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A Scanner Darkly Sneak-Peek

Posted by timothy on from the comic-shop-guys-out-in-force dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Some images for the upcoming film 'A Scanner Darkly' have been posted on aintitcool.com. Looks like it's going to look alot like one of Richard Linklater's previous films, Waking Life."

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  1. a-ha! by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny


    Taaaaaaake oooooon meeeeeee
    Take! On! Me!

    Taaaaaake meeeeeee ooooooon!

    Great! I'm gonna have song in my head all day now!

    --

    You can't take the sky from me...

  2. Re:Why do we care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Slashdot gone to the dogs now. I say, retreat to hurd-dev@gnu.org

  3. Re:wtf? why, what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But it's still not 'news for nerds' which is why I come to this site. What does this movie have to do with Linux and Open Source?

  4. Re:wtf? why, what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Actually a lot of people DO complain, its just that they are ignored. What I want from this site is news for nerds, not news for moviegoers. I want to hear about genetic algorithms in the Linux kernel, that's news for nerds. This story is clearly simple advertising for a movie which a few slashdotters might be interested in.


    There are plenty of other websites available which have movie reviews etc. This site is for Open Source and Linux. Let's try and keep it that way! The Internet has precious few resources for nerds as it is, without this hollywoodization of one of the last 'old school' nerd websites.

  5. My Printer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The sequel, planned for next year, is titled "And My Printer Fading"

  6. Re:In what way is this 'news for nerds'? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well, its a well known fact that most nerds are left-of-center in their politics. RMS Aka Richard Stallman is a well known communist who beleives that everything should be free. Linus (the developer of Linux) comes from Sweden, a Socialist country with free medical care and very high taxes. Theo De Raadt the original brains behind BSD also seems pretty left wing to me.


    I think there is something about the logical brains posessed by nerds that makes them realise what other less intelligent people cannot see, which is that although Capitalism is great for some, it is not the most efficient way to maximise the average person's happiness.


    So as I have shown, left-wing and nerd are almost synonymous.
    Of course you will get the odd right-wing loony, >coughcough, but on the whole, intelligence (in the computer science / nerd domain) seems highly correlated with left wing/compassionate political views.