Yet another example of a friendly libertarian motto. What we're doing is slicing away at the pyramid. First the untrained people can't find jobs. Then people who can't program are unemployed. Then low level programmers get outsourced. It's great that this hasn't reached your level yet, but it's bad form to gloat about it to others.
We hear conflicting reports from "$11,000 means you could live like a king" to "Material goods are so expensive there that you'd be much worse off there than here." What are conditions like for the average Indian programmer?
I've seen this argument a lot, but my question is, "Who pays the plumbers if no one else is making any money?" We can't all be tradespeople. The demand won't be there.
The problem is of course that we can't all be geniuses. First unskilled jobs move overseas. Then semiskilled jobs. Now jobs that require quite a bit of intelligence are beginning to go. Life for the top 1% in a given field will probably always be ok, but what happens to the other 99%?
"Unlikely, in my opinion. Look back at The Great Depression. Most everyone just gritted their teeth and suffered. Of course things, people and politics are different now, so I could be wrong, but I don't think so."
Actually during the depression, the idea of a revolution seemed feasible to a lot of people. Read It Can't Happen Here for an example of a book that presented the fears of the time.
Why did HUAAC have such a field day in the '50s? Because people were willing to join the Communists in the '30s.
Another downturn like that with our currently reduced safety net scares me.
I didn't get a job at Amazon I applied for where I used that approach.
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"The reason my friend, is that you're looking at things which can not exist in our world. They are so far beyond the borders of common daydream imagination that you have the reflex to criticize the reality."
I don't think that's it. I know that it's not real, but other effects of things that aren't real trick me for a while.
Whenever they have a scene of a person riding on top of a cgi creation, it draws my attention to how fake the CGI looks. When they live independently, CGI can work, but there's still a cartoony look that takes me out of the movie.
That doesn't get the studios anymore money though. Buyer B gets the movie later than he would want, but it's the same price he would have paid three months ago. The fact that it's cheaper elsewhere is irrelevant; people who want to buy day of sale want to buy day of sale.
Or perhaps I should say the incredible lack of characters. The original Matrix actually had them. You had an idea as to who they were and how they would act. This movie just had plot points. They introduced so many characters and spent so much of their time on the big fight scenes in the last two movies, that there was no sense of who anyone was. When I don't care about the characters, why should I care if they live or die. Without the emotional resonance, actions scenes are just watching things go BOOM!
(2) The Cliches
As soon as you saw the guy argue to be on the team, you immediately knew that he was either going to be the big hero or a traitor. How many times does one have to see the plot where the character who can absorb others finally tries that on a powerful being and explodes (I remember this plot device being how Superman used to defeat the Parasite back in the 70s). Not everything can be novel, but I expect some originality from a movie that's supposed to be thought provoking.
(3) One Level Only
Let's take a scene near the end. Even ignoring the cliches of the bad guy ranting about how love is pointless, and the defeated good guy finding a mantra to revive his desire to fight, what was Neo's reason for going on? Was it love? Was it revenge? Was it a hope for a better world? No. He fights because, "I choose to."
Sure on a metaphorical level, you devise all sorts of theories about what they're saying about free will there, but what makes lines like that resonate is when they work also on the straightforward level. There it just fails. Our hero fights because he fights. I guess there was nothing better on tv in the Matrix that night.
The Matrix Revolutions works as a piece that throws out random crumbs of philosophy that people can use to make up cool theories. Too bad it also doesn't work as a movie.
If you have savings, it could make more sense to spend your time looking for a job that can actually pay your bills rather than spend it at a job that never will. It takes time to find a good job.
So one obscure fact that was in a magazine 40 years ago not being stored on the internet makes it useless? No one said that every fact every is online, but if you wanted to know a random fact, would you first go to google or go to the library and start reading back issues of the New Yorker?
Yeah men's college basketball and football have been completely wiped out of existence. I remember when you used to be able to watch those games on television!
His belief is that it'll be worth a quarter to people to not have to wait a few weeks for someone to email it to you. Conversely, he feels that at a quarter, people won't feel compelled to free it up for everyone.
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Yet another example of a friendly libertarian motto. What we're doing is slicing away at the pyramid. First the untrained people can't find jobs. Then people who can't program are unemployed. Then low level programmers get outsourced. It's great that this hasn't reached your level yet, but it's bad form to gloat about it to others.
That's great for the small number of people who can do that, but what happens to everyone else?
We hear conflicting reports from "$11,000 means you could live like a king" to "Material goods are so expensive there that you'd be much worse off there than here." What are conditions like for the average Indian programmer?
