Alex Kurtzman will get all passive aggressive when faced with criticism.
"Everyone keeps asking for something new and innovative, but when you actually give it to them they complain that it is different." Or... "People complain that it doesn't look and feel right. Cause they've know how the space is supposed to be like." Or... "It's only a show. Not a science lesson."
It is after all how his palls Jar Jar and Lindelof reacted to criticism. "Storytellers" who can't even come up with an excuse.
3. Refuse to acknowledge that Assad is winning the war and has no reason whatsoever to agree to #2.
The obvious solution is a partition.
GOTO 3.
Assad, or people of Syria loyal to him, has no reason whatsoever to agree to any kind of a partition of their country. Even should they be losing the war.
That was all a joke, right?
But besides that... partition doesn't solve the ISIS issue. Or the issue of dozens of other "armed groups" taking part in the war. There's even a diagram of who's fighting, supporting or opposing who. Sadly, it can't show all the factions and groups or all the political relations involved. Cause such a diagram would look closer to something like this. Only with more colors involved.
Except such macro logic doesn't work on a family level AAAAND it's NOT argumentation against basic income but argumentation for MORE basic income.
Instead of 3 years... let's try 3 generations. See if keeping people artificially above the poverty line keeps proving wrong the people who claim that it will ruin their work ethic. Let's try it everywhere. Maybe it's just white people who are lazy? Maybe it's just English people in Salford? Maybe the OP has a confirmation bias and a tiny cherrypicked sample?
What I find hilarious though is the use of same "logic" which is pushing the idea that "free money" (i.e. living at or just above poverty level through government subsidies) will "ruin people" - while arguing that the same "free money" somehow magically made them better planners for the future, more in control of their impulse reactions. "Suddenly" they are able to think ahead, save for the future, predict economic trends, foresee downsizings and economy shrinking... In small communities in US and Canada, back in the '60s and '70s. They probably got all that info on their smartphone of the day - microfiche.
It's almost as if that "free money" made previously stupid and lazy people (which is why they were poor in the first place) magically smart. Maybe it has something to do with that effect "free money" had on mental health? Maybe not being under the poverty line reduces stress levels just enough to boost one's cognitive skills too? Maybe it's the better quality of nutrition people were able to afford? Maybe what government should do is start spraying poor neighborhoods with dietary supplements. We can put them on a drone and run them through an app with internet of things and something-something gamify singularity buzzword hashtag.
Or maybe... JUST MAYBE... Poor does not mean lazy. And even such a glorious free ride as living just above poverty line is NOT what most people, particularly those with families, would imagine as a personal life goal and pinnacle of human existence. For themselves or their children. Particularly people living in a society which keeps equating material wealth with happiness.
These are people with next to no ambition, who find the greatest enjoyment sitting in front of a TV letting the world pass them by.
There's a Donald Trump joke in there somewhere. Something about working as little as possible, sitting in front of a TV and ranting about it on Twitter - when not playing golf. I just can't put my finger on it...
On the other hand...
I have no idea what the distribution in work ethic is, or even how it could be accurately measured, but if it's anything like a bell curve then there's going to be a not insignificant number of people just riding the (thin) gravy train.
Which is why everyone is in the jail. Because a not insignificant number of people ARE criminals and we should make judgment for everyone based on extremes, not the average. No... wait...
The Turkish man who gave Mike Flynn a $600,000 lobbying deal just before President Donald Trump picked him to be national security adviser has business ties to Russia, including a 2009 aviation financing deal negotiated with Vladimir Putin, according to court records. The man, Ekim Alptekin, has in recent years helped to coordinate Turkish lobbying in Washington with Dmitri "David" Zaikin, a Soviet-born former executive in Russian energy and mining companies who also has had dealings with Putin's government, according to three people with direct knowledge of the activities. ... Alptekin, in an interview, said he hired Flynn with his own money and did not coordinate any lobbying for the Turkish government. He also denied knowing Zaikin.
