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They made a movie about their government too: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645170/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I disagree strongly on both the artistic state of humanity and on Revenge of the Sith. I'll take The Verdict over it any day. I still say Paul Newman was railroaded on the Best Actor Oscar that year. Ben Kingsley didn't yet deserve it, even for Gandhi. The consolation prize Newman received later for The Color of Money was an insult.

If that writer really wants to laud a Star Wars film, add two years to the retrospective and pick The Empire Strikes Back. It still beats any of the other five, in part because Lucas wasn't in the screenwriting or directing chairs.

I dunno, I don't remember which I was hotter Johnie Lee Miller (Zero Cool) or Angelina Jolie (Acid Burn) in her first movie "Hackers".

She was in some other stuff prior to Hackers, Angelina Jolie's Films. Pretty crazy she was in Cyborg 2. Youtube it if you want a smile. I liked her in that movie but I'm not really a fan.

Machine Gun Joe Viterbo? Is that you?

This movie.

Hmm, he describes a scenario in which current automatons for some reason suddenly rise against us (using his experience of putting together "robots" from decades ago).. - That's like an inversion of the terminator scenario in which billions of dollars are heaped upon the "defence" sector to create a machine that performs better on the field than a human soldier, that is able to interface seamlessly with a global network (Skynet) to instantly get tactical updates, but is also able to use its own onboard AI to fullfill the mission objectives.

Obviously we're not there yet, but nowadays we already have automated drones, air planes landing and cars driving without human input and humanoid (somewhat overweight) robots learning to run. Currently those machines' goals are hardcoded, but it's not a huge leap to replace those instructions with an AI (for any scientist willing) and deploy them in the field (most likely in some country far away).

So yes, it is scary seeing so much of the wealth generated by humankind being delegated to researching ways how to destroy each other, and a couple of scientists isn't very likely going to change that. Major drag, huh?

I don't see the problem.

Certainly not in reference the god-awful eponymous movie

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."

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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/nm0000417/bio

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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 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."

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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/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

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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

Probably because the fossil fuel side knows what they are doing instead of being all crazies. ;)

What was wrong with the Peter Jackson LotR movies? They were far better than many had dared to hope for. Sure it would have been nice to have have some things that weren't included (i.e. Tom Bombadil, Scouring of the Shire) and some parts were rather silly (Gandalf being unable to perform a pull up in Moria, or the deus ex machina they turned the Dead Men of Dunharrow into, etc), but all in all they were quite good. Not like the previous attempts at LotR movies (1978 animated film. As someone who has read the book (and the Silmarillion) multiple times, I think the Jackson films did quite well.

with a stabilizing bar so one robot can't trip up the other robot then smash him. STUPID. I'd rather see robot wars where the robots were autonomous, and were allowed to splash each other with corrosives, water, oil, foam, whatever. there's no need for the robots to be shaped like humans, and in fact, it makes it DUMB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163488/

Do you see anything here about "Mechanical Exoskeleton Jox?"

No?

NO, I DIDN'T FUCKING THINK SO

*thumbs-up fist bump*

But how will the Earth cope with the loss of billions of pounds of fat shed from the asses of all the obese 'Murkans?

Well, much the same as when it was the Brits shedding all that Adipose tissue... I assume

where you put money in and you get something RIGHT NOW. Other than that, will they find organics? If so, any of significant quantity and where? What parts of the surface contain higher concentrations of organics? For me what would be exciting is finding fossilized lifeforms like a trilobite of sorts.

Problem is nowadays movies with CGI have lots more action and adventure and it is difficult for NASA to compete with this. Speaking of movies what if Curiosity were to find a British flag?

What is annoying is to rent a turkey movie DVD. So, open imdb.com and get only movies with a rating of 7+.

"Full Conversion Cyborgs" like the ones from R.I.F.T.S or maybe like Robocop are totally possible, just so long as you don't mind amputating your precious body parts.

Check out this dog that was prepared for full conversion as part of a Russian scientific experiment: Russian Dog Experiment

Or, on the eve of the demo, the lead scientist takes it to phase 2 human trials without authorization and ends up killing the entire team.

... the story Raoul Silva told about putting all the rats in one barrel.

There are no growth opportunities left (look up MSFT), so the rat next to you starts to look mighty tasty.

