The ONLY true Avatar, might I add...but at least the crappy movie version was blocked from using the true name, somewhat shielding the series from association anger...
Some might say they're mining data off of hard drives sent for recycling. Be sure to wipe them clean.
Exactly my first thought...is this some way to increase their user data mining capabilities? How many people know how to securely wipe laptops, printer caches, hard drives, etc. before selling them or throwing them out? Is Apple trying to tap into that potential data goldmine?
"Yeesss...send us your old, broken hard drivesess...we'll takes care of them for you..."
If I pay for a house of a given size, I own that house. I dont want people living there when the I'm off on holidays, it's my space.
Better analogy: If I pay for a train ticket, I get to use a fraction of the capacity of the rail system for a limited period of time.
Does your train station often sell 1000 tickets for a train that can only handle maybe 200 people comfortably at full speed?* Because that's a much closer analogy. Hope you don't want to travel all together now, or at a time of day that's actually convenient for you!
* I realize as I am typing this that many commuter trains in Europe have open ended rail passes that do just that, essentially. Thing is, as far as I know, they don't slow down the train just so they can cram more people on board! It's first come first serve, and if there's too much of a backlog, I believe they bring more trains online (yes/no?)
If you pay for a given speed, but the ISP has more capacity than that, then they have to throttle you to the speed you paid for in order to guarantee their other customers the speed they paid for.
Indeed. Because my biggest issue with my ISP is that I'm always getting way more bandwidth than they promised when I signed up. Damn those tricky bastards!
Bandwidth overcommitment seems to be a viable business model for ISP's, mostly because the average Joe doesn't know how to verify that he's getting the speed he's paying for. Except at 3 in the morning on a Tuesday, it's rare for us to see speeds even close to what we signed up for. Trouble is, if we sign up for a 'lighter' package, then we're opening ourselves up to being throttled even at 3 am...
What would be interesting to see is an ISP that charged based on actual bandwidth availability throughout the day * usage. So if you use it heavily in the afternoon and evening, but bandwidth is chopped back drastically because of all the other people in your neighborhood streaming the latest talking dog video, well, at least your bill at the end of the month is less bruising. If you use it heavily at 3 in the morning, and your bandwidth is exceptional, then expect to pay more for it this month. Perhaps this would 'encourage' ISP's to upgrade their infrastructure to capture all that 'lost revenoo'...and in turn provide their customers with speedier, more reliable connections when they need it the most.
If its got a scoring and filtering option, which/. has, then anonymity works. Also if there's a reason not to burn accounts, then yes; {...}. The/. achievement system is (sorry guys) lame, but if it was real I would not risk burning it either, especially if people could filter on (checkmark to only see 'once got a +5 post') {...}
G+ has none of the above. Turns out anonymity doesn't "work" if you have none of the above. Whoops.... I guess G+ can't have anonymity until it adds those features.
Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner!
IMHO, this is exactly what Google+ needs to be a viable alternative to FB. Of course, that would mean giving up the chance to associate browser and search histories with IRL people instead of just IP addresses...so no, it probably won't happen.
I've talked to many people about the census, and the only intelligible reason for him screwing around with the census that comes to light is so that there's less quality data available to organizations doing good work with fewer agendas. I've always heard that the quality of StatsCan data was legendary, in part for having excellent continuity and statistical control.
The 'quality' of the census was and is only as good as the quality of the data self-submitted by people, sometimes people that were pissed off at being *forced* to provide very personal information about themselves and their families. Why would you assume, just because they were forced to fill in the blanks under threat of imprisonment or fines, that they would provide accurate information?
No. Stats Canada needs to change their "we must control all moar data moar controlz" model and provide for greater anonymity to the submitter *even in their own records* before I'll voluntarily participate. I definitely see the value in gathering and analyzing the demographic information, but the fact that you had to tie your responses to your own PI (name, contact information) and that of your family was never acceptable in my book. Even if they pinkie swear never to release it...until enough time has passed, that is.
On a side note, I wonder who are Stats Canada's biggest customers? Government/researchers or advertisers? Funny how I can't seem to find that info on their website...
It's not a plot, idiot, it's standard operating procedure for the "Harper Government", it's perfectly fine for research to be published in specialty journals with small readerships. It's quite another to allow the scientist to talk to reporters from media organizations that have large audiences.
I mean if you read the article you must have read:
Researchers, who used to be free to discuss their science, are now required to follow a process that includes "media lines" approved by communications officers, strategists and ministerial staff in Ottawa. They vet media requests, demand reporters' questions in advance and decide when and if researchers can give interviews.
