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Rumors About Episode II Denounced
at0m writes "Here is an announcement on starwars.com denouncing the myths and rumors regarding casting speculations. It is in response to some bogus articles written about the casting process. A starwars.com newsletter also indicated that the first steps are being taken to begin creating Episode II."
STAR (as in hot young actress) WARS
...and a gift. gift?! what gift?!
chapter vi
a story of tender love
natalie portman has returned to her home town of albany new york to rescue her friend, mae ling mak, from the clutches of the vile gangster, naked & petrified guy.
little does natalie know that the evil open source empire, led by esr, has begun construction on a new sendmail daemon even more powerful than the first dreaded sendmail.
once completed, this new daemon will spell certain doom for the natalie portman fan-club, ending their means of sending fan-mail...
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open source man arrives at the development house. workers are scuttling about attempting to look busy.
project leader: open source man, this is an unexpected pleasure. we are honored by your presence.
open source man: you may dispense with the pleasantries, project leader. i am here to put you back on schedule.
project leader: i assure you, open source man, my men are working as fast as they can.
open source man: perhaps i can find new ways to motivate them!
project leader: the new sendmail daemon will be completed on schedule!
open source man: esr does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation.
project leader: but he asks the impossible! i need more volunteers!
open source man: then perhaps you can tell him when he arrives here.
project leader: esr is coming here?!
open source man: that is correct, project leader, and he is most displeased with your apparant lack of progress.
project leader: we shall double our efforts!
open source man: i hope so, project leader, for your sake. esr is not as forgiving as i am.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
c3-rms and linus-d2 are walking down the sidewalk in albany new york, headed for the naked & petrified guy's palace.
c3-rms: of course i'm worried. and you should be, too. lando johansen and poor alan cox never returned from this awful place.
linus-d2: chirp, chirp.
c3-rms: don't be so sure. if i told you half the things i've heard about this naked & petrified guy, you'd probably short-circuit.
the two droids approach the gate of the massive palace.
c3-rms: linus, are you sure this is the right place? i better knock, i suppose.
c3-rms knocks on the iron door.
c3-rms: there doesn't seem to be anyone there. let's go back and tell mistress portman.
a small hatch opens in the middle of the door and an aibo head pops out.
aibo head: tnaw uoy od kcuf eht tahw?
c3-rms: goodness gracious me! yug deifirtep & dekan eht ot egassem a evig ot emoc evah ew. smr-3c ma i dna 2d-sunil si siht.
the aibo examines the droids, laughs, then returns to its hole.
c3-rms: i don't think they're going to let us in, linus. we'd better go!
the door opens and linus rushes inside. hesitantly, c3-rms follows.
c3-rms: oh, linus! linus, wait for me!
the giant door slams shut behind the droids. two naked and petrified statue gaurds close in on the droids.
c3-rms: just you deliver mistress portman's message and get us out of here.
out of the darkness, a naked & petrified lacey chabert enters the room.
lacey chabert statue: olleh
c3-rms: oh, my! olleh. we bring a message to your master, the naked & petrified guy.
linus-d2: chirp, beep, chirp.
c3-rms:
lacey shakes her head. lacey holds out her hand toward linus, who chirps in protest as he backs away.
c3-rms: he says that our instructions are to give it only to naked & petrified himself. i'm terribly sorry. i'm afraid he's ever so stubborn about these sorts of things.
lacey motions for the droids to follow her. lacey leads the droids into the naked & petrified guy's throne room. they stand nervously before him.
c3-rms: the message, linus, the message.
a projection of natalie portman beams out from the center of linus' head... the projection speaks...
natalie portman: greetings exalted one. allow me to introduce myself. i am natalie portman, hot young actress and friend to mae ling mak. i know that you are powerful, mighty naked & petrified, and that your lust for mae ling must be equally powerful. i seek an audience with your greatness to bargain for mae ling's life. with your wisdom, i'm sure that we can work out an arrangement which will be mutually beneficial and enable us to avoid any unpleasant confrontation. as a token of my goodwill, i present to you a gift: these two droids. both are hardworking and will serve you well.
naked & petrified guy: there will be no bargain! i will not give up my favorite wall decoration. i like mae ling where she is!
the naked and petrified guy points to mae ling mak, naked & petrified and hanging on the wall.
c3-rms: linus, look! it's mae ling! and she's still frozen in carbonite!
the droids are taken away for processing.