But Alptekin acknowledged that he has attended events and met with leaders of the Turkish Heritage Organization, a Washington-based group of Turkish-Americans loyal to Erdogan. The organization was started when Zaikin asked a Washington-based international political consultant named John Moreira to help set it up, Moreira told POLITICO.
"Surprisingly", both Zaikin and Alptekin also had business deals with Putin.
In the 2000s, Zaikin was an executive in Russia's oil industry at a time when Putin was consolidating control over the country's mineral wealth to the financial benefit of himself and the circle of oligarchs who are his key supporters and associates. ... In 2008, Zaikin made a deal with an ex-KGB oligarch involved in the giant state oil company Gazprom. Zaikin's company sold the oligarch a 2.5 percent stake in a subsidiary, known as KNG, for shares worth $10, equivalent to valuing the entire subsidiary at $400, according to SEC disclosures. That came less than two years after Zaikin's company bought KNG for the equivalent of $2.7 million. ... Alptekin has had his own business dealings in Russia.
As a partner in an investment group called ETIRC as early as 2006, Alptekin bought a stake in a New Mexico jet manufacturer called Eclipse Aviation. In September 2008, Eclipse announced plans to build a $205 million factory in Russia financed by Russian state bank Vnesheconombank, whose board was chaired by Putin, then prime minister. A photo in the trade press showed Putin personally inspecting one of Eclipse's jets.
And there's more...
It's almost as if it all connects back to Putin. Funny that.
In short... Most everyone kept working or didn't start working as early but stayed in school longer. Also, hospitalizations went down, particularly for mental health problems.
But if you want a real Twilight Zone mindfuck - look up Nixon's basic income experiment. Run by Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Granted... they saw it as a way to eliminate social programs instead of to expand them. But even they found that there was no change to "work ethic" - everyone still kept working. Apparently, being "at or just above the poverty line" is simply not enough for most people.
If they are drinking caffeinated sodas (can't be bothered to look up the study, which is probably worthless weakly correlated crap anyway and as for the click-bait link - fuck it up its stupid ass) - 24/7 caffeine intake might be causing them continuous inadequate rest and sleeping disorders, causing increased mental and physical stress. Not to mention that the cause of so much caffeine might be workplace stress, compounding the effects.
Working oneself into an early grave IS after all tied to stroke, dementia, cancer, cardiac arrest, divorce, alcoholism, drug use, office shootings and looting the company accounts before flying away to Paraguay with Candy.
Given the "swamp draining" skills Trump's shown so far, I'm expecting that he's going to outsource the implementation and enforcement of the H1B program to an Indian corporation...
Instead, just start the countdown clock until he reports that "No one realized that visas would be so hard." or until he has a 10 minute conversation with a foreign leader who explains to him why he's wrong. Or until they find him in the corner of the rose garden smearing himself in his own shit as the dementia kicks into top gear.
But the reality is why would you spent anyone's time on something that isn't actually useful other than to create a false illusion of openness? Might as well not...
Alien is a horror movie in outer space. Same formula. All the characters have some flaw, movie takes place in a closed environment and they are killed except for the flawless hero. In the case of Alien the flaw was usually greed and love of money
Alien is a SLASHER movie in outer space. And Ripley is just another final girl there. She doesn't become Rambolina until Aliens. Alien was running on the same zeitgeist fear that made Halloween a hit - Bundys and Zodiacs and Tool Box Killers and Atlanta murderers and killer clowns... Not to mention that the media was always eager to help spread the panic and disinformation. Causing bullshit psychological studies and whatnot...
As for Star Wars... Lucas read Campbell's book. Which is about myths in general, and about his thesis of a single "monomyth" spanning across the entire human culture. A LOT of it being about Buddhism. Lucas watched Kurosawa. Watched Riefenstahl. Watched Flash Gordon serials as a kid. Watched Howard Hughes with John Milius standing up after "Hell's Angels" to hold a speech about how "This is the kind of movies that should be made! Movies that matter!" And you better listen to what Milius is saying cause he's built like a bear and he's packing shotguns in the trunk of his car. In case the handgun he has on him isn't enough. And he is also a brilliant script writer. Hell... it even has connections to that other famous desert planet where they harvest spice which some intrepid and enterprising space pirate might try to smuggle.
