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I haven't found all the ways to die yet, not for want of trying ..... the developers have thought of enough of them ..... in fact I'm off to try to find a few more (or maybe not).

Meanwhile, has anybody else set default pet names in their .nethackrc? My dog's name is Piggy (named after a wonderful old lady of a bull terrier, who passed away earlier this year -- imagine the dog in Snatch, but all white and with one ear up and one ear down, /\__/>) and my cat's name is Chico (after my ginger tabby kitten, who has been helping me type this. If pressing keys to give me things to backspace out counts as helping).

To quote from this movie...

"Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina!"

This is not from the Minority Report that was released in 2002. This was shown in shuttle interface in Earth the Final Conflict which aired in 1997.

This type of interface was also in The first $20 millions is the hardest. But that came out in the same year as The Minority report.

Personally, I find it hilarious and ironic. The USA played a part in the attempted Venezulean coup in 2002. The documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised covers it rather well and is well worth a viewing.

Then we have regime change in Iraq! Frankly, I find the paranoid fear that another country is attempting influence US elections quite worrysome. It's almost like the US has developed some sort of collective paranoid psychosis.

This is a dealbreaker for me - back to Firefox 2.5.0.7.

you'll need 1.21 Jiggawatts!!1 for that.

2. "He broke a law, he should go to jail." The court system should be mandated to tell the jurors in all trials about their right to nullify terrible laws. Jury nullifaction is more than a priviledge, it is a right even greater than serving on a jury.

Judges in every court room I have been summoned to for jury duty have explicitly stated that the jury is only there to determine the facts of the case and pass a judgment based on the law. You are made to swear (or affirm) under oath that you will follow the judge's direction on this matter.

It is also obvious that the jury selection process itself is designed to eliminate anyone that might actually understand that the jury can not only decide whether the law was broken based on facts, but they can also decide whether finding someone guilty of that crime is a just application of the law.

One example: I was in the jury box and asked whether I would convict someone of battery for touching someone's toe. If someone were told not to touch someone else's toe and they did anyway, it meets the legal definition of battery. I was the only person of a jury pool of 50 that stated I would not pass a guilty verdict based on the facts of the case - because it is obviously unjust to give someone a felony conviction for this kind of trivial offense. The judge angrily informed me that it was his responsibility to sentence. I, and others, were to stick to the facts and do what we are told.

I wouldn't take any comfort from the possibility of jury nullification. The people that tend to get picked tend to be weak and unexceptional - the Joe Six Packs of the world.

More to the point, juries are a mechanism for people to feel comfortable with the fact that they weren't solely responsible for the decision or directly responsible for the sentence. It's the same reason why you have firing squads, multiple switches for the electric chairs and so forth. It allows people to absolve themselves of responsibility - that's the true purpose of the jury in our society. Justice? You can forget about it. The chances of getting a Peter Fonda these days are as good as nil.

Everytime I see this kind of comment, I get flashbacks to that cinematic masterpiece, Escape from LA. The President is literally insane, but has been voted in for life. And he's manipulated and abused Christianity to get there. Kinda like our current president.

There is a movie "Bounce" so forget about your Bounce t-shirt idea.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186894/
pwned!

But, hey, if you really are afraid of some kind of retaliation for speaking freely, that's what you have to do. Freedom takes effort.

And Freedom isn't free, it costs $1.05. ;)

The movie didn't bomb. It wasn't a smash success, granted, but it did mediocre at the boxoffice and very well with DVD sales, as did the one and only season with DVD sales. According to IMDB, it cost $40 mil to make and made about $39mil worldwide, plus an unknown amount in DVD sales. They didn't get rich, but they made money. It would have helped if they actually promoted the movie, and if the new Fox execs who cancelled the series (after showing it out of order at different times) were not such asshats.

And speaking of viral marketing, it was on a Slashdot poll that I first heard of Serenity. Went and watched the first episode of the series (the real first, not what the network aired first), got hooked, bought the DVDs. Viral marketing at it's finest, as a silly poll produced a customer that bought both the movie DVD and the complete first season DVD set.

5 elements? Milla Jovovich is prett hot but that was just a movie.

You keep using "0x86"

The very vigilant viewers of Slashdot cannot visualize the value of this vapid vaporware, but that villainous vampire, devoid of virtue (MICROSOVT!), will vigorously vie for our Visa numbers using their vile, vindictive methods to...

