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Could someone direct me to the Short Circuit thread here?

Stephanie!

Also need a link to the Robot Johnny Five thread also.

The mis-interpretation of Gore's words came from a dishonest political attack.

Anyone wanting to read more may be interested in a quote from Wikipedia's History of the Internet: "Funding for Mosaic [the first browser] came from the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative, a funding program initiated by then-Senator Al Gore's High Performance Computing Act of 1991."

Here's a quote from one of Wikipedia's articles about Al Gore: 'His [Al Gore's] statement caused no surprise at the time, and none of the journalists who covered it thought it worth including in their stories. However, two days later, the Republican Party began issuing press releases and statements denouncing Gore for claiming to have "invented the Internet".'

Another Wikipedia article about Gore quotes Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf: "...as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time."

Interesting fact: IMDB says that the character Oliver in the movie "Love Story" was partly based on Al Gore. Al Gore had been a roommate of Tommy Lee Jones, who appears in the movie.

According to the link, Return of the Jedi was the first. Of course, I never made it that far in the theater myself, I got scared by a Friday the 13th trailer and went to see another movie (this was the 1985 ROTJ re-release when I was almost 4 yrs old).

But I do distinctly remember the Jurassic Park DTS intro... it seems like around that time was when Dolby Digital, SDDS, etc, surround sound intros started becoming really prominent. I had always thought that the THX intro was a lot newer than 1983 myself, but what do I know.

Well, it wasn't exactly a "parallel-universe" as much as this chick from the future who took back her gun parts before this scientist dude put them back together and accidently killed himself, thereby sending shockwaves into the future, and creating the destruction of all mankind. Then there were lots of cool explosions around the time gate just before the brains in a bottle blew up. It's quite simply, really.

When I first glanced at the article I thought it said "Abrahams", as in Jim Abrahams and David Zucker of "Airplane!" fame. I think they should be the ones doing this movie and rename it "Starship!".

You mean like how The X Files only grossed $189 million? Yes, there's clearly no business logic behind making entertainment that appeals to niche audiences.

It was actually Gul Madred, played by David Warner.

It was a terrorist attack.

OMG! I guess the Producers scenario continues to play out wherein, it may be worse for Infinium to actually produce a real product than to fail outright and liquidate. I imagine there's probably a battle within the company right now between those whose pride demands that they produce something tangible and those who know the probable truth that liquidation is the best way to stay out of jail!

It's really sad because I think this lapboard is actually a good idea. Hopefully they can sell it to someone like Logitech, or Microsoft to at least get this in the hands of gamers.

We should remember that Starfleet Acadamy is ostensibly somewhere near CalTech, so you need to get some Real Genius type stuff going on...

Doctor in Brooklyn: Why are you depressed, Alvy?

Alvy's Mom: Tell Dr. Flicker.

Alvy's Mom: It's something he read.

Doctor in Brooklyn: Something he read, huh?

Alvy at 9: The universe is expanding.

Doctor in Brooklyn: The universe is expanding?

Alvy at 9: Well, the universe is everything, and if it's expanding, someday it will break apart and that would be the end of everything!

Alvy's Mom: What? Is that your business?

Alvy's Mom: He stopped doing his homework!

Alvy at 9: What's the point?

Alvy's Mom: What has the universe got to do with it? You're here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not expanding!

Doctor in Brooklyn: It won't be expanding for billions of years yet, Alvy. And we've gotta try to enjoy ourselves while we're here!

REF

Shouldn't that be "Trekkerer"?

It certainly is more presentable.
I hate the way imdb links don't name the film in question.
Even if it was some parameter like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869?TheQuietEarth would be better

Haven't I heard that one before?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/

Martin Lawrence?

When I first glanced at the article I thought it said "Abrahams", as in Jim Abrahams and David Zucker of "Airplane!" fame. I think they should be the ones doing this movie and rename it "Starship!".

Someone's already done the "Airplane!" version of Star Trek. They called it Galaxy Quest, and it's hilarious.

Variant on the old Argon Fuels joke, dating back to the 1970's fuel crunch....

