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I think we know how that will play out.

They already made DOA: Dead or Alive . More spiritual licensees include Dwarf Fortress: The Movie and FTL: The Series .

They already made DOA: Dead or Alive . More spiritual licensees include Dwarf Fortress: The Movie and FTL: The Series .

They already made DOA: Dead or Alive . More spiritual licensees include Dwarf Fortress: The Movie and FTL: The Series .

"A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future." imdb.com

'The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.' imdb.com

Not really telling us anything we didn't already know though, is it? They've been saying this for months.

Naturally. They're waiting for some crisis that has all the news in a foaming slather, so they can quietly drop it into a Friday night Take out the Trash Day and hope the news organizations will ignore it.

Like, say, a shooting war between the US and Russia.

The financial collapse was a result of mistakes, not crimes.

Absolutely false.

-> In America there have been just a handful of criminal charges brought against senior executives of banks, and even fewer successful convictions. This is very different from the response of prosecutors in earlier banking crises, such as the meltdown of Savings & Loans institutions in America in the 1980s. In that case more than 1,000 bankers were convicted for their misdeeds.

-> William K. Black [senior regulator who pursued offenders during the savings and loan crisis] tells Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL that the tool at the very center of mortgage collapse, creating triple-A rated bonds out of "liars' loans" — loans issued without verifying income, assets or employment — was a fraud, and the banks knew it. And while there is no law against liars' loans, Black points out that there are, "many laws against fraud, and liars' loans are fraudulent. [...] They involve deceit, which is the essence of fraud. "

-> Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2010, The Inside Job chronicles the fraud behavior which led to the financial crisis of 2008 and the recession.

The key word is "control fraud."

If you were only suspecting, not knowing, it's because you didn't connect the dots between freely available information about this particular issue.

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139654/quotes

Yeah, where to toss the can/bottle even spawned its own documentary back in the day.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt18...

The Phoebus cartel stuff might lead one into crazy land online... but a conspiracy did happen. It's not just for crazy stuff. The whole job and purpose for the FBI was criminal conspiracy and it's still the #1 thing they do today. The SEC, FTC, EPA also deal largely with conspiracies. When more than 1 person work together for something bad, that is the definition of conspiracy... and "bad" is a relative term, which makes everything a conspiracy. If I were a PR man I would put out crazy conspiracy versions of my boss's actual conspiracies because that would be an incredibly powerful tool in today's culture of anti-conspiracy thoughtlessness as well as the poor critical thinkers who could discredit themselves by being pulled into crazy theories -- even if for only a moment out of conspiracy, it still greatly discredits them in the minds of others! Professors who fear being wrong even avoid touching such things because of the harm it causes their reputation; they have to start out as a strong critic just to even visit a topic and even then it is risky.

Planned obsolescence got started in a big way with light bulbs and patents helped them do it; as far as actual science of the day proving lifespan vs heat - that didn't exist. It was purely business and as you should know, business plans come 1st and justification is manufactured (or discovered - but research is more costly than marketing and it can backfire. Not that you can't easily find an expert for sale in any industry...) Post WW2 it really got going in a big way with the argument that we had to avoid another depression; some even argue that the reason USSR failed so much was they didn't have it. (I also recommend "The Century of the Self" which covers some of the cultural shift and the reasons behind it.)

Bulbs that lasted longer were made, but your business didn't sell as many if they lasted too long or cost more etc. As far as the waste of energy-- that is a bogus claim because people didn't give a rip about their bulb heaters, energy was cheap and the difference between bulbs was not even worth considering.

Today they don't need industries working together to get similar results. Not that they don't, RAM industry price fixing is something /. readers should remember. That industry didn't stop, they merely tweaked their practices each time they got stuck in court so that next time they would win the court case (plus market demand is also shifting so their pricing levels are going to naturally change anyway-- but what was illegal was them working together to adapt and even influence the market's demand.) Then we have similar things with apple/google and employees, apple and publishers on ebooks etc... The stuff happens outside of planned obsolescence plenty.

But only if you pee on them first. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01... but not really http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

Right director, wrong movie.

Right director, wrong movie.

Right director, wrong movie.

I am a frequent traveler and speaker and really do need something you can drop from 6 feet and pour coffee over have it keep working.

I know you're a normal person, but when I read that I imagined a huge fucking guy fumbling his tablet from shoulder-height, getting mad as hell, and throwing his coffee after the poor thing.