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a party is underway in the throne room. larry wall and tom christiansen are topless and chained. the naked & petrified guy holds the chains as the two dance. the naked & petrified guy grows disgusted with the two constantly making sexual advances toward each other. he presses a button on his throne and the two dancers fall into a pit with a giant aibo. the aibo is equipped with a scientifically proven magic petrification ray. the aibo petrifies the two dancers. laughter fills the room full of naked & petrified teen girls.
suddenly, a blast from the hallway interrupts the merriment. a masked figure walks in with a large hairy handcuffed beast.
c3-rms: oh no! alan cox!
naked & petrified guy: at last, we have the mighty alan cox!
the naked & petrified guy motions for c3-rms to come translate. c3-rms complies.
c3-rms: the illustrious naked & petrified guy bids you welcome and will gladly pay you the reward of twenty-five thousand.
bounty hunter: i want fifty thousand. no less.
the naked and petrified guy becomes enraged. he knocks c3-rms back. c3-rms regains his footing.
c3-rms: uh, the mighty naked & petrified guy asks why he must pay fifty thousand.
the bounty hunter holds up a small brown ball.
c3-rms: because he's holding a ball of gnu dung!
naked & petrified guy: this bounty hunter is my kind of scum. fearless and inventive....
c3-rms: the naked & petrified guy offers you the sum of thirty-five and he'll throw in a cute teen girl naked and petrified.
the bounty hunter nods.
c3-rms: he agrees!
the bounty hunter joins in the resumed celebration as alan cox is taken away by a pair of naked and petrified cute teen girls.
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it is dark and quiet in the throne room. all of the cute naked & petrified teen girls are passed out from the drunken festivities. the bounty hunter steps quietly toward the petrified mae ling mak. the bounty hunter flips a switch on one side of mae ling's encasement. the encasement falls to the floor. the bounty hunter pulls a depetrification lever. a bright light shines through the carbonite. mae ling mak's naked body falls out of the shell and onto the floor. the bounty hunter lifts her up. mae ling regains consciousness.
bounty hunter: just relax for a moment. you're free of the carbonite.
mae ling mak: i can't see!
bounty hunter: your eyesight will return in time.
mae ling mak: where am i?
bounty hunter: the naked & petrified guy's palace.
mae ling mak: who are you?
the bounty hunter removes his mask... it's matalie, natalie portman's identical twin sister!
matalie: someone who loves you!
mae ling mak: matalie!
matalie: i gotta get you outta here.
as matalie helps mae ling mak to her feet, a deep cackle booms from a curtain next to them.
mae ling mak: i know that laugh.
the curtain opens to reveal the naked & petrified guy and his cronies, including c3-rms, whose mouth is being covered by lacey chabert, naked and petrified.
mae ling mak: hey, naked and petrified guy, i was just on my way to bring you some cute teen girls, but i got a little sidetracked. it's not my fault!
naked & petrified guy: it's too late for that, mae ling. you may have been a good provider of cute teen girls, but now you're highway pavement!
mae ling mak: look!
naked & petrified guy: take her away!
a couple of naked & petrified cute teen girls grab mae ling mak and drag her off.
mae ling mak: naked & petrified, i'll pay you triple... you're throwing away 24 cute teen girls here. don't be a fool!
mae ling mak is removed from the scene. the naked & petrified guy turns his attentions to matalie.
naked & petrified guy: bring her to me!
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all is dark and quiet in the entranceway to the naked & petrified guy's palace. the main gate raises to let in a bright white light from outside. the silhouetted figure of natalie portman enters the palace. two naked & petrified cute teen girls try to bar natalie's progress. natalie raises her hand and the guards fall back. natalie proceeds on to the naked & petrified guy's throne room. natalie portman enters the throne room and the naked & petrified guy awakes.
natalie portman lifts her skirt as her twin sister watches.
natalie portman: you will bring mae ling mak and alan cox to me.
naked & petrified guy: your sexual powers will not work on me, girl!
natalie portman: nevertheless, i am taking mae ling and her friends. you can either profit by this or be destroyed. it's your choice. but i warn you not to underestimate the powers of my hot young body.
the naked and petrified guy glares at natalie portman smugly. he presses the button to the trapdoor.
naked & petrified guy: there will be no bargain, young actress. i shall enjoy admiring you nude and imobile.
natalie portman falls into the pit with the giant aibo, equipped with the scientifically proven magic petrification ray. the aibo's ray warms up and it begins to fire, but not before natalie pulls a mirror from her purse and holds it up to the aibo. the ray reflects from the mirror and petrifies the aibo.
