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It is a well known thing. Several movies are done about it
The wave : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083316/
Das experiment : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/

And that last one will lead you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

Power corrupts.

It is a well known thing. Several movies are done about it
The wave : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083316/
Das experiment : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/

And that last one will lead you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

Power corrupts.

Simple, just have some Icebergs come to you!

Seems they successfully made it out with Gatorate instead! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

Not to mention when Kung Pow had them in it!

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

"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 [imdb.com]

"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

George Carlin:

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else.

But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.

You know what they want? Obedient workers people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and yo

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

"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 [imdb.com]

"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

George Carlin:

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else.

But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.

You know what they want? Obedient workers people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and yo

Relevant quote:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0576930/quotes?qt0236135

Federal law defines child porn in the US.

Ok, granted, the feds are complete idiots with unbelievable numbers of stupid, often obviously unconstitutional laws, and just because the feds say "no" is a terrible reason to write anything in particular off...

But regardless, actual child porn -- not of sexually active teenagers, of course, but of children -- presents a problem for the child, even if, as some would argue, the majority of the harm comes from the adults hysterically imposing said harm upon the participants. Regardless of its source, the kid is going to suffer some emotional fallout. So child porn is bad, period, in our society. Because there is harm done to the child.

One of the best examples I can think of for "bad law" are the lines in (ok, all over) the sand that the law draws about consent. I can easily find you teenagers who are quite capable of informed consent; and I can just as easily find you adults (that is, people 21 and over) who couldn't even tell you what informed consent is. You know what those age lines really are? A complete cop-out delivered by a society that is too immature to deal with the issue of sexuality in any kind of reasonable fashion -- a late stage superstitious society that squeezes its collective eyes shut in literal horror at the idea of a 16 year old having pleasurable, consenting sex, but watches eagerly when kids the same age -- and younger -- are portrayed in movies as engaged in bloody combat with injury and death both being commonplace. In other words, our lawmakers, our citizens, and the cultural mores that drive them, are nothing more, generally speaking, than a bunch of sick, ineffective failtards.

But hey... you keep rolling with "it's a federal law." Because, you know, that's a sure thing.

120 years ago 80% of Americans worked in farms now 2% do. Look at all those lost jobs.

Efficiency is good. It helps.

Watch Food. Inc. and get back to me on whether you still hold that opinion.

Actually it involves computers and Angelina Jolie. Unless you're more on the "make new stuff" side of hacking, in which case creating Kelly LeBrock is in the mix.

Actually it involves computers and Angelina Jolie. Unless you're more on the "make new stuff" side of hacking, in which case creating Kelly LeBrock is in the mix.

What the fuck happened to the Anonymous I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you! we might get in trouble!" Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. MPAA, they're dead, man! CIA, dead! Mexican Mafia...

Actually, "theft", as most people know it, refers to a whole range of activities, many of which involve copying, and many of which aren't even illegal. For example, the creators of Forbidden Planet stole liberally from Shakespeare (who, himself, frequently stole from others). Nobody complains or thinks there's anything wrong with this, because Shakespeare is long out of copyright. It is, nevertheless, generally referred to as theft.

(Which I guess means that I am, in fact, saying that theft is OK, under some circumstances. Theft from people who have been dead for five centuries, for example.) :)

it will reward drivers who aren't as focused on the road, blindly running over pedestrians

Didn't you know? Machine Gun Joe Viterbo is the CEO of Tom Tom.

Looks like this is their 25th according to imdb.
which movie are you referring to?
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0216680/

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The Blair Witch Project: Budget $60k, Worldwide gross $248.6M

I don't think these sites are building good search engines. Even when I know the information is on Wikipedia or IMDB, I'd rather use Google to search them.

To give an example - I just tried "site:imdb.com Gyllenhaal secretary" on Google. Unsurprisingly it led me to the IMDB page for the movie Secretary in which she (very sexily) stars. On the other hand, putting in the search terms "Gyllenhaal" and "secretary" in the IMDB search box, gives me a lots of info on ... Kofi Annan. (Nothing against the man, but I'd be surprised if he was in *any* spanking movie, yet alone a really good one.) There is a link to Maggie Gyllenhaal on the page as well, but nothing leading directly to the movie.

Even if I don't know much about the advanced features of Google, just putting in the search terms into Google - without the "site:imdb.com" part - would give me a full page of relevant results, a youtube clip of the intro to the movie, the IMDB page, the wikipedia entry etc.

Essentially if people are using the IMDB search engine to look for stuff on IMDB, then they are not using the full potential of that site. If Google's share of the search market is shrinking because of that, then they should try and make people aware just how much better they are at searching.

