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Hey, FORTH was used for the motion control cameras in the movie, The Right Stuff! I know because I actually worked on those systems. (And got to meet Chuck Yeager, very briefly, but that's another story.) Anyway, I happened to like that movie--and not just because I contributed in a small way. So, while FORTH might not be my first choice these days, even for motion control, I think it's proved that it can be used to make some pretty good movies.

So you and "Snap E Tom" can just go soak your...oh wait. Do you suppose that was a typo, and Tom really meant "fourth"? Nah, this is Slashdot; the editors would never let something like that slip through! :)

Well duh... you just have your robotic friend ignite the other one.. just like in the movie.

Yes, child porn is one of the most evil things there are

Okay, "evil" is pretty much a subjective term. I can call anything I want to attack "evil", and there's not much anyone can do to convince otherwise. A lot of people do exactly this. However, I'm going to have to say that child porn just doesn't rate that highly on my list of things that damage happiness.

Murder is pretty darn awful. Someone gets killed, they are gone. All the time they've spent learning things is suddenly wiped out.

Arson is pretty bad -- maybe a lot of people die, definitely a lot of work to repair the thing, and so forth.

But child porn? Don't shift the question to one of sexual abuse -- I'm talking strictly about child porn right now. Say a seventeen-year old girl is posing in lingerie. Where is the damage? Taking pictures of someone, young or not, in the buff, just does not rank anywhere near murder, arson, and similar crimes by any kind of a sane standard. What actual damage is caused? Oh, sure, you can say that by a Victorian standard, someone's honor is stained and so forth...but seriously, it just isn't something that is going to stop anyone from potentially living a happy and full life.

And *if* horrific damage is caused by child porn, then how exactly does this differ from, say, the pictures taken of tribal kids in the nude sitting around a cooking fire somewhere in National Geographic? Can you explain why *this* is just fine and your hypothetical pornographer is horrible? I certainly can't.

Now, all that pornography in general need entail is that the purpose be to produce sexual arousal. That in and of itself isn't going to hurt anyone. Okay, we can reasonably say that "perhaps children will be sexually abused in the *making* of pornography". We have laws against sexual abuse. Why does there need to additionally be laws against child pornography? It would seem that it is pretty straightforward to prosecute sexual abuse of children as easily as prosecution of pornography -- you have pictorial evidence of someone committing a crime. What then makes the simple classification of "pornography" need be illegal?

Finally, child pornography is one of the very few things for which possession is, in and of itself, a crime (controlled drugs and unlicensed firearms are the only other two things that I can think of). I would guess that the idea is that someone found the possibility that child pornography might lead to sexual abuse potentially too high of a risk, and then followed that up with the idea that making possession of the data illegal would help cut the legs out from under the market, thus making the market illegal. I see that as a pretty long stretch (and if that is the rationale, non-commercially produced child pornography should be legal).

What's more, if you want to argue based on some kind of absolute ethical standard, that sexually idealizing someone below eighteen is simply *evil*, you have to also explain why somehow, this invisible and global balance of good and evil mysteriously shifted in the last couple hundred years. Juliet was *thirteen* years old. How is it that in a single heartbeat of the long, long history of mankind, that Good and Evil have so abruptly taken a rapid adjustment?

Frankly, I can see (adult) prostitution having a lot more problems associated with it (disease vectors, despite the precautions), and even that is legal in some places in the United States.

But everyone likes to have their demons, the things that everyone can comfortably sit back and agree are bad. We happen to like hating Nazis (They were monsters! Monsters! Not just an xenophobic and nationlistic time of history in a country! That couldn't ever happen to anyone else, because *those people were monsters*!"), drugs (watch Reefer Madness for an example of the propaganda that led to marijuana being criminalized -- it's downright alarming), and child porn ("Won't somebody think *about the children*!")

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You could argue that if simulated rape, torture, and killing in a movie are ok then simulated sex with a child is ok. Somehow it just doesn't feel ok. To me anyway.

BTW RE: your sig -- you sure do sound like a libertarian;-)

"Liebe Freunde Freien Wissens, durch eine vor dem Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg am 17. Januar 2006 erwirkte einstweilige Verfugung wurde dem Verein Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Forderung Freien Wissens e.V. untersagt, von dieser Domain auf die deutschsprachige Ausgabe der freien Enzyklopadie Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) weiterzuleiten."

This roughly translates as, "Dear friends and comrades, Wikipedia has been shut down as of January 17th, 2006 due to a court injunction by the government of Germany, due to extensive support by Wikipedia for the Jews and the state of Israel".

This type of support was made illegal in Germany in 1939 by the Berlin Pact, signed by Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany has announced that this injunction will not be lifted until Wikipedia stops supporting "Die Juden".

