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it worked for Vin Diesel in Pitch Black.

unfortunately, those with natural sight may have lost theirs after seeing the film.

Was this movie so bad, that only I am remembering it?

So just send some guys down to restart it.

Duh. Problem solved!

That's a movie! You're reading the script for Red Planet

:)

I was just wondering about that title "Penetration Tester." Somehow, it seems to garner immediate respect.

or, we can take our cue from The Core (2003) and try to detonate a nuclear explosion in the core of the planet, to get its juices flowing again =)

It is a reference to the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/ "Napolean Dynamite" the main character is Napolean to be more accurate the poster should have put <Napolean lastName="Dynamite"> Sweet </Napolean>

Ever watched Mission impossible?

Aggressively

You've seen it!... You've heard it!... and you're still asking questions?

Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.

C.H.U.D Cannabalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller

Nope, it's Computer Hardware Understanding Development. I'm sure nobody at Apple had any thoughts of alluding to a movie about Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers when naming CHUD, nope nope nope....

Does anyone remember the 70s TV series UFO? Earth was protected by three space-fighters each armed with a single missile. Oh, and a moon base staffed with English women in purple glitter wigs and short silver skirts. If only 1980 had really turned out like that!

If you're good you could replace it with someone else's living room.

The possibilities are endless! Replace the background with:

• An image of the inside of a real police station,
• A fake police station,
• Some desolate wasteland,
• An image from a fake war,
• An image from a real war, or
• A picture of another planet's landscape!

What Microsoft and Bungie should do is just make the movie themselves. Make the movie a 90 minute cutscene using the Halo 2 engine. It would cost a fraction of the cost and it would be on the same level as all the other movies made from games. While we're at it, Namco should have done this too for Tekken instead of allowing this piece of shit to be made. It shouldn't be that hard. If the Red Vs. Blue guys did it with next to nothing for a budge someone with a serious budget should be able to make some good, right?

What Microsoft and Bungie should do is just make the movie themselves. Make the movie a 90 minute cutscene using the Halo 2 engine. It would cost a fraction of the cost and it would be on the same level as all the other movies made from games. While we're at it, Namco should have done this too for Tekken instead of allowing this piece of shit to be made. It shouldn't be that hard. If the Red Vs. Blue guys did it with next to nothing for a budge someone with a serious budget should be able to make some good, right?

What Microsoft and Bungie should do is just make the movie themselves. Make the movie a 90 minute cutscene using the Halo 2 engine. It would cost a fraction of the cost and it would be on the same level as all the other movies made from games. While we're at it, Namco should have done this too for Tekken instead of allowing this piece of shit to be made. It shouldn't be that hard. If the Red Vs. Blue guys did it with next to nothing for a budge someone with a serious budget should be able to make some good, right?

What Microsoft and Bungie should do is just make the movie themselves. Make the movie a 90 minute cutscene using the Halo 2 engine. It would cost a fraction of the cost and it would be on the same level as all the other movies made from games. While we're at it, Namco should have done this too for Tekken instead of allowing this piece of shit to be made. It shouldn't be that hard. If the Red Vs. Blue guys did it with next to nothing for a budge someone with a serious budget should be able to make some good, right?

What Microsoft and Bungie should do is just make the movie themselves. Make the movie a 90 minute cutscene using the Halo 2 engine. It would cost a fraction of the cost and it would be on the same level as all the other movies made from games. While we're at it, Namco should have done this too for Tekken instead of allowing this piece of shit to be made. It shouldn't be that hard. If the Red Vs. Blue guys did it with next to nothing for a budge someone with a serious budget should be able to make some good, right?

What Microsoft and Bungie should do is just make the movie themselves. Make the movie a 90 minute cutscene using the Halo 2 engine. It would cost a fraction of the cost and it would be on the same level as all the other movies made from games. While we're at it, Namco should have done this too for Tekken instead of allowing this piece of shit to be made. It shouldn't be that hard. If the Red Vs. Blue guys did it with next to nothing for a budge someone with a serious budget should be able to make some good, right?

