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Also, Nick Cage and John Travolta in Face/Off. Your typical action movie.

If you hurry, you can probably catch 1966's Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula , now playing on a VHS machine near you...

Natural selection? I vote that they go back to "burning man" 1973 style.

That should weed out the suburbanites from the real pagans (^_^)

Well, it is a forty year old musical. (God, I'm suddenly very old).

"Spirited away" is my favourite (it's somewhat over-rich, though, and does puzzle many viewers)

Among the others (the full list from studio Ghibli is here) I prefer the "contemplative" (slow paced) ones:
Totoro, Kiki and Porco Rosso. Those who prefer the "active" ones (epic, action) should chose Mononoke, Nausicaa and Laputa.
In fact, the preferences among Miyazaki's fans vary wildly. See for example here.

Old news.

It used to be that special effects were used to make something look real that otherwise couldn't be done. Nowadays, CGI effects are used for the sake of the effect - there's not even any intent to make something look real, the intent is instead to draw attention to the effect.

Although in general I very much agree with the sentiment above, it is also a rather sobering to discover that at least some directors manage to use computer graphics properly. In Hollywood, no less. The best case in point: Gattaca Note the genre: science-fiction, and even then CGI is not the main character.

I neglected to mention Laputa (aka "Castle in the Sky"), that one is also up there with Spirited Away imo.

you know you can find these all via IMDB.

Pentagon documents leaked to covert GNAA agents working for the CIA provided proof that a deliberate plot against renowned shock jock l0de was put into effect to eliminate him. The recent sacking of CIA director Tenant, who was used as a scapegoat, to cover up the great lie perpetrated by the pentagon, against the American people to justify the war against Iraq, prompted disgruntled CIA agents to leak the document.

It was revealed that technology that was developed and refined from the research of alien artifacts from Area 51 was used to create Hurricane Katrina. Similar technology was used against Turkey and Iran when they displeased the Pentagon. Earthquakes were the preferred Weapon of Mass Destruction against those Sovereign states. Hurricane Katrina was then directed towards New Orleans in an attempt to assassinate l0de. The attempt failed.

Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was believed to be infuriated at this failed attempt as he has been a target of LRH in the past. He ordered that all aid and military convoys be delayed for as long as possible so that Delta Strike Teams could be dispatched to New Orleans. Five Delta Force assassination squads were disguised as "Cracked up Gangsta Niggahs" and sent in to finish the job.

The Pentagon underestimated the loyalty of the Negro Population in New Orleans. The once divided crack selling factions banded together in defense of l0de and decimated the Delta Force assassination squads. Pentagon moles informed l0de via Jap sponsored satellite phones that President Bush, on orders from his mother, Barbara Bush, instructed FEMA to delay relief aid to punish the Negro Population for their defense of l0de.

l0de, dying of AIDS anyway, promptly committed suicide in a bid to save the remaining traumatized population. His death, thankfully, signifies the death of LRH, they both will be missed.

About Area 51

Area 51 is a NOT SO Top Secret American Military Installation. Operation Karate Rain Urchin, which was created to assassinate l0de, was hatched and conceived here using weather manipulation technology which was retrieved from the Roswell crash site in 1947. Incidentally, Karate Rain Urchin is an anagram for Hurricane Katrina, coincidence?
The GNAA does not think so.

About l0de Radio Hour

Dead.

About l0de

http://www.instantlobotomy.com/.

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

[drab]Oh. no. The. world. is. going. to. end. (Waves little white flag in an uninspired fashion.) Everything. is. going. to. die. God. save. us. all.[/drab]

Seriously, we've had the technology to detect global climate changes for what, a hundred years at most? Of that, we've had useful tools (such as satellites) for less than 50 years. I hate to say it, but the earth has gone through a variety of climate changes in its history, and it will continue to go through plenty of climate changes regardless of whether we eject terawatts of thermal energy into the atmosphere or not. (Putting aside the fact that a forest fire or volcano is a hell of a lot more energy than humans normally put out.) The fact of the matter is that we've been living cushy with our modern technology in our idea of what the climate should be like. We haven't considered that major climate shifts could be possible, and thus have done nothing to adapt our technology to the variety of conditions that may be faced in the centuries ahead.

