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Indeed, Machete kills.

In Stealth We Trust

http://www.impawards.com/2005/posters/stealth.jpg

You mean, like this one?

I dunno, the thought of the Red Chinese flying one of those sounds rather daunting.

Damn, I haven't seen that movie. Could someone who has please tell me why everyone is about fall over or have already gone horizontal, and why everyone generally looks pretty uncomfortable in the poster?

Good point, but what do you see onthis Shrek 2 poster? And flip that DVD over, what's on the back?

Now what do you see on your copy of GTA4?

http://www.impawards.com/2002/posters/ice_age.jpg

Prior art can be claimed by a young Ms. Gail of Kansas, United States.

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And her device featured "off-road" capabilities as well.

People who want to see Will Smith kicking robot ass will go to see it whatever you bloody call it.

People who love the work of Asimov will realise it is a perversion of all he stood for just by looking at the poster.

So, why bother licensing the book? What possible use did they get for their money?

Hell, if it had refrained from the corpse-raping I might have even gone to see it myself. I like to see people kicking a machine's ass occasionally, mostly when Outlook decides there isn't enough RAM in all the world for it.

Looks like a lot of work has gone into shooting this idea down, but...

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries...

Assuming, for the moment, that we define value in the crassest possible sense and limit it to monetary value, this certaintly seems to imply that the progress of science and useful arts is not valuable enough to promote itself, and requires false value to be imposed upon it by the government.

Of course, if I actually thought that way, I'd be some kind of libertarian, and nobody wants to be a libertarian. My real interperetation: Duh, obviously. Which is a more worthwhile endeavor, re-remastering Star Wars or Fog Of War? The 671st Freaky Friday remake or Lost in Translation? Making Lord of the Rings into a movie or actually coming up with something besides elves, dwarves, and wizards to write a fantasy book about.

If the poem's score for perfection is plotted along the horizontal of a graph, and its importance is plotted on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the poem yields the measure of its greatness.

A sonnet by Byron may score high on the vertical, but only average on the horizontal. A Shakespearean sonnet, on the other hand, would score high both horizontally and vertically, yielding a massive total area, thereby revealing the poem to be truly great. As you proceed through the poetry in this book, practice this rating method. As your ability to evaluate poems in this matter grows, so will - so will your enjoyment and understanding of poetry.

For the newer users, we have an example of an unsafe protocol.

NEIL
If the poem's score for perfection is
plotted along the horizontal of a graph,
and its importance is plotted on the
vertical, then calculating the total
area of the poem yields the measure of
its greatness.

Keating draws a corresponding graph on the board and the students
dutifully copy it down.

NEIL
A sonnet by Byron may score high on the
vertical, but only average on the
horizontal. A Shakespearean sonnet, on
the other hand, would score high both
horizontally and vertically, yielding a
massive total area, thereby revealing the
poem to be truly great. As you proceed
through the poetry in this book, practice
this rating method. As your ability to
evaluate poems in this matter grows, so
will - so will your enjoyment and
understanding of poetry.

Neil sets the book down and takes off his glasses. The student sitting
across from him is discretely trying to eat. Keating turns away from
the chalkboard with a smile.

KEATING
Excrement. That's what I think of Mr. J.
Evans Pritchard. We're not laying pipe,
we're talking about poetry.

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