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The climate centres around the world, which are the equivalent of the pathology lab of a hospital, have reported the Earth's physical condition, and the climate specialists see it as seriously ill, and soon to pass into a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years. I have to tell you, as members of the Earth's family and an intimate part of it, that you and especially civilisation are in grave danger.

The Revenge of Gaia' is published by Penguin on 2 February.

Big brother has been replaced by Big Bubba from Texas

Cowboy Bebop is great, as you say Watanabe has a flair for mixing genres and making it work (although I haven't watched Samurai Champloo yet). One of the things I love about anime, that you might disagree with, is the really advanced and varied story lines and concepts often seen. Topics and ideas that usually are not even dared experimenting with in American animation.

Movies like Nekojiru-so (Cat Soup) for example. Surreal, dreamy, cute and grotesque. Or, as mentioned in the article, FLCL.

A series I enjoyed immensely, although many might think it slow, was Oniisama E (Brother, dear brother). A sad, sad story - and I'm usually not easily moved by such things.

These are just a couple of examples. I don't know what makes the Japanese market open to this kind of intelligent and often beautiful storytelling. Maybe it's because of Zen concepts deeply rooted in the collective psyche, the ages-old sense for simplicity and beauty (just look at their flag), or something else.

What many see as cheap shortcuts to animation making - few FPS and much relying on extended "pauses" in the animation when there's action - I, and many others view as emphasizing the moment, the beauty of the scene. Think about the established standard "person just hacked with a katana" scenes - the action pauses, stands still, before one of the duellants eventually fall.

Americans (and many other peoples of the western world) need to grow up and realise animation can be a valid medium for delivering deep concepts and creating visions and vistas not possible with conventional film-making. 3D CGI moviemaking is not the answer to everything.

Cowboy Bebop is great, as you say Watanabe has a flair for mixing genres and making it work (although I haven't watched Samurai Champloo yet). One of the things I love about anime, that you might disagree with, is the really advanced and varied story lines and concepts often seen. Topics and ideas that usually are not even dared experimenting with in American animation.

Movies like Nekojiru-so (Cat Soup) for example. Surreal, dreamy, cute and grotesque. Or, as mentioned in the article, FLCL.

A series I enjoyed immensely, although many might think it slow, was Oniisama E (Brother, dear brother). A sad, sad story - and I'm usually not easily moved by such things.

These are just a couple of examples. I don't know what makes the Japanese market open to this kind of intelligent and often beautiful storytelling. Maybe it's because of Zen concepts deeply rooted in the collective psyche, the ages-old sense for simplicity and beauty (just look at their flag), or something else.

What many see as cheap shortcuts to animation making - few FPS and much relying on extended "pauses" in the animation when there's action - I, and many others view as emphasizing the moment, the beauty of the scene. Think about the established standard "person just hacked with a katana" scenes - the action pauses, stands still, before one of the duellants eventually fall.

Americans (and many other peoples of the western world) need to grow up and realise animation can be a valid medium for delivering deep concepts and creating visions and vistas not possible with conventional film-making. 3D CGI moviemaking is not the answer to everything.

Sherry Lynn's voice was adorable in (for example) the Tenchi Muyo series, but hearing it come out of the Tachikomas makes me want to gouge my ears out with extra long Q-tips.

That said, the English dub is actually really well done - it sticks to the script (at least, as translated in the subtitles), which is no easy feat considering how thick the script can get; and with the exception of a few odd pauses here and there to sync up with mouth movements, it's orders of magnitude better than English anime dubs from ten or fifteen years ago. The English voice acting cast and crew for GitS:SAC also has numerous other anime releases under their belts, including Cowboy Bebop and the re-release of Akira, and at least some of them worked on the two GitS movies as well.

Yeah, like in the beginning of The Core movie.

Has anyone seen the movie "Firewall" and see a vague resemblance? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408345/
So a security specialist has to rob his bank, to pay back a ransom.
So a sysadmin decideds to do some damage to his old company, to take revenge on the IT department.
Sounds like Hollywood material to me!

Was this also the show with all the funky remote viewing and stuff in it? Or am I thinking something else.

The reason they film them with curse words is probably so they can sell them (with a higher rating) on the DVD market after they're aired. Some of the movies are actually somewhat clever and entertaining... some of them are complete dreck. (Like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435617/ in which every line of dialog is a cliche, or http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120331/ which is based entirely on bad science-- waves pass *through* each other, idiots, they don't cancel each other out!)

