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I was going to reply to the other post you made about this, but I wanted to save my mod points.

Over here in the UK prison is a joke. For anything non-violent or trivial guys get to go to holiday camps.
A friend of mine was sent to prison for handling stolen property, he was in the pub more than I was. He used to go "over the wall" and grab dope, cigarettes, beer and porno mags, screw chicks and be home (prison) in time for lock-down.

What would you suggest we frighten kids with if not prison rape?

Death in prison is a little too coarse for most people, but it is easy to make a joke about Bubba that belies the unpleasant truth about the actual time offenders spend in jail.

Look at Shawshank Redemption, the way that portrays prison rape. Shit happens.

If you can't handle the thought of people disrespecting the thought of man-man sex in this way then I guess it is something that you're gonna have to look at about yourself.

NB: This is not a flame. I have you on my friend list, but I don't want to waste mods already done in this thread.

"Where there is fire, there is smoke. And in that smoke, from this day forward, my people will crouch and conspire and plot and plan for the inevitable day of Man's downfall--the day when he finally and self-destructively turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of the writing in the sky, when your cities lie buried under radioactive rubble! When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which *I* will lead my people from their captivity! And we will build our own cities in which there will be no place for humans except to serve our ends! And we shall found our own armies, our own religion, our own dynasty! And that day is upon you NOW!"

You'll shoot your eye out, kid! A Christmas Story :)

I always thought "22 Twain" was kind of funny... ripped of from Murder by Death. However, I think I will start using this guys address... at least until the next P-P-Powerbook story comes to /.

Or of this film?

Thanks for the answers.

Does this mean a factually correct remake is forthcoming?

And that is? You haven't mentioned any musical qualities in your post at all...

She sings sogs [sic] that a lot of people enjoy listening to.

This completely fails to address the question. The question was "what qualities appeal to people", not "what is her profession." If you factor in the lip synching thing, you didn't even address the question of what her profession is, but nevermind.

I like all kinds of music, all genres. Not all of it is particularly talented -- I love the Ramones but they never did figure out how to play a song with three chords in it -- but I do try to take in as wide a variety of genres as I can get my hands on: rock (Beatles, Kinks, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Clash, the Pixies, and lots of punk & indie rock type stuff from there), jazz (Miles Davis, Louie Armstrong, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Martin Medeski & Wood, John Zorn), electronic music (Kraftwerk, Massive Attack, Autechre), rap & hip hop (Public Enemy, Tribe Called Quest, the Roots), classical (Bach, Beethoven), world music (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, klezmer jazz, tuva singing, Los Lobos [or are they rock?], Japanese pop), etc. Just to scratch the surface.

If there's something inventive & vibrant there, I'll give it a chance and probably like it. If it's crap, I do what I can to avoid it, no matter how popular it is. Jam bands like the Grateful Dead and Phish are crap -- they pick a scale and noodle around in it aimlessly in a pot-addled haze for a few hours, but dammit you could write a Perl script to do that. The Doors are a collossal, steaming, quaking mound of crap. Jimi Hendrix was astounding, as were the Beatles. The Rolling Stones were okay, but nothing brilliant like Hendrix or the Beatles. Pick & choose.

This inventivness area is where Britney Spears makes falls down dramatically -- there's no spark in it that makes it worth paying attention to. That's not to say that pop musicians can't also be interesting artists -- both Prince & Madonna showed that magnificently since the 80s -- but more often than not, the stuff on pop radio is middle of the road crap that really does have little to redeem it. This has nothing to do with popularity -- I neither know nor care what bands are popular on the charts these days -- it has to do with the performer's ability to work as an artist and establish some kind of visceral connection with the listener.

But then, I'm not really answering the question either. You're just saying she's good because people like her; I'm just saying she sucks in spite of the fact that people like her. Neither of those angles really gets to the heart of the question. For that kind of answer, you could do a lot worse than to read Pat Metheny's commentary on Kenny G's version of Louie Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World". No, it doesn't have anything to do with Britney Spears, but it does convey quite nicely how painful it can be to see some no-talent ass-clown arrogantly stomping all over the memory of one of the most widely enjoyed people in American music. This isn't the exact transgression Britney makes with her music, but it ends up pushing a lot of the same buttons.

But really, if you want proof that Britney Spears is not only a talentless ass-clown, but also a dangerously corrupting influence on America's youth, you need look no further than this quote:

I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that.

America's "wholesome little sweetheart" is nothing but a Stalinist! Argggh!