Wouldn't Picard's days at SA have been more interesting? I mean, he was a party animal, ladies man, and was stabbed through the heart in a fight. Sounds more interesting to me.

Being a Trek fan for the last, oh, 25 years, I REALLY think they need to step outside of Trek lore to create something that will be worth watching. Of course it probably won't happen, but with the commercial and/or critical successes of Battlestar Galactica and Firefly , Paramount needs to wakeup and realize that if they don't change soon, they risk the franchise as a whole.

This is just pre-re-release publicity for some damn Dave Barry movie that flopped the first time at the box office. (This would be almost as bad as "Flight 93" for the inflight movie.)

When you need to 1) change your video (re: American Life) because you're scared of what people might say, you've lost your edge (as Madonna was always controversial before)
2) French kiss both Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera on live TV, you are in desperate need of publicity
3) Cause Guy Ritchie to go from making "classics" such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch., and arguably The Hire: Star to drivel such as Swept Away and Revolver, you're obviously a bad influence on the creative process.

She has decent album sales (compared to her last album) so she feels it's OK to overprice her tickets, and as long as idiots keep paying those high prices, she'll get away with it. Then again, how else will she pay for that $10 million Swarovski encrusted disco-fied crucifix?

When you need to 1) change your video (re: American Life) because you're scared of what people might say, you've lost your edge (as Madonna was always controversial before)
2) French kiss both Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera on live TV, you are in desperate need of publicity
3) Cause Guy Ritchie to go from making "classics" such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch., and arguably The Hire: Star to drivel such as Swept Away and Revolver, you're obviously a bad influence on the creative process.

She has decent album sales (compared to her last album) so she feels it's OK to overprice her tickets, and as long as idiots keep paying those high prices, she'll get away with it. Then again, how else will she pay for that $10 million Swarovski encrusted disco-fied crucifix?

One of the people involved with the project is Ronald D. Moore was one of the writers for DS9 and there are a lot of top episodes to his name. He also did Battlestar Galactica old and new. I personally welcome the news that Paramount haven't forgetten about Star Trek and actually decided to put it in capable handles of JJ Abrams and his possy. :) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601822/filmoseries#tt0 106145

Don't tell me they're casting Steve Guttenberg as Kirk.

Those examples are obvious. They are given as a proof that the technology works at given level of triviality.

What would be interesting is to observe otherwise unexplainable picks in their Moodgrapher and see what is behind them. "LiveJournal is huge", and at the statistical level individual mood swings stop become a husband's headache.

Why would suddenly on 20th of April "aggressiveness" (or whatever they use) jumps? If it does that would be alarming, wouldn't it?

"You've got a Friend in Porn" by Sean Cullen

When you're feeling blue,
you don't know what to do,
sitting all alone,
waiting by the phone...
The world seems so unfair,
no one seems to care.
When your worlds are ripped and torn
you've got a friend in porn.

Thank you for the porn!
Though other folks may scorn
the constant mindless sex
and the crude special effects,
it gets you through the day
whether bi or straight or gay.
When you wish you were never born,
you've got a friend in porn.

When the night is long,
everything is wrong.
Your heart is on a shelf,
you have to touch yourself.
Reach for your old friend.
The pleasures never end,
and I think you'll find
it's a friend you can rewind!

Thank you for the porn!
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You've got a friend in porn
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There has always been and always will be piracy. The best way to minimize it is to offer your consumers what they want, how they want it, and at prices that make for a better value and less effort than going out and getting it illegally.

Clearly you've never ordered from the Adam and Eve catalog. Just see that joke from MST3k the movie "this island earth".

I've never ordered from them, thank god. The problem isn't the fact that they are bastards, or they have bad prices, or anything along those looks. Looks like they have plenty 'o porn for $10 and under including such lovely titles like "Lesbians in Heat" and "Get off with Carmen". "Snoop Dogg's Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp" is only $5.00 for crying out loud on VHS and apparently a sequal to "Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle" directed by Michael Martin Drew Rose.