... and yet thermal inversions happen. Even if it is because of specific geography, it is reckless to dismiss the possible states of a highly complex system.

"somewhat surprising degree to which the winds can explain all the wiggles in the temperature curve"

Do you suppose the wind was only generated in that region? Let's try it with context:

"What we found was the somewhat surprising degree to which the winds can explain all the wiggles in the temperature curve," in the region studied, regardless of where the winds came from (Probably not just the region studied).

Wow. The researcher isn't idiot. He's just limiting his verbiage to the scope of the paper.

I suspect some of the winds were influenced by the rotation of the planet and therefore not purely thermal in origin.

Yes, but Testament was much more depressing.

A few more at the bottom of this page on IMDB.

ST:TNG - Half a Life. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt07... [imdb.com]

Logan's Run.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

I worked at Zedo pretty early on. I did a year there, pretty much exactly year 2000 (now coworkers now know who I am).

I was their C guy, did an apache module for the adserver, and some mild javascript work until they got a better Javascript coder than me. I also helped out a bit in Java and DB work, and most of the Linux/FreeBSD sysadmin for a bit. We were in a small live-work loft in SOMA where I walked through two slums to get to work.

In the beginning, it was about "choice". We had a small on page ad client. At first a Java one, then a Javascript one, with a GUI that let you choose your ad. It was new, different, and a way to try to get people the ads they want and not have to keep huge track of users. (You can check the patent out if you like though I can tell you this was theoretical design and it wasn't built this way). It put the emphasis on the ad, not on the tracking. Ads needed to be designed to be engaging or they'd just be skipped. We kept track of your ad choices, not your pages. It was fun, true startup culture. We were going after the (then) mighty Doubleclick, railing the fact that they stored too much info. I remember tailing the server logs on our first paying gig, cheering as I noticed the URI fragment for the first ad clickthru. We checked the guys IP address, noticed he had an ICQ run webserver on his box, and talked to him over ICQ thanking him for clicking. In hindsight, yeah, that must have freaked him out.

We didn't see Google coming to crush the ad market at all. I had already left but Im sure Google's elephant sized footprints in the market made them radically change their business plan. I didn't talk to them much, and on the web I read stories about intrusive Zedo cookies, heard them called "king of the popunder" and heard stories about "popup blocker blockers". This made me a bit sad, why do all that? But I guess you either do that, or throw in the towel and close up shop. I can't say what I'd do if it was my savings on the line.

As an aside (always a tangent!) I had an 8MM videocamera. Though I filmed some stuff in San Francisco (hey Dave, any news on the video for me?) I always wanted to film us. But I couldn't both work and film. I was actually slightly pissed when Startup.com came out. Hey that was my idea! But you can't objectively film what you're in.

As a Canadian i have to share something interesting with you... Most of the time when you watch one of "your" movies they were actually filmed here in Canada. Another secret, there is a good chance many of the actors in it are also Canadian.

I dont watch a lot of movies, but did enjoy watching "the Man" and seeing a TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) streetcar and stop signs in the background.
Clearly Detroit (where the movie was suppose to have taken place) has Street-cars despite the fact they do not have street-car tracks?

Another good one was "Blade" where they filmed the Gardner Expressway. Heck, if you look closely you can see TTC stop signs.

I work in down-town Toronto, and it seems every summer they close down part of Wellington street for "filming". You will see NYC taxis, NYC cop cars, NYC mailboxes on Wellington. If you take a walk around Toronto you often see NYC stuff getting ready for filming.

One time we had a similar conversation at work (i lived in the US for 4 years), when asked to list some great american actors i found it interesting they sometimes listed Canadians. A great documentary about the US nuclear stockpile and development was narrated by a Canadian.

It is natural for a small country next to a large one (population wise) try to defend some of its "culture" We have the same issue within Canada where Quebec has odd laws to defend the "French culture".

Look at it this way, why don't you try to sell the best hamburgers in the world in a crowded food court. If your product is so great surely you will be successful right? Perhaps you might have difficulty due to the market is saturated by bigger names before you got there? If your product doesnt sell well is it fair to say it is "shitty homegrown crap"?

Lastly, the great thing about "freedom" is you can simply choose not to watch it, no need to come post about how it is "shitty". You trying to say that the US has never produced SHIT movies?

http://www.imdb.com/chart/bott...

So many people have learned the hard way that sharing nude pics or a racy video with just ONE person can lead to the whole world having it. As the beer commercial says, "Ex" says it all ...

