Instead of buying a feel-good card from some organization, I'd say your charity money could be utilized 100% if you just find a hungry family and buy them some food...
Yep, that certainly explains why we're all living at the standard of living of the medieval serfs.
Oh, wait: we're not.
Aren't you dependant on your employer for your basic needs? If so, how is your standard of living any different than that of a medieval serf? Oh, wait: you have more "stuff" so that makes it better...
George Lucas was spotted earlier this morning in the middle of Times Square clutching what appear to once have been Star Wars action figures, squeezing with all his might. When asked what he was doing, he replied, "I KNOW there's more money in here somewhere!!!"
That's what separates the Rings trilogy from the Matrix's gobbledygook.
They are both fantasy stories, but Rings doesn't try to be much else. Rings isn't trying to mix heavy religious themes, moral allegory (Tolkien himself hated allegory) and pseudo-philosophy into it's storyline. It's just a cool fantasy story.
The Matrix on the other hand, tries to look "deep" and "heavy" where in reality, the themes and ideas it presents have already been exhaustively discussed in PHIL 101. The Matrix trilogy tries so hard to be important that it ends up a parody of itself.
If you're rich enough, you can dump raw sewage in the streets, or dump needles in the ocean, or dump toxic chemicals in the rivers.
If you're rich enough, you can drive down the street blasting ads, sales pitches, sound bites, corporate jingles, and not have to worry about anything.
If you're rich enough, you can fill every inch of the earth up with your important sales message.
Because after all, the economy is the most important thing in the world. If it wasn't for money, the earth would blow up tomorrow!!
Why don't you post your email address here and I'll show you how broken it is. Would you like mail from president@whitehouse.gov, or maybe brittany@spears.com?
Instead today, the public is often manipulated not by what they see/hear through the media, but what they are kept from seeing/hearing. Through censorship or spin, you are told what you need to be told so that your opinions and beliefs about what is "true" match what the teller has in mind, and you are not told things that will counter those goal beliefs.
ONe has only to compare the major U.S. news outlets with news reporting throughout the world to see examples. Not that news reporting in other countries is any less censored/spun to advance THEIR goals.....
The privacy advocate (implying most people aren't concerned with privacy) is exactly right. This move's effect (and probably its purpose) is to prepare children to accept ubiquitous monitoring and tracking, so they don't resist it when the cameras are installed on every city block in a few years.
My age group will be ridiculed as paranoid when I complain about the corporations/government start keeping detailed logs on everything I do, everyone I see, everywhere I go, etc. etc. After all, GovernCorp is only doing this for our protection, to keep the TERRORISTS away!!!
Watch as your children are taught to love Big Brother...
In a non-police-state country, your answers should be:
For a conference. None of your business. None of your business. None of your business. None of your business. None of your business. No. None of your business. None of your business. None of your business. None of your business. None of your business. None of your business. None of your business. None of your business.
It's too bad they had you by the balls and a plane was the only practical way out of their wretched country. If I were you I wouldn't go back.
I have to say I share his experience. It was the constant deluge of un-interrupted TV shows that poured from my (former) TiVO that convinced me of how much crap the idiot box really has to offer. After realizing that no, there really isn't anything interesting on, I gave up my TV (and the TiVO along with it) for good.
Being free from the electric teet has totally improved my free time.
I got you beat. I remember typing in the entire "Super Star Trek" BASIC program that was listed in an issue of Creative Computing (mid-80's). Looking at it in a web browser on a 1280.1024 screen makes it seem tiny, but it seemed monstrous as a 13 year old when I typed it in by hand.
No typos either if I recall:-) Ported it to PASCAL 3 years later when I got my PC.
The Windows GUI is anything but full-featured. Uninstall your MS-Blinders2000 for a second and actually compare Windows feature-for-feature with even the most stripped down X toolkits. The only thing you'll probably find missing in the X toolkit is the ability to drag a word document to an excel spreadsheet, and we all know how useful that is...
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For the experienced CF developer, you know there is a lot to learn and its constantly evolving.
How can you have a definitive guide to something that is constantly evolving? By the time the book prints, it will no longer be definitive...
In the end, you are buying a piece of cardboard. Bully for you!
How about a financial advisor
Instead of buying a feel-good card from some organization, I'd say your charity money could be utilized 100% if you just find a hungry family and buy them some food...
Why not instead participate in Buy Nothing Day, instead of buying more useless stuff that nobody needs?
My question: Why use the word "Enterprise" when the clearer and simpler "business" means the same thing?
Yep, that certainly explains why we're all living at the standard of living of the medieval serfs.
Oh, wait: we're not.
