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We all know that's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

Are trivially secure networks "open?" If not, then this law is meaningless. If so, then without drawing a clear line between "secure" and "trivially secure" (which would be impossible), then this law is meaningless.

Ergo, this law is meaningless.

We were talking about The War of the Worlds last week on our mailing list, too, after these pictures came out showing the new dust cloud quickly forming.

We were having our annual picnic out at our dark site last Saturday. The night was a little cool, seeing was decent with some very high north-south haze that was almost overlapping the Miky Way when it came up.

Anyway, I saw a couple myself, one headed south to north that had a huge shedding tail and moved very fast, (I actually mentioned to another observer that it looked almost like another shuttle breaking up, with smaller pieces) and later one in the south skies headed east to west that looked very like a very fast satellite, with no perceptible tail.

If I remember right, that's one of the things about Taurids I always thought was weird; because of the angle in which they come in, they can hit the atmosphere going any which way.

Anyway, all this brouhaha over the shower internationally makes me think it's time to rent The Day of the Triffids, again.

Replying to myself to point out a movie that uses a plot that would definitely be covered by the patent if granted: 13 Going on 30.

If the patent were granted, the producer of that movie would likely have to pay royalties each time it was shown, and for each DVD of it distributed. I don't think it would qualify as prior art, though, because its date of release is after the patent filing date.

Some media stories that were real a couple of years ago, suddendly became a myth. If you trust the media blindly you might want to watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402577/ and maybe start comparing a little of the news you get.

I noticed that the program listed after War of the Worlds is the Brothers Karamazov. The 1958 movie version of this story co-starred none other than William Shatner as the brother who became a priest.

Different strokes, to be sure... but I think the ending's defensible as one of sci-fi's all-time greats. (Don't be misled by the century of fiction since it was written.)

Meanwhile, fans of War of the Worlds, in all its incarnations but especially the original 19th-century book... should definitely check out the "other", much maligned, direct-to-video recent version. You may (repeat may) find it to be an unexpected treat, as I did...

"[...] China sits on wast dollar reserves [...]"
 
...which they need in order to pay for their nuclear wessels.

(I'm sorry. I couldn't resist.)

Paul W.S. Anderson will direct the film, after having game-to-movie experience with Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil.

So, a 5.1 rating and a 6.2 rating. Personally, I thought Resident Evil was one of the worst films I have ever seen. Even my nephew, who was 11 when watching it, and thought films like "Bad Boys" were cool, could see how awful it was. Big mistake.

Paul W.S. Anderson will direct the film, after having game-to-movie experience with Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil.

So, a 5.1 rating and a 6.2 rating. Personally, I thought Resident Evil was one of the worst films I have ever seen. Even my nephew, who was 11 when watching it, and thought films like "Bad Boys" were cool, could see how awful it was. Big mistake.

I would pay even normal theatre fees for some classis like Robot Monster (IMDB), but I'd probably kill a dog if forced to watch Sweet home Alabama(Also IMDB)

I would pay even normal theatre fees for some classis like Robot Monster (IMDB), but I'd probably kill a dog if forced to watch Sweet home Alabama(Also IMDB)

... or even from "Revenge of the Nerds"

... James Cromwell, the actor from the movie "Babe", you know, the one with the talking pig... I bet Copernicus couldn't understand or train pigs, but he sure understood that the earth isn't the center of the universe.

... James Cromwell, the actor from the movie "Babe", you know, the one with the talking pig... I bet Copernicus couldn't understand or train pigs, but he sure understood that the earth isn't the center of the universe.

Sad how many people didn't catch the reference to Seth Green's character in The Italian Job.

But this topic really reminded me of the Hitchhiker's Guide series:

Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the history of the Galaxy, but the loudest noise of any kind at all.

Regular concert-goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.

Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's PA system contravenes local strategic arms limitation treaties.

This has not stopped their earnings from pushing back the boundaries of pure hypermathematics, and their chief research accountant has recently been appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maximegalon, in recognition of both his General and Special Theories of Disaster Area Tax Returns, in which he proves that the whole fabric of the space-time continuum is not merely curved, but is in fact totally bent.

I think some people may find it amusing when you take a quote from a movie and use it some sort of context. This quote comes from Enemy of the State.

