[ale] OT: it is only me or ... ?

[James Taylor]

The movie is pretty bad, but, "Make Room, Make Room!," the book by Harry Harrison that it's based on is quite good. 
-jt


James Taylor
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>>> Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> 1/16/2016 8:35 PM >>> 
I rewatched /Soylent Green/// from beginning to end, taking notes as I 
went, in preparation for a paper I did in grad school a few years ago on 
resource abundance and poverty in scifi (that paper was adapted for a 
presentation for the Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference and 
then again for DragonCon 2013). I was struck by how pervasive they made 
the privation seem and how the changes that had taken place between when 
the film was made and when it was set are referred to and inferred.

On 1/15/16 11:49 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 16:37 +0000, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> I've always preferred working with idiots who try than geniuses that 
>> don't.
>
> Those idiots can be trained/taught. Lazy geniuses make good input for 
> soylent green.
>
> Someday I'm going to force myself to actually watch that movie.
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
>
> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
>
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