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A movie was made regarding this issue.

In a nutshell, the idea of the suburbs cannot be supported for long; it depends on cheap energy for transportation, so people will have to -- at some point -- to bunch up togather in cities where there is an efficient transit system.

And for their next project... Robert Wilder.

A leading actress of theatre, film and TV in the former Yugoslavia...

Mira Furlan

Babylon 5 is a big pile of shit!

spaced

The answer is "Just be happy with what you've got."

No, that wasn't him. You're thinking about Caesar Romero.

John Romero is a video game designer/producer/programmer who gained a degree of infamy by designing and producing Daikatana.

Uh, sorry but that wasn't you. That was a movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/

I love that movie!

In fact I have it on my cell phone!

http://imdb.com/title/tt0078681/ and in its spare time he'll pick up dead satellites and save NASA astronaughts

yep... and they made a movie about this. I think Keanu Reeves stared in it, and then uploaded everthing to the internet. That's why the professor hasn't been heard from, he's on dialup.

Movie, Chain Reaction: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115857

I am quite saddened to hear Mako died.

Not immediately finding an obituary, here's a link to his IMDB entry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538683/)

We'll miss you!

"Conan" (and "Terminator") are his best movies..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082198/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087078/ ...what? No URL autodetection??? That's sooo un-Web2.0'ish!!!

"Conan" (and "Terminator") are his best movies..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082198/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087078/ ...what? No URL autodetection??? That's sooo un-Web2.0'ish!!!

Obligatory link just in case you were serious...

...the last time a bunch of doctors thought they cured Alzheimer's, Stellan Skarsgard got his arm bit off by a super-intelligent shark.

We must evolve again! They have learnt how to fly.. hopefully not first class.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/

Then you'll need Snakes on Automobiles to complete the trilogy.

So is "Snakes On A Plane" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/) the story of the next step in snake-spurred human evolution? Go Samuel L Jackson, go... use your evolutionary powers!

You haven't lived until you've seen a Valkyrie go down!

Saint-Exmin: It's not that I don't empathize; That's the Valkyrie Creed: "Live fast, fight well and have a beautiful ending."

Shad: [looking her in the eyes] NO VIOLENT DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL!

Saint-Exmin: [smiling] You've never seen a Valkyrie go down...

From IMDB

Only posted as I had to go and look it up anyway...

"Plan 9 from Bell Labs" is the proper name of the OS.

To distinguish it from Plan 9 from Outer Space

Ahh, but you are mistaken in your praise of Plan 9, most of us Ed Wood aficionados knows that that isn't his masterpiece, indeed it is trivial in comparison to the behemoth of Glen or Glenda (also known on sensational posters as "I Changed My Sex!"), wherein Wood himself stars as transvestite and Bela Lugosi is an insane rambling doctor.

All jokes aside, Bela Lugosi really deserved better than Ed Wood. It's a shame to see this man who scared the living daylights out of so many people with his Dracula and really made a mark on movie history be reduced to lap-dog in the hands of a complete hack. I guess Wood helped him make another mark on movie history.

I think a billion little kids--not to mention most of their parents--would take issue with calling Optimus Prime his "most famous and well-loved character." Peter Cullen has voiced Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh for decades.

According to the imdb entry he's rumored to be Megatron!

http://imdb.com/name/nm0919798/

Peter Cullen also voiced Eeyore of Winnie the Pooh. O_O

• 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.
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Did you know that John Kerry is a Communist Traitor? That is not conservative rhetoric or anybody's opinion - it is the official position of the Communist Government of Vietnam who in 1983 while Kerry was Lt. Governor of Massachusetts awarded him as a "Hero of Communist Victory" for his actions on their behalf during the Vietnam War.

Here's the problem. You're adding 2 and 2 and getting 97. I'm willing to accept that the government of Vietnam may well have "awarded" everyone who participated in Vietnam Veterans Against The War. So? If it happened, it was done without his knowledge or consent. Did he go there to pick the medal up? Of course not. Anyone can "award" anyone anything.

Look, you're apparently one of those veterens who remain unwilling to accept that your service and sacrifice was done for a pointless war. Possibly you did things in that war that you are not proud of, and to avoid dealing with that, you've chosen to demonize those who chose to assuage their guilt by trying to stop the war.

Watch "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry" and "Winter Soldier" to get the liberal viewpoint. At the time, one of his closest friends told him "You know that by doing this you've given up any hope of ever being President". It was a sacrifice to try to save the lives of the other soldiers.

