Tomorrow Is 'Back To the Future' Day (cnn.com)

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Tomorrow Is 'Back To the Future' Day (cnn.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @12:12PM from the now-make-like-a-tree-and-get-out-of-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly travels from 1985 to tomorrow — October 21, 2015. The occasion is being noted in a couple of ways. A documentary called Back In Time debuts tomorrow that will chronicle the making of the Back to the Future trilogy. There are also screenings of the films around the world, and even a tour of locations from the film. Much to director Robert Zemeckis's dismay, everybody's judging the predictive accuracy of the films. "I always hated — and I still don't like — movies about the future. I just think they're impossible, and somebody's always keeping score." For example: "big-screen TVs, yes, Mr. Fusion, no; virtual-reality goggles, yes, Jaws 19, no." On the other hand, people are keeping an eye on the baseball playoffs — the movie predicts a World Series victory for the Chicago Cubs, something they haven't managed since 1908. The Cubs actually did make the playoffs this year, and are fighting for a league championship title at the moment of this writing.

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Not one fuck is given by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:14 · Score: -1

This shit is for losers.
1. Re:Not one fuck is given by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Is that because *your* history started on the day you were born, in 2001?
  GTFO
2. Re:Not one fuck is given by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2015-10-20 13:11 · Score: 1
  
  Definitely one of the more pitiful ways to assert dominance on Slashdot. I guess claiming you don't have a TV has gotten old.
  
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3. Re:Not one fuck is given by kevingolding2001 · 2015-10-20 20:14 · Score: 1
  
  I gave a fuck, because when the movie came out I was in university and felt like an adult.
  Now I just feel old.
4. Re:Not one fuck is given by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 23:07 · Score: 0
  
  Is that because *your* history started on the day you were born, in 2001?
  GTFO
  "Make like a tree, and leave." : )
  FTFY
5. Re:Not one fuck is given by KGIII · 2015-10-21 02:03 · Score: 1
  
  Pfft... Long before it was popular, I didn't have a TV. I didn't turn into a 'hipster.' Hipsters turned into me! Except, they probably like shitty music. I really haven't watched TV in a long time and don't even own one that connects to the OTA broadcasts - I simply don't watch television. I never thought it made me cool, though. I always figured it made me out of touch and unable to keep up on a lot of current events and popular topics.
  
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6. Re:Not one fuck is given by tripleevenfall · 2015-10-21 02:24 · Score: 1
  
  Being a cord cutter isn't cool anymore. Cool and hipstery would be cutting your internet cord, and/or getting rid of your smartphone
7. Re:Not one fuck is given by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 03:08 · Score: 0
  
  Speaking of hipsters, if anyone had told me in 1985 that anyone would still be listening to vinyl in 2015, I would have laughed in their face!
  Then I would have invented the iPod and made a billion dollars.
8. Re:Not one fuck is given by KGIII · 2015-10-21 03:11 · Score: 1
  
  I think I'll just stay the way I am until it's cool again. I've seen my clothing choices go in and out of fashion a couple of times. It was kind of strange being labeled a hipster, though. Next, I'll be a foodie because I grow, hunt, and fish for much of my food when I'm home.
  
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9. Re:Not one fuck is given by operagost · 2015-10-21 03:16 · Score: 1
  
  I KNEW my RAZR would be cool again!
  
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10. Re:Not one fuck is given by Coren22 · 2015-10-21 06:21 · Score: 1
  
  https://www.motorola.com/us/Dr...
  They did update the series, so I guess they became popular again. I had that one and it is still kicking, since I upgraded, my son is using it.
  
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P.S. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:16 · Score: -1

Didn't like any of those, either.
Stupid article doesn't get the point by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:17 · Score: -1

>"the movie predicts a World Series victory for the Chicago Cubs"
No, it fucking doesn't.
The movie is not a prediction. It's fiction.
1. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:22 · Score: 0
  
  Every prediction is fiction. Witness the entire output of the uncritical gee-wizz Space Age nonsense industry.
2. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:24 · Score: 0
  
  The first and foremost "failed prediction" was that time travel would be invented in 1985.
3. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by turbidostato · 2015-10-20 12:47 · Score: 1
  
  "The first and foremost "failed prediction" was that time travel would be invented in 1985."
  It's not a failed prediction. It happens that someone came from 2025 and hid the issue.
4. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Rei · 2015-10-20 12:47 · Score: 1
  
  You know, I love that movie, the way they shot it. It’s so urm like futuristic, you know?
  
