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Adam Steltzner by ArcadeMan · 2014-05-29 06:31 · Score: 1 · on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets

I guess Mr. Steltzner just saw The Fifth Element recently.

Re:FTFY... by hoboroadie · 2014-05-29 02:20 · Score: 1 · on German Scientists Successfully Test Brain-Controlled Flight Simulator

Think in Russian.

That was for the movie; I did not rtfa, but it would be odd to expect German pilots to think in Po-Russki.

Yes, but... by necro81 · 2014-05-29 01:34 · Score: 4, Funny · on German Scientists Successfully Test Brain-Controlled Flight Simulator

But strangely enough, it only works if you think in Russian.

(Movie references [1], [2], [3])

Re:What is... by TeknoHog · 2014-05-28 20:30 · Score: 1 · on Bunnie Huang Shows Off His Open Source Laptop (Video)

Enormous Genitals

Re:New film title by Muad'Dave · 2014-05-27 02:31 · Score: 1 · on Human "Suspended Animation" Trials To Start This Month

Wasn't there a bad Sci-fi film called Re-Animator with some wild-eyed doctor on the cover wielding a gigantic syringe?

Re:Meditation by Paul+Fernhout · 2014-05-23 12:20 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Communication With Locked-in Syndrome Patient?

Wow, what an inspirational story about your MiL!

Looks like a fascinating movie too, assuming this is the one:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt12...
""Spiritual Revolution" is a look at Eastern Spirituality in the Western world, with particular emphasis on its points of convergence with Western science and psychotherapy."

Your point of playing media is a reminder it might be good to play her favorite music if she wants. And cuddling with her infant son and hearing his voice might also contribute to her healing and her desire to communicate and move and get well.

Re:Mut ANTS! by Hognoxious · 2014-05-23 04:05 · Score: 1 · on Dump World's Nuclear Waste In Australia, Says Ex-PM Hawke

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

Re:Mutants! by gameres · 2014-05-23 02:52 · Score: 1 · on Dump World's Nuclear Waste In Australia, Says Ex-PM Hawke

Actually I was thinking of OZ1999. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

Re:Has FDA considered the health implications? by necro81 · 2014-05-21 06:08 · Score: 1 · on Why I'm Sending Back Google Glass

there is a possibility of neurological and eye problems from putting something like this into the field of vision. I wonder if the FDA has looked into these issues and might consider regulations, perhaps a warning label

Reminds me of The Jerk .

Re:Huh by tquasar · 2014-05-18 21:50 · Score: 1 · on AT&T Buying DirecTV for $48.5 Billion

Buy a country? Parador? I miss Raul Julia, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

Re:STALKER PC Game Series by Totaku · 2014-05-15 05:34 · Score: 1 · on Chernobyl, In Games and In Real Life

That's right - I think it changes once they enter the zone. A phenomenal and hauntingly beautiful film by the great Andrei Tarkovskiy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Some interesting info, especially on production and health-related deaths due to the movie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)

STALKER PC Game Series by JakFrost · 2014-05-14 11:04 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Chernobyl, In Games and In Real Life

The STALKER PC game series is my favorite single-player first person shooter type series of all time. The spooky atmosphere created in the game is just fantastic when you play the game in a darkened room at night. I would highly recommend the games to everyone.

The book A Roadside Picnic is also pretty good giving you a nice emotional ride of what it's like be a Stalker and to go into the zone. The old black and white movie Stalker is somewhat good in giving you some background about the Zone but it's nothing to the atmosphere that you feel in the games when you play.

STALKER Game Website

Stalker Wiki

Also be sure to check out these mods:
STALKER - Shadow of Chernobyl
Oblivion Lost 2.2.1 for 1.0005 - Forum Thread
Supermod Pack v2.4 and Patches

STALKER - Clear Sky
The Faction War v3.7

Well, that settles it by Chris+Mattern · 2014-05-12 07:46 · Score: 1 · on Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans As Antarctic Ice Melts

Time to start buying real estate in the southwest.

