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That's what Seinfeld's Dad said in Independence Day

No. he doesn't. Taxi driver, Alex Reiger says that.

This is old news. The EV-1 was GM's truly electric car back about 20000. It was a "world beater/best in the world" at the time. I'm serious. Unfortunately it was cut due to internal politics. The managers who did it should be tried for treason. See:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/

The management walked away from a product their customers couldn't wait to get their hands on. Having customers pounding on your door who want to give you mone is an enviable position. This illustrates the incompetence of the management.

The classic Coppola movie, The Conversation.

The Conversation

Have you read "Space Race" By Deborah Cadbury?

There was also an excellent docudrama done of this book. Sadly, it only aired a few times in the U.S. (on the National Geographic channel) and isn't available on video in the U.S. (only in Region 2). There is a real animosity in the U.S., institutional or otherwise, to anything which presents the space race from any other perspective than NASA's (and even the NASA documentaries in the U.S. tend to ignore completely or downplay significantly the contributions of Werner Von Braun). You could probably fit everyone in the U.S. who recognizes the name Sergey Korolyov into one room, though no one in history did more to put machine and man into space than he did.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

GNAA Endorses Construction of "Ground Zero Mosque"
Leonard K. Isler - New York, NY

New York, NY - GNAA today announced its endorsement of the construction of the now-infamous "Ground Zero Mosque" that is planned to be built two blocks away from the site of the September 11th World Trade Center Zionist attacks.

The construction of the mosque community center is mainly opposed by the Zionist hate group "Stop Islamization of America" and its Jewish supporters, who argue that the construction of a mosque community center would be a "victory for Islam against America".

What SIOA fails to mention is that the September 11th attacks were, in fact, not carried out by Muslims, but by Zionist Jews. To combat this misconception, GNAA has endorsed the construction of the mosque community center.

"Ms. Geller is a known Jewish sympathizer", explains GNAA associate Klerck, "she is more than happy to spread these lies through fearmongering and the exploitation of public ignorance, using this Zionist hate group as a mouthpiece. It's not even a mosque, it's a community center. There was no other way to combat these Zionist lies, we simply had to endorse the construction of the community center."

"The community center is a much-needed thing in the Muslim community of New York", explains GNAA operative Jmax, "what other location would be the ideal place to pray for the extermination of the Jewish race five times a day? Insha'Allah!"

Ms. Geller declined to comment in person, speaking only in a brief interview conducted over the phone. The Jewish mouthpiece merely said "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children", wiping humus from her mouth while dining at a Bruegger's in lower Manhattan, and dialing her cell phone with her nose.

SIOA has declined to comment on the synagogue that is planned to be built on Ground Zero.

About Ms. Geller

Hates darkies.

About SIOA

Supporters of the inhuman ideology known as "Zionism" that slaughtered 3,000 precious souls on September 11, 2001, and funded by the Mossad.

About Jews

Did WTC.

About GNAA:
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yeah! didnt you see the bee movie ??

So does this plant run around asking for a MUL-TI-PASS?

My favorite in the Errol Flynn one too, but the tale can succesfully be told in other ways too; for proof see "Robin and Marian" by Richard Lester and writer James Goldman. Sean Connery and Andrey Hepburn in the name roles. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075147/

Haha. I remember being very confused when the new, unrelated Crash http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/ came out. I was wondering how everyone thought that a movie about people sexing it up in automobile accidents could be life-changing, etc. Then I realized they were talking about a new movie with the same name...

And gets his butt sued off in turn.

Yes, but only this film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/

I forgot to add... a CIA government car. The FBI tracking a CIA car would be an interesting one to explain.

Or a powerful politician with something to hide... trick learned from Enemy of the State

That's about the only way to really give them what they have coming. I'm just dumbfounded that the court of appeals ruled this practice legal in the first place. I'd like to see that dragged to the supreme court for a more public bloodletting.

