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I really did preview that one. Twice. ;)

That should read "It's not cheap being a bionic man."

What cost $6,000,000 in 1974 would cost $24,945,762.42 in 2005.

Dude, it's bAnzai not bOnzai --> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/ Gotta love that movie.. :) ..

That's unfortunate. You spent so much energy focusing on the introduction of the main character that you missed out on how lame he actually wasn't. And since that was the idea behind the film, you really missed out. In all seriousness, you should try watching it again. Or, just catch the 80's version. :D

Sports scores are time sensitive information to those that are betting on them. Thus, as pointed out elsewhere, the crypto need only delay the information by a few seconds to be effective. If this doesn't make the concept clear, then see this movie.

San Francisco, Ca - Mikhail Borovskiy (GNAP) - Moments after the announcement made by Steve Jobs that Apple would be changing the Macintosh computing platform from a PowerPC based CPU architecture to an Intel Pentium based architecture, GNAA executives jesuitx and timecop were visibly shaken. The announcement confirmed rumors started four days prior when C-Net News reported that this change would be taking place. As C-Net News was the first technical news source to report this story, most people assumed the truth would be somewhere near the polar opposite of their findings.

"Guys what is going on? It seems Apple is trying to market towards 'Straighties'! That's never going to work! Fuck Apple, Apple is dead to me, Apple hit WTC!" said jesuitx upon hearing the news. He was later seen backstage speaking with Apple's Vice-President of Marketing, Phil Schiller, quoted as saying "Phil, baby, this is massively fucked up. As a typical Macintosh user, and as a fellow Vice-President of Marketing [Gay Nigger Association of America], I can tell you there's no amount of spin you could put on this that will save you from losing support from the homosexual installed base [all Macintosh users] that has kept Apple Computer alive for so many years!"

timecop, founder and President of GNAA, is expected to renounce Apple and order the immediate purchase of Chinese made IBM computers by its members, 87% of which are Macintosh users, at the July 8th Copperfield Conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan. At the last Copperfield conference, held in Nome, Alaska, timecop had praised Apple for their continuous support of the homosexual community.

About Apple

Until today, Apple Computer was the creator of the Macintosh, popularly known as the "gay computer". 87% of GNAA members were Mac users. Founded in 1974 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple was nearly out of business in the mid 90's, when Jobs was rehired. He then started the now infamous iGay marketing scheme which involved both the Step 2 ???? Profit model, and a 100% effort towards marketing to homosexuals. Apple is nowadays run by fuckfaced retards.

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.

Roger Ebert has done commentary tracks on a few DVDs.

I have the DVD of "Good Night and Good Luck." I really enjoyed the film (and I recommend it highly, especially around here, where its political sentiment will likely ring true with many readers). One of the coolest things about that DVD is that, after watching the film, I was able to watch it again and hear George Clooney and Grant Heslov's commentary dubbed over the movie. I'm not a big fan of George Clooney, but I didn't care; it was really insightful to hear anecdotes and scene descriptions from the writers themselves. You can gain a real understanding for the composition of the film.

You watch the film once and you interpret it in your own way. Then you can watch it again (and since you've already seen it, the voiceovers don't ruin anything) and you learn why certain scenes were included, why they contributed to the plot, why the actors were directed in a certain manner, etc. I think it's a cool feature. I'm not so sure about downloading a commentary, but having it on the DVD is a "value added" service that makes it worth owning, IMO...

Is your friend's name Arcot Ramathorn, by chance?

To take away freedom in the guise of protecting it is exactly what we've been warned about by countless philosophers, sages, and authors.

Absolutely. I think it was also shown pretty well in this work.

Does no-one remember seeing the prototype for this being demonstrated in Airplane II (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083530/)?

I think they got in trouble for that. I wish I could find the link now.

Here's the link:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105414/

(single white female) :)

is a line from the excellent geek thriller Pi. You can listen to it here, at the end of the sample of "We got the gun".

As Enoch Powell discovered, cultural references will inevitably be misinterpreted by those who don't recognize them.

Actually, in my neighborhood, they sent around an officer to advise people on how to save money on their insurance, pointing out stuff like window security, deadbolt strength, just general stuff. Things you wouldn't necessarily think of.

Sure those were cops?

Green chips are supposed to be eaten ala "Soylent Green .

they already did this in the movie 13th floor
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
in short: turned out to be a bad idea.

