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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/synopsis?ref_=tt_stry_pl

Infinite data being stored in a single crystal; all depending on how the light refracts.

Not to mention the ability to extinguish an active volcano by freezing it.
'Cause that's what the "cold" in cold fusion means, right?

/sigh/ Remember when there used to be science in science-fiction?

Yep the space ships computers hold vasts amount of data and they get regular updates. Example In the Next Generation there was an episode dealing with a group of people called the "Binars" who downloaded their entire populations memory into the ships computer. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708668/

glitter zombies? not exactly but this is pretty close. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588173/

But. But.

Instructional Videos!

Loosely based on the great movie Them!
Still pretty good for its 50+ years.

Apparently there aren't any fans of 1950's era monster movies here. OP's troll is referring to this movie, Them!

It worked for Abe Normal

After all, who is in business to make a lost ?

Not that it's relevant, but since you asked, here's (among other info) a list of the producers of Lost.

A little more on-topic, in other countries that have private insurance (rather than a public, single-payer system), notably Germany, health insurance companies are required, by law, to be not-for-profit entities.

According to the UN/WHO Germany ranks 20th in life expectancy, while the US is 40th.

Just sayin'...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_Set

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050307/

As a English man who cannot really understand the arguments in favour of the 2nd Amendment can I ask a few questions to my gun loving cousins?

As someone raised in a commonwealth nation under British rule of law and now a U.S. citizen, I find it very sad that so many British people really don't understand the rudimentary basics of freedom. That you willingly accept your government restricting your rights to own or use various tools; that you accept constant monitoring; that you accept being restricted from saying WHATEVER comes into your head and feel that laws that could fine or imprison you for simply flapping your lips are acceptable; that you accept being penalized for simply going into an area of your city; it is all really quite incredible to me.

Where do you draw the line between what is and isn't a firearm?

Basically anything propelled by gun powder or made to look/function like a gun qualifies as a firearm in my book. But, the classification is utterly unimportant to me. I've never even given the matter a thought, prior to your question. It's like saying; where do you draw the line on what is and isn't an automobile? But, my lack of interest does not mean that the law doesn't very clearly define what does and does not constitute a firearm. Furthermore, the law does restrict private ownership and use of certain types/classes of firearms.

Does the 2nd Amendment allow (in your mind at least) a citizen to have a rocket launcher or a laser gun?

Sadly, no. I'm fairly certain that there are restrictions that prevent private citizens from owning, selling or using rocket launchers willy nilly. I do not agree with this law and I feel that it puts the citizenry at an unfair disadvantage. But it is the law of the land at this time. "Laser guns" don't largely exist in the sense that you are thinking, though there are development efforts underway. Very high powered lasers are perfectly legal, however there are restrictions on their sale/use. You can't buy a laser pointer beyond a certain milliwattage, you could take an eye out. But, you can buy a multiwatt(megawatt?) laser capable of slicing several inch thick steel like a hot knife through melted butter. They are used by numerous industries every day.

What are you going to do when the technology of simple side arms develops to the point where you an take out a room full of people by pressing a trigger and letting you gun do all the aiming etc..?

I'm going to marvel at the technology. I'm going to contemplate whether I really want one for myself and whether I feel the need for one, just in case. I'll probably not purchase one, but I will strongly favor the right for any free individual to own one. The technology already exists to cheaply and easily take out an entire room full of people just that easily. Furthermore, despite existing laws against the use of such weapons, the laws cannot prevent their "manufacture" or use as has been demonstrated in the past. A demented or determined individual can and will do that and there is no law or amount of restrictions that can prevent it. Look at 7/7/2005 or the IRA for your own examples of death and destruction that was already outlawed.

Contrary to what people seem to think or hope, laws cannot possibly provide physical security. It is NOT possible. Even if the manufacture of guns were globally outlawed and none existed, it would still be the case where guns were used to kill people.

To quote a line from the movie Unforgiven: "I don't want to get killed from lack of being able to shoot back"

As usual, /. completely ignores the fact there are populated regions of land mass elsewhere on this planet other than the American continent.

Global release dates for Into Darkness:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1408101/releaseinfo

The US are getting it late, it seems.

Through the Wormhole is a pretty good one too.

"Pero las llamas son peligrosas. Si usted ve una llama donde hay genteï nadando, usted gritar: ÂCuidado! ÂLlamas!"

Not in any way related to Ralph the Wonder Llama.

"The bladderwort, named for its water-filled bladders that suck in unsuspecting prey, is a relative of the tomato"

Anyone else think of this movie?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391

Did anyone reading TFA think of old martial arts films where star pupils turned to the dark side?

I remember a TV series from when I was a wee lad, The Immortal. A guy has something special in his blood that makes him effectively immortal. An old rich dude chases him around to harvest the blood for himself.

a lot of Vampire ones no doubt - The Hunger was particularly relevant in that Bowie ends up drained and old which ties in with other comments about potential accelerated ageing of the young donors.