I saw a documentary on your economic solution once. I highly recommend it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/

... and not just a photo of someone holding their hand up behind a shower screen ...

That picture looks suspiciously like the poster of this movie.

Mr. Burns already built the sun blocker. http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi1590099993/

Will this constant erosion of freedom ever stop?

Yes, when the real life UK becomes like the one portrayed in the film V for Vendetta. After that there will be no meaningful freedoms left to lose.

Reminds me of some lines from the film Ronin:

Sam: Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt. That's the first thing they teach you.

Vincent: Who taught you?

Sam: I don't remember. That's the second thing they teach you.

Reminds me of Brazil in which the authorities make the "criminals" pay for their own interrogation.

Don't fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating.

The Dark Knight, apparently.

Or perhaps something from PandorumWhere we did migrate, but didn't progress in technology.

We could also quite possibly revert in tech with a near annihilation event, killing all scientists and leaving a small state of Idiocracy.

Or perhaps something from PandorumWhere we did migrate, but didn't progress in technology.

We could also quite possibly revert in tech with a near annihilation event, killing all scientists and leaving a small state of Idiocracy.

You almost had it too...

Different regions of the world have different accents. Even in America in the 'south' there at least 5 different accents. Yet the one everyone calls 'southern' is an Alabama (bamma) accent.

Watch all of kids in the hall (I will wait). They have a very subtle Canadian accent (more upstate new york). However they say about as aboot once and awhile. And sorry as soory almost consistently.

The actor who played checkov was probably imitating people from his family as they were from Lithuania. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000479/bio

I think that was Star Trek: First Contact.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/

What about the movie Nothing?

Not only that, I was just reading a story at Ars about how Jon Landau believes everything should be 3D.

He is wrong.

Flatland should be in 2D, and of course Hypercube in 4D.

Not only that, I was just reading a story at Ars about how Jon Landau believes everything should be 3D.

He is wrong.

Flatland should be in 2D, and of course Hypercube in 4D.

Well, I guess it depends on how 'close' the family is. ;-)

Ahem...anyway, I don't see a 12" display being useful beyond a personal/portable media device.
At 20", it's finally entering the desktop monitor range. It will have to get bigger and cheaper before most people will invest in one these for the home TV.

Don't forget about CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE... such a lovely Hollywood gem! (I'm being a bit sarcastic but not entirely; don't expect to be blown away by some deep drama and realistic concepts; put reality aside and go in looking for a silly story with some mindless action and it's a hit! Works for me!)

Yes, yes, that's all well and good, but how did Brenda Song (Christy) look and did she strip?

I just wanted to share some entertaining thoughts I had while reading your post.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelly

"When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed."

George C. Scott in "Patton"

I'm not a troll here, I just felt that someone should say it. At the risk of losing my geek card, I found both the books and movies boring as hell. Randall in Clerks 2 pretty much sums up my feelings--just a lot of walking. The story never even made any sense to me either. Just seemed like everyone chasing after some lame ring whose only powers were to turn people invisible and turn everyone wearing it into an obsessive addict. I think the ring's only real power was the Paris Hilton effect--making everyone THINK it was so fucking important. Why they went to so much trouble to destroy the thing when they could have just let that CGI weasel hide it away as his crack fix is beyond me. For that matter, they could have just let the bad guy have the damn thing. It would probably have turned him into a pathetic weasel too. The whole thing seemed like a quest in search of an actual purpose--with a shitload of walking and boredom.

I'm not familiar with the Hobbit, but I suspect this one will be even lamer than the Lord of the Rings. Now they're bringing in the fucking b-team to walk too.

Committed:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421316/

Whoever moderated the parent offtopic obviously didn't know Pi.

