Heidi,
I'm a) chivalrous and b) a big fan of your father, so I'll be nice here. Normally I'd flame, so feel flattered.
Oh, I do, I do. It is good not to be flamed. But please, just like me for who I am, and my arguments. If you don't like them, flame away. I can take it.
Can you explain why anyone would want a 3d desktop? How would you navigate a 3d file structure?
Well, I imagine that 3D desktops would be a wonderful boon in many ways. There is no reason why a file structure should not be able to be displayed in a 3D fashion - something like the branches of a tree. Don't forget that the metaphors used in the 2D windowing system are all 3 dimensional, and so all that prevents a decent 3D desktop environment is a lack of imagination (and technology:)
The simple fact of the matter is that 99% of the information you deal with on a computer is best represented in a 2 dimensional space.
This is false. The only reason you think this is that you have no imagination. You must think beyond the boundaries you have been brought up with. Most of the data presented on our screens these days is 3 dimensional - you should think of the possibilities, rather than the present.
No one has proposed a decent 3d system for organizing files. Just things that look cooler and take longer to use.
At present this point is moot. Noone has come up with these things for the same reason that noone came up with good filming styles in the 1850's. There is no reason and no way of doing so until we have the technology.
Thank you for your response.
-- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
It seems to me that other computer platforms, such as the mac and windows and so forth, are moving onwards and upwards with their windowing systems, whilst Unix lags behind, to a small degree. Sure, we have XFree86 V4, but it is hampered by having to retain backwards compatibility with earlier releases. Because the X windowing system was one of the first ever made for the computing environment, it has some no archaic ideas and methodologies coded within it. Everyone would like to start afresh, but with most computing systems this is impossible, and within the Unix culture 'starting afresh' is heresy, as it runs counter to the philosophy of 'use that which has already been done'.
That is why I am interested in the Berlin window management system. Although it is theoretical at the moment, and there are no stable releases, it still has a valuable role to play in developing the windowing systems of the future.
No longer limited to the 2D paradigm, Berlin could be easily adapted to 3D displays. It also has an X window emulation layer, and has full support for the latest 'buzzwords' in software development.
Even if Berlin never sees the light of day, the work done on it may live on in the next big leaps forward, XFree 5 and on.
I hope that the X Windows developers take a close look at what is being done with Berlin, and with other windowing sytems, when designing and coding the next generation. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
Especially genetically engineered bacteria. Imagine taking archaeobacteria from extreme conditions, such as thermal vents under the ocean, and then geneticall engineering them to solve common pollution problems? To eat oil, say, thus providing a good way of getting rid of oil slicks? Or to degrade plastics previously considered nonbiodegradable?
People are working on these things even now. I just hope that the proper precautions are taken, as bacteria of this sort can be considered as dangerous nanotechnology a few years to early.
I am not trying to scaremonger though - I think that research in this field should take place, no doubt about it. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
It is well known that the P4 is a huge disappointment. It has been shown to be outperformed by an Athlon running at 1.2 GHz, and is mainly hampered by its small cache size, which is relatively hampered. Its design was led my marketers, rather than engineers, and so its development was stymied for cost reasons.
AMD, however, still stick to the tradition of engineer led design. The Athlon, simply the most powerful processor on the market, should be much more scalable to higher clock speeds than the PIII, and will continiue to outperform the P4 until Intel get their act together and release it with the large cache it was supposed to have.
I forsee AMD greatly increasing its share of the processor market this year.
However, AMD's future still depends on the Sledgehammer. That processor might just give it a long term edge over Intel, for the first time. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
Yes, however encryption id irrelevant to that purpose. Encryption is used to transfer data between two points secure, or to store data for a period of time securely.
It is nobodies fault but the user's if s/he is dumb enough to leave useful unencrypted data lying about.
Encryption doesn't solve such difficulties. Education about common sense does. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
Microsatellites are an excellent idea, as they would be much cheaper to launch than normal satellites. This would mean that they would be brought within the reach of many more commercial entities, which would further commercialise the space industry. This commercialisation would further bring down the price of space launches, which is an outcome we all want, as it would make exploration of space cheaper and more frequent.