Lucas pooled ideas from many sources and worked the thing over and over and over again trying to push out that idea he constructed in his head from all those sources - while others helped shape it. And he had a helluva team to help him. And a few palls who knew a thing or two about movies. Plus a budget fit for a James Bond movie.
There's an app for that. To be fair, it's not that there are no shells in the future. It's closer to three shells being not nearly enough for an ass of the future. Poopstagram is the next big thing... you'll see.
As for the movie... depends who you ask. I have no idea why would anyone ask Stallone, being that his character explicitly doesn't know how to use them, but people did ask. The answer was... what could have been expected.
If for nothing else, then to get the feel of both of them. Carpenter being this laid back, down to earth kinda guy, Piper being a really nice guy who had to go through some rough shit in life... but a bit... flaky. I mean... there you are, listening to two guys talking about the movie they made all those years ago, while watching the said movie... and then out of nowhere Piper hits you up with a conspiracy theory. And while Carpenter is all "Well I be damned." you google a bit and... oh... OH!
Sadly, though they mention Hulk Hogan and his movies, they never address the PKE-meter situation.
Hopefully somewhere watching better movies than that. Looper and Dredd came out that year. Even Avengers and John Carter if you feel like just turning off your brain and watching pretty things. Damn was Lynn Collins sexy in that.
Neo doesn't do anything supernatural in the real world.
He's an evolutionary mutation which adapted to using its implants without direct, wired, connection. Him interacting with machines plugged into the Matrix is no more supernatural than a laptop, which previously had to be connected to the internet through its RJ45, "supernaturally" connecting through its Wi-Fi connection after an update and a reboot.
He doesn't do anything Matrixy in the real world. He just discovers that he can "wiggle the ears" of all that hardware he was grown with. He grows into a fully fledged man-machine hybrid.
That's why he can't magically fix the ship or save Trinity like he could in the simulation. He doesn't have a control over reality. Just a connection to the Matrix without being plugged in or boosted with a radio transmitter from a ship.
As for control... meh... Wachowskis were piling it up so high and wide they lost track by the second half of the first movie. By the end of it it's about freedom. Then it's about choice. Then it's about peace and ending the war. But it's also about destiny and believing and pseudo-philosophical bullshit like arguing about semantics of the word "love"... And about that magical pussy-chain Link has. You know when he kisses it he's thinking "I can't die. I haven't had me enough of pussy yet."
Star Wars is of course Cowboys and Indians in space for twelve year olds.
It's "Applied Buddhism for Beginners" played out over a backdrop of a WW2 in space.
That's why prequels and the modern spin-offs suck. They forgot the whole "'60s just ended, '70s are ending, millennium is just around a corner, there's nothing left to believe in - we need a space-age religion before the world ends" zeitgeist bit. Wachowskis tapped into some of that with Matrix. Thus Jediism and Matrixism but no Star Trek religion.
In both cases authors moved away from that feeling of "getting the world" and instead started regurgitating the tail of their "samsara" after they've already came out with their "nirvana for the masses" solution. I.e. They went about the wrong things in the wrong way.
It's an "in-universe" propaganda movie to get people jacked up for war and boost recruitment numbers. Think "Triumph of the Will" meeting "Top Gun".
Except it's Verhoeven behind the camera. And when he satirizes something he dials it up to 11. And then he breaks off the dial and replaces it with a "MORE!!!" button, which he then beats with a hammer until there's nothing left to indicate that it's a satire.
Stick to same old ideas (i.e. stay conservative) and with every second you are more and more wrong until you're standing in the middle of the street shouting anti-gay slogans wearing nothing but a Reagan-Thatcher "love" shirt.