I don't know how many times I've seen that Abe Simpson quote about 40 rods to the hogshead get modded funny.

Because he invoked MacGyver and the GP didn't.

The networks have pilots made all the time, they (and others) are investing in them, and most of the time they don't pass muster with their review board. Why not put them on the cheap rack on the iTunes store? Perhaps if the board doesn't give a pilot a solid thumbs up, put it on iTunes, see how it does. Make a whole section for pilot movies/shows.

Sometimes, I just want to get a sense of what small screen hollywood is entertaining these days as possible entertainment for the masses next season. Like, NBC, the family oriented network doing "My Name Is Earl", can't say I was expect it. This would allow the networks additional feedback.

You know the shows, the ones that didn't hack it, or suffered at the hands of network stupidity. The shows that have no chance to make it to DVD, and probably not even playing on a network that gobbles up old shows. There's always a fan for the show, and to pick it up on the cheap iTunes rack would be great. These show are probably lucky if they made it to a full (20+ episode) season. While those full season shows might show up on some obscure cable channel, the less fortunate ones are never to be seen again.

For example, "Action" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206467/), I'd love to be able to see the episodes I missed. Just to watch a supurb rant that Jay Mohr goes on against a hypocritical senator would be excellent.

Who knows, maybe this would help those shows that got cancelled by the networks get some extra life out of them, perhaps enough to put in a pure internet TV season, maybe to wrap up loose ends for the fans. "Farscape" comes to mind before they did the mini-series to wrap it up.

Have you not seen Ruthless People?

(Speaker Salesdroid)
Check it out!
Thirty feet of thigh-slapping, blood-pumping nuclear brain damage!
If you can't afford it, FINANCE IT!
And here's the best part: when you die, they can BURY you in it!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091877/

" its not like they're putting a gun to your head and forcing you to work for them." Thank you! I can understand there are some cases where someone *has* to represent an individual (criminal cases, simple disputes, etc). But c'mon, if someome tells you they want to hire you for X/hr to utterly devastate someone and take all their savings, kids college funds, their house, etc, for as stupid of a reason as this, would the GP *have* to take the job? I'm sure as hell wouldn't. I think this is silly that folks dont' think that they should be held accountable for their employers/clients actions.

If you do it, regardless of wether you get paid or not to do it you are morally responsible. And I personally have quit jobs (twice) because I found my employer actions/buisness objectionable and or morally aprehensible. In both cases I ended up with a job that was lower paying but in the end more satisfying. I didn't have to go home knowing that I spent the whole day working for someone who lives to take complete advantage of their customers.

I think the best argument I've heard for employee accountability has to be from Clerks:

DANTE: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.

WORKER: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.

RANDAL: Like when?

WORKER: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.

DANTE: Whose house was it?

WORKER: Dominick Bambino's.

RANDAL: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?

WORKER: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.

DANTE: Based on personal politics.

WORKER: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.

RANDAL: No way!

WORKER: I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky... You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this...[taps his heart] not his wallet.

Did this make anyone else think of Canadian Bacon?

.. and let me be the first to welcome our new Canadian masters.

I think it's fair to say that the readership here is more liberal than not, so I want you remind our gentle readers to not ever complain about paying more taxes. Paying ever more taxes is the central and highest ideal of liberal philosophy. You will no longer be considered "cool" and regarded as in good standing amongst your bretheren if you ever suggest paying more taxes is a bad thing.

Why do you even need money at all? If only we would let the government take all of our money we would all be well cared for from cradle to grave, equally, with no worries whatsoever.

Do not speak ill of higher taxes, do not think of the things you will have to do without when you must make due with less. Think only of the wonderful utopian society that is being created by the government bureaucracy when they spend your money with their trademark high efficiency and good intentions. See the world of 'THX-1138' for inspiration.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/

Know when to hold and know when to fold. psykocrime writes "According to a recent press release SGI stock has been delisted by the New York Stock Exchange, as a result of falling below the NYSE's minimum share price." SGI, the former darling of the high-tech world, has been in trouble for a while, perhaps this is really the end.

This is sad that SGI cannot stay afloat. I put them akin to Next in that they both make(made) quality machines that not many people want to buy. Notice I did not say need to buy. SGI has been a perfect fit for many a project of mine, but for varied reasons no one wants to take them.