I would guess that exploration of other star systems in the far off future will be performed by very small nanotechnological space vehicles.
When you can manipulate the atom, there is no point having huge unwieldy craft several metres long - why not just build something the size of a blade of grass?
With nanotech, it would still be enormously powerful. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
However, we don't need to use special manifesto's like Dogme 95 to acheive this effect. We just need to bring back 80's computers.
In those brave days, all computer games had to be innovative just to be playable on such limited machines.
The problem today is the gluttony of resources at the programmers disposal. They seem to be focusing on graphics at the expense of playability.
I think that games companies should look at the Japanese console companies attitude on this one. With games like Mario 64 and MarioCart and so on, they focused on gameplay far more than on graphics, with the result that these are truly great games.
We can see their influence on the American creators of Spyro the Dragon, a game with great gameplay and graphics.
To many games companies these days suffer from the illusion that a good game depends on good programming, when in fact it should depend on good design. In these professional days, we can take good programming for granted, more or less.
We need to make design the single most important phase of a games development. The answer is not through a stoic philosophy, but through thinking things through but still employing great graphics and sound. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
For myself, I am a fan of plot, but only if it does not intrude on the game too much. It must provide an interesting extra dimension to a game, whilst not obscuring the essential qualities and reasons why we play a game - that of solving puzzles, shooting bad guys, whatever it may be.
I think that most action games tend to have terrible plots, that are totally unbelievable, but that does not matter for most people because they only play the game for the action anyway. A good example might be Quake III - plot is meaningless.
Personally, I would like to see more professionally done plots for games. Why not hire people who know about plot, and developing an interesting story, according to the timeless rules involved? An English graduate or a professional writer or someone could I think work well with the people who typically create games.
Already most games companies employ musicians, actors, and artists as well as programmers. Why not bring some literary experts in too, to cover the plot side, so that you have a good combination of the visual, aural, logical and literary arts?
I think it would help improve the depth of games that bit more. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
I know this doesn't answer the question directly, but I think it is quite interesting to consider what will happen to space junk eventually, if we don't do anything about it first.
Essentially, it will form a ring system around the Earth first, somewhat similar to Saturns ring system, but not as big, of course. This will take several tens of thousands of years, and will occurs as a result of collisions between the objects tending to give them all the same vectors, eventually.
After another few tens of thousands of years, the ring will congeal into a spherical object - essentially another moon.
So, I suppose if we are *very* patient, the problem will solve itself. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
NASA have a satellite in a legrange point between the Earth and the Sun that constantly watches the Sun. This means that they can get prior warning of any solar flair outbursts heading our way by a couple of hours, and there are now warning systems in place to alert power companies (for example, a solar flare induced power failure in Northern Canada nad blacked out much of Quebec 11 years ago, because the ion storm caused fuses in power lines to break) a couple of hours ahead of time.
Kind of impressive that we now have a space weather early warning system. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
They always like to have professionals to do work like this, because, rightly or wrongly, they want someone who can be held responsible for anything that goes wrong.
In an ideal world, student run IT systems would be common place, but unfortunately there are too many issues with trust and beurocratic accountability that must be overcome in the eyes of the admins, which is a real pain.
Still, I suppose that fighting this sort of discrimination and wrong headed beurocracy can result in a greater experience of the ways of the world for these students.
A good preparation for real life. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
And these comics are why. Such creative cartooning is why he is the master.
The quotes show his witty humour at work - pretty useful if you want to see what he is like when he is being light hearted, unlike in the serious interview.
I only wish I was the sort of geek who could draw well.
-- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
I think that what you say is very interesting. Where is the rest of the information? Is it possible that our DNA is not the be all and end all of what describes us?
Well, I think the scientists have it right, anyway. It seems obvious to me that Mother Nature is very good at compression. When a cell divides, the DNA must be copied. The protein that does this is called a telomere, and it does so at 200 bases per second. There are many telomeres operating at once to copy your DNA, but the fact that there are Billions of base pairs means that it takes a long time.
Amoebas and other small bacteria get round this by starting to copy the DNA's copy before the Cell has even split, so that it is copying the next generations DHA ahead of time.