But it's actually Right wing == fake news and disinformation.
Our own study of over 1.25 million stories published online between April 1, 2015 and Election Day shows that a right-wing media network anchored around Breitbart developed as a distinct and insulated media system, using social media as a backbone to transmit a hyper-partisan perspective to the world. This pro-Trump media sphere appears to have not only successfully set the agenda for the conservative media sphere, but also strongly influenced the broader media agenda, in particular coverage of Hillary Clinton. While concerns about political and media polarization online are longstanding, our study suggests that polarization was asymmetric. Pro-Clinton audiences were highly attentive to traditional media outlets, which continued to be the most prominent outlets across the public sphere, alongside more left-oriented online sites. But pro-Trump audiences paid the majority of their attention to polarized outlets that have developed recently, many of them only since the 2008 election season.
Attacks on the integrity and professionalism of opposing media were also a central theme of right-wing media. Rather than "fake news" in the sense of wholly fabricated falsities, many of the most-shared stories can more accurately be understood as disinformation: the purposeful construction of true or partly true bits of information into a message that is, at its core, misleading. Over the course of the election, this turned the right-wing media system into an internally coherent, relatively insulated knowledge community, reinforcing the shared worldview of readers and shielding them from journalism that challenged it. The prevalence of such material has created an environment in which the President can tell supporters about events in Sweden that never happened, or a presidential advisor can reference a non-existent "Bowling Green massacre."
Keep telling yourself that while you stare at the mirror telling yourself that you've got the biggest dick and a body of an athlete.
It's all about repeating it until you yourself fall for it. After that evidence to the contrary won't matter. You'll be able to "Hail Trump!" all the way to the land of delusion. Or dementia. Which ever kicks in first.
Or do you somehow believe that CNN and CIA are the same thing?
If that's the case, I have some super-secret NASA designed from alien technology aluminum foil to stop those government rays they are beaming into your head. We can negotiate the price later. It's your health that's the priority here.
What we're seeing now, in short, is not a legitimate debate about the threat posed to civil liberties by improper unmasking. We are seeing a toxic combination of Trump's penchant for wild speculation, a right-wing media echo chamber, and the legacy of the Benghazi controversy coming together to produce an absurd pile-on - one that seems to have brought the Republican Party together around their remaining hatred for Rice and the Obama administration.
What the article fails to mention though, is that all this water-muddying is taking place at the same time as Trump's "foreign policy adviser" Carter Page admitted, publicly, that he was "unmasked" by the FBI - as being recruited by the Russian spies. Russian Spies Tried to Recruit Carter Page Before He Advised Trump
Two years before joining the Trump campaign as a foreign policy adviser, New York business consultant Carter Page was targeted for recruitment as an intelligence source by Russian spies promising favors for business opportunities in Russia, according to a sealed FBI complaint.
Page confirmed to ABC News that he is the individual identified as "Male-1" in a 2015 court document submitted in a case involving the Russian spies.
Unmasking people recruited by foreign spies is BAD, mkay? Just trust in Trump and look the other way.
Awww... Does a little snowflake need a safe space from the big bad internet making fun of its manatee-like figure? Or is the little snowflake still sore from all the "winning" in its life?
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There. That's the worlds smallest string orchestra playing Mozart for all the precious little whining snowflake manatees out there. If you put your ear to the monitor you can almost hear it.
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Alex Kurtzman will get all passive aggressive when faced with criticism.
"Everyone keeps asking for something new and innovative, but when you actually give it to them they complain that it is different."
Or...
"People complain that it doesn't look and feel right. Cause they've know how the space is supposed to be like."
Or...
"It's only a show. Not a science lesson."
It is after all how his palls Jar Jar and Lindelof reacted to criticism.
"Storytellers" who can't even come up with an excuse.
3. Refuse to acknowledge that Assad is winning the war and has no reason whatsoever to agree to #2.
The obvious solution is a partition.
GOTO 3.
