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Memorable quotes for
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."

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"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 h

Memorable quotes for
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."

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"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 h

Memorable quotes for
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."

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"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 h

How many are old farts and still virgin like me? I will be like The 40 Years Old Virgin soon. :P

they would have discovered that 27% of these married techies were actually counting their mother as a wife and 18.45% of those surveyed were counting their inflatable woman as a wife See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt08...

Elsa kinda looks like Devon Aoki but with bigger eyes. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm122...

There was an organization, I believe it was Lawyers without border, did an analysis of the high conviction rates in Japan and they found that it was mostly because the prosecutors only took cases to court in which they were absolutely sure they had enough evidence for a conviction.

However, after watching the dramatized documentary http://www.imdb.com/title/tt07... a documentary of the the systemic faults of the Japanese court system which is convicting innocent people, I have some doubts that it is actually the reality rather than the courts convicting innocent people.

then you can look just like choda boy... COCK ROCKET!!!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

Did everyone see some photos or videos of what the rover did in the first month, apart from the one photo of the rover when it first landed? From the beginning it seems impossible to find any bit of information about this mission. Was this a kind of secret mission, or what? I mean, not every day someone is walking around on the moon.

It has been investigating a crashed alien spacecraft and spying on the secret Nazi base.

Did everyone see some photos or videos of what the rover did in the first month, apart from the one photo of the rover when it first landed? From the beginning it seems impossible to find any bit of information about this mission. Was this a kind of secret mission, or what? I mean, not every day someone is walking around on the moon.

It has been investigating a crashed alien spacecraft and spying on the secret Nazi base.

when I saw this, I thought it was a fantasy film, not a fucking documentary of American civilisation.

You mean this one?

It doesn't matter. We all know what happens when you mine the moon.

Similar to "Repo Men".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt10...

You might be interested in Last Call at The Oasis: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt20...

It streams on Netflix.

Hayes was one of the interviewees in that documentary. He shows off some of the mutant frogs too.

It reminds me of the scene in Rising Sun where, after spending most of the movie up to that point haranging his blunt co-investigator to follow his lead and respect Japanese customs so that he doesn't get dismissed as a gaijin, Sean Connery's character has been infallibly polite, patient, and following Japanese customs to a T in trying to obtain some answers - but succeeds in getting nowhere, at best a polite brush-off. Sean Connery's character then proceeds to deliberately pitch a major scene with yelling and rudeness... and finally gets a response with the information he was looking for.

So, we're moving from literature back to cave paintings.

That's one way to make civilization implode. And I always thought civilization would come to a more dramatic end due to some calamity.

Oh well. The end is nigh in yet another way, then.

Those of us who've seen the movie Idiocracy are not surprised by any of this.

Easy questions with humorous punishments for wrong answers seems like the perfect Idiocracy approach...

Sadly, that has already happened.
On the internet, there is the 'Darwin Awards' site.
I would be curious what percentage of award winners(including honorable mentions in a separate column) where from the USA.

It used to be called the 'rat race', but it has turned into a race to the bottom.
I don't think rats are that stupid!
I remember an article on /. some years back where some lab cultured rat brain cells learned to fly a plane in a simulator.

I, for one, welcome our new rat-brain overlords!
Heck, they could not do much worse. ;-)

*disclaimer*
This comment will register strongly on installed hyperbole, sarcasm, and BS meters, maybe others as well...YMMV.

NES has emulators just like MOO2 has DOSBOX, no difference. Just like cartridges are rare equipment, so are 3.5" floppy disks, again no difference.

I was specifically talking about game features (namely in multiplayer) that simply do not exist anymore. There is no TEN, or The Entertainment Network, and really it didn't even exist all that long if you think about it. Also systems typically do not come with modems anymore (though I suppose some must exist someplace as I think there are still some dial up services in the middle of nowhere). There are no serial ports either.

If the source has been released, does that not imply that it is Public Domain?

40 years? Seriously? Did you think about that in any appreciable way before saying that? What kind of computer was around 40 years ago? Do you know what computer games were released in 1974?

Here is a list:
http://www.imdb.com/search/tit...

You are talking about only making things like Pong available to the public domain to be played on modern systems?

Also sufficient school? Lets say you play this when your 10. In 40 years you will be 50. You require that much school eh? In 15 years, you would be 25. I graduated from a university with honors in computer science and got a certification at a collage by the age of 23.

The federal Australian government is also attempting to have the old growth forests in Tasmania de-listed as a world heritage area so they can log there.

If anyone wants to see how gorgeous Tasmania is, check out the Willem Dafoe movie "The Hunter" - the landscapes are stunning.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt17...

Highly recommenced a pretty cool movie based on the same story: Devil's Pass. Netflix has it, plus the other usual places.

Iron Sky
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt10...

Obligatory Simpsons:

Homer:Marge, every time I learn something new it pushes something old out of my brain, Remember that time I learned how to make wine and forgot how to drive?

Marge:Thats because you were drunk.

Homer:And how

That was intended as send-up of an older Married With Children episode (from back when Christina Applegate had boobs): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0642312/quotes?ref_=tt_ql_3

Bud Bundy: You have to understand, Kelly's brain can hold anything. But there are some things you have to know. One: that it's totally empty.
Al: Woudn't you know it.
Bud Bundy: And two: that you can't just shove information into her head. You have to be careful. Feed her information slowly, bit by bit, drop by drop, until she's full.
Al: Full?
Bud Bundy: Oh, yeah. Kelly's brain can actually get full with information. And then you got to be really careful. Because each new thought after that will totally replace an old one. That's why Kelly forgot to wear a blouse on the day she went to take her drivers ed exam.

