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I saw a segment on some TV show a few years ago

It was on Mike Rowes' Dirty Jobs show and the episode was called Casino Food Recycler.

However, that farmer is now moving out of Las Vegas.

Night Gallery

Dated, but still one of my favorite episodes.

Pic of the wheel ...

http://www.garrettbelmont.com/...

The first time when I saw the wheels I was wondering why the hell they spend so much money to send up a robot to Mars and then equip that thing with such flimsy wheels

And I did post question here on /, and there were people (NASA fanbois, perhaps) defending those flimsy wheels

Obviously the engineers designing the wheels had just come off a Livin' The Low Life marathon and felt inspired.

That was the punchline of a SeaQuest episode's (Whale Song) sub-plot. Cattle was outlawed due to excessive flatulence.

Where is the controversy? If someone says the earth is the center of the universe, either they are dumb, or very conceited and really mean they are the center of the universe, but don't want to offend the rest of us. Oh wait, I get it now...

Relativity actually says that the Earth is in fact the centre of the universe, from Earth's perspective. It's exactly age of universe times speed of light from the borders of the Universe. That does not mean that Earth is special, however. The same is true for any other place in the universe.

Darwin is right.

http://www.tv.com/shows/almost...

Panama - Van Halen

Relevant Drew Carey episode:

"Celia returns from an out-of-town trip and learns about Drew's fight with Winfred-Louder. She offers her support. The store recruits Mimi to try to drive Drew out of the house. She points blinding lights at the house and constantly blasts "Panama" by Van Halen."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

http://www.tv.com/shows/the-dr...

meet cassie.... http://www.tv.com/shows/crash-and-bernstein/crash-asks-too-many-questions-2875426/

at any rate, i hope bennett gets some extra compensation out of this. if scansoft aka nuance had the contract with apple prior to contracting bennett for the voice work, then bennett got ripped-off big time with the hourly rate contract (similar to how scp and tim paterson got screwed by bill gates and microsoft)... had that contract (or scp's) been negotiated with knowledge the voice (dos) would be used in apple's phones (ibm pc's), there would most definitely have been royalties included in the negotiated compensation.

TV.com also lists them as a single, sixteen episode season.

Roddenberry worried about it some, but never let it get in the way of a good story.

Or a really shitty story.

The Mixed Reality Lab at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan did this in 2009 (linked post dated 2010/10/01, research presented on Popular Science's "The Future Of" television show in their The Future of Sex episode, aired in 2009.

The only reference to it remaining on the PopSci.com is Video: Japanese Robot Torso Hugs You Back dated 2011/06/23.

Reminds me of an episode of breaking bad (about a heist to pilfer some precious liquids).

'Modern Marvels' has done a show on just about everything (up next, "Cheese Tech Part II" on Modern Marvels) so perhaps you're thinking of the Star Trek Tech episode?

At least it didn't end up here.

http://www.tv.com/shows/trailer-park-boys/going-off-the-rails-on-the-swayze-train-1070439/

This was the plot of a few Trailer park Boys Episodes. They had a model train running in the forest between the US and Canadian boarders.

Wasn't Edison Carter's portable camera unit (in the old Max Headroom TV series) referred to as a "camera gun"? There's another example of prior art.

Anyone can use google.com/ncr (NCR stands for “no country redirect”) to see the original page without geographical redirection.

Unfortunately this is not totally correct. I live in Australia and if I have my cookies cleared (in firefox) and I type in www.yahoo.com/ncr I get redirected to an error page then finally to http://au.yahoo.com/?p=us. So currently I'm using http://72.30.2.43/. The website tv.com used to be easy then they implemented regional redirection. Suffice to say I was mildly pissed off.

I want to go where I want to go, when I want to and no I do not want you to tell me what I should and should not do. So I got around that by using http://us.tv.com./ After reading this particular article I tried http://us.tv.com/ and it did not work. I even used there American IP adddress but no luck there so I just used Tor, stuff them. As John Gilmore said, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

What Blogspot, Yahoo and TV.com have done and others is censorship at its worse and greed a close second if not a tie with censorship. Because, to impose any form of censorship a government must have the ability to monitor and therefore restrict communication. Therefore local laws are what are influencing these companies so they can continue to operate in those countries.

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Anyone can use google.com/ncr (NCR stands for “no country redirect”) to see the original page without geographical redirection.

Unfortunately this is not totally correct. I live in Australia and if I have my cookies cleared (in firefox) and I type in www.yahoo.com/ncr I get redirected to an error page then finally to http://au.yahoo.com/?p=us. So currently I'm using http://72.30.2.43/. The website tv.com used to be easy then they implemented regional redirection. Suffice to say I was mildly pissed off.