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5. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by lgw · 2015-10-20 13:03 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  I like the actual SF elements - they spent real effort on imagining minor changes and appropriate set dressing. I always liked that his job sucked so much he had to wear two neckties - predictive miss, perhaps, but a nice touch. I also liked their comment on the rise of biometrics, with the headline "thumb bandits strike again". Lots of cool details that they could have just ignored, and it really made the point by contrast that people will still be the same jerks as always.
  
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6. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Rakarra · 2015-10-20 13:13 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  I had read that Zemeckis and Gale didn't want to try to "accurately" predict what would be future possible because people would just nitpick it and it was all going to be wrong anyway. They were pretty sure we would NOT have flying cars, but they really wanted flying cars, so they decided to just have fun with it and come up with funny predictions. Hoverboards, self-drying clothing, self-tying laces, etc.
7. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 13:24 · Score: 0
  
  Donnie Darko...
8. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by rudy_wayne · 2015-10-20 14:05 · Score: 1
  
  >"the movie predicts a World Series victory for the Chicago Cubs"
  No, it fucking doesn't.
  The movie is not a prediction. It's fiction.
  Many of things in the movie were intended as humor. Jaws 19 is making fun of the movie industry's pattern of making sequels to shitty movies.
  And poking fun at the Cubs. Hey, they're such pathetic losers that 30 years from now they'll FINALLY win a world series.
9. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by tnk1 · 2015-10-20 14:18 · Score: 1
  
  With Jaws 19, they merely forgot how many shitty movies there are to run through. It isn't a matter of if Jaws 19 will be made, but of when.
  Hmm. Maybe it's about time for another Batman movie. Perhaps we'll just rehash his origin story again.
10. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by plopez · 2015-10-20 15:13 · Score: 1
  
  I was going to point out the boring predictable reboots of reboots happening. It might as well be "Jaws 19" or "Star Trek 27 Rebooted".
  I blame "The Matrix Rebooted".
  
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11. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Coisiche · 2015-10-20 21:02 · Score: 1
  
  Or... it has already been used to change history. The just, egalitarian 2015 where almost everyone led happy prosperous lives was lost to us when history was tweaked to concentrate all the wealth into the hands of a minority.
  We'll never know.
12. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Rei · 2015-10-20 21:25 · Score: 1
  
  What the hell kind of name is that? It's like some sort of superhero or something.
  
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13. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Maxo-Texas · 2015-10-20 21:57 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The Matrix was a great film. I'm glad they didn't have any sequels for it. It was one of a kind.
  
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14. Re: Stupid article doesn't get the point by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 22:20 · Score: -1
  
  A fictional one, you dumb shit.
15. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Foobar+of+Borg · 2015-10-20 23:22 · Score: 2
  
  The Matrix was a great film. I'm glad they didn't have any sequels for it. It was one of a kind.
  Yes, just like Highlander. There can be only one! I heard these horrible rumours that there was a Highlander 2, and even a third Highlander movie. I can only assume it is the rantings of the diseased imagination of someone locked away in a padded room, next to the guy who thinks he's Napoleon.
  
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16. Re: Stupid article doesn't get the point by Foobar+of+Borg · 2015-10-20 23:23 · Score: 1
  
  A fictional one, you dumb shit.
  Says the daft twat who doesn't remember Donnie Darko.
  
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17. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by AmiMoJo · 2015-10-20 23:44 · Score: 1
  
  Actually the Japanese have kinda self-drying clothes. They infuse the material with some kind of lactose derivative IIRC. It kills the bacteria that create B.O. and wicks away sweat, but also dries really fast so you don't get patches. It's pretty cool when you come in from the rain and are completely dry in a few minutes.
  