What's more amazing to me is how they get actors like Dean Cain and John Rhys-Davies in these movies. (I mean, come on Dean, you played *Superman!* You can do better than this!)

The reason they film them with curse words is probably so they can sell them (with a higher rating) on the DVD market after they're aired. Some of the movies are actually somewhat clever and entertaining... some of them are complete dreck. (Like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435617/ in which every line of dialog is a cliche, or http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120331/ which is based entirely on bad science-- waves pass *through* each other, idiots, they don't cancel each other out!)

What's more amazing to me is how they get actors like Dean Cain and John Rhys-Davies in these movies. (I mean, come on Dean, you played *Superman!* You can do better than this!)

What I don't get is how they get John Rhys-Davies to star in every single one of them. Did the Sci-Fi Network kidnap his kid or something?

I mean, this is the guy who laughed at Indiana Jones for being named after a dog and now he's playing the role of the cruise ship captain of the ship that got invaded by the chupacabra!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435617/ - not making this up!

John Rhys-Davies, please, call the police. They know how to handle hostage situations... and if they screw up, seriously man, losing a child is probably less painful than starring in the next Sci-Fi horror movie.

I eagerly await the remainder of their backwards trek through Fox's collection of excellent prematurely-cancelled Friday night shows. Firefly and John Doe, check: How long before they work their way back to Strange Luck and VR.5 ?

I eagerly await the remainder of their backwards trek through Fox's collection of excellent prematurely-cancelled Friday night shows. Firefly and John Doe, check: How long before they work their way back to Strange Luck and VR.5 ?

Hm, well I suppose this could run before Galactica. I am rapidly losing enthusiasm for SG-1 (they had a nearly golden cast until they offed Claudia Black, PLEASE bring her back she brought 2/3 of the energy to the show since RDA left), and Atlantis is only so-so, but don't frack with Galactica, man.

And, more to the point, they had earlier badmouthed SpyBot for not talking to them before making a public claim. It seems to be to be an unfair double standard that the bigger company can say "talk to us first", but the littler company cannot.

Also, if a week wasn't enough time, couldn't've Symantec simply have mailed the SpyBot group and said "give us X more days, we're compiling what we need"? Silence, regardless of its justification, is not what leads to communication. Unless, of course, you're The Man With No Name.

--Jimmy

This was already well documented in 1963:

The Birds

It's extremely old news; I saw a documentary about this from 1963.

you gotta wonder if Hitchcock knew it all along...(link provided for young'uns: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/)

Ich Bindalross (GNAP) - Stuttgart, Germany Renowned homosexual and GNAA Director of Reasearch and Development Staos today announced the unveiling of GNAA's 2006 product line. Sitting in a lavishly decorated men's rest stop bathroom, he made the first of the day's groundbreaking communiqués regarding the "New for Jew Thousand and Six" products.

While gloryholing his fourteen inch nigger cock, Staos proudly annouced the newest product to pass the GNAA's rigorous R&D testing: FourRape. Said he: "FourRape is a fully extensible, java-based crapflooding solution, based on an innovative plugin architecure. In theory and with the right plugin, you could effectively Sodomize Without Consent (SWC) anything from Futaba image boards to the deep bowels of the vast left wing goblin kike conspiracy."

Upon ejactulation of a quart of semen upon the reporter's face, he finally said "Also on the list of hot new items for 2006 is LM Go". Continued Staos: "LM Go is a hand held device that when placed on a LAN, can effectively force all properly configured computers on that LAN to netboot LMOS, the Last Measure Operating System, resulting in faster Gay Porno content delivery to the masses. We expect to see field testing of LM Go as early as Febuary, with insertion into NTT/DoCoMo headquarters." Observed a random passerby: "It truly is a marvel what they're doing with technology these days. Just last week I had to go all the way down to my local crusing joint to get some hot nigger on nigger action. With LM Go, I can get gay porno throughout my entire subnet."

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sure putting all that genetic material in the frozen wastelands sounds like a good idea, but then you get mutant sled dogs wandering away from the destroyed frozen norwegian science outposts, and pretty soon kurt russell has to fire up the flamethrower and do some genetic mutant ass kicking

sorry, this seed bank idea is bad news

Am I the only one who still reads ROKR as the last name of a famous Good Morning America weatherman who has recently shed his rotund image by losing weight?

Anyone who has seen the Time Machine would know that mining the moon is a really bad idea...

