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"Soup is Good Food" - Dead Kennedys, 1985

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Dead_Kennedys:Soup_Is_Good_Food

So it's like Wellspring?

There are other options that don't rely on firearms...

Believe it or not, in the original TV show, there were actually frog "cousins" of the Turtles. Though I don't think they ever caught on...

Its hard to make a plot about a frog on a fencepost.

Believe it or not, in the original TV show, there were actually frog "cousins" of the Turtles. Though I don't think they ever caught on...

If you've never read the Fallout Bible (pdfs here), I highly recommend it. It's pretty much a giant FAQ about the development of the game done by Chris Avellone, one of the designers of Fallout 3 and the defunct Van Buren (what was supposed to be Fallout 3). Lots of cool bits of trivia and ideas which didn't make it into the game.

The Zenit/Tair Photosniper was relatively common in the 90s around here. Mostly because people like its looks, I think.

H.264 is a newer video codec. The standard first came out in 2003, but continues to evolve. An automatically generated patent expiration list is available at H.264 Patent List based on the MPEG-LA patent list. The last expiration is US 7826532 on 29 nov 2027 ( note that 7835443 is divisional, but the automated program missed that). US 7826532 was first filed in 05 sep 2003 and has an impressive 1546 day extension. It will be a while before H.264 is patent free.

Last h.264 patent expires 2027

http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/MPEG_patent_lists#H.264_patents

This page has a list of H.264 patents. The last one expires in 2028, but from an extremely brief glance it doesn't look encoder-related. Last relevant one might be 2027; it has a 1215 day extension.

Larry Middleman could probably use the work.

You know, the phrase actually makes sense with the context (that was never given in the movie)

quote:

The Kessel Run was an 18-parsec route used by smugglers to move glitterstim spice from Kessel to an area south of the Si'Klaata Cluster without getting caught by the Imperial ships that were guarding the movement of spice from Kessel's mines.

It took travelers in real space around The Maw leading them to an uninhabitable—but far easier to navigate—area of space called The Pit, which was an asteroid cluster encased in a nebula arm making sensors as well as pilots go virtually blind. Thus there was a high chance that pilots, weary from the long flight through real space, would crash into an asteroid.

So, the idea is that he took a rather large shortcut - "By moving closer to the black holes, Solo managed to cut the distance down to about 11.5 parsecs."

We name our lab servers after characters from the Muppets. There is an excellent Muppet Wiki which provides more names than we could ever need!

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:The_Muppets_Characters

Banjo will reveal the prophecy of "etc." at the proper time.

I am OK with this as long as Lucas doesn't write ANY of it. If they could somehow merge the Zahn Trilogy and Dark Horse's first Expanded Universe comic Dark Empire into a credible 9-hour long 3 feature film set, I would be a very happy man.

But it's not going to happen.

I am OK with this as long as Lucas doesn't write ANY of it. If they could somehow merge the Zahn Trilogy and Dark Horse's first Expanded Universe comic Dark Empire into a credible 9-hour long 3 feature film set, I would be a very happy man.

But it's not going to happen.

Why can't anyone see this? http://starshiptroopers.wikia.com/wiki/Meteor_Attack_on_Buenos_Aires

Except that the Empire did have capital ships that generated and artificial gravitational field to passing drag ships out of hyperspace.
Wookiepedia

Oh, so there is a pop culture reference here I didn't get. Your explanation still doesn't tell me who this "Sheldon" is, but a Google search for "Sheldon Wil Wheaton" suggests that you are talking about a character from The Big Bang Theory.

Sorry, I haven't seen that show so I missed the reference. I've heard that show is good.

P.S. When I put references in, I try to remember to hot-link them. I wouldn't have misunderstood had the GP done something like this:

Except that it has Wil Wheaton in it.

Wow, reading that link, it seems that the fictional Wil Wheaton as shown in the show is actually a terrible person. Kind of like how the fictional Bruce Campbell as shown in My Name Is Bruce is a terrible person.

steveha

I'm glad they discovered that death risk increases with age.
Did you ever wonder how they come up with death rates that are less than 100%?

Myself and several of my companions from the Society of Immortal Beings were actually some of the people studied you insensitive clod.

It still exists, people have just stopped calling it "Hypertext Literature". Checkout The SCP Foundation. Or read though any wiki at all on a Computer Game or IRL gaming experience.

It still exists, people have just stopped calling it "Hypertext Literature". Checkout The SCP Foundation. Or read though any wiki at all on a Computer Game or IRL gaming experience.