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18. Re: Stupid article doesn't get the point by Rei · 2015-10-21 00:31 · Score: 1
  
  Whoa, AC! A little hostile there. Maybe you should be the one in therapy. Then Mom and Dad can pay someone $200 an hour to listen to your thoughts so we don’t have to.
  
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19. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 00:40 · Score: 0
  
  Many of things in the movie were intended as humor.
  
  Yes, now zoom out a little bit more, and you get:
  Everything in the movie is intended as entertainment.
20. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by operagost · 2015-10-21 03:31 · Score: 1
  
  Hmm. Maybe it's about time for another Batman movie.
  
  You didn't hear about the Superman vs Batman movie? With Ben "Horse tooth" Affleck as Batman? Yeah, they didn't jump that shark high enough with George Clooney.
  
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21. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Maxo-Texas · 2015-10-21 04:32 · Score: 1
  
  Great TV series tho. Amazing how they had at least 60% great episodes and very few stinkers. Yet they could only find good ideas for one Highlander movie.
  
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22. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 04:40 · Score: 0
  
  > Actually the Japanese have kinda self-drying clothes
  But can they hydrate a pizza?
23. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 05:29 · Score: 0
  
  Per BttF canon, time travel was invented on November 5th, 1955. That was the day that Doc Brown fell, hit his head, and saw a vision of the flux capacitor. Which is what makes time travel possible.
24. Re:Stupid article doesn't get the point by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-22 02:46 · Score: 0
  
  They didn't predict an end to Parkinson's either, and they got that right!
  Now where can I get my Michael J. Fox "Bobblehead"?
  ... too soon?
Slashdot Is Dead by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You guys didn't post one article about the new Star Wars trailer yesterday, and you are barely late to the game on this BTTF story (It's been weeks in the making).
What the fuck has happened here? Just close up the shop and turn out the lights, guys. You guys clearly don't care, the readers have left.
RIP Slashdot.
1. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:26 · Score: -1
  
  Ha Ha. I got tickets to a special screening at a closed to the public theatre a day earlier than everyone else gets to see it. No lines either.
2. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:45 · Score: -1
  
  Another thing that no one gives a fuck about. Star Wars is for faggots and you're admitting to being a faggot by taking such glee in going to see this faggot shit. How does that megacorporation dick taste to you, faggot?
  
  I guess rich corporate overlords are only a big deal when it's not sports or faggotry like Faggot Potter or StarFaggots.
3. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:50 · Score: -1
  
  No, actually I was trampolining your mom, it was double coupon day.
4. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by alexhs · 2015-10-20 13:11 · Score: 1
  
  You guys didn't post one article about the new Star Wars trailer yesterday, and you are barely late to the game on this [snip] story (It's been weeks in the making).
  
  I have a feeling of déjà-vu. Did you time travel from 1999 ?
  I can't wait for the dupe later this week.
  By the way, today is 'Back to The Future' Day on this side of the Atlantic.
  
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5. Re: Slashdot Is Dead by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 13:22 · Score: -1
  
  Whoa, hold on there, W.C. Fields. Replacing words with 'faggot'?! You're wasting your incredible writing and comedy talent on a comments section, you should work for NBC with that unending wit and wordplay skills!
6. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by youngone · 2015-10-20 13:49 · Score: 1
  
  By the way, today is 'Back to The Future' Day on this side of the Atlantic.
  Today has been Back to the Future Day on this side of the Pacific for 15 hours as I write this.
7. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by tmosley · 2015-10-20 13:55 · Score: 0
  
  Hahaha, Slashdot is dead because there wasn't an article on a new entry in a dead series that no-one gives a fuck about?
  
