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http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Grosse_Pointe_Blank/1153034?locale=en-US

That just takes me to the home page. Perhaps because Netflix detects I'm in .nl, realizes that it's not part of their offer in .nl, and so just dumps me to the main page.

The other two work fine, but I think you took 'most popular' a bit too literal, and perhaps a bit too narrow.

Since Netflix doesn't seem to actually allow you to see their full library unless you log in (I can see a small selection - this alone is a good reason to give Netflix a thumbs down over torrents), perhaps we could give the 'Top 10 this week' from torrentfreak a try through http://www.flicksery.com/ ?
http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies-of-the-week-131014/
1-10. no.

Or, if you want to stay on the legal avenue, the top 10 of 2012 according to imdb, rather than just the #1 slot?
http://www.imdb.com/year/2012/
1. Avengers - yes
2. Pitch Perfect - no
3. The Hunger Games - yes
4. The Dark Knight Rises - no
5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - no
6. Argo - no
7. Django Unchained - no
8. The Place Beyond the Pines - no
9. Spring Breakers - no
10. The Motel Life - no

2013, according to box office*, then?
( * because new releases are heavily skewed toward high scores on imdb, and via box office we get to the same #1 for 2013 so far, Iron Man 3 )
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&sort=boxoffice_gross_us&title_type=feature&year=2013,2013
1. Iron Man 3 - no? Weird - though after some googling, perhaps it's only available from Netflix in DVD form, rather than streaming - canistream.it seems to suggests so as well? Perhaps you could clarify that one.
2-10. - no

Don't get me wrong, Netflix is a wonderful service and people who just want to watch whatever movies or TV shows will find more material there than they can watch in a year. But it's not all going to be material they want to watch, the material they want to watch may not be on there, and overall it's just a poor comparison - gets even worse when you're in .nl ;)

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Grosse_Pointe_Blank/1153034?locale=en-US

That just takes me to the home page. Perhaps because Netflix detects I'm in .nl, realizes that it's not part of their offer in .nl, and so just dumps me to the main page.

The other two work fine, but I think you took 'most popular' a bit too literal, and perhaps a bit too narrow.

Since Netflix doesn't seem to actually allow you to see their full library unless you log in (I can see a small selection - this alone is a good reason to give Netflix a thumbs down over torrents), perhaps we could give the 'Top 10 this week' from torrentfreak a try through http://www.flicksery.com/ ?
http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies-of-the-week-131014/
1-10. no.

Or, if you want to stay on the legal avenue, the top 10 of 2012 according to imdb, rather than just the #1 slot?
http://www.imdb.com/year/2012/
1. Avengers - yes
2. Pitch Perfect - no
3. The Hunger Games - yes
4. The Dark Knight Rises - no
5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - no
6. Argo - no
7. Django Unchained - no
8. The Place Beyond the Pines - no
9. Spring Breakers - no
10. The Motel Life - no

2013, according to box office*, then?
( * because new releases are heavily skewed toward high scores on imdb, and via box office we get to the same #1 for 2013 so far, Iron Man 3 )
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&sort=boxoffice_gross_us&title_type=feature&year=2013,2013
1. Iron Man 3 - no? Weird - though after some googling, perhaps it's only available from Netflix in DVD form, rather than streaming - canistream.it seems to suggests so as well? Perhaps you could clarify that one.
2-10. - no

Don't get me wrong, Netflix is a wonderful service and people who just want to watch whatever movies or TV shows will find more material there than they can watch in a year. But it's not all going to be material they want to watch, the material they want to watch may not be on there, and overall it's just a poor comparison - gets even worse when you're in .nl ;)

There was another film about this...

Rabid fans and the curious may enjoy this (very fictional) film about Ada's life: Conceiving Ada (1997)

Gravity is not the (only) problem with what is wring on LotR
Fellowship
Two Towers
Return of the King

And if you want to talk about the story itself, there is Mistakes and inconsistencies in Tolkien's works

That all does not make the books any less interesting, nor the movies any less enjoyable.

Gravity is not the (only) problem with what is wring on LotR
Fellowship
Two Towers
Return of the King

And if you want to talk about the story itself, there is Mistakes and inconsistencies in Tolkien's works

That all does not make the books any less interesting, nor the movies any less enjoyable.

Gravity is not the (only) problem with what is wring on LotR
Fellowship
Two Towers
Return of the King

And if you want to talk about the story itself, there is Mistakes and inconsistencies in Tolkien's works

That all does not make the books any less interesting, nor the movies any less enjoyable.

I just watched 8mm. Obviously if I saw it in a movie, it must be true.

Saw a documentary once about this irradiated Japanese Olympic sight. Don't worry about extra drug testing, but DO bring along your targetting device for your space laser.

