Always fun to watch a fledgling technology expand. Polymer, glass, wood, even realistic imitation ivory imbibed with GPS trackers. Other researchers are trying to 3d-print aluminum.

He was great. The women were good dancers, but I was sick to my stomach at the sexualization of their dress and their movements. I know that makes me an old fogey, and yes, there are lots of men and women who think it is just fine.

BUT FUCK ALL. The women were wearing bathing suits, for FUCK'S SAKE. They imitated SEXUAL ACTS for FUCK'S SAKE.

Yes, I'm an old fogey. Don't bother coming here to lecture me on my old fogeyness. I GET A FUCKING OPINION HERE TOO.

Ya'll get to post these videos and have fun with them. I get my own fun of PISSING ON YOUR FUN.

It's even steven, as far as I am concerned. I suffer a little bit, and you suffer a little bit. EVEN STEVEN.

(He was great. Don't like the sexualisation of him, either, but at least he was dressed.)

This video reminded me of the movie "Cloverfield". All that was missing was the monster stepping through the cloud and roaring.
(Aside from the obvious fact that this is real and the terrible loss of live.)
Life imitating art imitating life?

In the field of artificial intelligence, a genetic algorithm (GA) is a search heuristic that mimics the process of natural selection. This heuristic (also sometimes called a metaheuristic) is routinely used to generate useful solutions to optimization and search problems.[1] Genetic algorithms belong to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms (EA), which generate solutions to optimization problems using techniques inspired by natural evolution, such as inheritance, mutation, selection, and crossover.

I direct your attention to the first sentence. In the field of AI, in other words, an artificially created intelligence. Now even if you go to the the idea Turing had that a computer could learn and adapt itself to the point of AI, it is a device that had to be created by an outside designer at some point. It didn't just manifest, it was created and reached AI level, then it could at that point begin to try to 'imitate' natural selection.

It has become clear to me over our last couple of discussions that you are incredibly reluctant to think outside of the box YOU have created for yourself. You believe what you believe and damn the torpedoes with the rest.

What's left of the child that I once was, rooted heavily in Spielberg and Lucas nonsense, emaciated and beaten with wire hangers, what's left of that child just let out a great weep of joy --

And was suddenly silenced, because of the emotional abuse that child had received at the hands of the very creators...

And I still don't forgive JJ for Lost... nor Super 8, which should have celebrated that child within, it was a poor imitation of this child of the '80s experience. It was lacking in authenticity. Almost. But no.

The important thing here is that Lawrence Kasdan is one of the screenwriters. His involvement makes this project legit, and he's working on a stand alone star wars screenplay. Though I haven't read much into it, it's likely the Han Solo film. Kasdan was a screenwriter for Empire, Jedi, and Raiders of the LA. That's what gets me excited despite my south park like reaction to the raping of Harrison Ford. Kasdan won't rape Ford... no, he couldn't!

Maybe. Been able to imitate Williams performance doesn't necessarily mean he can act (i.e. give his own reading of a new script)

"Original thinking" doesn't exist. Human language (and, by extension, creativity) is a function of mimicry and imitation.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Lion-tells-it-like-it-is

*related=http://videosift.com/video/White-Lion-imitates-boat-that-wont-start

*related=http://videosift.com/video/I-AM-A-LION

Lion tells it like it is. has been added as a related post - related requested by BoneRemake.

White Lion imitates boat that wont start. has been added as a related post - related requested by BoneRemake.

I AM A LION has been added as a related post - related requested by BoneRemake.

Definitely a *parody to me.
noun, parody.
1. a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing:

Not at all sure what Trance was talking about.

You know who he can't imitate? Danny Devito.

Bird sounds from the lyre bird - David Attenborough. has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579.

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One of the most common arguments I hear is that people would have their parents or grandparents "put down" to get at their inheritance quicker, which says more about the mentality of the people who put forth that argument than it does about euthanasia.

I actually read a comment from someone who said he wouldn't read Terry Pratchett because he was "morally reprehensible". When asked about it, he sad it was because Pratchett supported being able to choose when to die.

He felt it was more moral to force not only him, but also his friends and family to suffer the indignity of watching him lose his mind and become a pale imitation of his former self.

I'm not sure what's more impressive... The guessing/knowing what each car sounds like or the imitations of each one. Either way, that was very enjoyable to watch

Is seems in 1996 the BBC aired a movie based off the same book that Imitation Game is based on. *related=http://videosift.com/video/Breaking-the-Code-Biography-of-Alan-Turing