BTW, you're wrong about the political leanings of the Slashdot crowd. If polled, I suspect most of them will identify themselves as "Libertarians" (i.e. the greed and selfishness of Republicans combined with the clear-headed rationality of the Area 51 fanatics)

Did you know that John Kerry is a Communist Traitor? That is not conservative rhetoric or anybody's opinion - it is the official position of the Communist Government of Vietnam who in 1983 while Kerry was Lt. Governor of Massachusetts awarded him as a "Hero of Communist Victory" for his actions on their behalf during the Vietnam War.

Here's the problem. You're adding 2 and 2 and getting 97. I'm willing to accept that the government of Vietnam may well have "awarded" everyone who participated in Vietnam Veterans Against The War. So? If it happened, it was done without his knowledge or consent. Did he go there to pick the medal up? Of course not. Anyone can "award" anyone anything.

Look, you're apparently one of those veterens who remain unwilling to accept that your service and sacrifice was done for a pointless war. Possibly you did things in that war that you are not proud of, and to avoid dealing with that, you've chosen to demonize those who chose to assuage their guilt by trying to stop the war.

Watch "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry" and "Winter Soldier" to get the liberal viewpoint. At the time, one of his closest friends told him "You know that by doing this you've given up any hope of ever being President". It was a sacrifice to try to save the lives of the other soldiers.

BTW, you're wrong about the political leanings of the Slashdot crowd. If polled, I suspect most of them will identify themselves as "Libertarians" (i.e. the greed and selfishness of Republicans combined with the clear-headed rationality of the Area 51 fanatics)

Forgive me if I start ranting and raving in this post - so I'll just go ahead and put a **RANT** disclaimer to this entire post.

I agree with you ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTYBILLION PERCENT!

I seriously wonder if a bunch of fucking brain-dead retarded dumb fucks are the ones rating shows. I mean... REALLY! Why is that a lot of shows on TV are

a) predictable
b) spinoffs
c) stupid reality shows that should be slaughtered, dismembered, burnt, and then the ashes thrown into the sun
d) completely lame, ridiculous, unfunny shows that cater to the lowest common denominator.

Perhap's (d) is the problem. I am seriously starting to think that the average IQ of the TV-viewing population of America hovers somewhere slightly above 20. This can be the only explanation for the continued "successes" of stupid TV shows, and the cancellation of good ones.

Ok, at this point someone may come up and say "Yeah, well you're just pissed of that YOUR TV show got cancelled!". That's not it - I just don't understand why shows that I start liking, start cancelling. Just like the parent said, I'm not sure if I have bad taste, or unique taste, or WHAT, but whenever I find a show that is intelligent and witty, or one that has a completely new premise, it gets cancelled. For example, there's Arrested Development (cancelled after three seasons) and then there's Dead Like Me (more info). Both are intelligent and witty shows, which were cancelled.

I seriously wonder... what kind of FUCKED UP system DO they used to determine a good show? The number of brain-dead retards that watch it? Because that would REALLY explain why the stupid shows stay, and the good ones go.

Sorry for sounding really bitter and arrogant. But that's why this is a rant.

Forgive me if I start ranting and raving in this post - so I'll just go ahead and put a **RANT** disclaimer to this entire post.

I agree with you ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTYBILLION PERCENT!

I seriously wonder if a bunch of fucking brain-dead retarded dumb fucks are the ones rating shows. I mean... REALLY! Why is that a lot of shows on TV are

a) predictable
b) spinoffs
c) stupid reality shows that should be slaughtered, dismembered, burnt, and then the ashes thrown into the sun
d) completely lame, ridiculous, unfunny shows that cater to the lowest common denominator.

Perhap's (d) is the problem. I am seriously starting to think that the average IQ of the TV-viewing population of America hovers somewhere slightly above 20. This can be the only explanation for the continued "successes" of stupid TV shows, and the cancellation of good ones.

Ok, at this point someone may come up and say "Yeah, well you're just pissed of that YOUR TV show got cancelled!". That's not it - I just don't understand why shows that I start liking, start cancelling. Just like the parent said, I'm not sure if I have bad taste, or unique taste, or WHAT, but whenever I find a show that is intelligent and witty, or one that has a completely new premise, it gets cancelled. For example, there's Arrested Development (cancelled after three seasons) and then there's Dead Like Me (more info). Both are intelligent and witty shows, which were cancelled.

I seriously wonder... what kind of FUCKED UP system DO they used to determine a good show? The number of brain-dead retards that watch it? Because that would REALLY explain why the stupid shows stay, and the good ones go.