Indeed. Because the media never blows things out of proportion, misinterprets the science, or tries to maneuver inexperienced laymen into making statements that can be taken out of context and published on the front page in bold block alarmist letters. And such practices never influence the results of any trial or inquiry, because naturally all the people involved will voluntarily sequester themselves from everything to do with the issue they're investigating and hearing about every day.
Riight, I think you have that one nailed, "it's all Harper's fault, gawd dammit!"
If it bleeds, it leads. That's why corporations and government agencies (and yes, even universities) have and use media relations consultants, and why employees are told to refer any questions on any topic that could even be *remotely* sensational (with the proper twisting of facts and application of out-of-context statements) to those departments. Unless you work with the media regularly, you won't know their little (pardon the phrase) 'fishing' statements and how to counter them and get them to stick to the facts. Until you learn how to handle them, you shouldn't be the one feeding them.
Whistleblowers are another matter entirely, of course, but are generally protected by anonymity and being able to deal on-on-one with a journalist that (I hope!) they trust not to twist their words, not a media scrum.
Stop being such a god damned gullible fool.
Bit of the pot calling the kettle black, don't'cha think?
#1, a lot of them were mined on a whim, but people can't be bothered to actually set themselves up to move them; or #2, a lot of them were mined on a whim, and then the wallets lost and discarded when people lost interest.
Or #3, a lot of them were mined on a whim, only to fall victim to the dreaded BSOD...or perhaps a faulty DeathStar gobbled them up...
I don't know, I'm just not that comfortable with a wealth system that depends on the reliability of my home system. I back up everything, often, and still sometimes lose data on crashes*. Unless you're backing up your wallet to off site media every day, it could easily go *poof*.
*(Mind you, it doesn't help that the power system in our neighborhood is, to put it politely, crap. We do have all of our electronics on consumer-grade UPS's and surge protectors, but stuff still flakes out on us fairly regularly.)
Maybe the economy has more to do with that then piracy.
I think you hit the nail on the head there.
I don't get it. It's like the MAFIAA thinks that an economic downturn is not allowed to affect them or something. Wake up, people! You provide entertainment services. That is a frill, not a necessity. If people have to choose between gas for the car or clothes for their kids and buying the newest (or even pre-owned) movie you're trying to milk for moar profitz, guess which one they'll choose?
Overall, it seems to me that the entertainment industry has been hit with a softer stick than other areas of the economy. At least they're not looking for an official bailout package yet, although I suppose the income from their nuisance lawsuits is tiding them over...
slanted toward the professional who needs this type of display space (PLC programmer who needs to commission/tweak/troubleshoot industrial sites scattered across the back woods, graphics design artists who need something to show their prelims to clients and at trade shows, etc.)
It's in the category "If you can benefit from this tool, you are too dumb for this job".
I wonder how many people said that about keyboards/CRT screens and magnetic tape in the punchcard era?
Designers and trade show people don't need their production rigs; they just need demo rigs. A small laptop (or real desktop for the game demos) with a big external display is better suited for these situations than a laptop with a big(ish) display. If you need a big display and you're using a laptop, requiring the audience to look over your shoulder... you're doing it wrong.:)
That itinerant programmer and CAD user presumably don't change offices daily (i.e. carrying it around all the time), and could leave a desktop and display in place for the duration of an assignment. Sure, a close-and-carry unit is more convenient for the move, but having a better rig for the much greater time spent using it seems like it should be more important.
Well, for big startups, the itinerant programmers sometimes need to shift their rig multiple times a day, depending on the size and layout of the station;) Sure they can sometimes remote in, but it's much more efficient to be near the actual process/PLC/GUI while trying to troubleshoot or optimize performance.
As for the designers and trade show peeps, well, it depends on how much capital they have to spend on equipment. A quality production rig plus a decent sized and capable demo rig could easily run much more $ than the cost of one of these, especially if they catch on and the price drops (and the screens get bigger). Plus, I don't see why these couldn't be designed with an option to fold back-to-back, so the demonstration can run mirrored on both screens. True, that cuts the overall demo size, but I would certainly stop at a booth that was running something like that, just to check out the hardware!
The whole idea of trying to carry your office around with you all the time has never really made sense to me. What profession actually requires that?
