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Manned spaceflight will require us to develop an understanding of the requirements of supporting human life in a finite ecology located in space.

I half-expected that to link to a really crappy movie. :)

Sorry, wasn't aiming to offend... it's actually a pop culture reference Grep the page for inconceivable and you'll find it.

Ah, I see you have the +1 battle axe of 80s movie references. Congratulations.

I hope they're doing satire there. I'd hate for them to take this movie seriously. It's like doing "The Life of Brian" in Aramaic.

Oh wait, they did that already.

Meet Zaphod Beeblebrox. You can also go to Zaphod Beeblebrox, in Ottawa. Fun trendy bar that used to be much better than it is.

The IMDb already have a page for the film with a discussion board too.
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Bet you didn't know amazon sold this...

The IMDb already have a page for the film with a discussion board too.
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Bet you didn't know amazon sold this...

LOTR - legend of the rangers, B5 movie.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0280453/

I'm pretty sure that Bumblebee and Herbie haved both laughed, cried, winked and glared angrily. I mean, didn't the patent office even search for any prior art? ;)

They parodied this famous moment in Kevin Smith's Mallrats as well.

~~Guildencrantz

Aren't you supposed to be dead?

in Toontown!

Sorry, Speed Buggy predates Benny by 15 years.

Prior art can definitely be found here:

Benny the Cab in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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this seems much like the future shown in Equilibrium. The citizens must take their emotion repression drugs or else they're in violation of their governmental law. truly a scary thought...

Who's Warren Batty? You're not referring to Warren Beatty? That would be weird, since he's famous for acting, not investing.

There are a number of good reasons for wanting to sell a stock short.
For one, arguing along the same simplistic lines as you did: There are far more ways of running a business into the ground than running it sucessfully. Failure is also easier to predict than success.
I could've told you two years ago that SCO was going to go out of business. And they will, just watch.

The more serious reason for wanting to short a stock is to hedge your position. If you are holding a long position in 100 shares of a company when things start looking bad, you can short 50 shares, hence halving your losses, but also your eventual profits in the short term.
Investors like stability.

As for a more serious reasons NOT to short stocks, especially SCOX, is the large risk of cornering the stock. A short only works when someone is prepared to buy it back at lower price. In the case of SCOX, a significant percentage of the outstanding stock is shorted. When these guys want to cash in, there may be so few sellers left the price will go up.

I actually IMdB'ed Brin because I had no idea what his connection with movies was...
I think this story is just lamer than any they had refused.

WTF? Whois Eric Idle?

This has nothing to do with age, this is ignorance, pure and simple.

Eric Idle is Harry the Haggler, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot, and many more. He even met Adolf Hitler.

WTF? Whois Eric Idle?

This has nothing to do with age, this is ignorance, pure and simple.

Eric Idle is Harry the Haggler, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot, and many more. He even met Adolf Hitler.

Fellowship of the Ring

Last I checked, most of the existing cast qualified as 'Celebrity' status...

First time I've seen retarded spam emails propegated through /.

Chicago, IL - The GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) announces their forcible entry into the Soulseek filesharing network. This action was tasked to faggot tar baby Lysol, who created the GNAA's first slsk chatroom.
This development is expected to make thousands of gay nigger converts as nigger-seed-virus laced mp3s and FLACs are injected into rooms Underground Hip-Hop and Jazz (Full CDs), among others.
GNAA member Lysol commented, "With our new slsk chatroom GNAA we will be able to spread our holy nigger seed to copyright violating music pirates the world over!". He then proceeded to fuck Jazz (Full CDs) founder Lamig with his massive nigger dong, making her the third human female(after the Olsen twins) to be impregnated with the holy gay nigger seed.

Already, signs of niggerdom are spreading. Last Measure is being distributed on the network by persons not directly known to the ghey darkies.

About Soulseek .
Soulseek is a free p2p tool, available for the Windows and LUNIX operating systems.
The majority of Soulseek users are in the United States and Brazil, with many users on the European continent.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/

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Whence does the "right" of these idle class heirs to the wealth created by workers come from? Well, robber baron George Baer talked about the divine right of capital a century ago, but in actual practice, it is easy enough to see by what means the rentier expropriates for himself if one observes what happens to tenants who does not pay their landlord, or workers who refuse to let capital-owners expropriate profit (like at Argentina's Brukman factory).

