60 years ago, Belgian comic writers Greg and Franquin imagined a prototypical megalomaniac mad scientist whose attempt to fame included advertizing Coca Cola on the moon by sending rockets with dyes to the moon :
http://www.otakia.com/wp-conte...
One of the funniest things I saw was in Rollerball, where one of the protagonist was shown the computer who "knows" everything, storing it in bubble memory, implemented as a huge aquarium with bubbles rising up from the bottom
As others have pointed out Tintin and Asterix, whilst fictitious do tend to have a much more educational bent to them than comics from say the UK, America, and Japan
That’s because of a 1949 French law, passed by the communists, who stated that comic magazines could not have more than 50% of actual comics, the rest had to be educational stuff. As Tintin and Spirou were published in Belgium, they were not subject to that law, but they had to to be able to sell in France, which was their market, after all It’s like British TV producing for US networks
I've been raised on Franco-Belgian comics (Belgium is a comics powerhouse, too — that’s where Tintin comes from, after all), and I can trace back the inspiration of many movies to those Franco-Belgian comics; Star Wars being the best known example (and the Star Wars designers admit having the whole Valérian comics collection)
Unlike in the US, where the people have been brainwashed into thinking that if they work hard and make no waves, they'll become zillionnaires, the French know that success mostly depends on who your parents are and if they can afford to give you the education that will enable you to attend the élite schools (ENA, X)...
Hence their willingness to rock the boat and riot. And the government knows this, hence the extremely heavy-handed police response to riots (like 6 months of jail for someone who "liked" a call to block an oil refinery on Facebook. (In France, the Justice system will take orders from the government).
Same thing in Québec. People in Canada wonder why we have the lowest tuition: that’s because we work HARD rioting against each proposed increase.
It will never work in the US because the people are brainwashing into thinking that they'll become zillionnaires if they don't make waves and work hard...
The French need to decide what kind of country they want to be. Issues like these should be resolved democratically,
That’s easy to say, but the current electoral two-run process is very easy to rig: at the last presidential election, finally, people had the choice between an ultra-right wing nazi, and the banker’s minion that got elected.
This was easy to achieve: have your media spew forth a lot of anti-immigrant / anti-migrant bullshit, and watch the nazis rise enough to make the first electoral turn.
After SONY spewed out malware that infected millions of computers (took me 5 hours to unfuck a friend’s computer), I have sworn that I shall never, ever patronize SONY in any way, ever, forever.
I am not sure if the cashless restaurants are doing this as a code to be exclusionary.
In my experience, entrepreneurs are extremely uncaring about other people's problems, and those cashless establishments are a good example of them concentrating only on their own problems and totally not thinking about others.
I only stick with Facebook to keep in touch with friends worldwide, and family who don't know better.
In the past 2 years, I've had my account deactivated for a month THREE FUCKING TIMES just because a local colonialist newspaper did not like me calling off it’s condescending colonialist bullshit.
You cannot replace paper voting, because it is the only way that the whole process can be watched by people with very little training.
I've been programming computer for 40 years and I'll be hard pressed to follow what happens inside a "black box" voting machine, so imagine someone with no computer knowledge!
Oddly enough, I had started to watch a video about 2 hours before the outage, then I had paused it.
Then, about 20 minutes after the outage, I try to load the home page, and it would not load. Nor would some videos I had bookmarked.
Then, I remember the video I was watching; I bring back the window forward, and start playing it again; not only it plays normally, but the buffer-indicator bar keeps loading like if nothing happenned But youtube would not otherwise load.
This is interesting, it means that the data is not being served by the same servers that do the frontpage and the video presentation pages
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60 years ago, Belgian comic writers Greg and Franquin imagined a prototypical megalomaniac mad scientist whose attempt to fame included advertizing Coca Cola on the moon by sending rockets with dyes to the moon : http://www.otakia.com/wp-conte...
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Ah, I found the movie sequence: https://youtu.be/qmTWhvWgST0?t...
One of the funniest things I saw was in Rollerball, where one of the protagonist was shown the computer who "knows" everything, storing it in bubble memory, implemented as a huge aquarium with bubbles rising up from the bottom
Will people with Ché Guevarra tee-shirts be flagged as terrorists?
More like "arbeite rage"...
As others have pointed out Tintin and Asterix, whilst fictitious do tend to have a much more educational bent to them than comics from say the UK, America, and Japan
That’s because of a 1949 French law, passed by the communists, who stated that comic magazines could not have more than 50% of actual comics, the rest had to be educational stuff. As Tintin and Spirou were published in Belgium, they were not subject to that law, but they had to to be able to sell in France, which was their market, after all It’s like British TV producing for US networks
We trained on the actual live production system; we could pull out any customer bank account
I've been raised on Franco-Belgian comics (Belgium is a comics powerhouse, too — that’s where Tintin comes from, after all), and I can trace back the inspiration of many movies to those Franco-Belgian comics; Star Wars being the best known example (and the Star Wars designers admit having the whole Valérian comics collection)
Nice pile-up. Gotta love how they numbered the cars involved
This will work until Jeff Bezo's account balance goes over $922 Trillion.
At that time, he’ll have his own bank, with blackjack and hookers.
Hence their willingness to rock the boat and riot. And the government knows this, hence the extremely heavy-handed police response to riots (like 6 months of jail for someone who "liked" a call to block an oil refinery on Facebook. (In France, the Justice system will take orders from the government).
It will never work in the US because the people are brainwashing into thinking that they'll become zillionnaires if they don't make waves and work hard...
The French need to decide what kind of country they want to be. Issues like these should be resolved democratically,
That’s easy to say, but the current electoral two-run process is very easy to rig: at the last presidential election, finally, people had the choice between an ultra-right wing nazi, and the banker’s minion that got elected.
This was easy to achieve: have your media spew forth a lot of anti-immigrant / anti-migrant bullshit, and watch the nazis rise enough to make the first electoral turn.
Now knock out those who run the banks.
You're a hateful antisemite!!!!
Fuck those fucking fuckers.
Telling other people you plan to leave, is just basic human decency.
Companies are not human, so they can’t have human decency.
it would be in violation of various binding international agreements.
I don’t think the US will have any problem violating that international agreement
Those ain't pr0n
Never mind going to college, what about being elected POTUS???
I am not sure if the cashless restaurants are doing this as a code to be exclusionary.
In my experience, entrepreneurs are extremely uncaring about other people's problems, and those cashless establishments are a good example of them concentrating only on their own problems and totally not thinking about others.
In the past 2 years, I've had my account deactivated for a month THREE FUCKING TIMES just because a local colonialist newspaper did not like me calling off it’s condescending colonialist bullshit.
... simply by putting a pebble in your shoe.
I've been programming computer for 40 years and I'll be hard pressed to follow what happens inside a "black box" voting machine, so imagine someone with no computer knowledge!
And the response is to have every /. user go to YouTube to see if it is really down.
(It is.)
Ah, yes, the good ole slashdotting (look at my slashdot id#, younglings)
Then, about 20 minutes after the outage, I try to load the home page, and it would not load. Nor would some videos I had bookmarked.
Then, I remember the video I was watching; I bring back the window forward, and start playing it again; not only it plays normally, but the buffer-indicator bar keeps loading like if nothing happenned But youtube would not otherwise load.
This is interesting, it means that the data is not being served by the same servers that do the frontpage and the video presentation pages