And more importantly, how the F can I read this when it appears as tiny spidery script on my (not particularly high res) screen. Even with "Overide document specific fonts", the whole thing is fuxored.
Most Hollywood films are based on acting that is "Unconvincing to horrible" and have pace and direction that need work. TR is no different. What puts it above, say Passenger 57, is that fact that it was a good story.
To summarise:
TR = normal hollywood pap + good story = Very Good
I've just read the post again, and I'm detecting an almost anti-Total Recall vibe.
TR is the most faithful reproduction of PKD that you can see in the wacky world of film. It has all the paranoia, insecurity and weirdness of the original. And for that I say "Good Work". The fact that you say "watch
the sunrise at the end, battered but victorious" shows that you must have been puffing pretty hard on that crack pipe for the previous 100 minutes.
To raise (?) the level, of course the "memory, cloning, spies,
whatever" is a McGuffin, but isn't that the point?
The last line (scene, act, image,...) is the nail in the forehead. In TR they (Holywood) did it well. I can't actually tell from your post if this is the case for 6th day.
It's a shocking thing when a troll can come out with things like "If more and more of the infrastructure of a desktop environment (like GNOME) could be
moved into kernel space" and then get moderated UP. What is going on with the world?
(Hint: The entry you're looking for in that little drop down menu thing is "Troll")
Indeed, IIRC there was some talk of banning Battlefield Earth, but they decided against it. Similarly with MI2. Either way, (I think) there were demonstrations at premiers. It's not just the German government who don't like CoS, it's the people as well.
people will actually be upset
I shouldn't think many people would be upset about missing the steaming pile of crap that was MI2
I know bitching about moderation is bad form, but this post *has* been mis moderated. It's a good, well made point that has sparked sensible and coherant discussion. Someone with some points should do the right thing.
Governments do a notoriously bad job at making moral decisions or categorizations.
because it's a very tough one to call. You're a government and you have a number of "dubious" organisations operating in your jurisdiction. Which ones do you decide are bad? Which are good? 50 years ago they called it wrong
(Jews = Bad, Nazi = Good), now they've "learnt" and anything new that has any kind mind control component and/ or power gets binned (probably rightly) as "bad", but now they are in danger of going the other way.
They are in a loose - loose situation. If they let CoS carry on, they're accused of appeasment (that's not the right word, but I can't think of the right one at the moment, I hope you get the meaning), if they stamp on it it's "religious intolerance". Only the future will reveal the "right" course.
In 50 years time will we all be spending dinner parties discussing what would have happened if someone had offed L Ron, before he started brain washing for profit?
I mentally replace "Scientologist" with "Jew" and I see something that could
have happened 50 years ago if we had a software industry... "We won't use software tools made
by the Jews, you can't trust them or their software".
The impression I got was exactly the opposite. Germany have (unsurprisingly) a large set of strong laws that are designed to prevent large super powerful organisations (MS, the Nazi party) using their power to over promote a single point of view. I agree that in this case it is probably a bit of overkill, but the sentiment is right. If MS *were* promoting a set of ideas that some people find distastful, then we shouldn't be forced to accept it. We should have the choice as to weather we "support" them or not.
It is not "religous suppression", it is exactly the opposite. It is giving us the choice as to whether we support something, or not, and that can only be a good thing.
If you're not going to use
software written by a Scientologist, or written by a crony of Bill Gates, that should be your own
wacky individual choice to make
And it should be your choice if you *do* want to use it. The German ruling gives *you* the choice, not Bilbo.
The whole thing breaks down (again) to choice. German law is very very hot on freedom of religous choice. They've forced MS to respect that freedom, even over a very very minor point, which is a good thing.
Now, if only they could be convinced that the use of IE contravened our religious beliefs...
Can you read? There are a number of good posts here describing clearly what EPR is and why it is important.
I was expecting to have to come in here and "kick some ass" as my American neighbour would say, but so far all I've found is valid well backed up comment (apart from this one, of course, and that chap further up who doesn't believe in QM).
If you want to read real numpty science take a look at this baby
(It is an abiding sadness of mine that there is no accepted text depiction of the the noise that is made when contestants get things wrong in Family Fortunes. I propose that we start using
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Entanglement has a firm experimental footing as well as an fantastically strong theoretical basis. There've been some experiments in Italy (so no ref) that have been running over the past couple of years (not "the 1980's") that have "proved" entanglement over very large distances (kilometres)
requiring no belief in mystical instant
action-at-a-distance
It was shown quite beautifully and clearly by one of my Philosophy of Physics lecturers, why EPR doesn't actually break causality, it's not mystical and requires no "belief" (taking you to mean the religious version rather than the scientific one).