Sorry for sounding really bitter and arrogant. But that's why this is a rant.

your post has a lot of insight. i'm on a working vacation in Seattle right now, and i'm amazed that even though i have probably 10x as much free time to watch television, without a DVR here i'm watching basically none, because nothing I enjoy is available at the right time.

it will be interesting to see if this show does well on NBC (certainly the PR from the situation under which it was purchased by NBC will help its ratings), but I would imagine your assesment is at least partly correct. Certainly a chunk of its audience will be youtube viewers, who are probably very likely to have DVRs, so they may be able to watch it in much the same fashion as on youtube (i.e. on-demand).. but I wouldn't imagine this chunk would amount to more than a minority of the show's viewers.

what's really interesting are the business models that Mark Cuban and others are developing.. in the case of the linked press release above, basically Steven Soderbergh shooting a number of films for simultaneous theatrical / dvd / hdtv / download release, so that all marketing dollars are used effectively, and the audience ultimately decides which form of content delivery works best for them. I don't know that the model initially includes download release (i.e. itunes style), but I can imagine that's something Cuban is working on now (probably the DRM issues are a bit of a snag).

So even if NBC blows their opportunity at transferring to primetime tv the collective attention of viewers from the internet, there are other (potentially better) business models in the works that will better appeal to viewers who want to watch on their own terms.

So that's where Billy went after getting the axe from BSG! Who knew?!

FYI, his real name is Paul Campbell:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1353748/

However, electric motors and drivetrains have a much, much longer lifespan. I've never seen exact numbers, but I would imagine 200k-300k wouldn't be unreasonable.

So, as a business, do you choose to spend your R&D dollars on a car that needs to be replaced every 10 years, or a car that needs to be replaced every 20, 30, etc? It really doesn't make sense to cut your own throat like that. Granted, there will still be people who buy new cars every other year just to keep up in style, but the depreciation rate will decrease considerably.

BTW, I'm sure somebody else has mentioned this, but there's a movie called Who Killed the Electric Car? coming out soon that goes into this. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Close. Ricardo Montalban was Khan Noonien Singh (aka Khaaaaaan!), Brent Spiner was Dr. Noonian Soong (Data's creator).

Close. Ricardo Montalban was Khan Noonien Singh (aka Khaaaaaan!), Brent Spiner was Dr. Noonian Soong (Data's creator).

I watched 1776 to celebrate Independence Day this year. The Declaration of Independence is a remarkable piece of work.

It's even more remarkable if you read it. It sounds positively like what a liberal west-coast freak would write today to slam Bush.

Will he look like Brendan Fraser?

it seems more like a man wearing a rubber mask.

I realize that it's the left coast,
But if it's coders.... It's soda... (From the right coast) .... And HotPockets http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/

I thought we already had that movie. Oh no wait, that was just the title.

Did this movie ever get beyond Australia? Same kind of concept, as cinema owner realises the soundtrack to his classic print is stuffed.

Lets see.. I remember a very detailed Expose on these so called "borrowed ladders". Gee. You write a movie about it, and it takes almost 10 years for it to become a top news story on slashdot. I also remember an eye-scan in a movie using a plucked eye. Spaceballs used an unconscious guard's hand. As well as the "removed hand". Even scooby doo, Daphne used powder makeup to bring out the pattern of a thumbprint on a scanner to unlock something or other.

It is Tony Jay ... his voice is very distinct and he has a pretty large voice-over resume.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419645/

Your comment makes me think of Jack Thompson as Wimp Lo:

Wimp Lo: Ha! My face to your foot style, how do you like it?
Chosen One: I'm sure on some planet your style is impressive, but your weak link is: this is Earth.
Wimp Lo: Oh yeah? Then try my nuts to your fist style!

      (After the fight)

Wimp Lo: I'm bleeding, making me the victor!

A fucking bell? It's part of the birthday party... This is Jack's Birthday song with blood and gore all night long and drink until you all fall down Watch me wave my penis wand with five speeds it goes on and on Bang it on my gong and stick it up my crack Once you've seen this movie there is no going back From a tape deformed man, Happy Birthday Jack! Solo!

Time to watch the video. Don't fall asleep now... bitches. The Idiots Guide to Fight a Battle Royale! With Dayna Charlton! By Nintendo. WHASSUP, Japan Finals Team!! SUP, Ho! The survivor of this round, will advance to the World BR Championship! Good luck! -Fuck you! This Arena has a few new rules, that I'll be explaining to you! Pay attention, maggots. What you don't know can kill you!!! Japan's Arena is a deserted island that looks like this! lt's about 10 miles around, fully equipped with cameras, and the Hell-o-Chopper will be circiling the arena!! l said no whispering! All right, move, move. What did I say? Huh? Don't fuck around. Girls #18 Chatty Cathy Dead 41 To Go. Shaniqua! Asshole! -Benito! Benito! Shit! OK, back to the video! The Arena's divided into many Zones. Your host will inform you about which... 4 times a day! ...Zones the audience has selected to become DOOM ZONES lf you're in those DOOM ZONES, you should leave quickly... ...because DOOM is Fucking Nigh... OK, about the necklaces you're wearing. They're 100% waterproof and shockproof. .. ...and totally mooseproof! lt monitors your pulse, informing us... ...of your location and movements. So if you linger in a DOOM ZONE... ...or cause trouble, we can identify you, and transmit radio waves... ...And blow your fucking head up! BOOM!!! Fucking Crazy!!! lf you try to rip it off, it explodes too, and your pitiful friends will cry.