Assad, or people of Syria loyal to him, has no reason whatsoever to agree to any kind of a partition of their country.
Even should they be losing the war.
That was all a joke, right?
But besides that... partition doesn't solve the ISIS issue.
Or the issue of dozens of other "armed groups" taking part in the war.
There's even a diagram of who's fighting, supporting or opposing who.
Sadly, it can't show all the factions and groups or all the political relations involved. Cause such a diagram would look closer to something like this.
Only with more colors involved.
Just think of all the money we'd save on electricity if everyone just glowed in the dark.
Except such macro logic doesn't work on a family level AAAAND it's NOT argumentation against basic income but argumentation for MORE basic income.
Instead of 3 years... let's try 3 generations.
See if keeping people artificially above the poverty line keeps proving wrong the people who claim that it will ruin their work ethic.
Let's try it everywhere. Maybe it's just white people who are lazy? Maybe it's just English people in Salford? Maybe the OP has a confirmation bias and a tiny cherrypicked sample?
What I find hilarious though is the use of same "logic" which is pushing the idea that "free money" (i.e. living at or just above poverty level through government subsidies) will "ruin people" - while arguing that the same "free money" somehow magically made them better planners for the future, more in control of their impulse reactions.
"Suddenly" they are able to think ahead, save for the future, predict economic trends, foresee downsizings and economy shrinking...
In small communities in US and Canada, back in the '60s and '70s. They probably got all that info on their smartphone of the day - microfiche.
It's almost as if that "free money" made previously stupid and lazy people (which is why they were poor in the first place) magically smart.
Maybe it has something to do with that effect "free money" had on mental health?
Maybe not being under the poverty line reduces stress levels just enough to boost one's cognitive skills too?
Maybe it's the better quality of nutrition people were able to afford?
Maybe what government should do is start spraying poor neighborhoods with dietary supplements.
We can put them on a drone and run them through an app with internet of things and something-something gamify singularity buzzword hashtag.
Or maybe... JUST MAYBE... Poor does not mean lazy.
And even such a glorious free ride as living just above poverty line is NOT what most people, particularly those with families, would imagine as a personal life goal and pinnacle of human existence.
For themselves or their children.
Particularly people living in a society which keeps equating material wealth with happiness.
These are people with next to no ambition, who find the greatest enjoyment sitting in front of a TV letting the world pass them by.
There's a Donald Trump joke in there somewhere.
Something about working as little as possible, sitting in front of a TV and ranting about it on Twitter - when not playing golf.
I just can't put my finger on it...
On the other hand...
I have no idea what the distribution in work ethic is, or even how it could be accurately measured, but if it's anything like a bell curve then there's going to be a not insignificant number of people just riding the (thin) gravy train.
Which is why everyone is in the jail.
Because a not insignificant number of people ARE criminals and we should make judgment for everyone based on extremes, not the average.
No... wait...
Those "pro Turkey" lobbyists who paid him are actually Russians.
http://www.politico.com/story/...
The Turkish man who gave Mike Flynn a $600,000 lobbying deal just before President Donald Trump picked him to be national security adviser has business ties to Russia, including a 2009 aviation financing deal negotiated with Vladimir Putin, according to court records.
The man, Ekim Alptekin, has in recent years helped to coordinate Turkish lobbying in Washington with Dmitri "David" Zaikin, a Soviet-born former executive in Russian energy and mining companies who also has had dealings with Putin's government, according to three people with direct knowledge of the activities.
...
Alptekin, in an interview, said he hired Flynn with his own money and did not coordinate any lobbying for the Turkish government. He also denied knowing Zaikin.
But Alptekin acknowledged that he has attended events and met with leaders of the Turkish Heritage Organization, a Washington-based group of Turkish-Americans loyal to Erdogan.
The organization was started when Zaikin asked a Washington-based international political consultant named John Moreira to help set it up, Moreira told POLITICO.
"Surprisingly", both Zaikin and Alptekin also had business deals with Putin.
