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It's one kilogram of raw fat stored : in volume, this is more than a liter.
This is really serious, guys, you should watch this, then read this.

Does anyone need 2GB of memory for their PDA?

But of course -- !

If my PDA had "Infinity Plus One" memory, I could store the entire state of the universe.

Also, I wish my amps went to eleven.

-kgj

Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires

"Knowing is half the battle" may be have been used in an after-school special, but was more popularly known as the catch phrase at the end of episodes of the GI Joe cartoon from the 1980s.

This website has a list of the ends of these episodes where this phrase is used.

I guess I can safely assume the one starring Stallone as "Snaps" Provolone is not what you were referring to.

Kiwaiti

A "funny accent" is different than talking like Jed Clampett, or some gangsta. You can have a "funny accent" and still be edumacated. Christopher Lambert has a "funny accent", but he doesn't sound like he's done without plumbing and books all his life.

I thought we were discussing proper grammar and usage of the English language, not speech inflections?

People judge you by how you communicate, how you dress, how you carry yourself. It's not ideal, but that's all people have to go on. If you're a gum cracking big haired Long Island girl in fishnet stockings and stilletto heels chances are you talk like it, even when your best friend puts you in a bridesmaids dress, you're still a "floozy" and everyone knows it by how you talk. That's how the world works. If said strumpet goes through enough schooling, graduates and makes it through residency, to become a surgeon, I guaranty the "funny accent" will still sound like Long Island / New Jersey, but it will no longer be filled with atrocious grammar, ignorant usage, and open-mouthed gum cracking.

If you have or plan to have children, it's important to accept this fact. One of the worst things you can do for a child's future is to let the child get away with poor grammar, slang, colloquialisms, etc.

Whether you're talking about the accent of Boston, London, Melbourne, or New Orleans, the mayor doesn't talk like the pimp on the corner 5 blocks away.

There seems to be some correlation there.

There seems to be some correlation there.

Of course, you would have to mis-spell Wilford Brimley's name exactly the same way as your lame late pal, or you'd get the wrong results...

Eh? I think you mean Ariana Richards. Also, the 3D file navigator used in Jurassic Park actually exists.

violence and nudity does not make something worthwhile. nor are they necessary. for example, The Lost Boys doesn't have any real nudity at all.

Tiger Woods and The Rock are not mulatto. Each has a black parent, but neither has a white one.

Also, the word mulatto has a "interesting" etymology and is generally only used by the ignorant or racist. It refers to a mule, the sterile freakish work animal you get when you cross a horse and a donkey. In this analogy, guess who gets to be the inferior, barely-equine, 2-chromosome deficient donkey?

Hey, it worked for Samuel L Jackson...

this is a UNIX system, I know this!!!

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you can always die

Perhaps you have to in order to be transformed into Soylent Green .

CC.

whats with slashdot and the late news?

If death stopped being inevitable, then the rich and powerful would be the first ones to get that technology...Finding and killing the methuselas would become an obscession for anyone who wanted to change things for the better

Hey, wasn't that the plot of Zardoz?

I think you might mean Payne Stewart.

Unless of course you were talking about this ill-fated Patrick Stewart excursion...

currently at "Life of the creator +way too many years"?

Well, at least no one could make another derivative work of Michael Crichton's books.

Yeah, I know its not truly derivative, since he wrote the screenplay, but you get the point.

Have we learned NOTHING from Highlander? The Immortal One brings peace, prosperity and really bad sequels to the human race.

I, for one, welcome our new bitchin'-sword-wielding immortal masters.

I believe it was a reference to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but it's been years since I've seen that movie, and I've never read the book, so I could be wrong.

If you like this you really should see koyaanisqatsi. It's got a lot of time-lapse photography and great phillip glass music.

Not to be confused with this cube of doom.

The most bizarre board game I've ever received is called The Tomato Game, (c) Susan A. Tambone. There isn't any other company name or publisher anywhere on it. It's a standard game with a path, tokens, die, and question/action cards that you draw when you land on different spaces. It comes in a box designed to look like a cardboard tomato crate. I grow veggies at home and my wife got this game for me several years ago after finding it advertised in the back of some magazine.

It has the feel of a game written by an instructor at an ag college for people in the tomato industry. Here's a sample question:

According to the U.S. standard for grades of fresh tomatoes not more than what % of the surface on a "turning" tomato may be pink or red?

Answer: 30%

No wonder store-bought tomatoes are never ripe.

Or this trick question:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is responsible for ensuring the safety of

A. Meat
B. Poultry
C. Eggs
D. Fruits & vegetables
E: All of the above

Answer: A, B & C

I bet you too thought that the existence of choice E ruled out a combo answer!

Of course, the fun is all of the silliness as people try to guess obscure tomato diseases and "best" practices (by the industry's standards) when noone has a chance. A very surreal experience. Best played in conjunction with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

Some pretty funny stuff in there. And Jennifer Runyon, of course. :-)

"How is THAT a robot? It's a dummy that inflates with hot air..."

I agree. A dummy that inflates with hot air is not a robot, but a pilot.
Have you seen the movie "Airplane!" ?

No.
This One

The film's already been done: Enigma. Turing remained British but got a girlfriend.

