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The 9 worst tech movies of all time


Sometimes you can’t forget a bad movie. the bad dialogues the poor acting and the bad actors stay in our mind for a long time and, the movies related with technology aren’t the exception here is the ranking with the 9 worst tech movies that the humanity have never developed.

Antitrust
Feardotcom
Hackers
Independence day
Johnny Mnemonic
The Lawnmower man
The net
Swordfish
Weird science

Lamentably the stories about ominous Web sites, evil hackers and so on seem to fail more often than ever. Maybe that is because it's hard to act like someone who is sited at a computer screen planning how to destroy the world without any other thing more than a computer and a bag of chips. Maybe it happens because Hollywood doesn't understand tech.

CNN invited some experts and this are some of their thoughts:
"There are good movies that have bad tech in them," Atchity says. "And then there are bad movies with bad tech." “Maybe Hollywood is not ready to make movies with this kind of topics”.

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'Avatar' already selling out weekend box offices


Online ticket-seller Fandango, affirms that the tickets for the opening tonight are sold out in thousands of countries. The new brand fantasy film, which has received thousands of early reviews is besting this summer’s science fiction favorite “Star Trek” in advance sales. According to a survey of ticket buyers conducted by the website, 70% of folks claim they don’t care about the film’s reported $300 million budget. The producers are literally on a tie budget. But as we can see it is not a trouble for Hollywood the people is interested on see that movie because of the thousand of advertising posted on internet television etc. maybe the bills will be canceled with the big amount of tickets sold.

The studies shows that the male community is obviously more interested in the premier of the movie. 37% of the men surveyed said they plan to take a date with them to see the movie this weekend. Early interest in the film has skewed significantly towards a male audience. On Wednesday, MovieTickets.com said that 78% of "Avatar" advance ticket buyers were male, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Climate change

Washington - Secretary of Commerce of the United States, Gary Locke, said at the UN Conference on Climate Change held in Copenhagen that the world has within reach the possibility of simultaneously achieving environmental and economic performance, but only if the the help of thepolitical power.

"If we undertake serious action to combat climate change, not only we will bequeath a cleaner planet and healthier for our children, but we will lay the foundation for decades of sustainable global prosperity," Locke said at the conference on December 11 .

"What is needed is nothing less than an entirely new way of thinking about the way we produce and consume energy," he said in his address to the 192 delegations attending the largest ever international conference on global warming .

For over a century, most of the world has enjoyed luxuries that have triggered the greatest economic growth in history and abundant cheap fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, and no concern or knowledge regarding the impact of emissions of greenhouse gases caused by burning fossil fuels, Locke said the delegates. opening the doors to change of mind, neccesary to change the future of our unique and poluted planet

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Colombian elections

Fear is a feeling that has preceded nearly every Colombian elections, although the electoral violence experienced as never happened before.

64 years ago, for example, Colombia's army received a cabled order "to avoid bloody conflict ... and send army municipalities Bolivar coming elections." This was neither the first nor the last time. "Two years ago, nearly 150 municipalities had requested the cooperation of the police with similar objectives," says historian Eduardo Posada Carbo.

This year's election violence in the northern department of Bolivar led the authorities to ban the carrying of weapons until November 3.

Measures are extreme surveillance in the rest of Colombia, especially in the departments of Tolima, Antioquia, Cauca, Huila, Sucre, Santander, Cesar and Atlantic, among others. Some 135,000 public forces personnel ensure regional elections this October 28.

32 elected governors in departments, 1,098 municipal mayors, 398 members of the departmental assemblies and 12,300 councilors for periods ending in 2011. More than 86,000 candidates are competing for just 18,332 jobs in municipalities, governorates, municipal councils and departmental assemblies in a bitter and violent dispute that has as background the interests of illegal armed groups, left and far right, criminal gangs and so on.

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THE MEDIOCRE MAN
Jose Ingenieros

Who is the mediocre man? José ingenieros, summarizes the thinking of American man since humans origin. The poor man is imitating the excellence, because he treats everything that you choose without any effort. It is the parasite which surrounds the reality of the virtuous man who, thanks to their great forms of thought has wrought major changes in the development of mankind. The poor man is one who follows a conformist life; accept what others do without questions.

