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How many of you have forgotten? There have been three Doctor Who movies already.

How many of you have forgotten? There have been three Doctor Who movies already.

How many of you have forgotten? There have been three Doctor Who movies already.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059126/

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Funny you mention that. A friend of mine just started taking Colchicine [ColSys (tm)] for elevated uric acid in the blood. I'm old enough to remember an episode of "Quincy" where it was being marketed as a plant growth stimulant for pot and killing pot-smoking kids left and right. Apparently it's used on plants to induce polyploidy.

Interesting quote:

Colchicine's ability to induce polyploidy can be also exploited to render infertile hybrids fertile, for example in breeding triticale (x Triticosecale) from wheat (Triticum spp.) and rye (Secale cereale). Wheat is typically tetraploid and rye diploid, with their triploid hybrid infertile; treatment of triploid triticale with colchicine gives fertile hexaploid triticale.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044876/ -- We all know the ending.

This has not been my experience so far. True, there are few black engineers, programmers, and people starting businesses in Silicon Valley. However, those I have met have generally been outstanding at their work,

Indeed -- I caught a part of a documentary from the 80s featuring a black guy who picked up programming later in life. He couldn't explain how he did it, but boy was that man a wiz with computers! He probably could give BillG a run for his money.

I wonder what became of him...

Well, EVERYBODY knows that you can't succeed without Actors. And that Alec Baldwin was the greatest Actor on the planet, until bested by Gary Johnston. Durka durka.

Someone produces a pilot, releases it to the public.

Where do you get for the money for the pilot? And are you going to offer your backers a mere equity stake, with the proviso that viewers are under no obligation to pay, and if the sum doesn't meet your expenses (let alone profitably) you have to give everyone's money back? And then, just to pour salt in the wound, you're going to tell your backers that you're going to intentionally ignore the entire existing copyright infrastructure, which could be making you thousands of non-refundable dollars, just to prove the viability of the medium? People have been trying this, with The Tunnel for example, and it just doesn't work, not as a business model.

Prepaying for entertainment, really the patronage model in general, has always been very flaky as a business proposition. Mozart was barely able to subsist on subscriptions, and he was the greatest composer alive, well-respected in his day in the cultural capitol of Europe, surrounded by very wealthy, patronage-oriented people, and even HE took the simple step of only allowing subscribers into his concerts; if he were able to sell recordings he'd be a millionaire. Nowadays being a prepaid artist essentially means you work for the government, or live off a private endowment's largesse, or make commercial films -- crowdsourcing just can't make the ends meet. The biggest kickstarter projects ever gain about maybe $100,000, and I've worked on absolutely tiny films, non-union and no stars, shot as far away from Hollywood as we could get, and it still cost $250k to make something that a distributor would take a look at.

Luckily Sam Raimi picked it up and graciously put his name on it. And that's the nature of pre-selling entertainment, it's all about name recognition and stars. Pre-selling pilots and concepts would make celebrity and stardom even more intense -- Adam Sandler could easily get 1,000,000 to give him $10 each for films for a film sight unseen, but the next great talent? Good luck finding him without slogging through hours upon hours of slush pile on Youtube.

...the idea of disappearing into a cloud of vapour at any time doesn't scare me anymore. I grew up with dive-under-the-desk drills, "Protect And Survive", "Threads" (which terrified me the first time I watched it) and "When The Wind Blows" (which made me cry).

You also need to watch On the beach (the original) to round out your nuclear holocaust movies. It took me 30 years to actually sit down and watch it - partly because it was filmed where I grew up.

...the idea of disappearing into a cloud of vapour at any time doesn't scare me anymore. I grew up with dive-under-the-desk drills, "Protect And Survive", "Threads" (which terrified me the first time I watched it) and "When The Wind Blows" (which made me cry).

You also need to watch On the beach (the original) to round out your nuclear holocaust movies. It took me 30 years to actually sit down and watch it - partly because it was filmed where I grew up.

...the idea of disappearing into a cloud of vapour at any time doesn't scare me anymore. I grew up with dive-under-the-desk drills, "Protect And Survive", "Threads" (which terrified me the first time I watched it) and "When The Wind Blows" (which made me cry).

You also need to watch On the beach (the original) to round out your nuclear holocaust movies. It took me 30 years to actually sit down and watch it - partly because it was filmed where I grew up.

