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Briney is truly an epic hero of our generation.
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Reply #676 - Sep 28
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DOGS CAN SNIFF OUT PIRATED DVD'S -- BUT THERE'S A HITCH
Efforts by the Motion Picture Association of America to use dogs trained to smell the chemicals used to produce DVDs to nab movie bootleggers at airports have run into a hitch, the Washington Post suggested today (Wednesday). The newspaper said that two Labradors, Lucky and Flo, who were trained in Ireland by a man who also trains dogs to sniff out bombs, made an appearance in Washington Tuesday to demonstrate their talent (after already discovering a cache of bootleg DVDs at Stansted Airport near London). One "potential embarrassment," the Post observed: pirated DVDs smell just like legal ones.
Read the title of this subject post.
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Reply #677 - Sep 28
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Who the heck gave RIAA the authority to search bags at the airport? WTF?
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Reply #678 - Sep 28
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Oh come on Bob, the MPAA and RIAA both have their own SWAT teams in Australia...why would this be any different. Corporations control the government...corporations ARE the governmnet.
Ooo I felt like George Orwell for a minute there.
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Students: School Suspended Us For Dressing Alike
Girls Are In After School Dance Group Together
UPDATED: 11:57 am MDT September 28, 2006
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MARION, Ind. -- A school recently suspended four eighth-grade girls because they wore identical outfits on the same day, some of the girls and their parents said.
Two of the girls, Dacia Small and Mindy Ellis, said McCulloch Middle School officials incorrectly branded them as gang members because of the outfits. The four received a five-day suspension after Principal Michael Shaffer saw their clothes, Small and Ellis said.
"One of the girls asked him what was the matter with it. Then he started yelling at all everybody and took us to the office and suspended us," Small told Indianapolis TV station WRTV.
Shaffer said the girls were suspended because they violated school rules, but he declined to say which rules they broke.
"I can't really address specifically a student discipline issue in regard to a particular student," Shaffer said. "I will tell you that we have a code of conduct here at McCulloch Middle School that we expect all of our students to measure up to. We're talking about a violation of that code of conduct."
The girls, whose suspensions end Tuesday, are in an after-school dance group together, but not a gang, Small said.
"We dressed alike because we are just friends," Small said.
Small's mother, Regina Barnett, said she isn't happy with Shaffer's decision. She said she thought the suspension had to do with the girls being black. Shaffer is white.
"I told him I think it's a racial thing," Barnett said. "He said he didn't appreciate me saying that because he has black friends and this and that," Barnett said.
Barnett said she is worried that the gang allegation would be on her daughter's school record.
"I don't want it on her record that she got kicked out for a gang," Barnett said. "She's not in a gang. I'm not going to let that get stuck on her record."
Barnett said she hoped to talk to the school district's superintendent about the issue.
Let me say just a few things about this article.
One is...of course the guy is a racist! These girls aren't wearing bandanas, they aren't flashing gang signs, their pants are pulled up above their butts. Is he going to suspend the football team for wearing their jersies on game day? I just don't understand how these 4 girls posed a threat. Remember in HS when a group of use wore camoflage on Fridays...we should have been hauled off to a over-seas secret CIA death camp!
Also...if someone says..."I'm not racist I have black friends"...he is a racist. I'll show you why. Let's think about how stupid it's to say "I have white friends". Doesn't that sound kind of...stupid!
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Reply #680 - Sep 28
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my 3 best friends and I used to dress alike on occassion because...we wanted to. we were not a gang, we still are not a gang.
although, i was a part of one organization that would wear white tops and black bottoms to public events.
we were called "The Choir"
we be bad asses.
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Reply #681 - Sep 30
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According to Hollywood, "cow tipping" is a popular pastime among bored (and inebriated) Midwestern teens. Knowing Tinseltown's long-standing commitment to truth and accuracy, we were prepared to accept this as fact. But then we started investigating and discovered the cruel and unusual hobby is more urban legend than reality.
In the movies, a cow is usually tipped by two drunkards in letterman's jackets. A couple of researchers from the University of British Columbia did some calculations and figured that tipping a cow would actually take a lot more force than a couple of sloshed jocks could generate. Specifically, it would require 4.43 people to push the cow's center of mass past the point of no return. In other words -- it's technically possible, but a lot of work.