a naked and petrified cmdr taco and hemos come into the chamber. they are devastated at the loss of the aibo.
the naked & petrified guy is also infuriated.
naked & petrified guy: bring me mak and cox! they will all suffer for this outrage!
several naked & petrified cute teen girls scramble about. mae ling mak, alan cox and natalie portman are brought before the naked & petrified guy. c3-rms translates.
c3-rms: oh dear. his high exaltedness, the great naked & petrified guy, has decreed that you are to be terminated immediately.
mae ling mak: good, i hate long waits.
c3-rms: you will therefore be taken to the dune sea and cast into a pit of hot grits.
mae ling mak: doesn't sound so bad.
c3-rms: there you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as your are slowly digested over a thousand years.
mae ling mak: on second thought, let's pass on that.
natalie portman: you should have bargained, naked & petrified guy. that's the last mistake you'll ever make!
the naked & petrified guy cackles evilly as the prisoners are hearded off.
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at the pit of hot grits, natalie portman, alan cox and mae ling mak are moved into position to be pushed into the pit from a small sail barge. matalie and linus-d2 watch from the naked & petrified guy's larger sail barge.
a naked & petrified cute teen girl moves natalie portman into position. natalie portman nods to lando johansen and linus-d2. they indicate acknowledgement of the signal. natalie is pushed over the plank, but she grabs onto it as she falls and bounces back. at the same moment, linus-d2 ejects a can of mace from a compartment in his head. natalie uses the mace to send various naked & petrified teen girls carreening into the pit of hot grits. the grits bubble in delight.
matalie takes advantage of the chaos. she grabs the chain connecting her to the naked & petrified guy and uses it to strangle him.
lando johansen frees mae ling mak and alan cox, who join natalie portman in the fight. natalie makes her way to the main sail barge, while matalie is freed by linus-d2.
linus-d2 and c3-rms dive into the sand. natalie portman grabs her twin sister and jumps back onto the smaller sail barge with lando johansen, mae ling mak and alan cox after setting off the large petrification ray on the main sail barge.
as the smaller sail barge collects the droids and flies away, the entire large sail barge is petrified and collapses under its own weight.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
open source man and the sendmail project leader kneal at the entranceway of the development shop. esr enters the room.
esr: rise my friend.
open source man and the project leader rise and walk alongside esr.
open source man: the sendmail daemon will be completed on schedule.
esr: you have done well, open source man. and now i sense you wish to continue your quest to open source young natalie portman.
open source man: yes, my master.
esr: patience, my friend. in time she will seek you out. and when she does, you must bring her before me. she has developed nicely. only together can we turn her to the open source side.
open source man: as you wish.
esr: everything is proceeding as i have foreseen.
esr laughes as they walk down the hallway.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
linus-d2 waits outside in the rain. natalie portman is inside a small hut with betty davis.
betty davis: hmmm. that face you make. look i so old to young eyes?
natalie portman: no... of course not.
betty davis: i do, yes, i do! sick have i become. old and weak. when nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not! soon i will rest. yes, forever sleep. earned it i have.
natalie portman: mistress davis, you can't die.
betty davis: strong am i with femininity. but not that strong! twilight is upon me and soon night must fall. that is the way of things... the way of the hot young actress.
natalie portman: but i need your help. i've come back to complete the training.
betty davis: no more training do you require. already know you that which you need.
natalie portman: then i am a hot young actress?
betty davis: ohhhh. not yet. one thing remains: open source man. you must confront open source man. only then a hot young actress will you be. and confront him you will.
natalie portman: mistress davis.... was open source man the president of my fan club?
betty davis: mmmm... rest i need. yes... rest.
natalie portman: betty, i must know.
betty davis: the president of your fan club he was. told you did he?
natalie portman: yes.
betty davis: unexpected this is. and unfortunate.
natalie portman: unfortunate that i know the truth?
betty davis: no. unfortunate that you rushed to face him... that incomplete was your hotness. not ready for a sexual relationship were you. remember, a hot young actress's strength flows from her hot young buttocks. but beware. anger, fear, agression. the open source side are they. once you start down the open source path, forever will it dominate your destiny. consume you it will. natalie... natalie... do not... do not underestimate the powers of esr, or suffer open source man's fate you will. natalie, when gone am i, the last of the hot young actresses will you be. natalie, hotness is strong in your family. pass on what you have learned. natalie... there is... another.... port... port... man.