...the idea of disappearing into a cloud of vapour at any time doesn't scare me anymore. I grew up with dive-under-the-desk drills, "Protect And Survive", "Threads" (which terrified me the first time I watched it) and "When The Wind Blows" (which made me cry). I'm so used to Government using scare tactics to get its own way I'm slap happy to them.

What does frighten me is the fact that people are still scared of what TPTB to put it bluntly, won't ever do because they have too much to lose; TPTB know people are scared because people are dumb, panicky animals and that is ripe material to rob, rape and pillage.

You can't rob, rape and pillage radioactive ash.

Those who have everything they want at a whim are more afraid of losing it than those who have to scrimp, save, recycle, reuse and fight for it. I don't know why, it's just the way I see it. Probably some primal thing which says "You can't take it with you - you leave this world as you entered it, cold and naked." Or maybe I've just accepted the inevitability of corporeal mortality.

...the idea of disappearing into a cloud of vapour at any time doesn't scare me anymore. I grew up with dive-under-the-desk drills, "Protect And Survive", "Threads" (which terrified me the first time I watched it) and "When The Wind Blows" (which made me cry). I'm so used to Government using scare tactics to get its own way I'm slap happy to them.

What does frighten me is the fact that people are still scared of what TPTB to put it bluntly, won't ever do because they have too much to lose; TPTB know people are scared because people are dumb, panicky animals and that is ripe material to rob, rape and pillage.

You can't rob, rape and pillage radioactive ash.

Those who have everything they want at a whim are more afraid of losing it than those who have to scrimp, save, recycle, reuse and fight for it. I don't know why, it's just the way I see it. Probably some primal thing which says "You can't take it with you - you leave this world as you entered it, cold and naked." Or maybe I've just accepted the inevitability of corporeal mortality.

I am aware that the Three Laws didn't work as intended :-) That doesn't mean that having a core built-in safeguard is a bad idea.

I wasn't suggesting fuzzy rules, an auto-kill command as you suggest would suffice. A recent robot movie, (Eva), on the lines of Spielberg's A.I., features a literal kill-switch triggered by a voice command, which proves itself useful in the narrative. But I doubt that the Asimo robot includes such a feature.

I first heard about it when I saw the 1996 film on TV.

The film made it look really silly to me. Maybe it was better in the comics.

Reused thousands of times?

If it's quiet, it could be silent velcro!

• T.V. Interviewer: How do you account for the fact that the bombing campaign has been going on for thirteen years?
• Mr. Helpmann: Beginners' luck.

Dibs on working for Information Retrieval.

Also, I'd argue that it is highly possible for a multiorganism as large as an ocean to have sentience...

Solaris?

So something like Three Days of the Condor but for facebook and twitter? Imagine browsing through millions of pictures of LOLcats day in, day out...

reminds me of a scene in Labyrinth. I don't have the exact quote to hand, but it basically goes:

There are two doors. Each guarded by one guard. Both will tell you which door goes where (one to where you want to go, the other to certain doom), but there's a catch. You can only ask one of them, and one always tells the truth while the other always lies. So you ask one of them "If I had asked the other guard which door was the correct door, which door would he have pointed to?", and whichever door he points to, you take the other one. It's a twisted logic, but there you go.

Why would they buy insurance? "There is no evidence" that fracking caused any of that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640843/

But it happened on CSI so in the majority's view, of course it has happened! ;)

All those perfectly good laptops are going to be pitched into the ocean.

If you dig into the mines on Mars, you can find the underground tunnels the aliens built. There is a control center with an activation button that starts a nuclear reactor that melts the ice and creates oxygen. The boss selling air on Mars tried to kill both Arnold and his girlfriend and keep them from starting it up, but he fired a gun through the glass and caused the dome to crack and depressurize. He was then sucked outside (where he died since there was no air outside yet). The violent depressurization sucked Arnold and his girlfriend outside too, but before he got sucked out, Arnold managed to put his hand on the alien start button, starting the reactor. It got very hot very fast and pressed into the gracier, creating oxygen. Arnold and his girlfriend choked for a while but did not die. The sudden change in air pressure caused all the remaining domes to crack. So for sure there was life on Mars, and there is alien technology down there too. Its all right here.

Melancholia (new window)

There are incidents with hydro where hundreds of thousands have died because a damn failed. But of course that can't happen ever again. Damns will never fail again... Yeah, just like no one will ever die in production of solar panels or there will never be some mishap at a nuclear plant....

Also, you are missing the point completely. How long until ALL the mercury pollution in the oceans is cleaned up as result of burning coal? How long? How many people are affected? BILLIONS are poisoned by secondary coal pollution, but that's OK, that's "normal".