Oh, vuck it. I don't have time for this. I'll just think about Natalie Portman's boobs.

*even more eagerly awaits a rover finding a giant, 2 headed martian dolphin fossil*
Ooh ooh, or Frankenfish! :D http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384833/

While terraforming is cool, there may be severe health risks with finding unexpected life forms.

But, the cold? Will, a green house effect be enough to heat it? Are there any published estimates of timings and what effects may be had?

(BTW, who would like to have near Antarctic weather. Yes. It's cool, but...)

>It's not so funny that people like you reduce democracy...
There is a good movie on american 'democracy': Why We Fight
>Canada isn't called the 51st state for nothing.
Enlighten me, then. I was under the impression that UK was called 51st state.

For those of you who didn't get it:

• IMDB
• Wikipedia

Looks kinda like Rachael Leigh Cook in antitrust. Wish I new some gui designers that looked like her.

The fact that Hollywood intentionally makes violent movies AND then tries to chop them up so that they get "ok for kids" ratings shows to me that their primary agenda is not profit (at least for the companies they work for), and thus they shouldn't be paid so much.


This is similar to the line of argument that groups all slashdot posters as a single monolithic group and then calls them hypocrites when they in fact act as individuals. Hollywood movies are not made in the autocratic way you imply. There are writers, directors, producers, and many more people all with differing visions about what a movie should be. Directors and writers of horror and action films typically would want to make their movies more violent because they are trying to appeal to the hardcore audience- and that's the movie they would want to see, if they didn't like the violence they would be making a different kind of movie. The studios cut stuff out of the completed movies because if they had personally been on stage to censor everything as it was shot the directors would probably quit due to the constant interference.

The reason the directors don't complain as much when scenes are deleted from the theatrical release is that the DVDs usually restore them, so their vision is (eventually) uncompromised.

Also for some reason Hollywood (not everyone else) seems a bit surprised when stuff like "Finding Nemo" becomes a hit. If Hollywood was really interested in profit and making money, they'd be making more movies genuinely suitable or even targeted at children and families, just like McDonalds targets children and families.

Can you cite an instance of this 'Hollywood surprise'? In this year in the genre of computer animated movies aimed at kids and families there was Cars, a new Ice Age, Over the Hedge, Monster House, Barnyard, Open Season, and maybe a few others. The first few were pretty big hits and the rest moderate hits, though I wonder with the cost of those movies whether many of them actually made money. They take a lot of time and money and effort to make them high quality (think 100s of animators), so the studios are probably making as many as they think the market can stand.

Sure many of us might barf at that sort of stuff, but it sells - the evidence is there. You don't have to enjoy something to know it sells.

Just a look at:
http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross
and:
http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region= world-wide

And then when you look at:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/

Which of those movies in the chart would be enjoyed by the people who enjoyed any of the top boxoffice hits? Go see later (total takings) if there's a correlation.

You can make 5-10 Texas Chainsaw Massacres for the price of one Finding Nemo, and there's lots of room for cheap horror movies to make a tidy profit.

The fact that Hollywood intentionally makes violent movies AND then tries to chop them up so that they get "ok for kids" ratings shows to me that their primary agenda is not profit (at least for the companies they work for), and thus they shouldn't be paid so much.


This is similar to the line of argument that groups all slashdot posters as a single monolithic group and then calls them hypocrites when they in fact act as individuals. Hollywood movies are not made in the autocratic way you imply. There are writers, directors, producers, and many more people all with differing visions about what a movie should be. Directors and writers of horror and action films typically would want to make their movies more violent because they are trying to appeal to the hardcore audience- and that's the movie they would want to see, if they didn't like the violence they would be making a different kind of movie. The studios cut stuff out of the completed movies because if they had personally been on stage to censor everything as it was shot the directors would probably quit due to the constant interference.

The reason the directors don't complain as much when scenes are deleted from the theatrical release is that the DVDs usually restore them, so their vision is (eventually) uncompromised.

Also for some reason Hollywood (not everyone else) seems a bit surprised when stuff like "Finding Nemo" becomes a hit. If Hollywood was really interested in profit and making money, they'd be making more movies genuinely suitable or even targeted at children and families, just like McDonalds targets children and families.