Despite this, it is clear that Mother Nature has a vested interest in compressing data to a great degree. Considering that we are composed of, effectively, nanotechnology beyond our wildest dreams, it wouldn't surprise me if the compression technology is equally advanced. Why waste resources, and more importantly, time?
As the DNA mechanism was in its present form, more or less, several Billion years ago, before multi cellular life arose, we can see that our peculiar DNA compression technology is a hangover from the time of single cellular life, when time was short and DNA had to copy itself quickly.
Of course, much of what I say is speculation, but I consider it very interesting speculation. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
Well, I think you would be surprised at just how totalitarian a 'democratic' government can be and yet get away with it.
In Europe there has been much planning regarding identity cards. All EU citizens would be required to carry around an identity card stating who they are as proof of their identity at all times. This idea has been very popular among European politicians for at least ten years, across the spectrum. The right wingers like it because of the social control aspects and the fact that it stands as a barrier to illegal immigration. Left wingers like it because it would allow them to exert further control of the state in more socialist ways. Thankfully it has not been implemented yet, thanks to vetoes in various countries at some times (Britain stood against the scheme in particular a few years ago).
Although this is far removed from internal tags as you describe in some respects, in others it is remarkably similar. Sadly, I think that in Europe it may be inevitable that this system is introduced. The European Parliament and EU institutions in general are not noted for their democratic leanings, being highly beurocratic, and are extending their powers slowly and surely in all directions. I fear that it will happen for sure, though not perhaps for 10-20 years.
Democracy seems to be withering in Europe. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
I have no problem with GM foods.
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It seems to be the most wasteful and wealthy of nations where people have problems with GM foods. But the amazing thing about GM foods are that the peoples who have most to gain are the poor of the third world. I find it very worrying that we in the west seem to be turning against it.
Ant GM foods activists will often use emotional arguments, and talk about the environment and genetic pollution a lot, and corporations and their evils (despite the fact that the GM companies are often very small. Monsanto, that hated company, is relatively tiny. A pygmie, about 1/20 the size of Walmart, say).
The problem is that the people who argue with these people tend to be scientists, and are not given to emotional argument, preferring to stick to the facts (this mirrors the Creationists V the Evolutionists). Is it any wonder the public has been scared from GM foods?
I would suggest that we must fight fire with fire on this issue. We must point out that the anti GM foods protestors are for blindness in the third world, they are for starvation due to lack of arable land. All of these problems can be greatly relieved by the use of GM crops.
I think it is time to pull no punches, and be angry and emotional about this issue. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
...why IP company need be so complex. Why not just have an agreement saying that what the employee comes up with on his own time is his, and what he does on company time is the companies?
Of course, this would have to be enforced by national law, but I really think it is the fairest solution, and will also help boost innovation and hence the economy.
People are always more inventive when they are working for their own gain - IP agreements like this are removing huge pools of innovators and discouraging them. It is a tragedy. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
I think that postmodernism is the root cause of many of todays 'lunatic fringe' phenomena.
The moral relativism and the relativism in all areas that it promotes, where anything will go, is at the root of these various groups alternative synthesises of the Universe, be it UFO freaks or people claiming that the moon landings never occurred.
'Facts' are no longer believed in, and people think they can come up with all sorts of idiotic ideas. In this case we have the usual conspiracy theorising and reliance on big bad men with lots of power and a desire to hoodwink the public.
Why have we become like this? Carl Jung postulated that there is a 'Collective Unconscious' which is common to all of us, and when we dream, individually and as a society, we are similar.
Hence modern UFO sightings, he said, where the ancient 'Mandala' is interpreted by our SF crazy modern public as a UFO. In earlier times it may have been interpreted as an angel, or as the Virgin Mary.
I think that postmodernism is undermining our belief in objective truth and fact, and is promoting these kind of crazy ideas. We shall have to be wary, and guard against it. There is such a thing as irrefutable fact, and we would do well to leave our ivory towers and preach to the public of its existance, before they are lost to a medieval belief system. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
It is a truly remarkable technology. There is no need to clone a whole human being - we are already developing the technology to clone particular organs on their own. This will be enormously useful in heart and lung transplants, and indeed in transplants of all sorts - even skin transplants.
