Not only was the original Sherman Anti-trust act passed under a Republican administration, the largest breakup after Standard Oil, the breakup of AT&T, took place during a Republican Administration.
One of the biggest mistakes people make is that it is the Republican party which has been infiltrated by the controlling powers of this nation, this is completely untrue.
The infilitration began with the democratic party. Why is a Rockafeller a democrat? Kennedy? Roosevelt?
The reality is the upper classes long ago decided it was in their best interest to adopt populist principles in order to appease the masses. Truly impoverished people are the soldiers of a future revolution.
The democrat/republican system we have today just seeks to blind the truth, nothing more. Don't fall into that partisan trap.
Apple went pretty much all IDE about five years ago.
USB over PCI
Mac's have had PCI slots since the first PowerPC based units became available. In fact, back in those days many PC's still had VLB, and only Pentiums had PCI slots. Further, since they were 100% PCI there was no bottleneck due to legacy support (ISA) Also, USB's importance was such that it replaced SCSI for external, high speed devices...
Of course, this is why Socrates ripped on the Sophists, and was the subject of many of Oscar Wilde's works... Even good old Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice.
Anyone doubting how much cash is held overseas - the Columbian drug barons have so much dirty money in US bills that they're unable to clean - in both senses - that they shrink wrap it, stack it in pallets, and are supposed to be holding warehouses full of $5 and $20 bills. One of them reputedly threatened the US that if they didn't call off harrassing him, he'd fly a few pallets over the poorest US ghettos and drop tens of millions of dollars from the air, which would trigger some very nasty riots and major local economic,civic and social problems.
If you have any links regarding this, I would be most interested. That is one of the coolest stories I have ever heard.
Yes, I have observed this with my 9700 AIW. Check Rage3D and search through their forums. I didn't have any problems with mine until I got a new hard drive, reinstalled XP and decided to use Service Pack 1. All the common problems, waves, some games crashing, TV stuttering...
A small proggie from Rage3D fixed some problems but I think I am going to have to reinstall.
Card works fine in Redhat 9 btw, and is otherwise stable.
Then perhaps you haven't read enough western philosophy? The father of "modern" philosophy, Plato, believed that the world we see is only an incomplete projection from a world of ideas. His most famous example of this is the cave analogy, where the people in the cave only see the shadows of things in front of the cave entrance, and believe what they see in front of them is all there is.
First of all, its an allegory not an analogy. I will leave it to you to look up the difference, but it is decidedly not an analogy. Secondly, your post is one of the most hillariously ignorant I have ever read. I realize the art of bullshitting goes a long way in our modern society, but you are deluding yourself. Better becareful, pathalogical liars always get caught.
Further, you obviously have never read The Republic. That particular speech has absolutely nothing to do with this eastern concept of an illusory world. In fact, it is referring to the very concept of which I am speaking (enslaving the minds of men).
The Republic is a book about how to create the perfect society, perfect in the eyes of Plato. The allegory of the cave occurs in the chapter Warped Minds, Warped Societies, IIRC. That should give you a hint as to its purpose. The allegory is purely to show how it is possible to teach a man that the world is not as it seems. This, and other allegories ultimately lead up to Plato's concept of education of warrior/philosopher classes. But this barbaric method of "education" of the prisoner in the cave, is the way to train the lowest worker class. If you raise a man from birth so that he cannot see the real world, he will come to accept what you show him. Of course, when you take the allegory out of context (like what is done in intro books) it is easy to make the mistake you have done...
The Republic outlines a way to achieve the very society we have today, one where the state by way of schools creates a stratified society, with each class raisd to WANT to perform their duty. The man in the cave, deprived of the real world, knows no differently he doesn't WANT anything different. This is the feat our modern educational system has achieved today. The Republic was the greatest influence on the late 19th century social engineers.
Rene Descartes pondered what we can tell for sure about the world around us. His famous conclusion was "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am"). He meant, that one person may be just tormented by some demon who feeds him sensory information, but by thinking, the person can know for sure that he exists, and only that.
Thanks for that translation of one of the most over used phrases in history. You are so smart. I will be honest, anyone who needs to ponder their very existence is hardly a man... Rene Descartes was simply a Christian, uncertain in his faith, and needed to spend years answering these ridiculous questions on existence. For the most part, he is an abberation. Personally, I find him to be a snivelling fool, ultimately irrevelant to the world in which I live. He is the prime example of Christian narcissism.