  Well, Rest in Peace. Maybe we can get some real discussion going with all the tards gone.
8. Re: Slashdot Is Dead by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 15:21 · Score: 0
  
  Star Wars TNG
9. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 16:58 · Score: 0
  
  Forgot to check the "Post Anonymously" box that time, champ.
  Now lie and say you did it on purpose. Then weep with shame. Oh, I see you're already on that...
10. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 22:44 · Score: 0
  
  No, actually I was trampolining your mom, it was double coupon day.
  Great Scott!
11. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by KGIII · 2015-10-21 02:11 · Score: 1
  
  You guys didn't post one article about the new Star Wars trailer yesterday, and you are barely late to the game on this BTTF story (It's been weeks in the making).
  What the fuck has happened here? Just close up the shop and turn out the lights, guys. You guys clearly don't care, the readers have left.
  RIP Slashdot.
  Yup, Slashdot is dead. Netcraft confirms it. Also, Star Wars? I hope it has Natalie Portman - naked and covered in hot grits!
  
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12. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 02:21 · Score: 0
  
  This is Slashdot. Their secret motto is "yesterday's news today."
  The BTTF story is right on schedule, and the Star Wars article should be coming along in a few days. If you timely previews of stories you'll see here, read The Register.
  "What do we want?"
  "Time travel!"
  "When do we want it?"
  "Yesterday!"
13. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by Coren22 · 2015-10-21 06:37 · Score: 1
  
  Where is your story submission for any of those items?
  This site is mostly made up of user generated content. If no one submits the story, there is no story for all of us to read.
  
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14. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 06:57 · Score: 0
  
  do you have confirmation from Netcraft?
15. Re:Slashdot Is Dead by tmosley · 2015-10-21 16:21 · Score: 1
  
  You seem like a person who likes getting non-consentually fucked in the ass a la George Lucas' treatment of every ingle one of his properties.
  
  I don't have any further commentary on the subject. It just seems like you love getting raped in the asshole on a pinball machine.
Wrong things improved by Tablizer · 2015-10-20 12:20 · Score: 2

We still don't have #&@!% flying cars, but we do have nifty tablets to read USA Today on, unlike the flick's paper version.
Hover-boards? Well, kind of, if you count big and noisy. 3D pop-out sharks? Well, kind of, if you are at the right spot (although automated eye position tracking is improving).

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1. Re:Wrong things improved by JBMcB · 2015-10-20 12:28 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  It got 80's nostalgia correct, if not the weird themed diner.
  
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2. Re:Wrong things improved by v1 · 2015-10-20 12:30 · Score: 1
  
  I'm surprised we don't see [b]more[/b] people shouting "Where's my hoverboard?!!"
  
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Do you mean today? by mjwx · 2015-10-20 12:22 · Score: 1

Posting from Australia.

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1. Re:Do you mean today? by gstoddart · 2015-10-20 12:36 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  No, we mean tomorrow. See, today is still today, tomorrow will be tomorrow. Apparently your today happened yesterday. Your tomorrow is the day after next.
  But tomorrow, by which time it will be today, it will be time for it to be Back to the Future Day. By which time you'll probably be Friday or something stupid like that.
  Do try to keep up, I know this time travel thing can be confusing. ;-)
  
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2. Re:Do you mean today? by viperidaenz · 2015-10-20 13:34 · Score: 1
  
  No, it's still 22 hours away.
  Living in a different timezone doesn't count as time travel.
  Posting from New Zealand.
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3. Re:Do you mean today? by rmdingler · 2015-10-20 13:40 · Score: 2
  
  Tomorrow morning, I am spitting coffee on the keyboard of yesterday while rereading your clever post.
  
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4. Re:Do you mean today? by Punto · 2015-10-20 13:53 · Score: 1
  
  No, because in the movie they are in some suburb in Los Angeles, not in Australia. So it was Nov 21 in LA, probably Nov 22 in Australia at the time. Still tomorrow for you and everyone else.
  
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5. Re:Do you mean today? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 14:01 · Score: 0
  
  No, we mean tomorrow. See, today is still today, tomorrow will be tomorrow. Apparently your today happened yesterday.
  Australia is the future would be the correct answer.
6. Re:Do you mean today? by Fire_Wraith · 2015-10-20 15:35 · Score: 2
  
  Time travel is loads of fun though. I remember the first time I flew to the US from Japan, and realizing that I arrived before I left.
  