Graphics and web designers (if they count on the client coming to them for design meetings, they generally don't work very long), Programmers for remote industrial sites (final design programs often don't resemble the final commissioned version much, if at all), CAD draftpeople who work on consignment (often requiring shifting office locations to suit their clients), People who demo software/games at trade shows (bigger display=more people at your booth, and sometimes there's just no good place to set up a projector)...
The nice things about these unit are - no extra cables needed, quick setup/teardown, and you know the quality/abilities of your hardware and software before you get there. Yes it's a niche market, but I'm thinking that niche could be larger than you'd expect...
This sounds like one of those "let's see if we can do it" improvements, and would definitely be slanted toward the professional who needs this type of display space (PLC programmer who needs to commission/tweak/troubleshoot industrial sites scattered across the back woods, graphics design artists who need something to show their prelims to clients and at trade shows, etc.) instead of the everyday coffee-shop surfer.
I'd also imagine that the battery life on these things would be approximately 20 minutes (if they bother to include a battery at all). This would be like being able to quickly pack up your development computer and bring it to the job site, without sacrificing much in the way of usability. You'll need power at the site, but your on-site productivity could be vastly improved by using something like this...not to mention your in-flight productivity (if you're flying business class, that is!)
What if someone used this exploit to remove Google.com? Then my parents couldn't enter 'google' in the white box (Google homepage) to get to 'the internet'!
There are plenty of vulnerabilities found that do not need scripts, lets not make NoScript out to be more than what it is.
I'm sorry, I've got to call BS. That's like saying "There are plenty of illnesses out there that aren't virus-based or bacterial, so let's not make washing our hands out to be more important than it is."
Fact is, NoScript is an invaluable resource, with a clear, easy-to-use interface, and even the less-than-tech-savvy user can use it to vastly reduce their chance of 'catching' something. Yes, it does not provide perfect protection from everything, but I'm afraid the only way you can achieve that is to pull the plug on teh interwebs and live in your own virtual 'bubble'.
I for one applaud this award as well-deserved. Good on them!
Imagine...a significant portion of the people trying to avoid monitoring of their online activities getting routed automatically through your very own Telex "station" to your own poisoned 'proxy' service, allowing full monitoring of traffic that the end user thinks is secure...
Really, there seems to be no way for the end user to verify that the Telex "station" that reroutes their request is legitimate. So instead of using peer-verified, trusted proxies, they cast their dirty laundry out on the interwebs and trust that a reliable station will catch and redirect it to a true Telex station, instead of a corporate or government shill? (I admit, I just skimmed TFA, so am I just missing the magical way they prevent this from happening?)
Seems slightly less secure than using Cracker Jack decoder rings, to me...
eXistenZ was probably creepier if you enjoy seafood, so possibly CCarrots don't need to worry as much.
Or perhaps creepiest if you tend to avoid seafood altogether...;)
Yeah, I remember it as one of those 'hold on and figure it out as you go' movies, and actually I quite enjoyed it. You're right, it wasn't on the same brain-bend level as Inception, Pulp Fiction or the first Matrix, but at least it wasn't yet another movie exclusively about car chases and explosions...
Why weren't Catholics and many other Christians allowed to drink real wine during prohibition when they performed communion?
They were. The 18th amendment only prohibited it "for beverage purposes," and the Volstead Act, which enacted the amendment, provided that "Liquor for non beverage purposes and wine for sacramental purposes may be manufactured, purchased, sold, bartered transported, imported, exported, delivered, furnished and possessed . . .."
So...I take it there was an uptick in church attendance during Prohibition, then?:)
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Oh, wait, different Avatar.
The ONLY true Avatar, might I add...but at least the crappy movie version was blocked from using the true name, somewhat shielding the series from association anger...
Some might say they're mining data off of hard drives sent for recycling. Be sure to wipe them clean.
Exactly my first thought...is this some way to increase their user data mining capabilities? How many people know how to securely wipe laptops, printer caches, hard drives, etc. before selling them or throwing them out? Is Apple trying to tap into that potential data goldmine?
"Yeesss...send us your old, broken hard drivesess...we'll takes care of them for you..."
If I pay for a house of a given size, I own that house. I dont want people living there when the I'm off on holidays, it's my space.
Better analogy:
If I pay for a train ticket, I get to use a fraction of the capacity of the rail system for a limited period of time.
Does your train station often sell 1000 tickets for a train that can only handle maybe 200 people comfortably at full speed?* Because that's a much closer analogy. Hope you don't want to travel all together now, or at a time of day that's actually convenient for you!
