Agent Smith: As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Stenlund. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Richard L. Stenlund, a struggling, frustrated 27-year-old computer repairman trapped in a town too far from big cities where big things happen, trapped in a hand-to-mouth existence, trapped in a mean little culture of cheap thrills and fast-food television. The other life is lived at the distant end of a strife-torn galaxy, where you are a genetically engineered mutant called Thedeacon and are guilty of virtually every soul-light dimming crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Stenlund. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual, a man who calls himself Morpheus. Now whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start and all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.
the thing I find most funny is that in the second renaisance the machines build a city "in the cradle of humanity" called ZeroOne.
You get to see this guy smack a fly down on the United Nations symbol as it crawls over that exact egypt/palistine/israel/siani peninsula in TSR pt1, and then you get to see the Suicide Bomber Sentinel who signs the human-unconditional-surrender-treaty hold his rod and his apple standing below that spot on the united nations shield in TSR pt2.
Cmon, say ZeroOne a few times slowly...
Zeroone... Zerone... Zairoone...
I can't believe that most people found it so cryptic that they didn't get it. and then get mad about it.
I daresay nearly as important as the "war on terror" is to the United States, and you can bet your bottom dollar that the US government would intervene if a movie were to be released in the country showed terrorism in a positive light.
From the original Matrix:
Agent Smith: As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company, you have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Neo and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Anderson. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual, a man who calls himself Morpheus. Now whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start and all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.
"How to destroy government buildings for dummies"?
Because of Neo's strong connection to her, he wasn't going to say 'fuck you' to the Architect and blow the whole place up. Blowing the whole place up would lead to the death of everyone in the matrix, and coupled with the destruction of Zion would lead to the extinction of the human race.
Of course his car-flipping fireball scene means that he is willing to break a few eggs to make an omlett.
you know, one person who does hate all humanity, the matrix and all machines is Smith. What would happen if he infected everybody in the matrix, and then decided to commit mass suicide?
All the machines would be starved back to a "leve of existence we are prepared to accept" which must surely suck, and the humans would be left with however many people are alive in zion after the sentinels are through with them.
Smith hasn't happened before (Smith 1:"Everything is exactly like last time..." Smith 2: "Not exactly...") and it would be a typical W bros thing to do to have neo fight smith on behalf of the machines.
Poor Smith. He's the only new form of life on the planet in 2100 years. You'd think that he'd deserve some time in the sun.
Speaking of which, why haven't the machines used their technology to construct some kind of space elevator to a geosynchronous solar satellite thing yet? Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke thought that that would be a great way to get free power, and it's certainly smarter than their current plan of
1) liquifying the massive amount of human flesh we saw in The Second Renaisannce into human goo.
2) resurrect just a small portion of humans to efficiently convert the goo into bioelectricity and heat
3) get all stroppy when some of the people decide that being fed their dead ancestors intraveniously sucks and that they want to wake up.
I mean, c'mon machines! fossil fuels and hubris sent humans to the stone age at least twice! don't make the same mistake of thinking that there'll always be more oil/human goo twice!
You can buy one of those squeeze bulb syringes and fill it with warm salty water to clear out your nasal passages. It's gross but really effective. and it uses your thumbs!
Thumb users will be fine so long as there is enough technology to support their rubber hungry ways.
I think that it's those sexy thumb users getting all the hot dates and then raising five screaming thumbmutants out in the countryside where you can get away from draconian population control laws by proving that you need the kids for agricultural labour.
Hmmm. Maybe John Deere should start making thumb-tractors...
that would be a sound mechanical design if you could hold it steady enough not to break or dislocate the thumb on recoil. I mean, having the trigger and the sear incorporated or connected by a shorter linkage positioned just under the hammer could possibly be a more robust design.
then again IANAGS so I have no idea about making or designing guns.
I guess that since content distribution is automatic you'd have to never use K2b ever again, or delete the file or something to stop distribution. You'd have to be pretty mean to do that. Meanwhile alice has heard from the bob's who subscribe to her channel that they haven't got theGrid.mpg, so she chooses one of them to be node 1
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Amen to that. Superior soldiers do better with average equipment in the real world than poorly trained substandard people could ever hope to do with top of the line gucci gear.
I think that companies trying to cash in on weekend warriors so that they can have a that elite soldiers have are just cynical profiteers.
There is no such thing as a Warding Staff of the Badger in the real world.
There ARE nice knives which somebody has paid attention to so they fit well in the hand, don't break and cut well without getting blunt too quickly, but the bottom line is that that knife will bounce off a true warrior's cloth chest rig if wielded by a 90lb weakling, while the trained warrior's arm will drive his standard bowey through said agressor's sternum and two inches into the hard ground behind.