  Even better was the time I flew from Korea to the US. I left on the evening of February 2nd, and arrived on the morning of February 2nd. It seemed rather fitting.
7. Re: Do you mean today? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 16:22 · Score: 0
  
  No, we're in the past thanks to our fucked up (NBN) government.
8. Re:Do you mean today? by Lord_Breetai · 2015-10-20 17:20 · Score: 1
  
  "You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally" would have sufficed.
  
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9. Re:Do you mean today? by Translation+Error · 2015-10-21 01:05 · Score: 2
  
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  'Now. You're reading about now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.'
  'What happened to then?'
  'We passed then.'
  'When?'
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10. Re:Do you mean today? by KGIII · 2015-10-21 02:15 · Score: 1
  
  Take some time off, you're working too much. It's October.
  
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11. Re:Do you mean today? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 10:11 · Score: 0
  
  Thanks for reminding me why I never saw Spaceballs a second or third time.
12. Re: Do you mean today? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 16:05 · Score: 0
  
  that would be the previous to previous(?) Government, the entire NBN was a boondoggle right from the get go, and should have been given a merciful bullet to the back of the head before ever being mentioned in public. It was something the government couldn't afford, that didn't in any way address the main internet issues in Australia, but was good to get votes from gullible fools.
Libertarian future by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:23 · Score: 1

Marty McFly: Hey, Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
I miss the libertarian future that never was...
Hopefully we still can manage to get a cyberpunk dystopia.
1. Re:Libertarian future by Curunir_wolf · 2015-10-20 13:02 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Hopefully we still can manage to get a cyberpunk dystopia.
  Oh, we're going to get a dystopia, alright. Cyberpunk, not so much. More like Orwellian or Huxleyish. It's planned for 2030.
  
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2. Re:Libertarian future by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 13:37 · Score: 0
  
  Oh, we're going to get a dystopia, alright. Cyberpunk, not so much.
  If we resist the Orwellian Totalitarianism and the Brave New Conformism, we would probably get a Cyberpunk dystopia.
  The new Left wants an Orwellian world and the moderates are happy in this Brave New World...
  I don't know if we can rely on the new Right to pull this off though.
  (Specially since the old Right still remains in most countries)
3. Re:Libertarian future by Fire_Wraith · 2015-10-20 15:38 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Cyberpunk? Seems to me like it's already here, in many ways. Oh, sure, we haven't quite started on the whole implants bit, but wearables are already becoming a thing, and body modification is already an alt culture thing, so we're not far off there.
  
  Corporations taking precedence over governments? Yeah, well on our way.
  
  World wide connected network with people increasingly spending all their time plugged in? Check.
  
  Hackers for hire breaking into to companies to steal information? Check.
4. Re:Libertarian future by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 23:27 · Score: 0
  
  You kidding? The new Right is all about Ayn Ryand and Objectivism. I wouldn't want to live in a world where her psychopathic ubermench protagonists were considered heroes.
5. Re:Libertarian future by Lennie · 2015-10-21 08:07 · Score: 1
  
  Have you ever looked at Bitcoin ?
  
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6. Re:Libertarian future by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 14:20 · Score: 0
  
  Corporations taking precedence over governments? Yeah, well on our way.
  "This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations and for corporations."
  -Rutherford B. Hayes, more than 100 years ago.
It's already that day you insensitive clod by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:23 · Score: -1

In Australia
1. Re:It's already that day you insensitive clod by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 13:12 · Score: 0
  
  i wonder if we know eachother...
  Im from Penrith NSW
2. Re:It's already that day you insensitive clod by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 13:40 · Score: 0
  
  Not your parent, but I'm posting from the food court in Westmead Parramatta, Sydney.
3. Re:It's already that day you insensitive clod by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 15:17 · Score: 0
  
  Ahh Cool!
  And here I was thinking I was about the only /.er around here.
Not a flying car, but quick by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:26 · Score: 0

Doubt they anticipated a DeLorean V8 Supercar
http://www.speedcafe.com/2015/10/21/prodrive-reveals-delorean-v8-supercar/
1. Re:Not a flying car, but quick by viperidaenz · 2015-10-20 13:39 · Score: 1
  
