Ghost in the Shell is easy. It's about a time where cybernetics has advanced to the point where bodies (shells) and mind/soul (ghost) are not the unified thing that they are for present-day folk. It's all about the question of what makes a person - mind, soul, body, some combination thereof...
Evangelion is a bit harder to pick through, a lot of titles get translated strangely for dramatic effect. The original title - Shin Seiki Evangelion - literally means "Gospel of the New Century", and given the context of the story, well... you have to watch it.;)
Lain I haven't seen, myself, but what I do know is that Lain is the main character, and someone is performing experiments on her. Or something like that.:)
Agreed: I think the real reason they're holding off on the jurisdictional challenge is that they're trying to attack the DMCA, not defend themselves. Using the jurisdiction argument would get them off the hook but do nothing to affect the law itself, and it's the law that needs to be changed.
I mean really, can't we do something different for once? Let's get over our petty interests, and have some vision, maybe? This has been / is being repeated everywhere you look: Napster vs recording companies, internet phone calls vs telecom companies, hybrid cars vs US car companies, xerox copiers vs carbon paper manufacturers, robots vs assembly line workers, Gutenberg vs monks...
We'd like it if they could. Unfortunately, corporations have no priorities beyond the next profit-loss statement.
Under U.S. Federal Law, in fact, they are not allowed to have any other interests. Corporations have been and will be sued by their shareholders for failing in their duty: to maximize profits.
I read it, too. And I find Richard's responses to be entirely unlike your childish simplicity.
I find him to be arrogant, overbearing, thoughtless, anal, and childish.
Okay, -almost- entirely unlike you. But then, you are not making threats and false accusations of illegal acts against a person who has offered you neither insult nor any offense whatsoever. You aren't trying to abuse the law and the trust of a corporation to attack an innocent man. And you aren't posting pointless, silly, ad hominem slander.
Oh, wait. You are posting pointless, silly, ad hominem slander.
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Robotech is sort of a grey area. It's actually three separate anime series, cut-and-pasted together with a completely rewritten storyline.
About the only firm decision on that that I can see is that my local video rental place shelves it with the anime.
Ghost in the Shell is easy. It's about a time where cybernetics has advanced to the point where bodies (shells) and mind/soul (ghost) are not the unified thing that they are for present-day folk. It's all about the question of what makes a person - mind, soul, body, some combination thereof...
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Evangelion is a bit harder to pick through, a lot of titles get translated strangely for dramatic effect. The original title - Shin Seiki Evangelion - literally means "Gospel of the New Century", and given the context of the story, well... you have to watch it.
Lain I haven't seen, myself, but what I do know is that Lain is the main character, and someone is performing experiments on her. Or something like that.
Agreed: I think the real reason they're holding off on the jurisdictional challenge is that they're trying to attack the DMCA, not defend themselves. Using the jurisdiction argument would get them off the hook but do nothing to affect the law itself, and it's the law that needs to be changed.
I mean really, can't we do something different for once? Let's get over our petty interests, and have some vision, maybe? This has been / is being repeated everywhere you look: Napster vs recording companies, internet phone calls vs telecom companies, hybrid cars vs US car companies, xerox copiers vs carbon paper manufacturers, robots vs assembly line workers, Gutenberg vs monks...
We'd like it if they could. Unfortunately, corporations have no priorities beyond the next profit-loss statement.
Under U.S. Federal Law, in fact, they are not allowed to have any other interests. Corporations have been and will be sued by their shareholders for failing in their duty: to maximize profits.
I read it, too. And I find Richard's responses to be entirely unlike your childish simplicity.
I find him to be arrogant, overbearing, thoughtless, anal, and childish.
Okay, -almost- entirely unlike you. But then, you are not making threats and false accusations of illegal acts against a person who has offered you neither insult nor any offense whatsoever. You aren't trying to abuse the law and the trust of a corporation to attack an innocent man. And you aren't posting pointless, silly, ad hominem slander.
Oh, wait. You are posting pointless, silly, ad hominem slander.
I guess you're not that different after all.