I watched Equilibrium again this weekend. How long until governments want us all like little sheep, not feeling emotions, tracking our every movement, communication, meeting, just going to work, and enjoying the state proscribed and approved entertainment?
Download, I, er mean rent this film and watch it.

Does this remind anyone else of A Clockwork Orange, particularly the "Ludivico Technique"?

I think everybody here has heard of 1984, but maybe the AC is 16 or 17 and just got done reading it for school, or maybe he thinks that a lot of the people reading Slashdot are young and haven't read it or thought to read it. In any case, cut him some slack -- if only out of generosity.

On a related note, I think the book to read is A Clockwork Orange, which is also a very good movie by the way.

I won't say anything more than it applies here, for fearing of seeming patronizing!

Yeah, movies about old people in nursing homes are really lame.

Watch an aging Indy in a wheelchair fight off seniale ex-Nazis in a search for the bathroom so he doesn't have to use that bedpan any more.

For some reason this reminds me of Bubba Ho-Tep. Great Bruce Campbell... fighting off undead again... this time from a nursing home.

Anyways.

These are only subsets of the rationals. For the Reals you'd have to count "PI". The only movies IMDB turns up with "square root" with them are Square Root of Zero and Square Root of Negative 3.

How about Anna to the Infinite Power?

These are only subsets of the rationals. For the Reals you'd have to count "PI". The only movies IMDB turns up with "square root" with them are Square Root of Zero and Square Root of Negative 3.

How about Anna to the Infinite Power?

These are only subsets of the rationals. For the Reals you'd have to count "PI". The only movies IMDB turns up with "square root" with them are Square Root of Zero and Square Root of Negative 3.

How about Anna to the Infinite Power?

Indiana Jones IV: The Nursing Home Adventures

Watch an aging Indy in a wheelchair fight off seniale ex-Nazis in a search for the bathroom so he doesn't have to use that bedpan any more. Yet when he gets there, a seniale ex-Nazi has the last roll of toliet paper! Watch as they battle it out with canes, and pause many times to take a breather and adjust their bifocal glasses.

Didn't Bruce Campbell already do this, sorta?

Actually, George C. Scott demonstrated the concept in the 1967 film, The Flim-Flam Man.

I had no idea that he was such a visionary!

Actually, George C. Scott demonstrated the concept in the 1967 film, The Flim-Flam Man.

I had no idea that he was such a visionary!

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2004-07-19#film2

To summarize, apparently what happened is M. Night Shyamalan tried to block a made-for-tv bio about him that had some dark secret, but it was later revealed (and admitted) that the whole story was made up and he (they?) was only trying to drum up some extra publicity for his name in the weeks leading up to the release of The Village.

You are making the faulty assumption that Prequels and Sequels are a subset of Natural Numbers (I, II, III) when they are in fact a subset of Real Numbers. I Refer you to Lion King 1 1/2. This could mean that we'll be forced to endure a perpetual (infinite) series of Star Wars sequels and prequels. Imagine it now... Star Wars PI: Circle of Hatred. Oh, the horror, the horror. Jar Jar wages war upon the Ewoks to capture their stockpiles of collectible trading cards and plush dolls. Stop the madness!

Been done before I'm afraid. The 'evil monster' in The Fifth Element is Dr. Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.

That doesn't mean that it isn't fun to play along. It's strongly suspected that the designers of this latest "game" are the same folks who created "The Beast", which coincided with the release of A.I.. So, did it serve as a marketing tool for the movie? Probably. But for many people it was engaging and thought provoking in its own right.

And no, "The Beast" didn't culminate in a mass-email that said "Thanks for playing, now go see A.I!!". In fact, I don't think there were any direct references to the movie throught the course of the game (but the game arguably did take place in the A.I universe). I'm imagining the ilovebees thing will play out in the same way.

I know it's microsoft and as such we are required to hate it, but please try to keep an open mind.

Each state will maintain its own records . . . Software will search each state's records as necessary. The new setup is designed to get around obstacles in some states' data laws.

I am a programmer and let me just say that this is a really bad idea. Why? Because it's always a bad idea to design a large system that acts like a server but essentially is only a client.