Brand names mean nothing. What the particular piece of weaponry or gear can do in your hands might be something, but ulimately it is the person who does the deed which decides things.
Hell, people have been known to miss with cruise missiles.
So yeah, ye manufacturers. Stop commercialising war. Make good products for the sake of making good products. Make them well. Make them stand up on their own merits. DONT make people think that that they'll just be turned into the ultimate badass just by buying them. Practice, training and dicipline count. Anything less just makes them a danger to themselves and others around them. (unless they're buying the tools to be wall hangers, and that just deprives the rest of the community of good equipment.)
My objection is not that the knife is in the game. My objection is the game depicts a knife which is supposed to be able to make you into a better warrior, both in the game world and the real world. There is no such object.
Oh and leave the mastadon ivory for artists and paleobiologists. it has no business on a "serious knife"
Now that the source is closed (and that they've definitely modified it to scale for so many users) we can be told that there's encryption at both ends, but can you trust them not to go sniffing in the middle?
I havenâ(TM)t written code in many years. I am active in policy space rather writing code, doing a lot of public speaking. There is a lot of need for activism now in the shadow of the Patriot Act.
Interesting. I would have thought that hammering out the bugs in the law would have been the oldest form of coding.
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Also, imagine full body flexible displays so you can either be camoflagued or a human billboard. Or even play live action quake with your fave TF teamskins.
yeah. One suit to rule them all. Change your style without changing your pants.
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Slashdot Mirror
Agent Smith: As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Stenlund. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Richard L. Stenlund, a struggling, frustrated 27-year-old computer repairman trapped in a town too far from big cities where big things happen, trapped in a hand-to-mouth existence, trapped in a mean little culture of cheap thrills and fast-food television. The other life is lived at the distant end of a strife-torn galaxy, where you are a genetically engineered mutant called Thedeacon and are guilty of virtually every soul-light dimming crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Stenlund. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual, a man who calls himself Morpheus. Now whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start and all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.
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Am I the only person who considers it a little bit weird?
h ur chill2winstonsx001.htm
In the words of Sir Winston Churchill, "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/quautc
the thing I find most funny is that in the second renaisance the machines build a city "in the cradle of humanity" called ZeroOne.
You get to see this guy smack a fly down on the United Nations symbol as it crawls over that exact egypt/palistine/israel/siani peninsula in TSR pt1, and then you get to see the Suicide Bomber Sentinel who signs the human-unconditional-surrender-treaty hold his rod and his apple standing below that spot on the united nations shield in TSR pt2.
Cmon, say ZeroOne a few times slowly...
Zeroone... Zerone... Zairoone...
I can't believe that most people found it so cryptic that they didn't get it. and then get mad about it.
Tricksy W bros!
I daresay nearly as important as the "war on terror" is to the United States, and you can bet your bottom dollar that the US government would intervene if a movie were to be released in the country showed terrorism in a positive light.
From the original Matrix:
Agent Smith: As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company, you have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Neo and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Anderson. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual, a man who calls himself Morpheus. Now whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start and all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.
"How to destroy government buildings for dummies"?
Neo: There is no spoon.
http://www.ds2.pg.gda.pl/~colan/screenplay.htm
Because of Neo's strong connection to her, he wasn't going to say 'fuck you' to the Architect and blow the whole place up. Blowing the whole place up would lead to the death of everyone in the matrix, and coupled with the destruction of Zion would lead to the extinction of the human race.
Of course his car-flipping fireball scene means that he is willing to break a few eggs to make an omlett.
you know, one person who does hate all humanity, the matrix and all machines is Smith. What would happen if he infected everybody in the matrix, and then decided to commit mass suicide?
All the machines would be starved back to a "leve of existence we are prepared to accept" which must surely suck, and the humans would be left with however many people are alive in zion after the sentinels are through with them.
Smith hasn't happened before (Smith 1:"Everything is exactly like last time..." Smith 2: "Not exactly...") and it would be a typical W bros thing to do to have neo fight smith on behalf of the machines.
Poor Smith. He's the only new form of life on the planet in 2100 years. You'd think that he'd deserve some time in the sun.
Speaking of which, why haven't the machines used their technology to construct some kind of space elevator to a geosynchronous solar satellite thing yet? Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke thought that that would be a great way to get free power, and it's certainly smarter than their current plan of
1) liquifying the massive amount of human flesh we saw in The Second Renaisannce into human goo.
2) resurrect just a small portion of humans to efficiently convert the goo into bioelectricity and heat
3) get all stroppy when some of the people decide that being fed their dead ancestors intraveniously sucks and that they want to wake up.
