In the vein of eeriely accurate predictions, did you read the USA Today article of Wednesday regardingcomputers and isolation? E. M. Forster wrote The Machine Stops in 1909!
You may have this backward. Before the industrial revolution, the norm was individual farmers and small towns. People gave this up in exchange for the money-making opportunities of the big city manufacturing centers. Now that we are moving into the information age, we should be able to disperse back to the healthier environs of the countryside.
They moderated him to +4 funny, which for this type of person (if he is indeed being serious) is the hottest flaming he could get. Don't lash-out at obnoxious people...laugh at them (it's much more effective and reduces them to the microbes they actually are.)
No arguement. Merely stating we cannot take SF writers seriously unless they show some foundation in the science they are fictionalizing, like Asimov or Clarke.
Ask a combat vet what a winning scenario is. He is likely to tell you; no deaths and no kills. "An interesting game..the only way to win is not to play." We are being deluded into believing that a life without fifteen minutes of fame is not worth living. Read the book Stiffed by Susan Faludi.
Back in the old days of paperbound Player's Handbooks, we had 'Monty-Haul' D.M.s and 'Sudden Death' D.M.s and (Ja knows) we had 'Die-Rollers' (who were the worst). But, the only ones worth a damn were the storytellers. Cheating is a sign of boredom, and only a new resource of mind-stimulating inspiration will fill the boredom and quench the cheating.
The discussion at hand was not about being able to compete, rather it was about cheating....hey, perhaps yours is the view held by the cheaters! Certainly, those who cheat rationalize their cheating as 'vigorous competative practices' or some such nonsense. I guess he who has the gold does make the rules. Maybe you are merely obnoxious but not off-topic.
The joke is on you. Gibson is not a computer-jock. He got his inspiration for his "jacking-in" concept when walking around Toronto wearing one of the first Walkmans, and wrote the book on a manual typewriter.
To return to the point at hand. Yes, Stephen King's writing is formulaic, and good formula at that. Many..many people will log on to download anything written by him. The sceptical view raised at the beginning of this discussion is no-one being honest enough to pay for it voluntarily. I think that will be the case. However, if downloading books become very common, I believe people will become habituated to the honor system for splinter and independant authors who wish to garner their own readership. Honor is a habit. I wonder if the openess of the media will stimulate some social change.
At first, all truly new technology is worshipped, axes being no exception. I think it was Asimov who said 'any sufficiently advanced technology will appear to be magic.' I remember talking to a Nagasaki survivor who told me her overwhelming impression was 'wow, what a firebomb..I wish we could use those.'
My Sociology professor, Dr. Wang (the head of the department) visited China on a regular basis at that time and knows for a fact that once that student was off camera he was dragged into an alley and shot in the head. . . . . . ..The torture never stops. FZ
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Now THAT is a whole lotta pink and brown cylinders and hemispheres!!
The most common sites I can think of that are open all of the time without firewalls are porn sites, therefore...
Uh..if the internet is on your sister's Mac, then why is it full of pictures of naked women?? Uh..never mind.
I'm not going to eat out of that replicator...it's not an IBM.
In the vein of eeriely accurate predictions, did you read the USA Today article of Wednesday regardingcomputers and isolation? E. M. Forster wrote The Machine Stops in 1909!
You may have this backward. Before the industrial revolution, the norm was individual farmers and small towns. People gave this up in exchange for the money-making opportunities of the big city manufacturing centers. Now that we are moving into the information age, we should be able to disperse back to the healthier environs of the countryside.
Your E. Gorey signature line deserves +1 by itself.
They moderated him to +4 funny, which for this type of person (if he is indeed being serious) is the hottest flaming he could get. Don't lash-out at obnoxious people...laugh at them (it's much more effective and reduces them to the microbes they actually are.)
Intellectual property is an incongrous, non-sequitorial term....I agree with you.
Suing over how a computer LOOKS is about as dumb and not eating brocolli because it is ugly. Who cares!
They slashed off your rod?! Ouch! How Ultraviolent!
Just what could the resolution be when it holds 1000 images at 640 x 480?
No arguement. Merely stating we cannot take SF writers seriously unless they show some foundation in the science they are fictionalizing, like Asimov or Clarke.
Ask a combat vet what a winning scenario is. He is likely to tell you; no deaths and no kills. "An interesting game..the only way to win is not to play." We are being deluded into believing that a life without fifteen minutes of fame is not worth living. Read the book Stiffed by Susan Faludi.
Kindly finish jacking-off so we don't have to read more inane, sicko-sexual comments.
Back in the old days of paperbound Player's Handbooks, we had 'Monty-Haul' D.M.s and 'Sudden Death' D.M.s and (Ja knows) we had 'Die-Rollers' (who were the worst). But, the only ones worth a damn were the storytellers. Cheating is a sign of boredom, and only a new resource of mind-stimulating inspiration will fill the boredom and quench the cheating.
The discussion at hand was not about being able to compete, rather it was about cheating....hey, perhaps yours is the view held by the cheaters! Certainly, those who cheat rationalize their cheating as 'vigorous competative practices' or some such nonsense. I guess he who has the gold does make the rules. Maybe you are merely obnoxious but not off-topic.
The joke is on you. Gibson is not a computer-jock. He got his inspiration for his "jacking-in" concept when walking around Toronto wearing one of the first Walkmans, and wrote the book on a manual typewriter.
To return to the point at hand. Yes, Stephen King's writing is formulaic, and good formula at that. Many..many people will log on to download anything written by him. The sceptical view raised at the beginning of this discussion is no-one being honest enough to pay for it voluntarily. I think that will be the case. However, if downloading books become very common, I believe people will become habituated to the honor system for splinter and independant authors who wish to garner their own readership. Honor is a habit. I wonder if the openess of the media will stimulate some social change.
And why do people always looked so suprised on the Jerry Springer Show?
Be careful who hears you. You don't want to end up a bitchmonkey buried under Friendship Hall.
Maybe you can...
At first, all truly new technology is worshipped, axes being no exception. I think it was Asimov who said 'any sufficiently advanced technology will appear to be magic.' I remember talking to a Nagasaki survivor who told me her overwhelming impression was 'wow, what a firebomb..I wish we could use those.'
My Sociology professor, Dr. Wang (the head of the department) visited China on a regular basis at that time and knows for a fact that once that student was off camera he was dragged into an alley and shot in the head. . . . . . . .The torture never stops. FZ