A fucking bell? It's part of the birthday party... This is Jack's Birthday song with blood and gore all night long and drink until you all fall down Watch me wave my penis wand with five speeds it goes on and on Bang it on my gong and stick it up my crack Once you've seen this movie there is no going back From a tape deformed man, Happy Birthday Jack! Solo!

Time to watch the video. Don't fall asleep now... bitches. The Idiots Guide to Fight a Battle Royale! With Dayna Charlton! By Nintendo. WHASSUP, Japan Finals Team!! SUP, Ho! The survivor of this round, will advance to the World BR Championship! Good luck! -Fuck you! This Arena has a few new rules, that I'll be explaining to you! Pay attention, maggots. What you don't know can kill you!!! Japan's Arena is a deserted island that looks like this! lt's about 10 miles around, fully equipped with cameras, and the Hell-o-Chopper will be circiling the arena!! l said no whispering! All right, move, move. What did I say? Huh? Don't fuck around. Girls #18 Chatty Cathy Dead 41 To Go. Shaniqua! Asshole! -Benito! Benito! Shit! OK, back to the video! The Arena's divided into many Zones. Your host will inform you about which... 4 times a day! ...Zones the audience has selected to become DOOM ZONES lf you're in those DOOM ZONES, you should leave quickly... ...because DOOM is Fucking Nigh... OK, about the necklaces you're wearing. They're 100% waterproof and shockproof. .. ...and totally mooseproof! lt monitors your pulse, informing us... ...of your location and movements. So if you linger in a DOOM ZONE... ...or cause trouble, we can identify you, and transmit radio waves... ...And blow your fucking head up! BOOM!!! Fucking Crazy!!! lf you try to rip it off, it explodes too, and your pitiful friends will cry.

Memorable Quotes from RoboCop 2

RoboCop: Waste makes haste. For time is fleeting. A rolling stone is worth two in the bush.
Boy: Go fuck a refrigerator, pecker neck!
RoboCop: Bad language makes for bad feelings.

The other day I was skimming through a book I very much enjoyed as a boy: Asimov on Astronomy.

Chapter 2 is about asteroids and comets that may impact the Earth, and how much damage they would do. He concludes with:

In the future, perhaps, things may be different. The men in the space stations that will eventually be set up about the Earth may find themselves, among other things, on the watch for the Earth-grazers, something like the iceberg watch conducted in northern waters since the sinking of the Titanic (but much more difficult of course).

The rocks, boulders, and mountains of space may be painstakingly tagged and numbered. Their changing orbits may be kept under steady watch. Then, a hundred years from now, perhaps, or a thousand, some computer on such a station will sound the alarm: "Collision orbit!"

Then a counterattack, kept in waiting for all that time would be set in motion. The dangerous rock would be met with an H-bomb (or, by that time, something more appropriate) designer to trigger off on collision. The rock would glow and vaporize and change from a boulder to a conglomeration of pebbles.

Even if they continued on course, the threat would be lifted. Earth would merely be treated to a spectacular (and harmless) shower of shooting stars.

Asimov was writing in 1966 but still should have known better. The kinetic energy of a shattered object is the same as the intact object. The only difference is that the energy will all be shed in the atmosphere instead of mostly in the lithosphere. Human suffering might be ameliorated somewhat but unless the trajectory of the pebbles is changed, the atmosphere is still getting superheated with disasterous local, and possibly global, effects. If you're standing under the shooting-star display, then like any nearby sand, you're getting cooked.

Yes, this ruined the ending of Deep Impact for me. Yes, I'm a geek.

Will it cause plants to take over the earth in 1000 years?

Will it cause plants to take over the earth in 1000 years?

Honestly, I remember playing Mario 2 and thinking "What the hell were they smoking when they made this game? Killing enemies with turnips you pull out of the groun? Red potions that take you to a mirror world? How does this fit between 1 and 3?". This actually explains a lot.

Also, I don't know why they thought we couldn't handle the real one - all the best gamers are in North America ;)