Well, more people will read the books for sure. And the problem with cutting old Sharku miserable end's: giving the completely wrong feeling that LOTR finish with a happy end. It wasn't, isn't and won't ever be for me. Evil is defeated but the price is that the greater power of good are forced to walk away. If you stop LOTR at just the end of the Aragorn+Arwen celebration then it could be summarized as pre classic D&D advantures. It has more classical Greeks root (Oedipus... especially frodo->aragorn & pippin->denethor & merry->theoden) roots than anything else. So it has to end badly for the main character(s):-)
More a utilitarian fight than a moral choice if you ask me.
I support linux and other free software initiatives because they looks more viable than closed source/propietary alternatives. I use free software because I firmly believe it has the potential of becoming the solution of choice within 5~10 years. Not because of some IP rights but out of sheer usefulness. If I let MS and some other win the fight (because I think it is a fight), I'll loose in the end, maybe 10 or 15 years from now.
Well I'm using a computer dual booting linux & w2k for 2 reasons only: it fits my need. Did I forget something?
But that's beside the (my)(your) point: why bother?
Because choosing one OS instead of another is more
Why? Simply because the coordinates of those sats are well known, and I guess that the control channel of those babies are a lot less encrypted than their military counterparts.
And there's a lot of money to gain there too, for the one who controls the information owns the truth !
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Well, more people will read the books for sure. ... especially frodo->aragorn & pippin->denethor & merry->theoden) roots than anything else. So it has to end badly for the main character(s) :-)
And the problem with cutting old Sharku miserable end's: giving the completely wrong feeling that LOTR finish with a happy end. It wasn't, isn't and won't ever be for me. Evil is defeated but the price is that the greater power of good are forced to walk away. If you stop LOTR at just the end of the Aragorn+Arwen celebration then it could be summarized as pre classic D&D advantures. It has more classical Greeks root (Oedipus
More a utilitarian fight than a moral choice if you ask me. I support linux and other free software initiatives because they looks more viable than closed source/propietary alternatives. I use free software because I firmly believe it has the potential of becoming the solution of choice within 5~10 years. Not because of some IP rights but out of sheer usefulness. If I let MS and some other win the fight (because I think it is a fight), I'll loose in the end, maybe 10 or 15 years from now.
Well I'm using a computer dual booting linux & w2k for 2 reasons only: it fits my need. Did I forget something?
But that's beside the (my) (your) point: why bother? Because choosing one OS instead of another is more
Well, it would have been much more easier.
Why? Simply because the coordinates of those sats
are well known, and I guess that the control
channel of those babies are a lot less encrypted than their military counterparts.
And there's a lot of money to gain there too, for the one who controls the information owns the truth !