"It's a little too small to get laid in, but you get laid the minute you get out!"

(Yeah, I know, it was referring to Porsche. But it's the same principle.)

I can't wait for my toaster, microwave, cordless telephone, stereo receiver and PC to form some sort of Voltron-like super tech.

I think you mean your toaster, vacuum, lamp, and radio? What if you leave them all alone and forget about them? Will they feel lonely? Will they go on a wild adventure to find you again? The mind boggles!

If anyone remembers Salvage 1... sounds like pretty much the same idea to me.

Scientist Alex Harris, doing research on artificial intelligence, is working on a special kind of computer. This computer grows more and more powerful, and succeeds in raping the scientist's wife, Susan Harris. In the end she gives birth to a hybrid baby

The ultimate in home automation...

See the Dead Poet's Society.

I find Family Guy to be way overrated. Its like Simpsons, but on speed or something. Once in a while, its funny, but they really over do it.

Family guy
Wait Till your father gets home

I have to admit... I was first turned off from Family Guy because I found it to be very similar to "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home". In fact i'm still convienced that the characters were modeled after this little known Hanna Barbera cartoon. The "why me" father figure... the brain damaged son with bad hair... the wife that puts everything into perspective... the daughter who's obsessed with losing weight... and the child/baby who's plotting for money/world domination. It grows on you and you accept the fact that it's just a very good parity of the old great family comedies like "All in the family" and "Happy Days". It makes you sit back and smile and question whether or not television has improved over the past 30 years.

Haven't you seen The Recruit? I believe it's covered in the movie. Only, it was the CIA.

Oh, quite the opposite. Some comic strips are designed from the ground up as advertising platforms. They don't have any humor value for anyone over 6, and yet still manage to at least make some money with the whorish accessorizing.

Maybe some people like it because it's cute (little old women with 12 cats?), but I can't see how anyone with a wit of humor would find it humorous.

/crushes Tokyo

The shuttle program will end after (A) a replacement is agreed on and [near-]built, (B) after enough blow up that the remainder would only be used in stupid desperation, or (C) they're all too damaged to fly. Possibility (A) is the only one which lets us predict the end schedule, and is currently estimated circa 2010. The Hubble needs maintenance before that to keep operating.

The shuttle is also reported as effectively booked solid for essential ISS-related work until then-- assuming they get it returned to flight. And in the cold-blooded calculations, having space station infrastructure to facilitate future work is a better investment than any one deployed scientific instrument-- provided the US is able to maintain space travel capabilities in the current political and fiscal outlook.

Janitor ? Knowledge ?
It's almost kinda this movie's plot, then... If they extend it. ;-)

No, War Games is about abused apes.

No, wait. Project X is about the mistreated monkeys.

War Games is about this teenager who is really good with computers and almost accidentally starts World War III.

Your memory is way off.

No, War Games is about abused apes.

No, wait. Project X is about the mistreated monkeys.

War Games is about this teenager who is really good with computers and almost accidentally starts World War III.

Your memory is way off.

Secrets out. The book are so slow because of Don's Star Wars commitments:

• Sith Lord
• Maths Guy

• Uncanny!

Now, it would be tremendously useful if Gladwell had figured out some general rules of thumb for when to rely on your instantaneous hunches and when not to.

But as far as I can tell, his book reduces to two messages:

1. Go with your gut reactions, but only when they are right
2. And even when your gut reactions are factually correct, ignore them when they are politically incorrect.

Gladwell does make a genuinely useful point about how when people try to put their ideas into words, they often distort them into meaninglessness or falsehood.

Ironically, this happens to Gladwell every time he writes about race.

Because there were already plenty of books on the market advising corporate workers in tiresome detail how to look before they leap, the sales potential of a book telling them, "Wotthehell, just go ahead and leap," was clear.