The best documentary on the space race is Space Race:The Untold Story, but after airing a couple of times on the National Geographic channel, it was basically banned in the U.S. (since it dared to show the USSR side of the story, which is all-but-illegal in the "Land of the Free").

(it's from Airplane!)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085333/ Christine?

If you consider a career change look at How to Make Money Selling Drugs Also see the trailer

5532 south 43rd, isn't that Harry Buttle's place?

ohhhh big points for getting a Brazil reference in there!

The last being the full goat.

Thank you, sir. Takes me back to one of the funniest movies nobody ever saw.

From: "The Edge Of Darkness" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090424

"Craven: The word azure is a police intelligence term. It means the room is bugged or under some sort of electronic surveillance"

A perfect name for a cloud computing product.

we need TV shows that glamorize, deify and glorify criminal defense lawyers

The Defenders I guess it's a remake, but I thought it was pretty good. Of course like nearly all good (non-AMC) television it was cancelled after the first season

I don't remember a pie fight in Kuffs , Christian Slater's finest film.

You're both yo-yos...shut up ya yo-yos.

Seriously, there are way too many things wrong with this argument AND the original video by Professor Duane to even respond to without spending my entire day counterpointing. A child could tear apart this argument....who the fuck is Bennett Haselton and why should anyone be listening to him at all? I don't generally subscribe to the point of view that you have to 'be someone' to make good points but if you're going to come out of nowhere, don't be just another twit without any ability to argue logically. We have enough of those assholes on the partisan news networks that inform and divide our country daily (USA - if you live elsewhere you're probably familiar with this also).

Mr Haselton...if you are reading this, as I hope you are, go back to fighting censorship on the internet as opposed to trying to present any sort of arguments about civil rights and police encounters. If you want people to listen to you in any sort of public forum, you are going to need to go back to school and get yourself enrolled in some logic classes at the very least so you don't just spew out fallacies like diarrhea.

To counter samzenpus's BS all you have to do is search say Google News for what happened to Ibragim Todashev and Tatiana Gruzdeva. This could happen to anybody. You are lucky that the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprichnina has not ruined your life ... yet. Slavery has not ended. Cops/FBI can still find weed on [mostly] poor black teens and then threaten them with lying to FBI, rewriting their "interview", basically having them by the balls and getting them to get 5 of their friends in the same position. Just because you happened to be white, middle class and submissive does not mean that you are guaranteed to not be hit by a rape train of the state. Do not talk to FBI without a lawyer and a camera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMZrdyCWu7M Do not talk to cops either. While at it, watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070666/ and think about this - is the problem now fixed? Finally, read up / watch clips about the execution of Chris Dorner. Just don't use any of the mainstream media sources. Yeah, f@# you trolls and your jokes about tinfoil hats. It gets very old. The fact that most journalists are immoral sluts is just as tragic as doctors who don't care about their hippocratic oath. Whether you are incompetent or malicious, f@# you, samzenpus!

meet cassie.... http://www.tv.com/shows/crash-and-bernstein/crash-asks-too-many-questions-2875426/

at any rate, i hope bennett gets some extra compensation out of this. if scansoft aka nuance had the contract with apple prior to contracting bennett for the voice work, then bennett got ripped-off big time with the hourly rate contract (similar to how scp and tim paterson got screwed by bill gates and microsoft)... had that contract (or scp's) been negotiated with knowledge the voice (dos) would be used in apple's phones (ibm pc's), there would most definitely have been royalties included in the negotiated compensation.

I hope you realize as soon as you say "military-industrial complex" readers interpret your statements as those of a certified nutjob.

Which given your other comments is likely true.

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I know I worry all the time about some kid at Space Camp flipping the wrong switch and starting a terrifying chain of events, but have you ever noticed how there is no space between the words in the title of the documentary they made about it? Get it: NO SPACE! There's your first hint that it was all staged, like Neil Armstrong and the Capricorn One landing.

Thomas Stoltz Harvey (a pathologist) conducted Albert Einstein's autopsy. What they seem to omit (probably due to embarrassment) is that he stole Albert Einstein's brain. Apparently he was trying to figure out (and take the credit to be famous) the very same thing, what made Albert Einstein so intelligent. He became obsessed and it ended up destroying his life and marriages, yes, multiple marriages. The only thing two things he did right was preserve the brain properly (though he sliced it into many parts) and eventually (decades later) return the brain. If you think he got his just deserts, well, take solace in that his selfish actions destroyed him.

you can see this and other disturbing true tales in Dark Matters: Twisted But True on Netflix or your local torrent site.

Whoosh?

I liked Mission To Mars.

This reminds me of SF short story, where people came up with idea of robotic doves (birds) acting as police and paralysing people who wanted to commit murder. But they had to adapt to do the job properly - to detect intent even in most ruthless killers. Soon they started to prevent people killing insects. After that, it was not possible to switch off TV set. And solution for that was to create self-evolving robotic killer hawks to catch the doves... anybody knows what was the name of the story, cannot find it now?

