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Mos Def as Arthur Dent? where did that come from?

From your own head, apparently: according to IMDB Tim Freeman is playing Arthur Dent. Mos Def is Ford Prefect...

'Who controls the software, controls life.' - Eben Moglen

'He who controls the spice, controls the universe!' - Baron Harkonnen, Dune

Well, according to , it looks like they've chosen an interesting cast. I think Martin Freeman is an excellent choice for Arthur. I suspect Warwick Davis is being cast as Marvin simply because he seemed so pessimistic for most of Willow.

One of the screenplay writers, Karey Kirkpatrick, also was credited with working on the screenplay for Chicken Run, which was pretty good and original. So I think we can all continue to hold out hope for a while longer.

Joining the cast set to start shooting the movie of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy in London next month is the acclaimed actor John Malkovich. In a slight twist to the original concept, engineered by Douglas Adams in creating the initial draft script for the movie, Malkovich will play a crazed missionary, living amongst the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle Six, called Humma Kavula. The script for the film went through at least two other writers hands after Douglas's death in 2001, so only time will tell how much of his original concept will survive the trip to the silver screen.

Earth's finest astro-missionaries do indeed initiate contact and demonstrate themselves, and their beliefs, as mankind's majority view. In which case:

1: After a few years of contact with our nonsense, they (The ET's in question) decide to tie us to an intersteller "cross" and set us out to drift by a black hole (a la The Mission

2: Our astro-misionaries find that the alien culture in question has a highly evolved sense of religion themselves and they proceed to convert us.

3: They (the ET's) are completely appalled by our (mankind's) inability to distinguish personal spirtual beliefs from nonsensical religious imperatives and (after speaking their case to some galactic council or other) quarantine Earth from interstellar contact until we set our priorities straight.

4: (As a continuation of point 2) They (the ET's) are enraged by our collective infidelism(sic) that we are hunted down and exterminated for challenging they one true religion: Theirs.

Anyway, just a few other ideas to chew over, you silly religious elitist type.

You'd think it would be relatively easy to look around and see how much religion (and our immature view(s) of it) have fucked us all over. I mean, turn on the CNN and the end result of it is everywhere. I have an idea, take your deep seeded personal religious views and shove 'em deeply up a very personal place... until we collectively realize that our own personal spiritual viewpoints have no bearing on the world around us... we'll just continue to be screwed.

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This has been around even before the movie Sneakers.

The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, uh, people do." But I think, I think the gun helps. You know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, "Bang!" That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that.

:-)

The military has visions of pilots flying planes by thought.

What are you talking about?!?! They even made two documentaries about it!

What are you talking about?!?! They even made two documentaries about it!

The new chip has several key bennefits, which include the use of synchronous serial interface when connecting to a host CPU, low-power consumption enabling long time operation with dry-cell batteries, and a 0.22 micron low-leakage process. The package is quite small at only 7x7(mm).

Just me or does this seem like the perfect chip for a subdermal implant. Seriosly, stick one of these babys next to a pacemaker and you can control your heartrate via the TCP/IP or encrypt the signal and have law enforcments firearms disable themselves in the hands of criminals (ala Judge Dredd ) Coupled with a proper set of sensors soldiers vital stats could be relayed to a central command unit without bulk transmiters, or just one transmitter ( Aliens (1986)

Maybe I shouldn't watch so many movies.

The new chip has several key bennefits, which include the use of synchronous serial interface when connecting to a host CPU, low-power consumption enabling long time operation with dry-cell batteries, and a 0.22 micron low-leakage process. The package is quite small at only 7x7(mm).

Just me or does this seem like the perfect chip for a subdermal implant. Seriosly, stick one of these babys next to a pacemaker and you can control your heartrate via the TCP/IP or encrypt the signal and have law enforcments firearms disable themselves in the hands of criminals (ala Judge Dredd ) Coupled with a proper set of sensors soldiers vital stats could be relayed to a central command unit without bulk transmiters, or just one transmitter ( Aliens (1986)

Maybe I shouldn't watch so many movies.