From my understanding, ordering from them means you get free gifts, lots and lots of free gifts. I don't think price is an issue... should I wish to get "Ass Angles 4" with it's advertised 4 hours and 17 backdoor scenes on DVD... that's only $10.00. That's alot of ass, that's only 60 cents per ass. I don't know the going rate for ass but to me... for ass, that sounds most reasonable. I think the big thing is being able to get your ass without your flat being flooded with catalogs, and free gifts. This may affect your cost per ass, for better or worse I don't know, but people generally prefer to enjoy their ass privatly... they get embarased when others discover they are enjoying pre-recorded ass. Pirated ass enjoys this benifit.

For some unaccountable reason, your post makes me think of Miss Edie in Pink Flamingos -- a movie I haven't even seen. (I saw a TV show about John Waters, the director, which included an excerpt.)

Actually, yeah, I could. And before anybody mods this funny, bear in mind I had a boss exactly like David Brent (down to the shitty little goatee), execpt this guy didn't have his charm.

This is so 1995.
They had this way back then, you can see it when Razor and Blade contact their affiliates and they take that Gibson down. The blocks turn red when they're hacked.
It comes with sound fx.

There was a very good drama documentary by Equinox here in the UK called "King of Chaos",
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143342/ in that, when the adverts were about to come on they said "you are on payment plan B, there will be 5mins of adverts".

Very thought provoking documentaring BTW and well worth watching.

Cute but not too bright. Almost every keyword of mine in this thread is from The Matrix. The Oracle already knows Neo.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, actually.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0103241/

Do you know a better way to handle out-of-memory problems? Obviously not, as you haven't implemented it and submitted a patch to the LKML yet. Put up or shut up.

Are we still doing this? I thought it was accepted a while ago that honest, open criticism was a healthy component of the OSS movement.

Or, in the immortal words of Jim Sting: "Remember you told me to tell you when you were acting rudely and insensitively? Remember that? You're doing it right now."

Actually the future of war will be rooms full of teenagers remotely controlling thousands of semi autonomous vehicles, ground, sea, and air, to achieve victory on the battle field. Ender's Game http://www.ender.com/ender/ describes such a future.

Of course the real reason for developing such robots will initially be to reduce the number of troops needed to support the front line troops. Typically it requires a large number of support troops for each combat troop on the front line. By reducing the number of support troops needed you free up people that can be put on the front line. This will become a bigger issue as fewer people are opting to volunteer for duty. After that we start pushing AI enabled vehicles directly into combat. The big issue with doing that is how do you clearly identify an enemy target? With the kind of wars being fought today you can not specify a particular uniform as a target. And you don't want one of these vehicles to go off on your own troops in the field. The simple solution is to use these as area denial weapons, kind of like smart mines. Instead of lying inert in the ground like a typical mine these actively patrol and seach out targets in a defin ed area. Anything in the box is a target. Reminds of the movie Screamers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/.

Ultimately though real boots will have to be put on the ground to take and hold an area.

"The clever bit is how you integrate, balance and harmonize separate systems that allow you to drive the car in a spirited way, but don't feel in any way in danger, overpowered and intimidated," said Martyn Hollingsworth, Jaguar's director of engineering. "This is real important when you are in a car approaching up to 400 horses." (emphasis mine)

I'm sorry, but I think that when you're dealing with a machine that powerful, you ought to respect the thing. To quote Gumball Rally:

- Can you imagine making this trip at 55mph?
- 55 is unsafe!
- It's boring!
- That's why it's unsafe; you are going fast enough to kill you but slow enough to make you think you're safe.

Chang isn't a "last name" in that sense. [blah blah blah] "Chang" is an individual names just like "Mohammed". I have long suspected that "example" was coined by one of those typical smug dolt newspaper columnist types.

While there may be a few people out there with the given name "Chang" (hey, if they can be named "Moon Unit"...), "Chang" is more commonly seen as the Wade-Giles romanization of a common chinese surname.

Using the more modern Pinyin romanization scheme, it's "Zhang".