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Reply #682 - Oct 1
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Just when you thought school officials were already morons....
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061001/LOCAL/610010508
Now they're punishing people for what they say on blogs.
I wonder what would have happen if a brother hits his brother at his house and they both go to the same school? Could they be expelled? If their parents own a gun or they have a Boy Scouts knife can they be charged for having a weapon?
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Those crazy Japanese. What'll they think of next?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/165925/crazy_japanese_port_o_potty_prank/
Best. Prank. EVAR!!!!1111one
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Reply #684 - Oct 4
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regmedia.co.uk/2006/10/04/hamster_usb_bg.jpg
www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/04/usb_hamster_wheel/
USB hamster wheel targets keyboard hammerers
By Reg Hardware
4th October 2006 12:22 GMT
What can we say that the headline doesn't? It's a hamster wheel. It connects to a spare USB port. Plug it and and watch that furry sucker run for dear life. Round and round. The clever bit - Hammy matches his pace to your typing speed. The faster your fingers, the quicker the hamster's pace. In short, we have at long last a USB toy your boss will approve. Expect a flurry of frenetic keyboard activity as the nation's office works try to out-type and out-run each other. Hammy can be yours for a mere 25 quid, courtesy of Crazy About Gadgets.
I think most of us would probably kill these stupid things!
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Reply #685 - Oct 5
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You guys ready to laugh?
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'Star' man sees shrinking pic biz
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George Lucas has a message for studios that are cutting their slates and shifting toward big-budget tentpoles and franchises: You've got it all wrong.
The creator of "Star Wars," which stamped the template for the franchise-tentpole film, says many small films and Web distribution are the future.
And in case anyone doubts he means it, Lucasfilm is getting out of the movie biz.
"We don't want to make movies. We're about to get into television. As far as Lucasfilm is concerned, we've moved away from the feature film thing because it's too expensive and it's too risky.
Well well well. Look what we have here. Mr. Lucas finally felt the wrath of the SW fans and fled Skywalker ranch into the arms of TV. What he said makes as much sense as a child rapist who was just caught saying no one should rape children and then go on to comment how they're going to move on to just robberies. I wonder if what he really meant was "I suck. The fans reactions to my crappy movies have shown me this. So instead of apoligizing for killing the childhoods of a zillion people...I'm going to pout...on TV."
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'"I think the secret to the future is quantity," Lucas said.
He spoke to Daily Variety after the groundbreaking ceremony for the renamed School of Cinematic Arts at USC.
Umm what? The secret is freakin quantity? Yes, cause that explains it! The movie industry isn't loosing money because it makes a whole bunch of shotty movies. No! It's in the flop because it doesn't make ENOUGH of them! I wonder if Mr. Lucas' brain has stroked so often from reading hate mail that he's flipped a switch that tells him quantity really means quality.
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He gave $175 million -- $100 million toward the endowment, $75 million for buildings -- to his alma mater. But he said that kind of money is too much to put into a film.
Spending $100 million on production costs and another $100 million on P&A makes no sense, he said.
"For that same $200 million, I can make 50-60 two-hour movies. That's 120 hours as opposed to two hours. In the future market, that's where it's going to land, because it's going to be all pay-per-view and downloadable.
Yet you still did it! Oh I shouldn't eat this box of chocolate...as I rip open its packaging. I just hope he's not talking about doing a...Blair Witch...The Series! Because then I will break my TV and await the expensive Battlestar Galactica!
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"You've got to really have a brand. You've got to have a site that has enough material on it to attract people."
He said he's even discussed the subject with Pixar's Steve Jobs and John Lasseter.
"If you don't do very many movies, and you're really lucky, and you really know what you're doing, you can get away with it. But you know at some point you're going to lose a game."
Has this guy never heard of Alfred Hitchock? The man made a great deal of movies and people loved them and still do. Well it's probably because he was never all over the board like some people."
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Lucas said he believes Americans are abandoning the moviegoing habit for good.
"I don't think anything's going to be a habit anymore. I think people are going to be drawn to a certain medium in their leisure time and they're going to do it because there is a desire to do it at that particular moment in time. Everything is going to be a matter of choice. I think that's going to be a huge revolution in the industry."
