. The mouth-breathing twits who thought that the Matrix was ground-breaking, rather than just a rehash of Psych 101 with a lot of the plot points and style ideas rather largely by GiTS. I remember a documentary (or something... maybe a "interesting" news report) about some guys that had quit their jobs and families and moved to an apartment where they have spent their time meditating and watching Matrix over and over. They have actually built a religious cult (if you can call couple of guys a cult) around the movie.
Don't know if the religious zeal has survived the sequels. This was back before Reloaded.
From TFA:
" 'Ghost in the Shell' is one of my favorite stories," Spielberg said. "[b]It's a genre that has arrived[/b], and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks." Fuck! When did we go back in time? Why didn't anyone tell me we were doing this? I had a sports almanac I wanted to take with me back to 1995.
Live-action - Meaning real actors. Maybe some CG (as usual these days), but live actors. Not animation. 3D - Meaning stereoscopic 3D technology. No red-green glasses. Polarized glasses. Like what Cameron is using for Avatar and Battle Angel.
Apparently, there is a SLIGHT difference from the "answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything" and "The Ultimate Question". Probably because they have used robots instead of humans. But nice to see that there is still some progress.
If someone wants to bust into this thing, they'll have to come with jackhammers, heavy duty metal cutters, and if they intend on busting the safe open elsewhere, lifting equipment. Nah.. all they need is some duct tape.
First to tape over the windows when they break them to come in, and then to tape you and your family to your beds. Then they can proceed to maim, rape and kill you (not necessarily in that order) one by one until you give up the combination. And they will surely kill you later when they open the safe and find only couple of hundred in cash and a signed photo of Richard Stallman.
You don't keep money in the bank so it does not get stolen. Banks get robbed - its a fact. You keep it there so WHEN it gets stolen - it is not you that robbers shoot at.
Inflation (or as I call it: devaluation) doesn't affect "real" money like gold, silver, or diamonds. Devaluation only affects the fake paper money.
I don't have any gold now but I'm planning on getting some. It's the only way type of wealth that keeps its value, even if the paper system collapses and/or banks close & take your money with them. Dude... you do realize that gold and diamonds are basically worthless? Buy land. What do you think will be wanted more when we hit a 10 billion population mark? A nice big chunk of personal space or some shiny pebbles?
Hint: Buy some land east of California. Then steal some of those nuclear missiles army has stockpiled somewhere and fire them at San Andreas fault line. You will need only 3 people to do this, providing one of them is a blond female with large breasts.
Watch California sinking into Pacific. Enjoy your new prime beach property. Make fortune as the owner of Beverly Hills 2.0. No pesky good-doers to stand in your way on THIS Earth.
...and get some advertisements for lawyer services to go with the above mentioned Russian brides add. You know... for prenuptial agreements, possible run-ins with Russian and international law enforcement, child custody, possible indictments of murdering your spouse...
The BCC has a story that many Slashdot geeks will be happy to hear Did the study take into account all that sex rabbits usually have? I have a feeling deep down that something like that might have a profound effect on the brain.
And sadly... I doubt Slashdot geeks could compete with rabbits on that front, even if The Management apparently hopes othervise, featuring these new adds and all...
From the TFA:
Intriguingly, another young star in the same region called XZ Tau may have made a close pass of HL Tau about 1,600 years ago. Apparently, the pass XZ Tau made was more than just "close". He was last seen fleeing through the constellation of Taurus at the speed of light in order to avoid paying alimony. Apparently... HZ Tau is also already married.
Slashdot readers alone probably account for a good sizable chunk of all your sales ever so what do you think will happen when we stop recommending your brand to the people who don't know any better. Or better yet, say it sucks? HELL YEAH!
Or better yet... Imagine enlightening all those people about the suckage of Windows and leading them towards a brighter, open source future of OSes like Linux or BSD? Or even have them all switch to the BEST OS EVER - OSX.
What would you say for if you were the parent of a child who was killed by a student who just "flipped out"? Well... Certainly not "Thank god you put these cameras up, so we can now see my kid's head being blown off from various angles on national television".
Or "If only someone filmed him/her he/she might not have killed my child and then himself/herself".
Or "My child is dead, but at least we know who did it".
FDA will be replaced by our Artificially Intelligent overlords anyway as soon as we discover AI.
Trials on the fleshy ones, or human trials as they are known today, will take a much shorter time then and will be ordered with much less prejudice. In other words - that will be the only kind of trials done. Why use monkeys and rats when there are plenty humans on the planet. MUCH more efficient that way.