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Scarlett Johannsen thought an encounter with Bencio Del Toro looked fun, but later described the encounter as "unsanitary." I'm not sure if her comments were meant tongue in cheek, or not.

p.s. Johannsen is a good candidate to replace Portman here on Slashdot (never really off-topic).

The question is how do you give your buddy the access he needs after you have died...

You immediately reminded me of the movie with Patrick Stewart, Safehouse, in which he plays a hermit that's slightly paranoid and is convinced he'll be killed before he can leak information regarding a dirty gov't or secret agency cover-up. So he builds a "dead-man switch" on his computer, which unless he enter a code in everyday to deactivate, will launch an application that'll ftp and email all the dirty secrets to all the major US newspapers.

Excellent movie I thought, had Kimberly Williams in it if anything else!:P

The question is how do you give your buddy the access he needs after you have died...

You immediately reminded me of the movie with Patrick Stewart, Safehouse, in which he plays a hermit that's slightly paranoid and is convinced he'll be killed before he can leak information regarding a dirty gov't or secret agency cover-up. So he builds a "dead-man switch" on his computer, which unless he enter a code in everyday to deactivate, will launch an application that'll ftp and email all the dirty secrets to all the major US newspapers.

Excellent movie I thought, had Kimberly Williams in it if anything else!:P

"However, the open source strategy is a triple-edge sword..."

Maybe he was thinking about this.

I knew watching crap movies would come in handy one day.

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Really good movie, shame it didn't do very well at the box office. Oh well, good satires almost never do, people don't get satire. *sigh*

I've been less of a fan since he screwed over Ripley. ;)

I mean, really. "Mad about You" was a fine TV show... but this good?

How long until we see McKellenFS?

I mean, really. "Mad about You" was a fine TV show... but this good?

How long until we see McKellenFS?

Um... I watch the Thunderbirds (or at least Tivo it) every week. And I enjoy it.

It's not a new show... it's a classic. And, BTW, there is a big budget live action version coming out this summer. Info at IMDB.

I would guess that there are many fans all over the world for them to decided to do a live action version of a supermarionation program as old as that.

The terrorists have time machines!!! I guess our only choice is to send in Timecop

Law enforcement agencies all across the United States are searching for Tommy Vercetti. He is wanted for a string of felonies including (but not limited to) murder, assualt, battery, weapons sales, grand larceny, and above all else Grand Theft Auto.

Active Driectory is like having a diesel car when everybody else has regular cars - you're stuck buying your diesel from the truck stop, where everybody else can fuel up where they'd like.

Ok - I'll have fun with this one (need some flamebait anyway) - yeah just like diesel, cheaper, fewer greenhouse gasses, better gas milage. Plus every gas station I go to has diesel available anyway.

To be slightly more fair, diesel also has a higher ammount of particulate that may be even worse on the environment than the greenhouse gasses, but who knows what will kill us first a 10.5 Earthquake Really Bad Movie, Global Warming Another stinker, or frankly all just dying from a random disease Ok, maybe not so bad

Pick your favorite death below

Active Driectory is like having a diesel car when everybody else has regular cars - you're stuck buying your diesel from the truck stop, where everybody else can fuel up where they'd like.

Ok - I'll have fun with this one (need some flamebait anyway) - yeah just like diesel, cheaper, fewer greenhouse gasses, better gas milage. Plus every gas station I go to has diesel available anyway.

To be slightly more fair, diesel also has a higher ammount of particulate that may be even worse on the environment than the greenhouse gasses, but who knows what will kill us first a 10.5 Earthquake Really Bad Movie, Global Warming Another stinker, or frankly all just dying from a random disease Ok, maybe not so bad

Pick your favorite death below

Active Driectory is like having a diesel car when everybody else has regular cars - you're stuck buying your diesel from the truck stop, where everybody else can fuel up where they'd like.

