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If you make a show about Geek people, you'll have an hour of some guy sitting in a dark room staring at a computer screen reading /.

Doesn't have to be. "2001" and "The Abyss" got their (human) science pretty well right. Sure the aliens did magic stuff - they're supposed to be more advanced than us - but everything the humans did was either known to be possible or were plausible extensions of existing technology. And they were good movies, too.

Of course, just getting the tech (mostly) right isn't any guarantee of good entertainment. E.g. "Antitrust", which even used real I.P. addresses (the satellites are on a private 10.x.x.x subnet) but failed in the plot and characterization area.

Good science fiction assumes one impossible thing, or extends current trends to logical limits, and explores what happens then. You have to get, as the GP suggests, the characterization right - but with science fiction, you also have to get the tech right, and mostly they don't bother. It's a shame, too, because much of the time it doesn't have to be that way.

Have we learned nothing from 1950's horror movies?

Or even 1970's science fiction?

If it's glowing, and just came from outer space, RUN. AWAY.

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

Have we learned nothing from 1950's horror movies?

Or even 1970's science fiction?

If it's glowing, and just came from outer space, RUN. AWAY.

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

So what are the best nerd shows out there right now? What are you looking forward to? Where do you turn to to find shows you would like?

The best place I have found to get real numbers on what nerds are watching is by checking out Couchville Buzz. This is a readout of what people are recording with their beyond TV setup (in bulk, not by individual). Beyond TV is like windows media center in that it requires a little level of technical know how to get it going correctly (large drive capacity, auto defragging, TV tuners), but not so much to the point that it scares people off like mythTV (well, used to... I haven't checked it out in a while).

On a side note: McG worked on "The O.C". Seth does not epitomize nerd culture in my book. So I am curious on what his marketing of nerd culture to the media will be.

I ask Diane whether it bothers her to have her mental health regulated by a machine, and she shakes her head. For the most part, she says, she forgets there's a stimulator stuffed under her chest muscles and two wires snaking up her neck, into the depths of her brain. "I wake up every morning and feel like I control how the day's going to be and don't even think about, 'Oh, gosh, I hope it's still on,' " she says. "It feels like I have the power."

I'm Alicia, and um... I wanna join Gay Helpline because... if I could prevent just *one* gay teen from putting a bullet through his head and make him stand up and shout "I'm gay... *gay*! And if you don't like it, you can all go "FUCK YOURSELVES, YOU TWISTED MOTHERFUCKERS!" then I'll be happy.

What do you do when it becomes more and more clear that there isn't any [life]? The funding will evaporate and there goes your whole program.

Maybe I'm misremembering, but wasn't part of the point that the martain air was thin and cold enough here that we didn't have to worry about evaporation effects?

Then again, maybe this whole thing is some kind of plant intended breathe new life into The Mars Underground.

;)

Lola Rennt

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/

Das Boot.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/

Didn't Dr. Robert Zubrin cut it down to 6 months in one direction already? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437325/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin
Using like... 19th century technology and not... you know... like... those banned nuclear thingies?

That's because the Hot Fuzz weren't on the job.

Seriously though, I think there are a lot of people who don't give a shit if anyone sees them committing a crime or misdemeanor. So a camera doesn't do anything for people who have no fear.

Sounds like we need more people like Sgt. Nicholas Angel. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/)

SCO said they would win. They fooled me. I should have known better. I apologize. Many Linux fans said SCO would lose. They were right. I was wrong. The end.

BTW, Kevin Costners last name starts with a "C"

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000126/

Maybe the TSA should add "controversial books" to its list of banned items.

"Actually, a more likely canidate (sic) for faking would be Karl Rove with his usual tactics."

To borrow from Kevin Spacey, then,

"And like that he was gone. Underground. Nobody has ever seen him since. He becomes a myth, a spook story that politicians tell their kids at night. "Go against Bush, and Karl Rove will get you." And no-one ever really believes.

So Occam's Razor forces you to believe that Dan Rather's the victim of a Bush-led conspiracy?

Nemisisisis ... http://imdb.com/title/tt0132347/ :)

I think Memron was a much better documentary. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392439/

What the CIA is doing is nasty. But it's nowhere near as bad as the KGB got up to. The difference is that the CIA is doing to to foreigners abroad and the KGB did it to citizens inside the country. You're also free to criticize the CIA in a way that would have caused Russians to be sent on a one way trip to the gulag if they did the same about the KGB.

I also think the US system - in this case the judiciary - will eventually put an end to CIA's secret prisons or at least gradually move them back inside the US judicial system. But the KGB was the Russian system so there was no possible way for politicians to stop it's abuses.