There are too many mediocre, but we need of them, if there weren’t mediocre who will be the next emboladores. admirers of the virtuous man. Thus, such as Tartuffe reality, they are also a necessity, because they preserve the character of the works of the virtuous. A distinction must be something very important: the poor man is very different from the man useless, because unlike this is one useless man tyrant awakening without ever having been something. It is the origin of hate and what power has done throughout history.

In short, the poor man are all Latin Americans, why? Because preserving what other cultures have developed through history and also live their effects based on the transition of culture rooted result of what history has made in developing connections. It could explain why most of us didn’t care about our future and also it explains much of our problems. At the moment Jose Ingenieros show us that to be mediocre is so easy, but to be successful requires effort.

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Twilight: New Moon

As technical information, its director was Chris Weitzand the film stars were Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, as Edward Cullen, Isabella Swan and Jacob Black respectively. The film was released in Colombia in November 27th, and it has broken a lot of world records in box offices only in its first week.

About the movie, this is the second part of the saga; Bella is on her 18th birthday and all her party finished in a very big disaster. Edward knows that Bella is in danger with some of his relatives and take the decision of go away with they.After of thousands of problems and knowing the real appearance of his friend Jacob as a wolf man, Bella finally want to be forever with the vampire man who is the owner of her heart.

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the butterfly effect

What will you do if you could travel towards for some moments of your life in the past? You would try to change your life to confront the consequences of a different future?

This is what happens to Aston Cutcher in one of his more successful movies called the butterfly effect. In this movie he acts as an average student of the university, with a relatively normal life. One night while he was with a woman in his room, he started reading his diaries and suddenly he saw himself transported towards at a moment in his past when he was scarcely a child.

The principal plot turns around these trips which always change his future, sometimes passes of being a convict to being a disabled person. Although, the principal personage tries to arrange his future, the destiny will be the same.

At the end of this great movie Aston in a last attempt to arrange his future. travels by a new method towards his first memory in which he rejects and puts out of his life the principal problem and ironically it is the love of his life.

It is a movie full of opposing emotions and an original end, turning it into one of my favorite movies.

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Stranger than fiction

Stranger than fiction is a pedantic comedy that tells much more than it shows. It Is a strange but intriguing movie in which a very normal man, who has lived through all his life without major emotions. One day he realized that a strange feminine voice is narrating to him exactly what he makes and what he feels. It is a movie full of emotions and of conclusions which make us to reflect about our lives. And to think about the short and superficial that could be our existence.

In the course of the movie our principal personage contacts to a writer searching for help, and then he realized that all his life is no more than the invention of a British writer with a very peculiar characteristic, the writer loves to finish her writings of her books killing the principal personage.

I won’t tell you the ending of this great movie till now, because the end is the most interesting part of this movie. The only thing that I can affirm is that it is one of the best movies that I have ever seen and at the same time the movie is sending us a message. I recommend seeing this movie because you can find an interesting live philosophy while you laugh.

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I’M LEGEND


In 2007, Will Smith lead this incredible movie in which he is the last survivor in the planet. After a few scientists believe in have founded the cure for cancer, they developed a mortal disease that was expanding and turning the human beings into a kind of creatures similar to the vampires. They couldn't go out in the light of the Sun because it could kill them, and they were feeding on blood. The above mentioned beings mutated up to the point in which their skin didn't have any class of hair and their forces had developed in an incredible way.

The plot turns in the survival of this personage, that after 3 years of living alone in the city of New York trying to find the cure to this terrible disease; finds two survivors a woman and a child. After this fact the mutants attack our prominent figures. cornering them and making them know that they were in serious danger because the mutants have developed an instinctive intelligence in opposition to their species.

Ultimately thanks to a few signs of the "destiny", he finds the cure and dies defending the only human beings taking them into a sure place. He dies saving the humanity.

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Dr. House


The main character of this serie is a doctor called Gregory House, who is a famous Doctor, always questioned by his unusual methods to solve the more difficult medicine cases. He also has an addiction to a drug that disables the pain in his leg. It causes problems to this controversial personage. His behavior can border on antisocial conduits, but House is a great physician whose unconventional thinking and instincts have afforded him a great amount of respect. And with his experimented work team that includes neurologist DR. Eric Foreman, immunologist DR. Allison Cameron, and the intensevist DR. Robert Chase, he has solved all kinds of diseases.