Each state running their own version of the system, operating independently of the other states, will only ensure that the system could become easily corruptible (both criminally and data corrupted), without anyone higher examining the system for audits, outside of audits applied to the individual systems.

It's actually better to have one system and have multiple clients to the system with downgraded permissions, so that a team can go through and audit the whole system easier.

Now I'm not saying I'm all for Seisint holding the keys. Really the government should run this system themselves and hire the right people for the job, with the adequate level of security clearance to do the work. But diffracting a system into multiple independent systems operating on roughly the same premise, is not going to make it any better. It's going to cause lots of problems and I can foresee the following results without much effort, even:

1. Some states will apply problematic functions to the system.
2. Zero data cohesion for audits over the multiple systems.
3. Easier to corrupt state driven systems than federal ones.
4. Criminal activity changes jurisdiction (ie: no longer federal crime, perhaps?)
5. Bugs cropping up in one state won't be present in another.
6. Fifty times the cost of maintaining the systems; the guys doing this, just multiplied their haul by the number of states involved, instead of getting paid one lump sum to do the fsking job.
7. Social Engineers can break into state-run systems much easier, because they don't have to travel half way across the country to get in.
8. Criminals are now able to falsify criminal information like on that horrible movie The Net!
9. Awareness of a fragmented system is not enough to safeguard privacy.

You also get to see the revamped Cacodaemon a.k.a. The Tomato, which now looks like the aliens in Invaders from Mars

Osaka, Japan - In a worldwide first, GNAA founder and president timecop agreed to conduct an interview with Real Troll Talk, a Slashdot member documenting the ways and means of internet trolls worldwide.

Although meant to be a one on one interview, several GNAA members were present in the audience, and many "contributed" to the interview by shouting out points that timecop forgot and by calling him an asshole. "The interview went well," timecop said afterward, "I was very pleased with the interest in GNAA and the exposure we'll be getting through this. Real Troll Talk seemed to have an unhealthy obsession with the sexual aspects of GNAA, though."

GNAA member godspeed noted that "The interview was really good, and I have a strong feeling that Real Troll Talk may be a homosexual black man himself. You could say my gaynigdar was set off by that dude." Opened to other GNAA members for comment, vSKIZZILE was quick to add "HAHA FGTS! You are all gay, LOL @ WTC LOL @ JEWS!!!! FRIST POSTAGE FOR GNAA!"

A transcript of the interview is available in Real Troll Talk #6, available at Real Troll Talk's Slashdot journal

About Real Troll Talk:

Real Troll Talk is Slashdot member number 793436, and has been running a series of journal articles on internet trolling, seeming to take a particular interest in Slashdot and Kuro5hin. You can find back issues of "Real Troll Talk" at Real Troll Talk's Journal

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 ?
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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.
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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.
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Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network. The correct network is NiggerNET, and you can connect to irc.gnaa.us as our official server. Follow this link if you are using an irc client such as mIRC.

Osaka, Japan - In a worldwide first, GNAA founder and president timecop agreed to conduct an interview with Real Troll Talk, a Slashdot member documenting the ways and means of internet trolls worldwide.

Although meant to be a one on one interview, several GNAA members were present in the audience, and many "contributed" to the interview by shouting out points that timecop forgot and by calling him an asshole. "The interview went well," timecop said afterward, "I was very pleased with the interest in GNAA and the exposure we'll be getting through this. Real Troll Talk seemed to have an unhealthy obsession with the sexual aspects of GNAA, though."

GNAA member godspeed noted that "The interview was really good, and I have a strong feeling that Real Troll Talk may be a homosexual black man himself. You could say my gaynigdar was set off by that dude." Opened to other GNAA members for comment, vSKIZZILE was quick to add "HAHA FGTS! You are all gay, LOL @ WTC LOL @ JEWS!!!! FRIST POSTAGE FOR GNAA!"

A transcript of the interview is available in Real Troll Talk #6, available at Real Troll Talk's Slashdot journal

About Real Troll Talk:

Real Troll Talk is Slashdot member number 793436, and has been running a series of journal articles on internet trolling, seeming to take a particular interest in Slashdot and Kuro5hin. You can find back issues of "Real Troll Talk" at Real Troll Talk's Journal

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 slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network. The correct network is NiggerNET, and you can connect to irc.gnaa.us as our official server. Follow this link if you are using an irc client such as mIRC.