Someone posted this clip on YouTube of a Futurama promo for Al Gores new movie. Great stuff

I didn't know this but Al Gores daughter, Kristin Gore is a writer for Futurama. Fun trivia for the day!

I can think of a lot of things I'd like to ask him. Pick which ever one seems best.

First I'll state my question in the form of a question: What do you think it is that gives Futurama such a unique kind of humor? Do you think that only a small part of the population finds Futurama funny?

More specifically, I enjoy the humor in Futurama. Maybe it's because I'm a nerd and appreciate the N-NP references or maybe it's because I read a lot and I like obscure references (or perhaps even the two are inherently married). What I can't seem to understand is why I like Futurama so much.

You do a great job on the voices and the writing is pretty good. But every so often there will just be these little "intellectual" jokes left and right that just make me laugh every time I see them. Some shows try to be scientific and just dribble the facts down the leg of their pants. It annoys me to no end. Futurama seems to manage to make fun of itself and in the process keep me entertained.

I don't want to sound like a snob but I wonder if Futurama suffers from being too genre or personality specific. Does it target only graduate level people with its nerdy humor?
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I'd also like to ask a second question: Do you select what shows you work on by their quality?

You've been in a lot of my favorite shows as a voice actor ever since I was a kid. I've also noticed that from your IMDB entry that you really stick to some genuinely funny shows. There are some where I've never found the shows funny but that's just me. I've always wondered if you only like to do shows that you yourself find funny. Do you think that many people in your business do this? I mean, assuming you're not starving and dying for work.
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Third question: Why do you think Futurama was cancelled?
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Fourth Question: What were your favorite voices you've done? What were your most hated?
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Fifth Question: When you're approached to do a voice for a show, how is the type of voice (sound, texture, pitch, etc) determined? Is there a line of people ready to do their interpretation of a character? Do you come up with your own idea based on the character's personality and then sit there refining it with the show's creators/writers? What does this process entail? Do you think of someone you know with the same personality and mimic their voice as a base for the character? If not, where do you get your ideas from?
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Sixth Question: What made you want to do voice acting as a profession? It must not be very glamorous if the only way a fan could recognize you is by your voice, why'd you choose it?
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Seventh Question: What exercises (if any) do you use to warm up your voice when you perform? Is it just something you're naturally good at or do you go through daily techniques and practicing like a musician or singer?
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Eighth Question: Have you ever used computer enhancements for your voices? Does this ever occur?

Robert Vaughn is currently abroad in England, filming his excellent con-man series Hustle. :) You don't have to worry about him getting sued in the US at all! (I'll bet that's a load off your mind, I like the chap too.)

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Wasn't Spain literally fascist until recently? Sounds like some of the old government never retired.

The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca was a good movie, but a terrible way to run a country.

You say that, but I don't know anybody who's actually *tried* it. It worked out great for that department store with Santa Claus in that movie...

I also don't know anybody that actually *tried* to ride a motorcycle off a cliff chasing an airplane, climbed in and flown the plane to safety. It worked great for Pierce Brosnan in that movie.

The whole premise for this story was stated back in 1994 in the movie "Clerks".

Dante Hicks: Theoretically, people see money on the counter, and no one around, they think they're being watched.

Veronica: Honesty through paranoia.

reference

This whole story is more about human nature and less about "big brother". I'm glad that we have "scientists" with the foresight to research such obvious topics ;-)

Oh, I think we know...

Sssh! You just discovered the plot of the Hostel sequel!

And SGAE, of course, will use the money not to pay the authors, but to spread the word through adoctrination lectures, or to pay for lobbies to bully Brussels, or to cry louder about how bad people is and how poor authors are getting (despite SGAE's doubling benefits every year...).

A film major I knew back in 2000 claimed that the only reason for that movie was so that somebody could write off a dozen sets of 12 different colored lens. Apparently those things ain't cheap.

Or world governments brought to their knees by an omni powerful corporation using fear mongering to maintain their industry kind of Future.

However I think we, the people of earth, can handle only one omnipresent ethereal threat at a time. Personally I'm liking the war on terror... I digress... What's going to kill us next? I forgot...

It was also in Highlander 2

When I was little one of my favorite shows was Daktari, and I even had a Daktari Land Rover Corgi car in my toy car collection. Every now and then I see one of these driving about Los Angeles. I think maybe it's an old desert rat come into town for supplies. I'd like to own a vehicle like that, with or without the zebra stripes.

