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Well Snakes on a Plane actually came out yesterday in Australia, so wakey-wakey sleepy head.

Critics claim that the pharmaceuticals spend 10x as much on advertising as they do on research. Ultimately the patent merely fuels the saturation advertising that hits you every time you turn your television on to check the news.

You know that dude in those saturation coverage Crestor commercials, who's always walking down the stairs and saying "down with the bad, up with the good"?

That's Mandy Patinkin. He played Inigo Montoya in the Princess Bride.

"My name is Inigo Montoya. You raised my father's bad cholesterol and lowered his good cholesterol. Prepare to die."

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.

About GNAA:
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I also forgot about the movie The Wizard (which was and still is one of my favorite movies :P)

Don't forget "and watched Captain N: The Game Master ."

Memorable Quotes from The Princess Bride

In the early 1990s, I picked up a weird old guy, with long hair/beard and fingernails but exremely clean, in the late dark of night in the Santa Cruz (CA) mountains. He wanted a ride to the beach, so I took him over on my way home. He was pretty quiet at first, but as we passed the airport on US1 outside Half Moon Bay he started talking aircraft. And movies - he knew all these backstories from the "Golden Age", up until the mid 1960s. When we got to politics, he muttered "Nixon" and clammed up again. I dropped him off and lost him in the dunes near the pier. He was the most articulate and most fastidious bum I ever picked up, so I thought about him from time to time after that.

Boy was I surprised to see Leonardo Di Caprio playing him in a movie on cable this Spring.

That's even the moment Gary Winston (the Bill Gates stylee character), while talking about that, says that his system is more sophisticated than Bill Gates' one, making the distinction between his character and the one he's copying.

By the way, it's not late 90's, but early 21th century, as the film has been released in 2001 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/.

Once again, Science Fiction becoming reality :)

"This is precisely the same problem with Star Wars: Episode One. It is impossible to live up to the memory of seeing Star Wars for the first time, especially [...]"

...when Episode One sucked.

Don't get me wrong. Pod Racers. Jedi Duels. Closing Credits. As long as you fast forward over everything but those parts it's a good movie, and it compared well with the previous Star Wars release, but overall it could have been much much better.

Perhaps they're referring to the Tutor of Achilles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(Iliad)

Thank you, 2010 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/), for otherwise I wouldn't know this bit of trivia.

Good. Bad. Which one is the guy with the gun?.

The idea of wandering sunless planets is old enough at least in fiction. The book "When Worlds Collide" is about a pair of rogue sunless planets which orbit each other entering the solar system and colliding with Earth. It was written in 1932. The movie made in 1951 is not half bad either.

I see it as more like gorilla vs. dinosaur.

It's grammar, not grammer. Unless you're talking about Kelsey.

Someone warn the Ice Warriors, giant nostalgia robots, Selenites, fey yet lovable ant things, bungling green men with swimming caps, Servants of the Dark Lord Xenu, and all the rest that we'll be coming by for dinner.

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.

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 you will be tested on your know

Earth 2 and Voyager called. They want their child back.

TOS was great because it explored contemporary societal issues in a non-confrontational way to expose the possibilities and repercussions of deciding from among ambiguous choices. DS9 was great because it was able to tell a good story toward the middle. Anything like a prequel that tries to backfill into the viewers' nostalgia for Kirk and the TOS gang will undoubtedly disappoint because there are as many different pre-existing conceptions of what that should be, as there are Star Trek fans. No story can ever live up to every fan's expectations, and any story obsessed with the pre-history of a story unfamiliar to the new crowd will undoubtedly disappoint.

For the franchise to continue to succeed, the producers and writers need to stop riding on the coat-tails of nostalgia and embark on a New Idea Trek, whose seven-year mission would be to explore strange new plot-lines, to investigate contemporary and new issues, to boldly go where few Trek writers have gone in the last decade.

Matt Damon has been cast to play a young James T. Kirk...

William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931. He was 35 years old when Star Trek debuted on September 8, 1966.

Matt Damon was born on October 8, 1970. He will be 36 years old before they even begin filming.

Something is seriously whacked in our culture when our "best" leading men can easily pass as characters 10 or 15 years younger than their actual ages.

Can you say "girly men"?

Or do we just prefer a little effeteness with our metrosexuality?

Matt Damon has been cast to play a young James T. Kirk...

William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931. He was 35 years old when Star Trek debuted on September 8, 1966.