If you look at the reflection in Armstrong's helmet, you can see James Brolin running in slow motion across Arlington National Cemetary.

Quite a few of the scenes in Apollo 13 were filmed onboard the KC-135, which is why the weightless "effects" look so good -- they're real.

I always wondered if the people in the movie survived, but Hawking's theory left me with no hope.

I'm so relieved to know there's a chance they survived!

So, does this mean that you cant go to hell, and back, bringing god knows what into our universe? What a rip off!

EXCELLENT film. Especially the Darryl Hannah line:

You may think phone service stinks since deregulation, but don't mess with us, because we're all you've got. In fact, if we fold, you'll have NO damn phones. AT&T - we're tired of taking your crap!

That might be worth a rent. Thanks for reminding me of it.

There's an obscure reference to something like this in an old eighties movie called Crazy People, where the genius crazy people decide to thwart Sony executives by making an ad that simply says: Sony, Bony (while the guy shows this a sketch of a really skinny old guy). I'm sorry but when else am I going to get to reference this funny/stupid movie quote, but when a company starting with the letter B is going to join forces with Sony.

So say it with me;
BMG + Sony...
Sony, Bony

• Player size in centimeters, grams, and gigabytes.
• 
  The quality of the user Interface.
  The aesthetics of the exterior appearance.
  File transfer speed to your computer.
  The battery life.
  The durability.
  The price.

From the same people who brought you the Trace Buster Buster Buster

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A giant keyboard you have to step on to get to work, now that would be cool, not practical, but cool none the less.

Does Tom Hanks come with it?

In Sierra Leone, the legitimate government was the one who contracted EO as their military could not prevent the insurgency from commiting genocide. What I'm saying should happen HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE. It won't work in all situations, such as when a government doesn't exist or who is the aggressor, but it does work in some situations. The UN peacekeeping force was 100% ineffective in dealing with the insurgency in Sierra Leone, whereas EO was 100% effective.

A Peacekeeping force by their own definition is not meant to fight a war but to prevent the outbreak of one. For example by keeping two factions apart. They are not intended to fight a war or "repel" isurgence from another country.

Just because they are not currently bound by those laws doesn't mean they can't be. PMCs have to exist under the authority of some nation which abides by international law (Ie NPMI is a PMC here in the US which is bound by their corporate charter issued by the government to abide by all laws that the US is bound by. Granted, you can't control whether they will actually follow the law, but if you could, we wouldn't have courts or prisons to lock up criminals.)

I don't quite see your last argument. The point is that those companies only report to their shareholders. And how do you tell a company that their people on the ground CANNOT (for example) go on a search and destroy mission as their "client" requests because it would violate the geneva convention to torch a village and kill the inhabitants?

Granted, you can't be sure that a "regular" army isn't doing the same thing, but if we assume that this is the army of a democractic nation we should hope that the media keeps an eye on them (who am I kidding, I guess the Iraq war already showed that the media isn't critical anymore either, or do you believe that the US army has a clean slate now while in Vietnam the whole thing was different?).

Point is: A UN Lead force will most likely not be linked to atrocities (though they are known to look the other way), with private contractors you could never be sure what they are doing. Because in the end they are only loyal to their paycheck.

And IIRC, in Rwanda, the party commiting the genocide was not the legitimate government, but an insurgency that toppled the legitimate government that had attempted to contract EO at the same time officials at the UN decided to bow to pressure to force Sierra Leone to pull the contract from EO. If the UN had not stuck its nose in to a situation that was 100% under control by the government of Sierra Leone (the RUF had signed a cease-fire agreement with the government), thousands more would not have been killed when the UN peacekeeping force came in, and watched as the RUF broke their agreement and started slaughtering again. The fact that the UN had sent its ineffective by design peacekeeping force in without a mandate to keep the peace by engaging the RUF, then watching thousands die is sad. It makes me shameful of my government for allowing genocide to take place by putting pressure on the UN because of some twisted sense that an international body can do better than 300 men on the ground...

Two things about Rwanda:

1. "The Last Just Man", a documentary about the Rwandan genocide.

2. "Shake Hands with the devil - The failure of humanity in Rwanda." An account of what happened written by Romeo Dallaire the Canadian Colonel who was in charge of the actual UN mission.

Interesstingly enough he saw what was happening, he saw it coming before it happened AND he asked the UN for a change of his orders. His superiors in the UN coulnd't agree (politics again), when they finally saw what was starting they tried to get a new UN resolution that

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Not sure what SCO has to do with Elf. Wait, nevermind. They've got truth elves, working from dusk till dawn, griding down the logic and confusing the masses with their cute looking elf outfits and fairy dust. My guess is that Santa Claus himself is somehow behind this latest SCO claim. It just seems like the more they open their traps, the lower their stock gets, so I'm all for many more of these kinds of press releases.