The 2nd part-
The Mole People
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049516/
Mocked on MST3K
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0655468/

Thought we were nerds around here..

The 2nd part-
The Mole People
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049516/
Mocked on MST3K
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0655468/

Thought we were nerds around here..

Hey, my movie beats your movie every day!

No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/ (Jacob's Ladder).

Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/quotes?qt=qt0459113

Watching Catherine Zeta-jones flex around a bunch of lasers ... Yeah maybe I missed the definition myself

Hmm, I haven't seen that.

Shannon Elizabeth, Eliza Dushku, Ali Larter, Jennifer Smith

Dressed in latex, about to flex around a bunch of lasers... http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1965725696/tt0261392

unless it has the consistency of some kind of marshmallow dessert http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090094/

Dumb & Dumber (1994) - Memorable quotes. People were obsessed with Harrelson and Carrey, man.

That's not really how trademark works. Two different companies can use the same trademarks if they work in sufficiently different fields as to not lead to confusion.
Evidence:
http://www.delta.com/
http://www.deltafaucet.com/
http://www.deltamachinery.com/
http://www.deltadental.com/
http://www.delta.edu/
http://www.deltasociety.org/
http://www.deltacycle.com/
http://www.deltacreative.com/
http://www.deltacollege.edu/
http://www.deltastorage.com/
http://www.deltatargets.net/
http://www.madebydelta.com/
http://www.deltachildren.com/
http://www.deltawaterfowl.org/
http://www.deltamarine.com/
http://delta.ncsu.edu/
http://www.deltasrestaurant.com/
http://deltamotion.com/
http://www.deltaeducation.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910860/
http://www.deltapress.com/
http://www.deltatire.com/
http://www.deltarf.com/

The 1982 classic John Carpenter movie The Thing.

I'm assuming you are referring to Ulrich Thomsen? There is one scene where he is speaking danish rather than norwegian, but we Scandinavians tend to understand each other pretty well, so this is not a goof per se. It might very well happen in real life as well that a Danish person speaks danish to a Norwegian; in fact it happened to me less than two weeks ago, and I had no problem understanding her. The rest of the Norwegians are well-known Norwegian actors, who speak norwegian correctly.

Sea Hunt. Now get off my lawn, kid.

I'd rather remember this version:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064417/

We did not lose Vietnam! It was a tie!

Hi, I've been commenting elsewhere (bitchily) on the thread and I'm a commercial artist and work in Hollywood.

A number of people have proposed alternative systems for compensating artists, but instead of giving serious consideration to those proposals, we simply ignore them and continue to pretend that copyright is a form of property.

Many of my friends who direct and produce have absolutely been giving serious consideration to these other funding models:

- A friend of mine from school produced an entire very well-made scifi short many years ago, funding it with donations on his website, long before Kickstarter even existed. It's a great short and he got a lot of attention, and it won a lot of awards at several festivals. Aside from producing another friends feature, however, Jason's paying gig remains an editor-for-hire on E! cable shows of the "100 Craziest celebrity moments" variety. If he wasn't making money from those he would never have been able to complete his short; he was able to raise money to just make the thing with friends, and nowhere near enough to pay himself for the time it took to develop and produce the project, or pay anyone their actual market wages.

- Another friend of mine has been raising money for her project for several years now on IndieGoGo. Several years now. Luckily she has means and is able to supplement her income with writing gigs on Big Hollywood Movies.

Basically none of the proposed funding models work without either (1) Hollywood paying everybody the 10 months out of the year people aren't working on their crowdsourced project or (2) abandoning the concept of the professional artist. As I said in another post, your median open source developer doesn't live on donations, they make their money at day jobs working for Evil Corporations that Sue People for infringing IP. Open source is a "marginal time" activity, it doesn't satisfy material needs. Open content is only so far a complement to the copyright model, it can't replace it.

Crowd sourced funding promises a lot of things: the idea that people will reward good work with more money, or that new work that is "suppressed" by the old system will emerge. In practice, however, these things haven't materialized and I don't think they ever will, I just don't think entertainment works that way. People want a casual experience they can take or leave, they don't want their entertainment experience turned into an advocacy enterprise where they have to band together with people and raise money and attract friend networks and go through all this bullshit just to see 20 minutes of mumblecore.

Kill copyright and you threaten to kill everything that stands on top of it, like a lot of open source software developers, and any artist that isn't willing to whore himself out to rich patrons. That's what the world was like before copyright: there were artists and there was art, and it was whatever a rich guy said it was. With copyright everyone gets a say in who is rewarded, and they vote with their pocketbooks. Ending copyright, wether that is right or wrong, would unquestionably jeopardize this.