So like a MAC Cannon for Halo? http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Magnetic_Accelerator_Cannon

I use a Mac Mini for my media player. I get some content using Miro (http://www.getmiro.com/). I play video content with either Miro or XBMC (http://xbmc.org/). For audio, I use Music Player Daemon (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki) and control it with my phone or a laptop. It just works.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Krynoid

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Seeds_of_Doom

For shame... for shame...
No one remembers their Tom Baker Dr. Who episodes.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Krynoid

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Seeds_of_Doom

For shame... for shame...
No one remembers their Tom Baker Dr. Who episodes.

You can always count on Bit to give you a straight answer. Yes siree Bob!

I'm not 100% positive but "smeg" smacks of Red Dwarf. http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Dwarf

I feel for instance, you can have the -exact- same makeup of the Cosmic Egg (or whatever you want to call the Big Bang) and have the Big Bang go off in identical ways, and yet have completely different results after billions of years. I don't believe reality is that ordered.

We all know the dopplegangerverse should be about ten feet off from the original.

Since Window Maker has had pretty bad multi-display support, when I got a new laptop a summer or two ago I looked for replacements and discovered ... Sawfish is alive too. I'm using it now with xfce-panel and gnome-session (2.x since 3.x hates me) and it's pretty tolerable (supports all of the new window hints and session management stuff ... giving me something that's almost as reliable as what I had with Window Maker a decade ago). I really, really miss the dockapps though... the network and cpu monitors available nowadays blow and I've never really gotten over now having a dock app to control my music player ("media keys" get the job done but you get used to doing things a certain way when you've done them that way for a decade and all).

Russian hackers have accepted EUR800,000 in donations from customers of Nordea, Sweden's largest bank, after a sophisticated "phishing" campaign recruited customers into downloading a Trojan horse program that recorded their account login details.

The Russians had looked up the definition of "hacker" in the Jargon File and been inspired to leverage the creative power of open source Free Software. The first campaign took place in August 2006 and was detected a month later, having affected around 250 Nordea customers.

The emails claimed to be from the Nordea Open Trojan Foundation, telling recipients to install an anti-spam and donation tool. Their computers were then infected by the Trojan HaxDoor.RMS.w32, which installs itself in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 and sends your passwords to its creators, but only after you have read through and accepted the GNU General Public License and checked the README file for known problems. The email also included full source code.

Swedish police traced the attacks to Russia by looking at the contact details, including address and phone number, included in the README. They have filed over 100 bugs on the creators' SourceForge project and joined the mailing lists on the grass-roots marketing and publicity site SpreadHaxDoor.com.

A Nordea spokesman said the attacks have "quietened down" after the initial influx last Autumn. "We are constantly looking at the security of our online banking and many different measures are taken. We are updating our systems behind the scenes. Many already run on enterprise Linux distributions, but we will be moving desktops to Linux as well for more efficient funds transfer with less reverse engineering required, and may recommend that our customers do the same."

The Trojan only affects computers running Windows. "For unsupported platforms, we have an 'honor system' which gives our details so you can send some money in," said a spokesman for the hacker group. "We hope this will help and encourage contributors interested in porting the Trojan to other operating environments."

Photo: The penis on the 2 Eurocent coin.

And Yoda who uses "anime action hero FUCK PHYSICS" style.

Let's not forget this droid-wannabe. He could, uh, spin his lightsaber "collection" really fast...

Oblig. Plinkett.

We have tons of waste from the traditional uranium plants to use up, might as well start building some reactors that produce almost no leftovers.

Waste? Leftovers?
Sounds like what you're really asking for is Mr. Fusion.

And to be fair, thanks to the expanded universe there are 7 different forms of Lightsaber combat based on real-world sword-based martial arts. One form of Lightsaber combat is as different from another as European fencing is as different from Kendo.

The most readily apparent example is Obi-Wan (who uses a style similar to Chinese straight sword arts) versus Dooku (who uses a European fencing sort of style, cape and all).

C. Lightsaber through the face

Safety first!

Your Lightsaber and you

I first saw this on atom films. Is it still there?

The youtube version is a 'rip' and the A/V quality is bad due to that. The original atom films copy was crystal clear but had DELIBERATELY crappy A/V for the effect of verssimilitude which works BEAUTIFULLY within the context of this HILARIOUS film! :D

The other two options are passe and have been seen in the 6 (or 3 for OT purists) film saga.

I read somewhere on the Net that lightsaber users are taught to kill with a minimum of disfigurement to the opponent's body.

[EPISODE 3 SPOILER!!! (incase anybody hasn't seen it since it came out in 2005)]

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shaak_Ti

For example:

Shaak Ti got skewered through the heart by General Grevious' lightsaber. He pulled it straight out instead of slicing her head in half with an added upswing (or lower body with a downswing). Of course this was likely done to avoid an R rating such a 'finishing move' would warrant. The film got a PG-13 rating anyway. On top of that, this death scene was cut from the film and is considered non-canon.