I want to go where I want to go, when I want to and no I do not want you to tell me what I should and should not do. So I got around that by using http://us.tv.com./ After reading this particular article I tried http://us.tv.com/ and it did not work. I even used there American IP adddress but no luck there so I just used Tor, stuff them. As John Gilmore said, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

What Blogspot, Yahoo and TV.com have done and others is censorship at its worse and greed a close second if not a tie with censorship. Because, to impose any form of censorship a government must have the ability to monitor and therefore restrict communication. Therefore local laws are what are influencing these companies so they can continue to operate in those countries.

Kind regards
Slashdotgirl

You're making assumptions about what I'm like because I mentioned a fact about how much television the average American watches (34 hours per week)? Interesting, considering I don't even have cable so I'm just as atypical as the other guy and people are certainly not like me on average.

I find Netflix has plenty of selection for my needs. I'll find an entire series I never saw, for example I'm watching BSG right now, and watch two or three episodes each weekday. That will keep me busy for almost two months and it only went four seasons.

I don't need a babysitter (though my wife might disagree) I'm in my late thirties and we don't have any kids. Also fairly atypical.

The "etc" is stuff like:

http://www.tv.com/grace-park-blog/the-confusion-over-grace-parks-real-birthday/topic/83722-645911/show_blog_entry.html&topic_id=645911

I thought that a victimless crime was when you punch people in the dark, not when you poke them.

According to www.alexa.com www.tv.com is the 1125th most popular site on the internet, 664th for the US audience. If I wasn't as computer literate, I might assume that going to tv.com would bring up information about TV, and magically, it does! Imagine if I could come up with some sort of content for a site called www.sun.com. Maybe I could run a magazine or newspaper called 'The Sun', maybe the UK's largest with over 2,000,000 subscribers. Maybe a classic record label? A band? A cell-phone company?

But I don't think I will, as I think the competition from all the people who decided to call their tabloids and bands DEC would be too much for me to handle.

See this funny SlateV video: http://www.slatev.com/video/ibms-watson-untold-story/ ...

Also, read TV.com's funny interview with IBM Watson: http://www.tv.com/qanda-with-watson-ibms-jeopardy!-playing-trivia-machine/story/25168.html ...

A serious presentation on IBM Watson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G2H3DZ8rNc

Good documentary by NOVA: http://video.pbs.org/video/1786674622/ ...

GG, IBM Watson. :)

http://www.tv.com/the-big-bang-theory/the-cruciferous-vegetable-amplification/episode/1356071/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary

Here is a list of the top five TV shows in order:

• Grey's Anatomy - medical degree plus doctors
• Bones - doctorate degree (minimum) plus forensic scientists in a variety of disciplines with the exception of the FBI agent
• Fringe - doctorate degree plus research scientists
• Medium
• Criminal Minds - masters/doctorate degree plus specialization in behavioural psychology for the majority of the FBI agents

Bones and Criminal Minds, the television programs I watch, are heavily oriented to the hard sciences while portraying a drama. CSI, while sometimes fantastical, has some good science behind the story. NCIS, well I only watch it to see Abbey and Doctor Mallard (Duckie).

• Grey's Anatomy
• Bones
• Fringe
• Medium
• Criminal Minds

I'm not familiar with the last two, but a scientist is the star of at least the first three series. I don't know much about Criminal Minds, but I gather science and smart people (instead of action or magic) are also central to that show. Presumably Medium is just about mysticism though :-P

Digital Archaeology Show Reveals 'Lost' Web Sites

Yeah, they're not hard to find...

HE-MAN!

(though I was trying to quickly find an episode of some other animated series from around that time; in which neglected geeks were tricked by the villain into creating a black hole - which in turn starts to consume, in a "fluid" way, the planet of protagonists; which ultimately can be only stopped by "something as destructive as itself" (some death ray, apparently); turning it into white hole spewing all the structures back; oh well...)

When they had a similar problem at Veridian Dynamics with their motion sensors they had white people follow the black people around.

http://www.tv.com/better-off-ted/racial-sensitivity/episode/1260542/summary.html

It's because electrons act as waves rather than particles in graphene sheets. Old news. Dr. Sheldon Cooper proved this months ago. Keep up with the literature, people!

The issue must be an interesting one ... Ally McBeal ran the issue up the legal flagpole as well.

http://www.tv.com/ally-mcbeal/these-are-the-days/episode/1000/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary

But does it taste like despair.

Not perfectly related, but whenever I hear about advancements in meat I can't help but think of that episode.

Poor Better off Ted, you will be missed.

Whatever. Short of hitting the kid on the noggin and knocking him out, there was nothing the Dad could do other than sit back and let him ride the Stimutacs.

Unicorns do exist, how do you explain the trolls?

I'm not suggesting that 3-year-olds should learn vector calculus. I'm suggesting that wealthier parents (which whether you know it or not, you are one) got to their first day of school knowing how to read, write a bit, count to 10 or 20, and possibly do some basic arithmetic. A lot of wealthier kids get that at preschool, but they could also get it from an attentive adult in other settings. In your case, your advantage was that you could afford to have your wife stay home and/or work with the neighborhood to start giving kids those basic skills.

