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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/quotes

Guy in Bar: See, there's three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want us to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes, Chuck. And if they didn't fuck the assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!

"It's medication time...", sung to this tune

and they might even edit some of the original content to "sanitize" it

I don't think Disney "sanitizes" anything except movies released under the Disney label and rated G.

Touchstone, Miramax, and Hollywood Pictures all made R-rated films, and Disney has released movies under their own label with PG-13 ratings for sexual content, such as Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Likewise, I'm fairly sure you would have heard from Joss Whedon about "The Avengers" being sanitized if that were the case.

"Phantom's visual effects supervisor Rob Coleman recently told a seminar that he brought his concerns to George Lucas, who told him that he had designed Jar Jar to appeal to small children." http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171197/news?year=1999

Now with the disney ties, jar jar will become more crapier than you can possibly imagine!

On the positive side, we don't have to watch it.

Phantom's visual effects supervisor Rob Coleman recently told a seminar that he brought his concerns to George Lucas, who told him that he had designed Jar Jar to appeal to small children. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171197/news?year=1999 Now with the disney ties, jar jar will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!

"Phantom's visual effects supervisor Rob Coleman recently told a seminar that he brought his concerns to George Lucas, who told him that he had designed Jar Jar to appeal to small children." http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171197/news?year=1999 Now with the disney ties, jar jar will become more crapier than you can possibly imagine!

Dr. Noah (Woody Allan) in Casino Royale made a bomb that would kill off all men over 4' 10" tall.

As long as they can clone our leader from his nose, who cares if they can engineer this (see 1973's sleeper http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070707/ ). In case my country's secret services are listening, that was an attempt at a joke,

Trilogy of terror 2 is from 1996, the one I saw was in the mid to late 70s, so unless i have the ability to see the future it simply can't be that movie. The dead of night had the SAME story, only difference is I believe the child is named Timmy in that one, but as you can see here its the same story, complete with mother called son back from grave. In fact i think the picture on the box is the kid as he is starting to change, although from what I remember with each flash of lightning he becomes more and more demonic until he reaches the mother, truly fucking scary.

If everyone paid, or worse, if we got the average designer, we'd probably get bulky devices that look like something out of Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

I wonder what Johnny Ives would design?

I bet it would be something that looks remarkably like the latest Apple earphones, with some external reception membranes, a built-in battery and 20-20kHz amplifiers and a pair of sound production membranes. (It would also be remote tailorable/controllable via your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch.)

Price $129.00 a pair.

I present two points that indicate people are noticeably dumber today than in the past (without precisely defining how far back the past is).

First, consider an entrance exam (http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvardexam.pdf) to Harvard. The document is dated 1899. Take this exam then draw your own conclusions.

Second, the overwhelming amount of entertainment that is available 7x24 from an explosion of different types of devices sadly means that many, many more people have become consumers and many, many fewer people are producing content of any form (and by "any form" I mean, especially, knowledge and not simply entertainment).

I attribute the dumbing down of America to two main causes: greed (corporations want to sell you endless numbers of devices and all the entertainment you can afford, then when new technologies arise, sell you the same content numerous times (CD, DVD, Blu-ray, etc.)) and laziness (it's easier to consume mindless entertainment than to learn something new on your own).

Many people thought Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/) was hilarious. I found it a disturbingly possible paradigm of the future.

On a related note, I also find it disturbing that in spite of our spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually on education, today's students in America consistently place poorly among major industrialized nations. Citation: punch "worldwide rankings of students" into google (omitting quotes) and read some of the 84+ million hits.

So, you must have seen Toys too.

This is exactly the same as anyone else's arrogance. You're very good at something, so people who aren't as good at that thing seem inferior. But as other commenters have said, I'm sure that as you get older you'll run into more and more people who are much better than you in this field. You'll also run into people who are just as good in some other field as you are in this field, while you completely suck in their field just like they suck in your field. Everyone is a genius in some field(s) and an idiot in other(s).

The key is to remember that both of you have strengths and weaknesses. If you don't want them to be an arrogant prick to you when their field is involved, don't be an arrogant prick to them when your field is involved.