I think your claim that western philosophy doesn't discuss the reality of the world is false. Reading a few books by Nietzsche doesn't make anyone a philosopher. I would recommend an exellent book "Sophie's World" by Jostein Gaarder as an introduction to the basics of western philosophy.
You, who do not even know the basics of the republic, telling me to read a introduction to philosophy? It seems to me friend, that if all you know about philosophy is the allegory of the cave and cogito, ergo sum you have done nothing but read introductions. Perhaps you should start reading the originals.
And, indeed, if the ideas you mention are the extent of your knowledge.. most of Nietzsche will not make sense to you. His writings are very much commentaries on all preceding philosophy, literature, and art.
The only respected "introduction" to philosophy is Bertrand Russell's
Ahh, and pray tell, what philosophy have you read in your life?
No western philosophy discusses in too great of detail whether this world is real or not. Western philosophy has realized for some time that the best way to control men's minds is to present to them a false reality. This is in fact one of the dominant themes in Nietzsche, that morality and tradition were created as tools of enslavement.
Today, the method is through education and corporatism. Enslave the mind and you have no need for shackles.
I would estimate that less than 1% of Americans are familiar with this concept as outlined by Nietzsche, you among them. The matrix presents this in a fantanstic way, and has the means to convey this important lesson to the viewer.
Would I rather have people read Beyond Good and Evil and The Geneology of Morals? Certainly, but that won't happen. Perhaps your inability to see any wisdom in the movie speaks of your own ignorance. What you believe to be philosophy is nothing more than jibberish... Modern philosophy seeks to answer more than simple and ultimately irrelevant metaphysical questions. That is for the buddhists and new age folks.
The idea that millions of minimum wage slaves will support a modern country is rediculous; nor will it come to pass in any of them unless they go dictator
No, wages are sinking because of the same old boring factors of supply and demand.
I know isn't it sad? We have 3 billion people on this planet, and somehow we need to find work for them? We had 100 years of making human labor obsolete through the machinery, now our own brains are becoming obsolete due to computers. What happens in 50 years when the human being as a productive instrument is no longer necessary for anything other than prostitution and food service? What happens if the demand for humans sinks so low a BJ costs you $1 from a blondie, and you can hire a whole cadre of servants for $1 a week? Meanwhile, that apartment still costs $500 a month? Thats going to take a lot of whores to fill up that studio apartment.
Do we just jack up on heroin all day and forget about it? but wait, how do we afford the drugs???
All protectionist tariffs do is protect a certain segment of the economy (those who make things domestically that are imported and therefore tariffed) at the expense of those who buy them (by making those goods more costly in the market) and those who export goods (scarcity of your currency in foreign markets drives up the value of your currency in relation to other currencies, making export goods less attractive.).
Ahh, a college student. He still thinks the fundamental aspect of an economy is based on the scarcity of goods.
As has been said countless times here and elsewhere, the United States once funded its entire government with tarriffs, and that was when the country was most free. From a purely economic standpoint, tariffs are perhaps a bad idea. But we don't care about economics. We realize that right now, wealth and prosperity is acquired by this thing we call "work". We can't have a society where there is no work, otherwise what the fuck is the point of living? The community is the reason we exist.
The laws of supply and demand work for people too. Right now, the demand for human ingenuity and artistic vision is very very low, so the majority of people are corporate/government bureaucrats, impotent university drones, or modern day servants. This is not a society of which we should be proud. I mean, look at yourself. Maybe if it was your job, your family, your house, on the line you would think a little differently. Do we really want a society where grown men act like children reading ridiculous economics books until they are 30 years old? How is that life?
My advice to you, is get your head out of the economics book and learn a little bit about human nature of life. Your senseless faith in the cult of efficiency that is economics is a disservice to your humanity and society as a whole. We don't need people for purely productive purposes, we have more than enough people to produce whatever we could possibly desire. Lets give our own people that work.
Actually, VMWare pretty much sucks for running a wide variety of non-unix, non-windows operating systems. Look back to previous posts about Microsoft purchasing Connectix. Part of the reason this really was a problem is Connectix just makes a better product.
Anyhow, I am running OS/2 Warp 4 on VirtualPC no problem here.
