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It looks like nearly everybody here missed the point of the movie. I missed it also, and then I watched RedLetterMedia cover it in this episode of re:View, and really felt humbled and disappointed that I completely missed the point of a brilliant piece.

Carpenter's and Piper's DVD commentary is worth going through as well.

If for nothing else, then to get the feel of both of them.
Carpenter being this laid back, down to earth kinda guy, Piper being a really nice guy who had to go through some rough shit in life... but a bit... flaky.
I mean... there you are, listening to two guys talking about the movie they made all those years ago, while watching the said movie... and then out of nowhere Piper hits you up with a conspiracy theory.
And while Carpenter is all "Well I be damned." you google a bit and... oh... OH!

Sadly, though they mention Hulk Hogan and his movies, they never address the PKE-meter situation.

As someone who appreciates this film as much as I do (and saw the premiere as a child like you did), you owe it to yourself to watch this incredibly long and detailed series analyzing Kubrick's masterpiece in as much detail as he did with the movie. I guarantee you will be back here to thank me. This guy did an INCREDIBLE amount of research and tackles the film in a seven part series that is just brilliant.

CinemaTyler series on the making of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: https://youtu.be/AgNyCluIRhA?l...

Fucking magnets. How do they work?

Which reminds me, wasn't Fontus due to deliver right now in April? Any backers here, did they actually deliver?

Most definitively NOT a backer, Thunderfoot has a walkthrough of their last year about a month ago, here: https://youtu.be/wNHcIYyYDhU?t... along with some tests and minor rants.

You might remember that there already have been a few wars since 1945.

Correction: turns out 1945 was the last time we officially were at war. At least, if you're talking about how how it pertains to the Constitution.

Korea: just some misadventure by the 38th parallel. War never actually declared.

Vietnam: just some misadventure on the Mekong. War never actually declared. I think this movie summed it up best: Bob Hope doesn't play at police actions.

Cold War: a convenient shorthand for simmering tensions between two nuclear-capable factions. War definitely not declared.

All those fun and games we had down in Central and South America? That's just the military and intelligence agencies off at summer camp. War never declared.

Remember that time when we put the beatdown on Saddam Hussein because he invaded Kuwait? Nope, not a war.

You better believe we would never go to war to stop a genocide in the Balkans.

Remember that other time we put the beatdown on Saddam Hussein, because he supposedly had weapons of mass destruction? That wasn't a war either. Can you believe it?!

And the gift that keeps on giving in Afghanistan? We still haven't gotten around to declaring that a war.

Now, I'll grant you - those last two were A-OK due to an authorization for the use of military force. I'm not sure what Iraq had to do with 9/11, but G.W. can't be wrong.

Still, it ain't a war unless Congress says so.

Isn't it?

The program is designed to use retiring F-16 jets to act as autonomous "loyal wingman" for manned F-35 jets

I wonder what the guy who came up with this idea used to do as a kid...

I see your static media and raise you an animated Dilbert: https://youtu.be/7MqhBL9eEts?t...

Fuck Robots

Sounds like you need Old Glory Insurance - for when the metal ones come for you.

This is a pipe dream shared by the techno dreamer amonsgst us, much like air cars or robot servants.

No, no it isn't. The sensory tech to make cars self-driving is already there. Google has millions of miles of successful testing under their belt. I myself have been riding in a Tesla going 120 km/h while the driver was doing nothing. Now Tesla's solution is not fully automatic and requires you to still pay attention to the road, but this if anything should point out to you that we're much, much closer to self-driving cars than most people think. There are issues to solve still before the tech is ready to hit the market widely, but these obstacles (handing of weather conditions etc) are things which can be solved with existing technology and innovations.

I don't know anyone who has a self driving car or who has any intention of getting a self driving car.

I will get one as soon as the price is right. I'd much rather climb onto the car, tell it to get me to wherever, and sleep/eat/do work/whatever else with my time rather than drive,

Most people would never trust their lives to this kind of technology.

