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I remember being so disappointed when I read the book. The first Jurassic Park novel was really good, then the second one, it was kind of obvious that Crichton wrote it in a rush for money to cash in on the success of the first one. Same with the movie. In fact, I seem to remember reading that he was contractually obligated to produce a sequel. I love Crichton, but I have to call a spade a spade. In general, the guy's writing really fell off a cliff after Jurassic Park. His stuff after it is so bad compared to The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Sphere, and Jurassic Park.
You are in luck, because the 1971 The Andromeda Strain movie is awesome and very close to the book. You should watch it if you haven't already. The 1995 Congo movie, not so much. I remember hating it when I first saw it. With the passage of time I can now appreciate its cheesiness and old-school silly jungle adventure feel, but as a big fan of the book I fricking hated it so much when I first saw it.
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What I love the most is that some people are trying to say "It's just a prank, nothing will happen" or play it down.
No dude, this is a case with media attention and you fricked around enough that questions are getting asked. You're not going to end up in Guantanamo Bay or some Super Max Jail where you won't see sunlight until the day they let you out, but you are going to get a ton of legal scrutiny and it's going to make the next few years of your life suck.
Even if it doesn't reach federal level, the FBI still is going to have a folder on you. The local cops are going to want to ask questions, and I bet some other levels of state judicial system will want to chat too. It's not going to be fast or easy, and you even have half a brain which I doubt to pull a prank like this, you need a lawyer last month. It won't be cheap to defend yourself, and it'd be in your best interest to shut the frick up and let a lawyer do the talking. Or heck just look up Law Twitter about what happens when a judge decides he doesn't like you and needs to teach you a lesson. They've got a ton of legal leeway to make you regret waking up.
On top of that, you're going to have be very careful with what you do and how, because even if you think you're some top mind of Info Sec - The Home Game you're not that good and now people are paying attention to you.
This is going to be interesting to put it mildly no matter how it goes. I mean you did frick with a major court case that has eyes on it all over the country, and they've already getting cops involved and looks like the FBI is joining too.
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That's a classic scene.
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What colors do you think they were? What colors would you like them to be?
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Brownish green skin in general with whitish feather-like tipped scales to maximate sun energy.
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I think they'd have been orange. Knock knock.
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I remember being so disappointed when I read the book. The first Jurassic Park novel was really good, then the second one, it was kind of obvious that Crichton wrote it in a rush for money to cash in on the success of the first one. Same with the movie. In fact, I seem to remember reading that he was contractually obligated to produce a sequel. I love Crichton, but I have to call a spade a spade. In general, the guy's writing really fell off a cliff after Jurassic Park. His stuff after it is so bad compared to The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Sphere, and Jurassic Park.
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Anndromeda strain and Congo both rule, but need good movie adaptations but at the same time andromeda strain is good for a TV movie.
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You are in luck, because the 1971 The Andromeda Strain movie is awesome and very close to the book. You should watch it if you haven't already. The 1995 Congo movie, not so much. I remember hating it when I first saw it. With the passage of time I can now appreciate its cheesiness and old-school silly jungle adventure feel, but as a big fan of the book I fricking hated it so much when I first saw it.
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I remember being so disappointed when I didnt get any of the dinosaur action figures I saw at my friends' houses.
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What I love the most is that some people are trying to say "It's just a prank, nothing will happen" or play it down.
No dude, this is a case with media attention and you fricked around enough that questions are getting asked. You're not going to end up in Guantanamo Bay or some Super Max Jail where you won't see sunlight until the day they let you out, but you are going to get a ton of legal scrutiny and it's going to make the next few years of your life suck.
Even if it doesn't reach federal level, the FBI still is going to have a folder on you. The local cops are going to want to ask questions, and I bet some other levels of state judicial system will want to chat too. It's not going to be fast or easy, and you even have half a brain which I doubt to pull a prank like this, you need a lawyer last month. It won't be cheap to defend yourself, and it'd be in your best interest to shut the frick up and let a lawyer do the talking. Or heck just look up Law Twitter about what happens when a judge decides he doesn't like you and needs to teach you a lesson. They've got a ton of legal leeway to make you regret waking up.
On top of that, you're going to have be very careful with what you do and how, because even if you think you're some top mind of Info Sec - The Home Game you're not that good and now people are paying attention to you.
This is going to be interesting to put it mildly no matter how it goes. I mean you did frick with a major court case that has eyes on it all over the country, and they've already getting cops involved and looks like the FBI is joining too.
I'm just saying it won't be pleasant.
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