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Entertainment / Re: what does the ultimate zombie saga need?
« on: September 07, 2007, 09:37:43 AM »
This is great, i can't wait to see how it ends.
Will they get married?

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Entertainment / Re: what does the ultimate zombie saga need?
« on: September 07, 2007, 06:30:40 AM »
Well, with all the films the thing i want the most is a good, belivable story, but i recognize the dificulty of that in a zombie movie.

So i'll go for the next best thing, braainzz. And a zombie love scene would be nice :D

Have you read The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks?

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New Geeks on the Block / Re: rank: annoying newbie
« on: September 07, 2007, 06:21:05 AM »
Nice limericks, but since i'm kind of a fan of  zombie films, i hope you manage to get those screenplays of yours into production. Or publish them. Or post parts of them (but here my fellow geeks might disagree).

Welcome.

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New Geeks on the Block / Re: Hello all I am Elsa
« on: September 07, 2007, 06:13:35 AM »
What's with the camwhore shots as your sig?

Damn, i never catch those things before they are removed!

Welcome.

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Anarchy / Re: Anyone know of a free but good proxyserver?
« on: September 04, 2007, 08:34:39 AM »
Ahh, yes, i spent hours and hours trying to figure out that one.

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Ahh, but it's not all fun and games.

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Main Page Stuff / Re: Fast Food, Fast Corruption
« on: August 24, 2007, 03:05:31 AM »
I thought most of you guys were libertarians, or leaning towards. Doesn't that mean everyone is entitled to eat any crap they want? It's their responsability to find out what is in the food they eat, and if they are too stupid or lazy to read or care, the fault is theirs.

With the children it's a diffrent story. What i would propose is this: You can come in a fast-food with a child only if it's yours geneticaly. If it's somebody else's child or adopted, you can't. And make the food there a little more toxic/ harmful. That way, the genes of the parents that are stupid enough to eat fast food 7 days per week would slowly be filtered out of the gene pool.

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Entertainment / Re: Aren't psychics great?
« on: August 23, 2007, 01:18:23 PM »
Well, i usualy guess my user's passwords. It's just amazing how 1234 or the user's name just pops in front of my eyes when they forget.

I also start any work phone conversations with "Try plugging it", and it solves the problem in 90% of calls (except when they try to plug the ethernet cables in the power outlets, but that's another story).

Does that mean i have psychic powers? I should charge more.

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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: HECTAR! HECTAR!
« on: August 23, 2007, 12:04:58 PM »
You used to be a telephone psychic?  How did you lose your powers?  Were you sad?  Did you see it coming?

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New Geeks on the Block / Re: Howdy!
« on: August 23, 2007, 12:02:12 PM »
Hello and welcome.

Geneve, Switzerland or Geneve, Texas or such?

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Entertainment / Re: Aren't psychics great?
« on: August 23, 2007, 11:09:57 AM »
I don't think banning them it's a solution. Maybe it'll decrease their praying on grieving widows and parents, but to some it will make them more interesting and romantic. Not too democratic either.
Anyway, i didn't find anything about that, just some people calling to make it illegal. Maybe it was Iran?   :-)

The only solution would be to teach people critical thinking, then they would die out by themselves. But as far as i can tell, in the US there's a big offensive on that (teaching children critical thinking in schools) right now.

But there could be a law stopping the police and such wasting resources and time on psychic's tips.

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Entertainment / Aren't psychics great?
« on: August 23, 2007, 03:48:09 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKyzBe0CA2Q&eurl

You'd think a poor psychic that has to do phone readings to get by in life would love to take up Randy's million dollar challenge, but seems like no tackers yet...

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New Geeks on the Block / Re: to all my fellow geeks...
« on: August 15, 2007, 04:31:21 PM »
Wow, 63 year old rapper? Teach me master!

Isn't IP block a usual procedure in cases like this?
If not, we could all start quoting black/ death metal lyrics (maybe that'll keep him away)

Where's that surface to hurr banmissle when you need it?

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Entertainment / Re: Books that you should own
« on: August 15, 2007, 03:50:04 PM »
The first books that come to my mind and weren't already mentioned:

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie,
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson,
Tristam Shandy by Laurence Stern,

and, of course,
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. (who knows when you'll need it? Better to be safe and carry a copy all the time.)

