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Nice tech! I think I saw the same movie these guys did, Runaway with wall climbing robotic killer spiders, and self guiding bullets from handguns, and Tom Selleck!

Damn I hate wall climbing robotic killer spiders... Those must be next :/

Well as long as they don't make a self guiding robotic Tom Selleck, I think we will be OK.

That movie might make a good sliding scale test to see how far along in the movie you can watch before getting completely weirded out, figure out your tolerance level.

Really? Even better than Happiness (1998) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/ ?

Here is my bet.

This will turn into an utterly mundane case of the DHS deciding this he was an aspiring singer trying to come to Hollywood to work on a tourist visa (or visa waiver).

Here is a newspaper article that seems to be about the same guy's singing career: http://www.youghalonline.com/2008/05/05/...

Myspace
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Youtube: [NSFW]
http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialLeighB/videos

Somebody with the same name as the female in the pair did some acting in the UK previously. But I have no other data so don't know if they are the same person:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3960874/

Article reminds me of all those articles about "home robots" from the 80s, saying robots were the future and we'd all have robots in our homes in 10-20 years. So what do we have 20-30 yrs later? Roombas

It will take a long time before we're taking out our nice, natural, perfectly working body parts and replacing them with circuit boards and servos. Sure, if you lose a limb and have a few hundred thousand dollars (probably tens of millions with inflation) you'll be able to buy a awesome arm or leg in 10-20 years, but don't expect the insurance companies to ever pay for it until they're cheaper than a metal claw.

And technically we've had the bionic man ever since the artificial heart in the 80s.

Rather than strapping robotic parts to our bodies I think we're closer to building human-looking robots (androids, the other androids, not the phones) that go out and do tasks for us while we control them from the comfort of our home like in that movie Surrogates

That's ok, because The Beatles sucked.

And Head was the greatest movie of all time, right?

Its just another game I won't be buying. I don't need their game to thrive in this world.

But you DO need air, water, food, clothing, shelter, and medical care to just SURVIVE in this world!

Air is free...unless you happen to live on MARS....

Water is free in some public places such as stores, schools, and libraries.

But food, clothing, shelter, and medical care are NOT free 100% of the time (in the USA for example).

To get these items you have to comply with all sorts of red tape and paperwork. Even then, you STILL may not qualify for them....

Otherwise, you either have them given to you by others willing to help you, buy them, steal them, or just go without.

Money is the key to all this...and sadly the people in industrialized civilizations have been trained/conditions to 'fight' for money/jobs/customers/whatever....bleech! :P

This is not a world I want to live but here I am. I am trying to do the best I can WITHOUT being a CA$H-DRIVEN A$$HOLE...like most everyone else I see from day to day....

Well, I'll ask them, but I don't think they will be very keen. Uh, they already did that one, you see.
What?
He said they've already got one!
Are you sure they've got one?
Oh yes. It's very nice!

That's ludicrous! Bacteria don't wear hats?

Gentlemen, you can't fight here, this is the War Room!

CAPTCHA: motion [ there SURELY was that in the (in)famous scene! XD ]

somebody watched Toys

See: Remote Control War, available on Netflix watch it now. It may not be the robotic arsenal _you_ are dreaming of, it's a different one, and probably bigger and more capable than you imagine.

It was a line from the movie Real Genius

Never seen The Producers, have you?

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

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, CIA Director

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

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, CIA Director

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"No, Steve, I think its more like we both have a rich neighbor named Xerox, and you broke in to steal the TV set, and you found out I'd been there first, and you said. "Hey that's no fair! I wanted to steal the TV set! - Bill Gates' response after Steve Jobs accused Microsoft of borrowing the GUI (Graphical User Interface) from Apple for Windows 1.0* "

You sure Bill Gates said that? Because when I saw him say it, he looked a lot like Anthony Michael Hall.

Wasn't this the premise for the last Transformers movie ( Transformers: Dark of the Moon ) due out on video soon (or already available)?? Sure sounds like a publicity stunt for the movie to me.

Wasn't it Apollo 18 last year ?

That scene actually was from Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)

Uh-huh.... Thus demonstrating that it's still impossible to reconcile Episode IV with Episode V and all the crap that followed without rewriting Episode V. And, of course, all the other crap that followed.

Or, we could just turn our attention to a prequel that's not doomed to utterly suck.