In the 2000s, Zaikin was an executive in Russia's oil industry at a time when Putin was consolidating control over the country's mineral wealth to the financial benefit of himself and the circle of oligarchs who are his key supporters and associates.
...
In 2008, Zaikin made a deal with an ex-KGB oligarch involved in the giant state oil company Gazprom. Zaikin's company sold the oligarch a 2.5 percent stake in a subsidiary, known as KNG, for shares worth $10, equivalent to valuing the entire subsidiary at $400, according to SEC disclosures.
That came less than two years after Zaikin's company bought KNG for the equivalent of $2.7 million.
...
Alptekin has had his own business dealings in Russia.
As a partner in an investment group called ETIRC as early as 2006, Alptekin bought a stake in a New Mexico jet manufacturer called Eclipse Aviation.
In September 2008, Eclipse announced plans to build a $205 million factory in Russia financed by Russian state bank Vnesheconombank, whose board was chaired by Putin, then prime minister.
A photo in the trade press showed Putin personally inspecting one of Eclipse's jets.
And there's more...
It's almost as if it all connects back to Putin. Funny that.
They already did a basic income experiment back when Prime Minister Trudeau was called Pierre.
In short... Most everyone kept working or didn't start working as early but stayed in school longer.
Also, hospitalizations went down, particularly for mental health problems.
But if you want a real Twilight Zone mindfuck - look up Nixon's basic income experiment.
Run by Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
Granted... they saw it as a way to eliminate social programs instead of to expand them. But even they found that there was no change to "work ethic" - everyone still kept working.
Apparently, being "at or just above the poverty line" is simply not enough for most people.
...anthracite in the UK?!
If they are drinking caffeinated sodas (can't be bothered to look up the study, which is probably worthless weakly correlated crap anyway and as for the click-bait link - fuck it up its stupid ass) - 24/7 caffeine intake might be causing them continuous inadequate rest and sleeping disorders, causing increased mental and physical stress.
Not to mention that the cause of so much caffeine might be workplace stress, compounding the effects.
Working oneself into an early grave IS after all tied to stroke, dementia, cancer, cardiac arrest, divorce, alcoholism, drug use, office shootings and looting the company accounts before flying away to Paraguay with Candy.
That's actually one of, if not THE, Verhoeven's favorite scene. He just loves how Ironside says that line.
Given the "swamp draining" skills Trump's shown so far, I'm expecting that he's going to outsource the implementation and enforcement of the H1B program to an Indian corporation...
Instead, just start the countdown clock until he reports that "No one realized that visas would be so hard." or until he has a 10 minute conversation with a foreign leader who explains to him why he's wrong.
Or until they find him in the corner of the rose garden smearing himself in his own shit as the dementia kicks into top gear.
But the reality is why would you spent anyone's time on something that isn't actually useful other than to create a false illusion of openness? Might as well not...
Besides, them logs are probably sour anyways. And dissonant.
Alien is a horror movie in outer space. Same formula. All the characters have some flaw, movie takes place in a closed environment and they are killed except for the flawless hero. In the case of Alien the flaw was usually greed and love of money
Alien is a SLASHER movie in outer space. And Ripley is just another final girl there. She doesn't become Rambolina until Aliens.
Alien was running on the same zeitgeist fear that made Halloween a hit - Bundys and Zodiacs and Tool Box Killers and Atlanta murderers and killer clowns...
Not to mention that the media was always eager to help spread the panic and disinformation. Causing bullshit psychological studies and whatnot...
As for Star Wars... Lucas read Campbell's book. Which is about myths in general, and about his thesis of a single "monomyth" spanning across the entire human culture. A LOT of it being about Buddhism.
Lucas watched Kurosawa. Watched Riefenstahl. Watched Flash Gordon serials as a kid.
Watched Howard Hughes with John Milius standing up after "Hell's Angels" to hold a speech about how "This is the kind of movies that should be made! Movies that matter!"