And for what it's worth Anglo Saxon democracies have always dealt with their foreign enemies with a sort of amoral but highly practical ruthlessness. Watch Elizabeth which is essentially about the England vs Catholic Religious extremists, or anything about US policy in South America in the Cold War. In fact given the sort of enemies they have it's pretty much a necessity - it's not like any of them could have been stopped in any other way other than adopting the sort of theocratic system they were loyal to.

I think the people that do this sort of thing are actually a sort of immune system for the state. So long as they only do it to foreigners I'm not too worried. An 'autoimmune response' against domestic critics of the government would bring the whole state down of course, but the state has developed ways to prevent this like the judiciary. By that analogy, left wingers want an immunocompromised state where any infection is welcome.

But if the enemies of freedom won, we would literally live in a state under attack by own immune system as happened in Russian - tens of millions of innocent Russians were killled by the KGB. It's important to note that this is just a problem with communism - the immune system of an Islamic theocracy would be just as bad, maybe worse.

The CIA by contrast is detaining a few hundred non citizens who are mostly violent advocates of theocracy. The fact that they are violent makes it morally acceptable to use force against them incidentally, and the fact that they believe in a theocracy means that they would inevitably use more violence against their opponents if they were in charge.

So it seems like all things considered you're better off with the CIA/MI5, or whatever your local immune system is called assuming you live in a democracy.

Now I don't think they should torture or disappear them which certainly seems to have happened. But I also don't think they should let them go. But I'm sure some lawyer will figure out a solution to the problem sooner or later.

his name is R. Lee Ermey, he has been in a lot of movies, and is pretty cool guy (insane is not the word i'd use, intimidating, over the top, my grandpa, sure.. insane, no)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000388/

http://imdb.com/title/tt0089886/ Do you think this movie possibly saw the future 22 years ago? I suppose it is possible.

Actually,San Andreas and Vice City had a lawyer in it, Ken somethingorother (Rosenberg, after looking it up :). Sniveling, coke-snorting dude. I think he represented Love Fist, a rock band, which had Paulo and Maccar; the latter could not stop masturbating, at least in San Andreas. Any moral objections are spurious at best, I've played the game through 5 times now and never skip a cut-scene; it's like watching a 40-hour (or so) movie.

Samuel L. Jackson plays the part of Officer Tenpenny, and Chris Penn plays his sidekick, Officer ... Pulaski? Yeah, that's it; the game is on IMDB, and has received a whopping 9.5 out of 10. (My number's a 10, but I'm not creating an account there... :)

Okay, now that I've had a chance to look at the IMDB site, I see that it's really a star-studded cast! Ice-T, Peter Fonda, James Woods, David Cross, Axl Rose, Wil Wheaton (hi Wil!), Christopher Plummer, Pol Pot, and many more.

I love the way the game starts out with you on a bicycle, and by the end of the game you're flying helicopters and a harrier (reminds me of the movie True Lies, "Sorry!"), in fact I'm going to go work towards 100% right now (I got all the horseshoes, but haven't started on the oysters yet).

Very much looking forward to GTA4, even before Mr. Thompson was paid to advertise. :>

I know you were joking, but I thought that its worth pointing out, there is no longer such a thing as a bomb in Hollywood. Between the globalization of the film market(by which I mean that Hollywood is now king almost everywhere), DVD sales, PPV, broadcast rights, and merchandizing it is virtually impossible for a Hollywood film to lose money anymore. "Evan Almighty" made back $100 mil of its $175 mil budget just in domestic box office, and given that Hollywood films now generally make more money abroad than at home, its sure to show a profit before its done with theatres.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413099/business

This kind. You know, where the laptop comes back (with maybe a few bullet holes) but the thieves don't.

Get me 20,000 gallons of Head and Shoulders, and a fire truck. Stat.

Anyone else notice any similarities with the Donnie Darko Character?
The interruption seemed vaguely similar to something in the movie. (except without police and tasers...)

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/09/18/student.tasered.ap/art.taser.kid.ap.jpg

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/32/45/38m.jpg

Yeah but what if that baby is the Antichrist?

It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever.
-David St. Hubbins

(when the crawling-naked-girl cover for the album "Smell The Glove" was universally decried as sexist)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/quotes

There are no intelligent creationists, but there are sane Christians. I'm a regular listener to Sunday Night Safran, a religious discussion program with an atheist and catholic priest hosting, who had a TV series before their radio stint called Speaking in Tongues. Anyway, if you can spare the time have a listen to John Safran interviewing Bishop John Shelby Spong (33mb download, interview at 50:05 onwards). He has restored my faith in sane Christians.