I could have sworn that, in previous cases (not involving a US Senator), people were told that, if the scan found something odd, you could either accept the pat-down or be arrested...I wonder what would happen if a non-Congressfolk tried doing exactly what Rand Paul did. Would they be arrested for refusing the pat down? Would they be kicked out of the airport with a police escort?

You can stop wondering:
Alaska State Legislature member refuses pat-down.
John "Don't touch my junk!" Tyner refuses pat-down.
56-year old rape victim refuses pat-down.

YMMV. IIRC, TSA dropped charges against Tyner, but I don't believe the woman in Austin, TX was quite as lucky. To date, there are no politicians who have refused to allow themselves to be molested, excuse me, I mean "groped", err..."searched"...by TSA who have even had charges filed against them, much less who have actually been prosecuted. I guess the quote is true: "You know the score, Deckard. If you ain't cop, you're little people."

It has to be Zontar. He is the last surviving member of his species. Leonid Ksanfomaliti has been in communication with him using a plutonium laser. You'll find you can't kill Zontar with a gun because something causes the gun not to be pointing at Zontar when pulling the trigger.

And when you talk about law you have to remember whose interests are involved: Who Killed the Electric Car?.

Everybody should watch this documentary, and be revolted with those in command.

I watched the Bill Maher's documentary, Religulous. Of all the things in it that truly amazed me, was how 'enlightened' the Catholic Church (at least what few 'representatives' of the Vatican he could interview) seemed to be. All the fundamentalists in the US argued to the last that the Bible was the infallible word of God. The Catholics believed that it was an old book that needed to be taken with a grain of salt. It is the teachings in the book that matters and that science is a good thing because to know the universe is to know god.

"... you have to rewind to the beginning of the scene every time someone screws up. This completely destroys the pacing."

Not if the video game is called "Groundhog Day" ;-)

Seems already covered http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448011/

this is what i get when i google "three-ropers"

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Please, please, please watch "Who killed the electric car?"!

Bruce Willis already did it.

Sure, sure, I know... it just happened. Coulda happened to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, slipped on the floor and accidentally stuck your dick in my wife. "Whoops! I'm so sorry, Mrs. H. I guess this just isn't my week."

That would get Mr. Berlusconi into a whole different kind of shitstorm since that would be copyright infringement: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102266/quotes?qt0468298

Gunny Sgt Hartman is back and on your answering machine and GPS! 8D Even [spoiler] can't keep a good Marine down!

Watch the first 46 minutes or so of the movie to get to the spoiler then switch it off. The second half of the film just can't top the first!

I think it's a reference to the movie Event Horizon

(Pretty creepy movie, BTW)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470827/

You of all people should be able to recognize that my post's aim was to satirize the original poster's flamebait-loaded, hatespeech-filled post, by comparing his ideas to those of a serial killer nut-job.

And yes, suggesting murder of someone just because they pronounce their adherence to an idea IS motherfucking insane.
AND people making such suggestions should be if not closely watched at all times, then at least examined by trained professionals, both medical and by those in law enforcement.
Cause, you never know. He may be in the process of making room in the crawl space of his house.

TLDR: I was joking about him being much like psycho serial killer.

I knew my day would come... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107563/

Incidentally, there was a pretty decent movie with Stephen Rea and Donald Sutherland about the hunt for Chikatilo called Citizen X.

nah, wasn't funny even in 1984...

Turns out mine is more recent, Evilenko http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406754/

Do you mean Citizen X which starred Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow?

If you look hard enough you can always find some function that correlates to a single set of data. Like the analogy in a beautiful mind, you can find any pattern or picture in the stars if you look hard enough.

When I lived on a farm, we grew almonds. There were no milking issues.

So for mister smarty-pants up there, I meant "cows" colloquially for "cattle, prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae", generally meant, to people who haven't had the questionable pleasure of working a cattle farm, as including both male and female.

Not to mention breeds like the Texas Longhorn, both sexes of whom have horns. I want Texas Longtentacle cows!

If you really want to talk gender ambivalence in cattle, try sitting through this.

No need to train sharks, this idea has already been done by Don Knotts

Ok, that movie might be a little before most of the /. crowd.

Doubt it - if the U.S. lost 80 dolphins in one afternoon and they start a war over it, that is an insult to the Cute Animals and YAUSH (yet another U.S. hypocracy)

Watch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cove_(film)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313104/

An amazing documentary no less.