An estimated 1,000,000-3,000,000 people die each and every year as a result of of coal, gas and oil pollution. But again, that is "normal".

A nuclear power plant melts because of lack of planning, few thousand people are evacuated for *safety reasons*, and people freak out because that is "not normal".

There a quote from a movie Dark Knight, that applies to this entire drama very well,

You know... You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!
[Joker hands Two-Face a gun and points it at himself]
Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/quotes?qt0499831

That's exactly the case of nuclear vs. rest-of-them. You upset the lives of a few people because of abundance of caution, and everyone panics. But if people die left and right because something pollutes, as it polluted for hundreds of years, well, that's fine!! It's according to the fail-plan!

That's acetone peroxide. You've been watching too much NCIS.

Yeah, but will they think the fuse is a tail?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256380/

Seeing as how RIM is Canadian, this has already been done: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/

Hmm, I don't remember them in the movie

Here is your due process: Presumed Guilty

Two young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes suspects guilty until proven innocent. -- IMDb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363095/

And Cops will be renamed "Ow my balls!"

Dis dude did it first: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389860/

Here ya' go, buddy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

What could possibly go wrong?

(Just kidding.)

Why not just deal with it directly so we can fill up cars, trucks, buses, trains and airplanes with MAGMA instead of petroleum products? The waste products are simply heat and rocks. It might be a bit of a problem disposing of warm rocks from an airplane but with little parachutes it shouldn't be a problem.

Handling magma shouldn't be that difficult - sort of a big super insulated coffee mug would be required. Of course, we could get real fancy and move to something like magnetic suspension in a vacuum eventually.

This would also solve power problems for many portable devices by simply using a small Stirling engine running off the heat of a small amount of magma. Of course, proper insulation is going to be required as this brings a whole new dimension to the idea of a hot notebook computer in your lap. But the "battery" life could be a few days instead of only hours. How small could a thermal-to-electric conversion system be? Could we have magma-powered iPhones soon?

I do suggest watching the movie Crack in the World, a 1965 movie about tapping magma for an unlimited source of power for the world. Our friends at Google have made this available to everyone who might be interested.

1983 called and Chistopher Walken wants a word with you.

They claim this isn't the sequel of Inception. But that movie wasn't at all what came to me. Source Code actually is. Though reading dreams was posted on Slashdot recently the whole interaction with the brain seems to be a terrain that is finally being discovered. Although I wonder, why the target isn't about removing bad dreams, by inducing the patient with beta blockers so while living the dream, the dream cannot be stored again.

My Tivo caught 3, so I kind of know the answer to your question, there will at least be 1 more for you.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571437/episodes

No, he is talking about Majel Barret playing Number One in "The Cage" - the original Start Trek pilot with Captain Pike; the one that was later made into "The Menagerie" where Spock was court martial-ed for returning Pike to Talos IV after his severe radiation burns rendered him wheel chair bound. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059753/

Hm, that's the 2nd best convincing possibility I'm aware of. Everyone else either never had a DOB listed in IMDb, has publicly stated their true age somewhere at some point, etc.

Bai Ling. The IMDb DOB change matches up with the timeline. And the website being hosted in TX would fit, except that hardly proves anything since it's done over the internet anyway. The physical host could be anywhere. In fact, the contact info for the domain bai-ling.org is listed in la Rioja, Spain. Although, as you said, not an obviously anglicized name. However, truth be told I don't think she pulls off the youthful look as well as she wishes she could. She looks old. At least old enough that it'd be just as easy for her to pull off a 40-year-old part if she wanted to.

Junie Hoang. The "-ie" is obviously an anglicization, so that fits well enough. Her birthdate was also changed in IMDb somewhere around the dates known from the lawsuit. Her Facebook and website's contact info list her residence in LA, but her voicemail is in Texas and the contact info for her website's domain, juniehoang.com, is in Ft. Worth, TX. Furthermore, she could have been fibbing a bit when the lawsuit said she lives in Texas, in reality spending most of her time in LA. She's from Texas, anyway, and she probably has someone back home whose address she can use on the papers even though she doesn't really live there anymore. And lastly, I'd say she looks a lot younger than Bai Ling.

I'd say either has their pros and cons that would or wouldn't support their being the Jane Doe in this lawsuit, but I think Junie Hoang still has my bet.

