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Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion
At midnight on Friday Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released, ending the ten year run of J.K. Rowling's extremely popular book series. I imagine that there are a few folks here who have already read the book and want to talk about it. Likewise, the movie version of Order of the Phoenix was recently released (a film I was kind of underwhelmed by). So ... what did you think of them? Be forewarned: I imagine the comments will be filled with spoilers.
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Getting Mac (probably the best computer related decision I've ever done!) and installing OSX got me more excited than anything Harry Potter could ever do with his magic wand!
Slightly off-topic, but I got to admin - this OSX is _so damn beautiful_ and everything works like magic! This is saving me a lot of time! I can finally be productive instead of fixing this and that all the time like I had to do when I still used PC. Mac makes me want to learn to program! Everything is so unified that it is just so great!
I believe an interesting real-world parallel for the sword would be software licensing, with Microsoft being the goblins. You only license the software, even though you pay for it, Microsoft still actually owns it, and doesn't want you to sell it to somebody else... Another parallel would be the Ministry of Magic being controlled by the forces of evil - would that be Rupert Murdoch and his cronies controlling the media? I'm probably delusional and seeing conspiracies where none exist, but...