Immediacy - According to you all theaters in the world were closed in 1995, then burned to the ground.
Personalization - Using your limited imagination as a starting point for judgment of someone else's ideas is well... silly.:P Oh... and books with multiple endings exist for years. Author having a say... poll for the readers to decide which ending to choose... or which one to write first? Hm? Something ridiculous about that? And did you ever hear of pre-screenings of the movies where they ask the audience what they do and what they don't like about the movie and then change it?
Interpretation - Again... your lack of imagination. Can't help you there. Did you ever take a payed course in say... MS Office? Thousands if not millions do.
Authenticity - Is there a big problem with people downloading a song by, say, Metallica, only to realize that it was actually performed by some other band? I don't think so. Not only do you lack imagination, but also any logic or comprehension of the world we live in? Wow! Sooo... fans are idiots for liking a particular BAND who created the song instead of realizing that its just a song and it does not matter if it is played by Metallica or "Your Local Trio of Drunks" using their armpits as only instruments?
Accessibility - You pay somebody else to store your digital possessions and serve them to you on demand? Again, there may be a small value in that for certain things (backups etc) but I prefer to keep my music/movie/book etc collections on my own keychain, thank you very much. And say someone comes along, hits you on the head with a large rubber dildo and steals your keychain. My... it sure would be handy if all that hard to collect information was easily accessible. And oh... How do you check your e-mail in the middle of the ocean? Or in the middle of Sahara? Or on the bottom of the coal mine? Hmmm... what was that word again?
Embodiment - I guess what he means by this is that you may want to pay to have a fancy copy in some cases. For example, the book is free but you pay for a pretty old-fashioned hardcover binding or whatever. Wow... you almost have a clue this time. Seeing how you describe it I can only guess that you are either 11 years old or that your lack of said imagination is a big bad mind block again.
Patronage - You pay out of goodness of your heart because you want the musician/artist/author to make some money. Yeah right. You are really a fuckin idiot, are you? Yes. People like to pay for things. Some like to do it because they think or are taught that it is right to do. Others because they feel that their copy is worth more that way. Some because it gives them that feeling of superiority over the author - "It is I, mighty reader that pays your bills!". Ever heard a street performer singing a tune you like and dropped him a buck or two? That basic form of patronage has been working for millennia now...
Findability - Those are free now, but in the future they will become for pay, according to him. Soo... amazon and eBay are making $0.00 according to you? He mentions those, you disregard them. Now, imagine not knowing what you want, but knowing what you like - and a service providing more of what you want based on that? Oh... sorry... I forget... you are imagination and logic impaired.
Might try honing that nonsense trait you have. World needs clueless people too. See... you made me elaborate on each topic. Can't say you are completely useless to the world.
...About how they've, back in the '80s, sent a pilot to USSR to steal this super-secret new airplane and fly it to US. This thing was like... WHOA! SUPERFAST! And it also had this super-secret mind reading helmet that you could use to fire rockets and stuff. Only thing is... you had to think in Russian. Can't remember the name of the documentary though...
Also... there was this another documentary where bunch of Russians stole a super-secret nuclear submarine and defected with it to USA...
Now, those were some heroic deeds. Not like these Chinese thieves, stealing space shuttles and Mickey Mouse.
Correct. In my case, it was 16 charges from Amazon.com. I couldn't even tell which charge went with what merchant and what product. And therein lies the problem.
YOU couldn't tell what went where. And that is because YOU were not paying attention. And that is why YOU got 16 charges to your card.
See where I am going here?
Once you place the item in the cart, it appears on the right side of the screen in the area conveniently labeled - YOUR SHOPPING CART. Under each item that is NOT shipped directly from Amazon, there is a line at the bottom saying "Shipped from:". Also, that same line is still there when you click to check the contents of your cart.
Lets Proceed to Checkout shall we? Log in, pick delivery address, go to shipping and again... there is that same info. Only now it says "Sold by: ". And, it also clearly states which items in your order are "Sold by: Amazon.com" AAAND... items shipped from different sellers are clearly separated into different orders. Separate shipping details MIGHT be a clue here.
And once paying for items is done, we get to the final Place Your Order screen and once again there it is. Separate shipping details for Amazon and merchant bought items, each item with its own "Sold by:" mark and on top of all that (literally) there is that "Your order contains items from multiple sellers. Please review all options below." in nice bold letters.
AAAAAAAND... Once you place you order, you get that nice e-mail from Amazon with each order clearly marked out and with details who sold and shipped it to you. And how about those e-mails from Amazon.com payments for each item bought from merchants?