But that's okay. On the grand scale of things, we're pretty new to this whole technology thing. Not even the Romans managed power production, even though they invented the tech early on. (See: Aeolipile) The climate will change, and we'll adapt. No "fall of civilization" as Hollywood predicts every other day, or massive Slipstreams that make airplanes the only viable tech. Life will continue on, and we'll adapt. Okay? :-)

Can anyone spot the movie reference?
(Hint: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084509/)

/scratches head

ok, weird, new URL format, anyway, it was Elijah Wood
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000704/

Keep a few of yoru most favorite DVDs (say, your Monty Python's Flying Circus collection and your Black Adder collection and your copy of Equilibrium and Brazil) but get rid of the crap. Are you seriously going to watch Red Dawn again? Or Romeo Must Die?!

Wait. Which Equllibrium are you talking about? The 2002 or the 2004 movie? I suspect you're talking about 2002 1984 cum fahrenheit-451 cum matrix movie with "gun-kata"? I was given a burned copy of a downloaded vcd from a friend, and I still felt cheated after I watched it.

Now Red Dawn, that's a movie. It's the 80s pre-pubecent boy's wet dream: Taking to the hills and killing ruskies. It's just such a great movie. Invaded from communist Mexico. Europe sitting it out. China having 40% it's population killed by nuclear weapons. And of course, "Avenge me son! AVENGE ME!" I loved that movie growing up. Of course, I was also seven.

I should sometime I should try and track down a copy of 80s craptacular miniseries Amerika.

Keep a few of yoru most favorite DVDs (say, your Monty Python's Flying Circus collection and your Black Adder collection and your copy of Equilibrium and Brazil) but get rid of the crap. Are you seriously going to watch Red Dawn again? Or Romeo Must Die?!

Wait. Which Equllibrium are you talking about? The 2002 or the 2004 movie? I suspect you're talking about 2002 1984 cum fahrenheit-451 cum matrix movie with "gun-kata"? I was given a burned copy of a downloaded vcd from a friend, and I still felt cheated after I watched it.

Now Red Dawn, that's a movie. It's the 80s pre-pubecent boy's wet dream: Taking to the hills and killing ruskies. It's just such a great movie. Invaded from communist Mexico. Europe sitting it out. China having 40% it's population killed by nuclear weapons. And of course, "Avenge me son! AVENGE ME!" I loved that movie growing up. Of course, I was also seven.

I should sometime I should try and track down a copy of 80s craptacular miniseries Amerika.

Keep a few of yoru most favorite DVDs (say, your Monty Python's Flying Circus collection and your Black Adder collection and your copy of Equilibrium and Brazil) but get rid of the crap. Are you seriously going to watch Red Dawn again? Or Romeo Must Die?!

Wait. Which Equllibrium are you talking about? The 2002 or the 2004 movie? I suspect you're talking about 2002 1984 cum fahrenheit-451 cum matrix movie with "gun-kata"? I was given a burned copy of a downloaded vcd from a friend, and I still felt cheated after I watched it.

Now Red Dawn, that's a movie. It's the 80s pre-pubecent boy's wet dream: Taking to the hills and killing ruskies. It's just such a great movie. Invaded from communist Mexico. Europe sitting it out. China having 40% it's population killed by nuclear weapons. And of course, "Avenge me son! AVENGE ME!" I loved that movie growing up. Of course, I was also seven.

I should sometime I should try and track down a copy of 80s craptacular miniseries Amerika.

That map looks like something out of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Homicide detectives don't hire murderers,
Silence of the Lambs

the SEC doesn't hire fraudsters
Catch me if you can

the ATF doesn't hire drunk smokers w/ unregistered firearm violations....
Demolition man (well, sorta)

Alright, that was a bit far fetched, but remember the motto: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. The best way to control a hacker is to have it in a well-surveilled place, monitoring all his activities. Plus, you get him to help you do security audits, etc.