Can you cite an instance of this 'Hollywood surprise'? In this year in the genre of computer animated movies aimed at kids and families there was Cars, a new Ice Age, Over the Hedge, Monster House, Barnyard, Open Season, and maybe a few others. The first few were pretty big hits and the rest moderate hits, though I wonder with the cost of those movies whether many of them actually made money. They take a lot of time and money and effort to make them high quality (think 100s of animators), so the studios are probably making as many as they think the market can stand.

Sure many of us might barf at that sort of stuff, but it sells - the evidence is there. You don't have to enjoy something to know it sells.

Just a look at:
http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross
and:
http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region= world-wide

And then when you look at:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/

Which of those movies in the chart would be enjoyed by the people who enjoyed any of the top boxoffice hits? Go see later (total takings) if there's a correlation.

You can make 5-10 Texas Chainsaw Massacres for the price of one Finding Nemo, and there's lots of room for cheap horror movies to make a tidy profit.

The fact that Hollywood intentionally makes violent movies AND then tries to chop them up so that they get "ok for kids" ratings shows to me that their primary agenda is not profit (at least for the companies they work for), and thus they shouldn't be paid so much.


This is similar to the line of argument that groups all slashdot posters as a single monolithic group and then calls them hypocrites when they in fact act as individuals. Hollywood movies are not made in the autocratic way you imply. There are writers, directors, producers, and many more people all with differing visions about what a movie should be. Directors and writers of horror and action films typically would want to make their movies more violent because they are trying to appeal to the hardcore audience- and that's the movie they would want to see, if they didn't like the violence they would be making a different kind of movie. The studios cut stuff out of the completed movies because if they had personally been on stage to censor everything as it was shot the directors would probably quit due to the constant interference.

The reason the directors don't complain as much when scenes are deleted from the theatrical release is that the DVDs usually restore them, so their vision is (eventually) uncompromised.

Also for some reason Hollywood (not everyone else) seems a bit surprised when stuff like "Finding Nemo" becomes a hit. If Hollywood was really interested in profit and making money, they'd be making more movies genuinely suitable or even targeted at children and families, just like McDonalds targets children and families.

Can you cite an instance of this 'Hollywood surprise'? In this year in the genre of computer animated movies aimed at kids and families there was Cars, a new Ice Age, Over the Hedge, Monster House, Barnyard, Open Season, and maybe a few others. The first few were pretty big hits and the rest moderate hits, though I wonder with the cost of those movies whether many of them actually made money. They take a lot of time and money and effort to make them high quality (think 100s of animators), so the studios are probably making as many as they think the market can stand.

Sure many of us might barf at that sort of stuff, but it sells - the evidence is there. You don't have to enjoy something to know it sells.

Just a look at:
http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross
and:
http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region= world-wide

And then when you look at:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/

Which of those movies in the chart would be enjoyed by the people who enjoyed any of the top boxoffice hits? Go see later (total takings) if there's a correlation.

You can make 5-10 Texas Chainsaw Massacres for the price of one Finding Nemo, and there's lots of room for cheap horror movies to make a tidy profit.

Yes, "good luck t-shirt" is the traditional American send-off in this case. It is kinda like "break a leg", but for space flight. Tom Hanks uses the line in Apollo 13.

I also saw in a BBC documentary that in many ways old African customs (music, dance, food, religion, etc) is better preserved in Brazil than in African countries themselves. It isn't the racial utopia that it is sometimes portrayed as being, but it is very racially mixed (much more so than the US), and I think it's significantly better than the US in racial matters, particularly in daily interactions among people.

At least go visit if you ever have a chance - I would recommend the state of Bahia and the city of Salvador (the capital of the state, and former national capital), because that's the center of African culture in Brazil, and a beautiful colonial city. But the country in general has a wonderful mix of European, African, Indigenous, American, Asian, and all other peoples and cultures.

Regarding Scandinavian countries, in the past I would have said that they would be cool too, but seeing this movie (it's called The Celebration in the US, and it shows on IFC once in a while) it kind of gave me a different perspective on racial relations there (at least in Denmark).

Since oil on a distant planet would be proof of life they had better take a closer look.

Umm... are you sure that's such a hot idea?

Exo-Planetary Mining + Interplanetary Transport + Life on Other Panets = This.

(Trivia: in the book, Allen Dean Foster describes the Nostromo as no less than an oil tanker/refinery)

Don't eat it!

