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Posted: 9/2/2010 12:50:46 PM EDT
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I've never seen the movie, but thousands of people die and are born everyday. I doubt it would upset the balance of life too much.
but let me guess the plot of the movie has someone killed that sets off some catostrophic or horrible chain of events that comes back to bite the button pusher in the butt. |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 12:52:39 PM EDT
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I've never seen the movie, but thousands of people die and are born everyday. I doubt it would upset the balance of life too much. but let me guess the plot of the movie has someone killed that sets off some catostrophic or horrible chain of events that comes back to bite the button pusher in the butt. essentially 
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Posted: 9/2/2010 12:54:48 PM EDT
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I'd tell that creepy guy with the fucked up head to get off my lawn.
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Posted: 9/2/2010 12:55:30 PM EDT
[#4]
The 'easy way' never is.
Would not hit it. |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 12:56:45 PM EDT
[#5]
Considering that I really dont like people.
I'd hit it. Twice. In fact, I want a yacht so ya'll better hang the fuck on cause away we go! |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 12:57:44 PM EDT
[#6]
how long does it take to reset so I can hit it again?
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Posted: 9/2/2010 12:58:48 PM EDT
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just watched 'the box'..movie sucked IMO but whatever. question is though, would you do it? if someone came to your door and said 'push this button and you'll receive $1million, but someone you don't know will die'..would you do it? can't say that i would i'll just make money some other way, not worth someone's life, but that's just me. What do I care I'm rich I hit till the buttons breaks ill buy my way out of any situation |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 12:59:46 PM EDT
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how long does it take to reset so I can hit it again? 
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:00:12 PM EDT
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I'd tell that creepy guy with the fucked up head to get off my lawn. be kind of hard to tell him to shut his fuckin faysh though..just sayin |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:00:37 PM EDT
[#10]
I couldn't do it.
I was also dissapointed when I watched the movie- thought it was about something else. |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:01:19 PM EDT
[#11]
Many good points...
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:01:31 PM EDT
[#12]
Side Note:
Is this film worth renting? |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:03:36 PM EDT
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Side Note: Is this film worth renting? I give it 1 star |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:03:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:06:56 PM EDT
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Alternate title: Bet You Won't Push That Button, Bitch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_qQ7WvZ3QM I LOVE THOSE SO MUCH!!! |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:07:35 PM EDT
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No. Money is never worth the price of someone's life. Unless it was guaranteed the person dying was a pedophile or something. but you wouldn't have any way of knowing, and I would rather be safe than sorry.
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:09:07 PM EDT
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If the victim was guaranteed to reside in the middle east........F-yes.
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:29:41 PM EDT
[#18]
Another way to look at it is:
* The overall median income is $32k/yr. * The average effective tax rate is roughly 43%. * The federal budget is about 3.5 trillion dollars. * There are roughly 310 million people in the US. * The average person will work for roughly 45-50 years of their life * The average life expectancy is 78 years So... * The average person will make about 1.5 million dollars in their lifetime (in today's dollars) * The average person will pay $645,000 of that in taxes * That equates to 20 years of your life, or 25% of your total life expectancy * The federal budget alone is 9.5 billion (9,500 million) dollars per day * That equates to 294,573 man-years of life, or 3,776 total lives, every day So, every minute... * The federal government alone "kills" 2.6 people and "gets" 6.6 million dollars for doing it. * That's 2.5 million per "button press." However, that assumes that everyone that "dies" is "killed" at birth. If you figure that the median age is 36.8 years old (or 41.2 years left to live), then you're actually talking about 1.2 million dollars per "button press." Which is pretty close to the proposed model. In essence, Washington is pushing the button every 11 seconds. In the time it took me to write this post, the government killed over 30 Americans. |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:30:28 PM EDT
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There is always a catch...Quoted:
I've never seen the movie, but thousands of people die and are born everyday. I doubt it would upset the balance of life too much. but let me guess the plot of the movie has someone killed that sets off some catostrophic or horrible chain of events that comes back to bite the button pusher in the butt. essentially 
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:31:08 PM EDT
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If the victim was guaranteed to reside in the middle east........F-yes. What about Americans living in the Middle East?
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:33:04 PM EDT
[#21]
I would push the button before he could finish his spiel. I'm not a big fan of people anyway
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:33:37 PM EDT
[#22]
i'd have to negotiate first.
something along the lines of, "i don't know any of the motherfuckers that wrote, directed or acted in "the box" if you get my meaning..." |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:34:23 PM EDT
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SPOILER ALERT>>>>>
No..everyone missed the part where once you push the button...you are added to the list...so when the next person pushes the button....YOU DIE> |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:36:57 PM EDT
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Alternate title: Bet You Won't Push That Button, Bitch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_qQ7WvZ3QM Oh man, that brings me back about 8 years. 
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:38:24 PM EDT
[#25]
or i would take the the Button and beat the fuker to death that offered
me to do that. |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:39:22 PM EDT
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I would press the button then instantly draw my G19 and put 15 in his chest and one to the computer. I think that would count since I didn’t really know the guy. See, not so bad. Oh, then I would call the LEOs.
