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A Law Show Set 25 Years from Now
aaron240 writes "CBS will be airing a pilot of a new show called 'Century City' tonight, Tuesday, March 16th. CNN has the story. The executive producer, Ed Zuckerman, had this to say about the future state of the law in America: 'Our future is a positive future. We assume that things are basically going to get better, progress will continue,' Zuckerman says. 'There will be problems -- new inventions, new technologies will bring with them difficulties -- but it's a bright future.' He also makes it clear that 'This is not a 'Blade Runner''. Is there any chance it will offer a decent treatment of the issues Open Source advocates worry about today? If he's so positive, could he possibly know anything about software patents to say nothing of SCO?"
Yeah Bright Future alright, until nuclear war breaks out. I mean really, its inevitable.
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Microsoft is currently appealing the latest decision orcing them to break apart...details in the next law show set 25 years ahead of this one.
They'll STILL be waiting for SCO to tell us which code is in violation.
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One of the features of the show will be the premiere of the 256th Law and Order spinoff: "Law And Order: Illegal Cloning Investigation Unit".
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
Is there any chance it will offer a decent treatment of the issues Open Source advocates worry about today?
You mean like gay marriage, sodomy law reforms and legalized pot?
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Pity Leni Riefenstahl isn't around to consult on such positive outlooks of the future.
in 25 years IWNBAL but...
If he's so positive, could he possibly know anything about software patents to say nothing of SCO?"
Of course. SCO will not exist 25 years from now. Any reference made will simply be "SC-Who?"
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No, I'm betting it gets cancelled before it has a chance to get that far. I've seen the previews, and for the most part, it just looks silly and contrived. Sort of like "The Practice" spent a steamy night in a seedy motel with "Minority Report," and this was the unhappy result.
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Well, it is obvious that I won't be watching it tonight. A new episode of Scrubs is on at the same time that deals with causality and the chaos theory. A subject much more interesting to me.
twenty five years ago was not that *radically* different from today.
I beg to differ.
There was no slashdot.
I mean really, what did people do at work back then?
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
Let's face it, Minority Report had some great vision-of-future-tech bits with an absolutely lame story. Maybe there is something interesting in the daily civil lawsuit during that time frame...
Well, it is obvious that I won't be watching it tonight. A new episode of Scrubs is on at the same time that deals with causality and the chaos theory. A subject much more interesting to me.
Scrubs has plots? I thought it was just a vehicle for watching Sarah Chalke occasionally flash her bra. At least, that's why I watch it.
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I'm sure this show will be doubleplusgood.
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Actual work? *shudder*
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I'll see your cybernetic estoppel and raise you one affidavit of positronic imbalance.
This is way more fun than the tv show is, I bet. Just sitting around making up future law show stuff.
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Objection sustained. The bailiffbot will mindwipe the jury regarding the last piece of evidence, and counsel will approach the hoverbench.
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(with any luck)
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You mean people under 60 actually watch CBS?
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!
The pitch was simple. Technology has made the females skinnier, the breasts bigger, and the hemlines higher, and the go go boots taller, not to mention the rubber tighter.
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Divorce: Kitt from Knight Rider divorces life partner Michael for alimony and a monthly oil change. But who gets the fuzzy dice and the beaded seat cover?
Product Liability: Customer sues when a vegetable becomes mixed into his Soylent Green.
IP: RIAA sues ancient space faring race for IP infringement (Their eons-old anthem bears a striking resembelance to theme of 'Growing Pains'). Aliens carpet bomb Earth.
Technowhiz: Geek invents a lawbot the size of a hearing aid that translates between legalese and english. The firm goes bankrupt -the lawyers into the wilderness for the spin-off "Lawyers in the deadzone"
Murder: Peta activists genetically engineers sentient dog. Dog tells PETA to F-off and insists on his right to eat meat. Activists then kill animal under the defence of 'its just an animal'
Libel: Snake Pliskin hires firm to sue the guy that publicizes his death.
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This show looks like a bunch of crap. The future isn't going to be shiny and polished like Star Trek. You want to know how law will be in the future? Two men enter. One man leaves. Bust a deal, face the wheel.
How ya like dat?
Something along the lines of the robots from Futurama trying to hold legal proceedings. Imagine a tense courtroom full of judgebots, jury bots, shady criminal defense bots, idealistic district attroney bots, a comical oafish bailiff bot. Robot Judge: Before us stands the accused Bender. You stand on trial for five counts of stealing gin from orphans, 3 counts of vehicular petty larceny involving heavy construction equipment and 1 count of jay walking. How do you plea? Bender: Bite my shiny metal a$$ Robot Judge: I sentence you to 100 years gas mining on the sun. Bender: aww crap
I'm from the future. Century City was cancelled after 3 episodes, resurrected in 2005 after a fan email campaign, then cancelled again after the campaign proved to be the work of a lone haxx04 named dl3374, whose brain as of 2047 was still serving a 200,000-hour sentence as the CPU of the Volograd sewage treatment facility.
Television ceased to be a commercial medium after the Copyright Wars of 2019, when the Distributed Fiction Experiment proved that all copyrighted material could be randomly generated.
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Research.
. . .biplanes with laser guns. . .
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Yeah, sure. What a schmuck this Zuckerman fellow must be.
What kind of low-grade moron doesn't know that the SCO lawsuit and an overly liberal regime of granting software patents is the direct pathway to a horrifying, Blade-Runner-style future where gangs of midgets tear the fittings off your police aircar given half a chance?
I think it's very, very important for any show like this to offer detailed depictions of OSS-type issues. These issues should arise every other show at the very least, and possibly feature verbatim quotes of essays by Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman. A major character might take time out from the courtroom scenes, sex and scandal and face the camera and talk for about 10 minutes about the difference between 'free as in speech' and 'free as in beer'.
The TV show I want is a sitcom based on the Bastard Operator From Hell.
The show is set in a high-end L.A. law firm, circa 2030.
Already the show is exceedingly unrealistic. No reasonable person would expect Southern California to be around in 2030.