  They put gullwing doors and a wing on the back of their Ford Falcon and called it a DeLorean.
  Both the additions look weird and out of place.
2. Re:Not a flying car, but quick by KGIII · 2015-10-21 02:21 · Score: 2
  
  I almost bought a DeLorean out of some guy's field. It was in good shape and I tried, over several weekends, to get it running where it sat but, for the price they were asking, I simply was unwilling to get it towed out of the field (which would have been difficult and maybe damaged the vehicle further). The body and frame were pretty nice - the running gear appeared solid. The engine was toast, the internals were toast. They wanted a high price for it so I didn't buy it.
  They're not speedy. They're awkward. They've got crappy ergonomics and low-quality internals. Yeah, I wanted it.
  
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Fax Machine Question Needed to be Asked by retroworks · 2015-10-20 12:28 · Score: 3, Interesting

Amazingly, Chris Lloyd is right. Fax machines today are still for sale on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Brother-...

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1. Re:Fax Machine Question Needed to be Asked by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 23:05 · Score: 0
  
  No spam, no need to check, long live comrade FAX!
2. Re:Fax Machine Question Needed to be Asked by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 00:00 · Score: 0
  
  And McFly's boss is japanese. Japanese companies still use fax machines as the Japanese are still technologically stuck on the eighties.
3. Re:Fax Machine Question Needed to be Asked by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 00:15 · Score: 0
  
  Government agencies and Universities still routinely require faxes.
4. Re:Fax Machine Question Needed to be Asked by Fire_Wraith · 2015-10-21 00:52 · Score: 2
  
  It's more cultural than technological. Technologically, smartphones are near ubiquitous, and Gigabit or better broadband is widespread there, so in that way, they're on par or ahead of the U.S., at least.
  
  The difference is that in the U.S., fax machines were primarily a business tool, whereas in Japan, they were a common household item that everyone had, like a landline phone. Many people in the US still have landline phones, even if that number gets smaller every year as we increasingly go mobile only. With faxes though, you can't as easily fax to a mobile device, and if your boss/parents/etc want to fax you stuff, you're more likely to hang on to one yourself (especially if they're highly common, and therefore cheaply available).
5. Re:Fax Machine Question Needed to be Asked by antdude · 2015-10-21 05:03 · Score: 1
  
  Yep, my old king ant still uses his fax machine! I think a lot of companies too. I even had to use a fax machine to turn in my lay off stuff. :(
  
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6. Re:Fax Machine Question Needed to be Asked by antdude · 2015-10-21 05:09 · Score: 1
  
  http://aqfl.net/node/11418
  
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7. Re:Fax Machine Question Needed to be Asked by Coren22 · 2015-10-21 06:49 · Score: 1
  
  Or just use one of the numerous online fax services?
  http://www.efax.com/
  In the GSM spec, there is ability to fax to mobile, it was just never used, it is much easier to just email a scanned document anyways.
  
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Yes, but, there's only 1 "APK"... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:32 · Score: -1

See subject: ... & he's not the star of the film (Mr. Fox) via his "Alex P. Keaton" role in "Family Ties" - he's "yours truly", the ONE & only!
* :)
(Why? Well, "There can be ONLY 1"...)
APK
P.S.=> Gotta love it... lol! apk
1. Re:Yes, but, there's only 1 "APK"... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:51 · Score: -1
  
  Too bad he couldn't actually see the future.
Jaws? by gstoddart · 2015-10-20 12:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Jaws 19, no
Oh, really?

Some nitwits with far too much time (and alcohol) on their hands in Ufa, in the Republic of Bashkortostan, in south central Russia, near Kazakhstan, came up with this putrid Jaws satire, obviously titled after the joke in Back To The Future part II, and obviously filmed on someone's cell phone. And allegedly on a budget of 100 Rubles, which, as of this writing, converts to exactly US$1.62.
Suddenly I want to see this.