As it said in The Matrix, it is the question that drives us. Nietzsche absolutely did not agree with Plato's answers, but he agreed with his questions. The whole reason he wrote The Birth of Tragedy was to outline how that theory affected Greek thought, and ultimately Christian thought.
As I said in a previous post in this thread, Nietzsche was more about outlining problems and questions than finding the answers. His questions, and the problems he predicted in modern society are still unanswered. Perhaps someone will take up his charge and create The Philosophy for the Future, but until then, we have his questions to guide us.
but I admit I havent read enough of him to know if he actually proposed any *solutions* on how one should change one's world-view to escape this mind-slavery.
Bullshit you have. There is a reason it is called "Prelude to a Philosophy for the Future". Nietzsche never articuluated what that philosophy was, but he was honest enough to admit it. That is why the book outlined which questions future philosophers would have to answer to discover to cure the problems which face society. He was profoundly accurate in predicting the ills of the 20th century, particularly how 19th century anti-semintism would manifest itself in 20th century Nazi Germany.
His questions are still as of yet unanswered.
Perhaps that is a downer to you, but maybe you should take up the charge of being a Future Philospher.
Until then, we are left with a world of emptiness and lies, and many people full of your pessimism and ignorance. Of course, if you truly read Nietzsche, you would understand this basic premise of his most famous work.
A grow tired of these astoundingly ignorant reviews of the matrix. Is it entirely possible that some people, especially hipster professional pop culture critics, are so ignorant of life and philosophy they truly have no idea what the fuck they are talking about?
The matrix is a great movie beacuse it is the first and only movie to really focus on the use of illusion as a tool of social control. From Plato and the allegory of the cave to Nietzsche and is exploration of slave morality, this has been a dominant theme amongst the greatest philosophers.
This movie did well because the people know in their hearts they are not free. They are enslaved by school, learning nothing but conformity and submission, then they work at a company contributing nothing of substance, wasting their lives away until its time to retire.
People know that their lives are impotent, that their hopes and dreams are completely disconnected from the reality in which they live.
This is the story of the 20th century, of people lost without the fiction of religion imposed on their minds, with governments scrambling to impose all sorts of substitutes to give life meaning to a nihilistic population, as well as find new ways to raise a worker class now that physical slavery no longer exists.
The entire social structure of the modern world is a fiction, just as the matrix is a fiction. Both serve the same purpose: to enslave the mind of free men.
Sadly, pop culture experts never read philosophy they look at everything as a fashion, a fad. "The Matrix is a mixture of kung-fu and sci-fi". The Matrix is no more "about" those things than Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is about sex or Plato's Republic is about unemployed Greek guys dressed in Togas. There is a difference between the medium and the message, and this review gets it all wrong.
The Matrix simply uses pop culture theatrical tools as a means to an end, to open the eyes of a people doomed to a life of slavery. It is a noble effort, and one that should be applauded.
First, that's simply not true. Fire houses, at least in NYC, tend to be spaced in such a way that minimizes response time for the whole city, not just one neighborhood, regardless of population density or income level.
Pray tell then, great specialist in urban planning, if such planning was so centralized, how is it half those fire houses were constructed before Brooklyn even merged with New York City? Did New York and Brooklyn secretly plan their fire coverage in the 1880's to provide the perfect coverage 130 years later? Do you realize many of these firehouses date from an age before combustion engines??
Have you been to Bushwick lately? The number of condemnded buildins and empty lots is startling. How could you possibly need the same fire coverage in a neighborhood that has 25% buildings than it once did.
I hate to tell you but you are quite misinformed about these particular firehouses. Each one of them has another firehouse in perfect working order just a few hundred meters away, and response time to the surrounding community will be increased by a minute or two.
Oh, and population density is very much a factor in determine where to place firehouses. Why don't you waste your time and tell us how many are in the industrial portions of the south Bronx.
But besides all that, you're missing my point. This is a way to save the city a few bucks. What's better -- closed firehouses and slot machines in the city (another wonderful Bloomberg idea), or open firehouses and open source?
How about we trim all redundant services, including redundant firehouses, open casinos on Far Rockaway so something can go on there besides housing projects, AND we have open source to save money on software licenses?
What could you possibly have against casinos? I think its a great idea. Plus, Bloomberg will have a hard time maintaining the smoking ban then...