I find your post insightful- yes having a society that functions as the maw of an alligator waiting to eat you EXCEPT for the pittance your employer affords you is exactly the model they are trying to preserve. It's a slave owner's mentality, and they barely make any bones about it. Nice going

I think that we're actually offering two complimentary explanations. I'm reflecting on the ultimate motivation of why corporations like Papa Johns are run the way they're run INSTEAD OF some other, completely affordable way which yields more egalitarian results for society at large.

Why do they WANT to be slave holders? It's implicit in your post that a lot of us (humans) WANT to be slave owners, and LIKE not just being on top, but lowering the bottom too. Slave-seeking land-based pirate ships- which is what a lot of corporations amount to really- are the context in which we live and frame explanations, but why are alternatives not as appealing to ambitious people; why is there not something else in the world?

Answer- because people are genetically predisposed to seek status in a social/sexual hierarchy and that's because our genes , like all genes, evolved in a resource-constrained environment in which competition for survival-giving resources were a zero sum game we played against our own kind.

It's like tits. Why are some men crazy for big tits? ( NSFW link not provided ) The bigger the better ! The reason is that big tits are a secondary sexual characteristic which broadcasts the reproductive fitness their bearer and men are pre-wired to interpret that signal and - here's the important part- nature saw no reason to put an upper limit on the link between the size of the tits and the size of excitation.. the bigger the tits, the bigger the signal ! tits are good, big tits are gooder !

The same thing with wealth and power acquisition. A lot of wealth is good, a super jumbo fortune you-and-your-six-successive-wives-and-eight-mistresses-can-never-spend is better and dramatically increasing the relative wealth spread between you and all your competition for those women:

http://dailymalemodels.com/

is best !

We don't live in THAT kind of resource -constrained world anymore. Our behavior in this way is classifiable under anachronism-->very highly destructive. Science will bestow on our grandchildren the opportunity to control the knows-not-when-to-stop compulsiveness off these and a lot of other impulses.

Future utopias traditionally portray people as more egalitarian, more intelligent, more engaged, interested and interesting, more productive, happier... more evolved. They tend to gloss over the alleged environmental mechanism through which that evolution would induced. Meanwhile, back in reality, news comes that in fact, we may be sliding the other way.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/11/13/191217/study-claims-human-intelligence-peaked-two-to-six-millennia-ago

Whatever the case, we know this for sure- 10,000 years of civilization, religious exhortation and radical socio-cultural-political rearrangements has netted us

this :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg

this :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Petraeus_and_Paula_Broadwell.jpg

and this

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1884001280/nm0000216

We live in a world of Papa Johns writ large, of pointless, noxious aggressive impulses with free reign and practically unlimited scope. The aggregation of all this is better known as the "culture of assholism." It's not a social con

They Look Like Rocks...Possess A High Intelligence...Have No Eyes...And Eat Ashes...They Travel In Your Car Exhaust...They Make Fire...They Kill.

I feel so Melancholic now.

Like Meet The Natives?

before (instead) of doing something so foolish:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094027/

I have to beg to differ:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783342/

Pwned yo 455 boy! ;-p

God Bless America

Hackers pose serious threat to oil business. One computer virus and tanker flips over. Looks like somebody checked his or her video library and decided to sell same story to the press.

Could be worst--at least it's not Cinnamon the Maltese puppy

Cinnamon Carter, no?

I don't know if it was factual or not, but such a ruse was depicted in the movie Midway - they mentioned in the clear that the water plant was not operational on Midway. The Japanese used their secret designation 'AF' for Midway when they reported the outage, proving that 'AF' was Midway. Here's a better description that's likely factual - see the "Critical Intelligence" section.

...from the active duty SEALs used in Act of Valor? Oh wait, I know the answer: Because Act of Valor was a nice little right-wing propaganda film that showed the Navy in their best light. And EA is just a gaming company. Or something like that.

*Whoosh ...EnsilZah is quoting the intro to The A-Team

Pretty hard coding Ruby when you're with a hooker, I guess..

Hugh Jackman HACKED INTO THE PENTAGON while he was "with" a hooker.

Don't tell me that some rinky-dink website would be harder.

Please point me at the jury verdict or court ruling that MegaUpload and/or Kim Dotcom was engaged in illegal activities. What? There was no verdict/ruling? Strange. I know that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing is just so darn inconvenient. We should just do away with that whole thing. I mean, if we want to send you to prison or generally fuck up your life, why should we need anything like evidence or a trial? It just gums up the works if you ask me.