Anyway, now might be good time to remember when the phrase "action-at-a-distance" was first used. It was Newton, trying to explain something he didn't quite understand, which puts you in lofty company indeed.
No dictionaries were harmed, or indeed used, during the production of this post
Same here. After I stoppped wretching, I noticed that my karma had gone up. Does slashcode give you more karma for looking at pages like that? (Mind you, it would explain a lot of things...) Is *this* the origin of the mysterious "mostly" at the beginning of "mostly the sum of..."? Is this proof that your crazy persidential candidates were right about the corrupting influence of everything? We deserve to be told.
The only cure for problems with floppy disks, is more floppy disks.
Floppy disks are not "semi-disposable", they are just "disposable". If you've been using the same one for more than a week then you're asking for a visit from the bad sector pixies. Replace regulary.
You'd better put that crack pipe down and start paying attention.
You can bash us Brits for a lot of things, but the NHS is *not* one of them. I don't know one single person who has a bad thing to say about it.
In fact, our health service is one of the only things that we do better than you. Check your facts before you post, and don't be so willing to believe the hype.
(I've just read that bit about Socialism being no better than AIDS, which now firmly convinces me that this this a troll. But, WTF, I've written it now, I might as well post)
Does anyone think in 200 years time we will
still be living in a capitalist society (serious question)?
Anatole Kalenetsky (sp?) wrote a very interesting article a little while ago about the longevity of capitalism. The bit that I found most interesting was commenting that <paraphrase> capitalism has lasted a lot longer than most economists would have thought </paraphrase>
One thing to think about is that it is the simplest, most primitive system. Maybe it's because its a re-formulation of hunter-gatherer "instincts" that it has done so well. Presumably it will only die off when the impetus for hunting-gathering has been removed.
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Saying that any one has a "right" to any thing that they can't pay for, scarce or not, is not capitalism. Price determines value, your wealth determines how much power/ value you're entitled to. If I've read Adam Smith right, he says that it is the price of things that will determine their scarcity, and their scarcity will determine their price. It's a "self regulating" mechanism, which of course falls flat on its face when we come to things like intellectual property.
I suppose, the point I was trying to make (altough in a slightly trolly way), was that capitalism is looking increasingly shaky as a basis for the economics of ideas (rather than products), but I (for one) have no idea what else we could possibly use to mediate transactions between people who (inherantly) want to fsck each over.
not
because they are not willing to pay for it, but are incapable of paying the going price for
it? If you are poor, yet by no means a parasite, why shouldn't you enjoy the same access
to intellectual property that the sleazy yuppy enjoys?
That sounds like an attack on the basis of capitalism. I'm sure our fellow readers would be interested to hear what you would have in its place.
Well, my HK id card used to be slightly more advanced than that. It had a sort of water mark chrysanthanm (sp?) in it, a printed photo and the whole thing laminated in very strong plastic. It was also covered in the wibbly anti-counterfeit patterns you get on (non-USA) money. In fact the whole thing was a bit like a small plastic fiver, with your face on it instead of the Queen's.
On the strength of that I'm guessing it would be about as easy to spoof as (non-USA) money is.
I actually quite liked the way you didn't have to type "cd <directory>" you could just go with "<directory>", the CLI noticed you were trying to "execute" a directory and interpreted it as a change directory command.
It saved 3 charcters, but think, How many times a day do you type cd ?
Why is it when American nonentities get a mention (Al Gore, Bill Gates, George W, Natalie Portman, Earl Dodge, etc..) there's no sort of description about who they are or what they do, but when one of the greatest living Englishmen is mentioned he is denigrated with the sobriquet (sp?) "BBC journalist"?
As if you crazy Yanks don't know who he is! For shame!
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When will these people learn?
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To summarise:
TR = normal hollywood pap + good story = Very Good
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TR is the most faithful reproduction of PKD that you can see in the wacky world of film. It has all the paranoia, insecurity and weirdness of the original. And for that I say "Good Work". The fact that you say "watch the sunrise at the end, battered but victorious" shows that you must have been puffing pretty hard on that crack pipe for the previous 100 minutes.
To raise (?) the level, of course the "memory, cloning, spies, whatever" is a McGuffin, but isn't that the point?
The last line (scene, act, image, ...) is the nail in the forehead. In TR they (Holywood) did it well. I can't actually tell from your post if this is the case for 6th day.
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mutter... OmniORB ... mutter.
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people will actually be upset
I shouldn't think many people would be upset about missing the steaming pile of crap that was MI2
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which is a lot worse than it may seem. Everyone and their dog is a registered charity around here, to be refused they must be fantastically dodgy.