All existing data from ongoing self-driving car pilots, including Google's, point to self-driving cars being vastly safer than human piloted vehicles. The cars have technology allowing them to have a far superior understanding of their surroundings than any driver ever can. Google is using radar. The car can see and know the location of vehicles, pedestrians and obstacles far outside the reach of a humans vision. The car is able to do real-time physics calculation and actually figure out the smartest way to for example evade stuff. Humans take about a second to a second and a half to even react to a sudden emergency. In that second the computer has not only detected the obstacle/danger but processed through the different alternatives it has (ie. it has figured out whether or not to do perform an emergency braking maneuver or whether it's better to evade, and in which direction) to respond to that and has started to take action far before human reaction times even kick in. Literally in the time it takes for the human brain to go "OH FUCK A MOOSE!", the self-driving car has already mapped a solution and began implementation taking into factor numerous things (brake-force per tire, road surface conditions, etc) that the human never could. And if a crash is unavoidable, the car can calculate a way/place to crash the in a way that does minimal damage to the passengers and start dialing emergency services immediately, even rely to them crash data so that the dispatched emergency staff will know what kind of injuries to prepare to treat.

Computers are simply better suited to handle the chaotic nature of traffic. It can track and predict the movement of all of those vehicles and pedestrians simultaneously. This video showcases that well at around the 12 minute mark: the cars are all stopped at a crossing, and there's a cyclist that's about to blow through a red-light. The human-operated vehicles all miss this and start to move forwards on a green light as the cyclist hits the crosswalk, nearly hitting him. The self-driving car has known (based on speed and trajectory of the cyclist from LADAR) that the cyclist is going to blow through the red light before he even does so and doesn't start to move until the cyclist has crossed the road safely.

Couple that with the fact that the cars can communicate with each other. A car that spots something like a tree or an accident on road can relay this info to other vehicles which can take this into consideration immediately and re-route far ahead of time.

People need to get their heads out of their sci-fi asses and understand that there are enormous legal and regulatory hurdles here.

Yes, but those can (and will) be sorted.

The firs

Artist's depiction

Learned from Japan Today's News evening edition that Mr. Abe of Japan supported US missile attack on Syria along with few more leaders .Though the attack were carried with out consent of UN Security Council . May be he has forgotten the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the Roll of US during WWII . After 9/11 for the oil and safeguard of Israel create a drama of mass destruction weapons lying with Mr. Saddam of Iraq. So need to destroy him same way with out authorisation of UN Security Council ,started war game among those countries later on found nothing and told then information were wrong . But in the mean time destroyed whole the Iraq. Same had done in Libiya .Not only for this created whole the ME particularly Muslim countries as fire ball destroyed the social and religious harmony still they are killing each other . Later observed Syria will difficult for Israel Planned to fall Mr. Assad region created entry Assad various group including IS to whom direct and indirect providing money ,logistic each and every support and thus almost destroyed Syria except not yet possible to toppled Assad region on the blessing of Iran and Russia. World were observed during long lasting Iraq Iran war logistic supply were made for both country properly with Israel (famous as Contra scandal)and S.Arabia. As a civilised life we can not accept any kind of killing and inhuman activities. But questions comes due to killing civilian by Mr. Assad US triggered Missile to Syria then can we expect the same action for killing millions of civilian in Iraq, Lybia, Afganistan by US coalition ?Can we expect same action for killing Palestinian by Israel? Whole the world not authorised with out investigation to punish Mr. Assad by killing the people and destroy the in fracture of other country on assumption because the same gas was used by rebel of Syria reported earlier . We can expect to know who were supplied this gas to them ? What the civilised world done when US killing 200 civilian in Mosul last month? Know all question is valueless and all cause are vague . UN have no moral right to do some thing against the big power. As US coalition backed group now are defeating so to help them US coalition created drama to cuttle the strength of Mr. Assad for strong the hand of rebel and IS . And another side when Trumps popularity going down he may be tried to improve support by opening new field to play War game under the banner of safe the democracy and humanity. We the general people do not want any war any blood shed . So need to stop the war game, sale and production of arms. Wants peace peace and peace around the world nothing else. https://youtu.be/4VWISlypcrA

PC gamers are notorious for overestimating power supply requirements. The wattage craze is completely unwarranted UNLESS you overclock. At stock clocks, the cards are actually pretty power efficient. See this graph for example. Under max load, a GTX 1070 draws maybe 150W by itself. Combine that with a 65W TDP CPU (e.g. Core i5 7600) and you're only at 215W at max load. Add in 5W for memory and 15W for the HDD and you can still fit yourself into 235W, 10W less than 245W. Now consider that the XBox Scorpio's CPU & GPU will be lower clocked than your average PC rig and you can see how they can fit into 245W. Also see this short informative video on the same subject.