Fremont, California - In a surprise announcement, GNAA has announced a truce and alliance with the popular news for trolls website Slashdot.

GNAA member godspeed broke the news at an early-evening press conference, announcing that GNAA would cease trolling the website, and will instead work with the current Slashdot staff on porting the Slashcode to ASP.NET, to be run under IIS.

"We've had our difference with Slashdot in the past," godspeed began, "but with recent slowdowns in performance on the website, they have finally realized that Opensource is indeed dead, and it's time to move on and replace their antiquated codebase with something that will meet the modern day's needs. We're pleased to be given the opportunity to work with the Slashdot staff on making this port. Of course, the new code will not be opensourced, an NDA will be signed in blood by all who see it and if you release it, the penalty... well, you've seen what happened to Nick Berg, Paul Johnson, and the others. Major changes to be implemented include the removal of goatse link evasion, major overhauls to the karma system, and the replacement of pinkpages with LastMeasure,"

At this point godspeed turned the podium over to fellow GNAA member goat-see and stormed out of the room. goat-see offered to take any questions the audiencemembers have. When asked why there were no Slashdot representatives at the conference, he was quick to reply "You can speak to CowboyNeal outside after we're through here, we couldn't get that motherfucker in here without widening the doorframes. Next question?," eliciting a hearty chuckle from the audience. When asked the reason for the sudden change in relations with Slashdot, goat-see paused to think for a moment, before answering "Our historical differences were meant to hilight the flaws in the Slashdot system. As soon as the staff realized what an impacted shitpile their site was and the need to update it, we were the first to volunteer to assist in the migration. We look forward to seeing the hight performace of ASP.NET pages with a MS SQL backend as much as any other nigger out there."

bare, a GNAA member sitting in the audience, stood up and confirmed this announcement with a hearty "LOL." goat-see concluded the conference at that point, saying "If you have any further questions, please direct them to new GNAA member Wil Wheaton, now let's all go outside and poke that fat fuck CowboyNeal with sticks."

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 ?
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Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

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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!

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Watch "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" and see if you still think that the shakeout was just a case of the industry maturing. And what happened to all the freight trains and mass transit systems? GM killed them with the common big-business tactic of buying favorable laws.

Big business uses its power in unethical, immoral and illegal ways and it takes a toll on society. Some would say that it's "The American Way", but they either don't understand or don't care how and why this country was founded.

Wake up and smell the stench coming out of D.C. and Wall Street.

Oh yeah somelike this you mean?????

I guess it makes more sense than re-enacting something that didn't happen.

They make movies about wars that actually happened...so why not games?

When they make movies/books/plays/games about wars that didn't happen, it is usually 'science fiction', which a large part of the population is not interested in. Personally, I'd rather watch 'Starship Troopers' than 'Glory' but that's me.

How far back into history would it be okay (ie: not to disturb our 'sensitivities') to portray a war in a video game?

Is WWII okay? That's fairly far back, and those old geezers are too busy signing up for Colonial Penn life insurance to play games.

World War I? Yes, it was the Great War...but fighting in trenches, funny looking tanks, and tossing grenades from bi-planes doesn't make for a lot of fun video games.

Have we had any games that were based on the Mexican-American war? Probably not, and we probably won't see too many...if for no other reason, the weapons were boring.

I think that the Vietnam war has a couple of things going for it that make it an interesting backdrop for a video game.

1- The entertainment industry has created a real mystique about the war. Movies like Apocolypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Rambo, and anything with Chuck Norris ("fucking Chuck Norris") have brought it to our entertainment conciousness.

2- They had fairly cool weapons in Vietnam.

3- The tactics were different. It seems like the individual walking through the jungle made more of an impact than a faceless soldier standing in line during the Civil War. Once you've played a few games of Stratego, you've pretty much re-enacted the Civil War anyway.

There's a great movie about that tracking station called The Disn, which I'd highly recommend.

The real advantage of bipedalism is that it frees the hands to do things like make and use tools.

Watch the first five minutes of Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I . Exaclty what tools are we talking about here?