Sure no cyborgs, and we're still working on ED209, but back in 1987 Robocop had:
- computer interfaces that resembled web sites
- a device for tracking Robocop that looks suspiciously like a smartphone
- digital video recording, as well as DVDs (didn't exist until '93)
Plus:
- stupidly oversized cars that wasted gas (6000 SUX)
- ultraviolent games for the whole family (Nukem!)
- Ford Taurus police cars (back when Crown Victorias were standard issue, they looked very "futuristic")
- ads for medical services (unheard of in '87)
- privatized police, military, prisons, and spacecraft
- and autoflush urinals!
having tits on screen constantly isn't the recipe for a good movie.
Yes, it is, but I digress.
PG-13 is the marketing sweet spot that most studios shoot for. Teens can see it, parents won't be bored, and the underaged kids that are dragged along will probably forget what they saw ten minutes after the credits roll.
PG-13 from a filmmaking perspective usually means one of two things:
- This should by all rights be an R rated film in terms of the theme/sex/violence/cussing/etc. but they dialed it back enough to get under the line. They'll throw all the good bits back in with the "unrated" DVD. (Think the upcoming "Suckerpunch" - Babes! Violence! PG-13! WIN!)
- This could be a PG film - not really a sex 'n violence free-for-all, kinda sweet actually - but they throw in enough cussing and shots of people's bums to get over the line. (Think "The Simpsons Movie")
RTFA - there's a big difference between "in final discussions...at a very preliminary stage" and "happening". Until someone on a set says "aaaannnddd ACTION!" I'd treat this as Hollywood FUD.
The game isn't banned. It's refused classification and can't be sold in Australia.
Does this mean:
"Sell unclassified games in your store/website and the cops will shut you down."
Or
"It's legal, but because it's unclassified none of the big distributors or retailers will touch it and no major media will carry ads for it. The only ones who could carry it are the small few-and-far-between independent stores who'd have to pay a higher markup for "imported" games and then pass the cost on to the customer, so it's barely worth the bother."
- Aw c'mon baybeh, don't be like that, you know I only have eyes for you...
- Oh, really? (opens her new laptop, pulls up her Facebook profile picture, and a pic of Christina Hendricks at an award show, displays them on the left and right sides of the monitor. sits him in front of it.) OK, now stare at my picture ONLY for one full minute.(looks at her watch.) Aaaannnd GO!
(Two minutes later...)
- (picking his clothes up off the sidwalk) That wasn't frickin' fair! Can't we talk about this?
- And you can take your damn goldfish too! (chucks the bowl off the balcony)
West Side Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D - NY) led an effort by House Democrats yesterday to end the war in Afghanistan by stripping funding for military operations there.
The current budget earmarks $100 billion for the war there, despite the fact, as Nadler notes, there are believed to be fewer than 100 Al-Qaeda operatives. Nadler proposed cutting the budget figure to $10 billion, which is believed to be the amount necessary to safely withdraw troops there.
- This country is headed for a disaster of cyberpunk proportions.
- What do you mean, "cyberpunk"?
- What he means is Neuromancer, Mr. President, real Philip K. Dick type stuff.
- Exactly.
- Satellites falling down from the skies! Neurotransmitters boiling!
- Forty-eight hours of darkness! Gray goo, anarchocapitalism...
- Zippies rising from the grave!
- Linguistic hacking, AIs and ghosts merging together... mass hysteria!
- All right, all right! I get the point!
The old system was much more sophisticated that tabletop models. Here's a video of a pre-CGI simulation of a terrorist attack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNV7hKVu-Xg
Pot, meet kettle. Have you not listened to Democrats? The extreme left is just as crazy as the extreme right, and each side underestimates just how far to the extreme the other one goes, while painting themselves as moderates.
Citation needed. And I mean a major media newsperson or politico, someone with the power and intent to sway the masses, spouting their views day in day out like Beck or Palin. Not some off-the-cuff quote from a Hollywood celebrity, blogger, or International ANSWER.
It makes no mention of which coffee shops are making such bans, and offers no other citations on the "issue". It's mostly a wiki-dump of the history of coffee shops going back to the 16th century. This is about the only article I could find noting this "trend" - from August 2010, a lifetime ago tech-wise. The main issue being that some shops banned "computers", either outright or during certain hours, with no differentiation between laptops, tablets, or e-readers (or smartphones for that matter).
It's a non-issue, a bump in the road. These shops, what few there are, will eventually adjust their policies. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Irish science is finally catching up to life before the fall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkA216RL4Y
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So zune?
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Family Guy - The Pi Song
Kate Bush - Pi (short version)
Michael Blake - What Pi Sounds Like
Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Spinning Wheel
Billy Preston - Will It Go Around In Circles
Beach Boys - I Get Around
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Sure no cyborgs, and we're still working on ED209, but back in 1987 Robocop had:
- computer interfaces that resembled web sites
- a device for tracking Robocop that looks suspiciously like a smartphone
- digital video recording, as well as DVDs (didn't exist until '93)
Plus:
- stupidly oversized cars that wasted gas (6000 SUX)
- ultraviolent games for the whole family (Nukem!)