By comparison, most poor kids (who didn't have access to Head Start and similar programs) start learning to read when they're 5 or 6. For instance, I was bored senseless in first grade because most of the time was spent trying to get my classmates capable of handling reading "See Spot run." Most of them couldn't do it the first day.

Oh, and what poorer parents are doing with their time at home - mostly mentally and physically resting from their jobs. If you really want to understand the life of a poor person, ideally talk to some of them and get to know them, or at the very least read about or watch smart capable and educated people try to live under the pressures that poor people do.

"Why would I want to sit there for six hours watching overweight bearded guys talk about where on the screen they clicked with a mouse?"

I'm going to have to revoke your brainiac geek club card if you didn't have some immediate suitable comeback on that one :) I don't know what your fiancee watches but had to something that was easy pickins. Something such as:

Why would anyone want to sit there watching fat people diet?
Or maybe America's Next Top Anorexic Crackwhore?

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FTA:
"Should you find yourself multi-monitor curious..."

hey! whoa! slow down there partner! I mean, yeah sure I'm interested in six monitors, but curious? No, no I am not curious... about anything... not that there is anything wrong with that

In fact checking the gun box would merely tell the government who to take out first in the event that, according to right wing mythology, FEMA and the president were to declare martian law.

To be serious, and I am no defender of US atrocities, the two cases cited hardly indicate a trend. The first happened in a genuine time of war, and in this case people do go crazy. In the second case, it does not seem that any personal information was released, so while violating the spirit of the promise, it is hard to say if it violated the actual intention. When we talk about releasing personal information, at least in todays terms, we are probably taking about specifics on undocumented people in the US or same sex couples living together, or the like. I can go to the census web site and get a demographic profile of each region if I so wanted, so that is pretty much public information.

Plant a few plants...

Now you're talking about some serious export potential.

Yes, it was the episiode where they were satirising house. Apparently frmo a quick google it's been mentioned on House as well.

http://scrubs.wikia.com/wiki/My_House
http://www.tv.com/scrubs/my-house/episode/934864/summary.html

http://www.cucirca.com/2009/01/27/house-season-3-episode-11-words-and-deeds/

http://www.tv.com/scrubs/broken-heart-syndrome-in-andquotmy-houseandquot-and-this-weeks-episode-of-house/topic/2641-628341/msgs.html

Yes, it was the episiode where they were satirising house. Apparently frmo a quick google it's been mentioned on House as well.

http://scrubs.wikia.com/wiki/My_House
http://www.tv.com/scrubs/my-house/episode/934864/summary.html

http://www.cucirca.com/2009/01/27/house-season-3-episode-11-words-and-deeds/

http://www.tv.com/scrubs/broken-heart-syndrome-in-andquotmy-houseandquot-and-this-weeks-episode-of-house/topic/2641-628341/msgs.html

As we learned on Duck Tales, no glass is ever completely unbreakable.

How'd they get the one out of the ditch?

Vampires don't sparkle in sun light, they burn. Taking away one of the most defining characteristics of vampires is sort of like castrating them.

Moonlight had vampires get weaker in the sun. (Go kinda pale, feel sick - almost like heatstroke)

I can tell they had a few geeks writing it, because they got a lot of the lore right. Subtle references to things. Even a LEEROY JENKINS! tossed into one episode.

Burning is the accepted default. Just wanted to point out there are other ways of handling it. But sparkling is just... strange.

Well, here's a picture of the Jonas Brothers in a security line at LAX. Here's one of Paris Hilton at LAX. Here is a whole who's-who of famous celebrities who have gotten in trouble going through standard airport security, including Naomi Campbell, Snoop Dogg, Courtney Love, Whitney Houston, and Paul McCartney. Now, I'm not saying they're treated the same: Whitney Houston had issues because they found a bunch of pot in her carry-on -- but they let her board the plane and keep the pot. Likewise if you're Britney Spears they'll hold your liter-sized container of liquid while you go through security and then give it back to you but the image of rich people only flying in private jets is completely false. They regularly fly on commercial aircraft along with the proles.

Please, dude, not unobtainium. upsidaisium

Unobtainium doesn't have unpaired electrons.

They actually did that:

http://www.tv.com/mythbusters/snow-special/episode/1056466/recap.html

Not every myth has to have an explosion, just every episode.

... the computer is good for a limited number of uses. These include calculations, entertainment, information retrieval, image manipulation, and word processing.

I've got to ask, did you go to the Michael Scott school of business?

Michael: There are four kinds of business: tourism, food service, railroads, and sales; and hospitals/manufacturing; and air travel.

Mark was also on The Simpsons after Mr. Burns won Austin Celtics team.

Good pop culture reference, but the wrong one. The Little Rascals and their "invisible rays" hit this nail on the head decades prior to Gilligan. http://www.tv.com/little-rascals/robot-wrecks/episode/220468/summary.html