You must surf... in Russian!

(In Soviet Russia, you must surf?)

I don't know, back when this was coming out I was young enough that one of my favorite pasttimes was hooking up Barbies to jumpercables and watching them turn black and melt while my sisters recoiled in horror. I was the proud owner of the only Barbie Suntan Station. Ahh, the memories...

Anyway, not to start a flame war, but I'd take Mia Sara aka Sloane Peterson over Kelly LeBrock any day.

They should build this technology into Firefox.

Linux users tend toward Electronica

Interesting. I liked electronica & "techno" long before ever one keystroke in Linux. Was I operating Linux because I was listening to electronica, or was I listening to electronica because I was operating Linux?

...kind of like a quote from one of my favorite John Cusack movies

"Was I listening to pop music because I was depressed, or was I depressed because I was listening to pop music?"

And Michael Bolton* who listen to hard-core hip-hop.

-Peter

*Let's be very clear here that Michael Bolton, the no-talent ass clown, has nothing to do with this post.

had dealt with this phantom menace instead of the other one.

Nice Princess Bride reference there... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/

Heh, reminds me of that quote from Fight Club:

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.

GENERAL LANDRY
When Kruschev was forced out, he sat
down and wrote two letters and handed
them to his successor. He said "When
you get into a situation you can't
get out of, open the first letter
and you'll be saved. And when you
get into another situation you can't
get out of, open the second." Soon
enough this guy found himself in a
tight place. So he opened the first
letter. It said, "Blame everything
on me." So he blamed the old guy
and it worked like a charm.
(beat)
He got into another situation he
couldn't get out of, so he opened
the second letter, which read, "Sit
down and write two letters."

They stare at each other a beat. Then Landry smiles.

Both Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst did their own voices for the game, and Tobey Maguire is just awful. No emotion whatsoever, just lame wooden jokes for your grandmother.

The game also features the voice of Reno 911!'s Niecy Nash which is pretty neat for anyone who gives a crap.

Both Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst did their own voices for the game, and Tobey Maguire is just awful. No emotion whatsoever, just lame wooden jokes for your grandmother.

The game also features the voice of Reno 911!'s Niecy Nash which is pretty neat for anyone who gives a crap.

on that note... a quote from Parenthood.

Tod: You know, Mrs. Buchman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car - hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father.

You mean as in Independence Day where Jeff Goldblum uses that cool "every phone book in America" thing to find his ex-wife's cell phone number by using is own last name? That would be awesome!

Be careful what you wish for.

I saw the pictures ... it looks like a "Chucky" robot for kids. I don't know what effect it will have on kids, but I know the thing scares me shitless.

Ya, way to go USC ... Great interface! Keep 'em coming.

Seriously though... Vorbis support on iPod?

Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?

OH yes please, thank you, so that I might finally have a legal reason for beating Miss Spears into a bloody pulp. The quote in question if you don't want to read all those (trust me, if you do your IQ will drop) is as follows: "Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music." ~Britney Spears

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Welcome to Earth. Go rent this immediately. Failure to do so could result in your Geek License being revoked.

ok, I'm done venting.

Some music just isn't good, or not good enough, to warrant the price it is set at. So really, the issue really a relation of quality vs cost. A really good CD might warrant purchase at a higher cost. An average CD might not warrant purchase until cost has declined.

If you were going to completely rip off someone else's comment (like this one) you could have at least linked to it or referenced it.

Lyle: And then he's just the media darling... He's on the cover of all the magazines, I should of been on the cover of Wired magazine. you know what he said? he said he named it Napster because it was his nickname because of the nappy hair under the hat. But he, It's because I was NAPPING when he STOLE it from me. He didn't even graduate.

Yeah, and someone mentioned Police Academy (##) too... wish I'd thought of those. Actually, those movies do give me nightmares, but in them I'm violent against Hugh Wilson, the director.

Yeah, and someone mentioned Police Academy (##) too... wish I'd thought of those. Actually, those movies do give me nightmares, but in them I'm violent against Hugh Wilson, the director.

GTA is much more "light" than any cops movie


Yeah, I still have nightmares about Car 54, Where Are You?.

GTA is much more "light" than any cops movie


Yeah, I still have nightmares about Car 54, Where Are You?.

Why not watch "Searching for Bobby Fischer" instead?