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Re:Regardless of the release date
So's the guy who played him.
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You're both wrong.You've just reversed the misconceptions.
No, he doesn't have to adapt.
Yes, he does, if he wants to realize his stated goals. If he wants to stop paying for stuff he doesn't like, he needs to learn to like something. Either learn to deal with Open Source or learn to like paying for proprietary software. He does have to change, one way or the other, and reset his goals and expectations - all of which are ways of saying he does have to adapt to current reality if he is going to move forward.This is a capitalistic society--Linux variants need to adapt or die. Not the customers.
No, the entire world (which is where linux lives) is not capitalistic in a black-and-white sense. Just ask Hugo Chavez, for one. But that really doesn't matter because "adapt or die" has zero applicability to linux and derivatives - they were created and continue to exist because people like playing with them, and the commercial uses are just the cart following that horse.Either they have to provide the functionality needed to communicate with the software in question, or they have to provide a suitable replacement with a good migration capability. Good, consistent user interfaces is a plus.
No. The nebulous they* do not have to do any such thing. Linux distributors have to have an income stream to remain in business, but this can be composed solely of donations from customers who don't care about compatibililty (after all, that's Microsoft's income model) or something else. Linux developers can survive on the basis of independent wealth, student subsidies, or day jobs - they also don't need to do anything they don't feel like doing.Demanding that the *customer* adapt is just silly and a good way to make sure that linux remains marginal.
Is a linux-based enterprise that handles over 42 million dollars a month with less than 500 employees "marginal"? I personally don't think so. Is Google "marginal", for that matter? But it really doesn't matter, because linux doesn't care if you like it or not.
You can't apply outmoded economic models to OSS provisioning, just like you can't switch to a completely different corporate infrastructure painlessly. The problem is expectations and goals, and not individual product capabilities. Get it? Your conclusions are only wrong because of incorrect premises, not because of faulty logic or reasoning.
* "They, they, THEY! When did the Emperor not have enemies?!" --Harvey Keitel, as Feraud in "The Duelists" -
Re:Oh, that's different.
I know there are some scifi nuts of a certain age around here.. anyone else watch "V" back in the 1980s?
Thats a good example, but I know a better one: The Arrival, where aliens have infiltrated society and government and are churning out greenhouse gasses and heat to make the planet more comfortable for them. -
Why the B&N Book model works:
The entire reason why Barnes and Noble can let their customers read the books and put them back up on the shelf is because the average human being would rather do the reading at home. Most books are reasonably priced and allows the customer to take it home and read in the comfort of their own home.
On the other hand, if Hollywood gives consumers 'free' downloads and previews of movies, there will be no incentive to buy it because the consumer is already at home and comfortable. As the article said, Hollywood needs to make it so that consumers WANT to buy the movie. Bring the screenwriters out from behind the veil and give them more reward because they are the original concept artists in the movie industry. Since the quality coming out of Hollywood these days is pretty low (in my opinion), there is less satisfaction from forking out the $20 for a DVD. Why support crap? I am personally all for supporting the industry (buying DVDs and going to the theater) when there is awesome content on the screen (Pixar movies anyone?). But I refuse to buy garbage (Stranded - worst movie I've ever seen).
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Jewish pedophiles delete GNAA article from WikipedJewish pedophiles delete GNAA article from Wikipedia
Jewish pedophiles delete GNAA article from Wikipedia
Drake - Nigeria, Weekly GayzetteThe nuts of wikipedos worldwide were ruptured with pleasure today, as the GNAA article was deleted. Due to the rampant amount of homophobic nigger-hate circulating through Wikipedo, the GNAA article was put up for yet another vote for deletion [read as very fat dick] today, its 18th nomination. However, unlike the other 17 consecutive failures, the article was deleted this time.
The articles lengthy and vastly homosexual existence was cut short today when, after being nominated for less than 24 hours, it was deleted by zionist government officials [see: wikipedia editors]. The irony in this comes in the form of the fact that it is written in a certain section of the Talmud [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_p olicy], that an article must remain up for deletion for a minimum of 5 days for discussion and debate purposes before any deletion.