I do think it's amusing, though, that the publicity over this seems to be backfiring and hitting numerous actresses who've tried unsuccessfully to hide their real age, not just the one who filed the suit.

Hm, that's the 2nd best convincing possibility I'm aware of. Everyone else either never had a DOB listed in IMDb, has publicly stated their true age somewhere at some point, etc.

Bai Ling. The IMDb DOB change matches up with the timeline. And the website being hosted in TX would fit, except that hardly proves anything since it's done over the internet anyway. The physical host could be anywhere. In fact, the contact info for the domain bai-ling.org is listed in la Rioja, Spain. Although, as you said, not an obviously anglicized name. However, truth be told I don't think she pulls off the youthful look as well as she wishes she could. She looks old. At least old enough that it'd be just as easy for her to pull off a 40-year-old part if she wanted to.

Junie Hoang. The "-ie" is obviously an anglicization, so that fits well enough. Her birthdate was also changed in IMDb somewhere around the dates known from the lawsuit. Her Facebook and website's contact info list her residence in LA, but her voicemail is in Texas and the contact info for her website's domain, juniehoang.com, is in Ft. Worth, TX. Furthermore, she could have been fibbing a bit when the lawsuit said she lives in Texas, in reality spending most of her time in LA. She's from Texas, anyway, and she probably has someone back home whose address she can use on the papers even though she doesn't really live there anymore. And lastly, I'd say she looks a lot younger than Bai Ling.

I'd say either has their pros and cons that would or wouldn't support their being the Jane Doe in this lawsuit, but I think Junie Hoang still has my bet.

I do think it's amusing, though, that the publicity over this seems to be backfiring and hitting numerous actresses who've tried unsuccessfully to hide their real age, not just the one who filed the suit.

That reminds me of the Yes, Prime Minister foreign office 4 stage strategy. You've just outlined stages 1 and 2. I guess that once they can no longer deny it's anthropogenic, they'll move to saying that there's nothing we can do (stage 3), again absolving them of the need to do anything. Then they won't need stage 4 until after some coastal cities are already underwater and millions of climate refugees/victims are making their lives a misery.

It'd be funny if it weren't so tragic.

when you do something similar and better then someone who has a ego maniac like personality. people with that kind of personality throw a temper tantrum not unlike a spoiled 2 year old when that happens because they can't stand people being better then them. anyone who has seen pirates of silicon valley http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/ will know this. unfortunately it's this kind of personality that large corporations foster and that's why popular culture attribute far too much to both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when Steve Wozniak and Paul Allen had at the very least a equal hand in the case of the latter, or did most of the work in the case of the former actually designing and building the first few lines of computers for their company.

i credit him in having a hand in the creation of the personal computer, i also credit him in having a major hand in killing the same thing because his ego could not stand having something he created out of his control.

It's Nicole Bilderback, born June 10, 1975 Obvious publicity stunt.

Duh, if she's born on June 10, 1975 then she's only 36 so she can't be suing them for saying she was 40.

According to the article at Paid content;
"The actress ... says that the credit-card interception is the only way the company could have learned her real age."

If the unknown actress is actually Junie Hoang then that statement may be false. Some web sites state her date of birth 10 July 16, 1978 but here are a list of web sites that set her date of birth at July 16, 1971;
http://watchmymoviesonline.com/?/actors/name/Junie_Hoang/
http://sharetv.org/person/junie_hoang
http://people.famouswhy.com/junie_hoang/
http://www.flixster.com/actor/junie-hoang
http://www.crystalacids.com/database/person/1947/junie-hoang/

Here is a really interesting thing that I found during my search. At this url under blogs I found this as the summary.

"Junie Hoang, born on July 16, 1971 in Saigon, Vietnam, is a Vietnamese actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0387470/ ) 2011 Social Vigilantes (announced) Mika 2011 Gingerdead Man 3-D: Saturday Night Cleaver (filming) ... -"

Note the DoB.
When I clicked the link the the DoB was July 16, 1978. Why the difference? It looks like at some point the blog stated the DoB was 1971.

It may be possible that all these sites got their data from iMDB but that is doubtful. For example the crystalacids.com, famouswhy.com and watchmy movies.com sits have incomplete listings of her and do not reference iMDB. If any of these sites show the 1978 date, there may be some "data cleanup" going on.

There are alternate ways to get an actor's date of birth.

It is not Nicole Bilderback. Even if she hadn't personally denied it, she's an established actress. Not A-list but she's got credits going back to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - that does not qualify as "up and coming."