Very stylish film too, lovingly shot with lots of fabulous lighting.

Crimson Tide did a decent job answering that hypothetical.

Another great (the definitive) Documentary on him is Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan. It has some of the original armature and foam pieces unearthed from his garage as well as lots of interviews with people in the industry and the man himself. Well worth the hour and a half run time. - HEX

There's a great documentary about Harryhausen as well as some of the artists he inspired. It's on the Netflix for streaming, as I recall:

The Sci-Fi Boys

R.I.P Ray, your work with skeleton fights in "Argonauts" opened my eyes to the world of animation and all things morbid! You will be missed.

Sharing an IP address? What's next, sharing a desk?

From the article "More updates to follow, but you will be able to order beers from your phone to the District 9 campsite in 2013."

Wait? The District 9 camp in Africa? Heck just have one of the alien prawns deliver it for you! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/

"insufficient evidence"? Every biologists knowns how fructose and glucose is metabolised in the body/lover.
Hint: glucose is converted to energy and fructose is converted to fat.

The problem is not so much that HFCS have so much fructose but the steady increase in fructose in the food.
See for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Usda_sweeteners.svg
Because sugar is like LSD; you can make any food taste good by add a lot of sugar.

(for the reference see Futurama 30% Iron Chef; Bender wants fo become a master chef but he have no taste and his food is awful. So he adds LSD to his food and wins the competition.)

Are you referring to White House Down? That's clearly a work of fiction and bears no relationship to reality. I mean, come on folks. The president in that movie is black.

Space Battleship Yamato (Uch Senkan Yamato, also called Cosmoship Yamato) is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers. The first two seasons ("Quest for Iscandar" and "The Comet Empire") of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981-82 as Diastimóploio Argó ("Spaceship Argo"). An Italian-language version was also broadcast under the name Star Blazers in Italy, and a Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar ("Star Patrol") and Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia ("Voyage to the Final Galaxy") or Astronave Intrepido ("Starship Intrepid") in Spain and Latin America.

It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion; Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime.

Yamato was the first anime series or movie to win the Seiun Award, a feat not repeated until the 1985 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

The show starts on a post-apocalyptic Earth, with humanity trying to survive a war with an alien race. The titular ship is actually the wreck of the World War II battleship Yamato, rebuilt and converted into an FTL starship. The engine that allows supraluminal travel also powers a planet-busting spinal mount beam weapon, the Wave Motion Gun.

They recently did a live-action film, which had a pretty awful script. I found it entertaining in a cheesy/campy/back-to-childhood way. YMMV :)

Try reading the comment to which I was responding. Is that too much to ask for? I notice you didn't complain about that. Nor did you apparently complain about this comment above:

Not really. All they need is to fix voting districts which Republicans created to win House despite popular vote going to Democrats and then it's over for gun lovers. Or not game over, because 99% of them current breed of laws won't impact any way at all. Just their pride will be hurt - and arm manufacturers profit.

Nor did you reply to the gun control comment below this one. It isn't going "off topic," despite the fact that I was responding to an established topic thread, that appears to bother you. Advocating gun control is fine. Sniping at gun owners, the NRA, and Republicans is fine. It is interjecting facts into the discussion that you apparently find disagreeable. Is it because the facts are against your position? Can't we all just agree to be wrong together?

As to winning debates - facts seem to be far too rarely considered in moderation or "winning" debates on Slashdot. After all, the mob is Slashdot.* Popular prejudices often rule even if they are wrong. I expect you will ultimately be pleased with the moderation of my comment, I've come to expect it. Nonetheless, the facts should be presented for people to consider even if it displeases you. People can decide for themselves.

Gracchus: I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it's the sand of the coliseum. He'll bring them death - and they will love him for it.

Perhaps you were looking for this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/

This is not very new:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt

"a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III"

So where is the news, except the setting?

Arnold Schwarzenegger agrees.

...when your country completely discounts nuclear as the best option for an environmentally friendly energy source.

Welcome to the 21st centruy from your Coma.

Solar and wind can never be primary energy sources

And yet - Are Traditional Utilities Becoming Obsolete? The next time youâ(TM)re driving around town, observe the community and see how many homes and businesses have installed solar panels

So some in the "business" of making and selling power don't agree, and that would be something you'd have missed while in the Coma.

(A fun fact they didn't teach the oldsters: That oil and coal - that is the result of Solar power!)

Frankly I'd rather live next to a modern, safe nuclear power plant.

Until your book deal pays off about your time in a Coma you might want to look into land next to Chernyobyl or Fukushima. Modern Nay-sayers would claim its a bad idea, but why not allow the pro-nukers to show how wrong the Nay-sayers are by getting the land at a low price?