"We also feel this injunction came in due time, as Wikipedia is being overrun by articles pertaining to non-notable blogs with completely useless information (or "blogs"), which are also illegal in the Great Republic of Germany. We are pleased to receive the support of the Gay Niggers, as they have already declared war on the blogs, and know how to defeat this communist ideal before it can become a threat to freedom," said Mrs. Merkel.

About Germany

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and chips and crackers and cookies and... you know u just named a huge part of the store right? They all have their own asles in most large grocery stores.

"Lasagna noodles? Rotini? etc?"

and how many asles do those have? .... that's what i thought. And I microwave my pastas whenever I can, boils much faster.

""not knowing how to cook, is like not knowing how to fuck." - Robert Rodriguez"

who the hell is rober rodriguez? Some B-rated actor that did a few movies? Why does his opinion count about cooking? Tom Cruise loves Scientology, should I change religions based on his opinion?

course if he was some TV chef i'd simply say he's just a chef with a show that he doesnt want to loose.

"Liebe Freunde Freien Wissens, durch eine vor dem Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg am 17. Januar 2006 erwirkte einstweilige Verfugung wurde dem Verein Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Forderung Freien Wissens e.V. untersagt, von dieser Domain auf die deutschsprachige Ausgabe der freien Enzyklopadie Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) weiterzuleiten."

This roughly translates as, "Dear friends and comrades, Wikipedia has been shut down as of January 17th, 2006 due to a court injunction by the government of Germany, due to extensive support by Wikipedia for the Jews and the state of Israel".

This type of support was made illegal in Germany in 1939 by the Berlin Pact, signed by Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany has announced that this injunction will not be lifted until Wikipedia stops supporting "Die Juden".

"We also feel this injunction came in due time, as Wikipedia is being overrun by articles pertaining to non-notable blogs with completely useless information (or "blogs"), which are also illegal in the Great Republic of Germany. We are pleased to receive the support of the Gay Niggers, as they have already declared war on the blogs, and know how to defeat this communist ideal before it can become a threat to freedom," said Mrs. Merkel.

About Germany

"Bundesrepublik Deutschland" was founded before the middle ages by the Visigoths. The government was non-notable per above until the late 1930's, when Germany underwent an extremely positive and successful cultural revolution. Today, Germany is a beacon for free economy and a land without Jews.

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 ?
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Will Jerry O'Connell be involved in this one as well?

Unfortunately the PC crowd has hijacked Disney. Now Snow White has been black listed as un-PC. You see, poor little Snow White has white skin and that is deemed too politically incorrect for Disney Studios. And poor old Uncle Remus is mistakenly labeled as "racist" even though the tales of Brer Rabbit celebrate the cleverness and survival skills of former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws. The current Disney regime hasn't a clue to the storyline!

The world turned upside down!

Unfortunately the PC crowd has hijacked Disney. Now Snow White has been black listed as un-PC. You see, poor little Snow White has white skin and that is deemed too politically incorrect for Disney Studios. And poor old Uncle Remus is mistakenly labeled as "racist" even though the tales of Brer Rabbit celebrate the cleverness and survival skills of former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws. The current Disney regime hasn't a clue to the storyline!

The world turned upside down!

Frankly, I'm surprised it's taken this long. In the last year we've seen the discovery of a super giant squid, the first videos of a giant squid in the wild, and now this!

Look.

Do you know how fucking big a sperm whale is? It's huge. HUGE. And giant squid eat them. Listen to your heart - no matter what the scientists tell you, 4th grade ecology has convinced us all that whales are intelligent loving animals. Did you see Star Trek 4. They're the freakin' saviours of humanity man.

And giant squid eat them

Eat them

Not beacause it's easy. Oh no, not because a sperm whale is an easy catch. Big, remember? No. It's because squid are evil incarnate

Do you know how long they've been down there? No one does. But my guess is the squid and it's precurser have been down there in the depths for a lot longer than man has been knucklewalking. That's old. And you know they think down there. Brood down there. Their tentacles floating like the limbs of children relaxing in the water, they brood and wonder how to conquer us from below.

Things that think and brood also dream. And things that dream begin to worship the stuff of dreams. Out of man's insecurity we have sublimated a great father figure into the sky, according to Freud. What about the tentacled things in the watery darkness, whose females are larger than their males?

I'll tell you what they worship

A great multilimbed mother of the dark watery brood. Deep down in the very molten cracks of the earth filling the sea with inky blackness. THAT's what they worship. We killed men in the crusades. Men who looked the same as other men. What will the dark octupi and squid do to US who are mere flabby bloodsacks to rip apart and drink out fluids with their beaky maws? What in the name of their Dark Mother goddess will they do to us when they rise into our airy realm?