As to the moral side of cloning, I must say that there is no real problem as far as I can see. We already have human clones in the form of twins - the only way that human cloning could become a big problem in this regard is if everybody decides to do it. As it is, it is only the most successful who will be able to afford cloning, and I think their genes are to be encouraged.
Human cloning should be a great boon to Mankind. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
Re:when you're the leader of the free world
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I can see what you are saying. America is the worlds policeman. Look at earlier stages of history.
The Pax Brittannica of the 19th century was successful because the British were very straight laced at the time, and had stern Victorian values. They managed to conquer 25% of the worlds surface thanks to their moral superiority. It was the decadence of the 1920's and onwards that brought this era in history to a close, and after WWII America picked up the baton.
Under the Pax Romana, the Italiansa were very morally upright. It was not until the moral decadence of the Empire, when the caesars came to power, that the long decline started.
Is this happening to America now? Perhaps. I fear that it will be up to the moral backbone of America, the Mormons and Christians, both born again and otherwise, who will have to stop this decline.
Hannibal is an entertaining film, I am sure, and to some extent can be considered a stopcock to let of steam.
But let us remember that it is only fiction, and is only one possible viewpoint. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
The book was a dissappointment too.
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When the novel 'Hannibal' was published, it was roundly smashed by the critics and was viewed as a great dissappointment. This is probably because the author was not writing for passion involved, but was caught in the commercial spin and wake of the first, and so churned out a somewhat strange sequal, widely viewed as nowhere as good as the first.
I will not go so far as to say that the first film wasn't commercially driven, however I will say that everyone involved has been overshadowed by what has went before. 'The Silence of the Lambs' was a great film.
It is amazing how often sequals are a dissappointment. They seem almost guarranteed to be worse than the first, but this is just the laws of averages. -- Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
Slashdot Mirror
I'm a) chivalrous and b) a big fan of your father, so I'll be nice here. Normally I'd flame, so feel flattered.
Oh, I do, I do. It is good not to be flamed. But please, just like me for who I am, and my arguments. If you don't like them, flame away. I can take it.
Can you explain why anyone would want a 3d desktop? How would you navigate a 3d file structure?
Well, I imagine that 3D desktops would be a wonderful boon in many ways. There is no reason why a file structure should not be able to be displayed in a 3D fashion - something like the branches of a tree. Don't forget that the metaphors used in the 2D windowing system are all 3 dimensional, and so all that prevents a decent 3D desktop environment is a lack of imagination (and technology:)
The simple fact of the matter is that 99% of the information you deal with on a computer is best represented in a 2 dimensional space.
This is false. The only reason you think this is that you have no imagination. You must think beyond the boundaries you have been brought up with. Most of the data presented on our screens these days is 3 dimensional - you should think of the possibilities, rather than the present.
No one has proposed a decent 3d system for organizing files. Just things that look cooler and take longer to use.
At present this point is moot. Noone has come up with these things for the same reason that noone came up with good filming styles in the 1850's. There is no reason and no way of doing so until we have the technology.
Thank you for your response.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
That is why I am interested in the Berlin window management system. Although it is theoretical at the moment, and there are no stable releases, it still has a valuable role to play in developing the windowing systems of the future.
No longer limited to the 2D paradigm, Berlin could be easily adapted to 3D displays. It also has an X window emulation layer, and has full support for the latest 'buzzwords' in software development.
Even if Berlin never sees the light of day, the work done on it may live on in the next big leaps forward, XFree 5 and on.
I hope that the X Windows developers take a close look at what is being done with Berlin, and with other windowing sytems, when designing and coding the next generation.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
People are working on these things even now. I just hope that the proper precautions are taken, as bacteria of this sort can be considered as dangerous nanotechnology a few years to early.
I am not trying to scaremonger though - I think that research in this field should take place, no doubt about it.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
AMD, however, still stick to the tradition of engineer led design. The Athlon, simply the most powerful processor on the market, should be much more scalable to higher clock speeds than the PIII, and will continiue to outperform the P4 until Intel get their act together and release it with the large cache it was supposed to have.