Consider the famous actress Zhang Zi Yi. Her given name is two Chinese characters which we romanize as Zi Yi or Ziyi. Her family name is a chinese character which we romanize as Zhang, and is the same name that used to be more commonly romanized as Chang (they are both supposed to be pronounced the same way, but English speakers usually end up making it rhyme with "clang" instead of "bong").

But what if they didn't throw away the earlier work, and as you advanced in the game, it would change to more and more advanced rendering engines? And what if the transition between engines were seamless?

Imagine the typical "evolution of man" image, but instead depicting the increasing qualities of rendering Duke Nukem and the world around him. Kinda like this image from ReBoot.

Too bad the link is down, I'm curious what the article says about Paul Barresi. He is a gay porn star (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056947/bio). Google him and "Travolta" and you'll find he sold a story to the Enquirer about how John Travolta picked him up in a gym sauna and they had an affair. The story was later retracted by Barresi, likely because he was paid off by Travolta or Scientology.

Weird, can't seem to find much online about him, and no pics. I remember he was a very good looking, masculine guy. While Travolta has bad taste in movie ideas and religion, he has great taste in men.

Travolta must have some strong riders for interviews, because I've never seen the issue discussed. I think it's funny how Travolta talks about Kelly Preston in interviews, when everyone on the set must know he likes hairy Italian stallions. I guess Hollywood has always been that way, though.

So were Scientology's and/or Barresi's lawyers causing problems for the article?

This may pose a problem with the 526,000+ people sharing the name Michael Smith.

reference

Samir: No one in this country can ever pronounce my name right. It's not that hard: Samir Na-gheen-an-a-jar. Nagheenanajar.

Michael Bolton: Yeah, well at least your name isn't Michael Bolton.

Samir: You know there's nothing wrong with that name.

Michael Bolton: There was nothing wrong with it... until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.

Samir: Hmm... well why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?

Michael Bolton: No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks

GP is trollish and flame-ish, but you also missed the point. He's referring to the part where the blurb says "and learn, among other things, just how Marshmallow Peeps came to rule the world."

To be frank and international with you, marshmellows outside of North America rule Jack and shit... And Jack left town...

(Bruce Campbell, instead, rules everywhere, period.)

I confess...I watched The Movie, Double Dragon.

You heard that correctly! Double Dragon was and is the Trailer Trash attraction of the moment, right next to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Movie, and Street Fighter, The Movie.

I am verry aroused when these video-game movies feature unknown or obsolete actors, especialy Fred Savage. Prrrrr. And I masterbated to one of those Double Dragon pictures in the above link. Can you guess which one?(HINT: It's somthing to do with that car with the UPC barcode plates.)

LOL - I am not usually a William Hurt fan because he tends to be in slow painful movies - but "sheets of plastic that give off light" play a mid-level role in this movie: Rare Birds

The Salesman: The wind rises, electric. She's soft and warm and almost weightless. Her perfume is a sweet promise that brings tears to my eyes. I tell her that everything will be all right. That I'll save her from whatever she's scared of and take her far, far away. I tell her I love her.

The Salesman: [silenced gunshot]

The Salesman: The silencer makes a whisper of the gunshot. I hold her close until she's gone. I'll never know what she was running from. I'll cash her check in the morning.

For a long time, Jim Carey had a listing in IMDB showing "The Eight Billion Dollar Man", but that seems to have been removed. This is likely for one of his most recent movies, such as See Jane Play With Dick".

;)

Has it changed so much since the Gulf War, as recounted in Jarhead? And though I realise it's fiction, the makers of Buffalo Soldiers did clainm that it was all based on true events.

Actually, I consider him to be someone I had never heard of before I read your comment. And none of the films he's involved with are anime however entertaining they may be.

Professor David Nutt, a psychopharmacologist at the

I don't know whether I had been exposed to syntehol myself or whether I'm still half asleep, but the first thought, which came in my mind when reading the abstract was: of course, a "Nutty Professor"!

FYI - It's spelled "Jurassic".

Can you name even one person who has been "shipped off sans due process to an offshore prison camp" who wasn't captured in a war zone under arms while not wearing a uniform?

Road to Guantanamo

Great movie.

More info at

Channel 4's site on Road to Guantanamo