You fix it, you evolve the design, you move on.

Yes fixing. An inside source gave Team 10 a picture snapped inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) showing plastic bags, masking tape and broom sticks used to stem a massive leaky pipe. [...] Modern "fixing" doesn't do that kind of thing, a fact you would not understand having just rejoined humanity from your Coma.

Before you entered the Coma the Brittish were replacing the bones of the dead with broomsticks as part of a radiation coverup plan but the rest of us learned of it while you were still in that Coma. So there has been no upgrade in Broomsticks-as-radioactive-repair technology, and yet you'd think Engineering might do a better job with say an Inanimate Carbon Rod?

Best of health to you and recovering from your traumatic brain injury.

...when your country completely discounts nuclear as the best option for an environmentally friendly energy source.

Welcome to the 21st centruy from your Coma.

Solar and wind can never be primary energy sources

And yet - Are Traditional Utilities Becoming Obsolete? The next time youâ(TM)re driving around town, observe the community and see how many homes and businesses have installed solar panels

So some in the "business" of making and selling power don't agree, and that would be something you'd have missed while in the Coma.

(A fun fact they didn't teach the oldsters: That oil and coal - that is the result of Solar power!)

Frankly I'd rather live next to a modern, safe nuclear power plant.

Until your book deal pays off about your time in a Coma you might want to look into land next to Chernyobyl or Fukushima. Modern Nay-sayers would claim its a bad idea, but why not allow the pro-nukers to show how wrong the Nay-sayers are by getting the land at a low price?

You fix it, you evolve the design, you move on.

Yes fixing. An inside source gave Team 10 a picture snapped inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) showing plastic bags, masking tape and broom sticks used to stem a massive leaky pipe. [...] Modern "fixing" doesn't do that kind of thing, a fact you would not understand having just rejoined humanity from your Coma.

Before you entered the Coma the Brittish were replacing the bones of the dead with broomsticks as part of a radiation coverup plan but the rest of us learned of it while you were still in that Coma. So there has been no upgrade in Broomsticks-as-radioactive-repair technology, and yet you'd think Engineering might do a better job with say an Inanimate Carbon Rod?

Best of health to you and recovering from your traumatic brain injury.

...when your country completely discounts nuclear as the best option for an environmentally friendly energy source.

Welcome to the 21st centruy from your Coma.

Solar and wind can never be primary energy sources

And yet - Are Traditional Utilities Becoming Obsolete? The next time youâ(TM)re driving around town, observe the community and see how many homes and businesses have installed solar panels

So some in the "business" of making and selling power don't agree, and that would be something you'd have missed while in the Coma.

(A fun fact they didn't teach the oldsters: That oil and coal - that is the result of Solar power!)

Frankly I'd rather live next to a modern, safe nuclear power plant.

Until your book deal pays off about your time in a Coma you might want to look into land next to Chernyobyl or Fukushima. Modern Nay-sayers would claim its a bad idea, but why not allow the pro-nukers to show how wrong the Nay-sayers are by getting the land at a low price?

You fix it, you evolve the design, you move on.

Yes fixing. An inside source gave Team 10 a picture snapped inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) showing plastic bags, masking tape and broom sticks used to stem a massive leaky pipe. [...] Modern "fixing" doesn't do that kind of thing, a fact you would not understand having just rejoined humanity from your Coma.

Before you entered the Coma the Brittish were replacing the bones of the dead with broomsticks as part of a radiation coverup plan but the rest of us learned of it while you were still in that Coma. So there has been no upgrade in Broomsticks-as-radioactive-repair technology, and yet you'd think Engineering might do a better job with say an Inanimate Carbon Rod?

Best of health to you and recovering from your traumatic brain injury.

...when your country completely discounts nuclear as the best option for an environmentally friendly energy source.

Welcome to the 21st centruy from your Coma.

Solar and wind can never be primary energy sources

And yet - Are Traditional Utilities Becoming Obsolete? The next time youâ(TM)re driving around town, observe the community and see how many homes and businesses have installed solar panels

So some in the "business" of making and selling power don't agree, and that would be something you'd have missed while in the Coma.

(A fun fact they didn't teach the oldsters: That oil and coal - that is the result of Solar power!)

Frankly I'd rather live next to a modern, safe nuclear power plant.

Until your book deal pays off about your time in a Coma you might want to look into land next to Chernyobyl or Fukushima. Modern Nay-sayers would claim its a bad idea, but why not allow the pro-nukers to show how wrong the Nay-sayers are by getting the land at a low price?

You fix it, you evolve the design, you move on.

Yes fixing. An inside source gave Team 10 a picture snapped inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) showing plastic bags, masking tape and broom sticks used to stem a massive leaky pipe. [...] Modern "fixing" doesn't do that kind of thing, a fact you would not understand having just rejoined humanity from your Coma.