And you better listen to what Milius is saying cause he's built like a bear and he's packing shotguns in the trunk of his car. In case the handgun he has on him isn't enough. And he is also a brilliant script writer.
Hell... it even has connections to that other famous desert planet where they harvest spice which some intrepid and enterprising space pirate might try to smuggle.
Lucas pooled ideas from many sources and worked the thing over and over and over again trying to push out that idea he constructed in his head from all those sources - while others helped shape it.
And he had a helluva team to help him. And a few palls who knew a thing or two about movies.
Plus a budget fit for a James Bond movie.
There's an app for that.
To be fair, it's not that there are no shells in the future.
It's closer to three shells being not nearly enough for an ass of the future. Poopstagram is the next big thing... you'll see.
As for the movie... depends who you ask.
I have no idea why would anyone ask Stallone, being that his character explicitly doesn't know how to use them, but people did ask. The answer was... what could have been expected.
Bullock showed a bit more of intuitive understanding and imagination.
But if you ask the guy who wrote it... it's all just bullshit.
Carpenter's and Piper's DVD commentary is worth going through as well.
If for nothing else, then to get the feel of both of them.
Carpenter being this laid back, down to earth kinda guy, Piper being a really nice guy who had to go through some rough shit in life... but a bit... flaky.
I mean... there you are, listening to two guys talking about the movie they made all those years ago, while watching the said movie... and then out of nowhere Piper hits you up with a conspiracy theory.
And while Carpenter is all "Well I be damned." you google a bit and... oh... OH!
Sadly, though they mention Hulk Hogan and his movies, they never address the PKE-meter situation.
Um, where were you in 2012?
Hopefully somewhere watching better movies than that. Looper and Dredd came out that year.
Even Avengers and John Carter if you feel like just turning off your brain and watching pretty things. Damn was Lynn Collins sexy in that.
Neo doesn't do anything supernatural in the real world.
He's an evolutionary mutation which adapted to using its implants without direct, wired, connection.
Him interacting with machines plugged into the Matrix is no more supernatural than a laptop, which previously had to be connected to the internet through its RJ45, "supernaturally" connecting through its Wi-Fi connection after an update and a reboot.
He doesn't do anything Matrixy in the real world.
He just discovers that he can "wiggle the ears" of all that hardware he was grown with.
He grows into a fully fledged man-machine hybrid.
That's why he can't magically fix the ship or save Trinity like he could in the simulation.
He doesn't have a control over reality. Just a connection to the Matrix without being plugged in or boosted with a radio transmitter from a ship.
As for control... meh... Wachowskis were piling it up so high and wide they lost track by the second half of the first movie.
By the end of it it's about freedom. Then it's about choice. Then it's about peace and ending the war.
But it's also about destiny and believing and pseudo-philosophical bullshit like arguing about semantics of the word "love"...
And about that magical pussy-chain Link has. You know when he kisses it he's thinking "I can't die. I haven't had me enough of pussy yet."
Star Wars is of course Cowboys and Indians in space for twelve year olds.
It's "Applied Buddhism for Beginners" played out over a backdrop of a WW2 in space.
That's why prequels and the modern spin-offs suck.
They forgot the whole "'60s just ended, '70s are ending, millennium is just around a corner, there's nothing left to believe in - we need a space-age religion before the world ends" zeitgeist bit.
Wachowskis tapped into some of that with Matrix.
Thus Jediism and Matrixism but no Star Trek religion.
In both cases authors moved away from that feeling of "getting the world" and instead started regurgitating the tail of their "samsara" after they've already came out with their "nirvana for the masses" solution.
I.e. They went about the wrong things in the wrong way.
It's an "in-universe" propaganda movie to get people jacked up for war and boost recruitment numbers.
Think "Triumph of the Will" meeting "Top Gun".
Except it's Verhoeven behind the camera. And when he satirizes something he dials it up to 11.