Try me with some rice!

It's the Four Stage Strategy.

Here's a demonstration of a 1403

Here is an actual video of it printing. The rest of the tour of this antique data center is interesting.

The actual statistic from reputable sources is 4-7% And even those sources can't explain the reasoning because there are so many variables.
If your interested, a good breakdown of why the gender gap statistic is specious.

https://youtu.be/cOGTnNL0Gx0

Here's the Tiger Rag on one. All that noise wasn't purely used for evil.

The Boondocks / Pulp Fiction has the answer

Reasons to only go to the Alamo Drafthouse 1. Beer. Full bar. 2. Pretty good menu. 3. PSA's that are legendary. https://youtu.be/1L3eeC2lJZs 4. Nice big seats, lots of room.

if i may: what are you referring to? i genuinely have no idea what you're talking about, but if there is something going on, i would like to be aware of it

This should bring you up to speed.

if i may: what are you referring to? i genuinely have no idea what you're talking about, but if there is something going on, i would like to be aware of it

This should bring you up to speed.

The truth is that overall the major media outlets (sorry, MSM is a conspiracy community term) do a pretty good job. They don't always get it right, and they can also be misled, but that is not the same thing as fake news.

Agree to disagree

I completely agree that the notion of a George Soros puppet string pulling conspiracy going on is just that: a conspiracy theory. And I don't buy into that for a second. I only know what the facts tell us: that even in situations when they clearly do have all the information, they still choose to flat-out lie.

To use a more recent example than those provided in the above video: Are we to believe that the Wall Street Journal's smear piece against Pewdiepie was just an honest mistake and that the three investigative journalists involved genuinely did not realize that he was a comedian telling jokes who was not actually intent on spreading Nazi propaganda? Is that the mainstream media "not always getting it right?" Did they just happen to miss the rest of the video-footage from which they cherry-picked?

I don't know exactly why they lie. But there is ample evidence that they do, and do so knowingly.

It's not? ;)

A limp SSD, it started with that blinking icon in my Windows 7 tray one morning... now my whole system has a limp, Dr MS. Please prescribe me some more Win Meds so I can get crazier.
ref: https://youtu.be/TRIv1Vlc3Wk

This is how consumer oriented robots are winning the jobs in America: https://youtu.be/PTQqz60bVgI Enjoy the sight, that landscape is already barren. (If only I could add some music to it... but computers do not seem to be oriented to handling music at all...).

Obligatory "indicted" reference.

Here is your answer:

Dinosaurs threaten nothing important to the 1% and are thus a perfect distraction for the 99%.

Other things in this category: Kim's latest social media pictures, finding the latest exoplanet or most distant galaxy or the latest research on whether a shot of booze a day is good for you.

Note how none of these involve pizza.

Speak for yourself mate, always online was secondary concern for myself and I think most other games. It was all about disk ownership.

Let us not forget the standing ovation sony got in 2013 for simply announcing they weren't changing anything https://youtu.be/NOoJ6ucEY8g?t...

I thought I was in the same boat but digital is better, easier and more convenient. As it stands I can only think of two real reasons to stick to physical. 1) You like having the product, something to display and look at, continue a collection. That's fine and there's nothing wrong with that (apart from physical games needing digi to match their price making digi more expensive than the should be) or 2) You like getting fucked in ass and taken for a mug when you trade them in to save a couple bucks off your next game which would be way cheaper digi if again, physical wasn't keeping their prices up.

You put .308/.30-06 rounds into the cab/windscreen and when the driver/operator raises the blade to shield him/themselves, take out the guys shielding themselves behind the 'blade' and the vehicle's tires.

Or, you could go the flamethrower route.

https://youtu.be/BYgnOc6Cd34

"So instead of repealing the law, how about extending to also apply to Google and Facebook?"