Ok - I'll have fun with this one (need some flamebait anyway) - yeah just like diesel, cheaper, fewer greenhouse gasses, better gas milage. Plus every gas station I go to has diesel available anyway.

To be slightly more fair, diesel also has a higher ammount of particulate that may be even worse on the environment than the greenhouse gasses, but who knows what will kill us first a 10.5 Earthquake Really Bad Movie, Global Warming Another stinker, or frankly all just dying from a random disease Ok, maybe not so bad

Pick your favorite death below

I guess this conspiracy theory was powered by the fact that the US Army was interested in using Atari's BattleZone as a tank simulator.

Either that, or someone took The Last Starfighter too seriously.

Project Grizzly and Cyberman were both featured in Indie Truth, a documentary about documentaries that was on the IFC recently. I think the director was even more candid about how crazy Project Grizzly was in the TV show than he was in the documentary.

Silly man. Everyone knows it's sunglasses we need.

Riverside's systems have been running for four years now nearly without a hitch.
How do you know there was no hitch? For instance, in this Spring's recall vote in Riverside, Larry Flynt beat Gary Coleman 540 to 593 - less than 50 votes. How do you know some pr0n loving programmer with an lingering childhood crush on Dana Plato didn't rig those results? No paper trail to prove it either way. And why so many candidates in the last election with 100%? How do you do write-ins on a touch screen? Do you really claim that there was not one single vote for Arhnold for prez?

In short, it depends on your level of knowledge about the props or plotpoints in the movie.

This is really good point that I recently learned myself. Last Christmas, I was visiting with relatives and Dear God happened to be on. Both my aunt and uncle work for the USPS, and they spent the entire time ripping into everything wrong with the movie. A lot of it was really obvious stuff (like how Greg Kinnear somehow sidesteps all the red tape involved in getting a government job), but most of it was minutiae that made me want to cry after an hour or so. On the way home, I kept thinking to myself, "Is that what I sound like? No wonder I'm alone."

We might actually have to go back to using Usenet and the streets of New York for our bootleg videos and music! How could we do that?

Easy. We could go to the streets of New York to download The Gangs of New York.

Alternatively, we could go to the gangs of New York to download The Streets of New York.

We might actually have to go back to using Usenet and the streets of New York for our bootleg videos and music! How could we do that?

Easy. We could go to the streets of New York to download The Gangs of New York.

Alternatively, we could go to the gangs of New York to download The Streets of New York.

It's a very shocking movie, the violence is very realistic, it's shot on video and looks like any other reality show. It reminded me of Man Bites Dog for it's disturbing depictions of murder. Not exactly a date movie.

It's a very shocking movie, the violence is very realistic, it's shot on video and looks like any other reality show. It reminded me of Man Bites Dog for it's disturbing depictions of murder. Not exactly a date movie.

TM: The scene where Go Go Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama) stabs a guy who approaches her for sex...was this from Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000, Japan)?

QT: I went out to dinner with Kinji Fuaksaku and Kenta (Kinji's son) and I was going "man, I love this movie! It is just so fantastic!" And I said, "I love the scene where the girls are shooting are shooting each other." And then Kenta starts laughing. So I ask, "why are you laughing?" He goes, "the author of the original Battle Royale novel would be very happy to hear that you liked that scene." And I go "why?" And he says, "well, because it's from Reservoir Dogs!" Even when I was watching it I was thinking "God, these 14 year old girls are shooting each other just like in Reservoir Dogs!" And Kenta said, "he took that from Reservoir Dogs, so he'll be very proud that you like that!"

TM: The scene where Go Go Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama) stabs a guy who approaches her for sex...was this from Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000, Japan)?

