind of polluted, dirty, and smoky. Grease on the walls, soot in the chimney. So, they send in their interstellar housecleaners. Send in their broom. Sweep us all up. That's what this it is, it's a broom. Using our own machines to sweep us right off."

I must say that both me and Maria Conchita Alonso find that there's nothing funny about a dickless moron with a battery up his ass. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/quotes

Particularly when they don't make him waterproof.

> If truly notable comics like Evil Inc. and Checkerboard Nightmare are deleted from Wikipedia

I've never heard of these.

A ton of people have never heard of the film The Battleship Potemkin... does that mean it's not a notable film? I'll give you a tip: It's a hell of a lot more notable to cinema than most films almost everybody has heard of, like E.T. or Star Wars.

And look, wow, it's on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battleship_Potemkin

What's with the double standard between cinema and webcomics?

'Did you know even the stock holders of "The Phone Company" hate the phone company? '

--- The President's Analyst

I think the rant also included "Beduin nomads in the desert hate the phone company" but I couldn't find online confirmation of this.

(Incidentally, I don't have a cellphone. For a while I had which was given to me by my father - it had been given to him, and then he'd been given a better one. It was on a pay-per-call, no-monthly-fee scheme. The reason I don't have it anymore is that it was so obsolete that about 6 months ago, they dismantled the network it used.)

Does a theatrical release count for popularity? I bet it was even reviewed in some dead-tree publications, since there was no web in 1966.

Also, how about the bootleg Davey and Goliath overdub you probably saw if you went to college in the late 80's.

Or, not strictly overdubbing, but the Rocky Horror Picture Show audience script probably counts for something.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114728/ Narrated by our pal Bill Shatner too.
http://www.amazon.com/Trinity-Beyond-Atomic-Bomb-Movie/dp/B00000IML5

Absoloutely awesome movie, probably a bit twisted but I love atomic bombs and seeing them go off, beautiful things, horrible of course but beautiful too, fascinating stuff.
They cover Tsar Bomba in that, IIRC the mushroom cloud went 64km's in the air and people would have got 3'rd degree burns at up to 100 miles away.
(check wikipedia, I'm not linking it for whoring value)

Here's a snippet of it as it goes off underwater.
Seeing the size of that amount of water shoot up with those tiny battleships in the foreground, along with that music - goosebumps.

Epic stuff, check it out people.

Problem is Peter Jackson. He is an atrocious director who works with supremely bad editors.

He has done some very decent movies. Go and watch Heavenly Creatures. That movie convinced me he might be able to do Lord of the Rings justice (I was disappointed with the result, though). The real problem is that nowadays he gets a big enough budget to thoroughly ruin any story. Some directors are better on a small budget.

I would strongly recommend watching Trinity and Beyond http://imdb.com/title/tt0114728/
It available on DVD..
You'll get to see some wicked badass bombs.

William Fucking Shatner.

Since video game movies tend to be pretty awful anyway make the Halo move a Uwe Boll production and get it over with. He'll save a lot of money on the actors, special effects, costumes, sets, and the script by bringing his special brand of incompetence and indifference to the project.

$145 million for Halo? Boll could trash it for $35 million.

Whereas Peter Jackson would want CG space ship scenes with the giant ring rendered in glorious detail Boll would settle for spray painting a hula hoop and super gluing Legos to it.

Raleigh, NC - GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) this afternoon announced one of their loyal members was responsible for planting the "backdoor" inside the popular opensores operating system, Lunix (Stocks, Websites).

In a shocking announcement this afternoon, GNAA representative goat-see revealed that the mistery hacker who penetrated high-security defenses of the Lunix "source code" repository and injected viral gay nigger seed deep inside the kernel was indeed a full-time GNAA member.

"This is serious," goat-see began. This is a first event of such magnitude since GNAA opened its doors to new members in 1996. Until now, we were gathering new members by announcing our group information on a popular troll website, slashdot.org, but this is a whole new era. By injecting our holy gay nigger seed right into the Lunix kernel, we will be able to immediately collect thousands of members. "Make the most of the next six weeks," he added. "We will grow in numbers more than you can possibly imagine".

Insertion of the GNAA backdoor came right between the consideration of Novell to buy out the entire Lunix Kernel programming team, and will most likely positively affect the decision. By adding all the gay niggers working for Novell with the gay niggers developing Lunix kernel source, GNAA will be all-powerful and will begin plotting our next plans to add "backdoors" into the next favorite operating system, BeOS.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

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.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and

This is not an uncommon theme in the US to the point where the practice was ridiculed on stage (and subsequent film) in the 1940's and 50s. Ever seen the movie Harvey?

As for torture in prisons, maybe they're using the Bush administration definition of what is torture and what is not.

Maybe we should film every moment of our lives so we can always prove we are not guilty? Even just filming yourself while driving sounds a bit paranoid to me.
Freeze Frame http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363095/ gives a, perhaps slightly exaggerated, view of what having to prove you are not guilty all the time could do.

Oh hell no. Kilby by a landslide.

Obligatory:

I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. is down! I repeat, we have no I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.!

Put on electric collars that zap you if you step "out of bounds". Easy to see where this will lead.

Come on its a perfect match. The future of all commerce is on the internet.

What other service should the CIA use to sell surplus weapons/aircraft/ships, information, and drugs to extremist/rebel/etc factions around the world? I mean they certainly can't be seen selling them directly. And who would ever suspect that eddieguns4056 sale of 200,000 AK-47s could possibly have anything to do with the CIA.

And anyway using Nick Cage to do it is sooooo 1990's

The fundamental problem is that it's more advantageous for each individual firm to hire people with some job experience (because they won't make novice mistakes), but if every company follows that rule then no one can enter the industry.