And then he breaks off the dial and replaces it with a "MORE!!!" button, which he then beats with a hammer until there's nothing left to indicate that it's a satire.
Stick to same old ideas (i.e. stay conservative) and with every second you are more and more wrong until you're standing in the middle of the street shouting anti-gay slogans wearing nothing but a Reagan-Thatcher "love" shirt.
But it's actually Right wing == fake news and disinformation.
http://www.cjr.org/analysis/br...
Our own study of over 1.25 million stories published online between April 1, 2015 and Election Day shows that a right-wing media network anchored around Breitbart developed as a distinct and insulated media system, using social media as a backbone to transmit a hyper-partisan perspective to the world.
This pro-Trump media sphere appears to have not only successfully set the agenda for the conservative media sphere, but also strongly influenced the broader media agenda, in particular coverage of Hillary Clinton.
While concerns about political and media polarization online are longstanding, our study suggests that polarization was asymmetric.
Pro-Clinton audiences were highly attentive to traditional media outlets, which continued to be the most prominent outlets across the public sphere, alongside more left-oriented online sites.
But pro-Trump audiences paid the majority of their attention to polarized outlets that have developed recently, many of them only since the 2008 election season.
Attacks on the integrity and professionalism of opposing media were also a central theme of right-wing media.
Rather than "fake news" in the sense of wholly fabricated falsities, many of the most-shared stories can more accurately be understood as disinformation: the purposeful construction of true or partly true bits of information into a message that is, at its core, misleading.
Over the course of the election, this turned the right-wing media system into an internally coherent, relatively insulated knowledge community, reinforcing the shared worldview of readers and shielding them from journalism that challenged it.
The prevalence of such material has created an environment in which the President can tell supporters about events in Sweden that never happened, or a presidential advisor can reference a non-existent "Bowling Green massacre."
Keep telling yourself that while you stare at the mirror telling yourself that you've got the biggest dick and a body of an athlete.
It's all about repeating it until you yourself fall for it. After that evidence to the contrary won't matter.
You'll be able to "Hail Trump!" all the way to the land of delusion. Or dementia. Which ever kicks in first.
Or do you somehow believe that CNN and CIA are the same thing?
If that's the case, I have some super-secret NASA designed from alien technology aluminum foil to stop those government rays they are beaming into your head.
We can negotiate the price later. It's your health that's the priority here.
Got any water left in that mud of yours?
President Trump's wild charge that Susan Rice committed a crime, explained
What we're seeing now, in short, is not a legitimate debate about the threat posed to civil liberties by improper unmasking.
We are seeing a toxic combination of Trump's penchant for wild speculation, a right-wing media echo chamber, and the legacy of the Benghazi controversy coming together to produce an absurd pile-on - one that seems to have brought the Republican Party together around their remaining hatred for Rice and the Obama administration.
What the article fails to mention though, is that all this water-muddying is taking place at the same time as Trump's "foreign policy adviser" Carter Page admitted, publicly, that he was "unmasked" by the FBI - as being recruited by the Russian spies.
Russian Spies Tried to Recruit Carter Page Before He Advised Trump
Two years before joining the Trump campaign as a foreign policy adviser, New York business consultant Carter Page was targeted for recruitment as an intelligence source by Russian spies promising favors for business opportunities in Russia, according to a sealed FBI complaint.
Page confirmed to ABC News that he is the individual identified as "Male-1" in a 2015 court document submitted in a case involving the Russian spies.
Unmasking people recruited by foreign spies is BAD, mkay? Just trust in Trump and look the other way.
Someone was constipated and was thus having oat flakes for breakfast.
Causing this shit to pop out a few hours later.
Alas, oat.com was already taken...
Awww... Does a little snowflake need a safe space from the big bad internet making fun of its manatee-like figure?
Or is the little snowflake still sore from all the "winning" in its life?
.
There.
That's the worlds smallest string orchestra playing Mozart for all the precious little whining snowflake manatees out there.
If you put your ear to the monitor you can almost hear it.