Unfortunately for Gladwell, the best-known examples of thinking without thinking are racial and gender prejudices. But, then, you've forgotten Rule #2--Readers despise logic and consistency. So Gladwell just assumes that his otherwise beloved "rapid cognition" is 100% wrong whenever it's based on race or gender stereotypes.

(And that's why he makes a $1 million annually and I don't.)

The most intriguing aspect of Gladwell's book is that its hopeless confusion and mind-melting political correctness stem from the author's own racial background. Although mostly white, Gladwell is partly of African descent (his mother was black, Scottish, and Jewish). But he doesn't look noticeably black in most of his pictures.

The origin of Blink, he writes on his website, came when, "on a whim," he let his hair grow long into a loose but large Afro.

As you can see in this picture of Gladwell with his Afro, he wound up with more of a Napoleon Dynamite Mormon 'fro than the genuine kinky kind that ABA basketball players espoused back in the 1970s. Still, it does finally make him look marginally black.

As soon as Gladwell grew his Afro, he claims, he started getting hassled by The Man: highway patrolmen wrote him speeding tickets, airport security gave him the evil eye, and the NYPD questioned him for 20 minutes because they were looking for a rapist with an Afro.

"That episode on the street got me th

I was just watching the movie "Over the Edge" the other day, and wondered whatever happened to Matt Dillon.

be very very careful what you wish for...

this had better be bloody spectacular by the way...

That is genius. Mebbe produce it like Team America: World Police. I wish I had mod points.

The scary part is when they want to practice rishathra with humans. It's all documented in Demon Seed

I think "Balance of Terror" was also partially based on "Run Silent, Run Deep".

and work 8 hours, sleep 8 hours.

and what do you do if you run out of bubble gum? and want to kick ass?!

Sounds like the plot to a bad movie.

As a nod to one of the worst Fred Ward movies of all time:

This was the name of that lame ass *satellite thingy* in Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins. I, for one, was glad the adventure didn't continue.

Bad special effects, bad martial arts (Joel Grey, of Calypso Heat Wave fame, as a KungFu, oh my bad Shinanzu, master), and Wilford Brimley.

Not to worry, this thing is doomed by association.

As a nod to one of the worst Fred Ward movies of all time:

This was the name of that lame ass *satellite thingy* in Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins. I, for one, was glad the adventure didn't continue.

Bad special effects, bad martial arts (Joel Grey, of Calypso Heat Wave fame, as a KungFu, oh my bad Shinanzu, master), and Wilford Brimley.

Not to worry, this thing is doomed by association.

And so ads continue to push and push into places where they don't belong.

Ads originally had a good purpose. They were a great way to support a service that was free or very cheap. You got your free radio or network TV (cable TV at first was meant to be ad-free), or your newspaper for a couple of cents. For getting all that content very cheap or free, it was understood that there would be ads, and these ads kept the service going.

Now modern society is coated with advertisements everywhere in sight. Any space on any object that more than a few people can see is now treated as a potential ad site. It's sickening. Look at stadiums with decades of history and tradition that give up their old name in favor of some corporation's name, and you will realize that nothing is sacred anymore if a big corp wants a piece of it.

The very idea of pushing an ad into the night sky is just perverse. But the really perverse thing is that the average person just accepts all of it. I sit here and struggle to block any and every ad I can from my sight, and make a sincere effort not to buy from corporations that take their ads too far... but the average person just accepts it, and that's what allows it to continue. That's what will allow it to get worse and worse. Consider the film Minority Report, which depicts a future where the ads basically follow you everywhere and address you by your name. It's where we are headed.

The worst is that a "leak" in the ionosphere leads to a complete destruction of the radiation-blocking area that keeps us alive.

so? just switch her from suck to blow!

And I though the show was just an excuse to recycle old WW II movie plots. (Compare "Balance of Terror" with The Enemy Below.) It just goes to show that show works on many levels *smirk*.

I want a Cherry 2000.

Didn't you hear? They've made a movie, and due out this fall. I'll be in my bunk...