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1. Re:Jaws? by Harlequin80 · 2015-10-20 12:58 · Score: 2
  
  Here you go! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
2. Re: Jaws? by jd2112 · 2015-10-20 13:13 · Score: 1
  
  Sharknado 3D!
  
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If this was like real life by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 12:53 · Score: 0

Then the car would be driverless and Google would insist it travelled through time and we'd all believe them and say that time travelling cars will fill the roads within half a decade even though there has been no independent testing and the only footage observed is of time travel to destinations so mundane one can't relay tell when they are at all.
1. Re: If this was like real life by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 22:27 · Score: 0
  
  They tested them in the future and passed the savings on to YOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!!
2. Re:If this was like real life by Coren22 · 2015-10-21 06:53 · Score: 1
  
  https://xkcd.com/209/
  I have a time traveling truck...
  
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Wonder from Downunder by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 13:01 · Score: -1

I live in Australia you insensitive clod!
1. Re:Wonder from Downunder by Coren22 · 2015-10-21 06:57 · Score: 1
  
  It doesn't change when 4:29 pm is in Los Angeles though.
  
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I am so-o-o looking forward to "Jaws 19" ... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 13:01 · Score: 1

... seeing how Jaws 16, 17 and 18 were really derivative.
BTTF Predictions by jd2112 · 2015-10-20 13:08 · Score: 1

I saw a video yesterday that claimed that BTTF predicted 9/11. Sad part is some people actually believe this shot.

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1. Re:BTTF Predictions by drinkypoo · 2015-10-20 23:07 · Score: 1
  
  I saw a video yesterday that claimed that BTTF predicted 9/11. Sad part is some people actually believe this shot.
  The sad part is that cellphones avoid letting you type cuss words even after you turn off the obscenity filter
  
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The future, is now... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 13:10 · Score: -1

See subject: Isn't it the truth?
APK
P.S.=> "Search your feelings Luke - you KNOW it to be true!"
... apk
xmen day of he future part by ohotel · 2015-10-20 14:00 · Score: 0

:)) sorry I relate to it,

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Actually the movie was right by hcs_$reboot · 2015-10-20 14:52 · Score: 5, Interesting

The movie was right. Marty and doc Brown did travel to 2015 and saw the 2015 as it had to be. But then, they traveled far back, then they went back to the future - their 1988 present. Unfortunately in between 2015 and 1988 they modified the "new" past (of 2015) which gave the boring and hoverboard-less 2015 we all live now.

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1. Re:Actually the movie was right by Mogster · 2015-10-20 15:46 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  The movie was right. Marty and doc Brown did travel to 2015 and saw the 2015 as it had to be. But then, they traveled far back, then they went back to the future - their 1988 present. Unfortunately in between 2015 and 1988 they modified the "new" past (of 2015) which gave the boring and hoverboard-less 2015 we all live now.
  Actually they travelled to 2015 from 1985
  Back to the Future 2 was direct continuation from BttF1 which started in 1985
  
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2. Re:Actually the movie was right by guestapoo · 2015-10-20 17:05 · Score: 1
  
  This post is more funny than insightful.
  But, OTOH, your comment (surprisedly) perfectly suited with the plot "Back to the future": to deal creatively with the paradox of the time traveling, in both funny and "acceptable" way as the films did. That is the plot prevented to explain deeply the "technical" inside the "cause and effect" of time traveling, instead, considered this as "natural" phenomenon. Simplifying the paradox let the screenwriters more space for their creativeness.
  
  In my opinion, this is the most successful "time traveling" film ever. Just look at "Looper (2012)", is really stupid, more recent "Terminator Genisys" is better but maybe because of the actions. Those two, and some other films were over-complicated, that the people behind them really lost on the stories.
3. Re:Actually the movie was right by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 01:53 · Score: 0
  
  Agreed. My personal theory is that when Marty didn't plow his truck into the Rolls Royce in (improved) 1985, that averted the 2015 we saw.
4. Re:Actually the movie was right by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 04:07 · Score: 0
  
  Actually they traveled to 2015 from 1985
  And then they traveled back to '55, therefore altering `85 and its future '15 from 1.
You have not seen Jaws until you've seen it In.. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 15:03 · Score: 0