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:40:04 PM EDT
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I never saw the movie, but that's a lame adaption of the old psych experiment where college students hit a button that causes increasing pain to someone in another room, they hear screaming etc-of course the person in the other room is faking it.
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:40:08 PM EDT
[#28]
I'd push it for a #3 combo meal at McDonalds. |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:40:44 PM EDT
[#29]
I saw a Twilight Zone or some such show exactly like this.
They take the box after he pushes the button and tell him they are giving it to someone he doesn't know.
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:42:07 PM EDT
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Side Note: Is this film worth renting? Fuck no that movie sucked 
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:44:18 PM EDT
[#31]
saw it and
NO BTW movie sucked but first half had me intrigued |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:45:12 PM EDT
[#32]
Yes as long as they were liberals
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:53:59 PM EDT
[#33]
No; even when I was little and saw the original on Twilight Zone I wouldn't have done it.
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Posted: 9/2/2010 1:56:47 PM EDT
[#34]
Quoted: If the victim was guaranteed to reside in the middle east........F-yes. Jew hater. |
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Posted: 9/2/2010 2:04:26 PM EDT
[#35]
I'd hit it if I could choose who it would be.....Damn Liberals would be worried...
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Posted: 9/2/2010 2:27:51 PM EDT
[#36]
No, but I would be awfully tempted to plug the dude w/ the button and take the million bucks.
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Posted: 9/2/2010 2:34:01 PM EDT
[#37]
That movie sucked just like the...The Godfather I II III, Book of Eli, District 9, The Hurt Locker, Green Zone
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Posted: 9/5/2010 9:11:27 AM EDT
[#38]
Quoted: That movie sucked just like the...The Godfather I II III, Book of Eli, District 9, The Hurt Locker, Green Zone I like The Godfather series, but agree with you about the rest (especially Hurt Locker). |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 9:18:07 AM EDT
[#39]
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how long does it take to reset so I can hit it again?
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Posted: 9/5/2010 9:31:10 AM EDT
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SPOILER ALERT>>>>> No..everyone missed the part where once you push the button...you are added to the list...so when the next person pushes the button....YOU DIE> This would be my thoughts. Nobody gives away anything for nothing. There's always a string attached even if it's a friendly jesture. |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 10:34:30 AM EDT
[#41]
you dont get something for nothing theres always a catch and it would have to be the devil,you know that dirty bastard likes to lie
insert "your gonna get raped" image here. |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 10:57:47 AM EDT
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SPOILER ALERT>>>>> No..everyone missed the part where once you push the button...you are added to the list...so when the next person pushes the button....YOU DIE> This would be my thoughts. Nobody gives away anything for nothing. There's always a string attached even if it's a friendly jesture. Amazing what they hide in the fine print of the contract! |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 11:00:16 AM EDT
[#43]
I'd have shot the guy who brought the button in the head, then pushed it. After all, I didn't know HIM.
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Posted: 9/5/2010 11:06:22 AM EDT
[#44]
The premise for this movie was an episode on a TV show that was either the newest Twilight Zone or something similar.
No, I wouldn't press the button. |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 11:08:49 AM EDT
[#45]
In a way, we do do it. Everyday.
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." ––Mother Theresa |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 11:09:59 AM EDT
[#46]
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Another way to look at it is: * The overall median income is $32k/yr. * The average effective tax rate is roughly 43%. * The federal budget is about 3.5 trillion dollars. * There are roughly 310 million people in the US. * The average person will work for roughly 45-50 years of their life * The average life expectancy is 78 years So... * The average person will make about 1.5 million dollars in their lifetime (in today's dollars) * The average person will pay $645,000 of that in taxes * That equates to 20 years of your life, or 25% of your total life expectancy * The federal budget alone is 9.5 billion (9,500 million) dollars per day * That equates to 294,573 man-years of life, or 3,776 total lives, every day So, every minute... * The federal government alone "kills" 2.6 people and "gets" 6.6 million dollars for doing it. * That's 2.5 million per "button press." However, that assumes that everyone that "dies" is "killed" at birth. If you figure that the median age is 36.8 years old (or 41.2 years left to live), then you're actually talking about 1.2 million dollars per "button press." Which is pretty close to the proposed model. In essence, Washington is pushing the button every 11 seconds. In the time it took me to write this post, the government killed over 30 Americans. Wow... Excellent. |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 11:10:36 AM EDT
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In a way, we do do it. Everyday. "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." ––Mother Theresa No, really, we don't. I don't make a poor child die, and in fact our country gives a shitload of money to poor countries to try to keep those kids from dying. What's making them die is political instability and/or opression in their country that keeps aid from being distributed to its intended recipients. |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 11:13:06 AM EDT
[#48]
What's your soul worth
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Posted: 9/5/2010 11:16:16 AM EDT
[#49]
While I might kill someone for a million dollars, it would not be a random person.
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Posted: 9/5/2010 11:18:53 AM EDT
[#50]
Haven't seen the movie, but read a short story on this premise in jr. high. " Push the button, someone dies, you get rich." Guy whines a lot and pushes the button. Story ends with the man picking up the box, button pusher asks "What will you do with the box now?"
"We'll make someone else the same offer we made you". |
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