Nothing to worry about. It's just a 50th Anniversary tribute to Dr. Strangelove.
http://www.newyorker.com/onlin...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

But with VR, specially VR that replicates physical actions into the game world (so that stepping forward in the game involves stepping forward in real life, not just pressing a key), that line may well become significantly blurred to the point where video games might actually have harmful effects (in this case, suppressing the instinct to not step off buildings).

This is a really interesting idea that is addressed in the David Cronenberg film eXistenZ . The film is about a virtual reality game designer on the run from a "realist underground" and deliberately plays with tropes about gaming and film watching. In a lot of ways it is to video games what Videodrome is to television.

The Greater Good

Check S1E6 of "Almost Human", ("Arrhythmia")
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt33...
"Kennex and Dorian respond to a suspicious death at a hospital where - before having a fatal cardiac arrest - a man claimed someone was trying to kill him, and inexplicably knew his exact time of death. As the investigation unfolds, a black market for vital organs is uncovered in which bio-mechanical hearts can be resold and remotely 'shut off.'"
--CF

I miss George Carlin this was part of such a good bit. Too much focus on kids and totally ignoring that adults should think and acting as if children should be infinitely protected.

Hey wait a minute. Is this CP? Turner Classic Movies is a CP distributor.

If someone is not uploading a Catnado as we type, then something is broken in our system.

In fact, If someone on SyFy isn't already writing a screenplay -- something is broken.

I'm even betting the man who wrote the screenplay for the epic "Sharknado" is on the case. Don't worry. Don't worry at all.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt27...

I was thinking about the movie where the NSA could spread a virus through the power supply.
I was also jus thinking how security researchers just found a virus that could spread by sound over disconnencted systems.
I then also realized that certain types of power supplies have consistent bad acoustic behavior - I can hear their caps.

Putting this together makes for a worm that on the PC checks the nature of the power supply, and can spread to phones/tablets/other PC by the power supply.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/com...
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt02...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

That was Monbiot, not Man
Potential whoosh, here I believe the GPP was referring to the film Heat directed by Michael Mann(not the same guy), not the novel Heat, which you are correct was written by Monbiot.

Snowden had better not do a movie along the lines of 2016, though. Vladimir has his foes show up in a cage.

Thank you for taking the time to give a good example of this. I never knew what "poor" in america was until I started doing some vounteer work and met some people I otherwise wouldn't have known existed. Also, some recommend this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt17....

The middle class ideal that "just managing your money better" does work for the middle class. But for us, that decision realistically is, eating out less, going to the movies less/ not at all.

For the poor, who are living below the poverty line, the choice is, "not eating tonight so my kids can eat". "Paying the gas bill instead of the eletric bill so we don't freeze todeath, but now how to my kids do homework w/o lights?"

It was an interesting movie that's for sure. It was amazing the lengths they had to go through to get everything on film.

The Cove

All good points, and valid. However there were also some VERY shady deals to deliberately dismantle public transport on the USA, often misusing anti-monopoly legislation to gut the streetcar (tram) networks.

This is especially evident in LA, where the freeways have taken over the same routes that the old streetcars used to.

Yes, the example above is familiar - it was used [with some historical accuracy, ironically] in the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438

More on the "streetcar scandal" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_streetcar_scandal

'Obama also announced "new oversight" to spying on foreign leaders, and an end to spying on leaders of friendly and allied countries`

Reminds me of a quote from V for vendetta ..

Prothero: Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?

Dascombe: It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people --

There was a great television movie last year about Feynman's involvement in the Rogers Commission. William Hurt plays the part of Feynman and does a magnificent job.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2421662/

When I was but a teen, and saw the movie Spies Like Us in the theater, I recognized the "decrypted transmission" shown by Dan Ackroyd's character as a hex dump from the Apple //e's monitor program (i.e. what you got by typing "CALL -151" at the prompt).

I would love to see you propose something better and implement it. The truth is that we live in a world that was quite literally saved by a single guy who refused to follow orders.

But it's not like he was the only one. There was this guy and also (arguably) this guy.

To realize just how close we really came, this movie is an eye opener.

5 minutes to midnight lasted for hours on Polar Express, so I'm not too worried.

Why do they make remake for movies that do not require remakes?

Well, there's always this one

God Bless America

Never expected this movie to be accurate...

So far, the only good thing about the new Star Trek movies is Dr McCoy.

Hell no. The new Uhura, also good.

And Chekov (Weektor Weektor). And Scotty. I also like Quinto as Spock.

I actually like the fact that the new Trek movies have thrown canon out the window and don't have to be bound by it.

It means I can stop trying to catch them on something and just enjoy the movie.

It will simply be the distro with no name

Realistically, if an OS isn't used by many people, there's little reason to write malware for it.

And if an OS isn't used by many people because it's so hard to administer that only techies can use it, there's zero reason to write malware for it. Who wants to write malware for techies when you can shoot fish in a general-population barrel?

(That being said, if Steam OS makes desktop linux big, then there will be more malware for desktop linux.)

If I may paraphrase Norma Desmond:

Linux is big. It's the users that got small.

Where would this leave local affiliates?

They'd have to make like UHF and create their own TV shows?

Many of the kids today are MUCH more stupid. Go back just 50 to 70 years and kids as stupid as those today got eaten by wolves, killed by disease, or any number of natural Darwinian type deaths. Today we preserve the seeds of our own destruction by ensuring terminally stupid children survive until they can mate with ANOTHER surviving terminally stupid child and produce STUPID SQUARED kids. The movie Idiocracy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ was right on the money.

Just those three? Why not go full Memento?

Great, now all we need are the robots... and hipster music and I'll be the 1st to say now get off my lawn!.