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Re:Doomsday by daigu · 2005-09-13 00:39 · Score: 1 · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

McNamara was Secretary of State during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, he admits that he was acting as a war criminal for his role in the fire bombing of Japan:

Robert McNamara: LeMay said, "If we lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals". And I think he's right.
Robert McNamara: He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.
Robert McNamara: LeMay recognised that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose, and not immoral if you win?

He has an interesting perspective - and related experience that few have. He understands the problems far better than the current US adminstration.

Re:Doesn't anybody remember the W.O.P.R. by cloudmaster · 2005-09-13 00:26 · Score: 5, Funny · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

I'm inclined to believe that This one is more likely.

This is all I have to say about it. by revxul · 2005-09-12 23:37 · Score: 1 · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

The Day After [link: IMDB]

Re:Doesn't anybody remember the W.O.P.R. by IceFreak2000 · 2005-09-12 22:28 · Score: 1 · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

Or even this link

"You can't show you're resolute without showing you are strong. And you can't show you're strong without blowing people up."

Re:Doesn't anybody remember the W.O.P.R. by rpjs · 2005-09-12 21:47 · Score: 1 · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

Seeing as the original article talks about authority to use nukes against suspected terrorists, I'd venture that this movie is even more apposite.

Re:Doesn't anybody remember the W.O.P.R. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-12 21:09 · Score: 1, Informative · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

That's a great movie, but when talking about the results of a nuclear exchange, people should see this movie.

Re:Doesn't anybody remember the W.O.P.R. by medge_42 · 2005-09-12 20:48 · Score: 1 · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

And yet there is a scene from here that's even better. (Although the memorable quotes section only contains the tail end of the scene)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying by avel599 · 2005-09-12 17:21 · Score: 1 · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

[the President calls the Soviet Premier]

President Merkin Muffley: [to Kissoff] Hello?... Ah... I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine... Good... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine... I agree with you, it's great to be fine... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb... The *Bomb*, Dmitri... The *hydrogen* bomb!... Well now, what happened is... ah... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?... *Of course* I like to speak to you!... *Of course* I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour... I am... I am positive, Dmitri... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then... I'd say that, ah... well, ah... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri... I know they're our boys... All right, well listen now. Who should we call?... *Who* should we call, Dmitri? The... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters... Where is that, Dmitri?... In Omsk... Right... Yes... Oh, you'll call them first, will you?... Uh-huh... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information... Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri... I'm very sorry... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.

(Source: imdb quotes)

Re:If we all get blown up... by zenneth · 2005-09-12 14:44 · Score: 1 · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

Chances are it'll get her and you both, I'd agree with that. However, this is not necessarily a bad thing. I say this because I watched that horrible killer-cyborg-dog movie she made with Lance Henriksen. Someone hitting her with a nuke is what I'd call karma at work.

Stop worrying.... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-12 14:16 · Score: 0 · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

Read about how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

Some info on the movie by Saiyine · 2005-09-12 14:13 · Score: 1, Informative · on First UMD Movie/Game Combo

Some data on the movie, from imdb:

User rating: 4'5 out of 10, with 605 people giving it the lowest score avaliable.

Budget $130M, gross $31M, confirming the blurb.

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Re:Doesn't anybody remember the W.O.P.R. by Petronius · 2005-09-12 14:13 · Score: 5, Insightful · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

Somehow this link seems more appropriate.

It's OK... by MBCook · 2005-09-12 14:13 · Score: 5, Funny · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

As long as no other country builds an automatic retaliation system without telling us. I wonder where that idea would come from?

Doesn't anybody remember the W.O.P.R. by Loconut1389 · 2005-09-12 14:05 · Score: 5, Funny · on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

My original submission was early this morning and also had a few extras like "Doesnt anybody remember the W.O.P.R.?

According to IMDB.. by euxneks · 2005-09-12 11:02 · Score: 1 · on FFVII Advent Children Leaked

According to IMDB, Eminem has a role as Mr. Coates? What the hell? I thought this was a japanese film..? Can anyone explain?

This is SO "Mosquito Coast"... by rdmiller3 · 2005-09-12 09:36 · Score: 0, Redundant · on Making Ice Without Electricity

Didn't anyone see what happened to Harrison Ford in "The Mosquito Coast"?

Give proper credit... by Ruben3d · 2005-09-12 09:29 · Score: 1 · on Making Ice Without Electricity

.. to Dr. Emmett Brown
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099088/

This sounds like an obscure Harrison Ford movie by beforewisdom · 2005-09-12 09:18 · Score: 1 · on Making Ice Without Electricity

This reminds me of an obscure Harrison Ford movie called The Mosquito Coast

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091557/

A movie used this concept... by boschmorden · 2005-09-12 09:10 · Score: 0, Redundant · on Making Ice Without Electricity

Was called The Mosquito Coast, with Harrison Ford. He played this semi-crackpot inventor that went into the rainforest in South America and built one of these machines that made ice without electricity.