Think about it dudes

Us computer geeks are basically fucked

I think you need to reference dictionary.com and look at the definition of the word "hero" as neither one of these two guys even comes close.

Heros are like Audi Murphy or Frodo Baggins. Perhaps you should apply the phrase "self-serving business men" instead.

I pity the fool who selects heros such as these (with thanks to Mr. T, who is something of a hero in his own right, see: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001558/bio )

She's not THE main character, but she's one of them and still sets the same example of women in science jobs: Diane Foss

There was another woman who I can't find that was a research assistant for the Math Department that was on a lot of the episodes, too. She made a good female role model as well.

Here's a sample: the main spaceship is a sort of "aircraft carrier" that carries fighters. So far so good, only the scriptwriter apparently did his research by watching old WWII films. In one scene there is a fighter on the deck, damaged beyond repair, and the crew push it off so others can land. After they clear it off the deck the fighter falls over the side, like it would if it were in a WWII film, on an aircraft carrier sailing the ocean, at the bottom of a gravity well, where things fall down.

And don't get me started on the sonar. In space. "Ping!" "Ping!". Sheesh.

So what would happen if one of the geek faves, say, Mythbusters was hosted by a man and a woman (cf. Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars? Or by two women - say, Scottie and Cathy Rogers hosting, while Jamie and Adam do the dirty work.

I suspect people would find the latter scary, and possibly dangerous. Like what happened when they made a movie about two women shooting their way across the west.

...laura

I don't understand why no one will pick this up. Get hot enough chicks like this one on the show and I guarantee you'll have everyone watching it in droves.

This seriously seems like a slam-dunk to me. Maybe they just needed better writers.

I agree, bad films are very entertaining. I dont know if I would consider Ewe Bolle on the same level as Ed Wood though. Ewe Bolle movies are so bad that they are funny, but Ed Wood movies are so bad that while still funny, they become art. 'Glen or Glenda' is good (or rather so bad it is good) but Plan 9 from Outer Space (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/)is his best (worst) movie IMHO.

Exactly. For example if there would be a giant asteroid heading towards Earth, they'd know who to call.

> The Woz is rich in family and hacking ability, and as far as role models go, I'd much rather be the later.

Napoleon Dynamite agrees!

> Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills. You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer
> hacking skills...

Meanwhile, you've got people like Bono and Geldof constantly pursuing doing the right thing, getting sponsors on board to help erradicate diseases, end poverty, change the way the G8 address debt of the developing world, etc. (good flick to watch: The Girl In The Cafe) all without having $49b to do it with. These people do more than just cast money at the problem, the mobilize against it.

Another big charity announced recently.

During the filming of The Twilight Zone movie, Victor Morrow was decapitated in a helicoptor accident.

Hence the joke:

Q - How did they know Vic Morrow had dandruff?
A - They found his head and shoulders in the bushes. :-)

During the filming of The Twilight Zone movie, Victor Morrow was decapitated in a helicoptor accident.

Hence the joke:

Q - How did they know Vic Morrow had dandruff?
A - They found his head and shoulders in the bushes. :-)

Ed Wood, Ewe Bolle . . . quincidence? Come on now, films this bad are actually quite entertaining to watch. Anybody who doesn't believe me really needs to see GLEN OR GLENDA. Its an absolute riot. I for one plan to bring a troupe of gaming buddies to see BloodRayne and laugh it up. Mystery science theatre didn't make it through ten seasons for nothing.

Or maybe you're confusing Uwe Boll with Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom?

What I really noticed about this article was the claim that some TV-companies added an explosion sound to the footage.

On the DVD Trinity and Beyond , one of the special features is raw footage of a nuclear test.

One thing noticable was a delay between the explosion and the sound, which makes sense. Given that the camera is usually a few miles away from ground zero, the sound would take several seconds to reach the microphone (approx. 5 seconds per mile).

Most films (both fiction and documentary) with explosions show the explosion and sound at the same time.

The only movie I can think of that had a sound-delay after an explosion was Red Dawn (the first gas station scene, when the protagonists gathering supplies). And maybe The Beast , which was directed by Kevin Reynolds, who wrote Red Dawn.

What I really noticed about this article was the claim that some TV-companies added an explosion sound to the footage.

On the DVD Trinity and Beyond , one of the special features is raw footage of a nuclear test.

One thing noticable was a delay between the explosion and the sound, which makes sense. Given that the camera is usually a few miles away from ground zero, the sound would take several seconds to reach the microphone (approx. 5 seconds per mile).

Most films (both fiction and documentary) with explosions show the explosion and sound at the same time.

The only movie I can think of that had a sound-delay after an explosion was Red Dawn (the first gas station scene, when the protagonists gathering supplies). And maybe The Beast , which was directed by Kevin Reynolds, who wrote Red Dawn.