P.S. The Big Bang Theory is pretty good for a major network sitcom. It does a good job of capturing the different mentalities of "geeks" vs. "normal people". Sheldon Cooper is an extreme exaggeration of the geek with a superiority complex. He's always condescending to his friends, even though they have doctorates in astrophysics and similar. He acts especially superior to the one who only has a Master's from MIT. However, even his geeky friends realize that his behavior in normal social situations is severely lacking. Sheldon is also taught the lesson that there's always someone better when Stephen Hawking points out a simple arithmetic error he made early on, completely invalidating all of his conclusions. In one episode, another character has to study up on the game of football, so that he can go to his girlfriend's party and attempt to fit in. He sounded just as moronic to those people as these "inferior" people sound to you when talking about computers. To keep things in perspective, just keep in mind how much Sheldon seems like a jerk with his superiority complex, and realize that's exactly what you're doing on a smaller scale.

This is exactly the same as anyone else's arrogance. You're very good at something, so people who aren't as good at that thing seem inferior. But as other commenters have said, I'm sure that as you get older you'll run into more and more people who are much better than you in this field. You'll also run into people who are just as good in some other field as you are in this field, while you completely suck in their field just like they suck in your field. Everyone is a genius in some field(s) and an idiot in other(s).

The key is to remember that both of you have strengths and weaknesses. If you don't want them to be an arrogant prick to you when their field is involved, don't be an arrogant prick to them when your field is involved.

P.S. The Big Bang Theory is pretty good for a major network sitcom. It does a good job of capturing the different mentalities of "geeks" vs. "normal people". Sheldon Cooper is an extreme exaggeration of the geek with a superiority complex. He's always condescending to his friends, even though they have doctorates in astrophysics and similar. He acts especially superior to the one who only has a Master's from MIT. However, even his geeky friends realize that his behavior in normal social situations is severely lacking. Sheldon is also taught the lesson that there's always someone better when Stephen Hawking points out a simple arithmetic error he made early on, completely invalidating all of his conclusions. In one episode, another character has to study up on the game of football, so that he can go to his girlfriend's party and attempt to fit in. He sounded just as moronic to those people as these "inferior" people sound to you when talking about computers. To keep things in perspective, just keep in mind how much Sheldon seems like a jerk with his superiority complex, and realize that's exactly what you're doing on a smaller scale.

... actually shows up unlike he did in The Captains.

Obligatory Marx Brothers' quote

What can the rest of us do without a 3-year-old at hand?

No. The Calamari Wrestler http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428662/
So bad it is great.
Of course The Princess Bride held the title for many years before.

It could be the noise floor going up near your house, or just planned obsolescence.

A useless (and homophobic) response to an informative comment. Well done.

I assure you I'm not afraid of homosexuals... What I do fear is that humans may be well on their way to Idiocracy.
My fears were justified by the GGP's informative comment, which is remarkably similar to certain scenes in that movie...

I'd "woosh" you, and the down-modder, but I was rather tactless, I can see how the reference would be easily missed (it wasn't a very good one) -- I blame my inability to give a damn about being P.C. or my slashdot comments. Also note: Just because someone says Fag, doesn't mean they're a homophobic. It's similar to how I can say "Nigger" without being racist.

That's a very interesting summary of the video game scene from Never Say Never Again. There was a skill element, not just the enduring pain part.

Not exactly an "early" James Bond movie IMHO, but that's a mere quibble.

By the way, as a clueless teenager I thought Roger Moore was the best James Bond. Watching Never Say Never Again instantly converted me to a Sean Connery fan.

From the text:

"Our data center in The Dalles, Oregon sits on the banks of the Columbia River. Here our team members enjoy rafting, wind surfing, fishing and hiking."

Yup, all good!

From the text:

"Our data center in The Dalles, Oregon sits on the banks of the Columbia River. Here our team members enjoy rafting, wind surfing, fishing and hiking."

Yup, all good!

From the text:

"Our data center in The Dalles, Oregon sits on the banks of the Columbia River. Here our team members enjoy rafting, wind surfing, fishing and hiking."

Yup, all good!

From the text:

"Our data center in The Dalles, Oregon sits on the banks of the Columbia River. Here our team members enjoy rafting, wind surfing, fishing and hiking."