You're looking for Robert Sheckley's 1953 short story Watchbird , via Project Gutenberg. There was a TV adaptation in 2007's Season 1, Episode 6, Masters of Science Fiction.

Great read.

I always figured it'd be like The Truman Show -- everyone putting on a big show of being an abnormally perfect [insert identity here] when they think someone important is paying attention, then secretly saying/doing all kinds of "unacceptable" stuff whenever they think they're safe from scrutiny...forgetting that no matter how much the world focuses on someone else, the 'cameras'/Facebook are actually there recording 24/7.

Given there will probably be security cams all over the place, and they'll likely be run by a company contracted by Facebook, I would be surprised if some degree of that didn't happen. After all, in today's economy, most people *really* don't want to gain any negative attention within their company by getting caught (or having a child/spouse caught) doing something that violates their superior's moral beliefs.

Being well-educated makes soldiers fight better? Interesting concept.
For a differing opinion on this subject, try this movie: A Midnight Clear
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102443/?ref_=sr_1

This just isn't that big a deal. The US likely has plans to invade Canada if necessary

Here is some excellent stolen documentary [1] of such a planned exercise.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/

There was an episode of MI5 (aired as "Spooks" in the UK) that had this many years ago.

They gave a foreign agent a document to type, and had an eavesdropping device in his office. By recording the keyclicks of the known document, they were able to train the system to decode keyclicks for subsequent documents.

It didn't seem farfetched at the time, it doesn't seem farfetched today.

Undetectable then:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1574082816/tt0134847

Gene Hackman was doing this in the 1970's http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/?ref_=sr_1

He is the original slashdot nerd, and so easily manipulated by Harrison Ford.

A lesson for why you never bring bitches to the man lair.

Gene Hackman was doing this in the 1970's http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/?ref_=sr_1

Think of the cockroaches. They have lives too, just watch this documentary.

Memorable quotes for
Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

"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/nm0000417/bio

##

"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 statehous

Memorable quotes for
Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

"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/nm0000417/bio

##

"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 statehous

Memorable quotes for
Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

"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/nm0000417/bio

##

"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 statehous

Memorable quotes for
Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

"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/nm0000417/bio

##

"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 statehous

The computer can monitor all the inputs, and make the best decision and best move, always. Computers can fight in formation perfectly synchronized in real time. Computers don't have egos.

I take it you've never seen Stealth then?

Seriously though, computers can't always make the best decisions. They can only make decisions as good as what they are programmed to do, and even with that they can only chose which option has the highest probability for success. This doesn't even consider moral/ethical considerations that may come into play.

A kid's innocence is a precious thing, and it's a shame to squander it too early.

It's funny no one mentioned that this notion of "squandering" a child's innocence, as if it were a limited resource that YOU OWN, is more than a little creepy. "Pretty Baby" creepy. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078111/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I'm glad you're not my dad.

One could easily have said the same thing about Microsoft Word. It was a copycat and it sucked compared to Word Perfect when it first came out. But slowly they kept making it better and it won the market. [...]

Reminds me of a movie [1] ...

King of Swamp Castle: When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0091186/quotes

If they had been successful then Microsoft would have been sued by Jet Li.

"Without catastrophic or otherwise challenging events, life seems to become complacent - evolution often plateaus."

And this is a bad thing... exactly how?

I think Idiocracy did a pretty good job of explaining why it's a bad thing.

A technological regress requires a fragile society not just a sudden jolt.

But we are a fragile society. Without even having to bring up the Idiocracy, the fact remains that we're mostly a society of specialists, dependent on the other cogs in the machine for our survival, stupidly mocking the "preppers" who are really just trying to be generalists. A comet strike could easily disrupt this machine and cause it to grind to a halt.

No? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Arctic ice is up 60% and its not even winter yet. People were and have been screaming about an ice free north pole for as long as I can remember, and your failure to so much as acknowledge the fact that such words were ever so much as placed into a sentence shows YOUR intellectual dishonesty.

Of course, there will also be drones, as well as small insect-like robots with flocking or hive minds -- why send in a humanoid robot holding a gun when you can send in 500 scorpion-like robots and a few thousand wasp-like robots -- all with a deadly sting?

Runaways?

If you're in a cube, someone will die.

Fair enough.

' Every man for himself ' is the central message of Therevada Buddhism!

... and God against all!

(See Werner Herzog's film, Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle . More details at Wikipedia: 1, 2. Ah, the boisterous joy of German cinema...)

Cheers,

For income comparison. Keep in mind that GTA5 made that 800 million in one day.

http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross
1. Avatar (2009) $760,505,847
2. Titanic (1997) $658,672,302
3. The Avengers (2012) $623,279,547
4. The Dark Knight (2008) $533,316,061