Homicide detectives don't hire murderers,
Silence of the Lambs

the SEC doesn't hire fraudsters
Catch me if you can

the ATF doesn't hire drunk smokers w/ unregistered firearm violations....
Demolition man (well, sorta)

Alright, that was a bit far fetched, but remember the motto: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. The best way to control a hacker is to have it in a well-surveilled place, monitoring all his activities. Plus, you get him to help you do security audits, etc.

Homicide detectives don't hire murderers,
Silence of the Lambs

the SEC doesn't hire fraudsters
Catch me if you can

the ATF doesn't hire drunk smokers w/ unregistered firearm violations....
Demolition man (well, sorta)

Alright, that was a bit far fetched, but remember the motto: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. The best way to control a hacker is to have it in a well-surveilled place, monitoring all his activities. Plus, you get him to help you do security audits, etc.

You've been watching too much Swordfish

now take AOL, something already crappy. i can't possibly imagine what microsoft can do it.

Maybe they'd make it so crappy that it wraps around and actually becomes good, in a strange way...kinda like Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Then again, maybe monkeys might fly out of my butt.

Leonardo makes for such a sexy criminal Catch me if you can

Come on, you didn't even need to be resourceful to find that one out.

More info on Capricorn One.

Hey, sounds like a great plot for a movie.

(Okay, so it wasn't New Orleans. But the town was rendered uninhabitable.)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0251075/

I also thought it was cool that the default computer name back then was "Dark Star", which is a Grateful Dead song for those that don't know.

I may be mistaken, but I thought the use of the name darkstar refered to the movie Darkstar. BTW, every geek should see this movie! It is hilarious!!

But they aren't the true sources of spam. That comes from elsewhere. It's pretty easy to have a bunch of zombies spew your messages out there.

Just send a spike to find out where they are, then. I learned that from the telly.

From IMDB:
Chet Pussy: Pussy, pussy, pussy! All pussy must go. At the Titty Twister we're slashing pussy in half! This is a pussy blow out! Make us an offer on our vast selection of pussy! We got white pussy, black pussy, Spanish pussy, yellow pussy, hot pussy, cold pussy, wet pussy, tight pussy, big pussy, bloody pussy, fat pussy, hairy pussy, smelly pussy, velvet pussy, silk pussy, Naugahyde pussy, snappin' pussy, horse pussy, dog pussy, chicken pussy, fake pussy! If we don't have it, you don't want it!

smashes hospital door into male nurse's head
takes his keychain and look at it
"Pussy Wagon, oh great..."
flashback scene of male nurse introducing himself to comatose [bleep]
"So, your name is Ruck... and you like to fuck"
smashes hospital door into male nurse's head

Quentin Tarantino owns the "Pussy Wagon" and drove as his everyday vehicle to promote the release of Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004).

I guess their government REALLY liked the movie Gattica!

Not a direct quote and it's the only example I can think of at the momment.

Did you miss 'Minority Report'? You lucky basterd.

Will it ever be illegal to by a plot of land in the middle of nowhere and live off it? To live separately from corporations, money and government?

Grizzly Adams meets The Good Life. Ideally with less donkies and more Felicity Kendal.

Will it ever be illegal to by a plot of land in the middle of nowhere and live off it? To live separately from corporations, money and government?

Grizzly Adams meets The Good Life. Ideally with less donkies and more Felicity Kendal.

Most companies are not evil. They just want you to buy their product. It is as simple as that.

Most companies are not evil. They just want you to buy their product. It is as simple as that.

Pentagon documents leaked to covert GNAA agents working for the CIA provided proof that a deliberate plot against renowned shock jock l0de was put into effect to eliminate him. The recent sacking of CIA director Tenant, who was used as a scapegoat, to cover up the great lie perpetrated by the pentagon, against the American people to justify the war against Iraq, prompted disgruntled CIA agents to leak the document.

