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This is done by the same director of the famous documentary, Pumping Iron about a very famous Republican. Pumping Iron was later admitted to being a docu-drama (Arnold admitted this himself).

-Vic

/Voting for Badnarik

To counter this commie fantasy about Kerry's Vietnam, we need to watch the Bush reelection version. Though Dennis Hopper turns in a nice performance as Bush in his early '70s "lost years", this rendition of the Eastern White House is animated by Marlon Brando's cunningly accurate portrayal of President Vice-President Cheney.

It has been reported that Karl Urban (LoTR's Eomer) has signed on to play the lead as John Grimm.

I started watching the new Transformers Energon cartoon and was wondering if the guy that does Optimus Prime did the voice back in the 1980's, turns out he didn't, but he did do the voice of K.A.R.R. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0191520/

How about Double Dragon?

Ghosts of Mars

mars. demons. guns. space marines. little or no plot.

seemed like doom to me.

"I love the smell of carbon monoxide in the morning"

Obligatory quote from Porklips Now

You mean, "Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the beaver last night?" ref

The actress Wendy Hoopes who did the voice for "Mona Sax" in Max Payne 2, is currently doing LAX.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail came in at about $250,000 USD (1975) Business Data for Monty Python and the Holy Grail . That is still a lot of money to raise for what is essentially an extended theatrical sketch.

He went to Vietnam with the apparent desire to get on a PT boat(Swift boat) and rack up some medals to further his political career and follow in JFK's footsteps

A strong leader does form some conviction on issues. Kerry does in fact adopt the position he thinks will be most politically advantageous at each point in time and has NO reservation about completely reversing himself, often multiple times, all the while kidding himself that no one notices.

Despite those blocks it is a remarkably cohesive, very dangerous, very unified party of people, mostly WASP's, who seem to have a remarkable oneness of thought.

Personally I am glad that you are willing to 'hold your nose' and vote for Kerry, but I am sorry that you feel that way. In a perfect world Kerry wouldn't have been my choice either (Halle Berry, but only if she dressed up like catwoman for the inaguration), but he is a good man, he is a strong leader, he has *vision* and he will be a welcome change from the current administration.

...Christine in French?

:-P

Does that make your post An Adventure 65 Million Years In The Making?

To paraphrase Field Of Dreams (1989) I say software development can be as simple as:

If you can 'see' it, you can code it.

Let me explain.

If you are a good enough programmer and intimately familliar with your programming tools, and have a library of small bits of 'single-purpose-single-function-like' code that has been previously proven to work, you can literially 'build' a correctly working program according to the design specifications in a short amount of time with NO need for flowcharts or other non-productive busywork. Just add the program documentation to the program itself as a comment block. In lieu of a flowchart, comment the program profusely so it's method of operation is clearly known to all who read the source code for it.

If you cannot 'see' it, you will have difficulty as a programmer because it will be difficult or arduous for you to grasp both the 'big picture' and the 'fine detail' required for all non-trivial computer programming projects.

I'm amazed no one remembered this. Or so it seems. I don't mean to make fun of this; although the movie probably looks campy today, the idea of a car with a mind of his own is scary. I'm sure the original news article doesn't do justice to how much scared the driver was. He was lucky to keep his life, 200km/h is just too much.

A car with a mind of its own?

I remember Bruce Campell having this same problem in 1997.

Erm....

I mean, how can you knock a movie with Dan Ackroyd in it? .... Oh, I thought you were talking about another shitty movie where a bunch of people click on a horribly over-animated and under-powered "interface" and talk technobabble while referring to it all as being a part of the "network".

I don't know what's funnier, watching those movies, or hearing "experts" talk about how "accurate" it is. You know, like the guys that cheered Trinity on when she used ssh or nmap or whatever in Matrix 2. "Holy crap! It's a terminal! IN a movie! And it's running a real program! Where in the heck did they come up with the budget for that?!"

Quick! Quick! Get the floppy in the mac to upload the virus to cause immense catastophe! Go Sandra Go!

Besides, it's North Korea that isn't controlled by a U.S. Shadow Government.

One thing *is* amazing though - those "computer" scenes in those movies can be done by any 14yo with a pirated copy of Macromedia Flash these days. Think of what those movie wankers paid to get that same quality.

"9/11 was to Bush what the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 was to the newly installed Chancellor Hitler, a disaster contrived by an opponent [...] that, in the government's view, was at once a proof of its policy and a means to advance it."