Of course not! The fearless researchers at "Moonbase Alpha" will journey with the moon throughout the galaxy! :)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385296/

Ich Bindalross (GNAP) - Stuttgart, Germany Renowned homosexual and GNAA Director of Reasearch and Development Staos today announced the unveiling of GNAA's 2006 product line. Sitting in a lavishly decorated men's rest stop bathroom, he made the first of the day's groundbreaking communiqués regarding the "New for Jew Thousand and Six" products.

While gloryholing his fourteen inch nigger cock, Staos proudly annouced the newest product to pass the GNAA's rigorous R&D testing: FourRape. Said he: "FourRape is a fully extensible, java-based crapflooding solution, based on an innovative plugin architecure. In theory and with the right plugin, you could effectively Sodomize Without Consent (SWC) anything from Futaba image boards to the deep bowels of the vast left wing goblin kike conspiracy."

Upon ejactulation of a quart of semen upon the reporter's face, he finally said "Also on the list of hot new items for 2006 is LM Go". Continued Staos: "LM Go is a hand held device that when placed on a LAN, can effectively force all properly configured computers on that LAN to netboot LMOS, the Last Measure Operating System, resulting in faster Gay Porno content delivery to the masses. We expect to see field testing of LM Go as early as Febuary, with insertion into NTT/DoCoMo headquarters." Observed a random passerby: "It truly is a marvel what they're doing with technology these days. Just last week I had to go all the way down to my local crusing joint to get some hot nigger on nigger action. With LM Go, I can get gay porno throughout my entire subnet."

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 ?
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Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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The web/internet side of it all was usually painfully inaccurate or pantomimed (and timeless romantic dialogue like "Thanks for showing me how to rocket jump - I really owned that level" didn't help), but there were some genuinely good moments in there too. There was a memorable scene where they all arrive in dribs and drabs the morning after the office party, only to find that they've all got an email with a video attachment from the office cctv camera that shows two of the characters having sex the previous night. The sequence of shots around the office as people logged in, reacted to what they saw, then carefully looked around at the others to see if they'd seen it yet was a wonderful piece of acting and directing, and had me cringing and giggling at the same time (rather like The Office).

And I don't think James Lance was in it - possibly you're confusing him with David Walliams, who was, and did play a similar slimy character to the one in Absolute Power (although probably much less of a moral sewer).

Few years ago. I'm desperately trying to remember (and google) the series name. It was set in a web developers firm, small office really, looking for big investors. One of the managers (the other was a woman, they got it on of course) may have been Jack Davenport, I'm not sure. One actor I do remember: Jason Lance, but it's not on his imdb sheet, is it? I'm sure he was in it because I later recognized him in Absolute Power as sort of the same character: always ready to fcuk over a friend (if woman friend then literally, too).

And don't forget the guitar playing singing nun, no IT department should be missing one ... I can't wait to see this episode, a homage to Airplane (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/); cool.

Non-obligatory quote:

"Terran insects. Aerodynamically impossible for them to fly, but they do it. I'm rather fond of bumblebees."

A few days ago scientists put, "one more nail in the coffin of Intelligent Design. From the article: 'People in the ID community have said that we don't even know how bees fly ... We were finally able to put this one to rest."

Was Dr. Who an I.D.er?

May I refer you to Father Ted:

Father Ted: Now concentrate this time, Dougal. These
[he points to some plastic cows on the table]
Father Ted: are very small; those
[pointing at some cows out of the window]
Father Ted: are far away...

Misha Borovsky (GNAP) - Hollywood - GNAA President timecop announced at a press conference this morning that the Gay Nigger Association of America is in the midst of a large effort to reduce operating costs and streamline business processes. "Layoffs of approximately fifty percent of the gay workforce are to be expected, as well as a shifting in administrative functions," timecop was quoted as saying. Analysts predict this corporate downsizing was made necessary due to over-investment into the New Orleans area, when it was announced last year that the GNAA would be opening a state-of-the-art branch office on the coast. The building was nearing completion and just opening for business when it was destroyed by hurricane Katrina, which has been recently found to be the responsibility of Jews. As George W. Bush is noted for not caring about black people, FEMA has refused to pay for the repairs, and the project was scrapped.

"We are also making internal changes to the corporate information technology intranet," said supers, CTO for GNAA Worldwide Operations. "Many of our information moving processes were running on the Lunix platform, and this was generating large costs due to system slowness and instability. After a careful usability study, we have found that we will be saving millions of dollars [USD] per year by switching to the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server System".

timecop ended the conference by announcing, "We'll always be there for the gay niggers of the world. With this restructuring of the organization, we are enabled to offer twice the service for a fraction of the cost. It's a new gay universe ahead."