The jew who commenced final delete operation was Andrew J. "Tawker" W[name deleted to protect privacy], a teenage Wikipedo residing in Shithole, Canada and attending a public college together with 16000 other unwashed Canucks.
When asked his opinion on the situation, GNAA president timecop remarked, "lol drama." Truer words have never been spoken, as much lol-inducing drama, and most likely multiple jew lynchings and anallingus seminars will come in the following days.
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Re:they should brand one for the Euro market then
What's really funny is that it can't really stand for (G)erman- Mail, as if it was tailored to actual Germans, wouldn't it be (D)eutschland-Mail?
I was thinking more like Z-Mail, as in mail for zee germans
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Did no one think of Tom Hanks?
And Meg Ryan, too!
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Re:another option
Well remember we, as license payers, pay for the content to be made. Giving it away to the world for free would probably be in violation of their charter, and would certainly make me ask "Why am I paying this again"?
Ah, if only the truth were so simplistic.
I've seen such arguments trotted out from time to time, and believe me -- I feel for my friends out in the UK who have to pay for a television license. Here in Canada we have no such fee, which is the way things should be.
HOWEVER, don't for a minute assume that your TV license fee dollars are the only funds that go into producing quality BBC programming, and thus that said programming should never escape across boarders through the Internet.
You see, where you pay a license fee to the BBC to own a television in your part of the world, here in my part of the world the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is funded (in part) through tax dollars -- including my tax dollars. And yet CBC Programming (especially documentaries) is shown all around the world, including portions of which are available online.
Aside from that, let's look at one of the shows the BBC is proposing to make available online: Doctor Who. Click the link and scroll down to "Production Companies". Yes, that's right, the venerable BBC Sci-Fi series is produced in part by the CBC.
Thus, I at least have already paid for part of Doctor Who. How many other modern BBC shows are co-produced in conjunction with the national broadcasters in other (esp. Commonwealth) countries?
(Let's not also mention that the BBC already broadcasts world-wide via various cable outlets, like BBC Canada and BBC America, amongst others).
I don't argue with the complaint that the UK's TV licensing fee seems like a cash-grab to my eyes, but that's up to you and your countrymen to fix, and not something I can affect change for. However, the view that your licensing fees are the sole source of funding for popular BBC shows doesn't exactly reflect modern reality, and the desire to prevent such shows from being made available to the world for free online isn't going to put the cat back into the bag: it escaped long, long ago, and probably never should have been in there in the first place.
Yaz.
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Re:Our corporation's greatest enemy
I think you mean it's all just part of the game. I'll bet the game uses real bullets, too...
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Don't be so crabby about it.
Dude, the little mermaid is like 12 years old...
The movie came out in 1989; ergo, the Little Mermaid will be 18 this November. All in all, I'd say that's close enough. Here's to "dabbling with watercolors"!
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Re:Microsoftie
Go watch the movie "The Corporation" and your question will be answered. And no, it's not a propaganda film--it's a very even-handed documentary that analyzes the concept of a corporation. It examines just what you said--that the people in a company are often kind folks outside of work, but how the attitude of the group can change when they gather towards a common goal of making money. On the flip side, it also examines how the public often mis-perceives corporations as evil when the corporation is really simply just doing what it was designed to do--make a profit. Highly recommended viewing. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/
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Ubuntu numbers == Ubullshu
In a way, I think slashdot should take credit for this metric coming to pass.
It's been obvious to people who "work" with linux, that Ubuntu is trying to be the friendly, cool, slick linux, and portray other distros as the geeks. Just like high school. Of course just like real life, there are more geeks than you realize and they are a lot more productive than the "slick" people. To counter this, the slick people employ marketing science -- which actually has nothing to do with marketing or science -- it's just lying about the other guy to make yourself look good.
I don't have a problem with Ubuntu, and I quite appreciate what they are trying to do in usability, but to pretend that they are the most popular linux distro is (quite literally) belittling of the others.
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Re:remake?
