Just some news RSS feeds, critical thinking, dark sense of humor and belief that mass hallucinations are way much funnier than personal ones. Stir, don't shake.
Anyway, I like to share nightmares with other people, rather than simply wait for next shot of tranquilizers/neuroleptics/whatever they use today. Call it wicked personal tastes, if you wish )
In modern America people are run (through) by corporations? Yay, the future is now...
I just wonder sometimes, how long can someone look at sheer stupidity with straight face? RIAA has money, power, and wicked sense of self-righteousness, plus law-guaranteed right to do anything they want to humiliate and terrorize (and there's nothing more than that) people. Oh, and most "common people" still dream about their children becoming lawyers and getting a good warm place in DOJ after all. Just like in "Brazil" movie, where people peacefully continued their meals right after big explosion, like nothing ever happened. Well... sometimes I fear I've read too many dystopian novels, lost my mind and now live only in the realm my own surreal nightmares. Then I see news like this and calm myself with thought that my imagination is still incapable of constructing such absurd fantasies.
And my first thought was not about Terminator, but about Robocop. Seeing how it goes, I'll bet that they'll put some social and then commercial advertisements into them, forcing you to listen to it.
"Stay calm, citizen, your crime report is being processed. Meanwhile, consider that with new Toyota your chances of getting in accident are statistically lower, and it comfortable and ergonomic interior would help you to recover from stress much faster. Think about your future right now!" Now that is a scary thought.
As in "If you don't like the "we can do anything we want to you at any time" flight security/other anti-terrorist/anti-pedophile regulations, then the solution is to move and support a different government, not to bitch and moan about the laws that you chose to accept", right?
Sometimes evil should be clearly defined evil, for the real improvements to start. I use Linux myself, but I often see what pain in the rear some MS "solutions" can be. EULA or not, there's some common sense and human dignity left in "common users" after all, or not?
Perfect! Now we can have some GNU/Linux fans form a community, declare all proprietary software obscene and shut down sites of Microsoft, Apple and so on! Wow, and I thought that I'll never see "A Year of Linux on Desktop"!
What do you think, will RMS look good in black amish hat?
"Here is something that, under the right circumstances, releases an enormous amount of energy. Can we harness this energy to do something useful?".
Like eliminate all war-mongers, and all other "bad people"? Yay, that will solve all our problems for sure. You know, every horrible, immoral and insane thing in our history was made with the best intentions, "to make something better". And it's almost unreal - to someone with knowledge and power to just want to "blow things up". No, "unimaginable evil" is often brought to this world with most altruistic, peace-promising and generally "good" intentions, is it not?
It's deeper then just education, it's human nature, which doesn't change in ages.
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Just some news RSS feeds, critical thinking, dark sense of humor and belief that mass hallucinations are way much funnier than personal ones. Stir, don't shake.
Anyway, I like to share nightmares with other people, rather than simply wait for next shot of tranquilizers/neuroleptics/whatever they use today. Call it wicked personal tastes, if you wish )
In modern America people are run (through) by corporations? Yay, the future is now...
I just wonder sometimes, how long can someone look at sheer stupidity with straight face? RIAA has money, power, and wicked sense of self-righteousness, plus law-guaranteed right to do anything they want to humiliate and terrorize (and there's nothing more than that) people. Oh, and most "common people" still dream about their children becoming lawyers and getting a good warm place in DOJ after all. Just like in "Brazil" movie, where people peacefully continued their meals right after big explosion, like nothing ever happened. Well... sometimes I fear I've read too many dystopian novels, lost my mind and now live only in the realm my own surreal nightmares. Then I see news like this and calm myself with thought that my imagination is still incapable of constructing such absurd fantasies.
And don't forget visuals! That's what these "ultra-powerful disorienting strobe lighting apparatus" are seemingly for...
And my first thought was not about Terminator, but about Robocop. Seeing how it goes, I'll bet that they'll put some social and then commercial advertisements into them, forcing you to listen to it.
"Stay calm, citizen, your crime report is being processed. Meanwhile, consider that with new Toyota your chances of getting in accident are statistically lower, and it comfortable and ergonomic interior would help you to recover from stress much faster. Think about your future right now!" Now that is a scary thought.
As in "If you don't like the "we can do anything we want to you at any time" flight security/other anti-terrorist/anti-pedophile regulations, then the solution is to move and support a different government, not to bitch and moan about the laws that you chose to accept", right?
Sometimes evil should be clearly defined evil, for the real improvements to start. I use Linux myself, but I often see what pain in the rear some MS "solutions" can be. EULA or not, there's some common sense and human dignity left in "common users" after all, or not?
Perfect! Now we can have some GNU/Linux fans form a community, declare all proprietary software obscene and shut down sites of Microsoft, Apple and so on! Wow, and I thought that I'll never see "A Year of Linux on Desktop"!
What do you think, will RMS look good in black amish hat?
"Here is something that, under the right circumstances, releases an enormous amount of energy. Can we harness this energy to do something useful?".
Like eliminate all war-mongers, and all other "bad people"? Yay, that will solve all our problems for sure. You know, every horrible, immoral and insane thing in our history was made with the best intentions, "to make something better". And it's almost unreal - to someone with knowledge and power to just want to "blow things up". No, "unimaginable evil" is often brought to this world with most altruistic, peace-promising and generally "good" intentions, is it not? It's deeper then just education, it's human nature, which doesn't change in ages.
So if they see their favourite game character talking about Baryonic Asymmetry etc, they'll most probably get on google for curiosity's sake.
Especially if he is voiced by Morgan Freeman