Amazon told you again and again that you are about to make multiple purchases from various merchants and not from amazon directly. You were clearly not paying attention.
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Could this finally be the year of Macs having a double digit market share?
There...
Now, lets wait and see if Apple fanboys have a sense of humor.
They have actually built a religious cult (if you can call couple of guys a cult) around the movie.
Don't know if the religious zeal has survived the sequels. This was back before Reloaded.
Why didn't anyone tell me we were doing this?
I had a sports almanac I wanted to take with me back to 1995.
Live-action - Meaning real actors. Maybe some CG (as usual these days), but live actors. Not animation.
3D - Meaning stereoscopic 3D technology. No red-green glasses. Polarized glasses. Like what Cameron is using for Avatar and Battle Angel.
Apparently, there is a SLIGHT difference from the "answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything" and "The Ultimate Question".
Probably because they have used robots instead of humans.
But nice to see that there is still some progress.
I just wanted to ask a question. What does God need with a internet connection?
First to tape over the windows when they break them to come in, and then to tape you and your family to your beds.
Then they can proceed to maim, rape and kill you (not necessarily in that order) one by one until you give up the combination.
And they will surely kill you later when they open the safe and find only couple of hundred in cash and a signed photo of Richard Stallman.
You don't keep money in the bank so it does not get stolen. Banks get robbed - its a fact.
You keep it there so WHEN it gets stolen - it is not you that robbers shoot at. Inflation (or as I call it: devaluation) doesn't affect "real" money like gold, silver, or diamonds. Devaluation only affects the fake paper money.
I don't have any gold now but I'm planning on getting some. It's the only way type of wealth that keeps its value, even if the paper system collapses and/or banks close & take your money with them. Dude... you do realize that gold and diamonds are basically worthless?
Buy land.
What do you think will be wanted more when we hit a 10 billion population mark? A nice big chunk of personal space or some shiny pebbles?
Hint: Buy some land east of California.
Then steal some of those nuclear missiles army has stockpiled somewhere and fire them at San Andreas fault line.
You will need only 3 people to do this, providing one of them is a blond female with large breasts.
Watch California sinking into Pacific. Enjoy your new prime beach property. Make fortune as the owner of Beverly Hills 2.0.
No pesky good-doers to stand in your way on THIS Earth.
Heya! Tom' is that you, buddy?
How've you been?
...and get some advertisements for lawyer services to go with the above mentioned Russian brides add.
You know... for prenuptial agreements, possible run-ins with Russian and international law enforcement, child custody, possible indictments of murdering your spouse...
Just in case...
I have a feeling deep down that something like that might have a profound effect on the brain.
And sadly... I doubt Slashdot geeks could compete with rabbits on that front, even if The Management apparently hopes othervise, featuring these new adds and all...
He was last seen fleeing through the constellation of Taurus at the speed of light in order to avoid paying alimony.
Apparently... HZ Tau is also already married.
Or better yet...
Imagine enlightening all those people about the suckage of Windows and leading them towards a brighter, open source future of OSes like Linux or BSD?
Or even have them all switch to the BEST OS EVER - OSX.
What?
And did you see what they are featuring on those seats?
Original DOOM baby!!! YaY! WoHooo! Linux RULZ!
It is going to be so AWESOME!!!
So I guess the E stands for entertainment?
So like... does this mean that Google CAN take the sky from me?
And is this like giving it back?
I'm confused now...
I mean... what did he expect? He wasn't using the MacAir properly.
The commercial clearly shows that it should be MAILED to its destination.
Or "If only someone filmed him/her he/she might not have killed my child and then himself/herself".
Or "My child is dead, but at least we know who did it".
FDA will be replaced by our Artificially Intelligent overlords anyway as soon as we discover AI.
Trials on the fleshy ones, or human trials as they are known today, will take a much shorter time then and will be ordered with much less prejudice.
In other words - that will be the only kind of trials done. Why use monkeys and rats when there are plenty humans on the planet.
MUCH more efficient that way.
When he returns from China seven years later, after his ninja training, so he could fight crime in the streets as a billionaire super-hero.
Immediacy - According to you all theaters in the world were closed in 1995, then burned to the ground.
:P
Personalization - Using your limited imagination as a starting point for judgment of someone else's ideas is well... silly.
Oh... and books with multiple endings exist for years.
Author having a say... poll for the readers to decide which ending to choose... or which one to write first? Hm? Something ridiculous about that?