Quote from a 1950 movie, Born Yesterday:

He always used to say, "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of The New York Times."

It's still good advice today. We're inundated with examples of what can happen. In too many cases, the victim is guilty of contributory negligence, at the very least. Example: "What do you mean, 1-2-3-4-5 isn't a good password?"

Dark Helmet: 1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

Banks have already established that your funds aren't covered if you use a stupid, easy-to-guess PIN.

Let us get to a point where most of our people have jobs, and then we can discuss more unions, until then unions are just yet another problem keeping us back in the dark ages.

And you believe that disbanding the unions will make everyone happily employed
In the midst of the Industrial Revolution we were in exactly the same position you are now
And it took unions and other righteous men to break the situation.
There has actually been a movie about this situation http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01.... See it and learn from it before you call me ignorant and pompuos.

A Beautiful Mind, I'm guessing.

I'd be cool with it if it were Ed Harris

If you're referring to Pollock, hee came across in the movie as being manic-depressive, not schizophrenic.

The documentary about Kosmo.com, e-Dreams, is both fascinating and painful to watch. These guys went through a breathtakingly huge pile of money in a very short time, trying to do exactly this sort of personalized delivery.

Not quite. They lived the high life for a couple of years off of that money, while pretending to have a business that actually did something. I was with a similar company back then, and contrary to their press releases, they never intended to be successful. Success means oversight and someone has to account for the spending. "Start up" means champaign and prostitutes billed to "miscellaneous expenses."

The documentary about Kosmo.com, e-Dreams, is both fascinating and painful to watch. These guys went through a breathtakingly huge pile of money in a very short time, trying to do exactly this sort of personalized delivery. It gives you a real feel for how truly insane VC funding was in the late '90s. Maybe Kalanick should check this film out before putting too much effort into this idea.

I don't know about you, but I've learned a lot from television. Why, just the other day, I learned that Nikola Tesla got his ideas by communicating with aliens. They just don't teach that kind of stuff in high school.

So you're saying the Lithium is "running silent, running deep"?

Except now, the next jackass-bike-messenger-as-a-hero-movie will be a lot less interesting to watch.

Completely offtopic but I suddenly want someone to make a movie about the making of the original Star Trek series just so they can cast this guy as Shatner.

...a college-admission consultancy founded by Steven Ma, and largely catering to ambitious Asian immigrants like Ma, and their offspring

but its not racism. Racism is only practiced by white people.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128442/quotes?item=qt0379511

Mike McDermott: Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

Penny: Wow! So that means you're a doctor, you're a doctor, you're a doctor, you're a doctor... and Howard, you know a lot of doctors!

from IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt19...

Then North Korean terrorists would take over the White House and try to get the Cerberus codes.

Or, would it be the other President ?

Then North Korean terrorists would take over the White House and try to get the Cerberus codes.

Or, would it be the other President ?

Moreover, email and/or texting helps surmount miscommunication due to heavy accents and bad phone connections.

Indeed.

I love the Slashdot headline "Feds Want Nuclear Waste Train, But Don't Know Where It Would Go". A most provocative issue of nuclear energy, stir in a bit of Fed-Fumbling with the idea of a ghost train and you have the perfect movie plot and Internet meme.

Drawing on most recent experience with politics in America, the way illegal immigration is being "handled" -- I conclude this announcement means that the Nuclear Ghost Train has Already Left The Station.

It is currently circumnavigating the continent. Soon it will pass through Your Town.

Folks like me who live near the tracks know of ones like it, those trains that pass through in the dead of night and (creepily) did not blow their horns, for you awaken to the low rumble of wheels that seems to go on forever. Yeah, those.

Every night the Ghost Train pulls onto a siding somewhere and dark figures with flashlights roll up and couple another boxcar. By 2015 the Train will be pulling more than half of all spent nuclear fuel in North America, and nuclear plant operators will sleep that much easier at night, since relieving them of this awful responsibility is the ONE thing the Federal Government promised to deliver all along.

It's going through Tennessee tonight. Listen for it. Pleasant dreams. Is this so farfetched? Could some one come up with any other examples of government action just as ludicrous? I see a lot of hands raised here.

I see a few others have brought up radioactive train movies, some of them with plots blatantly obvious and goofy. After all we're talking about a system of containment so secure that even a head-on with another train would roll the casks off the train and dint them slightly, as they wait to be picked up again. Cue up video of protesters dressed like skeletons with nuclear death symbols who caught a whiff of nuclear transport and scream "Not in our town!" as thin-skinned railroad tanker cars of chlorine gas, sodium hydroxide and cresol pass by.

