"Upcoming Movie Sequels that Are More Pointless than Ghost Rider 2" ARE YOU @*&@(#% KIDDING ME? With Neveldine & Taylor at the helm, this is going to be Crank 3, but with more flaming skull. If I'm going to go watch a Marvel movie this summer, this is gonna be it!
Giving everyone the means of production will actually allow anyone to design their own products, as those technologies will go hand-in-hand. There's no reason that only a mega-corporation can design a toaster; with a basic design to start from, anyone with a Makerbot and the software to manipulate the design can add improvements to the "basic model" and create their own version.
There's a reason Marx talked about the "opium of the people" - he used the stuff himself. As I explained, distributing everything evenly with regard to need, but without regard to effort (pure socialism) results in no one desiring to work. Having "unlimited goods" removes the survival imperative from work (food, clothing, healthcare, education to the limits of one's abilities), but requiring work for "luxuries" (entertainment) and prestige will keep people working for other reasons; the prestige of designing something new, unique and desirable will keep people wanting to work for the rewards.
The other thing that needs to be realized is that having a design and a way to make it won't completely eliminate costs - there are still raw materials, the upkeep of the Makerbot, and the power needs of the machine to be taken into account. Designing and making your own products merely removes the overhead - recoupment of the manufacturer's design costs, marketing, and product placement, among others. (If you have a design, you can make 1, 10 or 100 pairs of Nike Air Jordans without paying for the Nike "brand," or Michael Jordan's cut for the use of his name).
"Searching for a Friend at the End of the World" Doesn't match the wording on the poster. #corrections
Oh. That changes everything. Welcome to the Obama Cabinet, Mr. Stein....
Uggghhh. (Un-)Skinny jeans. Already done to death by Gaga.
"must continually come to the surface to breath" breathe D'oh! #corrections
Missing from this list:
Eight Legged Freaks
The Prophecy
any and all Shannon Doherty films...
Hmm...think the squirrel is a bank robber that ran afoul of a dye pack....
Who, there's some Latin in there! FrankN.Stein is a TERRORIST! :)
No, in the movie it states that V'Ger was Voyager 6, a probe sent from Earth in the '70s that was found by an *entirely* machine intelligence and sent back to Earth.
As I've noted in another comment, Pryor was, IIRC, intended to be Jean's clone from the start, as a plot by Mr. Sinister...no time machine would undo that without removing the original story arc.
Madelyne Pryor (the Goblin Queen) was a ploy by Mr. Sinister - a clone of Jean Grey to be used against Cyclops, the only mutant able to do Sinister physical harm.
Actually, in the '60s, Professor X had a doomed crush on his first female student...hampered by the age difference and his crippled legs.
The comic book Cyclops is a fan favorite; the movie Cyclops is kind of a...well, I'll just say it, kind of a dick.
Independence Day ended with a decisive blow against the aliens, but left out the boring aftermath: The medium-sized motherships were hovering over major cities, such as Washington DC (the iconic blast over the White House), Cairo, Paris...after the loss of the huge mothership, they would have likely fallen into the cities, causing massive death and destruction, on top of the aliens' already massive death toll.
The 2009 Star Trek movie takes place in an alternate future nearly 100 years before TNG (the first episode of TNG takes place approximately 80 years after the original series ended; that was three years into Kirk's original 5-year mission, and the alternate Kirk is at least 8-10 years younger than that Kirk). Any weather-control satellites or technology would not be as advanced as TNG tech.
"Basically, one our odor receptors is being supercharged by copper" Huh? #corrections
I liked the show (not my favorite Trek, by any measure), but just listen to the DS9 comments that will eventually pop up here.
"They then hopped to a more pedestrial use." pedestrian - "pedestrial" means "pertaining to the feet." #corrections
TOS was set in the 23rd century; TNG/DS9/Voyager was set in the 24th...
I always thought of the Borg as being the fallout from the end of the first Star Trek movie: Decker and Ilia merge with V'Ger, and get time-warped to Delta Quadrant several thousand years in the past. V'Ger's imperative to merge with The Creator creates the first Collective, and starts to expand across the galaxy...
Yeah. Another Deep Space 9. That went over real well. Everyone I know who loves Star Trek hated DS9....because it was "dirty" and "gritty." Great way to end the franchise for good.