70% dreamt they were Ted Bundy by The+Grim+Reefer · 2014-05-11 11:49 · Score: 2 · on Electric Stimulation Could Help You Control Your Dreams

Researchers then woke the participants and asked them to detail any dreams they could remember. People who had received 40 Hz of current

Of which 70% dreamt they were Ted Bundy at his execution. Another 10% thought they were they were Horace Pinker from Shocker. , and 5% thought they were Michael Clark Duncan in the Green Mile

Point Break by mspohr · 2014-05-11 06:14 · Score: 2 · on Anti-Surveillance Mask Lets You Pass As Someone Else

This has already been done.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...
The 1991 movie "Point Break" featured a gang of surfers who robbed banks wearing masks of presidents.
Pretty good movie.

Re:Alternatives; might take quadrillions of univer by Paul+Fernhout · 2014-05-10 07:30 · Score: 1 · on Study: Earthlings Not Ready For Alien Encounters, Yet

"My understanding of your underlying premise, that cultures where people are happy and some aren't downtrodden must be exterminated, rings true."

I'm not sure I'd go that far. :-) It is more like Western capitalist-oriented culture over the past several hundred years has a history of not valuing cultural diversity in favor of taking the physical stuff other people have or exploiting their physical labor. Yet something like the US Constitution being inspired in part by the Iroquois Confederacy (see Benjamin Franklin) is really a much bigger transfer of wealth, and in a way that does not deplete the giver... Too bad we did not also back then embrace the Iroquois idea that women essentially should be the only ones who can vote -- although generally only for men they knew from birth. :-)

However that valuing of diversity in the USA is changing. See for example:
"The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Diff...

And even though I can say so many comments about SETI are ironic and so on, if I look back on my youth and watching Star Trek or Space 1999 and such, or reading lots of sci-fi books with aliens including about "Darkover" or set where "The Word for World is Forest", I can see how it may be easier at first to get some people in Western culture to accept the idea of space aliens than to accept people from other countries (like from the USSR for a US American of those times). So, in that sense, discussions about SETI may be a step towards more acceptance of other cultures on Earth. And that is a good thing. Maybe if we can have a child-like compassion for "E.T.", there is still still hope.

Thanks for the other examples though. I'm thinking there are three kinds of madness/insanity:
* a private madness that messes up our lives and those around us locally (and we all have this to some degree with out foibles and addictions and ignorances and imbalances so on)
* a public madness where people make a big deal out of the way they are (some talk show hosts) and that way might hurt many others via promoting selfishness or war
* an expansive cultural madness where the Borg-like culture seeks to overwrite everything around it with its own way (although in the Borg's defense, at least they claimed to add a culture's distinctiveness to the Borg collective as a form of growth, which can not be said the same of so many mainstream economists...)

It't that third type of widespread madness that is the biggest problem (e.g. WWII Germany and Japan, but there are many other examples closer to home). The villain in Aliens vs. Monsters is a good example.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt08...
"Gallaxhar: Humans of Earth, I come in peace. You need not fear me, I mean you no harm. However, it is important to note that most of you will not survive the next 24 hours. The few of you that do survive will be enslaved and experimented upon. You should, in no way, take any of this personally. It's just business. So to recap, I come in peace, I mean you no harm, and you all will die. Gallaxhar out."

Or also:
"Gallaxhar: Now I can finally rebuild my civilization. Any thought on where I can set up shop? Your planet, perhaps?
Susan Murphy: You keep your slimy tentacles off my planet...
Gallaxhar: [Grabs Susan with one of his tentacles] Or what? If you wanted to stop me, you should have done it when you possessed the quantonium. Now you're nothing.
Susan Murphy: There are innocent people down there who didn't do anything!
Gallaxhar: [Throws Susan down to the ground] Bah! There were innocent people in my home planet when it was destroyed.
Susan Murphy: Look, I'm sorry your planet was destroyed.
Gallaxhar: Oh, don't be. I was the one who destroyed it."

The other reply (by AC) suggesting enlightened cultures may be protecting the Earth from less enlightened individuals in their own cultures may well be true...