It was revealed that technology that was developed and refined from the research of alien artifacts from Area 51 was used to create Hurricane Katrina. Similar technology was used against Turkey and Iran when they displeased the Pentagon. Earthquakes were the preferred Weapon of Mass Destruction against those Sovereign states. Hurricane Katrina was then directed towards New Orleans in an attempt to assassinate l0de. The attempt failed.

Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was believed to be infuriated at this failed attempt as he has been a target of LRH in the past. He ordered that all aid and military convoys be delayed for as long as possible so that Delta Strike Teams could be dispatched to New Orleans. Five Delta Force assassination squads were disguised as "Cracked up Gangsta Niggahs" and sent in to finish the job.

The Pentagon underestimated the loyalty of the Negro Population in New Orleans. The once divided crack selling factions banded together in defense of l0de and decimated the Delta Force assassination squads. Pentagon moles informed l0de via Jap sponsored satellite phones that President Bush, on orders from his mother, Barbara Bush, instructed FEMA to delay relief aid to punish the Negro Population for their defense of l0de.

l0de, dying of AIDS anyway, promptly committed suicide in a bid to save the remaining traumatized population. His death, thankfully, signifies the death of LRH, they both will be missed.

About Area 51

Area 51 is a NOT SO Top Secret American Military Installation. Operation Karate Rain Urchin, which was created to assassinate l0de, was hatched and conceived here using weather manipulation technology which was retrieved from the Roswell crash site in 1947. Incidentally, Karate Rain Urchin is an anagram for Hurricane Katrina, coincidence?
The GNAA does not think so.

About l0de Radio Hour

Dead.

About l0de

http://www.instantlobotomy.com/.

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

guess I have to blame my cat for submitting this article. Since I wanted to ask if any has suggestions next to THX 1138, 1984 or The Island?

guess I have to blame my cat for submitting this article. Since I wanted to ask if any has suggestions next to THX 1138, 1984 or The Island?

guess I have to blame my cat for submitting this article. Since I wanted to ask if any has suggestions next to THX 1138, 1984 or The Island?

IMDB does make most of their data available for download, though. With some time, you could slice that up and put it into your own local database and query it however you wanted.

IMDb has message boards for every entry in their database.

eg:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/board/threads/

Go to any title page, scroll down, and look for "Message Board". Lively forum.

Desk Sergeant: Name.
Mario: Mario.
Desk Sergeant: Last name.
Mario: Mario.
Desk Sergeant: And you?
Luigi: Luigi.
Desk Sergeant: Luigi Luigi?
Luigi: No, Luigi Mario.
Desk Sergeant: Okay how many Marios are there between the two of you?
Luigi: Three: Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.

It may not have been a hit, but I liked the movie.

...Hans Reiser, the author of two revolutionary Linux filesystems, Reiser3 and Reiser4.

So who authored Reiser1 and Reiser2? Was it Paul Reiser? Do you have to be named Reiser to work on the filesystem, or was it just a coincidence? Inquiring minds want to know.

It was also done here although for slightly different reasons.

Well, I'd tell you about the joke, but then I'd have to kill you.

Did I miss a joke here?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

I don't think the future will play out so artfully. It'll be more like a crappy movie like this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164184/

These streams of so-called Capitalist/Socialist discourse should be considered in context. One of my favorite movies from the 60's was "The President's Analyst". In which a simple prediction was made that came true about 20 years later.

"Every day your country becomes more socialistic, my country becomes more capitalistic, Pretty soon we'll meet in the middle and join hands." --V.I. Kydor Kropotkin (played by Severn Darden)

The USSR is gone and in it's place is a rapidly stablising Russia.

The tug and pull of Capitalist/Socialist keep a society from moving too far either way. Too many Neocons you get a president who pulls first responders away from saving lives for a photo-op. Too many Socialists, you get manditory classes in Macrobiotics, Veganism, and firewalking in schools.

Since several people have jumped in with their suggestions, I might as well say that I think this movie is more appropriate.

Keyes: "By your actions, sir, you are risking the future of the human race!"
General Sline: "To guarantee the American way of life? I'm willing to take that risk."