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The MPAA backed down?! How is this not bigger news??? From Towle: 'Bully' To Be Rated PG-13 After weeks of activist activity and very public debate, the MPAA has reportedly assigned a PG-13 rating to the Weinstein Company's socially responsible new flick, Bully. Via MarketWatch: The Weinstein Company (TWC), aided by the guidance and consultation from attorneys David Boies and Ted Olson, announced today that the MPAA has lowered the R rating, given for some language, for BULLY to a PG-13 in time for the film's April 13th expansion to 55 markets. The scene that has been at the forefront of the battle with the MPAA, the intense scene in the film that shows teen Alex Libby being bullied and harassed on a bus, has been left fully intact and unedited. BULLY director Lee Hirsch felt editing the scene was not an option, and subsequently refused to do so, since it is too important to the truth and integrity behind the film. Also a victory is the exception the MPAA made by allowing the film to be released with the new rating before 90 days, which is the length of time their policy states a film must wait to be in theaters after a rating change to avoid confusion or inconvenience for moviegoers. I have yet to see a screener, but it's apparent that this is a movie everyone should see, particularly those with children, nieces, nephews, cousins or any other person who lives in today's increasingly harsh world. The move comes after Change.org helped collect over 500,000 signatures urging the MPAA to make the flick available to as many people as possible. Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/04/bully-to-be-rated-pg-13.html#ixzz1rEuRAZ5z

One thing I've noticed more and more lately is how few people understand (or have even heard of) the Kinsey scale. Very few people are entirely straight *or entirely gay*.

At free publicity and creating good feelings about a company/person throughout the majority of the population... Microsoft, Apple Unite to Demand That the National Organization for Marriage Boycott Them Apple's spokesperson continued: Now we see that over 635,00 people have signed the "Thank you, Starbucks" card at Sum of Us . And then there's also MoveOn 's thank-you card, and Washington United for Marriage 's thank-you card. What does Apple have to do to get our own thank-you card? It isn't fair. Apple has a long history of standing up for marriage equality . Don't forget that our first logo had a rainbow in it, too! Now we're reading in the news reports how Starbuck's customers, like David Thompson of Pennsylvania, are saying things like, " It makes me more inclined to buy here, in spite of their high prices. " We want in on that action, too. We deserve it. The spokesman added, "People should remember why they need the free WiFi in Starbucks: for Grindr! And without Apple, Grindr wouldn't even exist. Even our CEO is gay! Just how gay does Apple have to be before the NOMbies fire up their hate cannon and aim it at us? Bring it on, already!" Ha!

Jon Stewart had a *great* bit last night about how hard it is for Republicans to endorse him.

Seems to me it's already been done, was quite good, and that given their lives after Gates is clearly the better man...

WHY were you surprised??? I TOLD YOU!!! Sheesh! I fully agree that 3D or IMAX aren't needed for this (though they were put to good use by John Carter!) and that the well-written subversive nature of it make it a MUST SEE. It's the closest I've seen to copying the qualities of V for Vendetta since it came out!

There's been more guys of late, but double not much is still not a large selection. And the selection is strangely skewed too, it's like all the black guys of the CL heyday found their way to Backpage but everybody else found a better way... still trying to figure out where they all went...

I always read the news Daddy aggregates, but had glossed over the Brooklyn College thing until now, just read it and took the survey, pretty interesting. Welcome to the International Client Survey. This is the largest and most comprehensive online survey of the Clients of escorts.

If Recall technology existed, would you? Movie looks pretty cool, but after the 'blue sky on Mars' bit blew my mind in the original I'm not sure how I'll be able to take this as anything but him experiencing the implanted memory...

It's like Craigslist all over again, complete with the huge emphasis on underage... Though I didn't think Backpage was that big of a success. In fact I'd still figure it quite possible that more people find prostitutes via CL to this day than in Backpage's actual forums for that purpose...

I dunno, I participate in a lotto pool all the time. The proper way to do it (though probably harder at McDonalds) is to copy the tickets in the pool and hand out copies that have all the entrants' names on them. Even being the one often organizing my office pool, if I did that, then got some tickets on my own (pref. purchased elsewhere) I'd feel NO obligation to give everybody else an equal share! I'd almost certainly give them something, but would make them sign something making clear they understand it's a one time gift and they agree that they have no claim to the winnings! Yes, I've spend too much time considering these things, especially given the 1:175M odds!

In general I agree, and I don't plan to reproduce... So fuck the world/fuck the future? Because once the changes start compounding each other it'll be too late.