I forsee AMD greatly increasing its share of the processor market this year.
However, AMD's future still depends on the Sledgehammer. That processor might just give it a long term edge over Intel, for the first time.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
It is nobodies fault but the user's if s/he is dumb enough to leave useful unencrypted data lying about.
Encryption doesn't solve such difficulties. Education about common sense does.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
I would guess that exploration of other star systems in the far off future will be performed by very small nanotechnological space vehicles.
When you can manipulate the atom, there is no point having huge unwieldy craft several metres long - why not just build something the size of a blade of grass?
With nanotech, it would still be enormously powerful.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
In those brave days, all computer games had to be innovative just to be playable on such limited machines.
The problem today is the gluttony of resources at the programmers disposal. They seem to be focusing on graphics at the expense of playability.
I think that games companies should look at the Japanese console companies attitude on this one. With games like Mario 64 and MarioCart and so on, they focused on gameplay far more than on graphics, with the result that these are truly great games.
We can see their influence on the American creators of Spyro the Dragon, a game with great gameplay and graphics.
To many games companies these days suffer from the illusion that a good game depends on good programming, when in fact it should depend on good design. In these professional days, we can take good programming for granted, more or less.
We need to make design the single most important phase of a games development. The answer is not through a stoic philosophy, but through thinking things through but still employing great graphics and sound.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
I think that most action games tend to have terrible plots, that are totally unbelievable, but that does not matter for most people because they only play the game for the action anyway. A good example might be Quake III - plot is meaningless.
Personally, I would like to see more professionally done plots for games. Why not hire people who know about plot, and developing an interesting story, according to the timeless rules involved? An English graduate or a professional writer or someone could I think work well with the people who typically create games.
Already most games companies employ musicians, actors, and artists as well as programmers. Why not bring some literary experts in too, to cover the plot side, so that you have a good combination of the visual, aural, logical and literary arts?
I think it would help improve the depth of games that bit more.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
Essentially, it will form a ring system around the Earth first, somewhat similar to Saturns ring system, but not as big, of course. This will take several tens of thousands of years, and will occurs as a result of collisions between the objects tending to give them all the same vectors, eventually.
After another few tens of thousands of years, the ring will congeal into a spherical object - essentially another moon.
So, I suppose if we are *very* patient, the problem will solve itself.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
Kind of impressive that we now have a space weather early warning system.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
In an ideal world, student run IT systems would be common place, but unfortunately there are too many issues with trust and beurocratic accountability that must be overcome in the eyes of the admins, which is a real pain.
Still, I suppose that fighting this sort of discrimination and wrong headed beurocracy can result in a greater experience of the ways of the world for these students.
A good preparation for real life.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
The quotes show his witty humour at work - pretty useful if you want to see what he is like when he is being light hearted, unlike in the serious interview.
I only wish I was the sort of geek who could draw well.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
Well, I think the scientists have it right, anyway. It seems obvious to me that Mother Nature is very good at compression. When a cell divides, the DNA must be copied. The protein that does this is called a telomere, and it does so at 200 bases per second. There are many telomeres operating at once to copy your DNA, but the fact that there are Billions of base pairs means that it takes a long time.
Amoebas and other small bacteria get round this by starting to copy the DNA's copy before the Cell has even split, so that it is copying the next generations DHA ahead of time.
Despite this, it is clear that Mother Nature has a vested interest in compressing data to a great degree. Considering that we are composed of, effectively, nanotechnology beyond our wildest dreams, it wouldn't surprise me if the compression technology is equally advanced. Why waste resources, and more importantly, time?
As the DNA mechanism was in its present form, more or less, several Billion years ago, before multi cellular life arose, we can see that our peculiar DNA compression technology is a hangover from the time of single cellular life, when time was short and DNA had to copy itself quickly.