QT: I went out to dinner with Kinji Fuaksaku and Kenta (Kinji's son) and I was going "man, I love this movie! It is just so fantastic!" And I said, "I love the scene where the girls are shooting are shooting each other." And then Kenta starts laughing. So I ask, "why are you laughing?" He goes, "the author of the original Battle Royale novel would be very happy to hear that you liked that scene." And I go "why?" And he says, "well, because it's from Reservoir Dogs!" Even when I was watching it I was thinking "God, these 14 year old girls are shooting each other just like in Reservoir Dogs!" And Kenta said, "he took that from Reservoir Dogs, so he'll be very proud that you like that!"

TM: The scene where Go Go Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama) stabs a guy who approaches her for sex...was this from Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000, Japan)?

QT: I went out to dinner with Kinji Fuaksaku and Kenta (Kinji's son) and I was going "man, I love this movie! It is just so fantastic!" And I said, "I love the scene where the girls are shooting are shooting each other." And then Kenta starts laughing. So I ask, "why are you laughing?" He goes, "the author of the original Battle Royale novel would be very happy to hear that you liked that scene." And I go "why?" And he says, "well, because it's from Reservoir Dogs!" Even when I was watching it I was thinking "God, these 14 year old girls are shooting each other just like in Reservoir Dogs!" And Kenta said, "he took that from Reservoir Dogs, so he'll be very proud that you like that!"

Unfortunately for all the American slashdotters, it has never been released in the US (not even on VHS or DVD), and probably will never be. There have been many debates on why exactly this is. I know only one thing, if I were the distributor, I would want to keep it out of the US. The profits will not be worth the moral outrage it will cause.

Bottom line is that it is a great movie, and if you have the chance, you should watch it.

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I hope the European shuttle won't be renamed FireFox.

Renaming it FireFox would be like them begging for Clint Eastwood to steal it.

Yeah, that mod is great...the only thing that it needs is a talking anus. Shades of the David Cronenburg movie Naked Lunch. Exterminate all rational thought.

You forgot Rocky IV.

The problem is not about learning, it's about not forgetting in this kind of situation.
People who happen to know her are ready to testify that they never knew her capable of doing such things.

I suggest people here to have a look at this german movie called the experiment.

I believe he might have been thinking of the Mitrokhin Archive, collected by Vasili Mitrokhin, who worked in the foreign intelligence archive of the KGB. He eventually defected to the UK (he wasn't an agent and hadn't contacted the west at any time previously) with his trunk of files.

One of the revelations concerned buried stashes of weapons, explosives, radios, etc. supposedly for equipping sleeper cells. Targets included dams, power lines (hit it in a remote, difficult to work in place), pipelines, etc. I keep finding references to some stashes found (through the archive materials) in Austria and, i think, Belgium. Apparently one of the Austrian ones was booby-trapped. If anyone has more specific info about those, i'd be grateful. It doesn't surprise me though - there were several caches unearthed in the 80s or 90s. They were buried by the Americans for use if the Soviets moved west in a hurry.

Here's an interesting doc about the suitcase nukes. That's the text from a Congressional hearing on the subject. Evidently, there may be a few in North America. And General Lebed, who told 60 Minutes and the US Govt that there were some several dozen of them missing, was, unfortunately, killed in a helicopter crash.

Also, there's a shot of one of those atomic shells being howitzered across a valley in Errol Morris' latest, The Fog of War. Very creepy - you see the howitzer fire and, a moment later, *flash* and a mushroom cloud. Quick way to deal with a couple of armored divisions bottlenecking in some german valley, i guess. For the impatient, i think it's in the quicktime trailer.

Ouch. Bad example. Bowling For Columbine is one of the worst pieces of propagandist crap to come out in a long time. A lot of it is pure bullshit, and skillful (if malicious) editing presents a lot of stuff taken out of context to mean something other than what was originally intended.

BTW, I live in the Columbine High School district -- it's a few blocks away -- so I have some firsthand knowledge of this.

Using Bowling for Columbine in a course about anything is equivalent to using Leni Reifenstahl's Triumph of the Will in a course on mid-20th Century European history -- okay if it's carefully put in the right context first.