I agree...

Though at some point he had the choice between working on Bee Movie or Kung Fu Panda. He chose Bee Movie ("Jerry Seinfeld is writing, producing, and starring in it!") and will always regret that decision ;)

The same thing that is killing USA's Auto companies (save tesla), Boeing, and hollywood, is that MBA's now run things.
Hollywood USED to be about making the best ART. Now, with the MBA's, it is about making short-term profit.
Likewise, Boeing used to make the best aircrafts (in both military AND commercial). The 787 is all about making short-term profit (in the same way that GE does).
Then US car companies, GM and Ford, used to be about making the best car possible. Now, it is about making short-term profits.

If we really want to restore America, we need to roll back the changes that reagan did. In particular, we need to require that executives NOT own any of the publicly-traded stock in that industry.

A friend of mine worked on Antz (and is still at PDI/Dreamworks). The movie itself was in development for more like 3 years, not 2 months. And WAAY more than 2 months to render the final frames. Remember, this was 1998. Each frame took hours to render, depending on the complexity. A Bug's Life reportedly took up to 100 hours to render some frames (though Pixar's tools were notably not as efficient as PDI's).

Well... not quite. The real story of the two movies is fairly interesting, and revolves around Jeffrey Katzenberg (who left Disney to start Dreamworks). Turns out the Antz concept came first (almost 10 years earlier) but Katzenberg decided to make it largely in response to Pixar's project and feeling slighted by its competition with another Dreamworks release (The Prince of Egypt).

It's a real shame people have to be competitive. Life would be so much better if those of us who are productive in more than a "stock-the-cooler, flip-the-burger, greet-people-at-walmart" sense were forced to provide a comfortable lifestyle for everyone else. After all, being entertained is the most important thing after whining about how it's not fair that you somehow have to be competitive.

I don't have any particular reason to shit on this, since I think it's pretty cool, but I want to be a Slashdot hipster so I hate this and the people who made it are stupid and this is nothing new and I'm sure someone here made this back in 1996 but kept it quiet because they aren't an attention whore.

I'm curious, how many people would be living in such splendid circumstances as we have without modern medicine?

Or maybe you're just being super subtle with sarcasm and I missed it.

Yeah, it worked for Germany with Russia and Britain in the early 30's.

What do you mean? Bush is gone now and can no longer push the button.

Why bother? He doesn't need to play a vampire in order to suck.

Because the basic laws of physics didn't follow Moore's Law over that time, unfortunately...

But your previous post said that using the random screening plus the likely *added* profiling would be a negative thing - I was just saying there is no statistical way random screening + profiling would be worse than random screening alone...

Honestly, it's not as bad as you think, then. While there are people in China, India, Africa, etc, who have issues with many US policies (just like many US citizens have issues with US policies!), the VAST majority have no interest in violence and also (gasp) even appreciate some aspects of American culture - and the boost our rabid consumerism provides their economies. The tiny fraction who commit terrorist acts are as happy to do it to innocent civilians in their home country as they are to do it on US airplanes.

IMO we *should* actively and forcefully oppose (and therefore piss off) anyone who has no moral qualms with blowing up a bunch of innocent people in their country or ours. That behavior is not one of a protestor, it's of a psychopath. To be honest, there are some people in the US government/military who probably qualify for that label, as well, and they should be opposed (and removed from their positions of power), too!

Yeah, that was what I was implying - I see no way random screening *plus* occasional "profiling" could statistically *decrease* the chances vs. random screening alone...

Can not even come close. China burns almost 4x as much coal as the USA does, and it is growing fast for China while shrinking for America.

Fewer ppl? Oh, that is why we have so many wars going on around the world.

Seriously. You have a problem in which our power plants make heavy use of cooling. IOW, it has to dump that 'waste' heat somewhere. Yet, it is only 'waste' in the same sense that 'spent' fuel is stored at nuke plants.

That heat can either heat buildings, OR COOL them. What is needed is to simply pipe the heat to larger buildings and For the most part, most of our power plants are located close to businesses. With this being used to heat/cool buildings, it becomes a nice way to 'dump' that heat.