You might find a movie relevant to the joke.

Linus himself seems to be against the spirit of the GPL - either version 2 or 3

Before the law, there stands a guard. A man comes from the country, begging admittance to the law. But the guard cannot admit him. May he hope to enter at a later time? That is possible, said the guard. The man tries to peer through the entrance. He'd been taught that the law was to be accessible to every man. "Do not attempt to enter without my permission", says the guard. I am very powerful. Yet I am the least of all the guards. From hall to hall, door after door, each guard is more powerful than the last. By the guard's permission, the man sits by the side of the door, and there he waits. For years, he waits. Everything he has, he gives away in the hope of bribing the guard, who never fails to say to him "I take what you give me only so that you will not feel that you left something undone." Keeping his watch during the long years, the man has come to know even the fleas on the guard's fur collar. Growing childish in old age, he begs the fleas to persuade the guard to change his mind and allow him to enter. His sight has dimmed, but in the darkness he perceives a radiance streaming immortally from the door of the law. And now, before he dies, all he's experienced condenses into one question, a question he's never asked. He beckons the guard. Says the guard, "You are insatiable! What is it now?" Says the man, "Every man strives to attain the law. How is it then that in all these years, no one else has ever come here, seeking admittance?" His hearing has failed, so the guard yells into his ear. "Nobody else but you could ever have obtained admittance. No one else could enter this door! This door was intended only for you! And now, I'm going to close it." This tale is told during the story called "The Trial". It's been said that the logic of this story is the logic of a dream... a nightmare.

Err.. does anyone else wonder why specifically sharks?

Better watching the apocalypse than this http://imdb.com/title/tt0472043/

Too bad the article was about the Bully video game, and not Bully, the movie, directed by Larry Clark.

If DOS 5.0 came out after 1988, then we have yet another thing Microsoft ripped-off. This is basically the Rosco's Fried Chick Commerical in TapeHeads (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096223/).

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.

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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:
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

It's like a wealthy financier trying to become a world-renowned filmmaker just because he has the money to hire a camera crew.

This is probably what they used on the spacecraft in the movie Sunshine.

As someone else here has already stated: It's my computer, it's my paid-for connection to the internet, it's my right to see or not see whatever I do or do not want, unless I choose to surrender my ability to choose (e.g., the way Netzero used to be). Personally, I'll rip the damned cable out of the wall myself the day that happens and go back to writing code for entertainment (and yes, I'm aware my rant is starting to reach "Stay off my lawn you damned kids" proportions; I'm taking a step back from the edge now).

If they're grousing about Adblock Plus, I'm sure next they'll be whining about the Flashblock plugin. Not like the over-use of Flash animations on websites has become SPAM 2.0 or anything like that. :p

Not really. To me your two parties are conservative and conservativer. You don't have a left and a right, you have a right and an even more right. Seriously, look outside your borders a bit.

How many "M" games with the gameplay removed would be rated "PG13" vs. "R" for a movie (machinima)? (hint)

Similarly, how many "R" movies, with the addition of the simple mechanic of "Press A to continue", would be reclassified as "AO" rather than "M"?

The problem with Standards is that everybody has their own.

Where the character played by Lukas Haas is originally a rabid republican, until the doctors find that he has a tumor in his head. Once the tumor is removed, he's instantly converted (back) into a left-wing liberal - just like his entire family.

Quotes:
(father) - How did I end up with a kid on the other end of the political spectrum? How did I fail? Steffi, get me a copy of my will... and an eraser.
[... after a long while, right after tumor removed]
(father) - Honey! Bring down a copy of my will... and an eraser!
imdb link here

Screw G.I. Joe, the only international fighting force for freedom that ever mattered was Megaforce. They were made up of representatives from all free nations, were all male, and hung out in gold lamé spandex outfits in the desert. And, just like Senator Craig, they were not gay--honest.

On a related note, Paul Greengrass needs to be strapped into a giant paint shaker until his brain liquefies for what he did to the last two Bourne movies. I mean for christsakes can we have a conversation with two people sitting in a restaurant on screen without a cameraman suffering from Parkinson's?

I would like to see one using Priscilla, Queen of the Desert :)

Couldn't tell if you're serious, so I thought I'd reply with the answer. In 1987, they made GI Joe: The Movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093066/ This movie contains information that will corrupt your childhood memories. Read at your own risk.

Closer to home, this is what Alf Winters (Temuera Morrison) does when he finds a tracking device in his girlfriend's hair drier. Packages it up and sends it on a bus to Invercargill. "Never Say Die" (1988) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095721/