I guess this movie just isn't going to be accurate. One line I chuckled at during watching it was when it says, "Silicon Graphics Saves the World." Of course, this may be somewhat off...

Too bad the show is one of the worst pieces of dreck I've seen on TV since "Enterprise".

There's a reason for that.

If you think that's horror, I've got one more post-Halloween spook for you:

A Sequel.

Ugh. The "mortar" on that icon makes it look as if Peter North mistook it for one of his co-stars.

Gotta agree with this point. And hand/computer drawn animation cartoons have not all sucked from Disney since Pixar either. My favorite animated movie of all time is Mulan (1998)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120762/

GNAUK (the UK branch of the GNAA) consultant rolloffle stood ecstatically in front of the massive GNAUK London office skyscraper. Waving his massive nigger hands for silence, he smiled and announced with glee that the GNAA was the cause of the 3000 blogs outage.

"Well, aw'right, now aw'right! It's due to our persistent shitflooding and blogbashing efforts that we can claim this spectacular victory over a major epicentre of retardery! Congratulations, morons, for you have been pwned! Remember, regular local backups are your friend!"

Having concluded with these statements, the crowd burst into an ambivalent mix of outraged and delighted argument. rolloffle then unzipped his trousers and started to beat back the hordes of angry webloggers and journalists with his gigantic nigger cock, fleeing into a side alley. The massive conglomeration of people then enjoyed a spectacular fireworks display, sending the massive office building of glass and steel smashing to the ground and burying the suckers present.

About GNAA:
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Are you GAY ?
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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 server. Follow this link if you are using an irc client such as mIRC.

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We've already seen singing mice before.

It's sad that patients have to jump through hoops to get their medical records. In contrast, when I needed some tests done recently, I drove down to Mexico and got X-rays and a CT scan for about half what I would have paid in the U.S. (and I'm talking cash over the barrel, no insurance). The doctor handed me the X-rays in a folder - I still have them. And the CT scan results were burned to a CD with a handy little viewer app, so I can cruise through my abdominal cavity a la "Fantastic Voyage" whenever I please. Sure beats pleading with the lab to see the results that you PAID for.

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That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Jack Thompson would say that the kids who got shot at Columbine weren't raised by shit parents, the kids who did the shooting were.

These are the kids who they say trained on Doom, right?

Doom (the game) was released in 1993.
The ESRB was founded in 1994.

Columbine happened in 1999, but has it been determined whether Harris (18) or Klebold (17) acquired the game, if he bought it, it was bought for him by a parent, or if it was pirated?

Until that is determined, I don't want to hear anything about ESRB self-regulation failures in the context of Columbine, because you're going to be hard pressed to find grounds for it to have been rated AO.

BTW, Doom's content ratings: USA: M (T for Game Boy Advance version) and UK: 15. You know what? Everyone can just STFU about Doom and Columbine from now on.

Anybody got a DVD of Dance of the Vampires they can let me copy then?

Actually, since according to IMDB this movie is just the Fearless Vampire Hunters by another name, you are in luck as it was recently released to DVD

Mechanik

Ooooh, double referce bonus. Not only is The Prisoner referenced, but since we're talking about "Warden," Patrick McGoohan also plays a warden in Clint Eastwood's version of Escape from Alcatraz. Nice.

Ooooh, double referce bonus. Not only is The Prisoner referenced, but since we're talking about "Warden," Patrick McGoohan also plays a warden in Clint Eastwood's version of Escape from Alcatraz. Nice.

My opinion is based part on the characters not being scifi and part based on their depth (or lack of) - which I admit makes my caveat ironic considering Croft is from a video game. The Croft movies, while campy, projected the character with more substance: that may be a factor of Jolie being a decent actress (sometimes even gifted, like in "Gia", "Girl, Interrupted" and "Playing by Heart").

I just got more of a sense of self-worth and true character personality from Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Aeyrn Sun (Claudia Black) whenever I saw either show, and both seemed to grow with the depth of story lines from each season. If I had to choose role models from the mainstream visual media - as we must increasingly do - then I am drawn much more to these characters than to Buffy, Xena, and Lara Croft.