And did you ever hear of pre-screenings of the movies where they ask the audience what they do and what they don't like about the movie and then change it?
Interpretation - Again... your lack of imagination. Can't help you there. Did you ever take a payed course in say... MS Office? Thousands if not millions do.
Authenticity - Is there a big problem with people downloading a song by, say, Metallica, only to realize that it was actually performed by some other band? I don't think so.
Not only do you lack imagination, but also any logic or comprehension of the world we live in? Wow!
Sooo... fans are idiots for liking a particular BAND who created the song instead of realizing that its just a song and it does not matter if it is played by Metallica or "Your Local Trio of Drunks" using their armpits as only instruments?
Accessibility - You pay somebody else to store your digital possessions and serve them to you on demand? Again, there may be a small value in that for certain things (backups etc) but I prefer to keep my music/movie/book etc collections on my own keychain, thank you very much.
And say someone comes along, hits you on the head with a large rubber dildo and steals your keychain. My... it sure would be handy if all that hard to collect information was easily accessible.
And oh... How do you check your e-mail in the middle of the ocean? Or in the middle of Sahara? Or on the bottom of the coal mine? Hmmm... what was that word again?
Embodiment - I guess what he means by this is that you may want to pay to have a fancy copy in some cases. For example, the book is free but you pay for a pretty old-fashioned hardcover binding or whatever.
Wow... you almost have a clue this time. Seeing how you describe it I can only guess that you are either 11 years old or that your lack of said imagination is a big bad mind block again.
Patronage - You pay out of goodness of your heart because you want the musician/artist/author to make some money. Yeah right.
You are really a fuckin idiot, are you? Yes. People like to pay for things. Some like to do it because they think or are taught that it is right to do. Others because they feel that their copy is worth more that way. Some because it gives them that feeling of superiority over the author - "It is I, mighty reader that pays your bills!".
Ever heard a street performer singing a tune you like and dropped him a buck or two? That basic form of patronage has been working for millennia now...
Findability - Those are free now, but in the future they will become for pay, according to him.
Soo... amazon and eBay are making $0.00 according to you? He mentions those, you disregard them.
Now, imagine not knowing what you want, but knowing what you like - and a service providing more of what you want based on that?
Oh... sorry... I forget... you are imagination and logic impaired.
Might try honing that nonsense trait you have. World needs clueless people too. See... you made me elaborate on each topic.
Can't say you are completely useless to the world.
Parent post is full of it.
...About how they've, back in the '80s, sent a pilot to USSR to steal this super-secret new airplane and fly it to US.
This thing was like... WHOA! SUPERFAST!
And it also had this super-secret mind reading helmet that you could use to fire rockets and stuff.
Only thing is... you had to think in Russian.
Can't remember the name of the documentary though...
Also... there was this another documentary where bunch of Russians stole a super-secret nuclear submarine and defected with it to USA...
Now, those were some heroic deeds. Not like these Chinese thieves, stealing space shuttles and Mickey Mouse.
If it was... well... there is hope that one day one side would back off. It is much worse.
It is a trend.
YOU couldn't tell what went where.
And that is because YOU were not paying attention.
And that is why YOU got 16 charges to your card.
See where I am going here?
Once you place the item in the cart, it appears on the right side of the screen in the area conveniently labeled - YOUR SHOPPING CART.
Under each item that is NOT shipped directly from Amazon, there is a line at the bottom saying "Shipped from:".
Also, that same line is still there when you click to check the contents of your cart.
Lets Proceed to Checkout shall we?
Log in, pick delivery address, go to shipping and again... there is that same info.
Only now it says "Sold by: ". And, it also clearly states which items in your order are "Sold by: Amazon.com"
AAAND... items shipped from different sellers are clearly separated into different orders. Separate shipping details MIGHT be a clue here.
And once paying for items is done, we get to the final Place Your Order screen and once again there it is.
Separate shipping details for Amazon and merchant bought items, each item with its own "Sold by:" mark and on top of all that (literally) there is that "Your order contains items from multiple sellers. Please review all options below." in nice bold letters.
AAAAAAAND... Once you place you order, you get that nice e-mail from Amazon with each order clearly marked out and with details who sold and shipped it to you.
And how about those e-mails from Amazon.com payments for each item bought from merchants?
Amazon told you again and again that you are about to make multiple purchases from various merchants and not from amazon directly.
You were clearly not paying attention.
I mean... its nice to see that they did them and all... but does anyone have access to the studies?
You know... for those among us that find paying $10 per article that you can only have for 24 hours kinda steep.