Not going to happen, I'll get to why in a moment... check out the links when you get the time. The brain doesn't see the world as it is, see the science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

This is former national security advisor of the united states Zbigniew Brezinski, worried about the political awakening of the masses, the rich and corporations fear the political awakening of the masses of the globe, so see what they really think behind closed doors here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

On social media -- social media are connected to intelligence agencies... if you think you are going to get privacy it's all bs and optics for the masses.

Reddit and intelligence agencies

Wikileaks -- Reddit and intelligence agencies

These links will take a while to digest, but if you want to understand what's going on in the world, you owe it to yourself to become informed about the true state of the world.

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

Crisis of democracy - PDF

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK

Education as ignorance

Education as ignorance

Overthrowing other peoples governments

Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list

Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC

Wikileaks

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Democracy Inc

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil inter

"And courts that have upheld it."

The courts are corrupt, they are part of the business community. See here by george carlin:

https://youtu.be/9dY4WlxO6i0?t...

"Save $100 on a new TV during our Spring Sale!"

The more you spend, the more you save!

I think Joe Isuzu went into politics.

https://youtu.be/xFIcjfWvNYw

"You have *my* word on it!"

Strat

You mean like this? http://youtu.be/F3CS9l9VJmE

We have video of Russian hackers at work. These guys can run rings around Trump... https://youtu.be/T--zOjA7WiA

Pluto was well established as a planet years ago in the irrefutable context of song.

Pluto- 2 Skinnee Js: http://youtu.be/heRn5n6z-Ck

As in don Camillo movie By the way Russian tractors made nowadays are nice: website.

No, it's late... which I suppose actually is like everything ever. But that's just what sprang to mind, and this time I remember the exact YouTube video with that sentiment: https://youtu.be/nelX9oC21B4

You think they can they make one of these for my mother-in-law's pacemaker?

https://youtu.be/6EN5eJf5h_k

https://youtu.be/FJvrY04r8io

This times a million for me. I had great goals for toys that I wanted when I was a kid that had a great influence on the educational decisions in my life, the biggest being fpv quad copter races. The trs80 hadn't been created when I first had this goal and had no idea how it could be realized, but I do now, can design and build all the electronics, hardware and software. Now need to replace propellers with rockets, then I'm out of ideas what to do,

Now I'm sad. I was expecting something more like this. ;)

You must not watch very many recent movies or television shows. They movies/shows have become the commercials: product placement.

I'm sure that would NEVER happen.

You joke, but Mossad stole this poor guy's shoe! https://youtu.be/qqoLmQpzqXA

Obligatory: Rule of Acquisition #17

The energy from pressurization is pressure * volume. At a 2.23m diameter (3.906 m^2 cross-sectional area), every km of tube pumped to 95% vacuum represents 376 MJ of energy. With an estimated 500 miles of tube, this represents 188 GJ, or about as much energy as 45 tons of TNT. Granted it's spread out over 500 km so is equivalent to about 82 grams of TNT per meter. That's not an insubstantial amount of energy. But I think a steel tube could be designed to withstand it.

The problem is what happens when a train car traveling 700 mph hits a section of tube damaged by a localized implosion. If a section of tube were somehow weakened, it would fail when the stresses it experienced were highest. This would probably be right when the first car of a train passed it. The weakened section fails inward, and the following train cars hit it at 700 mph.

Yes we fly 500+ mph in planes every day. But those planes don't fly a few cm from things that can suddenly pop out and strike the plane.

My understanding - from a talk at DefCon by a lawyer - was that once the FBI is aware of what Geek Squad staff are doing, those staff have become agents of the state and therefore require a warrant.

It's "fine" for somebody to look at your drive and inform the authorities if they find something illegal - the government was not aware of what was happening so it's admissable. This changes the moment the government says "thanks for that, let us know if this happens again, by the way here's some cash". They've instructed someone to access private information without a warrant.

Source: https://youtu.be/ibQGWXfWc7c - DEFCON 17: Search And Seizure Explained - They Took My Laptop!

For the uninformed: Gatica Tailer https://youtu.be/BpzVFdDeWyo

This! And me without mod points!