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because it's a very tough one to call. You're a government and you have a number of "dubious" organisations operating in your jurisdiction. Which ones do you decide are bad? Which are good? 50 years ago they called it wrong (Jews = Bad, Nazi = Good), now they've "learnt" and anything new that has any kind mind control component and/ or power gets binned (probably rightly) as "bad", but now they are in danger of going the other way.
They are in a loose - loose situation. If they let CoS carry on, they're accused of appeasment (that's not the right word, but I can't think of the right one at the moment, I hope you get the meaning), if they stamp on it it's "religious intolerance". Only the future will reveal the "right" course.
In 50 years time will we all be spending dinner parties discussing what would have happened if someone had offed L Ron, before he started brain washing for profit?
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The impression I got was exactly the opposite. Germany have (unsurprisingly) a large set of strong laws that are designed to prevent large super powerful organisations (MS, the Nazi party) using their power to over promote a single point of view. I agree that in this case it is probably a bit of overkill, but the sentiment is right. If MS *were* promoting a set of ideas that some people find distastful, then we shouldn't be forced to accept it. We should have the choice as to weather we "support" them or not.
It is not "religous suppression", it is exactly the opposite. It is giving us the choice as to whether we support something, or not, and that can only be a good thing.
If you're not going to use software written by a Scientologist, or written by a crony of Bill Gates, that should be your own wacky individual choice to make
And it should be your choice if you *do* want to use it. The German ruling gives *you* the choice, not Bilbo.
The whole thing breaks down (again) to choice. German law is very very hot on freedom of religous choice. They've forced MS to respect that freedom, even over a very very minor point, which is a good thing.
Now, if only they could be convinced that the use of IE contravened our religious beliefs...
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Windows 95 can recover quite easily from bad shutdowns, Linux can't
I've, more than once, soley by turning the machine off, managed to trash the registry to such an extent that it's time for a reinstall.
I have *never* had to reinstall linux
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I stand corrected.
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I was expecting to have to come in here and "kick some ass" as my American neighbour would say, but so far all I've found is valid well backed up comment (apart from this one, of course, and that chap further up who doesn't believe in QM).
If you want to read real numpty science take a look at this baby
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as that's the sign that appears on the screen, anyway back to the point)
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Entanglement has a firm experimental footing as well as an fantastically strong theoretical basis. There've been some experiments in Italy (so no ref) that have been running over the past couple of years (not "the 1980's") that have "proved" entanglement over very large distances (kilometres)
requiring no belief in mystical instant action-at-a-distance
It was shown quite beautifully and clearly by one of my Philosophy of Physics lecturers, why EPR doesn't actually break causality, it's not mystical and requires no "belief" (taking you to mean the religious version rather than the scientific one).
Anyway, now might be good time to remember when the phrase "action-at-a-distance" was first used. It was Newton, trying to explain something he didn't quite understand, which puts you in lofty company indeed.
No dictionaries were harmed, or indeed used, during the production of this post
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Floppy disks are not "semi-disposable", they are just "disposable". If you've been using the same one for more than a week then you're asking for a visit from the bad sector pixies. Replace regulary.
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You can bash us Brits for a lot of things, but the NHS is *not* one of them. I don't know one single person who has a bad thing to say about it.
In fact, our health service is one of the only things that we do better than you. Check your facts before you post, and don't be so willing to believe the hype.
(I've just read that bit about Socialism being no better than AIDS, which now firmly convinces me that this this a troll. But, WTF, I've written it now, I might as well post)
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Anatole Kalenetsky (sp?) wrote a very interesting article a little while ago about the longevity of capitalism. The bit that I found most interesting was commenting that <paraphrase> capitalism has lasted a lot longer than most economists would have thought </paraphrase>
One thing to think about is that it is the simplest, most primitive system. Maybe it's because its a re-formulation of hunter-gatherer "instincts" that it has done so well. Presumably it will only die off when the impetus for hunting-gathering has been removed.
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I suppose, the point I was trying to make (altough in a slightly trolly way), was that capitalism is looking increasingly shaky as a basis for the economics of ideas (rather than products), but I (for one) have no idea what else we could possibly use to mediate transactions between people who (inherantly) want to fsck each over.
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That sounds like an attack on the basis of capitalism. I'm sure our fellow readers would be interested to hear what you would have in its place.
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On the strength of that I'm guessing it would be about as easy to spoof as (non-USA) money is.
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I actually quite liked the way you didn't have to type "cd <directory>" you could just go with "<directory>", the CLI noticed you were trying to "execute" a directory and interpreted it as a change directory command. It saved 3 charcters, but think, How many times a day do you type cd ?
As if you crazy Yanks don't know who he is! For shame!