I remember a certain scene from a movie. There is a picture of the IE team farting on the cake at the bottom.

ISLE OF MAN - October 26, 2006 - At a press conference today, Canonical CEO and Free Software spokesnigger Mark Shuttleworth announced the immediate availability of version 6.10 of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. The latest version, known by its code name, "The Anal Effete," includes special features designed to make Linux easier and more comfortable for niggers the world over.

"Niggers have always had trouble understanding new technology," Shuttleworth began. "Computers are no exception. Some people have said this is because niggers are dumb, but I believe the real problem is that technology has traditionally been designed for white people. Ubuntu changes all that. It was developed from the ground up with niggers in mind. It will usher in a whole new era of Afro-ergonomic computing."

Shuttleworth presented an overview of some of the features users could expect in the latest version of Ubuntu, including an Ebonics-to-English converter, African "tribal beats" sound and desktop theme, and a collection of rap music and gay pornography, "which of course will be encoded using patent and royalty-free formats," Shuttleworth added, smiling. He proceeded to elaborate, but OpenOffice.org Impress crashed at that point.

"But this release isn't just about new features," Shuttleworth said, making a quick segue to the humanitarian and ideological concept behind Ubuntu. "This new version brings black men closer together than ever in the spirit of Ubuntu." Shuttleworth then demonstrated the concept of Ubuntu by getting on his knees and sucking a young black boy's erect penis.

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If anything it's more like Michael Myers was attacked at a networking show...

You might even get your own TV show!

I guess you don't know about the Canadian Conspiracy. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285470/

"could it not drive development of open source video editing software? they don't talk about this specifically, bit it's not impossible."

It could - but they don't appear to have that as a goal. Even if they did add it as a goal, the bang for buck doesn't appear to be there.

" i've used a couple of open source/free video editing suites and nothing really comes close to the commercial giants thus far."

Have you tried Blender 2.42a? Depends on what you mean by 'doesn't come close'. Blenders 'Sequencer' (non linear editing) and compositing were drastically improved so that they could be used for Elephants Dream. It reads and writes industry standard formats as well (ie OpenEXR, and Cineon). Of course it definitely still needs improvement (Blender is being used for a moderate budget commercial feature length animation - Plumiferos http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811021/ http://www.plumiferos.com/index-en.php - with Blender being the primary tool for modeling, animation, rendering, sequencing and compositing).

LetterRip

Mmmm, okay, they don't have to run in phase. So, assuming that you're talking about the emergency scenario described above (a multi-day blackout, batteries run out), and not talking about stocking them in advance, you run into a few issues:

1. Lowes tends to run out of generators during blackouts. They're big, and they don't stock that many. Don't count on finding 10 of them during a blackout to run your 10 mission-critical apps.

2. Assuming you find the generators, even forgetting about phase, how exactly are you going to bring them on-line, with their little 110V outlets, without interrupting operations? We're not talking about Costanza's Frogger Game here. You are talking about a multiserver platform for an enterprise app -- you have to bring it down and back up again in a very structured way, with hours of downtime. Aaand ... by your own comment (GP? GGP?) the $1M in losses came from only hours of downtime.

Heck, they don't even lock their houses!

Yes, I saw that stupid movie too. I certainly lock my door, as do most people I know.

He must have had his eyes closed when he visited Toronto ... if he wants to come back, I volunteer to give him a tour of the real slums. They're not as bad as some American cities, but they sure as hell are not as nice as he portrayed, either. But, as he surely knows, with selective editing you can make anything look good or bad, as you wish.

Also, please tell him to keep his damn opinions to himself. I don't like Harper either, but this is our country, and he has no right to tell us how to vote. Same goes for this guy (ps: Thanks for eight years of George W! Who are you to lecture us on how to vote?)

Good point. Have you seen 'The Dish'

I guess you missed out on "'Weird Al' Yankovic's" "Straight Outta Lynwood" album. Track three in the USA is "Canadian Idiot".

I think it is a type of humor, as Canadian Bacon is as well.

Besides, beyond Canadian Bacon, there hasn't really been any real effort to add us to the Axis of Evil.