Of course, much of what I say is speculation, but I consider it very interesting speculation.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
In Europe there has been much planning regarding identity cards. All EU citizens would be required to carry around an identity card stating who they are as proof of their identity at all times. This idea has been very popular among European politicians for at least ten years, across the spectrum. The right wingers like it because of the social control aspects and the fact that it stands as a barrier to illegal immigration. Left wingers like it because it would allow them to exert further control of the state in more socialist ways. Thankfully it has not been implemented yet, thanks to vetoes in various countries at some times (Britain stood against the scheme in particular a few years ago).
Although this is far removed from internal tags as you describe in some respects, in others it is remarkably similar. Sadly, I think that in Europe it may be inevitable that this system is introduced. The European Parliament and EU institutions in general are not noted for their democratic leanings, being highly beurocratic, and are extending their powers slowly and surely in all directions. I fear that it will happen for sure, though not perhaps for 10-20 years.
Democracy seems to be withering in Europe.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
Ant GM foods activists will often use emotional arguments, and talk about the environment and genetic pollution a lot, and corporations and their evils (despite the fact that the GM companies are often very small. Monsanto, that hated company, is relatively tiny. A pygmie, about 1/20 the size of Walmart, say).
The problem is that the people who argue with these people tend to be scientists, and are not given to emotional argument, preferring to stick to the facts (this mirrors the Creationists V the Evolutionists). Is it any wonder the public has been scared from GM foods?
I would suggest that we must fight fire with fire on this issue. We must point out that the anti GM foods protestors are for blindness in the third world, they are for starvation due to lack of arable land. All of these problems can be greatly relieved by the use of GM crops.
I think it is time to pull no punches, and be angry and emotional about this issue.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
Of course, this would have to be enforced by national law, but I really think it is the fairest solution, and will also help boost innovation and hence the economy.
People are always more inventive when they are working for their own gain - IP agreements like this are removing huge pools of innovators and discouraging them. It is a tragedy.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
The moral relativism and the relativism in all areas that it promotes, where anything will go, is at the root of these various groups alternative synthesises of the Universe, be it UFO freaks or people claiming that the moon landings never occurred.
'Facts' are no longer believed in, and people think they can come up with all sorts of idiotic ideas. In this case we have the usual conspiracy theorising and reliance on big bad men with lots of power and a desire to hoodwink the public.
Why have we become like this? Carl Jung postulated that there is a 'Collective Unconscious' which is common to all of us, and when we dream, individually and as a society, we are similar.
Hence modern UFO sightings, he said, where the ancient 'Mandala' is interpreted by our SF crazy modern public as a UFO. In earlier times it may have been interpreted as an angel, or as the Virgin Mary.
I think that postmodernism is undermining our belief in objective truth and fact, and is promoting these kind of crazy ideas. We shall have to be wary, and guard against it. There is such a thing as irrefutable fact, and we would do well to leave our ivory towers and preach to the public of its existance, before they are lost to a medieval belief system.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
As to the moral side of cloning, I must say that there is no real problem as far as I can see. We already have human clones in the form of twins - the only way that human cloning could become a big problem in this regard is if everybody decides to do it. As it is, it is only the most successful who will be able to afford cloning, and I think their genes are to be encouraged.
Human cloning should be a great boon to Mankind.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
The Pax Brittannica of the 19th century was successful because the British were very straight laced at the time, and had stern Victorian values. They managed to conquer 25% of the worlds surface thanks to their moral superiority. It was the decadence of the 1920's and onwards that brought this era in history to a close, and after WWII America picked up the baton.
Under the Pax Romana, the Italiansa were very morally upright. It was not until the moral decadence of the Empire, when the caesars came to power, that the long decline started.
Is this happening to America now? Perhaps. I fear that it will be up to the moral backbone of America, the Mormons and Christians, both born again and otherwise, who will have to stop this decline.
Hannibal is an entertaining film, I am sure, and to some extent can be considered a stopcock to let of steam.
But let us remember that it is only fiction, and is only one possible viewpoint.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,
I will not go so far as to say that the first film wasn't commercially driven, however I will say that everyone involved has been overshadowed by what has went before. 'The Silence of the Lambs' was a great film.
It is amazing how often sequals are a dissappointment. They seem almost guarranteed to be worse than the first, but this is just the laws of averages.
--
Clarity does not require the absence of impurities,