Matt Damon was born on October 8, 1970. He will be 36 years old before they even begin filming.

Something is seriously whacked in our culture when our "best" leading men can easily pass as characters 10 or 15 years younger than their actual ages.

Can you say "girly men"?

Or do we just prefer a little effeteness with our metrosexuality?

Matt Damon has been cast to play a young James T. Kirk...

William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931. He was 35 years old when Star Trek debuted on September 8, 1966.

Matt Damon was born on October 8, 1970. He will be 36 years old before they even begin filming.

Something is seriously whacked in our culture when our "best" leading men can easily pass as characters 10 or 15 years younger than their actual ages.

Can you say "girly men"?

Or do we just prefer a little effeteness with our metrosexuality?

All that I can say to this news is, "Matt Damon!"

Berman and Braga had BETTER NOT be involved with this.

(except for God, but most people here don't believe in Him anyway)

Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Söze.

Well, duh.

I agree with this. I was hard-core when TNG was on (As was most of my family) but we lost interest in DS9 pretty quickly. Later, about season 3 of Babylon 5 (Height of the Shadow War), I caught a couple of DS9 episodes and it had really improved. I didn't stay with it, mainly because the story-arc confused me, having missed everything up to that point. Turns out Ron Moore (Yes that Ron Moore) did a bit of work on DS9 and TNG.

No, they need ... The Saint.

Since Michael Piller died last year I doubt he is involved. Piller was actually a decent producer and was not involved with Enterprise or Nemesis and only had minimal involvement in Voyager. I think the Rick Berman co-conspirator you're thinking of is Branon Braga.

For me, Patrick Stewart's most memorable role for the longest time was as Leondegrance in Excalibur. Take a look at that list of names. Damn near a who's who of British actors. :)

Galaxy Quest
How I love that show. heheh... I laugh just thinking about it.

Well that's just an alarmist fantasy -- there's well documented evidence that dumping nukes into into the Mariannes is a great way to meet new friends, as long as Ed Harris is available to accompany them.

Ice Pirates!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/

I'm not sure whether imdb's accurate but from what I know the idea to do this movie and with this storyline is from Abrams. Now, "Hey, let's redo the story of X, Y and Z...but with them as kids!!!" might seem like the oldest cliche in the book but for now I trust Abrams. He's shown that he can do character-driven and action shows, Ron Moore showed that you can do serious and superior versions of old shows and with Abrams coming mostly from a TV background perhaps we get not only a great movie but a great new TV show too.

OTOH it could be a disaster but after Star Trek IX&X and Enterprise we'd just continue to boldly suck like no roll of film's sucked before (well, not really, one of the advantages of working in the film business is that there's always something worse than your pile of sh*t) =P

I think Rick Berman's motto should be: "Never Give Up! Never Surrender!"

Um...so you could be Singing in the Rain of course.

The end already happened when star trek enterprise was released.

This is old. This was invented by Mary Poppins years ago.

...and I'm all out of bubblegum.

one of the shows that find a way to solve that problem is "The Invisible Man" (2000), one of my favourite series

Hey, I saw that movie!

Good, and now when the phone records are divulged, we'll find out that reporters actually don't talk to anybody. All news is ficticious. Remember the movie Wag the Dog?

Yeah, I remember. This could finally give us our chance to meet Earth's other intelligent species!

Reminds me more of Buttle vs. Tuttle.... with disastrous consequences...:)

sure has a lot of "tech toys."

I thought http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094074/this was why. We wouldn't want to have a repeat of a bad Superman movie, would we?

"They could just send it down to the Mariennes trench. Naturally people with no knowledge of radiation, or the trench would complain about it."

The Marianas Trench? Are you insane, man? Don't you remember what happened last time we dumped nukes in the Pacific?

The researchers add that Live Surface might even been used for special-effects in movies or games by extracting an actor's performance from a video clip.

sure sounds like progress to me...

but does it come complete with Jennifer Connelly?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102803/

Ever see the movie Silent Running? Basically, it was about a mobile bubble platform in space. Inside...a forrest bursting with plant life.

Personally, I would rather breath air in the wide open. But there's nothing preventing human civilization from creating a bubble enviroment with its air being replenished with plant life.

Or a subversive filmmaker like Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Starship Troopers, Basic Instinct), who has degrees in math and physics.

Seen that already: Nothing outlasts the energiser