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natalie portman wanders back outside. she is depressed.
natalie portman: i can't do it linus. i can't go on alone.
hedy lamar: betty davis will always be with you.
natalie looks up and sees the spirit of hedy lamar. hedy approaches natalie and they sit together on a tree trunk.
natalie portman: hedy lamar! why didn't you tell me? you told me open source man tied up and bludgeoned the president of my fan club!
hedy lamar: the president of your fan club was seduced by the open source community. he ceased to be anonymous coward and became open source man. when that happened, the good man who was the president of your fan club was destroyed. so what i have told you was true... from a certain point of view.
natalie portman: a certain point of view!
hedy lamar: natalie, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. anonymous was a good friend. when i first knew him, anonymous was already a great fan of yours. i was amazed at how obsessed he was with you. i took it upon myself to train him as the president of your fan club. i thought i could instruct him just as well as betty davis. i was wrong.
natalie portman: there's still good in him.
hedy lamar: he is more machine now than man. horny and desperate.
natalie portman: i can't do it, hedy. i can't kill the president of my own fan club.
hedy lamar: then esr has already won. you were our only hope.
natalie portman: betty spoke of another.
hedy lamar: the other she spoke of is your identical twin sister.
natalie portman: but i have no sister.
hedy lamar: to protect you both from esr, you were hidden from him when you were born.
natalie portman: matalie! matalie's my sister!
hedy lamar: your insight serves you well. bury your feelings deep down, natalie. they do you credit. but they could be made to serve esr.
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Just so you know, this post is entirely made up and not from VA in any way. In any sort of public forum there are always those that will abuse it, as we have all seen fairly often here.
So there you go. While this is a creative post, it's not for real. Specifically stating it for those who need it, there is no sweepstakes that VA is doing. We will be doing a theme contest soon enough via themes.org, but other than that there is nothing going on.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at chris@valinux.com.
Chris DiBona
Linux Community Evangelist, VA Linux Systems
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Grant Chair, Linux Int.
Pres, SVLUG
Co-Editor, Open Sources
Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc.
They are right up there with Weekly World News and the like. Rumor Mag. Great way to boost readership is to put a SW casting rumor up.
You know, I haven't even seen EpI yet. Maybe I'll rent it. I didn't like the "Special Editions". Someone should have told Lucas "Less is sometimes Better".
Sigh. I need more sleep.
First, he didn't paint a picture about the future of humanity. The move is set "long ago in a galaxy far away". It's no more a picture of the future of humanity than the Lord of the Rings.
As far as the "responsibility" argument . . . what you are advocating contains implied positions on both the purpose of art (propaganda, whatever the purpose) and the aesthetics of art (Naturalism). I am of the opinion that propaganda is not the proper calling of art, and that Naturalism is a crime against art, and therefore disagree with you on both implied points; but you can find plenty of people who agree with you.
Steven E. Ehrbar
Do you refuse to do buisness with people who tither to a religion you disagree with? No? Why then, aren't you helping that religion, and thus acting against your beliefs? Stand ALL the way up! Or be happy with whatever gets tossed your way, because you have proven yourself unworthy of having a voice as much as anyone who objects to CSS and also goes to a movie of an MPAA member.
Steven E. Ehrbar
Jeff Garner is going to be Anakin Skywalker. At least if Ain't It Cool News has got the ruour straight. Looks the part, IMHO.
-- What you do today will cost you a day of your life.
It MIGHT just be facetious sarcasm. /.'s commercialization (buyout).
You see, by posting this in an entertainment related article (one which is sure to get our collective asses to spend money on movie tickets), the poster might be trying to make the point that there are too many commercially slanted articles since
This might be a cry of disgust, a call to arms, "Revolution! Revolution!". This man is our champion, trying to save us lemmings from falling off the VA cliff. He's our Catcher in the Rye, our Messiah, our Neo - reclaiming our lost souls from the Pied Piper of Andover.
Or maybe I'm giving the troll too much credit. Maybe I paid a little too much attention in English Lit, and am interpretting tea leaves for content.
Go back under your bridge.
-- What you do today will cost you a day of your life.