This series has turned into a milestone in the series related with medicine, the people loves the way of be of Gregory who is a hypocritical, egocentric man and the majority of times with an infantile mentality putting this serie in the first places in ratings on TV.

In the last released season two months ago House passes of being a doctor to the patient on having been hospitalized in a clinic of rehabilitation where he meets great prominent figures with mental damages and other addicts like him. After some chapters House is called again by Cuddy, his platonic love and manager of the hospital where he has been working for all his life.

I think that this series is also unique in his kind (genre), because beside entertaining people, this one shows some interesting things about medicine.

Tv shows

Friends

It is a serie that began at the beginnings of the 90's and finished in 2000 With 10 seasons and more than 100 chapters. With the best special guests, and the best jokes. It made of this program one of best till now in the comedy genre. actually the serie is being rebroadcasted in warner bros. channel and It continuos being a good way to spend time with your friends.

Friends tell us the history of Joey, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe and Rachel which are the best friends. In the course of ten years that it last, this TV show, show us the adventures and misfortunes of these unique prominent figures making us forget of many of our problems with their comical scenes.

This serie has been catalogued like the 2º better comical serie since Seinfeld in 70's. In my opinion it is the best. If you want to forget your problems for half an hour a day I recommend to you to see Friends.

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LOST


How do you feel if after a plane crash in the middle of the Atlantic you were remaining caught in an island supposedly abandoned with 80 more survivors? Where the mystery and incredible things reign, where the persons will be judged for their sins, or excused if they are of pure heart.

Lost is a unique serie and till now one of the emblematic ones for his strange style in showing the life of a few prominent figures. That in past have caused and have damaged others very much. This island located in somewhere over the Atlantic has incredible qualities, that go from the miraculous healing (as happened to a personage called John Locke, which before the accident was a disabled person), up to being a great electromagnetic source.

This enigmatic serie of TV takes five seasons and now we are waiting for the sixth one. And there will finalize. This season will be released in February, 2010. The producers have affirmed that they will clarify all the mysteries and doubts that have come arising across five previous seasons. Also they affirmed that probably after the serie’s ending, they should release a few special chapters with some parallel histories in the island, or a movie to clarify once and for all the doubts that should stay.

In my opinion it is the best TV serie that I have ever seen. It has mystery, drama, love, action, suspense, etc. It has all the characteristics of a good show that is why it is going to be very difficult to overcome it in future.

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"METALLICA" confirmed to perform in Colombia, Peru and Venezuela


The gods of rock “Metallica” confirmed a concert in Colombia, as part of the world tour "Death magnetic tour". The concert will not have anything to envy to other previously conducted around the world. The band will play in Colombia in March of next year denying rumors that they would play in January. This information was corroborated by Alfredo Villaveces, general manager of the event organizing company Evenpro Colombia.

This is the second concert of the legendary band in Colombia. The veterans of trash metal played in Bogotá ten years ago in 1990. Now they are here in order to delight the followers of this great band. The concert has the mission of promote their new album. In this way the band is proving that “Metallica” is still alive

In just some hours the platinum tickets were sold out on November 17 making of this concert the fastest selling in Colombia. The dates of the Latin American concerts are:
Lima, Peru – January 19, 2010 San José de Costa Rica, Costa Rica – March 7, 2010Ciudad de Panama, Panama – March 8, 2010Bogotá, Colombia – March 10, 2010 Caracas, Venezuela - March 12, 2010
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Nearly 1,000 rescued in Philippines ferry accident

A enormous ferry capsized in the Philippines. The wreck costs the live to nine people and the other 957 occupants were rescued by Philippines’s coast guard. Some passengers said that the ship was overload, that’s a really serious accusation, but the Philippines coast guard said that there weren’t hazardous cargo on board.

The ferry was bound for lloilo city, but survivors were moved to a nearby location; there they colud get medical attention and others forms of assistance. Some investigations will be conducted after rescue operations.

It was one of the major incident that involves this kind of vessels. In the last three years, before in 2006 and 2007, some accidents like this have hapened, but whitout fatalities reported.

The coast guard promise carry to extremes the security measures on all the ships, in order to prevent casual disasters. People said that these measures never will be enough.

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