That doesn't mean Lucasfilm is diving into online distribution, though. "Having had a lot of experience in this area, we're not rushing in," he said. "We're trying to find out exactly where the monetization is coming from. We're not interested in jumping down a rat hole until such time as it finally figures itself out."
Does anyone understand what this dip-shh is saying in the above!? He's just making up words now!
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Nor is Lucasfilm's exit from features instant or absolute. "Indiana Jones 4" is still in development. "Steve (Spielberg) and I are still working away, trying to come up with something we're happy with. Hopefully, in a short time, we will come to an agreement. Or something," Lucas said, without a great deal of enthusiasm.
I wonder if Indy will be CGI-ed...or a robot...no even better! A fricken mechanical spider! Ya that's it.
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Lucasfilm also is working on "Red Tails," a film about the Tuskegee airmen of WWII.
"I've been working on that for about 15 years," he said, adding that he's also been working on "Indy 4" for 15 years.
And Lucas Animation does plan to start making feature films -- eventually.
"Right now we're doing television, which looks great. I'm very, very happy with it," he said of his toon division. "And out of doing the animation, we're getting the skill set and the people and putting the studio in place so we can do a feature. But it's probably going to be another year before we have the people and the systems in place to do a feature film."
Lucas admitted the big-budget strategy has done well for him in the past, but said, "We're not going to do the $200 million investments."
He calls himself "semi-retired" but reiterated his plans to direct "small movies, esoteric in nature," after his other projects are launched. He expects to serve as exec producer on the two features and the TV shows, including a live-action "Star Wars" skein.
At the USC groundbreaking, Lucas was honored amid cannon shots of confetti and fanfares from the USC Marching Band for his gift, the largest in the school's history.
Other bizzers in attendance included Lucas pals Robert Zemeckis and Spielberg.
Lucas said the gift is intended to set an example for the rest of the entertainment industry, as well as other universities.
"In a lot of industries, the people in the industry give a lot of money to the schools that produce the people who are their employees," he said, pointing to the auto industry as an example. "The film industry doesn't seem to be too enthusiastic about that idea. I'd love to see the industry do more.
"As self-interest, it's good to have the best trained people working for you. And the best trained people come from film school.
"The world of moving images hasn't had a lot of respect (in academia)," said Lucas. "But it's the major form of communication in the 21st century."
This $175 million, he said, is meant to "put other universities on notice that this is an important discipline that needs to be fostered."
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Reply #686 - Oct 5
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What in the world has happened to to Lucas? I feel stupider just for reading that blather.
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Reply #687 - Oct 6
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2019571.html?menu=
Police hunt farting dissident
Police in Poland have launched a nationwide hunt for a man who farted loudly when asked what he thought of the president.
Hubert Hoffman, 45, was charged with "contempt for the office of the head of state" for his actions after he was stopped by police in a routine check at a Warsaw railway station.
He complained that under President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw, the country was returning to a Communist style dictatorship.
When told to show more respect for the country's rulers, he farted loudly and was promptly arrested.
Hoffmann was arrested and released on bail but failed to turn up at a Warsaw court early this week to be tried, and the judge in the case rejected an appeal by defence lawyers to throw the charges out.
A court spokesman said: "Such a case of disrespect is taken very seriously."
Instead the court ordered the police to start a nationwide hunt for the man, and interpol have been alerted.
Even in spite of all the crap that is happening in the US these days, I'm still glad to be an American.
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Reply #688 - Oct 6
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Even in spite of all the crap that is happening in the US these days, I'm still glad to be an American.
Then again, theres this!
Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his policies concerning Iraq.
Attorney David Lane said that on June 16, Steve Howards was walking his 7-year-old son to a piano practice, when he saw Cheney surrounded by a group of people in an outdoor mall area, shaking hands and posing for pictures with several people.
According to the lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Denver, Howards and his son walked to about two-to-three feet from where Cheney was standing, and said to the vice president, "I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible," or words to that effect, then walked on.
Ten minutes later, according to Howards' lawsuit, he and his son were walking back through the same area, when they were approached by Secret Service agent Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr., who asked Howards if he had "assaulted" the vice president. Howards denied doing so, but was nonetheless placed in handcuffs and taken to the Eagle County Jail.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5039230,00.ht...
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Reply #689 - Oct 6
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Good site Briney...you posted the same one I was going to post he he.
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