I don't have to know it, the fact that a vast, overwhelming majority of scientists declare that we're at a tipping point after which catastrophic change will be uncontrollable is enough for me. Especially backed by core samples clearly showing the highest levels of carbon in the atmosphere since the dinosaurs. But hey, if there's a handful of "scientists" saying otherwise or just hemming and hawing lets all sit on our thumbs instead of doing things generally good for America anyway! And let's ignore that those scientists are bought and paid for by big energy!!

CBS is re-releasing ST:TNG soon cleaned up into HD (on Blu-Ray), the hardcore fans may want to see. But it's my experience a lot of old TV doesn't hold up nearly as well as we remember it from our youth, and the first season or two of Next Gen are included in that! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7A9OisTODI

Far more importantly, she played Lady Morella on Babylon 5! "he appeared in the Babylon 5 episode "Point of No Return", as Lady Morella, the psychic widow of the Centauri emperor, a role which foreshadowed major plot elements in the series." Somehow I didn't realize it was her. *Loved* THAT show. Cap't Sheridan should've been my answer to 'best captain?'!

Yep, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, she's had some part in most Star Trek series, probably most notably (other than Chapel) known as Lwaxana Troi to us Next-Gen types. Also for digging every scrap out of Roddenberry's wastebasket and turning them into fairly long running though average at best TV towards the end of her life.

The war in Afghanistan wasn't inevitable because 9/11 was, in fact, completely "evitable". The Clinton/Gore team spent a lot of time on Bin Laden and felt he was a clear ad present danger. They told everybody and anybody about that during the transition. But it turned out that brush clearing in Crawford and that tit Ashcroft covering a statue's boob were both more important! I'd have given Gore at least 50% odds of averting 9/11, like the Clinton/Gore administration averted the LAX bombing of 2000. Many of these opinions were formed by reading Richard Clark's book, which I highly recommend.

...it is good to see stuff like this: Bank Of America Defends Executive's Pro-Equality YouTube Vid Bank of America is defending a YouTube video posted by Catherine P. Bessant, a "global technology and operations executive" with BoA, for speaking out against North Carolina's anti-marriage "Amendment One." (BoA is headquarted in Charlotte, NC.) From the Daily Herald: Nicole Nastacie, a Bank of America spokeswoman, said in an email that the video is legitimate [though] the company isn’t taking a position on Amendment One. “Employees are allowed and encouraged to be involved in their personal capacity in dialogue and debate on important public issues,” she said. In the video, Bessant apparently said: We’re in a war with other states across the country who would love to have the jobs that we have today ... Amendment One has the potential to have a disastrous effect on our ability to attract talent and keep talent in the state of North Carolina. I can't confirm that the quote is accurate, however, because Bessant's YouTube vid has now been set to "private." Still, NC Republicans claim they sympathize with Bessant's critique, and address it in the very language of the bill. Amendment One, they say, while restricting marriage to one-man- and one-woman-unions, sets no restrictions on what benefits private companies may offer their employees. From the Daily Herald: “We added that language specifically to allay unfounded assertions that this was going to hurt businesses,” [said Paul Stam, the Republican majority leader of the state’s House of Representatives.] “They can give any kind of benefit they want. Where’s the beef?” Read more: http://www.towleroad.../#ixzz1qqcDNEiy

Hmm, only really good book I remember from my childhood is, as you said, coming in December. I'd love for all the great Sci-Fi I've read since childhood to be made into low-mid budget movies instead of the *fucking dogshit* SyFy chooses to make instead though!

I think I have to go with the *thinking man's* captain as well, Picard. Though why Jean-Luc Picard of France is an Englishman...? The future is different! Though this got me thinking about a possible dark horse candidate, Benjamin Cisco! Smart, front line of the biggest war in Federation history, became a god (kinda). Wow I'm a nerd!

Test of top "reply to this topic" button... Edit: yep, that works as expected. But quotes or replying from the bottom of the thread don't...

I don't usually scroll back to the top of the thread to hit reply, but I notice it definitely is missing the options if I hit quote too. The report button is there (faded but working) but edit isn't, until I at least re-load the page. Also when it's in this mode I can't see some of my details around my avatar, like number of posts. I'll remember to try the top reply one of these days and see if it works better.

It's currently still working for me, FF11, same Win7 64.

Yeah, the "quest" google maps view is good too.

That's awesome, can't wait to download it. Sucks that their servers are too overloaded to get it today!