..the original Czechoslovakian!
Celebrating early by anchovy_chekov · 2015-10-20 16:00 · Score: 1

My prediction? The occasion will be "noted" by a series of themed jokes flooding your Facebook status. We're a day-ish ahead here in Australia and it's been going on all morning.
The characters are on Twitter! by screamingPants · 2015-10-20 17:46 · Score: 1

Looks like Griff is planning something for tomorrow night...
Marty McFly Jr: https://twitter.com/mseamusmcflyjr
Marlene McFly: https://twitter.com/mcflygirl
Griff: https://twitter.com/bionic_griff
Griff's girl: https://twitter.com/SpikeYourBalls
It's already been and gone (almost) by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 19:34 · Score: 0

Even the cops noticed something was up.
http://mypolice.qld.gov.au/mountisa/2015/10/21/traffic-crash-mount-isa-cbd/
No, it's today. by Threni · 2015-10-20 19:52 · Score: 1

Might have been tomorrow yesterday. It wasn't obvious this was a stupid headline as you were typing it? Or is this some joke on the inability to see into the future?
BBC Builder by bbcbuilder · 2015-10-20 21:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Jaws19 by cascadingstylesheet · 2015-10-20 21:41 · Score: 1

Jaws 19 would have been better than "Zombie Apocalypse 402".
What about the END DAY? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 22:51 · Score: 0

I don't suppose anyone else played Chrystalis on the "END DAY" back in 1998? I think yesterday was the anniversary, too.
I played it that day just for that.
Hoverboard nitpicks by TeknoHog · 2015-10-20 23:31 · Score: 1

The mass media likes to equate hoverboards with magnetic levitation. That might be the case if the boards only worked over special magnetic rails, or at least conductive surfaces. If you want a freely moving vehicle, like a hovercraft without all the noise and the rubber flaps, think plasma levitation.

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1. Re:Hoverboard nitpicks by TeknoHog · 2015-10-20 23:33 · Score: 1
  
  And just to anticipate the obvious reply: yes, I'm afraid it would be full of electric eels.
  
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2. Re:Hoverboard nitpicks by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 03:46 · Score: 0
  
  Exeter: "Now place your hands above the rail... they're magnetized."
  Crow T. Robot: "And if your hands were metal, that would mean something."
  There's always kind of a shadowy hint in SF movies that we'll eventually figure out how to control gravity and make things fly without having to put out a shitload of downward thrust.
  In the Blade Runner press kit, it said the Spinners had 3 engines: jet, internal combustion, and anti-gravity, though Syd Mead insisted it was an aerodyne and flew by directing air downward. If so, where are the huge intakes?
  The universe of Star Trek has some kind of anti-grav technology; things float around (like Nomad, M-4, etc.) and they have artificial gravity on the Enterprise, yet it can't land? There are huge unexplored implications of controlling gravity in Star Trek. Making things fly only scratches the surface what you could do.
You have also missed the point. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 00:21 · Score: 0

No, "It's not a failed prediction.", because it was never intended to be a "prediction".
1. Re:You have also missed the point. by NotDrWho · 2015-10-21 04:09 · Score: 2
  
  Nothing in the BTTF series was ever intended to be a real prediction of the future. All the future stuff was just played for comic effect. BTTF2 is no more meant to be an accurate portrayal of the real 2015 than the series' version of 1955 or 1885 were ever meant to be historically accurate. Every era shown (even, to some extent, its own time of 1985) was comically exaggerated for humorous effect. The sights and inventions shown in BTTF2's fictional 2015 were just meant to make audiences in 1988 laugh.
  
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So.. Tomorrow Is Yesterday by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 02:37 · Score: 0

Trek had it best in 1967
Meme Map of #Backtothefuturetoday by pabloApicco · 2015-10-21 05:31 · Score: 1

Check out the map i made with memes and videos.. from near the studios! http://www.gosur.com/back-to-t...
GREAT SCOTT!!!11 by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 08:48 · Score: 0

It worked! :D