Living just to the north of much of the United States, I often offer Stateside friends crash space in my basement in the event that things go completely pear-shaped where they live. Sure, we could be violently annexed in a depressingly short amount of time (and our supplies of uranium, oil, fresh water and lumber might make us a delectable target), but it's a relatively short trip. Besides, beyond Canadian Bacon, there hasn't really been any real effort to add us to the Axis of Evil.

Wasn't this first?: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/

...anyone got a pair of laser-proof eyeglasses I can borrow?

/P

No YOU are creepy for coming up with such ideas ;) ! Just how? How did you manage to...?

A lot of people here are basically saying that Microsoft ripped her off, like they took advantage of some young starving actress.

Take a look at what she HAS done:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen_Taylor
or
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1071768/

It's not like she's new to the business, she seems to be one of the most prolific female game voices out there. I suppose that she is fairly knowledgeable about how the business works.

My 8-year-old daughter, once a devoted PS2 platformer, now spends most of her gaming time online with friends in ToonTown, Disney's Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG or MMO,) This is despite the fact that ToonTown's game play and graphics are clearly inferior compared to, say, current generation Ratchet and Clank.

You're right. America's culture just isn't up to par with the rest of the world.

Guard: General Kala, Flash Gordon approaching.

Kala: What do you mean, "Flash Gordon approaching?"

Guard: On a Hawkman rocket cycle. Shall I inform His Majesty?

Kala: Imbicle! The emporer would shoot you, for interrupting his wedding with this news.

Fire when Gordon's in range.

(City defences fire on Flash, until he turns around.)

Kala: He's escaping, idiot! Dispatch War Rocket Ajax! To bring back his body!

And later on:

Guard: Rocket Ajax returning.

Kala: With Gordon's body?

Guard: I presume so. Communications are off for some reason.

Kala: Are they in the proper approach pattern for today?

Guard: Negative. They are not.

Kala: Open fire.

Guard: On Ajax General??

Kala: OPEN FIRE! All weapons! Now!! Charge the lightning field. I take personal responsibility, in the emperor's name.

-- The Quotes

The first thing to do is forget about writing original material. You are surrounded by material. Just look around. The things the rich and famous do ... you can't make that kind of thing up. All Weird Al has to do is just give up trying to be creative; all he has to do is be a bit observant. His stuff will practically write itself.

A similar example is the Simpsons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons#Storylin es The Simpsons are American culture lite. The Simpsons have referenced everything important about American culture that has happened in the last half century. Example: How do my kids know about 'A Streetcar Named Desire'? They saw it on the Simpsons. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701048/ The Simpsons parody everything. Another example: Marge on the Lam is a parody of Thelma and Louise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_and_Louise

I'm not surprised that Weird Al has lasted so long; I'm surprised that more people don't do the same. Maybe Weird Al and the Simpsons just do it better than anyone else.

None of the symbols we use to communicate are immutable.
The opinions of the dudes who wrote the Bill of Rights were not constant, either.
Why is this dark vision so resonant?
Because the increasingly complex legal system, far from being a means to the end of regulating society, is more a means unto itself.
One wonders what a graph against time of the legal costs spent on software by all companies would be. Frightening, I'd expect.
Your wish for an immortal law doesn't fit the legal business model and, ultimately, is just not quite real. ;)

I find this rather surprising.
Who do they have playing Gant?
Are they going to make the MiG-31 look different in the special effects?
Will it be better than the original movie?
http://imdb.com/title/tt0083943/

Oh, nevermind.

Near an ozone hole...solar radiation...mutations...Hobbits?

Jackson made The Frighteners, which was, IIRC, pretty successful at the box office, and proved that Peter Jackson knew how to make a movie that balanced characters, story, humor, thrills, and elaborate special effects in a highly entertaining fashion.

Even though he wasn't that well know to the public at the time, I don't think it was completely unexpected that he was given the money to make LoTR.

Charlie Wolf, an analyst with Needham & Co., who believes the next big seller for Apple will be a Mac computer preinstalled with Windows operating software.

The actual issue that people who created things years ago have stopped doing any interesting new work or contributing to society, yet still expect to get paid?

Or the actual issue that these copyrights do nothing but stifle everything except "approved creativity". Ask Apotheosis about that one.

Maybe the actual issue of companies like Disney leeching off of public domain works and parlaying them into a profit, but then lobbying to keep their work out of the public domain and giving others the same benefit they had?

Or maybe you just wish you were one of those entitled "artists" in the above categories.