* I realize as I am typing this that many commuter trains in Europe have open ended rail passes that do just that, essentially. Thing is, as far as I know, they don't slow down the train just so they can cram more people on board! It's first come first serve, and if there's too much of a backlog, I believe they bring more trains online (yes/no?)
If you pay for a given speed, but the ISP has more capacity than that, then they have to throttle you to the speed you paid for in order to guarantee their other customers the speed they paid for.
Indeed. Because my biggest issue with my ISP is that I'm always getting way more bandwidth than they promised when I signed up. Damn those tricky bastards!
Bandwidth overcommitment seems to be a viable business model for ISP's, mostly because the average Joe doesn't know how to verify that he's getting the speed he's paying for. Except at 3 in the morning on a Tuesday, it's rare for us to see speeds even close to what we signed up for. Trouble is, if we sign up for a 'lighter' package, then we're opening ourselves up to being throttled even at 3 am...
What would be interesting to see is an ISP that charged based on actual bandwidth availability throughout the day * usage. So if you use it heavily in the afternoon and evening, but bandwidth is chopped back drastically because of all the other people in your neighborhood streaming the latest talking dog video, well, at least your bill at the end of the month is less bruising. If you use it heavily at 3 in the morning, and your bandwidth is exceptional, then expect to pay more for it this month. Perhaps this would 'encourage' ISP's to upgrade their infrastructure to capture all that 'lost revenoo'...and in turn provide their customers with speedier, more reliable connections when they need it the most.
A friend of mine used to be pretty open about her online identity... until she got a box of sex toys mailed to her with no return address.
Wow, free stuff! How come no one mailed me anything? And I've been connected to Net for a long time...
Guess you're just too elusive, Joe. Have you ever considered becoming 'enticing'* Joe? Bet you'd get some toys then! ;)
*(yes, enticing is listed as an antonym for elusive on thesaurus.com. *shrugs*)
3D TV's mean consumers will have to upgrade their new whiz-bang HDTV's (which they otherwise might have sat on for years).
You're doing it wrong...
If its got a scoring and filtering option, which /. has, then anonymity works. Also if there's a reason not to burn accounts, then yes; {...}. The /. achievement system is (sorry guys) lame, but if it was real I would not risk burning it either, especially if people could filter on (checkmark to only see 'once got a +5 post') {...}
G+ has none of the above. Turns out anonymity doesn't "work" if you have none of the above. Whoops.... I guess G+ can't have anonymity until it adds those features.
Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner!
IMHO, this is exactly what Google+ needs to be a viable alternative to FB. Of course, that would mean giving up the chance to associate browser and search histories with IRL people instead of just IP addresses...so no, it probably won't happen.
I've talked to many people about the census, and the only intelligible reason for him screwing around with the census that comes to light is so that there's less quality data available to organizations doing good work with fewer agendas. I've always heard that the quality of StatsCan data was legendary, in part for having excellent continuity and statistical control.
The 'quality' of the census was and is only as good as the quality of the data self-submitted by people, sometimes people that were pissed off at being *forced* to provide very personal information about themselves and their families. Why would you assume, just because they were forced to fill in the blanks under threat of imprisonment or fines, that they would provide accurate information?
No. Stats Canada needs to change their "we must control all moar data moar controlz" model and provide for greater anonymity to the submitter *even in their own records* before I'll voluntarily participate. I definitely see the value in gathering and analyzing the demographic information, but the fact that you had to tie your responses to your own PI (name, contact information) and that of your family was never acceptable in my book. Even if they pinkie swear never to release it...until enough time has passed, that is.
On a side note, I wonder who are Stats Canada's biggest customers? Government/researchers or advertisers? Funny how I can't seem to find that info on their website...
It's not a plot, idiot, it's standard operating procedure for the "Harper Government", it's perfectly fine for research to be published in specialty journals with small readerships. It's quite another to allow the scientist to talk to reporters from media organizations that have large audiences.
I mean if you read the article you must have read:
Researchers, who used to be free to discuss their science, are now required to follow a process that includes "media lines" approved by communications officers, strategists and ministerial staff in Ottawa. They vet media requests, demand reporters' questions in advance and decide when and if researchers can give interviews.
Indeed. Because the media never blows things out of proportion, misinterprets the science, or tries to maneuver inexperienced laymen into making statements that can be taken out of context and published on the front page in bold block alarmist letters. And such practices never influence the results of any trial or inquiry, because naturally all the people involved will voluntarily sequester themselves from everything to do with the issue they're investigating and hearing about every day.