-FL

Second: There are two ways out... Hook up with a temp agency to pay the bills and quit or save enough cash to cover a couple months of bills and quit. Either way, move toward quitting. Others have mentioned vacation/sick time but these may lead to "absenteeism" and burnt bridges.

Now that you're in your new job, communicate your workload better so you don't get piled on again. If you notice, the people who get away with doing nothing amplify the weight of their workload (whine). Also, ask about "mandatory overtime" and such in future interviews.

The sequel to The Fast and the Furious was 2 Fast 2 Furious.

The sequel to The Fast and the Furious was 2 Fast 2 Furious.

The sequel to The Fast and the Furious was 2 Fast 2 Furious.

The sequel to The Fast and the Furious was 2 Fast 2 Furious.

The sequel to The Fast and the Furious was 2 Fast 2 Furious.

Come ye to knowledge, and know that it is good. ;)

I could make some sort of Tars Tarkas reference here, but you youngsters would not understand until the movie comes out.

I'm sure that's a reference to Star Wars or Star Trek or something, that apparently I'm not nerdy enough to get. Oh well... Anyway- the intent was to reference the movie Me and You and Everyone We Know. Go see it. It's good.

This is great.
This is greater.

My guess is Jennifer Love Hewitt because in her new TV show (Ghost Whisperer) she can communicate with the dead.

Just last week my girlfriend watched both Bullitt and The French Connection, and wouldn't you know it, the very next day she had a car accident!

I guess it's back to Tele-Tubbies and Woody Allen movies for her!

Just last week my girlfriend watched both Bullitt and The French Connection, and wouldn't you know it, the very next day she had a car accident!

I guess it's back to Tele-Tubbies and Woody Allen movies for her!

Just last week my girlfriend watched both Bullitt and The French Connection, and wouldn't you know it, the very next day she had a car accident!

I guess it's back to Tele-Tubbies and Woody Allen movies for her!

If you've seen "Seven Samurai", the parallels are quite obvious. It's admittedly mapped onto the traditional grasshopper/ant fable, but as a movie, it's clearly patterned after "Seven Samurai".

I just love the user comment on the IMDB site:

What was FOX thinking?!, 10 October 2003

It really says a lot, doesn't it? :-) Well, it doesn't!

FOX must have the greatest talent scouts in the world, but the worst executives. "Firefly" is the best example. It was simultaneously the best new show, the best western series in decades, and the best sci-fi show on TV (and coming from a die-hard Trekkie, placing them above "Enterprise" is saying something). They didn't have a single bad episode, and some were spectacular. The premise, the characters, the plots and the dialogue were all top-notch. And FOX cancelled it without even really giving it a chance.

Judging by the 96% of people who found that comment usefull, the author probably is not alone. Having a poll done to see if there's an audience is a great marketing move. It'll attract die hard fans to the TV if they'll air it, and it will attract free promototion for the station on various news sites/papers (e.g. slashdot). Brilliant! Even if the show is a complete disaster the move is really a good one (from a business/marketing perspective).

I thought this story covered the term but apparently it doesn't. Anyway, the medical term for Henry's condition is called anterograde amnesia. And if it hasn't already been mentioned here, it's also the same ailment that the protagonist Leonard has in the movie Memento. And if you liked that movie I reccommend reading the short story it was based on. It's an excellent piece of prose.

he could meet this girl http://imdb.com/title/tt0343660/

The Emperor's New Groove (2000) $89

Damn. There's no justice. That film is great,

Agreed, completely.

Treasure Planet (2002) $38

That one's a real pity. Everything about it was so good --- the animation, the concept, the style, the characterisation, the acting --- except for the actual plot.

Mostly agreed. It was better than I thought it'd be (I refused to see it in the theatre), but I still can't get past the spaceships that look like old sailing ships silliness. And no, don't tell me about solar wind unless you can explain why they didn't also have sails on the "bottom".

My favorite take on "Treasure Island" (and I've seen it as everything from a stage play to the old Disney live action film, as well as reading the book) has to be Muppet Treasure Island, with Kermit playing Captain Smollet and Tim Curry as Long John Silver. Aside from giving Ben Gunn a sex change (it's now Benjamina Gunn, played by Miss Piggy), it's not too far from the book, with the usual collection (for a Muppet movie) of musical numbers and one-liners. (The best of the Muppet movies too, IMHO).

Ya know, seeing Serenity cured me of any further desire to indulge in the act of watching Firefly...

Problem with Fox is 90% of the content is brain-dead programming.

Hey, this is the network that gave us Titus, Firefly, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Arrested Development, and Futurama. They know how to put out some pretty good shows. Then they know how to take those pretty good shows away.

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