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 ?

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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 server. Follow

Bill Gates from Triumph of the nerds:

Success is a menace -- it fools smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Not only did I name the wrong decade, I fucked up the quote too. This is not from Triumph of the nerds, but from Pirates of Silicon Valley.

Chriss

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Graham Linehan co-wrote the first series of Black Books with Dylan Moran (the sole writer for most of the second and third series)

Ake-Tay Us Oo-Tay Or-Yay Eader-Lay!

Forget about the AI rumor. It's just a rumor, the last sentence of TFA, unrelated to the rest.

More interesting is the following quote:

One visitor to the company's "Googleplex" in Silicon Valley "felt as if I were in the company of missionaries". A consequence of the theory that Google is aiming to run the world could be that "Google may be less liked in the industry than Microsoft inside 12 months," says Pip Coburn, a technology analyst. Bloggers have started accusing Google of hubris and arrogance.

This somehow reminds me of Apple in the 90s. They were on a crusade. They had found the holy grail. They could not fail. They would bring their vision to the world.

They could fail. And they failed. It didn't destroy them, but put their feet back to the ground. Where they belong. Today they make great products while listening to their users needs. They have learned that even though they may be on a mission, missionaries usually do not change the world. Hard workers and creative people do, as long as they stay connected to reality.

Bill Gates from Triumph of the nerds:

Success is a menace -- it fools smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Chriss

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For the two of you out there that haven't seen it, he's talking about a scene from Independence Day.

Perhaps you're referring to Dweebs.

Professor Ned Brainard demonstrated this in 1961. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054594/

Their Unix based operating systems are open source.

Umm, I do not think that OS X is considered open source. If this were the case, don't you think someone would have dragged OS X to x86 before Apple did. As for Sun, they just recently opened Solaris and that was mostly a move to encourage OSS people to use more Sun items.

Darwin is open source, including the Mach Kernel and the Free BSD personality. Cocoa and Carbon (the OpenStep and classic MacOS based APIs) are not. I avoided calling it OS X for exactly that reason.

Both were founded in the context of Stanford university.

How you gather this one? Jobs is a dropout from Reeds College and Wozniak is a dropout of UC-Berkley. The closest I can figure is they attended a Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto. Not quite stanford but I can see your confusion.

I gathered this from my memory, heavily based on watching Triumph of the nerds several times. I was wrong.

Chriss

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Sony may have Squeenix and it's mainstream series still in their pocket, but Microsoft and Nintendo have Mistwalker Studios.

Sakaguchi's new company is already working on 2 RPGs for the 360, Last Odyssey and Blue Dragon, plus ASH for the Nintendo DS(Sakaguchi lays out Mistwalker plans). Sakaguchi is basically considered the father of the FF series, having been either been a producer or director on all the Final Fantasy games(even FFXII from what the IMDB says). IMO, he alone is enough to tip the tide for the 360 in Japan. Mistwalker just has to start getting its games out!

You can call it data mining or information retrieval...

Hmmmm... Information retrieval... I've heard that somewhere before...

Chain Reaction has them using water and not acetone, but same difference.

Mirror ;)

The technology is evolving so that in addition to simply checking that the bumps on your palm print or retinal scan match what's on file, but also that there's a pulse and/or positive blood pressure. The bad guys simply whacking off your arm or taking an eye-ball ala Demolition Man http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/ won't work.

Been wanting to get back at those damn Triffids for years.

"It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!"

Do you really think that Lucas made any of the Star Wars films strictly for fun or the art of storytelling and not to make a profit?

Seriously, who could ever think that? Lucas is a hack who got lucky (American Graffiti notwithstanding) and he's been flogging that horse for 20 years. Okay, I liked Indiana jones, but Jesus Christ, check out his profile! He hasn't done anything else!

I think you should have some kind of painful feedback on the submitter's mouse, kind of like the videogame battle in Never Say Never Again. It would be proportional to the number of stories they submit within a 24-hour period.

Actually, this comment sounds eeriely like the death scene of Devon in one of my favorite movies, Knight Rider 2000.

In the movie, when the character is shot, the doctors "read" his memory (RNA, if I remember correctly) to see what transpired.

(They also found ways to insert clips from the show, but that's another discussion :)

This movie is as much about immigrants and an (but not the) Aulstralian response as the article: Romper Stomper