If you're protesting, do not step out in front of the Nuclear Ghost Train. It has been instructed not to stop under any circumstances. Cleanup crews are on standby in all major cities and your bodies will never be found.

The Nuclear Ghost train does exist in a movie, but it's not a goofy disaster movie. It is a Argentinian film entitled Moebius [1996] made by Gustavo Mosquera. "Recent stories, fears and oblivion seen through a metaphor. A 30-passenger convoy vanishes in the closed circuit of the Buenos Aires underground system. Research will be initiated towards finding the cause of this dematerialization. A young topologist (surfaces mathematician) leads the investigation based on some lost maps and technical data sheets. He cannot find the whereabouts of the old scientist who designed the intricate weft of the subway web, until the unexpected aid from a young girl will ease the obtention of the first clues. Everything seems to be futile, but a random event that will risk his life gets him into an impossible train, were he will face up the amazing final revelation." This is an amazing movie though you may need to resort to [extreme] [methods] to see it.

Never mind those too-obvious disaster films. Moebius [1996] is the perfect one to take in while you ponder the meaning of the Perpetually Moving Nuclear Ghost Train.

Which has already left the station.

Academia is part of the real world, easily as much as industry is.

HA HA HA hee hee hee ha. Wait, you were serious?

Academia, technically, is part of the "real world." It's just the part with 180 degree different rules and priorities than the "industry" part that employs most Americans is. I have plenty of friends in academia and I love them to death but when we compare "what's happening at work" I will talk about the life or death of some multi-million dollar project that's keeping me up at night, and they will reveal their big pain point at work is that some guy caused an uproar at a conference because he give a citation in a paper to an ally and finessed his work around giving a citation to someone who he got in a snit with several years ago about different interpretations of a theory.

Now, that doesn't make one job better than the other but they sure are different. As they say, same planet, different worlds. Or, as the great academic Dr. Ray Stantz once told a colleague, "Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."

Reminds me of the dystopian themed film "Snowpiercer" in reverse.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt17...
Cue all the recent train explosion videos...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
--CF

It's all about humanity-killing viruses and includes experimental monkeys, and voluntary human test subjects dying 10% of the time while trying out the new super-vaccine, (so bravely concocted by a cute scientist babe while sailing under the buff, gruff manly man uber-patriotic US navy?)

Now, given the superb timing of that show in conjunction with this latest (opportunist's cash bonanza) virus threat out here in the real world, one can ask quite justifiably...

Is "The Last Ship" an example of willful sculpting of public opinion and receptiveness to what will certainly be a very expensive jab, or was it a subconscious up-bubbling of worries and fears from the collective human psyche? (Kind of like all those zombie films).

I'm leaning towards cynicism, myself. -Heck, it even has Evil Russians. So.., social engineering for the win!

I thought you were going for

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

Coffee naps are for closers!

Duh, there's already a documentary on that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

Don't go pissing and moaning because you're not smart enough to get in on the potential gravy train. If American consumers would get their heads out of their asses then the poverty rate would be much lower. There use to be a time when being fiscally responsible was the rule, not an exception.
 
It struck me how much we changed the other day while watching Trading Places. Winthorp pulls out a wallet of credit cards and says "You don't think they give these to just anyone?" When I was in my early 20s and making little above the poverty line I was rooked into the credit card scam. By the time it was all over I was nearly 18 months of post-tax salary in debt. This was 15 years ago. 30 years ago I couldn't have gotten gas card with the kind of wages I was making.
 
Today I work a simple 45 hour a week job that actually pays somewhat well, I have no real credit card debt and I'm in the top 95% of credit rates and I also have retirement savings that also put me in the top 90-some percentile for people my age. Cheap debt keeps the man on the street enslaved and the rich rich. Once you deny the debt culture a free reign to your wallet you'll see just how easy it really is to get ahead.

Automata sounds like that.

*shudder* This made me think of Repo Men.

This is all reminding me of an episode of Odyssey 5 where Ted Raimi portrays an AI that learned everything from those aspects of the internet and was inadvertently housed in a synthetic body instead of the nastier AI the body was intended for.

He turned out not to be the villain that the Odyssey 5 crew had been expecting.

1. Post video doing some pretty innocent action (watching tv, pouring coffee, sweeping the house) as having sex with a lamp post

Just don't let WALL-E see any Harmony Korine movies.