See also: The Secret of My Success

Unnamed employer: I'm sorry, Mr. Foster. We need someone with experience.

Brantley Foster: But how can I get any experience until I get a job that GIVES me experience?

Unnamed employer: If we gave you a job just to give you experience, you'd take that experience and get a better job. Then that experience would benefit someone else.

Brantley Foster: Yeah, but I was trained in college to handle a job like this, so in a sense I already have experience.

Unnamed employer: What you've got is college experience, not the practical, hard-nosed business experience we're looking for. If you'd joined our training program out of high-school, you'd be qualified for this job now.

Brantley Foster: Then why did I go to college?

Unnamed employer: [laughs] Had fun, didn't you?

According to IMDb and her fan sites, Pauley Perrette, who plays goth geek chick Abby Sciuto on CBS's NCIS, received a Master's degree in Criminology (with honors) from Georgia State and also studied Sociology and Psychology.

Additionally, apparently fellow NCIS cast member Sean Murray ("Probie" Timothy McGee[k]) is a real-life computer geek and David McCallum (Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard) is actually licensed to perform autopsies.

(Of course, take these with the usual internet disclaimers.)

True, but have you considered this little-known biographical fact about Keanu: In high school, Reeves was lukewarm toward academics but took a keen interest in ice hockey (as team goalie, he earned the nickname "The Wall") http://imdb.com/name/nm0000206/bio
This alone has to count at least like a PhD, right?

Apparently he's also a huge fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion, and managed to get an Evangelion toy to appear in his movie One Hour Photo .

Do you mean guys other than Flip Wilson? http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1024/Mptv/1024/4543-3.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Wilson,%20Flip

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105236
http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/reservoir.shtml

they don't understand evolution.

In Jesus Camp, there's an interview with a fundamentalist Christian mother who explains why she chooses her brand of religion to explain the world instead of scientific reasoning, "it's the only answer to everything that makes sense". It's the only answer to everything that makes sense.

One gets a strong impression that this woman simply isn't very well educated and that because she doesn't understand what scientists are talking about, she defaults to a simplistic answer that she can comprehend.

...this guy knew what to do

Saturn's rings are composed largely of water ice with some impurities. Frozen ugly bags of mostly water.

In 1952, Isaac Asimov wrote a story called "The Martian Way", where colonists on Mars got sick of paying Earth to export water (and Earth politicians said the colonists were Wasters anyhow). The Martian Scavengers flew to Saturn, chose a large fragment of ice, reshaped it into a cylinder, embeded their ships in it, and flew it like a giant ship back to Mars. Using the fragment's ice as reaction mass, they were able to make the return trip in five weeks.

We now know they'd have to melt many fragments together instead of having a cubic mile chip to reshape ...but if something similar were undertaken in the future (fly a robot mission to the rings, fuse blocks together, return them to the inner Solar System), we could check the blocks of ice for traces of former life. Scientists are excited about the prospect of xenobiology under Europa's icy crust ...it would be a lot easier to sift through the rubble of Saturn's rings for traces of dead organisms preserved in the vacuum of space than to send a Cryobot to melt through miles of ice in the hope of finding extraterrestrial life.

Worse... It's the Saturn Three space station!

WHOOOSH!

Looks like someone missed the movie reference.....

I needed a US bank to apply for an account or else I wouldn't get paid in the US. The lady behind the bank counter said, "I need to see your ID," so I give her my Canadian driver's license. She gives it back to me saying, "No, I need something with a picture on it," so I took it back and drew a little picture on it. No, no, wait, wait! Then she said, "I'm sorry, sir, but that's not good enough," and I said, "What, do I need to be a fucking artist to get an account here?"

I needed a US bank to apply for an account or else I wouldn't get paid in the US. The lady behind the bank counter said, "I need to see your ID," so I give her my Canadian driver's license. She gives it back to me saying, "No, I need something with a picture on it," so I took it back and drew a little picture on it. No, no, wait, wait! Then she said, "I'm sorry, sir, but that's not good enough," and I said, "What, do I need to be a fucking artist to get an account here?"

Right on. Tom Cruise was awesome in Magnolia.

I think you may have found the first worthwhile application for RFID.

Somebody call Starkist!!

Your analogy is broken. Suppose you rented me a TV and told me it picked up all the off-air stations just fine. Then, I discovered that it wouldn't pick up Channel 62, and I complained to you about this. Later, I discover that not only this TV, but all the TVs you rent refuse to pick up Channel 62. All of them pick up the local Channel 8 network affiliate though, which you just happen to be on very good terms with. After all, it turns out you're getting a share of ad revenue from Channel 8, because you're helping to increase overall viewership.

I'd say I got slighted. There was a duty of disclosure and a conflict of interest at play. It was your duty to disclose to me that the TV did not pick up Channel 62. Furthermore, your relationship to Channel 8 makes it likely that the inability to pick up Channel 62 is no mere oversight.

Had I known your televisions wouldn't pick up Channel 62, I would have gotten a TV elsewhere, or demanded a much lower price. Now that I'm locked into a 2 year service contract, though, I'm stuck holding the crap end of the stick.

Now replace "Channel 62" with "P2P software," "Channel 8" with MPAA and big cable networks, and TV with cable internet service, and "you" with "Comcast," and that's a bit closer to the situation.

--Joe

(And yes, Channel 62 / Channel 8 is a reference to UHF...

"Maybe now you'll never slime a guy with a positron collider, huh?"

You obviously didn't pick up the George Carlin reference.

I'm also glad that it appears that the majority of gamers are more concerned with good entertainment and discussions rather than simply addicted to cons.

So the majority of gamers are wannabe criminals!. Jack Thompson was right!