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Hackers On Atkins
`Sean writes "Salon.com has published a story about Hackers on Atkins. Although going on a diet is the last thing on the minds of the stereotypical geek basking in the ambient radiation of multiple monitors for 15 hours per day, many hackers have been embracing Atkins because utilizing low-carb methods to modify the metabolism is analogous to hacking and overclocking the body. Others have been combining Atkins with other systems, such as John Walker's The Hacker's Diet. I've personally lost a hundred pounds so far and will toss in the obligatory if I can do it, anyone can ism."
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The Wachowskis killed Jesus
Neo dies.
So let me get this straight. Neo dies and is resurrected in the original film, as a symbol of Christ's sacrifice to save mankind, the Wachowskis being in love with the idea of religious symbolism in their kung fu movies (notice that Morpheus wears sunglasses without earpieces, just like Allah).
According to them, therefore, Jesus, having been resurrected and taking his place as an invulnerable deity on Earth, will later die again in order to accomplish the exact same thing we all thought he had accomplished the first time around. I guess it's a good thing for us lost souls that God doesn't need sequels.
It's like rooting for the Cubs...
The Matrix survives. The machines are not defeated.
After spending every second of the first two films setting up the machines as evil, murderous slavemasters with predatory dreadlocked sentinels slithering through the darkness, we're forced to buy into a truce between man and machine in the last scene?
And what about the little girl in the film, supposedly the first love child merging man and machine? Does this not imply a thankfully-unseen man and sentinel sex scene, with a nude man, shall we say, "interfacing" with its so-called "female data port" using his "boner?"
He caught her! Oh, wait...
Trinity dies.
Boy, it's a good thing they based the entire second film around Neo keeping her alive. That was more than worth it. But don't worry, Trinity fans; your girl gets the same noble death as Cpl. Hicks in Alien 3.
Come to think of it, these films are like real life.
War crimes
Seraph is revealed to be a former one, as most of us guessed by his stand-off fight with Neo. What is not mentioned is that this man is also responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Zionites in some previous incarnation of The Matrix since he obviously chose the other door in The Architect's TV shop.
Why was he not punished for causing this slaughter? And, being Japanese, we must ask if he pleasured himself at the thought of all that death?
There's the Matrix! Shoot it!
Great plan for defending Zion, using those mechs to try to shoot the sentinels out of the air using machine guns, a technology available since 1939. I mean, there's no reason in the world to set up EMP devices around the perimeter...
Wait a second. Where did the humans get the Mechs? Or the ships? If these are leftover scraps from the great war between machines and man, how could they continually hold off the same force that defeated the original army at full strength? Maybe the Merovingian isn't the only machine who's also French.
Neo is burning down the prom!
So we find out Neo was able to defeat the sentinels in Reloaded through a vague kind of telekinesis (you should have known, from the well-bent spoon handed to Neo by his young stalker in Zion). That would be fine, except there is no such thing as telekinesis. Here's proof: try to bend a nearby object with your mind.
See? You can't. Now try to shut down the nearest robot using the same method. Simply impossible.
I'm dreaming of a white... cast?
Two actors were abruptly cut from the third film's cast before production ended, both female minorities. Coincidence?
Aaliyah and Gloria Foster were unceremonially dropped after shooting some scenes for Revolutions. What's wrong, guys? They didn't test well with the predominantly white Matrix audiences?
Neither actress could be reached for comment.
More weird religosity...
So Agent Smith takes a human body, and the first thing we see him do is cut his palms, presumably in order to punish himself for his newfound masturbation ability? Bizarre.
"She was not kissing your face..."
So they base a whole scene in Reloaded between the Merovingian and Persephone around his having lipstick on his anus due to a ladies' room rimjob?
I think I'll skip the Reloaded DVD deleted scenes, than
If you're reading this...
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
bun out the chi chi man.
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>> My friend's ten-year-old sister uses the AOL
>> screenname "LaraCTRaider."
Can you phone her and ask her why she isn't responding to my requests for a meeting please?
Hey, I don't have a beard!
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Isn't the Atkins diet a load of BS, and dangerous?
as a part time personal trainer, I have seen numerous VICTIMS of the Atkins diet. 1) each and evey one has lost "weight", yet it is mostly water weight since carbohydrates bond 4g of water to each gram of carb... no glycogen in the muscles (carbs) = less water in the body = less "weight" 2) next you have the loss of muscle mass since a body without carbs feeds off of the next availiable source... and it's not fat. So they then lose muscle "weight" which leaves them with a lower metabolism, since muscle burns roughy 50 calories per pound of muscle daily at rest. Less muscle = less ability to burn those calories = easier to regain fat. 3) noone has yet to do any long term studies on the followers of low carb / atkins dieters since it's next to impossible to find a long term follower. Yet what I do find is alot of people who lost weight while doing atkins, ad then each and every one has regained it all back + extra (see above how loss of muscle makes it harder to keep fat off) 4) conclusion - learn how to eat right, ditch the processed garbage, tv dinners, sodas, fast food, along with all of your excuses as to why you can't go without these crappy foods. Learn that building muscle keeps you young and keeps you fit and thin. Learn that there are no shortcuts to losing weight. You need to change your lifestyle for the long run, not just for a few weeks to lose a dress/pant size. 5) now step away from your PC, turn off your TV, and actually go outside.
-Cnik