- Ford Taurus police cars (back when Crown Victorias were standard issue, they looked very "futuristic")
- ads for medical services (unheard of in '87)
- privatized police, military, prisons, and spacecraft
- and autoflush urinals!
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...to find the caps with the codes was to tilt the bottle.
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Just'a good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm.
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There seems to be some hedging on that point. Seems like a waste of good He without two people in costume going along for the ride.
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The danger! It has been foreseen!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat-Women_of_the_Moon
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having tits on screen constantly isn't the recipe for a good movie.
Yes, it is, but I digress.
PG-13 is the marketing sweet spot that most studios shoot for. Teens can see it, parents won't be bored, and the underaged kids that are dragged along will probably forget what they saw ten minutes after the credits roll.
PG-13 from a filmmaking perspective usually means one of two things:
- This should by all rights be an R rated film in terms of the theme/sex/violence/cussing/etc. but they dialed it back enough to get under the line. They'll throw all the good bits back in with the "unrated" DVD. (Think the upcoming "Suckerpunch" - Babes! Violence! PG-13! WIN!)
- This could be a PG film - not really a sex 'n violence free-for-all, kinda sweet actually - but they throw in enough cussing and shots of people's bums to get over the line. (Think "The Simpsons Movie")
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RTFA - there's a big difference between "in final discussions...at a very preliminary stage" and "happening". Until someone on a set says "aaaannnddd ACTION!" I'd treat this as Hollywood FUD.
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The game isn't banned. It's refused classification and can't be sold in Australia.
Does this mean:
"Sell unclassified games in your store/website and the cops will shut you down."
Or
"It's legal, but because it's unclassified none of the big distributors or retailers will touch it and no major media will carry ads for it. The only ones who could carry it are the small few-and-far-between independent stores who'd have to pay a higher markup for "imported" games and then pass the cost on to the customer, so it's barely worth the bother."
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- Aw c'mon baybeh, don't be like that, you know I only have eyes for you...
- Oh, really? (opens her new laptop, pulls up her Facebook profile picture, and a pic of Christina Hendricks at an award show, displays them on the left and right sides of the monitor. sits him in front of it.) OK, now stare at my picture ONLY for one full minute.(looks at her watch.) Aaaannnd GO!
(Two minutes later...)
- (picking his clothes up off the sidwalk) That wasn't frickin' fair! Can't we talk about this?
- And you can take your damn goldfish too! (chucks the bowl off the balcony)
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Glad to be of assistance, however small. Cheers!
Every packet is sacred.
Every packet is great.
If a packet is wasted,
TCP gets quite irate.
Let the heathen drop theirs
When their RAM is spent.
TCP shall make them pay for
Each packet that can't be sent.
Every packet is wanted.
To this we are sworn.
From real-time data from CERN
To the filthiest of porn.
Every packet is sacred.
Every packet is great.
If a packet is wasted,
TCP gets quite irate.
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"When all this is over, we want this guy to get a medal. Then we want him locked up."
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Doesn't sound very kosher to me....
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http://www.observer.com/2011/politics/nadler-tries-defund-war-afghanistan
West Side Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D - NY) led an effort by House Democrats yesterday to end the war in Afghanistan by stripping funding for military operations there.
The current budget earmarks $100 billion for the war there, despite the fact, as Nadler notes, there are believed to be fewer than 100 Al-Qaeda operatives. Nadler proposed cutting the budget figure to $10 billion, which is believed to be the amount necessary to safely withdraw troops there.
Right?
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http://xkcd.com/862/
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- This country is headed for a disaster of cyberpunk proportions.
- What do you mean, "cyberpunk"?
- What he means is Neuromancer, Mr. President, real Philip K. Dick type stuff.
- Exactly.
- Satellites falling down from the skies! Neurotransmitters boiling!
- Forty-eight hours of darkness! Gray goo, anarchocapitalism...
- Zippies rising from the grave!
- Linguistic hacking, AIs and ghosts merging together... mass hysteria!
- All right, all right! I get the point!
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The old system was much more sophisticated that tabletop models. Here's a video of a pre-CGI simulation of a terrorist attack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNV7hKVu-Xg
.
Pot, meet kettle. Have you not listened to Democrats? The extreme left is just as crazy as the extreme right, and each side underestimates just how far to the extreme the other one goes, while painting themselves as moderates.
Citation needed. And I mean a major media newsperson or politico, someone with the power and intent to sway the masses, spouting their views day in day out like Beck or Palin. Not some off-the-cuff quote from a Hollywood celebrity, blogger, or International ANSWER.
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You can't explain that.
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It makes no mention of which coffee shops are making such bans, and offers no other citations on the "issue". It's mostly a wiki-dump of the history of coffee shops going back to the 16th century. This is about the only article I could find noting this "trend" - from August 2010, a lifetime ago tech-wise. The main issue being that some shops banned "computers", either outright or during certain hours, with no differentiation between laptops, tablets, or e-readers (or smartphones for that matter).
It's a non-issue, a bump in the road. These shops, what few there are, will eventually adjust their policies. Nothing to see here, move along.
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...and think "Whoa. Déjà vu"?
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