Except that Gambon aren't going to put Kim Dotcom in prison they're just denying him the right to exploit their TLD. It would be the same if Kim Dotcom were to go to a bank asking for a loan. They are quite entitled to refuse him the loan based on what they know about his dealings in the past without requiring evidence of specific criminal convictions (although he has those for fraud and insider dealing already, separate from megaupload).

Seeing as I was responding to this:

Are people really stupid enough to think that Kim Dotcom's new venture doesn't have the same basic aim as his last venture? Or is this some kind of ivory tower intellectual exercise where we pretend we're that stupid, just so we can approach the issue using laughably naive and simplistic principles of fair play while ignoring the obvious facts? Well here's a fact: the benefit of the doubt only extends as far as there is doubt.

I'm not sure what Gambon has to do with it. Please explain.

where's the joke? How can you put kidding aside when you fail to kid?

What About Bob"

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."

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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/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

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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."

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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/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

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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."

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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/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."

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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/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

Personally, I thought Casino Royale was one of the best Bond movie made in several decades. It beat all of Brosnan's movies, Dalton's and nearly all of Moore's. Bond, for once, seemed like a real spy in Casino Royale and they even aced the theme music. While I can imagine that some people got bored by the poker game, I think many also appreciated it, especially those who play the occasional game themselves or enjoyed movies like Rounders and The Cincinnati Kid.

Personally, I thought Casino Royale was one of the best Bond movie made in several decades. It beat all of Brosnan's movies, Dalton's and nearly all of Moore's. Bond, for once, seemed like a real spy in Casino Royale and they even aced the theme music. While I can imagine that some people got bored by the poker game, I think many also appreciated it, especially those who play the occasional game themselves or enjoyed movies like Rounders and The Cincinnati Kid.

Wow, preemptively shutting something down on the basis that it might be used to infringe copyright before it's even launched?

Philip K. Dick and (to some extent) Scott Frank and Jon Cohen must be proud.

Why is it you get a $10.00 meal at KFC but for the same meal you need to pay $25.00 at say Applebees?

Because KFC is nasty and not fit for human consumption? ;-)

The last two times I had KFC, after each I remember thinking "man, this stuff is gross, why do I eat it?".

But, to quote So I Married an Axe Murdered ... "he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass! "

Or you could, you know, catch 'A Christmas Story' as it runs for 24 hours straight on TNT. :)

Not long ago I saw the documentary Hacking Democracy - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808532/.

I was astonished that nobody can really check how these voting machines work. It's a complete secret.
Another thing that surprised me was voting by telling some other person behind the curtain name of the candidate, believing that this person will really mark the correct one. Pure craziness.

In my country election has to be conducted in a transparent way that allows verification. Every voting "sector" has a list of voters. We show ID, sing next to our name on the list and get the form (forms are anonymous). We vote with pen and paper. We mark X on the form next to candidate name and then put this form to sealed ballot box.

We don't have electronic voting yet because there is no safe system which is easy to audit and allows to check if one is eligible to vote and provide vote anonimity in the same time.

        The life that I have
        Is all that I have
        And the life that I have
        Is yours.

        The love that I have
        Of the life that I have
        Is yours and yours and yours.

        A sleep I shall have
        A rest I shall have
        Yet death will be but a pause.

        For the peace of my years
        In the long green grass
        Will be yours and yours and yours

Somewhere in The Doughnut, a cryptographer is trying to use Violette Szabo's emergency one-time pad code poem to decrypt the message.

Leo Marks' life was truly amazing. Read more at his IMDB entry, (bio & trivia)

        The life that I have
        Is all that I have
        And the life that I have
        Is yours.

        The love that I have
        Of the life that I have
        Is yours and yours and yours.

        A sleep I shall have
        A rest I shall have
        Yet death will be but a pause.

        For the peace of my years
        In the long green grass
        Will be yours and yours and yours

Somewhere in The Doughnut, a cryptographer is trying to use Violette Szabo's emergency one-time pad code poem to decrypt the message.

Leo Marks' life was truly amazing. Read more at his IMDB entry, (bio & trivia)

Forgive my cynicism, but I'm pretty sure There's a Black Man in My Wife's Ass didn't cost more to make than Forrest Gump, or even something like They Live.

Forgive my cynicism, but I'm pretty sure There's a Black Man in My Wife's Ass didn't cost more to make than Forrest Gump, or even something like They Live.

I think you mean this.