Link is here: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091557/

So that's what Doc Brown was doing... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-12 08:59 · Score: 0 · on Making Ice Without Electricity

...when he made ice in 1885.

ice by derfel · 2005-09-12 08:52 · Score: 1 · on Making Ice Without Electricity

This reminds me of "Mosquito Coast" with Harrison Ford. He went down into the Amazon and made a big ice maker to help out the natives. He ended up going nuts and polluting the place. It's a good movie. More cold storage could be very useful in the 3rd world - food storage, etc. It'd be great if this worked out. Better healthcare would be nice too...

The Mosquito Coast by Vellmont · 2005-09-12 08:26 · Score: 0, Redundant · on Making Ice Without Electricity

And I thought this was just a movie. Harrison Ford starred in a movie where a genius inventor makes exactly such a device that makes ice without electricity. Suffice it to say things didn't go to well for his character.

Re:Already done! by Monkelectric · 2005-09-12 08:23 · Score: 4, Funny · on Making Ice Without Electricity

Hmmm ... I was thinking more along these lines: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/

Why not gas absorption? by dsci · 2005-09-12 08:13 · Score: 1 · on Making Ice Without Electricity

Ammonia based gas absorption refrigeration works well with heat source, such as kerosene or propane. I often thought about ways to focus solar radiation to do the trick, as well.

There was even a pretty cool movie made based on it.

Zoolander by jahknow · 2005-09-12 08:10 · Score: 1 · on Ars Technica's iPod nano Dissection

The film Zoolander played on this -- Derek and Hansel looking for files in the computer?

...or as IMDB put it, "The scene with Hansel and Zoolander and the iMac is an obvious reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), when the apes are mystified and confused by the giant monolith."

It seems Apple has just released their nanoLith.

Already done! by DogDude · 2005-09-12 08:06 · Score: 4, Funny · on Making Ice Without Electricity

I think that we all know that it's already been tried, and baaaad things happened as a result:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091557/

They may be made worse by environmental policies.. by Mortimer82 · 2005-09-12 00:22 · Score: 2, Insightful · on Controlling Hurricanes?

..or lack there of.

It would be ironic if it was found that the intensity of these hurricanes has been made worse by the lack of US participation in the Kyoto Policy, or their lack of any serious environmental policy.

I admit that The Day After Tommorow is possibly a bit of an extreme case, but there was a message the film makers were trying to send.

While I may land up with bad karma for this on /. it's nothing like the bad karma the US will have when the whole world starts having to deal with the agricultural difficulties of changing climates and weather patterns.

Re:Support nightmare by Harker · 2005-09-11 14:32 · Score: 1 · on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors

Obviously they like the number 7.

Well, seven is almost always a good thing, once you get past the "Deadly Sins" it's all good.

It worked for Samurai, Gunslingers, and Space-Faring aliens, so why not for an OS?

H.

Re:Support nightmare by Harker · 2005-09-11 14:32 · Score: 1 · on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors

Obviously they like the number 7.

Well, seven is almost always a good thing, once you get past the "Deadly Sins" it's all good.

It worked for Samurai, Gunslingers, and Space-Faring aliens, so why not for an OS?

H.

Re:Support nightmare by Harker · 2005-09-11 14:32 · Score: 1 · on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors

Obviously they like the number 7.

Well, seven is almost always a good thing, once you get past the "Deadly Sins" it's all good.

It worked for Samurai, Gunslingers, and Space-Faring aliens, so why not for an OS?

H.

Re:Support nightmare by Harker · 2005-09-11 14:32 · Score: 1 · on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors

Obviously they like the number 7.

Well, seven is almost always a good thing, once you get past the "Deadly Sins" it's all good.

It worked for Samurai, Gunslingers, and Space-Faring aliens, so why not for an OS?

H.

Re:zerg by chrysrobyn · 2005-09-11 11:56 · Score: 2, Informative · on The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

Unless they ban the movie Hackers and eradicate all copies of it everywhere, they're not gonna make hacking uncool.

There were precisely two cool things about Hackers.

1. Angelina Jolie.

2. Airbrushed keyboards.

Sneakers, on the other hand, Hollywoodified an already absurd idea..

Re:zerg by chrysrobyn · 2005-09-11 11:56 · Score: 2, Informative · on The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

Unless they ban the movie Hackers and eradicate all copies of it everywhere, they're not gonna make hacking uncool.

There were precisely two cool things about Hackers.

1. Angelina Jolie.

2. Airbrushed keyboards.

Sneakers, on the other hand, Hollywoodified an already absurd idea..

Re:FF Spirits Within by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-11 11:42 · Score: 0 · on FFVII Advent Children Leaked

Let me guess, you're a Sephaweenie. And I have seen the Return of Jafar, and it was CRAP. The animation was worse, they couldn't get the original voice actors, and it was all-around a terrible movie. It got a 4.9/10 on IMDB. (Worst Christmas present EVAR!)

FFVII had a TERRIBLE story. The game was better than the story, but the story was cliche and boring. Let me guess, you think that the story was cool because they killed of Aeris. Sorry, pal, killing off characters to "make the story dramatic" doesn't work. It just serves to make it clear that the story is crap and that you had to do something "shocking" to make it "better".