-- from Stanley Kauffman's review of Fahrenheit 9/11 in The New Republic

Direct link to the referenced review is here, you may need to be a subscriber to access it though.

South Korea's 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong Il is a huge movie fan, so the training 'tool' being used is probably this. All the South Koreans need to do is make sure their garbage files are well protected.

Dennis Quaid played Gordon Cooper in the '83 flick.

The movie The Right Stuff is one of my all time favorite flicks... I remember seeing it in the theater when I was a kid. (I've seen it several times since then, of course.)

Gordo (played by Dennis Quaid) steals the show at the end of the movie! Here's the movie's narrator's outcue, which, combined with the imagery of Dennis Quaid blasting into space and Bill Conti's awesome musical score, is one of the all-time coolest moments in cinema:

"The Mercury program was over.

Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffey, when fire swept through their Apollo capsule.

But on that glorious day in May, 1963, Gordo cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American.

Twenty-two complete orbits around the world.

He was the last American ever to go into Space alone.

For a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen!"


You can read a transcript of the entire film here...

http://www2.ice.usp.ac.jp/wklinger/film/scripts/ri ghtstuff-s.txt

Stupid media. Always going after the useless thing.

Stupid media. Always going after the useless thing.

...from The Right Stuff:

Gordon Cooper : You know what makes this bird go up? FUNDING makes this bird go up.
Gus Grissom : He's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
...and the flight of the SpaceShipOne is the first nail in the coffin of the notion that big government bling-bling is necessary for space travel.

confess quickly.. think of your credit rating!

In other news, security in Iraq requires that we are now officially at peace with Iraq. We have always been at peace with Iraq.

trom
Harry Tuttle: "Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6... Bloody paperwork."

to
"We don't care. We don't have to. (snort) We're the Phone Company." - Lily (Ernestine) Tomlin

to
Friendster rep Lisa Kopp insists, "We have a policy that we are not being hacked."

These are the Pointy Haired Bushites who are protecting us from terrorists.

Quark http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077066/

So, with a little mixer tweaking, I routed the voice synth output into Skype's input, called the poor schmuck, and had Microsoft Sam read him a message. (which was, if I recall, "We will be playing Starcraft at ten o'clock and such-and-such a place. Interested?")

This guy became the "first peacetime atom bomb" fatality by dropping a brick on a ball of plutonium.

There was a film called "Fat Man and Little Boy" which included this very incident.

The guy who died of overexposure was played by John Cusack.

As I've said, that's the only problem with democracy: it's unstable. You take good care of it, or you lose it.

there's a corollary; no one stays at the top forever.

That post was a weasel wriggle out of these despicable Bush lies about nukes, dragging us into this catastrophic Iraq war, while leaving the snakelike Iran for some other political haymaking later at huge, irreparable cost. Not to mention North Korea's new nuke arsenal. You are spinning like Reagan McNeil's head, while your boys are proliferating nukes around the world, including the US and the web centering on our "ally" Pakistan. But not including Iraq, which didn't have nukes, despite their lies. Their entire fabric of lies. That's all they've got, so I pointed out another, closer to home, almost as egregious as framing a humiliated bully as nuke scapegoat to invade their country, divide both nations, kill thousands of Americans.

And all you've got is repeating that I'm "ranting"? Yes! I'm ranting about demented liars like you, who will cry in their beer about the provenance of their condemnation, rather than even attempt to back up any of their flimsy lies. You are obsessed with "moderation", yet you are an extremist. Who are you kidding? Probably you're only fooling yourself, but your lies are too dangerous to pass unchecked.

"Maybe I should open a factory making candles, and then sue the lightbulb manufacturers."

Have you seen Otac na sluzbenom putu (When Father was Away on Business)? There is a child character called Malik in this film, and he likes to walk around Sarajevo in his sleep. After his mom and his slightly older brother found out about his sleep-walking habit, they tied a rope around his big toe, and put a little bell on the other end of the rope. Looked like a good monitoring solution to me!

Feline 3911?

"The patents describe a method by which a program can "ask for help" from another application to carry out certain computer-oriented functions. That's generally similar to the way Java operates, according to Kodak and other experts."
[Emphasis added by me].
Generally similar? I'd love to see the videotape/transcript of the court session when Kodak explained the reason for the case: "Well, it...errr...sort of...you know....kinda looks.....errr..sorta, erm, the same...if you look at it in, err, a certain light."