I mean, c'mon machines! fossil fuels and hubris sent humans to the stone age at least twice! don't make the same mistake of thinking that there'll always be more oil/human goo twice!
You can buy one of those squeeze bulb syringes and fill it with warm salty water to clear out your nasal passages. It's gross but really effective. and it uses your thumbs!
Thumb users will be fine so long as there is enough technology to support their rubber hungry ways.
I think that it's those sexy thumb users getting all the hot dates and then raising five screaming thumbmutants out in the countryside where you can get away from draconian population control laws by proving that you need the kids for agricultural labour.
Hmmm. Maybe John Deere should start making thumb-tractors...
eewwwww! country thumbsex....
that would be a sound mechanical design if you could hold it steady enough not to break or dislocate the thumb on recoil. I mean, having the trigger and the sear incorporated or connected by a shorter linkage positioned just under the hammer could possibly be a more robust design.
then again IANAGS so I have no idea about making or designing guns.
With an electronic thumb! It's the only way to hitch hike. Provided suitable transportation comes your way in time.
I guess this means that we need One tax system, One government, maybe Nine or so good folks to catch people who want to run off with the ring...
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2. go to bed
I guess that since content distribution is automatic you'd have to never use K2b ever again, or delete the file or something to stop distribution. You'd have to be pretty mean to do that. Meanwhile alice has heard from the bob's who subscribe to her channel that they haven't got theGrid.mpg, so she chooses one of them to be node 1
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If only macgyver was still running...
but then we'd get even more crass commercialisation.
Amen to that. Superior soldiers do better with average equipment in the real world than poorly trained substandard people could ever hope to do with top of the line gucci gear.
I think that companies trying to cash in on weekend warriors so that they can have a that elite soldiers have are just cynical profiteers.
There is no such thing as a Warding Staff of the Badger in the real world.
There ARE nice knives which somebody has paid attention to so they fit well in the hand, don't break and cut well without getting blunt too quickly, but the bottom line is that that knife will bounce off a true warrior's cloth chest rig if wielded by a 90lb weakling, while the trained warrior's arm will drive his standard bowey through said agressor's sternum and two inches into the hard ground behind.
Brand names mean nothing. What the particular piece of weaponry or gear can do in your hands might be something, but ulimately it is the person who does the deed which decides things.
Hell, people have been known to miss with cruise missiles.
So yeah, ye manufacturers. Stop commercialising war. Make good products for the sake of making good products. Make them well. Make them stand up on their own merits. DONT make people think that that they'll just be turned into the ultimate badass just by buying them. Practice, training and dicipline count. Anything less just makes them a danger to themselves and others around them. (unless they're buying the tools to be wall hangers, and that just deprives the rest of the community of good equipment.)
My objection is not that the knife is in the game. My objection is the game depicts a knife which is supposed to be able to make you into a better warrior, both in the game world and the real world. There is no such object.
Oh and leave the mastadon ivory for artists and paleobiologists. it has no business on a "serious knife"
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and if so, can the FSF or Nullsoft or somesuch do a reverse SCO and sue for breach of licence?
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Now that the source is closed (and that they've definitely modified it to scale for so many users) we can be told that there's encryption at both ends, but can you trust them not to go sniffing in the middle?
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They should have had the Crew of the Osiris there with a Sentinel and a Flying Bomb. and Digital Jada Pinket-Smith.
"Your Popcorn gives warm sustenence for your vessle... hand over your popcorn. WE DEMAND IT."
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if you look at traysout2.jpg on page 6 you can clearly see the terminal windows open.
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The Roman Takeover of Gaul
Read the pricewaterhouse coopers analysis
and this other commentary
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And then become a huge contributor?
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I think this technology would do well in the casino industry.
Sometimes they might not want the feds knowing absolutely everything.
Is there a law against that?
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The difference is that you don't leave your photograph on every door handle and toilet seat you touch... or at least I don't.
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# But you donâ(TM)t code any more?
I havenâ(TM)t written code in many years. I am active in policy space rather writing code, doing a lot of public speaking. There is a lot of need for activism now in the shadow of the Patriot Act.
Interesting. I would have thought that hammering out the bugs in the law would have been the oldest form of coding.
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"Thermoptic camoflage? How is that possible?"
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I just hope they come out soon.
Also, imagine full body flexible displays so you can either be camoflagued or a human billboard. Or even play live action quake with your fave TF teamskins.
yeah. One suit to rule them all. Change your style without changing your pants.
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the FSB is only 200mhz, quad pumped out to 800mhz (that means it shifts 4 times the data per clock cycle)
Of course if your rig is running at less than 200mhz, who cares? so long as it plays the games you like.
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