You are thinking of Catch Me If You Can (2002)
This revolved around fraudulent checks, not credit cards. From Imdb.com :
"An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries." -
Just like Old-Time Radio
When I first saw this headline, I thought it was a contemporary update of the classic radio show I Was a Communist for the FBI . 78 epsiodes (and also a movie) of cold war paranoia
So I personally will not RTFA until it has been adapted into a radio drama with hilariously over the top voice acting. -
Re: Trolls too...
My motorcycle has rocket launchers.
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Re:So true
Yeah but last time I didn't receive a piece. And I was told...
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Re:Tell You What
Your living room is like three female cat burglars fighting a Chinese crime syndicate?
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Been done in Zero-G
The Uranus Experiment. The porn industry would probably have an extra 150k lying around to send up an actress with him. According to his blog, he's married but hey - you have to have some priorities.
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Re:Anyone remember CDi?
Yes, well good point -- and while you're at it, there is Kino-Automat...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_cinema ...an unsuccesful 1968 "interactive film"; which is like The Godfather compared to the appalling "I'm Your Man"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171392/ ...made for Sony's disastrous early 90s interactive cinema experiment, using cinemas with laser disk players.
I fully agree that for those who remember history to avoid repeating its mistakes, there is no shortage of discouraging precedents. I also agree that interactive filmmaking attracts a steady stream of fools and charlatans.
However, I would suggest that there are some glimmers of hope:
* broadband is a stable, worldwide medium with pretty good data speeds, going to pretty powerful computers in millions of homes and offices worldwide
* sorry, you know that of course, just trying to make a point which is that the techonlogical infrascturcutre is in place in a way that was not the case before -- I don't know the tech details of CDi, but it would have been running at about 1x or 2x CD speed, I assume, so proably around 150kbps? And only going to homes with the right player installed. That's a big disadvantage.
* when you're talking about cinema, digital cinema is still not mature, but it's been rolling out fast since 2006.
* But your key point remains valid: becuase the question is whether these new media will give rise to useful and interesting interactive presentations or not. We'll have to see. A couple of encouraging sites are
http://www.subservientchicken.com/
http://www.movieactive.com/ -- which has links to UK stuff done for the National Theatre, Tate, etc. ...but I grant you, the jury is still out. -
Mommy, I wanna watch Sin-duh-weh-wuhHow many shows do you really want to watch more than twice?
Ask somebody with a single-digit-year-old child.
I also get the feeling that I just don't place $20 of value on being able to watch a specific movie any time I like"Mommy, I wanna watch Sin-duh-weh-wuh!"
I would love to be able to pay $0.50 for a throwaway six hour license to watch a programWould you love for your kid to be able to spend this $0.50 on demand?
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11.38 petabits?
As in reference to THX 1138?
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GNAA campaign against PHP and ZEND bears fruitGNAA campaign against PHP and ZEND bears fruit
Impi - Diplomatic Corp, South Africa
The ongoing war against PHP by the GNAA has finally produced results that are a step in the right direction. GNAA have been aggressively involved in a campaign to educate the public at large about the tremendous control that MOSSAD has over the development of PHP and the subsequent clandestine information gathering technology that has been implemented by Jewish developers.
The co-founders of Zend, the PHP Company, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are known Israeli MOSSAD agents; they were recruited by MOSSAD during their formative years at the Israel Institute of Technology.
On Friday, 28 July 2006, Jani Taskinen, aka _sniper_ resigned from the PHP development team. FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you Jews. I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it. Good bye.
This was a direct result of the ongoing war against Hezbollah which has been backed by the USA and primarily been driven by the information gathering technologies embedded in PHP by Zend.
Several GNAA members who were also part of the PHP development team have also resigned in solidarity with Jani Taskinen.
timecop, the glorious president of the GNAA has reacted in the wake of these events by extending an invitation of honorary lifetime GNAA membership to _sniper_, for having courage in his convictions.
GNAA official website, located at http://www.gnaa.us/ is powered by Microsoft Internet Information Services and ASP.NET, running on INTEL hardware.
About Zend
Zend is an Israeli funded body that is controlled by MOSSAD.
About PHP
Crap.
