My wife is a consenting adult, whom I trust completely. That trust has been built over a period of years, and is mutual. Having spent birthdays, holidays, etc apart due to miltary duties for months and months, we've both had ample opportunity to violate our marriage vows, and we have not. She can be hard-core, and is more than able to take care of herself (I've watched her shoot guys down... brutal.) I would never snoop on my wife, because we have built up that trust, and because she is MORE than capable of thinking and reasoning for herself.
Your wife was indoctrinated in the same fashion as yourself, ie, she is as closed minded as your are - naturally you agree with her.
That, my friend, is the difference between a consenting adult and a minor child. Why is there an age of consent?
Because most of the neurotics we call adults fear people who thing differently from themselves, and feel they must try to force the younger crop to the same mindset as themselves.
My wife is of the same mind on this matter, by the way. I prefer to think of myself as a watchful guardian rather than a "snoop" (it's all semantics anyway). If I'm not there to help them interpret what they see, then who will be?
What you really mean is "If i'm not there to force my worldview on them, what do i do if they start thinking on their own" - If they need help withsomething, they'll ASK - of course by all accounts they won't ask you, because you appear to inspire fear in them. They'll probably ask siblings/friends.
Child: I did that because you have not right to censor might liberties. And if you were a parent worth a damn, you would have build a case that was compelling enough that i might have agreed with your censorship.
...they explain why the ring is powerfull and why Gandalf is powerfull.
I mean, so far what have we seen; the ring can make you invisible. Oh, woodedoo a simple cloaking device. What else? Can it move mountains? Split the atom?
And what about Gandalf - a big Orc army comes stomping, and what does he do? Does he cast bolts of lightning? Summon tornados? Rain fire from the skies? No no, just runs away to get some help! He doesn't even fly away to get help, he rides on a horse!
That is one line of thinking, another is, that like Mr. Chance goes to hollywood, they hadn't a fucking clue about why M1 was a hit, so they threw in all kinds of stuff in M2-M3 in the hope that people who didn't get it wouldn't admit that, but instead say "its great art!"
Thouands of people will be playing like thouands of people, who wake up, brush their teat, eat breakfast, travel to work, put in 8 hours behind a desk, travel home again. Flatten out on the sofa watching big brother. Occasionally do some shopping and go to the toilet(not at the same time). Try to make points with the boss, earn some bucks. And once a year they'll reboot everything and you start all over.
The matrix within a matrix theory was well founded, but it proved wrong.
It did? What proof did you see? I saw nothing. In fact if its supposed to be a scifi film instead of fantasy, a matrix within a matrix still seems to be the only explanation that fits.
There is nothing to disprove that theory (a matrix in the matrix) - and if we are to stay in Science Fiction (instead of Fantasy) that is only logial explanation i've seen.
Yeah, what crap is that; "ghosting means to make a computer invisible to detection", Link refers to a character in the game "The Legend of Zelda" - pha
The merovingian covered causality for 3 straight minutes over dessert, with only a thin layer of metaphor. It's no wonder people didn't like it.
No, people didn't liked it because it was childish sillyness served it a pretentious way.
Aside: Most people who find the Matrix to be merely philosophy 101 have clearly only a 100-level familiarity with philosophy themselves. The rest are simply arrogant:p
I suspect the Wachowskis are the arrogant ones, pretending to make a scifi movie and not doing it, throwing in a lot of jumbled mumbojumbo very well know that tons of people are going to try and pretend there is order to it. A much better interpretation of the Matrix is this usenet comment:
In the third episode, Neo is revealed to be a security flaw in the
machines' operating system resulting from Windows legacy software. Zion is actually a piece of open source software designed by Linus Torvalds, currently at version 6. Due to a merger with Sun Microsystems, the plan is to scrap the current build and start from scratch using Linux source code. Agent Anderson is actually a Microsoft lawyer sent to squash the deal, and he ends up eliminating Neo with a security patch upgrade that causes a complete system shutdown. In a surprising twist ending, the machine code gets invaded by the SoBig virus erasing all data in the Matrix and freeing the humans. The movie ends with a huge BSOD.
At a supposedly really tragic scene by the end of the movie, the scene dragged on for so long that the hardcore fans present started to laugh, and when it dragged on even further, to shout: "Just die for crist sake!". I am not sure if is supposed to look like that, the scene seemed to loop 3 or 4 times.
Did it really loop?? It've just been to see it, and it didn't loop here. Because I don't care for the characters it did seem to drag on a bit, but didn't seem wrong just long.
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My wife is a consenting adult, whom I trust completely. That trust has been built over a period of years, and is mutual. Having spent birthdays, holidays, etc apart due to miltary duties for months and months, we've both had ample opportunity to violate our marriage vows, and we have not. She can be hard-core, and is more than able to take care of herself (I've watched her shoot guys down... brutal.) I would never snoop on my wife, because we have built up that trust, and because she is MORE than capable of thinking and reasoning for herself.