Memorable quotes for 2014 and beyond by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-09 17:40 · Score: 0 · on The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye

Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

"John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, that's power."

##

"The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, it's funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesn't necessarily mean it really serves people's thinking - it can stupify and make not very good things happen."
- Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm000...

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"It's only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because that's what people do. They conspire. If you can't get the message, get the man." - Mel Gibson (from an interview)

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey, CIA Director

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"The real reason for the official secrecy, in most instances, is not to keep the opposition (the CIA's euphemistic term for the enemy) from knowing what is going on; the enemy usually does know. The basic reason for governmental secrecy is to keep you, the American public, from knowing - for you, too, are considered the opposition, or enemy - so that you cannot interfere. When the public does not know what the government or the CIA is doing, it cannot voice its approval or disapproval of their actions. In fact, they can even lie to your about what they are doing or have done, and you will not know it. As for the second advantage, despite frequent suggestion that the CIA is a rogue elephant, the truth is that the agency functions at the direction of and in response to the office of the president. All of its major clandestine operations are carried out with the direct approval of or on direct orders from the White House. The CIA is a secret tool of the president - every president. And every president since Truman has lied to the American people in order to protect the agency. When lies have failed, it has been the duty of the CIA to take the blame for the president, thus protecting him. This is known in the business as "plausible denial." The CIA, functioning as a secret instrument of the U.S. government and the presidency, has long misused and abused history and continues to do so."
- Victor Marchetti, Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History

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George Carlin:

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the ju

Memorable quotes for 2014 and beyond by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-09 17:40 · Score: 0 · on The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye

Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

"John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, that's power."

##

"The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, it's funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesn't necessarily mean it really serves people's thinking - it can stupify and make not very good things happen."
- Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm000...

##

"It's only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because that's what people do. They conspire. If you can't get the message, get the man." - Mel Gibson (from an interview)

##

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey, CIA Director

##

"The real reason for the official secrecy, in most instances, is not to keep the opposition (the CIA's euphemistic term for the enemy) from knowing what is going on; the enemy usually does know. The basic reason for governmental secrecy is to keep you, the American public, from knowing - for you, too, are considered the opposition, or enemy - so that you cannot interfere. When the public does not know what the government or the CIA is doing, it cannot voice its approval or disapproval of their actions. In fact, they can even lie to your about what they are doing or have done, and you will not know it. As for the second advantage, despite frequent suggestion that the CIA is a rogue elephant, the truth is that the agency functions at the direction of and in response to the office of the president. All of its major clandestine operations are carried out with the direct approval of or on direct orders from the White House. The CIA is a secret tool of the president - every president. And every president since Truman has lied to the American people in order to protect the agency. When lies have failed, it has been the duty of the CIA to take the blame for the president, thus protecting him. This is known in the business as "plausible denial." The CIA, functioning as a secret instrument of the U.S. government and the presidency, has long misused and abused history and continues to do so."
- Victor Marchetti, Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History

##

George Carlin:

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the ju

Man, I liked that episode... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2014-05-08 14:15 · Score: 2 · on Scientists Create Bacteria With Expanded DNA Code

We've seen this before, haven't we?

Re:Turning camera off by Uberbah · 2014-05-08 07:22 · Score: 1 · on London Police To Wear Video Cameras In Pilot Project

It should be the same for police officers: Sure, there are times they may need to turn the camera's off, but the reason should be clear and should itself be recorded. In the absence of a justification, the camera should always run.

The problem with that is that cops are not only trained to manipulate people into agreeing to searches without warrants or interviews without lawyers, but they are free to lie to you in the process. So Detective Mackey stops by your house to ask you about xyz and assures you that you are not at all a suspect. After he talks you into turning off his camera, because you're both reasonable fellows, he beats the shit out of you after claiming you tried to hit him or shoots you after claiming you "reached for your waistband".

Your suggestion seems more appropriate for Scalia's Utopia, where cops aren't corrupt, all citizens are well versed on their rights, encounters between civilians and heavily armed law enforcement agents are on equal ground, and duress whether subtle or blatant does not exist.