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Re:Tosser... (said the Tosser)The way it was expressed, it seemed like more of that "fucked up zealotry, morality and ideology" whereby anyone with the misfortune to get stung by the fact that MS is so damned insecure has clearly comitted a crime against human intellect and deserved what they got. It was more than just that; it was that SuperKendall actually supported the actions of the thieves and wanted to thank them. It's not just messed-up morally, it's downright blinkered and stupid to think the thief's choice of behaviour had anything to do with an anti-MS agenda. Or, for that matter, to disregard the fact that most of the thief's scams will have nothing to do with Windows, but just as likely stealing from vulnerable old people and the like.
Real-life thieves and conmen aren't like those in "Hustle", the majority are morally bankrupt vermin who don't give a toss about anyone else. SuperKendall would like to "thank" them.
The unacceptable face of Linux zealotry.... these sorts of views make all of us Linux users look bad, unfortunately. -
If I Had a Hammer...
If a idea is bad, it should go away.
That's perhaps a nice wish. However, assuming it will go away is another thing.
Government is not simply a world marketplace that offers ideas and if no one buys, it restocks the shelves with other ideas. We give government the special power of force that we do not give shopkeepers wherein if people disagree with the ideas it is offering, it can take action. The more vague that action, the more subject to the individual whim of an individual attempting to enforce or, just as likely, to exploit such powers.
To pick an obvious and somewhat overused example, the bad ideas of the Nazi movement were indeed rejected by the people, but it's a stretch to say "therefore one should not worry about governments getting an occasional wrong idea because these things tend to work out". It took time to notice the problem in that case, and very bad things happened in the interim. By the time a problem was noticed, it took was not easy to fix. One cannot simply fast forward to the outcome without seeing the time in between and say "it was a bad idea and eventually no one bought it".
McCarthyism in the US played out with somewhat similar shape, although fortunately far less cost in human lives. But by similar shape, I mean that it was a kind of insidious idea from the start, and it crept like a cancer with people not seeing what a bad idea it was until it was widespread and it started to impact so many people that it simply could not be ignored.
The notion that the government should be able to push things "harmful to minors" into this ghetto is like giving a big gun to anyone who has government authority to act but not telling them who to aim it at. Harmful to minors is not a statement like "boils at 100 degrees" that can be objectively tested. What protections does it offer to people who have no intent to harm minors and are simply operating in an area that raises questions.
Some things that have been classified by at least some people as harmful to minors within our lifetime include sex education, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth , and the teaching of evolution. Will we expect to find the teaching of safe sex practices only in the
.xxx domain? What about climatechange.xxx or darwin.xxx? And that's only in the US, the supposed model of freedom. How will such a domain be construed in countries around the world that have more conservative points of view. Will we see tjmaxx.xxx? barnesandnoble.xxx? mit.edu.xxx?The problem with "parental" government is that people often naively assume that it it has a brain at all, and also that the brain will be applied uniformly. In fact, what is more likely is the kind of thing you see on cop shows all the time where cops come to a restaurant owner who won't give them the info they want and they say "I'm sure you wouldn't want the health inspector in here all over you." So the guy caves and gives up the information. The public isn't served by the health code law because in the end, the law is more useful (to those TV cops, at least) or some undisclosed purpose than it is for actually making sure things get cooked right.
And the problem is that the undisclosed purpose is flexible and varying. The whole war on terror is going the same way. If the government can make "being a person" (or at least, all of its aspects) sufficiently illegal, then there's always at least some club handy for threatening to arrest a person if he gets out of hand, whatever the enforcer thinks is out of hand. And at that point, there's no freedom left. That's an analogy that Slashdotters should understand: It's like software patents. Overly broad. Overly vague. Applied inconsistently. Difficult to defend. And offering no really safe avenue of behavior. And that means no one can safely develop anything. They can just hope they aren't singled out for enforcement.
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GNAA Welcomes Martha HomeGNAA Welcomes Martha Home
GNAA Welcomes Martha Home(Bedford, CT. - DEVELOPING) Chief Eastern Seaboard GNAA Operative Gary Niger today wished a warm, gay welcome home to Martha Stewart, source of some of our favorite recipes!
Without Martha, the twice-yearly GNAA embroidering circle would be a shell of what it is today. Without Martha's timeless advice, the Gaynigger-seed poundcake we presented to timecop last week would have surely been missing essential plumpness and flavor.