Nah, it's this Cube.

This is not the best Cube.

You're complaining? Try to get out of the... HYPERCUBE!!

There really was a real life mobster known as "the Gimp" -- Marty "the Gimp" Synder. He was a Chicago mobster who manipulated the music industry, Columbia records, in particular. Marty the Gimp was portrayed by movie tough guy James Cagney in the biopic picture Love Me or Leave Me,

when all you needed to take on pirates was a cutlass, a musket, and of course if you're in Bengalla and it's the Sengh Brotherhood you're dealing with, the Phantom wouldn't hurt.

For all it's worth, it's been done here and here.

...but if you get to Bletchley Park, for goodness sake don't mention the film U-571 :-) the retired UK military people who are the tour guides get a bit twitchy that Hollywood makes out it was the US Navy and not the Royal Navy (UK) who grabbed vital code books from a sinking U-boat (which I think was actually U-110). (actually they are quite relaxed and happy to correct/ give more info , plus the U571 film makers donated a couple of huge u-boat props which are in the grounds of BP).

Colossus: The Forbin Project - a very very very nice movie and story. even now.

FWIW, the film ENIGMA is a romanticized but entertaining thriller about another important, earlier (than Colossus), Bletchley Park decryption mechanism.

Phew. For a moment, I thought they were talking about this Colossus.

An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own

At best, all you've listed is productization. Some things get invented many times over, and don't become widespread until there's a real need.

Far and away, the "mother" (reason it was invented then, and not earlier) to all those inventions was simply whatever precursor technology was needed as the prior building block.

Invention: Atom bomb

Can you tell me who "invented" the atom bomb? You can't, because it's irrelevant. Multiple phsyisists worldwide had already worked through what was (to them) obvious results internationally-published work. Actually building an A-Bomb was hard, but building!=inventing.

Invention: Rockets

Sorry, rockets were invented in North America circa 1905, and Britain wasn't shooting at their planes at the time.

Whoops! My mistake... rockets were invented in Manchuria, circa 400 BC... and the British weren't shooting their planes either.

Invention: Tanks

Who "invented" tanks? You probably don't know, because it's almost to obvious to qualify as an "invention".

Nessicity: Trenches from world war I were a bitch

Lessee, World War 1 started in 1914... but the tank was invented in 1507. You've got a problem there, unless you can tell me when the flux capacitor was invented (1985?)

Nessicity: IF we don't the damn ruskies will do it first...

Rockets you listed already. But space modules? Umm... the Russians did do it first.

Honestly, I'm surpised nobody here has seen "Marathon Man." Real protection from muggers is a retractable blade concealed in the forearm's sleeve!

Really? I'm very surprised that kind of thing doesn't go on in ghettoised inner-city-slum America. Are you sure?

I live in Edinburgh, and a lovely city it is too; but if anyone doesn't believe Begbie is a real person they're gonna get a shock. Once the people roll out of the nightclubs at three in the morning things can get pretty hairy. (Actual quote from outside Revolution: "Kick him again, he's still got some teeth!")

Life's a hell of a lot less precious and more special than some people here realise I think. Claims by libertarians that they'd happily blow someone away for wanting to steal an iPod are just ridiculous, and show more than just a little detachment from the real world.

Oh yeah, and redheads are better :P

"If you try to run, I've got six little friends and they can all run faster than you can."
-- http://imdb.com/title/tt0116367/quotes

--
Will

But Gore, as Vice President, wasn't part to starting any world wars.

Bush, while not being Vice President, nor starting any wars before getting into office, played (and won) on name value. Well, not really won. More people voted for the other guy

Actual Votes:
Bush: 50,456,002(47.87%)
Gore: 50,999,897 (48.38%)

Electorial Votes:
Bush: 271
Gore: 266

This time around, maybe people will look at the record.

Bush: started two wars, killed lots of people
Kerry: didn't start any wars, wasn't responsible for thousands of deaths.

I spoke with one lady, who said "Bush isn't that bad, I'd vote for him again", who a few weeks later told me "I'm not voting for him again", because her son, a Staff Sergeant in the US Army Reserve with 6 years in, due to end his tour in August, is now being sent to Afghanistan in July for at least a year. This isn't abnormal, it's now policy. Just because you're not in the military now, and have no plans for joining doesn't mean much

From what I've read, Hitler wasn't that bad of a guy, til he started his ethnic cleansing campaigns across Europe, and conquering other countries just because they were there. That became fairly well known after a while. Maybe you heard about it? World War II?

I'm a huge fan of all of those shows, but I think Australia has the edge in sketch comedy. Fast Forward and The Late Show both caused me to laugh so hard I hurt myself.
The American comedy program I'm enjoying currently is Scrubs - It has a nice mixture of comedy, drama and character development along with a solid dose of surrealism.

I'm a huge fan of all of those shows, but I think Australia has the edge in sketch comedy. Fast Forward and The Late Show both caused me to laugh so hard I hurt myself.
The American comedy program I'm enjoying currently is Scrubs - It has a nice mixture of comedy, drama and character development along with a solid dose of surrealism.

The movie is calledRunaway. And is one of my favorites. A Michael Crichton movie ! Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley. the future, as seen in 1984. great stuff