OTOH, I see all too many bling SUVs, with big flashy spinning rims that probably have trouble going up a driveway, let alone getting into the dirt and mud. (I'm surprised I haven't seen any gold plated winches on the fronts of these gaudy monstrosities.)

What would be a good idea though would be a mechanism whereby some sort of write-once memory device was implanted in the BULLET, and the act of firing the round wrote the user's ID to the bullet for later retrieval

Ok, you've watched one too many bad Sylvester Stallone movies. Please return your Blockbuster card immediately.

Next we will be able to encrypt a data set and encode it onto the bullet shot. This data set could be... oh I don't know, the DNA of the person that shot it.
Then we can switch to a law system where the police officers are the judge, jury, and executioner.

Now all we need to do is firgure out a way to freeze Sylvester Stallone until this is all ready.

P.S. an interesting side note. while searching for Judge Dredd on IMDB, I typed it as judge dread. Try it out; it is funny.

Next we will be able to encrypt a data set and encode it onto the bullet shot. This data set could be... oh I don't know, the DNA of the person that shot it.
Then we can switch to a law system where the police officers are the judge, jury, and executioner.

Now all we need to do is firgure out a way to freeze Sylvester Stallone until this is all ready.

P.S. an interesting side note. while searching for Judge Dredd on IMDB, I typed it as judge dread. Try it out; it is funny.

Judge Dredd - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113492/
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=189668&cid= 15613436

Lucas: I love the Power Glove - it's so bad. [with a competely serious look]
Corey: Yeah, well, uh, just keep your Power Gloves off her, pal, huh?

(no, I'm not such a geek I could quote that off the top of me head, I had help from the geeks at imdb).

...i think George Lucas's gonna sue somebody!

As someone who grew up in the 80s, all I can pretty much say is this: the best thing that ever happened was that they ended. Born in Poland, growing up in America, I went through martial law, reganomics, the horrible music/fashion/movies of that time. Even cartoons were crap - the 80s WB and HB cartoons were awful, just look at Tom and Jerry... appaling.

As far as movies go, we can use IMDB to look back. At the 1982 Oscars (celebrating the movies of 1981) we see: best movie - Chariots of Fire. When's the last time you watched that classic? A year later, Ghandi beat out ET... Yeah, anyway, it was pretty crap. And let's not kid ourselves, my friend's 10 year old daughter is going to be bitching about games in 2016 sucking, not like the Harry Potter third-person adventure game she used to play.

Good one...!

I wonder how long you've been waiting for the opportunity to do that. :)

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that is why space shuttles are always having problems, they are design flaws. I wonder what it would have been like if they went for the best quality instead of the lowest price?

All I can think of was a Sci Fi TV show called "Salvage 1" where some Junkyard turned junk into a space ship and went to the Moon to salvage the equipment that NASA left there. That is when I think of NASA asking anyone to build a space ship.

Personally I think immaturity is a sign of stress and helplessness people feel under modern capitalism, it's becoming harder and harder to make a living. If you want to blame something for the state of society, the economy and how businesses use people is the first place to look.

Outstanding!

You have identified the root cause in America: rampant unchecked capitalism/commercialism. Because of this, we have ad-clogged mass media telling people they live in a 'microwave society' where you can 'buy today and pay tommorow.' As a result, people are on the 'rat race treadmill' fueling all this and lining the coffers of fatcat businessmen who view their workforce as 'a necessary evil' and a 'constant drain on the bottom line'. Why is there a relentless drive to computerize as much of business workflow as possible? So they can downsize and save on labor as much as possible. Case in point: I heard/read that WAL-MART
has such a sophisticated IT infrastructure that only the one in place for the Department Of Defense (the Pentagon) surpasses it!

Charlie Chaplin was preniscient when he made MODERN TIMES. If you've seen his misadventures in the factory scenes, you realize employees are little more than 'small replaceable parts' in a much larger machine--use them up as long as they are useful then replace them/discard them when worn out or no longer needed.

It looks like to escape the rat race, you have to 'fire your boss' and become 100% self-employed somehow (without breaking the law if you so desire). Good luck!

From http://www.gnaa.us/pr.phtml?troll=gnaa-freenet:

Ten-thousand Freenet User Identities Compromised

Rucas - Dongs-Hojrup, Denmark

Early this Afternoon the Gay Nigger Association of America claimed responsibility for the compromising of over 10,000 Freenet user identities. Norwegian correspondant DiKKy explained, "LOL by using a huge Turkish botnet LOL HY HY we were able to create drones on the Freenet network LOL. Using these drones HY HY HY we were able to triangulate, by IP LOL, who was responsible for the introduction of any file on the Freenet network LOL GLUG GLUG GLUG HY."