Riight, I think you have that one nailed, "it's all Harper's fault, gawd dammit!"
If it bleeds, it leads. That's why corporations and government agencies (and yes, even universities) have and use media relations consultants, and why employees are told to refer any questions on any topic that could even be *remotely* sensational (with the proper twisting of facts and application of out-of-context statements) to those departments. Unless you work with the media regularly, you won't know their little (pardon the phrase) 'fishing' statements and how to counter them and get them to stick to the facts. Until you learn how to handle them, you shouldn't be the one feeding them.
Whistleblowers are another matter entirely, of course, but are generally protected by anonymity and being able to deal on-on-one with a journalist that (I hope!) they trust not to twist their words, not a media scrum.
Stop being such a god damned gullible fool.
Bit of the pot calling the kettle black, don't'cha think?
#1, a lot of them were mined on a whim, but people can't be bothered to actually set themselves up to move them; or #2, a lot of them were mined on a whim, and then the wallets lost and discarded when people lost interest.
Or #3, a lot of them were mined on a whim, only to fall victim to the dreaded BSOD...or perhaps a faulty DeathStar gobbled them up...
I don't know, I'm just not that comfortable with a wealth system that depends on the reliability of my home system. I back up everything, often, and still sometimes lose data on crashes*. Unless you're backing up your wallet to off site media every day, it could easily go *poof*.
*(Mind you, it doesn't help that the power system in our neighborhood is, to put it politely, crap. We do have all of our electronics on consumer-grade UPS's and surge protectors, but stuff still flakes out on us fairly regularly.)
I imagine that Apple is relying on their pull to cripple NFC, rather than lack of NFC crippling Apple.
Yeah. That attitude worked out so well for them when they yanked flash support too...oh, wait...
Crazy enough, you can actually *buy* digital content instead of ripping it from the physical media.
Yeah...along with a whackload of crap DRM* as a free bonus!
Extra Special Price, Buy Now!!! Then Buy Again Later When Your Hardware Changes!! And Again!!!
*(other than mp3's, they finally got that right)
Maybe the economy has more to do with that then piracy.
I think you hit the nail on the head there.
I don't get it. It's like the MAFIAA thinks that an economic downturn is not allowed to affect them or something. Wake up, people! You provide entertainment services. That is a frill, not a necessity. If people have to choose between gas for the car or clothes for their kids and buying the newest (or even pre-owned) movie you're trying to milk for moar profitz, guess which one they'll choose?
Overall, it seems to me that the entertainment industry has been hit with a softer stick than other areas of the economy. At least they're not looking for an official bailout package yet, although I suppose the income from their nuisance lawsuits is tiding them over...
I wonder how many people said that about keyboards/CRT screens and magnetic tape in the punchcard era?
None.
I WAS there.
Heh, good answer! I guess technically I was there, too, I was just more interested in punching holes in my soother than cards... ;)
slanted toward the professional who needs this type of display space (PLC programmer who needs to commission/tweak/troubleshoot industrial sites scattered across the back woods, graphics design artists who need something to show their prelims to clients and at trade shows, etc.)
It's in the category "If you can benefit from this tool, you are too dumb for this job".
I wonder how many people said that about keyboards/CRT screens and magnetic tape in the punchcard era?
Sorry, I'll leave you to your Assembly coding...
That's nothing, I know people who type google.com into the address bar, THEN type URLs into the google search box.
Oh? You know my parents? What a small world!
(Oh, wait, I set up Google as their homepage, so I guess they usually skip the first part...)
Designers and trade show people don't need their production rigs; they just need demo rigs. A small laptop (or real desktop for the game demos) with a big external display is better suited for these situations than a laptop with a big(ish) display. If you need a big display and you're using a laptop, requiring the audience to look over your shoulder... you're doing it wrong. :)
That itinerant programmer and CAD user presumably don't change offices daily (i.e. carrying it around all the time), and could leave a desktop and display in place for the duration of an assignment. Sure, a close-and-carry unit is more convenient for the move, but having a better rig for the much greater time spent using it seems like it should be more important.
Well, for big startups, the itinerant programmers sometimes need to shift their rig multiple times a day, depending on the size and layout of the station ;) Sure they can sometimes remote in, but it's much more efficient to be near the actual process/PLC/GUI while trying to troubleshoot or optimize performance.
