Because I had trouble with them, too. I played it on one DVD, jumped, then got stuck. I couldn't even eject the disc. Then I tried to play it on another DVD palyer and the same thing happened. I'm sorry I'm being empathic (as in "girls talk empathic) (I'm a girl, are you?)instead of being useful.. And it also it stroke me as extremely curious that you didn't mention what "sci-fi" series you were watching.
Anyways...
Good luck.
Neil Postman discusses in this text whether Aldous Huxley or George Orwell were right about the future of humanity (Americans, if you prefer). Here's an excerpt:
Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
The text, actually, is the foreword to his book: Amusing ourselves to death.
Well, if that's the argument you have for rebuilding the towers, then I don't think they should be rebuilt.
Why?
Well, you say the're the sign of this country's strength. And what is that strenght? The USA may be one of the most technologically advanced countries in the planet, but the social costs of that are tremendous: kids killing classmates, mass murderers, lack of self-conscience and direction, emptiness, deception. In other words, the costs of modernity are greater than what the news show each day on TV. It's not only about buildings being destroyed or plane crashes. To me, those are the least important things about this tragedy.
Maybe the towers should be left that way. The terrorist's actions are not USA's weakness either. Maybe we should start listening to other sources of information, like sociologists, philosophers and other intellectuals, instead of the usual newspeople and economists and politicians. Maybe we should not ask why or who did this, but just critically and deeply observe and analize the state of things.
Maybe this sounds extremist, but if we rebuild the towers expecting that when people look at them will feel relief, we'll be reinforcing the ideal of "we're the greatest nation" with two powerful newly reconstructed towers, icons of blind capitalism.
I feel that many people think that as long as we have that (the towers, the president, the army, the technology), we'll have nothing to worry about.
1: "We don't want a lot of toothless astronauts returning to Earth," said periodontist William Stenberg, a commander in the U.S. Public Health Service.
2:It's long been known that astronauts and cosmonauts who spend weeks and months in the microgravity of orbit rapidly lose bone density and mass.
All that sounds like a conspiracy. I think what they're really saying is we should pack granma's stuff. I repeat: we should pack granma.
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Because I had trouble with them, too. I played it on one DVD, jumped, then got stuck. I couldn't even eject the disc. Then I tried to play it on another DVD palyer and the same thing happened. I'm sorry I'm being empathic (as in "girls talk empathic) (I'm a girl, are you?)instead of being useful.. And it also it stroke me as extremely curious that you didn't mention what "sci-fi" series you were watching. Anyways... Good luck.
The text, actually, is the foreword to his book: Amusing ourselves to death.
Why?
Well, you say the're the sign of this country's strength. And what is that strenght? The USA may be one of the most technologically advanced countries in the planet, but the social costs of that are tremendous: kids killing classmates, mass murderers, lack of self-conscience and direction, emptiness, deception. In other words, the costs of modernity are greater than what the news show each day on TV. It's not only about buildings being destroyed or plane crashes. To me, those are the least important things about this tragedy.
Maybe the towers should be left that way. The terrorist's actions are not USA's weakness either. Maybe we should start listening to other sources of information, like sociologists, philosophers and other intellectuals, instead of the usual newspeople and economists and politicians. Maybe we should not ask why or who did this, but just critically and deeply observe and analize the state of things.
Maybe this sounds extremist, but if we rebuild the towers expecting that when people look at them will feel relief, we'll be reinforcing the ideal of "we're the greatest nation" with two powerful newly reconstructed towers, icons of blind capitalism.
I feel that many people think that as long as we have that (the towers, the president, the army, the technology), we'll have nothing to worry about.
That's the scariest thing of all to me.
If your problem is being an ass, then no.
1: "We don't want a lot of toothless astronauts returning to Earth," said periodontist William Stenberg, a commander in the U.S. Public Health Service.
2: It's long been known that astronauts and cosmonauts who spend weeks and months in the microgravity of orbit rapidly lose bone density and mass.
All that sounds like a conspiracy. I think what they're really saying is we should pack granma's stuff. I repeat: we should pack granma.