I've seen this argument a lot, but my question is, "Who pays the plumbers if no one else is making any money?" We can't all be tradespeople. The demand won't be there.
The problem is of course that we can't all be geniuses. First unskilled jobs move overseas. Then semiskilled jobs. Now jobs that require quite a bit of intelligence are beginning to go. Life for the top 1% in a given field will probably always be ok, but what happens to the other 99%?
"Unlikely, in my opinion. Look back at The Great Depression. Most everyone just gritted their teeth and suffered. Of course things, people and politics are different now, so I could be wrong, but I don't think so."
Actually during the depression, the idea of a revolution seemed feasible to a lot of people. Read It Can't Happen Here for an example of a book that presented the fears of the time.
Why did HUAAC have such a field day in the '50s? Because people were willing to join the Communists in the '30s.
Another downturn like that with our currently reduced safety net scares me.
You think that's bad? Check out this lawyer's name that I saw in NJ.
I think it takes longer to watch the movie than to read the book.
The Postman. The movie took the setting and the first chapter of the book and wrote a completely different movie based on that.
I didn't get a job at Amazon I applied for where I used that approach.
"The reason my friend, is that you're looking at things which can not exist in our world. They are so far beyond the borders of common daydream imagination that you have the reflex to criticize the reality."
I don't think that's it. I know that it's not real, but other effects of things that aren't real trick me for a while.
Whenever they have a scene of a person riding on top of a cgi creation, it draws my attention to how fake the CGI looks. When they live independently, CGI can work, but there's still a cartoony look that takes me out of the movie.
That doesn't get the studios anymore money though. Buyer B gets the movie later than he would want, but it's the same price he would have paid three months ago. The fact that it's cheaper elsewhere is irrelevant; people who want to buy day of sale want to buy day of sale.
I see one every now and then in Seattle and the 'burbs
(1) The Characters
Or perhaps I should say the incredible lack of characters. The original Matrix actually had them. You had an idea as to who they were and how they would act. This movie just had plot points. They introduced so many characters and spent so much of their time on the big fight scenes in the last two movies, that there was no sense of who anyone was. When I don't care about the characters, why should I care if they live or die. Without the emotional resonance, actions scenes are just watching things go BOOM!
(2) The Cliches
As soon as you saw the guy argue to be on the team, you immediately knew that he was either going to be the big hero or a traitor. How many times does one have to see the plot where the character who can absorb others finally tries that on a powerful being and explodes (I remember this plot device being how Superman used to defeat the Parasite back in the 70s). Not everything can be novel, but I expect some originality from a movie that's supposed to be thought provoking.
(3) One Level Only
Let's take a scene near the end. Even ignoring the cliches of the bad guy ranting about how love is pointless, and the defeated good guy finding a mantra to revive his desire to fight, what was Neo's reason for going on? Was it love? Was it revenge? Was it a hope for a better world? No. He fights because, "I choose to."
Sure on a metaphorical level, you devise all sorts of theories about what they're saying about free will there, but what makes lines like that resonate is when they work also on the straightforward level. There it just fails. Our hero fights because he fights. I guess there was nothing better on tv in the Matrix that night.
The Matrix Revolutions works as a piece that throws out random crumbs of philosophy that people can use to make up cool theories. Too bad it also doesn't work as a movie.
If you have savings, it could make more sense to spend your time looking for a job that can actually pay your bills rather than spend it at a job that never will. It takes time to find a good job.
So one obscure fact that was in a magazine 40 years ago not being stored on the internet makes it useless? No one said that every fact every is online, but if you wanted to know a random fact, would you first go to google or go to the library and start reading back issues of the New Yorker?
Yeah men's college basketball and football have been completely wiped out of existence. I remember when you used to be able to watch those games on television!
As any individual ages, they have more time constraints. On the other hand, there are always new young people who don't have them.
This happened to me after I applied the patch but before I rebooted the box. Rebooting did fix the problem.
plumbers need people who can afford to hire them. If the middle class goes down, so do plumbers.
Never mind the concepts of family or leisure. Let's work work work 24/7! Won't that be fun?
Just FYI this is southEAST airlines, not South West... and no I've never heard of them either.
His belief is that it'll be worth a quarter to people to not have to wait a few weeks for someone to email it to you. Conversely, he feels that at a quarter, people won't feel compelled to free it up for everyone.
If there areN'T that is.
Yeah but if there are coders making money, no one will be able to afford the plumbers.