As for the designers and trade show peeps, well, it depends on how much capital they have to spend on equipment. A quality production rig plus a decent sized and capable demo rig could easily run much more $ than the cost of one of these, especially if they catch on and the price drops (and the screens get bigger). Plus, I don't see why these couldn't be designed with an option to fold back-to-back, so the demonstration can run mirrored on both screens. True, that cuts the overall demo size, but I would certainly stop at a booth that was running something like that, just to check out the hardware!
The whole idea of trying to carry your office around with you all the time has never really made sense to me. What profession actually requires that?
Graphics and web designers (if they count on the client coming to them for design meetings, they generally don't work very long),
Programmers for remote industrial sites (final design programs often don't resemble the final commissioned version much, if at all),
CAD draftpeople who work on consignment (often requiring shifting office locations to suit their clients),
People who demo software/games at trade shows (bigger display=more people at your booth, and sometimes there's just no good place to set up a projector)...
The nice things about these unit are - no extra cables needed, quick setup/teardown, and you know the quality/abilities of your hardware and software before you get there. Yes it's a niche market, but I'm thinking that niche could be larger than you'd expect...
Mod parent up!
This sounds like one of those "let's see if we can do it" improvements, and would definitely be slanted toward the professional who needs this type of display space (PLC programmer who needs to commission/tweak/troubleshoot industrial sites scattered across the back woods, graphics design artists who need something to show their prelims to clients and at trade shows, etc.) instead of the everyday coffee-shop surfer.
I'd also imagine that the battery life on these things would be approximately 20 minutes (if they bother to include a battery at all). This would be like being able to quickly pack up your development computer and bring it to the job site, without sacrificing much in the way of usability. You'll need power at the site, but your on-site productivity could be vastly improved by using something like this...not to mention your in-flight productivity (if you're flying business class, that is!)
What if someone used this exploit to remove Google.com? Then my parents couldn't enter 'google' in the white box (Google homepage) to get to 'the internet'!
Agh. I think my head exploded.
There are plenty of vulnerabilities found that do not need scripts, lets not make NoScript out to be more than what it is.
I'm sorry, I've got to call BS. That's like saying "There are plenty of illnesses out there that aren't virus-based or bacterial, so let's not make washing our hands out to be more important than it is."
Fact is, NoScript is an invaluable resource, with a clear, easy-to-use interface, and even the less-than-tech-savvy user can use it to vastly reduce their chance of 'catching' something. Yes, it does not provide perfect protection from everything, but I'm afraid the only way you can achieve that is to pull the plug on teh interwebs and live in your own virtual 'bubble'.
I for one applaud this award as well-deserved. Good on them!
Imagine...a significant portion of the people trying to avoid monitoring of their online activities getting routed automatically through your very own Telex "station" to your own poisoned 'proxy' service, allowing full monitoring of traffic that the end user thinks is secure...
Really, there seems to be no way for the end user to verify that the Telex "station" that reroutes their request is legitimate. So instead of using peer-verified, trusted proxies, they cast their dirty laundry out on the interwebs and trust that a reliable station will catch and redirect it to a true Telex station, instead of a corporate or government shill? (I admit, I just skimmed TFA, so am I just missing the magical way they prevent this from happening?)
Seems slightly less secure than using Cracker Jack decoder rings, to me...
eXistenZ was probably creepier if you enjoy seafood, so possibly CCarrots don't need to worry as much.
Or perhaps creepiest if you tend to avoid seafood altogether...;)
Yeah, I remember it as one of those 'hold on and figure it out as you go' movies, and actually I quite enjoyed it. You're right, it wasn't on the same brain-bend level as Inception, Pulp Fiction or the first Matrix, but at least it wasn't yet another movie exclusively about car chases and explosions...
Why weren't Catholics and many other Christians allowed to drink real wine during prohibition when they performed communion?
They were. The 18th amendment only prohibited it "for beverage purposes," and the Volstead Act, which enacted the amendment, provided that "Liquor for non beverage purposes and wine for sacramental purposes may be manufactured, purchased, sold, bartered transported, imported, exported, delivered, furnished and possessed . . . ."
So...I take it there was an uptick in church attendance during Prohibition, then? :)
so I first read rge headline as "Rastafarian" rather than "Pastafarian" (and I missed the "in Australia)
Well, Pastafarian isn't the only thing you misread (hint....you are in the wrong hemisphere)
C'mon...Australia is just Austria with an extra syllable, right? I mean, they're both hell to ask for directions in unless you learn the language! ;)
(oh, wait, that's Newfoundland...)