My opinion is based part on the characters not being scifi and part based on their depth (or lack of) - which I admit makes my caveat ironic considering Croft is from a video game. The Croft movies, while campy, projected the character with more substance: that may be a factor of Jolie being a decent actress (sometimes even gifted, like in "Gia", "Girl, Interrupted" and "Playing by Heart").

I just got more of a sense of self-worth and true character personality from Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Aeyrn Sun (Claudia Black) whenever I saw either show, and both seemed to grow with the depth of story lines from each season. If I had to choose role models from the mainstream visual media - as we must increasingly do - then I am drawn much more to these characters than to Buffy, Xena, and Lara Croft.

My opinion is based part on the characters not being scifi and part based on their depth (or lack of) - which I admit makes my caveat ironic considering Croft is from a video game. The Croft movies, while campy, projected the character with more substance: that may be a factor of Jolie being a decent actress (sometimes even gifted, like in "Gia", "Girl, Interrupted" and "Playing by Heart").

I just got more of a sense of self-worth and true character personality from Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Aeyrn Sun (Claudia Black) whenever I saw either show, and both seemed to grow with the depth of story lines from each season. If I had to choose role models from the mainstream visual media - as we must increasingly do - then I am drawn much more to these characters than to Buffy, Xena, and Lara Croft.

He also did the joke in The Aristocrats as Walken to hilarious effect.

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.

... CLEAN.

If you believe that you aren't a god, then you aren't.

Either way (you are one or not), it is good policy when someone asks if you're a God, to say "Yes"!

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/quotes)

1. Don't put any RED LEDs in robots. With only blue LEDs, they can't flip the evil bit (This is exaustively demonstrated by that Will Smith movie that wasn't based on Isaac Asimov's I, Robot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/ [imdb.com])

Are you telling me that movie was about robots? I could have sworn it was about sneakers and insurance--stuff like that.

I heartily agree. Thanks for providing such an excellent example. People's aversion to change, or accepting new ideas, or their "difficult" authors - even when proven brilliant and world-changing - is something that frequently saddens me.

One cannot mention Stallman without some fool popping up and saying, "But I heard he puts kittens in microwave ovens for kicks," or "But I heard somebody disagreed with him once, so I refuse to listen," or "Isn't he that commie who says programmers should work for free?" or "But he wants to take away my SUV!"... There is a line in Batman Begins that sums it up: roughly We always fear what we do not understand.

What is even scarier are the people who work in this industry who don't even recognise the name. Yes, they exist...

Please not a I, Robot. Sequel.

I am thinking, it's late in the year, it's Hollywood, His career is way too young for a remake, their planning next years big stinky blockbuster and Or do I own him an apology? Or was that little Tiffany?

and yes, I am paraphrasing a scene from MIB #1.

1. Don't put any RED LEDs in robots. With only blue LEDs, they can't flip the evil bit (This is exaustively demonstrated by that Will Smith movie that wasn't based on Isaac Asimov's I, Robot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/)

2. Do what I do - twice a year, gather all your electronic devices, (except one video player system), set them in comfortable chairs in front of the tube, and give them a marathon showing of The Brave Little Toaster http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092695/. Warning, I tried adding popcorn to the experience, but surprisingly, it increases the risk of rebellion when it gets caught in the little workings.

Now for the real problem: If zombies rend, mangle, eviscerate and eat their living victims the way they do in movies, how do any of the victims have enough physical integrity left to turn into more zombies?

1. Don't put any RED LEDs in robots. With only blue LEDs, they can't flip the evil bit (This is exaustively demonstrated by that Will Smith movie that wasn't based on Isaac Asimov's I, Robot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/)

2. Do what I do - twice a year, gather all your electronic devices, (except one video player system), set them in comfortable chairs in front of the tube, and give them a marathon showing of The Brave Little Toaster http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092695/. Warning, I tried adding popcorn to the experience, but surprisingly, it increases the risk of rebellion when it gets caught in the little workings.

Now for the real problem: If zombies rend, mangle, eviscerate and eat their living victims the way they do in movies, how do any of the victims have enough physical integrity left to turn into more zombies?

Only $10.36 at Amazon.
As for the movie.. don't get too exicted about Reno 911's creators writing it. Ben Garant is most recently responsible for such "greats" as Taxi and Herbie: Fully Loaded...