Your wife was indoctrinated in the same fashion as yourself, ie, she is as closed minded as your are - naturally you agree with her.
That, my friend, is the difference between a consenting adult and a minor child. Why is there an age of consent?
Because most of the neurotics we call adults fear people who thing differently from themselves, and feel they must try to force the younger crop to the same mindset as themselves.
My wife is of the same mind on this matter, by the way. I prefer to think of myself as a watchful guardian rather than a "snoop" (it's all semantics anyway). If I'm not there to help them interpret what they see, then who will be?
What you really mean is "If i'm not there to force my worldview on them, what do i do if they start thinking on their own" - If they need help withsomething, they'll ASK - of course by all accounts they won't ask you, because you appear to inspire fear in them. They'll probably ask siblings/friends.
Mom: Then why did you do that?
Child: I did that because you have not right to censor might liberties. And if you were a parent worth a damn, you would have build a case that was compelling enough that i might have agreed with your censorship.
My daughter recently started preschool.
How old are they when they start preschool?
Don't censor them - indoctrinate them - then they will censor themselves.
Your two aforementioned companies are both publicly owned. They are legally bound to do what is in the best financial interests of their shareholders.
Even if its not in the interested of everbody else. Another law that needs to change.
You pay for 3 years??? If you don't die you have to pay again!
Wanna bet?
...they explain why the ring is powerfull and why Gandalf is powerfull.
I mean, so far what have we seen; the ring can make you invisible. Oh, woodedoo a simple cloaking device. What else? Can it move mountains? Split the atom?
And what about Gandalf - a big Orc army comes stomping, and what does he do? Does he cast bolts of lightning? Summon tornados? Rain fire from the skies? No no, just runs away to get some help! He doesn't even fly away to get help, he rides on a horse!
Pwaa - some wizard he is.
3) When I install software, I don't get ads about new products when I'm installing. This includes GAMES.
You don't install many games do you? I always see ads for other games when i install a game..
Do you get a spell checker if you subscribe? I really need a spell checker ... :-/
And quite wrong on several occasions :)
bookmark :)
The answers are all there.
That is one line of thinking, another is, that like Mr. Chance goes to hollywood, they hadn't a fucking clue about why M1 was a hit, so they threw in all kinds of stuff in M2-M3 in the hope that people who didn't get it wouldn't admit that, but instead say "its great art!"
They say the game will have bullet time? How do they implement that?
If they invoke bullet time for everybody, then everybody will be moving at the same speed and the effect will be nullified?
If its just one player who moves like that... well, we've always had that in all games.. its called LAG!
Thouands of people will be playing like thouands of people, who wake up, brush their teat, eat breakfast, travel to work, put in 8 hours behind a desk, travel home again. Flatten out on the sofa watching big brother. Occasionally do some shopping and go to the toilet(not at the same time). Try to make points with the boss, earn some bucks. And once a year they'll reboot everything and you start all over.
Cool game.
The matrix within a matrix theory was well founded, but it proved wrong.
It did? What proof did you see? I saw nothing. In fact if its supposed to be a scifi film instead of fantasy, a matrix within a matrix still seems to be the only explanation that fits.
Next thing you know, they'll go and spoil Return of the king, by telling us the ring did it! Oops!
There is nothing in the film which disproves the theory. But he is right, nobody says "there is a matrix in the matrix"
There is nothing to disprove that theory (a matrix in the matrix) - and if we are to stay in Science Fiction (instead of Fantasy) that is only logial explanation i've seen.
Yeah, what crap is that; "ghosting means to make a computer invisible to detection", Link refers to a character in the game "The Legend of Zelda" - pha
The merovingian covered causality for 3 straight minutes over dessert, with only a thin layer of metaphor. It's no wonder people didn't like it.
No, people didn't liked it because it was childish sillyness served it a pretentious way.
Aside: Most people who find the Matrix to be merely philosophy 101 have clearly only a 100-level familiarity with philosophy themselves. The rest are simply arrogant
I suspect the Wachowskis are the arrogant ones, pretending to make a scifi movie and not doing it, throwing in a lot of jumbled mumbojumbo very well know that tons of people are going to try and pretend there is order to it. A much better interpretation of the Matrix is this usenet comment:
It wasn't a trilogy first. It was a movie, then someone though "hey its popular, why don't we make a trilogy"
At a supposedly really tragic scene by the end of the movie, the scene dragged on for so long that the hardcore fans present started to laugh, and when it dragged on even further, to shout: "Just die for crist sake!". I am not sure if is supposed to look like that, the scene seemed to loop 3 or 4 times.
Did it really loop?? It've just been to see it, and it didn't loop here. Because I don't care for the characters it did seem to drag on a bit, but didn't seem wrong just long.
It makes sense you know :)
You have to finish the story to find out the real answers
Great, i hope they pay me.