Shaak Ti is alive and well and living in the Expanded Star Wars Universe.... :)

CAPTCHA: raking. [STAR WARS is definitely raking in cash for a 34+ year old movie series!]

Harry potter would be a simple movie to do. There is nothing in that could not be done with some plastic models, and a little time painting negatives. Would it look like it does today, nope, but it would perfectly clear to the audience what is happening and they would have no trouble understanding what stuff was "supposed to be".

So essentially you are arguing against progress because the movies of yesteryear told the story just as good as the movies of today? You got modded up for it too; on what other subject could an argument against technology get a positive moderation on /.?

BTW, I'd love to see how you'd bring this scene to the big screen with negative printing.

Just keep her away from Stallman. http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/EMACS_virgins_joke

(147,093,357 items [source]) * (2.5 kg / item [source]) / 50,000 tonnes = 7.35466785 Libraries of Congress per year.

so somebody can have a blond fairy that normally wears Green[...]

After reading just that portion of that line, I was expecting you to say Nintendo instead of Disney.

Robotech Defense Force

So you think they're running their website on MAC IIs?

And here I always thought Mitt Romney was a muppet, at least according to the Daily Show.

It find it ironic that despite all the Congressional rhetoric surrounding piracy and copyright infringement, these campaign folks (who are of course being advised by lawyers) simply rip off 30 seconds of copyrighted work and then cry "fair use."

That's not ironic. It's basically the entire point.

The people being elected to congress are not prepared to pass legislation that has actual consequences. They think they're doing the boring job of maintaining the country, which is why hardly anyone takes it seriously. They think it's okay to be selfish and accomplish nothing. They think that peace and prosperity will never end--or worse, they think that you have to have to be superstitious and cowardly, maintaining the previous order at any cost. The proper way to go about it would be to take it seriously, take it slow, and not do anything drastic just because of momentary industry pressure.

Only people in the tech industry see now (by which I mean plus or minus a decade) as being a crossroads, where legislation can make things better, can keep things the same, or can utterly decimate technological and cultural innovation. Congress sees it as kids playing, and like a lot of bad parents, they equate "kids playing" with "slacking off" rather than growth and development.

Chorus: A.N.N.A. rules!

Peter: 'Cause I kick all the bad guys in their jewels!

Chorus: A.N.N.A. won!

Peter: Thanks to my gamma ray atomic gun

Chorus: Dance and shout, he's the world's greatest ninja there's no doubt

Peter: Though they try to defeat me, they can all just freakin' eat me

Brian: 'Cause he blew all of us away

Peter (and Chorus): On the planet of Siam there's no one as tough as I am, just as surely as Paul Lynde was gay!

http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/A.N.N.A._Rules

Fuck that. We can design our own Open Source car!

I'm so gonna cruise around in The Homer...

Droids-R-Us, of course. Save your buckazoids!

Wookieepedia has a brief discussion on the Holiday Special's inception, and there's a very long Vanity Fair article with many more details.

That is a stupid and immature response for such an important topic!

Everyone knows it should be "Kame-Hame-Ha!"

Yep. Hollywood and Big Media will be pushing for a monitor standard which detects uncertified video, blocks it, reports you and sets your house on fire.

That's pretty overkill, and probably only represents *AA's starting position in the bargaining. I'm sure they'd be happy with just detonating the explosive slave collar, if they can get the mandate for that piece of content-protection hardware added in the next round of copyright protection legislation.

Seems I read a story in the news yestiddy - MegaUpload cost them $500 Million in losses due to piracy. Really? How did they come to that figure? Wild guess? Actual accounting? Is anyone here just blindly accepting that figure? Don't talk to me about overkill when it comes to Big Media and Hollywood (Hollywood even - legendary for Hollywood Accounting and such phrases as, "Yes the picture did gross $784 Million, but after production, distribution, marketing, promotional activities, etc, etc, etc, we lost money on the picture, which is why you are not getting a 5% of Net, because there is none. By the way, are you available for the Sequel? It'll be collassal!") $500 Million .. sure. And I'm an Asthmahound Chihuahua named 'Stimpy'.

Yep. Hollywood and Big Media will be pushing for a monitor standard which detects uncertified video, blocks it, reports you and sets your house on fire.

That's pretty overkill, and probably only represents *AA's starting position in the bargaining. I'm sure they'd be happy with just detonating the explosive slave collar, if they can get the mandate for that piece of content-protection hardware added in the next round of copyright protection legislation.

In my head I am picturing a giant tower 1800 meters high, with nothing but a lightbulb on top of it.

Probably something like this, or maybe this.