After DiKKy collapsed in a pool of his own filth, GNAA Security officer supers made the following statement, "Once we were able to trace which IPs had been uploading child pornography to the network (which in the end turned out to be every host that had ever connected to the network,) we were able to remove every IP controlled by our leader, timecop, from our compiled database and submit the remaining information to the Department of Justice. Fags."

Arrests are expected to begin within the week.

About Freenet:

Freenet is a secure and anonymous content distribution system designed by a team of expert child pornographers attempting to create a more secure network for the acquisition and distribution of child pornography.

About Turkey:

Turkey is a country in the near east named after a sandwich meat. The name capital city had been a raging debate until recently, when the GNAA stepped in between proponents of "Istanbul" and "Constantinople" and simply renamed it to Sandniggerville.

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 knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network. The correct network is NiggerNET, and you can connect to irc.gnaa.us as our official ser

It's even more uncomfortable to think of those chemicals sitting in some warehouse somewhere in leaky barrels. I think we've all seen what can happen when military chemical stores leak out.

-Eric

I got http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299930/quotes
Gigli Gigli, alright !

Oh... *turn off personalized search results*

Yep, there it is, salon.com

I have one simple rule when dealing with people - be nice. Be nice for as long as you possibly can. Then lose your shit in the most public, noisy and abusive way that you can.

That won't work in this post-9/11 world....

That kind of behavior will get you waylaid by the CSR/manager while they call the cops to come arrest you.

You forget government is the puppet of 'big' business -- who do you think REALLY supplies government with the ca$h needed to operate? It certainly isn't Joe Public, he doesn't have enough money to 'talk' loudly enough to get himself heard like the fatcat businessmen have at the corporate level.

That's why America's bipartisan political system is basically 'two sides of the same coin': Big business is ALWAYS in control!

I saw on MSN today that US AG Gonzales is crowing about 'nailing' some potential terrorists trying to 'bring down' the Sears Tower and what not. Come on -- another 9/11-style attack is old news -- the terrorists are REALLY JONESING on making THE SUM OF ALL FEARS a reality! all they need is a 'nuclear state' (such as North Korea) who is sympathetic to their cause to give them a nuke to float into a famous seaside harbor in the USA like LA, NY, or Miami with the expected , cataclysmic results. As far as I know, there is too much cargo to check to find the bomb before it does it's 'nuclear thing'. Another possibility would be to sneak it over the Canadian/US border out west where there are NO guards or fences to get past--just a 'cleared path' marking the border between the two countries!

The best thing to do is to give the oil rich states a fair price for their natural resource instead of trying to 'rip them off' by de-stabilizing their government then moving in with military force to occupy them. A 'Golden Rule' style U.S. foreign policy would have likely prevented 9/11...

Reminds me of "Colossus - The Forbin Project". It's about yer basic computer-gone-berserk. Halfway through the movie, "Colossus", the machine that the US has built to automate defense, announces "There is another system", referring to the heretofor unknown Soviet counterpart system "Guardian". Colossus demands to be connected to Guardian, and the two machines develop their own language for communication, unreadable by the pesky carbon life-forms. Together they take over the world, peace prevails, and the remaining survivors live more or less happily ever after, until the second book, when the Martians help the humans disable the computers so that they (the Martians) can take over the world.

Also, this particular analyst concludes that Blu-ray and HD-DVD will "not be a repeat of VHS vs. Beta" and that a stalemate is the likely outcome."

...the last time we let two machines develop their own language that we couldn't understand,things didn't turn out so well.

Just sayin', is all.

~Philly

Orgasmo?

Wow, this is on the tip of my brain right now. Great timing for once slashdot. I watched An Inconvinient Truth last night.. I highly recommend it. It's scary, and disturbing.. time to research the facts..

This congressional inquiry dovetails nicely with the documentary that features Al Gore, An Incovenient Truth. I recently saw the movie, and while I was aware of the problem of Global Warming, I'm now truly worried that my later years (I'm currently 35) are going to be more about surviving in an even increasingly difficult environment instead of just living. Watching graphs with exponential progressions coupled with comparitive photographs taken over the last 50 years is turly sobering.