Ya I saw that movie... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-07 20:49 · Score: 0 · on London Police To Wear Video Cameras In Pilot Project

It was called May I Kill U?. '''offering criminals the choice of arrest or death. Baz sees his campaign as lawful killing. Lowlifes who are too stunned, confused, or drunk to argue when he politely asks, "May I kill you?" are merrily dispatched. All filmed on the helmet-cam and posted on social networks!'''

Yawn. by grub · 2014-05-07 10:05 · Score: 2 · on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery

So should I watch I, Robot or Roots?

Yawn. by grub · 2014-05-07 10:05 · Score: 2 · on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery

So should I watch I, Robot or Roots?

Re:"know-how" can be proprietary or stolen? lolwut by lippydude · 2014-05-05 03:27 · Score: 1 · on Oculus: ZeniMax Claims Over Rift Tech Are "False"

They should of erased his memory before allowing him to leave with their proprietary brainwaves ... ref

Stolen from the plot of some Movie.. by lippydude · 2014-05-05 03:19 · Score: 1 · on Elderly Mice Perk Up With Transfused Blood

The Immortal, 1969

This was known about in 1969 by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-05 01:07 · Score: 0 · on Elderly Mice Perk Up With Transfused Blood

This effect was known about as far back as 1969.

Re:Scientific Vamperisim! by alexhs · 2014-05-04 19:40 · Score: 1 · on Elderly Mice Perk Up With Transfused Blood

Also Traitement de choc (USA: Shock Treatment, UK: Doctor in the Nude).

Re:Scientific Vamperisim! by hutsell · 2014-05-04 19:01 · Score: 1 · on Elderly Mice Perk Up With Transfused Blood

It seems surprisingly close in detail to The Hunger, 1983, Starring: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon.

Documentary on life discovered on Mars by jphamlore · 2014-05-04 13:59 · Score: 0 · on ISS Studies Show Bacteria From Earth Could Colonize Mars

I thought life had already been discovered on Mars, and a high production value documentary had been released to educate the public about the findings way back in 1998?

Re:What's the problem? by amiga3D · 2014-05-02 12:48 · Score: 1 · on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs

I think that's an interesting fantasy world. All you need to do is change human behavior.

By the way, have you ever seen the movie "A Clockwork Orange?"

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

If you haven't you should check it out.

Spider-Man proved superhero movies worked? by wonkey_monkey · 2014-05-01 08:33 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man,' which made its debut in 2002, proved (along with Brian Singer's 'X-Men,' released in 2000) that superhero movies could appeal to the mass market, provided they were done right.

Really? That was the movie that proved superhero movies could work?

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

C'moooon. I don't really think anyone's looking back on Spider-Man as a classic now, let alone in another 24 years' time.

Re:Antarctica Cuisine? by necro81 · 2014-04-30 07:47 · Score: 3, Informative · on Interview: Ask Ben Starr About the Future of Food

Wouldn't Antarctica just be canned food. As the locals are only there temporary

It depends a bit on where on the continent you are, and during what time of year. All the (sizable) bases have cooking facilities, mess halls, and full-time cooking staff. There are fridges and freezers, so the cooking can be a lot more sophisticated than opening a can and heating over a flame. During the summer, fresh produce comes in with just about every flight - even to the South Pole station. Some places grow their own greens year-round. Some more details can be found in Werner Herzog's documentary Encounters at the End of the World .

That said, the facilities are run by subcontractors, not restaurateurs. So it's probably a lot like base food you would find anywhere. Hunting the local wildlife (such as it is) is banned, and there isn't local vegetation to speak of.

Re:These are NOT... by R3d+M3rcury · 2014-04-29 14:47 · Score: 1 · on Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Officially Announced

20 Years...hmm...

He kind of forayed into the Humphrey Bogart realm for a bit with Sabrina (in which he played a role that Humphrey Bogart played in the original) and 6 Days and 7 Nights (where he played a Bogart-like character). I enjoyed those movies.