Before you entered the Coma the Brittish were replacing the bones of the dead with broomsticks as part of a radiation coverup plan but the rest of us learned of it while you were still in that Coma. So there has been no upgrade in Broomsticks-as-radioactive-repair technology, and yet you'd think Engineering might do a better job with say an Inanimate Carbon Rod?

Best of health to you and recovering from your traumatic brain injury.

Do note, please, that even many guild actors get nowhere near a 40-hour week. Harrison Ford worked as a carpenter for years, getting bit jobs here and there as an actor. Just one example of many, and most never 'hit the big time.'

That reminds me. I found out some time ago (from the DVD extras?) that Mr. Ford was in the midst of a carpentry job when he got the part of Han Solo from Mr. Lucas. If I remembered right, he finished that job and was on a plane the next day to England to start shooting Greedo^W STAR WARS (EPISOD IV: A NEW HOPE)

I wonder if he kept his old carpentry tools around to never forget where he came from....

CAPTCHA: comply [How apt! :D Ford complied with the one(s) who hired him for that last carpentry job by finishing it before going to England to (unknowingly at the time) help create cinematic history that is still remembered, cherished, (and reviled) today...]

I HATED these CAPTCHAs when they first came out but I don't mind them now, having to comply with them to make posts to /. :)

Are they still effective?

Or does the community here have to (still) downmod spam posted manually by spammers/griefers who fill in the CAPTCHAs and post anyway? :P

Maybe you missed Richard Garriott's story?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611990/

He showed up to the premiere a few years back in a space suit. I have a picture of him and his wife that I took on a hard drive somewhere.

1/a dozen is a higher ratio than for most other tourists. And remember - most of these people are pretty damn rich. They [i]don't care[/i] about bragging to plebes about how awesome the thing they did was.

am i the only one here watching non-nerdish office comedies? this to me seems to be direct copy of idea here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1479423/ where phil and lam try to use this same idea to put firefly genes into plants (only side effect being the squirrel eating those plants died as she cannot sleep in that light)

wherein the whole universe has conspired to assemble random bits of energy

Just random chance. A 'conspiracy' assumes some conscious influence. Detecting patterns in random data is known as apophenia and is a symptom of the onset of delusional thinking. Like in the movie A Beautiful Mind.

over billions of years

Wasn't that supposed to be six days?

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

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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 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

Troy Rising?

No, "Liquid Sky," he said.

Here.

who initially read this as "genetically engineered cops"?

Dude, they're from The Moon

Gen X may have accidentally given birth to hipsters with our habits of ironic commentary (sorry about that one, guys), but the standard insult against us is that everyone was a Slacker. Entitled? We figured we'd all be annihilated by nukes.

Customers have choice. If you make content available under reasonable terms, they may be your customer. If not, they won't. I decided a couple of years ago that the cable company's terms were unreasonable, so I cancelled my cable. With over the air HD, internet streaming and DVDs, I don't miss it.

While many tv shows people have mentioned are from U.S. cable tv networks, I've seen top-quality stuff from other sources. Recent faves include Borgen and Scott & Bailey, both from "regular" (albeit European) TV channels. Who would have thought Danish parliamentary democracy would make such gripping drama? And Janet and Rachel can arrest me any time they like. :-)

I've watched Borgen on DVD, and am currently streaming S&B on youtube. When ITV get around to releasing series 3 on DVD I'll buy it. Reasonable terms, remember.

...laura

Customers have choice. If you make content available under reasonable terms, they may be your customer. If not, they won't. I decided a couple of years ago that the cable company's terms were unreasonable, so I cancelled my cable. With over the air HD, internet streaming and DVDs, I don't miss it.

While many tv shows people have mentioned are from U.S. cable tv networks, I've seen top-quality stuff from other sources. Recent faves include Borgen and Scott & Bailey, both from "regular" (albeit European) TV channels. Who would have thought Danish parliamentary democracy would make such gripping drama? And Janet and Rachel can arrest me any time they like. :-)

I've watched Borgen on DVD, and am currently streaming S&B on youtube. When ITV get around to releasing series 3 on DVD I'll buy it. Reasonable terms, remember.

...laura

That was me....

[anxiously awaits free beer]

Here you go, I liked your answer too. (Free, though data charges may apply)...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486551/

Nah mate, 'Max Skinner' played by Russell Crowe

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401445/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

But it's clearly something GD would be capable of saying ;)

Maybe "The Final Cut", almost 10 years ago wasn't so far off:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/

"A Zoë Chip is chip placed in your brain at birth to record your entire life. When you die, the footage from your life is edited into a “Rememory”-- a film shown at your funeral pieced together by an editor. A toy for the privileged, Zoë Chips are changing the face of human interaction, but there are those who are against this emerging technology, and believe that memories are meant to fade."

The original American space programme was essentially a continuation of the Nazi one.

And it still is!