The GNAA thanks Martha for all that she has given to us as gay niggers. When the final hour arrives and women are expunged from the planet, Martha may well be given the second chance the SEC so far has been unwilling to give.
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Re:nice paranoid schizophrenia
What about Occam's razor? If the simplest explanation is usually [not always] the right one, then North Korea is probably not the one to blame for those counterfeit $100 bills. Did you read those articles (translated from the original German)?
The conspiracy theories put out by your government are no better than any other conspiracy theories.
The government story about the events of 9/11 has never been proven. They refused to offer evidence that could prove or disprove their theory to non-government sources. The 'authorities' destroyed evidence. Why?
Several ex-CIA employees have said that the CIA did transport drugs into the United States, and sell sizable quantities to mafiosi and other distributors. I don't think they directly sold crack in LA or anywhere else. Maybe they did, maybe not. You don't know for fact, either way.
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Re:Incorrect facts?
Imdb says that Children of Men's release date was the 22nd of September in the UK, the USA was one of the last places to get the movie released.
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Re:Incorrect facts?
Not counting the Italian premiere in early September, Children of Men premiered in the UK and Ireland on September 22nd 2006. I have no idea what the pirate group's source was, but by the time of the release it had already premiered in plenty countries around the world:
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An example that proves it
It's a terrible toll that piracy is taking on the movie industry -- why, poor Will Smith got evicted from his apartment and he and his son (his real son!) had to live in a bathroom in a subway station! I believe they recently made a documentary about it.
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Re:Doctrine of Nullification?
There is a saying that goes something like "The firmer grip you use, the faster the the stuff squirts between your fingers". This is what is happening.
That's a Star Wars quote: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. . -
Hollywood Got This One Right
Hollywood got this right in 1964: http://imdb.com/title/tt0058530/
Not only is there water, you can heat the rocks to get oxygen, and there are edible psychedelic plants. Oh, and aliens with flying saucers.
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Re:Sony = Duh?
Because of the clarity, the folks (mainly women) are having to undergo surgery, use mucho makeup to cover flaws or, in some cases, the studios are using software to soften the images. In other words, there's TOO much clarity and we have to somewhat downgrade the image. Ironic, no?
Time changes everything. TRON was passed over for an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects because the Academy felt TRON "cheated" by using a computer, but seven years later, The Abyss would win for its computer visual effects. -
Re:Sony = Duh?
Because of the clarity, the folks (mainly women) are having to undergo surgery, use mucho makeup to cover flaws or, in some cases, the studios are using software to soften the images. In other words, there's TOO much clarity and we have to somewhat downgrade the image. Ironic, no?
Time changes everything. TRON was passed over for an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects because the Academy felt TRON "cheated" by using a computer, but seven years later, The Abyss would win for its computer visual effects. -
Re:Good Start
So we'll just end up with 40% of people stealing music before the studios just give in. After which we'll be flooded with 5 years of low-quality movies until people start anteing up again.
And that would be different from today, how?
Well for starters 40% of people are not stealing movies
:)Now people have always complained about the quality, but let's be realistic here, even a bad movie like The Marine receives a $15 million budget. Imagine how bad The Marine would have been with half the budget. Not only would you have bad car chases, they'd also be done with bad cars
:) I know that money != quality, but money opens doors for quality, money in the industry lets you do things like A Scanner Darkly. There will always be more crappy movies than good ones, but that's not the point really. The point is that Hollywood, with a lack of money (or perceived lack) will just cut stuff.Less movies == less good movies (at least to start). Good movies are hard to make and run the risk of small audiences. So unless we and our friends and our friends' friends, all start packing up the art house movies, then we're just going to get more John Cena movies. And if Hollywood becomes scared, they're not going to release less John Cena movies, they'll release more. (again for a time, until someone breaks the mold and everyone else sees $$$ again)
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Re:Good Start
So we'll just end up with 40% of people stealing music before the studios just give in. After which we'll be flooded with 5 years of low-quality movies until people start anteing up again.
And that would be different from today, how?