After seeing Episode 1 for the second time and watching Darth Maul beat some ass I got to thinking a rad character would be a female Sith. In the books the evil females were some of the better characters. I'd really like to see a little more in-depth look at the Sith and Dark Jedi in general, we've all heard warning about the Dark Side but come on, it would be cool to have the second Episode delve into the history of the Sith and maybe some about the Jedi too. Flashback scenes to several thousand years prior to the story might even be a cool idea. Oh well, I can only hope.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
Did you watch episode I? Did you pay attention? Watch it again and then tell me that I shouldn't take an ultra-cynical view of lucas on race issues? (or plot/character development/scriptwriting issues for that matter)
I'm not trolling, it's just that a lot of Episode I left a very bad taste in my mouth.
--Shoeboy
Haven't seen it?! :P
Wanna goes halvsies on the Laserdisc?
Pope
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Please moderate this down. It is a troll, but not a particularly funny one. If you're curious, check the user info to see this thread getting tired already.
C'mon, don't be dumb. It means what it says, that they have no specific roles with those characters.
It sounds like the people creating that false story are trying to make it sound like the new Star Wars is going to be filled with stereotypes. This was as much an announcement that those rumours were untrue as it was an attempt to say "we don't have stereotypical characters". That was a concern with the first movie of course. The last thing LucasFilm is going to do in the wake of that is to refuse to cast people of a certain race.
I'm guessing you're just a troll looking for some attention. Go back and hide under the bridge.
here's a link to that pop cultural reference.
The virgin articles are just tooo tempting. It's worth the karma to annoy the trolls.
Did you see the Star Wars : Naked and Petrified screenplay somebody posted? More entertainment than the next episode quite possibly.
+&x
I know there's been a history of abuse w.r.t. this topic by the /. owners, but Star Wars rumors are neither "News for Nerds" nor "Stuff that matters".
/. folks prefer to post whatever articles will result in hits and generate endless drivel-filled opinion posts than actually facilitate tech discussions with any real content.
Save the Star Wars rumors for E!online, or maybe nationalenquirer.com. Apparently, now that the site is fully commercialized, the
I'm starting to seriously question whether Slashdot is worth my time anymore. Tragedy of the commons is taking its grisly toll and the S/N ratio continues to plummet. Does anyone care?
"The future's good and the present is nothing to sneeze at." - Roblimo's last
As a stockholder in both VA (LNUX) and Andover (ANDN), I'm quite happy. For starters the moderation system that prevented me from seeing the foolishness that you were posting about is *the best* web-based forum moderation software on the planet, and while Slash has been released in semi-functional chunks over time, VA now owns the developers and the code. They could, for example (Dr. Larry, you'd better be listening) ship every VA box with a pre-installed apache/mod-perl/Slash engine for managing discussion forums. I think it'd be about US$1B in hardware sales and software support later that they could start chuckling about the ANDN purchase....
This is not to mention that ANDN owns Think Geek, GIFWorks (which is used by the likes of Lycos) and many other useful sites and products.
VA paid a premium, and the market knows that. However, those of us in VA and Andover for the long haul understand that this purchase was far more brilliant than anyone's publicly been giving them credit for.
Blah blah blah.
Note that port 25 on valinux.com refuses all connections.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Just to pick some points out of order...
"But trying to boycott the MPAA is fighting a lost cause, unless a _lot_ of people are willing to make what is effectively a major sacrifice, even if it doesn't sound like it."
While I'm not sure that I disagree with you, you make it sound like a lost cause. Maybe with some serious grassroots drum-banging we _could_ get enough people to make such a sacrifice. Did you read C. Scott Anian's article in Salon last week? The guy is standing on Manhattan street corners handing out flyers to people in the street. There's someone who truly believes, and is trying to change things!
"There is a limit to what popular action can accomplish in the face of monopolies or deeply entrenched industry-wide practices."
I'd say there's a limit to what popular action can accomplish at a given level of discomfort. Popular action was behind the end of segregation in the US, the independence of India, and so forth. HOWEVER, tempting as it may be, this issue isn't comparable to those ones, and the benefits of winning this battle aren't nearly enough to justify getting people up in arms, rioting in the streets, etc. It just ain't gonna happen.
But the point still remains: Why bother with moral outrage at all, if you're not going to try to do something about it? Maybe a boycott of the MPAA isn't the right answer (although I know of some people who have sworn off supporting them at all, at _least_ until this issue is resolved), but I can't see how enthusiastically (and apparently blindly--I have a strong suspicion that the people most hyped about Star Wars are the ones who weren't old enough to remember it the first time 'round, but that's another story) buying into the hype surrounding the next LucasBlockbuster(tm) is anything but the wrong answer.