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Entertainment / Re: Geek movies which belong in everyone's collection.
« on: August 14, 2007, 03:35:10 PM »
Star Wars didn't have lasers, they had something that moves a lot slower than light, so it might as well show in vacuum. Anyway, i did not include star wars in my rant, that was a fantasy flick, like LOTR if you will, no point in wanting any science /sense in that.
(Hope no-one is offended. I loved the first episodes since i was a child and they were brand new)

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Anarchy / Re: Geekery Grammar Gall of Shame
« on: August 14, 2007, 03:45:00 AM »
Yo wizzet b vanilla face. i be the vicrum bank the boy who acts like a skank, i touch ppl in places 99.99999999% of ppl would consider WRANK!!!!


I just wanted to save a little piece of this guy's posts before they are all deleted. Or before he "puts a cap in our asses."

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New Geeks on the Block / Re: to all my fellow geeks...
« on: August 14, 2007, 02:28:39 AM »
Word!

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Entertainment / Re: Geek movies which belong in everyone's collection.
« on: August 14, 2007, 02:26:28 AM »
Ok, i 've been a troll on this subject, so i'll stop posting. I know that movies are usualy made for the 10-12 age group, (most of) who couldn't care less about all that stuff i posted, but i got all worked out by seeing Die Hard 4 and Sunshine just a week apart.

And a last little rant: i didn't mean to say that Hollywood is stupid; i meant the audiience is stupid, else the films wouldn't be.

I'll take a break from watching movies, i'll read some more books and re-watch any Monty Python's i can find.

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Entertainment / Re: Geek movies which belong in everyone's collection.
« on: August 13, 2007, 04:35:47 PM »
Fine, let me rephrase that: hire a guy AND FUCKING LISTEN TO HIM!

I don't mean in just hacker flicks, i mean in everything that has a technical/scientific little thing in it. I know ships and asteroids look cooler when they make a sound BUT SOUND CAN'T TRAVEL IN VACUUM! You can't  have an IPv4 starting with 4xx. If there's gravity in a space ship, you should explain how the hell it got there, and for pete's sake, you don't steer a spaceship like an aeroplane! Laser beams are invisible in vacuum.

And so on. My point was, you could, with little changes in a script, get rid of 90% of those stupidities without hurting the story/ visuals. And there are a lot of people who notice this, judging by what's posted a many sites. So why don't they?

I know there are pre-screenings with different versions of the films sometimes, and i just picture people coming out of some of those: "Like, dude, that flick made my head hurt, you know... Make it stoopider or something."

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New Geeks on the Block / Re: 'ello
« on: August 09, 2007, 12:54:48 PM »
Quote
Its like two deaf guys talking to each other with words. Mind you, they can't read lips either.

Yup, like most of the forums i've seen.

Anyway, welcome.

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Anarchy / Re: Riddle Me This
« on: August 09, 2007, 12:46:20 PM »
It appears that other people have wondered about the wet roads:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070630230950AAQXd6c

I'm not trying to compete with BizB, i just realised that there are a lot of wet roads in films and did a quick search.

I doubt that google can answer my question, it was more a philosophical one, but any links or opinions would be welcome.

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Entertainment / Re: Geek movies which belong in everyone's collection.
« on: August 09, 2007, 06:38:38 AM »
I've just seen Sunshine. Great visuals, good effects, acceptable acting.
Stupid, stupid plot and story.

I have a question that went unanswered for a long time, i'd appreciate if anyone can answer it (maybe it should go to "riddle me this" thread):

Why, when doing a multi-million budget film, the producer won't hire a real technical person as a consultant for a few hundred dollars? (i guess any of the films' IT staff that reads sci-fi would do in a hurry). I don't mean so the whole scenario should be re-written, but just a few scenes or sets.

Is it because nobody cares in the audience? But i do, and there are a lot of geeks that do too.
Or is it that logic and science really offend the movie-goer audience?

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The guys at Microsoft sure know how to make a good keyboard.
Does it have a linux driver?

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Anarchy / Re: Riddle Me This
« on: August 07, 2007, 09:35:05 AM »
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

What do you mean, african or european swallow?

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At least at the shallow end.

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