Well for starters 40% of people are not stealing movies
:)Now people have always complained about the quality, but let's be realistic here, even a bad movie like The Marine receives a $15 million budget. Imagine how bad The Marine would have been with half the budget. Not only would you have bad car chases, they'd also be done with bad cars
:) I know that money != quality, but money opens doors for quality, money in the industry lets you do things like A Scanner Darkly. There will always be more crappy movies than good ones, but that's not the point really. The point is that Hollywood, with a lack of money (or perceived lack) will just cut stuff.Less movies == less good movies (at least to start). Good movies are hard to make and run the risk of small audiences. So unless we and our friends and our friends' friends, all start packing up the art house movies, then we're just going to get more John Cena movies. And if Hollywood becomes scared, they're not going to release less John Cena movies, they'll release more. (again for a time, until someone breaks the mold and everyone else sees $$$ again)
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Darwin's theory no longer works on humans
Or let's put it another way: the more "advanced" a society gets the less applicable natural selection becomes. Why? Because societies in first world countries will try to safeguard its citizens against stupidity or any other "lack of fitness". Not only does it protect its citizens against natural hazards, such as wild animals, bad weather, famines etc. but it also strives to protect them from any new threats arising due to the new life style.
The example in this case would be: guy hears about scientists sterilizing a sponge, guy rushes to the microwave in order to replicate the experiment, sponge catches fire, guy frantically jumps around in circles while microwave oven and room catches on fire, this sets off the fire alarm which in turn calls the firefighters, they extinguish the fire, guy sues everybody and their grandma, gets rich and procreates like mad..
We have basically neutralized effects of natural selection on us by assuring the survival and procreation of individuals that would be "less fit". Instead we are subjected mainly to genetic drift, the other effect that determines the gene pool of a population.
The movie Idiocracy actually takes it a step further and postulates that stupidity actually increases the "fitness" of an individual (i.e. a stupid individual is more likely to have children), thus a bunch of generations down the line we'll be living in an "idiocracy" such as the one depicted ;) - A funny movie none the less.
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Re:It's all government, not just USA/Canada
Only in the US I think.
Really? A lot of people don't realize that The Corporation was a Canadian documentary. I think most of that is a consequence of the WTO which we are a part of as well. -
Heard something like this once before...
"I didn't know the sponge was supposed to be wet."
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Re:Incoming lawsuits in:
"The fact that educated women want to establish a career before becoming mothers means that they start a family in their late thirties and consequently have fewer kids, sometimes they have no family at all as it is too late for treatment when they discover infertility issues. Basically the smart people aren't replacing themselves."
What you just described is what was depicted in the movie Idiocracy. Most of the movie was pretty funny and I could already see our society moving that direction. :(
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Re:Clearly, evolution as a system has failed...
Watched Idiocracy lately?
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Idiocracy
You should watch the movie "Idiocracy". It is written by Mike Judge, who also wrote "Office Space". It is not that good, but it is still fun, and raises a couple of points
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Re:Clearly, evolution as a system has failed...
"Generally, the more intelligent, well-educated and well-established couples get children at a later age, and get fewer of them.
The "dumber" and lower-class people reproduce faster, and there will be more and more of them."
I saw that film, too
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Re:whuh?
Not off-topic, I'm afraid. It's a line from the same movie.
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Re:whuh?
Not off-topic, I'm afraid. It's a line from the same movie.
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Cleveland Documentry
I really liked what I saw in that documentry by George Lucas about Cleveland. Is Cherry Bomb still playing the local clubs?
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and the task is...
... to go back in time and kill John Connor and a bunch of other random people.There are a few pictures of the contestants which have failed so far.
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and the task is...
... to go back in time and kill John Connor and a bunch of other random people.There are a few pictures of the contestants which have failed so far.
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and the task is...
... to go back in time and kill John Connor and a bunch of other random people.There are a few pictures of the contestants which have failed so far.
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DARPA Worldwide?
Sounds like the DARPA Challenge, but more violent. Cool! I'm all for anything that advances us toward real-life MechWarrior/Gundam type stuff. Though I'd prefer to avoid Robot Jox.
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