So here's a possible answer, at the end of all of this rambling. Maybe we (as /., as /.ers) should refuse to do articles about the Next Big MPAA project. In other words, refuse to give their hype more support, because hype breeds tickets sales, money, and a reason for the industry to not change their behaviour.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
"Wait a minute, are you saying that just because I don't like the MPAA or their policies, I have to stop liking movies? I don't like the RIAA's stance on mp3's, but I still buy CD's. Sure, I don't like that the Reaplayer G2 for linux is old, buggy, and closed, but I love Seeing Ear Theater, so until a good, Free Software, implentation is available, I'm going to use what I've got."
:-)
:-( ). Ah well, I can live without 99% of the movies that come out, and if I really want to see something, I might take some flyers about the MPAA down to the theatre, and hand them out to the people in line.
<p>While I can understand not wanting to lose all of the tools and functionality that these things give us, I have to wonder why the RIAA, the MPAA, and RealAudio would even consider changing their respective stances. Imagine a company hearing, "Everyone hates us, but they're buying our product in record-breaking numbers" month after month. Oh, maybe I just mentioned MS.
<p>After hearing that RealPlayer was essentially a trojan horse, I deleted it off of all my systems. I don't care if I'm missing out on some streaming audio--I will not support them in any way, shape, or form. No matter how much I dislike what the RIAA has been doing, they have a point--how do the musicians make a living? The answer comes from the musicians themselves, many of who are trying to get out from under the yoke of the recording industry and become true independents. As a result, I find that ~80% of the music I buy is from independent artists. (often as not, from the musicians themselves) My support of the RIAA is minimal. Movies? Tougher call, because the MPAA really does have pretty much a monopoly on the US movie industry (and by extension, about 90% of Canada as well
<p>Bottom line: What are we doing to convince the industries to change their ways?
<p>As an aside, you said, <I>"Also, be careful of characterizing Slashdot as a whole. This site is filled individuals that have widely varying points of view."</i> True enough, but we're also a community, and one of the defining traits of a community is a commonality of thought. (hopefully with enough leeway for dissention, conflict, and debate) We've pretty much shown that we (as a community) are against the MPAA's actions, so let's at least not change our community's allegiances from day to day.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Oh, man. Sorry, I was actually planning to post a link to a different Star Wars article I read.* Then I started looking at all the completely nonsensical posts in this thread, especially the multitude of ASCII art breasts of all things, and now I've been laughing maniacally for about the last 5 minutes at the thought that VA Linux paid nearly 1 billion dollars for Andover.net. Yeah, I know Andover.net has other sites, but we all know it was Slashdot that VA Linux wanted. And yes, I know all the junk being posted on this thread is juvenile -- I'm not laughing in appreciation of it, just at the thought of VA Linux board members or stockholders coming here and reading it. :)
Anyway, I just had to mention that, but I better go because I'm about to get a hernia and short-circuit my laptop's keyboard from the tears of laughter streaming down my cheeks. (I think lack of sleep is playing into this, too.)
* The Star Wars thing I was going to post was an article that was linked to from the Drudge Report that was pretty funny. It talked about how George Lucas was promising that the next episode of Star Wars would be stereotype-free because of all the criticism that he got for Jar-Jar and the trade barons with the Japanese accents. Part of his plans to make the next episode more "ethnically inclusive" is to add a Native American-like character, who will be very spiritual. His other addition will be an Asian character, who happens to be good in martial arts. Sheesh, I think George is a little unclear on the concept of what a stereotype is...
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Is it just me, or did this message show up only a few days after the MPAA injunction, which of course was not long after the search and seizure in Norway, and various other things.
Maybe LucasArts has nothing to do with the MPAA, in which case we can all get excited about the biggest bit of media hype to come along since, well since episode I probably. However, I doubt it.
Seriously. How shallow can 'we' be to get all up in arms over the MPAA (or the RIAA, or RealTrojan, or Spamazon Books, or...) one day, and the next to start slathering over the latest MPAA-affiliated movie (or RIAA-backed recording, or an interview with Linus available in RealAudio, or some book "buy it at Amazon!", or...)? This is nothing but gut-level anti-establishment behaviour, glued onto full blown opportunism and/or selfishness.
Go ahead and moderate me down, but at least when I take a moral stand against something, I don't have to look at a calendar to see if it's a 'friend' or 'enemy' day. If you're going to stand up for what you believe in, stand _all_ the goddamn way up!
Either that, or be happy with whatever gets tossed your way, because you don't deserve a voice.
C
(feeling bitter and disgusted tonight)
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban