The reason is because, unlike the last two movies, this time Lucas hired a professional acting coach. When you really get down to it, the wooden acting is the worst part about these movies. The story and dialogue, while vapid, is of the same caliber of the originals, imo. The difference is that normally good actors (ever seen Portman in a non-SW movie?) come across as being terrible.
The bad acting is one thing, but it wasn't just that. I can't think of much I liked about EPI and EPII. The story is already laid out, and they were just OK. What do I remember about those movies? The corny and excruciatingly long pod racer scene. The annoyingly cute "Ani". The unnecessarily animated junk dealer. Not only the abomination Jar Jar, but the entire race of underwater annoyances. A feeble attempt to make Yoda look cool via a light-saber battle. The annoyingly scowly older Anakin. The 5 minute long lovey dovey scene in EPII. It was only 5 minutes for me because I only saw it in FFWD mode.
Lucas has created memories in these movies, most of them bad. And these are his grand vision? Even if this movie is great, he would only get 3 out of 6, which is a failing grade. (ROTJ barely passed, being pulled along by the first two movies)
I'm honestly asking people. Have you run into BSOD's that really truely was 2000's/XP's fault instead of being some sort of hardware fuckup?
I have used XP for 2 years now (job, not at home) and I have only seen a couple BSODs on it. HOWEVER, I don't think that the OS is that much more stable than 2k. I still get lockups, massive slow-downs, and unresponsiveness. In fact, I think I get them more in XP than in 2k. XP does weirder things. Does it matter that there is not a BSOD if I have to reset the machine and lose my work anyway? That happens. In my opinion, XP is not more stable than 2k. Microsoft are a bunch of dopes. Windows 2000 was widely regarded as "pretty darn good" even by the Linux crowd. So instead of improving on it by making it more secure and stable, they come out with XP. I don't get it. It's like putting a new gaudy paint job on a reasonably well-running car, and all of a sudden it starts misfiring and stalling.
I can compile a kernel or other software, build rpms, write init scripts, but I prefer to spend my time doing other things.
Amen. This porn ain't going to download itself. Oh wait, I wrote a script and cronjob to do that. Nevermind.
I actually switched to Mandrake from Redhat as well. I had been a Redhat user since 5.1 (I think) and finally just got fed up with not being able to keep up to date on my system. This is one thing that I think will plague OSs forever - the need to reinstall (vs upgrading). I once tried to upgrade from Redhat 7.1 to 7.3. Granted, it was a while ago, but the results were disasterous. I had to concede and do a complete reinstall.
When I finally decided to try a different distro, the Live CD was a savior. I tried to install Knoppix on a laptop to try it out, but upgrading KDE exploded all over the place, and required another re-install. I finally settled on Mandrake because at the time it had very current software, and after the Knoppix apt-get mess, I wasn't very confident in it. (I later found out that using apt-get on installed Knoppix isn't quite the same as straight-up Debian apt-get) But urpmi has served me well, when I use it. I still have to compile some packages by hand because the options in the packaged ones aren't what I need. (Mplayer being one of those)
But I am happy with Mandrake. The GUI config stuff is nice, but I rarely need to use it. Once I get a system configured, I don't usually change it all that much.
Strangely, this all comes back to how organized fundamentalist religion is ruining this country.
...and it all goes up in a puff of smoke
Well, I did make a jump. All the steps were there, I just didn't feel like typing them. I think it was widely accepted that the "family values" vote was what helped Bush win. It's funny how he spouts on about "family values" considering his past and present. Yet he continues to push his religious agenda. While spending hundreds of billions of dollars for a war whose cause has still yet to be explained. That has been declared a victory, yet people are still dying every day, years later, because of it.
He is well known to have ties with evangelical religion. See this PBS story on it. It was just one that I found quite quickly via Google. He has implemented a "faith-based initiative". He wants to push his own religious beliefs on the rest of the country (gay marriage, abortion, censorship). Bush is ruining this country at an alarming pace, and we are going to be paying for it for many generations. His religious beliefs are by his own admission the force that is driving him. This is bigger than just the current clown that we have in the White House.
Anyone recall that the Bush Administration told us told this war was going to cost? I thought this was was supposed to cost between $10 and $100 billion [salon.com]? We're already more than three times the high end figure, with no end in sight. This is the fourth emergency allocation of money Bush has asked for for his war "on the cheap".
That's because he never thought he would get re-elected. That figure was just for the first term. Now he has a blank check and doesn't have to worry about completely doing whatever he wants in his second term. Strangely, this all comes back to how organized fundamentalist religion is ruining this country.
After that many hours of investment, no matter how bad it was, we would still have to see it- because not seeing it would still be worse than seeing a horrendously awful movie.
That is exactly what Lucas counts on. My simple answer: wait. Wait and rent it. Why the impatience? You know it will come out on video/DVD eventually. I waited for Episode II, and I don't regret it one bit. I watched that entire movie in about an hour. FFWD is your friend. Remember those excruciating dialogue scenes in EPII? I don't.
I don't get why people have to line up to see a movie, or even why they have to see it opening weekend. I hate crowds 100x and the impatient (or ambivalent) people who are there are opening weekend. I'll wait 3-4 weeks, sometimes longer, to see a movie I want to see. The theatre is less crowded, and as long as I stick to that schedule, there will always be something new to see. You don't miss out on the movie experience at all. If it is something you want to be able to pause/FFWD/etc then just wait for the DVD.
And if it doesn't do well at the box office, it might send a message to Lucas. If you are into that. I know a movie hasn't made me quite as angry as Episode I. Fool me once, shame... shame on you.... can't get fooled again.
A jedi who does not perfect his craft is not a jedi.
Nope, little things in your blood make you a jedi.
A jedi who does not follow the way of great sword hands, falls in battle.
Hmm, seems like pretty much all the jedi fell in battle.
A jedi who slashes, slices, is off balance.
Not so. Maybe with a traditional sword, but light-sabers would have a different balance. They can be wielded much differently than a traditional japanese sword.
Siege your opponent -- and cut them in two. It's all in the follow through.
With a traditional steel sword (Japanese) yes. Not so with a light-saber. It doesn't require the same force behind it to cut (no pun intended). The techniques would be different, and therfore follow different rules. The same way that Japanese swordplay is different than Chinese. Not to mention that Jedi hold their light-sabers like baseball bats and not with a traditional grip.
Or until a company that sells AMD-based systems can honestly compete with Dell.
Remember, those on top don't always stay on top in the tech industry. Who would have thought that we would have a clearly dominant search engine 5 years ago? Now Google is the one to beat, even according to Microsoft!
But imagine if google comes with Glinux! That'd be very interesting, and as connections is getting faster, they might even run it as thin terminals. Google has the infrastructure for running a few million thin clients...
I have thought about this, and wonder how it would be accepted. It surely wouldn't work well for anything sensitive, but for the average user? I think it has the potential to rock. I load up various Linux distros from time to time in VMWare to check them out. Something like Damn Small Linux does a lot in such a small package. If Google has the right people (and I'm sure they do) they could build something pretty cool.
BTW, I hope that Klaus Knopper gets his spot in computer history for Knoppix. I know he wasn't the first, but since Knoppix came out the bootable distro has really matured and become something awesome. I have to run Windows at work, but I currently have 3 virtual Linux distros running under VMWare, all running bootable iso images (Ubuntu Hoary, Knoppix 3.8.1 and DamnSmall 1.0.1) I can't wait to see how the next 20 years in computing goes, we have made some amazing advances in the last 20.
While I like my games to look good, I am really fine with my system as it is. Are you ready for this, everyone? It's a 1.4 Ghz AMD, 512 MB DDR and a (gasp) GeForce 4 MMX 440! It ran Doom3 and HL2 quite well. Sure, I didn't get the full effects of the games, but I still played them quite nicely performance-wise.
I am sure I am way in the minority, but my Windows system is an Athlon 900 (slot), 512 SDRAM, Win98, and an ATI-AIW32MB video card. It plays all my games fine (except the latest Ghost Recon, which locks up on occasion). But my Windows machine only gets booted for that, or if I have to burn a DVD. My Linux machine is a 1.3 Duron, 512 SDRAM, and a 16MB video card. It does everything well (except games, which is what the Windows box is for).
I am not playing the "my computer is crappier than yours" game, but I am amazed at what people will spend to play games. Sure, I wanted to get HL2, but didn't because at the time I would have had to buy a new $300 video card. Now they are cheaper, but I still haven't shelled out for the game. I can wait. I waited several years for HL, and am glad I did. The video card required to play it was cheap, there were walkthroughs on the net for when I got stuck, and there were even several level-mods out there for after I finished it. Hell, I still play Quake MegaTF every once in a while because it is fun. I just don't get the massive investment that people put into game playing. Think about how much you have spent on games, including hardware, in the last year.
I am not really complaining, because it is the gaming enthusiasts that are driving the technology, which is in turn driving down prices of older cards.
We should make a whole class out of it called "Characterizing Groups by Their Extremes: Stereotypes in the New Millenium."
I'll bite back. Who are the "keepers" of Christianity then? Who represents it best? Apply that to all other religions as well.
My point is that you can't just teach part of it. You can't just teach "the Bible". There are way too many contradictions and interpretations. While I may call those snake handlers crazy, they are following the bible the way they have interpreted it. That's the whole point. But maybe that is too far above kids heads. It is certainly above most adults.
Indeed, the Bible ought to be taught in schools-- as literature and (with caution) history.
Nope, not with caution. In all its glory. Teach about all the frickin nutball snake handlers, all the pedophile, wife-beating Southern Baptists. All the missionaries, all the nuns, priests, and preachers who follow Christianity. Teach people what it means to be "God-fearing". Teach about the Crusades. Tell the good and the bad about the Bible and all those who use it as a tool to get what they want. Also teach that there are those who try to follow its teachings, and explain how contradictory the entire book is.
If you are going to teach them about it, tell them the truth.
Just tired of everyone falling all over George Lucas for something he did 20 years ago, all the while overlooking what he has done since then. Not only has it been awful, it has tainted the good stuff he did long long ago. Why are people kissing his ass? Star Wars is dead, and has been for a long time.
He then goes into rather gory detail about all the little tie-ins and close-ups and endings that you thought could never be put together in one movie.
To be blunt: how friggin hard could it be? I think the tie-ins are obvious. Hell, the last 15-30 minutes of the movie were already told - in Episode IV.
Sorry, Lucas gets no credit for that, it is his JOB to tie them in. And even if this movie is dark, and even if it is cool and amazing, all it means is that Lucas is shooting 50%. We forgave ROTJ because the first two were that good. But even if this one is awesome, that is 3 out of 6, which is a failing grade.
I think it is just human nature. You want people to do what you do so you can validate your own behavior.
I have seen it with everything from movies, to music, to car tires, to driving routes. (if you want to get into an annoying, long conversation, ask someone from the Chicago suburbs how to get from point A to point B)
If someone asks me, I'll tell them. Sometimes I want to help them. My friend wanted to go out and buy a copy of MS Office. I asked him why he needed it, and he said his wife uses it for basic things. After a few more questions, I said "You should really try out OpenOffice. It is free, and I think it will fit all your needs." He downloaded it, tried it, and is still using it a year later. I helped my friend save a few bucks, and maybe he will recommend it to someone else.
In another example, someone I worked with was showing me something on the internet. However, she had to first close the 4 or 5 popups that came up. I mentioned firefox, and how it blocks popups. She seemed interested, I downloaded it for her and installed it. She tried it out, and said it was cool. The next week, she was showing me something else, and was back on IE. I asked her why, and she said it was what she was used to using. Yet I could hear her compaining about the popups. Shortly after that, her machine was exploited. When I ran Ad-aware on it, it was riddled with garbage. She asked how that happened, and I calmly said "probably because you use IE". She still didn't switch.
I will advocate Open Source to a certain degree if it fits the situation. But in a way, I don't want the general public to use OSS, I don't want Linux to take over the desktop. Somehow, I get the feeling that the general public would bring Linux down to their level.
Everyone's so quick to bash Lucas, but seriously, have you people been paying any attention to his media campaign lately? He's really coming off like he's sorry for ep 1 & 2, and the whole special edition thing... I mean, ep is gonna be PG-13?!? He's said it'll be "Star Wars goes to Hell," for chissakes. That doesn't sound like the words of a man milking some cash-cow for all its worth... If it were, he'd be coming with more furry little ewaks.
Have YOU been paying attention. By my count, there were 2 good Star Wars movies, and 3 bad ones (so far). Return of the Jedi was Lucas turning to the dark side, if you will. However, he was excused for it because the first two movies were great. It was the "2 out of 3 ain't bad" argument. But since that time, he has produced 2 more insufferable movies. ROTJ fits more in the category of EPI and II than IV and V. So even if EPIII is great, he will be at 50%, which in my book is a failing grade.
He has said that EPI and II were his visions, and created the way he wanted to do the originals. That just proves that he has no talent. The first two movies are widely agreed to be the best - yet they aren't what Lucas wanted. He is a hack, who got lucky with the first two movies, and perhaps BECAUSE they weren't up to his "standards" is why they were good. He cannot redeem himself. Even if EPIII is good, in the grand scheme of things Lucas has shown his true colors.
Unlike Darth Vader, he can't turn over a new leaf in the final movie in an attempt to erase the dark side from his past.
There is to be *NO* expectation of privacy while using computers at work. Don't think for a minute that your company won't pull out those records if necessary.
In the mean time protect yourself. Run everything over encrypted tunnels, don't use your company's DNS servers, use a browser that allows you to save your cache to a safe location (USB hard drive,/dev/null, whatever), don't use work e-mail for anything other than work, don't use unencrypted webmail, don't assume that they aren't using keylogging, the list goes on...
Or you could do the typical Slashdotter method of protecting your privacy at work: Be such an annoying dork that nobody is interested in what you say.
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The bad acting is one thing, but it wasn't just that. I can't think of much I liked about EPI and EPII. The story is already laid out, and they were just OK. What do I remember about those movies? The corny and excruciatingly long pod racer scene. The annoyingly cute "Ani". The unnecessarily animated junk dealer. Not only the abomination Jar Jar, but the entire race of underwater annoyances. A feeble attempt to make Yoda look cool via a light-saber battle. The annoyingly scowly older Anakin. The 5 minute long lovey dovey scene in EPII. It was only 5 minutes for me because I only saw it in FFWD mode.
Lucas has created memories in these movies, most of them bad. And these are his grand vision? Even if this movie is great, he would only get 3 out of 6, which is a failing grade. (ROTJ barely passed, being pulled along by the first two movies)
Do you apply the same criteria to blogs? I guess not, or you wouldn't have posted...
I have used XP for 2 years now (job, not at home) and I have only seen a couple BSODs on it. HOWEVER, I don't think that the OS is that much more stable than 2k. I still get lockups, massive slow-downs, and unresponsiveness. In fact, I think I get them more in XP than in 2k. XP does weirder things. Does it matter that there is not a BSOD if I have to reset the machine and lose my work anyway? That happens. In my opinion, XP is not more stable than 2k. Microsoft are a bunch of dopes. Windows 2000 was widely regarded as "pretty darn good" even by the Linux crowd. So instead of improving on it by making it more secure and stable, they come out with XP. I don't get it. It's like putting a new gaudy paint job on a reasonably well-running car, and all of a sudden it starts misfiring and stalling.
Amen. This porn ain't going to download itself. Oh wait, I wrote a script and cronjob to do that. Nevermind.
I actually switched to Mandrake from Redhat as well. I had been a Redhat user since 5.1 (I think) and finally just got fed up with not being able to keep up to date on my system. This is one thing that I think will plague OSs forever - the need to reinstall (vs upgrading). I once tried to upgrade from Redhat 7.1 to 7.3. Granted, it was a while ago, but the results were disasterous. I had to concede and do a complete reinstall.
When I finally decided to try a different distro, the Live CD was a savior. I tried to install Knoppix on a laptop to try it out, but upgrading KDE exploded all over the place, and required another re-install. I finally settled on Mandrake because at the time it had very current software, and after the Knoppix apt-get mess, I wasn't very confident in it. (I later found out that using apt-get on installed Knoppix isn't quite the same as straight-up Debian apt-get) But urpmi has served me well, when I use it. I still have to compile some packages by hand because the options in the packaged ones aren't what I need. (Mplayer being one of those)
But I am happy with Mandrake. The GUI config stuff is nice, but I rarely need to use it. Once I get a system configured, I don't usually change it all that much.
But in Texas, he probably could have shot you for quitting. Touche, hombre. Yeeee-hhaaaa. *pow* *pow* *pow*
Well, I did make a jump. All the steps were there, I just didn't feel like typing them. I think it was widely accepted that the "family values" vote was what helped Bush win. It's funny how he spouts on about "family values" considering his past and present. Yet he continues to push his religious agenda. While spending hundreds of billions of dollars for a war whose cause has still yet to be explained. That has been declared a victory, yet people are still dying every day, years later, because of it.
He is well known to have ties with evangelical religion. See this PBS story on it. It was just one that I found quite quickly via Google. He has implemented a "faith-based initiative". He wants to push his own religious beliefs on the rest of the country (gay marriage, abortion, censorship). Bush is ruining this country at an alarming pace, and we are going to be paying for it for many generations. His religious beliefs are by his own admission the force that is driving him. This is bigger than just the current clown that we have in the White House.
That's because he never thought he would get re-elected. That figure was just for the first term. Now he has a blank check and doesn't have to worry about completely doing whatever he wants in his second term. Strangely, this all comes back to how organized fundamentalist religion is ruining this country.
That is exactly what Lucas counts on. My simple answer: wait. Wait and rent it. Why the impatience? You know it will come out on video/DVD eventually. I waited for Episode II, and I don't regret it one bit. I watched that entire movie in about an hour. FFWD is your friend. Remember those excruciating dialogue scenes in EPII? I don't.
I don't get why people have to line up to see a movie, or even why they have to see it opening weekend. I hate crowds 100x and the impatient (or ambivalent) people who are there are opening weekend. I'll wait 3-4 weeks, sometimes longer, to see a movie I want to see. The theatre is less crowded, and as long as I stick to that schedule, there will always be something new to see. You don't miss out on the movie experience at all. If it is something you want to be able to pause/FFWD/etc then just wait for the DVD.
And if it doesn't do well at the box office, it might send a message to Lucas. If you are into that. I know a movie hasn't made me quite as angry as Episode I. Fool me once, shame... shame on you.... can't get fooled again.
That is kind of irrelevant. I have this installed, and it only works for about 3 hours during the day.
Exactly. I saw this guy the other day on the street with a sign that said "Will Phish for food."
Nope, little things in your blood make you a jedi.
A jedi who does not follow the way of great sword hands, falls in battle.
Hmm, seems like pretty much all the jedi fell in battle.
A jedi who slashes, slices, is off balance.
Not so. Maybe with a traditional sword, but light-sabers would have a different balance. They can be wielded much differently than a traditional japanese sword.
Siege your opponent -- and cut them in two. It's all in the follow through.
With a traditional steel sword (Japanese) yes. Not so with a light-saber. It doesn't require the same force behind it to cut (no pun intended). The techniques would be different, and therfore follow different rules. The same way that Japanese swordplay is different than Chinese. Not to mention that Jedi hold their light-sabers like baseball bats and not with a traditional grip.
Or until a company that sells AMD-based systems can honestly compete with Dell.
Remember, those on top don't always stay on top in the tech industry. Who would have thought that we would have a clearly dominant search engine 5 years ago? Now Google is the one to beat, even according to Microsoft!
I have thought about this, and wonder how it would be accepted. It surely wouldn't work well for anything sensitive, but for the average user? I think it has the potential to rock. I load up various Linux distros from time to time in VMWare to check them out. Something like Damn Small Linux does a lot in such a small package. If Google has the right people (and I'm sure they do) they could build something pretty cool.
BTW, I hope that Klaus Knopper gets his spot in computer history for Knoppix. I know he wasn't the first, but since Knoppix came out the bootable distro has really matured and become something awesome. I have to run Windows at work, but I currently have 3 virtual Linux distros running under VMWare, all running bootable iso images (Ubuntu Hoary, Knoppix 3.8.1 and DamnSmall 1.0.1) I can't wait to see how the next 20 years in computing goes, we have made some amazing advances in the last 20.
I am sure I am way in the minority, but my Windows system is an Athlon 900 (slot), 512 SDRAM, Win98, and an ATI-AIW32MB video card. It plays all my games fine (except the latest Ghost Recon, which locks up on occasion). But my Windows machine only gets booted for that, or if I have to burn a DVD. My Linux machine is a 1.3 Duron, 512 SDRAM, and a 16MB video card. It does everything well (except games, which is what the Windows box is for).
I am not playing the "my computer is crappier than yours" game, but I am amazed at what people will spend to play games. Sure, I wanted to get HL2, but didn't because at the time I would have had to buy a new $300 video card. Now they are cheaper, but I still haven't shelled out for the game. I can wait. I waited several years for HL, and am glad I did. The video card required to play it was cheap, there were walkthroughs on the net for when I got stuck, and there were even several level-mods out there for after I finished it. Hell, I still play Quake MegaTF every once in a while because it is fun. I just don't get the massive investment that people put into game playing. Think about how much you have spent on games, including hardware, in the last year.
I am not really complaining, because it is the gaming enthusiasts that are driving the technology, which is in turn driving down prices of older cards.
You know, if you don't like GPL software, don't buy it.
I'll bite back. Who are the "keepers" of Christianity then? Who represents it best? Apply that to all other religions as well.
My point is that you can't just teach part of it. You can't just teach "the Bible". There are way too many contradictions and interpretations. While I may call those snake handlers crazy, they are following the bible the way they have interpreted it. That's the whole point. But maybe that is too far above kids heads. It is certainly above most adults.
Nope, not with caution. In all its glory. Teach about all the frickin nutball snake handlers, all the pedophile, wife-beating Southern Baptists. All the missionaries, all the nuns, priests, and preachers who follow Christianity. Teach people what it means to be "God-fearing". Teach about the Crusades. Tell the good and the bad about the Bible and all those who use it as a tool to get what they want. Also teach that there are those who try to follow its teachings, and explain how contradictory the entire book is.
If you are going to teach them about it, tell them the truth.
Just tired of everyone falling all over George Lucas for something he did 20 years ago, all the while overlooking what he has done since then. Not only has it been awful, it has tainted the good stuff he did long long ago. Why are people kissing his ass? Star Wars is dead, and has been for a long time.
Only in Soviet Russia.
To be blunt: how friggin hard could it be? I think the tie-ins are obvious. Hell, the last 15-30 minutes of the movie were already told - in Episode IV.
Sorry, Lucas gets no credit for that, it is his JOB to tie them in. And even if this movie is dark, and even if it is cool and amazing, all it means is that Lucas is shooting 50%. We forgave ROTJ because the first two were that good. But even if this one is awesome, that is 3 out of 6, which is a failing grade.
I have seen it with everything from movies, to music, to car tires, to driving routes. (if you want to get into an annoying, long conversation, ask someone from the Chicago suburbs how to get from point A to point B)
If someone asks me, I'll tell them. Sometimes I want to help them. My friend wanted to go out and buy a copy of MS Office. I asked him why he needed it, and he said his wife uses it for basic things. After a few more questions, I said "You should really try out OpenOffice. It is free, and I think it will fit all your needs." He downloaded it, tried it, and is still using it a year later. I helped my friend save a few bucks, and maybe he will recommend it to someone else.
In another example, someone I worked with was showing me something on the internet. However, she had to first close the 4 or 5 popups that came up. I mentioned firefox, and how it blocks popups. She seemed interested, I downloaded it for her and installed it. She tried it out, and said it was cool. The next week, she was showing me something else, and was back on IE. I asked her why, and she said it was what she was used to using. Yet I could hear her compaining about the popups. Shortly after that, her machine was exploited. When I ran Ad-aware on it, it was riddled with garbage. She asked how that happened, and I calmly said "probably because you use IE". She still didn't switch.
I will advocate Open Source to a certain degree if it fits the situation. But in a way, I don't want the general public to use OSS, I don't want Linux to take over the desktop. Somehow, I get the feeling that the general public would bring Linux down to their level.
That would be flavour, you insensitive wanker!
Have YOU been paying attention. By my count, there were 2 good Star Wars movies, and 3 bad ones (so far). Return of the Jedi was Lucas turning to the dark side, if you will. However, he was excused for it because the first two movies were great. It was the "2 out of 3 ain't bad" argument. But since that time, he has produced 2 more insufferable movies. ROTJ fits more in the category of EPI and II than IV and V. So even if EPIII is great, he will be at 50%, which in my book is a failing grade.
He has said that EPI and II were his visions, and created the way he wanted to do the originals. That just proves that he has no talent. The first two movies are widely agreed to be the best - yet they aren't what Lucas wanted. He is a hack, who got lucky with the first two movies, and perhaps BECAUSE they weren't up to his "standards" is why they were good. He cannot redeem himself. Even if EPIII is good, in the grand scheme of things Lucas has shown his true colors.
Unlike Darth Vader, he can't turn over a new leaf in the final movie in an attempt to erase the dark side from his past.
I have had friends who got AOL accounts just for this reason - it is a good place to "hide".
Or you could do the typical Slashdotter method of protecting your privacy at work: Be such an annoying dork that nobody is interested in what you say.