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I actually don't say [bleep], don't know if I ever have. Still thought the episode was great though because I dislike the motorcycle groups a lot.

I enjoyed War, Inc. What didn't you like about it? I've been in full on commentary mode since Sunday, listened to all three extended LOTR movies (12 hours total), then the two Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg movies (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz), and I just finished Blade: Trinity. The LOTR ones were interesting, a few funny parts but it was mostly just 12 hours of talking about movie making. I listened to the Director and Writers commentary, which is the first of the four available. I think the cast commentary would probably be funnier, it's not generally rated as highly though. Then I watched the Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright ones, which were actually very disappointing. The movies are great, and they are both funny people. So I figured their commentary would be pretty hilarious. Both commentaries had their moments, but partly because I was expecting it to be really greater than it was and partly because of them doing some of the more annoying commentary things (both attempting to talk about the same thing at the same time, ending up with them basically yelling) I was very unhappy with them. I watched the David S. Goyer/Jessica Biel/Ryan Reynolds commentary of Blade: Trinity and I really, really liked it. Maybe it was because I just came off the disappointment of the previous two. There was a decent amount of down time which I generally don't care for, but I guess it's better than rambling about something completely uninteresting. Jessica Biel doesn't show up until 17 minutes into the movie and Ryan Reynolds until about 30 minutes into the movie so up until those times they didn't have much to say. The director didn't seem to want to talk about much that didn't include them so the first part of the movie had a decent amount of silence but he also asked them about stuff that commentaries generally don't have time for, which was pretty good. Now keep in mind I like this movie, and looking at the IMDb rating I might be the only one, so that could skew my perception.

Whatever feels right, I think I use thuh more often than thee.

God damn I hate [bleep]ing time travel.

I'm watching the Director/Writer commentary for all three Lord of the Rings movies. Lots of interesting stuff in there, although I am only a little over halfway through the second movie (about 6 hours done so far) and it's getting a little boring. I like interesting commentaries, but I usually prefer entertaining/funny commentaries. Supposedly the cast commentary is the funny one for this trilogy. I'll watch those eventually.

Dead Like Me: The Complete Series Collection - Sadly not on Blu-ray yet, but it was only $26

So how do you go about seeing those shorts? Was it like a festival at a cinema somewhere, or did you find them online? I watched the commentary for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which has been one of the more enjoyable commentaries I've listened to. I expected Robert Downey Jr. to carry the commentary because he had with the Tropic Thunder one, but it was actually Val Kilmer who carried it. Right after that I wanted to see more Michelle Monaghan so I watched Eagle Eye which is a pretty generic action movie. Enjoyable but nothing special.

My computer did it for me, and it always reminds me to change my watch once I see the hour time difference.

That's a good picture of Jenna's. My favourite is still the Wired cover though :wink: .

I was talking about the "observer effect" scientific principle (see: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle). But yes, you are still affecting the things around you. You still have mass and take up space. Depending on how far back you go even that small amount could change everything. Say you are in a crowd as an observer, you are standing next to people. Maybe you stand next to some guy where previously a girl came up to stand next to him, and where previously they started to talk and eventually lived together and had kids they never meet. The ramifications of that one action on a timeline of a year may not be huge, but in 20-30 years almost everyone in the world would be affected in some way (7 degrees of separation between 95% of the world's population). It could be the difference between total world war and total world peace. Depends which time travel view you talk about, there are two: the single universe theory and the multiple universe theory. In the single universe theory if you travel back in time you can affect history because you have always affected history, if you didn't affect history in the same way as you always have then you wouldn't have been able to time travel in the first place, so you therefore wouldn't be there to affect history. This is the main problem I have with all time travel movies/TV/books/comics ect... I always hate it because they change things and cause paradoxes. The only way time travel works in a single universe is if it had always been that way (regardless if anyone ever knew). Multiple universe theory is easier to work with, when you travel back in time the timelines diverge exactly where you go back to. So you can affect the entire universe, just not the one you originally came from. Now if the time machine also allows you to go forward in time you would still be stuck in the alternate universe where you had changed the past. This is all speculation anyways because time travel is impossible. The single universe theory fails because of quantum mechanics, things have to happen exactly the same way as they always had because "changing" anything that you didn't change would result in you never coming back at all, and the uncertainty principle shows that that may not be the case. The multiple universe theory fails because traveling back in time would result in the creation of another universe, which would take the equivalent of the energy of this entire universe to create.

You can't observe anything without affecting it.

I especially like these sort of movies, not really anything special but very enjoyable. Role models is a good example.

I'd much rather go to the future where technology has advanced enough to prevent death or at least greatly extend life.

Black or white is a better description than African American (obviously the American part is just for Americans) or Caucasian because what it comes down to is skin colour, not how alike people are. I mentioned this above that a black and white person that would be classified separately can be closer genetically than a two black people or two white people that would be classified the same. Plus Caucasian as a race classification included Africans, Arabs, Indians and many Europeans originally. Or it is the term for the people of the Caucasus Mountains in the Georgia/Azerbaijan area. African American isn't a good classification for black people because there are many white people who would also be considered African American, the popular example is Charlize Theron who was born in Africa and moved to the US.

Yeah they have to do one episode a week, and they don't work on that episode any other time, so they have to do it all then. When they tried to get some ready on their breaks by the week before it aired they were already sick of all the jokes and would just do it over in the week anyways. So after 7 weeks in which you have to do 7 complete episodes they are wiped out for a while after.

Huh? If many are different than each other, but the same as whites and Asians, doesn't that make them pretty much the same as each other? Or did I read that wrong? :blink: None are identical, because no person is identical. There can be more genetic diversity between people that would be classified as the same race than some members of that race and a race completely different from them.

True, I read somewhere than skin colour isn't even a good indicator of how different humans are genetically. Many different African tribes are more different with each other than they are with white or Asian people.

Well, mods make the game much much better. The Oblivion script extender only is needed for very advanced things though, I never used it.

White, my ancestry is American.

Yahtzee didn't really care for it.

I like the no bashing other sports rule. Many people don't realize how physical auto-racing is (stuck in a car for 2+ hours that is over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and you have to constantly be aware of 20 different things while fighting the steering wheel) and like to complain about it. The ignorance is kind of annoying, now they just have to be ignorant in silence :smile: .

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Hmm, I think there should be a slightly better advantage for the defender.

Heh, that was actually pretty good. I barely remember any of AP Calculus since I took it about 5 years ago and haven't done any since then but I still remembered deriving functions.

Antichrist - Umm, what just happened?