Aren't you dependant on your employer for your basic needs? If so, how is your standard of living any different than that of a medieval serf? Oh, wait: you have more "stuff" so that makes it better...
George Lucas was spotted earlier this morning in the middle of Times Square clutching what appear to once have been Star Wars action figures, squeezing with all his might. When asked what he was doing, he replied, "I KNOW there's more money in here somewhere!!!"
Pretentiousness
That's what separates the Rings trilogy from the Matrix's gobbledygook.
They are both fantasy stories, but Rings doesn't try to be much else. Rings isn't trying to mix heavy religious themes, moral allegory (Tolkien himself hated allegory) and pseudo-philosophy into it's storyline. It's just a cool fantasy story.
The Matrix on the other hand, tries to look "deep" and "heavy" where in reality, the themes and ideas it presents have already been exhaustively discussed in PHIL 101. The Matrix trilogy tries so hard to be important that it ends up a parody of itself.
There is no difference. It comes down to money.
If you're rich enough, you can dump raw sewage in the streets, or dump needles in the ocean, or dump toxic chemicals in the rivers.
If you're rich enough, you can drive down the street blasting ads, sales pitches, sound bites, corporate jingles, and not have to worry about anything.
If you're rich enough, you can fill every inch of the earth up with your important sales message.
Because after all, the economy is the most important thing in the world. If it wasn't for money, the earth would blow up tomorrow!!
SMTP IS BROKEN!
Why don't you post your email address here and I'll show you how broken it is. Would you like mail from president@whitehouse.gov, or maybe brittany@spears.com?
SEARCH: Linux
Sorry, no results found! Did you mean "WINDOWS"?
SEARCH: Anti-trust
Sorry, no results found! Did you mean "CAPITALISM"?
SEARCH: Bill Gates
Sorry, no results found! Did you mean "YOUR NEW CORPORATE OVERLORD"?
Instead today, the public is often manipulated not by what they see/hear through the media, but what they are kept from seeing/hearing. Through censorship or spin, you are told what you need to be told so that your opinions and beliefs about what is "true" match what the teller has in mind, and you are not told things that will counter those goal beliefs.
ONe has only to compare the major U.S. news outlets with news reporting throughout the world to see examples. Not that news reporting in other countries is any less censored/spun to advance THEIR goals.....
The privacy advocate (implying most people aren't concerned with privacy) is exactly right. This move's effect (and probably its purpose) is to prepare children to accept ubiquitous monitoring and tracking, so they don't resist it when the cameras are installed on every city block in a few years.
My age group will be ridiculed as paranoid when I complain about the corporations/government start keeping detailed logs on everything I do, everyone I see, everywhere I go, etc. etc. After all, GovernCorp is only doing this for our protection, to keep the TERRORISTS away!!!
Watch as your children are taught to love Big Brother...
1. Buy laws to make sure public school system is desperate for cash.
2. Dangle a little money in front of said schools in return for implementing "New Education Marketing Campaign"
3. PROFIT!!!
In a non-police-state country, your answers should be:
For a conference.
None of your business.
None of your business.
None of your business.
None of your business.
None of your business.
No.
None of your business.
None of your business.
None of your business.
None of your business.
None of your business.
None of your business.
None of your business.
None of your business.
It's too bad they had you by the balls and a plane was the only practical way out of their wretched country. If I were you I wouldn't go back.
Well, with all those morons out there you must be doing pretty good then, Mister Smarty-pants.
I have to say I share his experience. It was the constant deluge of un-interrupted TV shows that poured from my (former) TiVO that convinced me of how much crap the idiot box really has to offer. After realizing that no, there really isn't anything interesting on, I gave up my TV (and the TiVO along with it) for good.
Being free from the electric teet has totally improved my free time.
General Electric side-by-side refrigerator-freezer. Bought 1968. Still purrs like a kitten with a severe throat infection.
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/startrek/st artrek.txt
The link in case anyone was curious.
I got you beat. I remember typing in the entire "Super Star Trek" BASIC program that was listed in an issue of Creative Computing (mid-80's). Looking at it in a web browser on a 1280.1024 screen makes it seem tiny, but it seemed monstrous as a 13 year old when I typed it in by hand.
No typos either if I recall
YOU DECIDE!
I like the UK 1-pound coin. It's about twice as thick as a quarter, and half the diameter.
OK. Highlight text. It's copied. Middle click. It's pasted.
The Windows GUI is anything but full-featured. Uninstall your MS-Blinders2000 for a second and actually compare Windows feature-for-feature with even the most stripped down X toolkits. The only thing you'll probably find missing in the X toolkit is the ability to drag a word document to an excel spreadsheet, and we all know how useful that is...