"Ironically, the verdict came a day after Sun introduced a new version of Java."
Ironically that above sentence proves the oft-said point that Americans (and some Canadians) just don't know what irony is...

--
Share Moments, Share Life
(Just as long as it doesn't hamper out financial plans)

No, THIS is his low-point, William Shatner's Spplat Attack, a DVD of a Star Trek-themed day of paintball. A friend bought this and brought it over one night.

It was painful.

Very painful.

How painful was it? There was actually a moment when I wished I was watching Star Trek V instead.

Corporations are rationally demonstrated to be psychotic. Our courts are places where psychotic corporations battle it out for supremacy.

You, measly programmer, are nothing against MEGATRON!

His name is Clippy dumberer ass.

Omar Naim's The Final Cut is startlingly different than a conventional science fiction film. It's a compelling fable that offers a vision of a world where memory implants record all moments of a person's life. Post mortem, these memories are removed and edited by a "Cutter" into a reel depicting the life of the departed for a commemorative ceremony, called a Rememory. Robin Williams' powerful portrayal of Alan Hackman, a troubled "cutter," propels this character driven story that forces us to question the power of our memories and the sanctity of our privacy.

Agents

I liken GW Bush as the President to what would happen if Inspecter Jacques Clouseau were President. In fact, it's really too bad Peter Sellers is dead, because when it's time to make a movie about GW Bush, they need to cast Peter Sellers.

I liken GW Bush as the President to what would happen if Inspecter Jacques Clouseau were President. In fact, it's really too bad Peter Sellers is dead, because when it's time to make a movie about GW Bush, they need to cast Peter Sellers.

You mean "continue to boycott Blizzard"

Not just Blizzard, but everything Vivendi.

Yes, that means no Firefly for me.

Highlander II already said this in 1991.

FYI, it's one of the danged funniest movies ever made.

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"Somehow I can't take a guy named "Joke" as someone that has a serious opinion."

I do not think that word means what you think it means (thanks Inigo).
Ms. Waller-Hunter is Dutch. In her language, "Joke" means "First Name", while "grap" means "jest".

It seems like you are being sarcastic, or at least sardonic, about Russia making money from joining an international pollution control club. It is worth celebrating their "going legit". Perhaps that can help persuade the US to follow suit. Otherwise we'll be spending a lot more than $2.8B on cleaning up the mess from the incessantly increasing pollution spewing from Russia's CO2 industry.

I agree. If I remember correctly, I was pretty young at the time, most of the musicians didn't really know how to play their instruments. At least that is what was claimed in The Decline of Western Civiliztion.

I agree. I'm clearly a "Marry Him" type, and it's depressing to get dumped by a woman who admits it's because I treat her with respect and, I quote, "I'm used to guys treating me like shit. I can't handle a guy who cares what I think and tries to have conversations."

Fortunately for me, I eventually found a woman whom I love dearly, and actually LIKES having me as a husband, instead of "settling" for me.

Of course, this was after I'd learned how to embody "Cad" and "Dad" aspects. Being a "reformed Cad" in the eyes of women has a surprising appeal. Watch "The Tao of Steve" for details.

On the flip side, one of my best friends is a woman who was married to a "Dad" and hit her mid life crisis. Now she's with a "Cad" and can't understand why things keep being problematic. On a side note, I never got involved with said friend because:

A. By the time I met her, I'd learned to avoid women who were either husband hunting or into a "Cad" phase.
B. I was a "Dad" and she keeps going after "Cads."

*Sigh*

Dating is such a mass of chaos at times.

The quote in Dutch is "naast elk ferm wijf loopt een lelijk spook", roughly translated "next to every beauty walks an ugly spook".

The idea behind this is: girls always come in pairs. The most beautiful girls usually have the ugliest friends, because in comparision it makes them look even prettier. The trick is to first date the ugly one, which makes the beauty feel uncertain about themselves. That is the moment to dump the ugly one (sorry girl), and get the pretty girl.

For the rest, of course: expand your circle of friends (not trough friendster/orkut but trough IRL social networks), go out, visit pubs, concerts, whatever you like. If you have trouble meeting new people, follow some evening courses.. not 'advanced network management with .NET for SP2, but painting, photography, pottery.. whatever you like, as long as it's non-geeky.

Get out, there's plenty of fish in the sea! You did know that there are %-wise more women than men on this planet, did you? what are you waiting for?

If all of that fails, there's always Brides.ru.