Yup, all good!

To quote Dan Truman "beg'n your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky"

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0053372/quotes

He doesn't know how to use the three seashells!

Kinda like this?

Also in The American Way.

Whoosh!

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0002423/quotes

Idiocracy

Won't they have to fumigate the place and get rid of the pesky rock critters first, to keep them from gnawing on the cables as shown in Apollo 18

Using repurposed military robotics and AI, create an unstoppable geriatric-mecha-juggernaut with the voice and personality of your deceased grandmother, who will then carve a swath of destruction through the city as it takes Grandpa on a trip to the beach. Or at least, that's what Anime tells me you should do. :)

Roujin Z: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102812/

To the idiot who marked this troll: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116130/quotes?qt=qt0403799

In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant life being kept in a greenhouse on board a spacecraft.

Silent Running

I have a "gut" instinct that as long as humans are alive (yes, if we find a way to leave our bodies behind this isn't true), flora will survive....

In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant life being kept in a greenhouse on board a spacecraft.

Silent Running

Young Doc: No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan".
Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.
Young Doc: Unbelievable.

(BACK to the FUTURE part III, via IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099088/quotes

The traditional place has always been cryptome.org. Please note that that's the place where early Wikileaks leaks were leaked giving some of us an insight into the possibility that Wikilieaks would turn out to be less than fully competent. The question you should ask yourself is a) how do I get it there safely (the same applies to Wikileaks drop of points) and anonymously b) how do I make sure there isn't a water mark or some other code which makes the information traceable to me or someone close to me.

As far as "blow up in your face" goes, if you are relying on Wikileaks to secure yourself then you are demented. You need to make sure that any leak you do is absolutely untraceable, especially by the site that you leak through. God knows how you do that. Unsecured WiFi? Freenet + Tor? Some distant internet cafe whilst travelling in disguise by bus (to avoid license plate recognition). Whatever; keep it simple; involve the minimum number of people (that should mean one - yourself). Now that's what "inquiring minds" really want to know. The google searches around this are remarkably and interestingly useless. If you are planning to leak material then I wouldn't bother trying them :-) Remember "the issue is whether you are paranoid enough".

Note to mods: the above is a reference to famous sci-fi Starship Troopers.

Would you like to know more?

I'll bet you a dollar that it is.

...perhaps the culture also is somewhat genetics based?

I'll bet you a dollar that it's not

Humor aside, it's pretty easy to see what would really happen in this scenario. First off, the panhandler would take a paycut. Then, the poor financial skills (more extreme than these) that made him homeless would make him terrible at his job.

It's a common misconception that the homeless are poor because of low income. Some are disabled or suffer severe mental illness, but most are not (or at least that's not why they beg). Substance abuse is the most common problem. They can't hold a job, and need vast amounts of money to fuel their drug/alcohol habit.

...perhaps the culture also is somewhat genetics based?

I'll bet you a dollar that it's not

Good movie reference. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

You mean RETURN FOR REFUND?

Looks like we've had our glitch for this mission

We've been "pre-disastered". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084917/

Sure, why not? I am the token black guy. I'm just supposed to smile and stay out of the conversation and say things like: "Damn," "Shit," and "That is whack."

Really bad movie. Hilarious, in places.

You're forgetting the most important one, Forbidden Planet (and Anne Francis, pooh on Natalie Portman....)

Or perhaps they didn't. Given the difference in cranial sizes, it is conceivable that they progressed technologically much faster than we did. As such, they may even still be among us, albeit hidden.

And slightly better looking...

that's the real reason from the article.
so next up, banning for anything else that kicks up the insurance a notch.

had a heart attack? don't apply. high risk sports? forget about it. maybe they should have instead asked for the employee to pony up the extras for the health insurance.

How about genetic probabilities impacting your chances of getting a job? Gattaca anyone?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/

No, crazy american. CANADIAN bacon.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/

Don't complain. You got an extra 10 years. You should have "gone on" a decade ago. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/ for details.

I knew without looking that was a link to Logan's Run, but for some strange reason I was really hoping it was Cocoon.