The whole "victimless crime" thing is a distinction between IP theft and theft of physical goods. Just what constitutes IP is a far more ephemeral construct than a bar of gold or barrel of salted pork.

I was referring to the "gallant nobility" of Jean Lafitte, or Robin Hood, or any of the old (mostly romanticized and false) stories of persons operating outside the law as a manner of making a living. For a more realistic depiction of what it meant to operate outside the law in the "good old days," see: The Bounty. Today's Somali pirates are certainly a much smaller fraction of the global commerce picture than the Privateers were 200 years ago.

As the internet, and the nodes that interface to it, mature with another century of experience, it will become increasingly difficult to freely trade "protected" information across it with impunity. A global consensus definition of "protected information" is one of the things that will have to develop before intellectual property will become more difficult to "steal" using the global network, but, even if there never is 100% agreement about just what is IP and what protection it deserves, you will see "blowback" from the interests that feel wronged against both the little guys who can't defend themselves and the big flamboyant pirates like Kim Dotcom.

The porn talks to him.

Entirely possible.

Well, how is a person supposed to react if they knew that they were going to be excruciatingly branded and slathered in hot metal (Imhotep in The Mummy is not covered in mechanical flesh-eating scorpion-beatles... that is boiling mercury-gold-silver amalgam)? Isaac Passover Coat. Roasted whole, do not harm the boy. We keep a map simlar to that Da Vinci "roll roll roll your boat" from Hackers.

Incidentally, the opening scene for War Games includes a reference to the lady in the red dress from The Matrix.

Well, how is a person supposed to react if they knew that they were going to be excruciatingly branded and slathered in hot metal (Imhotep in The Mummy is not covered in mechanical flesh-eating scorpion-beatles... that is boiling mercury-gold-silver amalgam)? Isaac Passover Coat. Roasted whole, do not harm the boy. We keep a map simlar to that Da Vinci "roll roll roll your boat" from Hackers.

Incidentally, the opening scene for War Games includes a reference to the lady in the red dress from The Matrix.

Well, how is a person supposed to react if they knew that they were going to be excruciatingly branded and slathered in hot metal (Imhotep in The Mummy is not covered in mechanical flesh-eating scorpion-beatles... that is boiling mercury-gold-silver amalgam)? Isaac Passover Coat. Roasted whole, do not harm the boy. We keep a map simlar to that Da Vinci "roll roll roll your boat" from Hackers.

Incidentally, the opening scene for War Games includes a reference to the lady in the red dress from The Matrix.

Well, how is a person supposed to react if they knew that they were going to be excruciatingly branded and slathered in hot metal (Imhotep in The Mummy is not covered in mechanical flesh-eating scorpion-beatles... that is boiling mercury-gold-silver amalgam)? Isaac Passover Coat. Roasted whole, do not harm the boy. We keep a map simlar to that Da Vinci "roll roll roll your boat" from Hackers.

Incidentally, the opening scene for War Games includes a reference to the lady in the red dress from The Matrix.

I loved Galaxy Quest
[Trying to explain TV to the Thermians]
Gwen DeMarco: They're not ALL "historical documents." Surely, you don't think Gilligan's Island is a...
[All the Thermians moan in despair]
Mathesar: Those poor people.

At least the Republicans will allow one the tools to defend oneself or to forcefully change things

Guns have their place, but why does every defender of the second amendment have to sound like they've got all the intellectual maturity of an 8-year old that just watched Red Dawn? Please leave the crazy militia uprising bullshit at Free Republic --you're lowering /.'s collective I.Q.

Maybe they're the ones that kill us with flying spiky balls, shrink us, and send us to work on their high gravity planet.

There was even a sequel, and another, and another.

Maybe they're the ones that kill us with flying spiky balls, shrink us, and send us to work on their high gravity planet.

There was even a sequel, and another, and another.

Maybe they're the ones that kill us with flying spiky balls, shrink us, and send us to work on their high gravity planet.

There was even a sequel, and another, and another.

Maybe they're the ones that kill us with flying spiky balls, shrink us, and send us to work on their high gravity planet.

There was even a sequel, and another, and another.

Its already been made into a tv show called 'south atlantic raiders' by the comic strip. Well sort of. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0544884/

You mean like Gattaca? I'd actually prefer germ line rewriting or nanites.

How long have they not been running with the throttle rigged as a "dead man switch"??

Jerry Jarvis (Fred 'REAL PEOPLE' Willard): If there's no one in the engine, then who's driving the train?

A toolbox.