Hi Fellow Slash Dotters, I'm an Executive Producer of the movie the Tunnel (So I'm getting a kick out of these replies). Less than 48 Hours after our story came to light on slashdot, IMDB's decision to reject our movie was REVERSED as of today, and we are now officially listed with a preproduction status! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1735485/ The power of SLASHDOT!! A

I've never heard of it either, but obviously it's easy to search for. It's from 2009:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151911/

I'm not justifying the actions of those who made the bomb threat or who are behind the DDoS attacks, but if US Copyright Group is going to act like a bully they are going to experience some backlash in a variety of forms. They think they can do as they wish just because they're lawyers, etc, but they're discovering that the public doesn't like a bully, plain and simple.

Two things spring immediately to mind in response:

1. 1. Bomb threats are over the line, period. Make one and your protest instantly loses all claim to legitimacy.
2. 2. And, more importantly, Operation Payback is aiming its retaliation at the wrong target. That copyright lawyers are conscienceless dicks who will select those least able to defend themselves for their predation is a given. And, if it's not the USCG (note: NOT the U.S. Coast Guard!) who does it, some other collection of scum-sucking bottom feeders (my apologies in advance to catfish, etc.) will do so. The thing is, though, that USCG and its ilk won't bother to fart in the general direction of individual users without clients to represent. Were it not for MAZEfilms and other crap factory production houses like them (I'm looking at YOU, Uwe Boll), who provide USCG with the standing to sue individuals who have the poor taste to download their excretions, these lawsuits wouldn't exist.

The real issues are: that there's no such thing as a p2p sandbox where new users can learn the ropes in safety (such as which trackers to avoid, which uploaders to trust, etc.); and that crap factories like MAZEfilms apparently have just enough willing consumers for their excretions to keep them in business, but not enough such suckers to make them as rich as they delusionally think they deserve to be.

I'm not justifying the actions of those who made the bomb threat or who are behind the DDoS attacks, but if US Copyright Group is going to act like a bully they are going to experience some backlash in a variety of forms. They think they can do as they wish just because they're lawyers, etc, but they're discovering that the public doesn't like a bully, plain and simple.

Two things spring immediately to mind in response:

1. 1. Bomb threats are over the line, period. Make one and your protest instantly loses all claim to legitimacy.
2. 2. And, more importantly, Operation Payback is aiming its retaliation at the wrong target. That copyright lawyers are conscienceless dicks who will select those least able to defend themselves for their predation is a given. And, if it's not the USCG (note: NOT the U.S. Coast Guard!) who does it, some other collection of scum-sucking bottom feeders (my apologies in advance to catfish, etc.) will do so. The thing is, though, that USCG and its ilk won't bother to fart in the general direction of individual users without clients to represent. Were it not for MAZEfilms and other crap factory production houses like them (I'm looking at YOU, Uwe Boll), who provide USCG with the standing to sue individuals who have the poor taste to download their excretions, these lawsuits wouldn't exist.

The real issues are: that there's no such thing as a p2p sandbox where new users can learn the ropes in safety (such as which trackers to avoid, which uploaders to trust, etc.); and that crap factories like MAZEfilms apparently have just enough willing consumers for their excretions to keep them in business, but not enough such suckers to make them as rich as they delusionally think they deserve to be.

The building was searched, but no bomb was found.

They just failed to find a copy of the bomb^Wmovie that they accused people of downloading. This bomb (title: "Cornered!") was a direct-to-dvd turkey that was already shown on TV in Hungary. It's not nearly as highly rated as the 1945 film Cornered.

The building was searched, but no bomb was found.

They just failed to find a copy of the bomb^Wmovie that they accused people of downloading. This bomb (title: "Cornered!") was a direct-to-dvd turkey that was already shown on TV in Hungary. It's not nearly as highly rated as the 1945 film Cornered.

The building was searched, but no bomb was found.

They just failed to find a copy of the bomb^Wmovie that they accused people of downloading. This bomb (title: "Cornered!") was a direct-to-dvd turkey that was already shown on TV in Hungary. It's not nearly as highly rated as the 1945 film Cornered.

