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  1. Re:The Matrix as *the* geek movie? IDTS... on Deep Magic: Matrix, Menace and Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    oh yeah,

    Strange Days
    Altered States

    The list goes on and on and on. It's been a long three decades.

    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  2. Re:The Matrix as *the* geek movie? IDTS... on Deep Magic: Matrix, Menace and Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    dude - Gross Pointe Blank!
    Eraserhead
    Repo Man
    Brazil
    Naked Lunch
    Better Off Dead
    The Big Lewbowski
    TRON

    meloncholia?
    THX1138 - busted? for drug evasion? drug EVASION?

    And the blockbusters that were still good - despite Hollywood.
    2001
    Terminator
    Blade Runner



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  3. Simple: Pay us enough. on How to Manage Geeks? · · Score: 2

    Enough to retire comfortably after 5 years, so we can start writing open source code for free.

    If you're rich enough to not have to worry about money for the rest of your life (how many frickin' ferrari's does one man need? You've got ONE ass, and can put in only one driver's seat at a time).

    So why not donate the rest of your life to a worthy cause?

    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  4. Re:Time travel (backwards) on Warp Drive Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    . . . and if Microsoft bought the rights to this machine, and included one free with every copy of Windows95 to destroy the competition, then their corporate slogan would be:

    When do you want to go to yesterday?



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  5. Re:Time travel (backwards) on Warp Drive Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    you wouldn't have to pay taxes anymore, but you'll definately have a problem collecting social security if you were never born.



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  6. Re:Children are monsters on Village Voice on Voices From The Hellmouth · · Score: 1

    i never could figure out where the hell to get saltpeter.



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  7. Re:I give the Village Voice props on this one on Village Voice on Voices From The Hellmouth · · Score: 1

    "Don't get me wrong, I too have some pet
    peeves when it comes to the paler people among us (namely country music, Nascar, and the endless
    media attention bestowed upon Leonardo Dicaprio and Ricky Martin) "

    as the duly appointed representative of the white race, I hereby apologise for Nascar. We're truly sorry, there's no excuse for it. As far as country music goes, we've still got groups at the UN studying it, and drawing up war-crimes charges.



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  8. Re:Village Voice fails to get it on Village Voice on Voices From The Hellmouth · · Score: 1

    Um - we're NOT talking about the general cases here. We're talking about the extreme cases where people actually set off bombs and shoot other kids with guns. What did you think we were talking about?



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  9. Re:Geeks 'R' Us on Village Voice on Voices From The Hellmouth · · Score: 1

    Because geek guys are only interested in threesomes with hot teenage asian lesbos.



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  10. Re:The Hellmouth on Village Voice on Voices From The Hellmouth · · Score: 1

    is anyone else really, really pissed-off about them not airing the season finale - and the lame-ass reason they gave?



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  11. Re:Maslow's pyramid? on Village Voice on Voices From The Hellmouth · · Score: 1

    In my sophomore year of HS, I lost my entire clique of geek friends when they all went off to Illinois Math and Science Academy.

    I guess I was smart, but not quite smart enough.



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  12. Re:Maslow's pyramid? on Village Voice on Voices From The Hellmouth · · Score: 1

    "I think there might have been an athelete clique, but nothing like the US, and it was scarcely
    supported by the schools. I think most Europeans find it surreal how much energy, time and money
    goes into sports in US schools and universities."

    I think you've hit the nail right on the head.



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  13. Re:Unity makes you strong! (Re:Fighting back...) on Village Voice on Voices From The Hellmouth · · Score: 1

    "I only believe in a fair fight if I can't rig it in my favor."
    -Grimjack



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  14. Paleontolgist Bee from the 38th century: on Cloned sheep shows signs of premature aging · · Score: 1

    . . . those damn crazy monkeys thought they were so smart. . .




    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  15. Re:Legal under American law? on Australia Admits to sigint · · Score: 1

    well, if they're doing industrial espionage on behalf of American corps, thereby improving our economy, standard of living, and well-being, why the hell would we want to?



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  16. One thing is certain. . . on Leo DiCaprio in next Star Wars? · · Score: 1

    The hype for II and III has only just begun. If you thought the hype for I was bad. . .





    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  17. Re:Why does this all seem so silly on Preliminary Ruling in Sun/Microsoft Case · · Score: 0

    um.

    DUH!




    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  18. Re:Don't we know this already? on Preliminary Ruling in Sun/Microsoft Case · · Score: 1

    We know they'll call it "MS AcitveJava"

    duh.



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  19. Re:Legal recourse? on Australia now has Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    ... on the contrary, the US govt. HAS pushed it's citizens to their breaking point (a few extremist wackos anyway).

    The crater where the govt. used to be - was the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City.

    The wackos that did this were of the attitude that they were in a civil war with the US govt. Of course the pussies turned around and denied it when they were caught, so they really weren't much in the way of revolutionaries anyway.



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  20. Re:What a massive shortsight... on Australia now has Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    what about Hotline?
    Cockroacho?



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  21. Re:Oh, great..... on Australia now has Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    prohibition was not an interesting idea.
    It was a FUCKING STUPID idea.




    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  22. Re:The Force and the Juice on Review:Star Wars:The Phantom Menance · · Score: 1

    where was that? Newport beach?



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  23. Re:"Messianic" Stuff & Metachlorians (Spoi on Review:Star Wars:The Phantom Menance · · Score: 1

    Okay, I'll see your silliness, and raise you nonsense.

    Why the hell would the Sith artificially inseminate a slave on some unknown backwater planet with a "super jedi" genetically engineered background, and *not* keep them under some kind of surviellance?

    Darth Maul was totally clueless about the boy.



    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  24. Re:Maul vs JarJar on Review:Star Wars:The Phantom Menance · · Score: 1

    no, this would have made Darth Maul a GOOD guy!

    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law

  25. Re: More romance? on Review:Star Wars:The Phantom Menance · · Score: 1

    now THAT'S an interesting theory.

    The classic love triangle.
    Anakin loves the queen,
    queen loves ObiWan,
    ObiWan IS a queen. . .

    This could be how ObiWan and Anakin's freindship begins to split, and Anakin's journy to the dark side begins. . .




    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
    -jafac's law