You'd think it was a blockbuster release like LOTR or something.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151911/

Cornered, a 2-star rated slasher with a no name cast.

Actually on second thought, they might be making more money on the settlements than on theater sales.

The problem you are missing is that continuing debt only works as long as there is growth. We have pretty much ended the period of growth. Your children will not have a higher standard of living, that much should be obvious.

Currently, the US is trading with China on the basis of we buy their stuff and they buy our debt. This will work for a while, but at some point China is going to want something besides meaningless paper, which is all we have to give them now. There isn't any gold, there aren't any manufactured goods and there are no natural resources they want. Most importantly, we have lots of crops that they especially do not want.

When China decides they aren't financing the US any longer they will either own the entire country or the US will repudiate the debt. In either case, things are going to get really messy for anyone still living in the US - we either get to start learning Chinese to communicate with our new masters or we have a war. Current leadership looks very much like we should all get out the paintbrushes for making ideographs because a war would be unpopular.

Another way to the bottom is cap and trade. Instead of pushing externalities off onto the future - another way of borrowing - we put them right there in the current price tag, even if they don't actually cost anything for decades. This pushes everything made in the US to be unaffordable and leaves everything made in China at much lower prices. This just makes the problem worse faster. And it has the side effect of ensuring that instead of 20 or 30 percent real unemployement it is more like 50 percent. No problem, the government can just keep borrowing to support these people as well, at least for a short while.

I suggest reviewing the end of the movie Rollover to see what the future looks like when China or other creditors decide enough is enough.

Your thinking might work if the debt was something that could be paid off and wasn't growing. The debt explosion in the US government is like a college student with 10 credit cards and they are all maxed out. Nobody knows where the money went and nobody has any idea if it could be paid back. The US economy isn't growing, it is shrinking. And this isn't a problem that anyone expects to change in the next 20-30 years.

Schumer, while not evil, is wholly corrupted by vote-whoring.

It's funny you should mention him. I was watching Casino Jack and The United States of Money (a documentary about the Abramoff scandal) just last night and Schumer was one of the Democrats cited on the DVD as being a complete Wall Street whore. Most of the scumbags in that documentary are Republicans (let's face it, that's just in their nature), but a few are Demo's too (most notably Harry Reid, Schumer, and Patrick Kennedy).

I'll just wait for this guy to remake the original.

By all means, keep them away from science kits at the age when they swallow stuff. What good is ruler with smooth edges, and how much harm can it really do? I have kitchen table with "sharp" edges! Let's just put them in plastic bubbles, where they cannot hurt themselves.

One of the major flaws of corporate capitalism is that people who make a product are generally seen as less important (and thus less paid) than those who sell the product or tell other people to make or sell the product

This reminds me of a movie we watched a couple of days ago...a biopic on Coco Chanel. In the film, there's this scene where there are dozens of women sitting there sewing purses, dresses, etc...and the woman playing Chanel says "This company is successful because of me! It's called C-H-A-N-E-L for a reason!".

Claiming responsibility for the company's success while saying nothing of the throngs of people actually putting together her products was simultaneously amusing and disheartening.

Offtopic: for anyone interested, this is the one I'm talking about. It's pretty good.

FWIW, the open-source movie "Nasty Old People" is listed at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527679. This is available by torrent or download quite legally, as it is published under a Creative Commons license http://nastyoldpeople.org/. It's a surprisingly good movie, quite engaging and with a story relevant to modern society.

• must be of general public interest, and
• should be available to the public or have been available in the past.

Under 'what constituts general public interest', the rules include:

• has been downloaded in 'large' numbers from some website(s), or
• has become famous for some reason and is widely talked about/referenced in non local media or the 'film community' or is now of general historic interest for some reason.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/ So if GNFOS can make it in, why can't this movie? It's never been shown in theaters, sold, shown at a film festival and yet it has a spot on imdb.