ProAudioSpectrum 16 with onboard SCSI-1. I wish I hadn't sold that soundcard; it was best I have ever used.
Those things were great. I remember comparing it to a Sounblaster 16... The SB16 looked like it had been constructed from radio components purchased from the rat shack, numerous huge capacitors, random layout. The Pro Audio Spectrum had a tight layout, mostly on chip components... AND the SCSI-1 connector like you said.
MOST of thse closed firehouses are in northern Brooklyn in East Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed-Sty, etc... These firehouses date from when these were the most popular neighborhoods in Brooklyn (1880-1920). When many were built, southern areas like Bensonhurst still had farms. Today, this part of Brooklyn is among the worst ghetto in the city and the population is far less than it once was. Even though the population density of Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge, and the southern neighborhoods have grown tenfold, they have not received further fire coverage.
These neighorhoods will have fire coverage in line with the city average.
I believe one firehouse is being closed downtown, a relic from when more people lived there. It could be argued that trend is reversing (I mean, look at the price for an apartment on the Lower East Side, a total ghetto just 10 years ago)... But most of those firehouses just don't need to be there.
Read Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason. I think you would be very surprised how the Founding Fathers criticized christianity, and all religions. Their reasons are very contemporary.
One could EASILY argue that the American Revolution lead to Emerson's transcendantal ideas, which inspired Nietzsche to create the modern criticism of religion as a tool of enslavement.
Btw, the income tax RATE wasn't 1%, but the minimum you had to make a year in 1920 was about $100,000 a year in order to get taxed. The rate WAS high but then as now the argument was they can afford it. Only about 1% of the working population made enough money to qualify for the income tax. Today, despite all the talk about taxing the rich, the reality is its the middle class which pays the most in income tax.
Yes, the original design spec of the NexGen Nx586 upon which The K6/Athlon/Operton is based allowed for the process to switch from 386 mode to its native RISC instruction set, which ultimately was to be PowerPC compatible.
Some of this I believe may have had something to do with the processor being manufactured by IBM around the same time as OS/2 PowerPC edition was being finalized... That all fell apart however.
Actually, tax withholding was implimented during World War II in order to insure the government would have a steady supply of money for the war effort.
Remember, it wasn't until the post war world where the government was funded by the average schmoe making 35K and paying income tax. Prior to that, only 1% of the American people paid income tax. Now its like 80% of workers.
The largest source of revenue used to be tariffs, now in the era of "free trade", tariffs are pretty much irrelevant as a source of income.
While people may argue TODAY that we should have withholding because most people won't pay, that is not entirely the reason the law was enacted. The monthly stream of revenue was far more important.
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Not only was the original Sherman Anti-trust act passed under a Republican administration, the largest breakup after Standard Oil, the breakup of AT&T, took place during a Republican Administration.
One of the biggest mistakes people make is that it is the Republican party which has been infiltrated by the controlling powers of this nation, this is completely untrue.
The infilitration began with the democratic party. Why is a Rockafeller a democrat? Kennedy? Roosevelt?
The reality is the upper classes long ago decided it was in their best interest to adopt populist principles in order to appease the masses. Truly impoverished people are the soldiers of a future revolution.
The democrat/republican system we have today just seeks to blind the truth, nothing more. Don't fall into that partisan trap.
You are right, but 601 units had PCI. The 7200 was a 601 machine and had PCI slots.
SCSI over IDE
Apple went pretty much all IDE about five years ago.
USB over PCI
Mac's have had PCI slots since the first PowerPC based units became available. In fact, back in those days many PC's still had VLB, and only Pentiums had PCI slots. Further, since they were 100% PCI there was no bottleneck due to legacy support (ISA) Also, USB's importance was such that it replaced SCSI for external, high speed devices...
That is the modern creed.
Of course, this is why Socrates ripped on the Sophists, and was the subject of many of Oscar Wilde's works... Even good old Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice.
I guess this has been a problem for some time.
I am glad I am not the only one who never had seen that one before
Anyone doubting how much cash is held overseas - the Columbian drug barons have so much dirty money in US bills that they're unable to clean - in both senses - that they shrink wrap it, stack it in pallets, and are supposed to be holding warehouses full of $5 and $20 bills. One of them reputedly threatened the US that if they didn't call off harrassing him, he'd fly a few pallets over the poorest US ghettos and drop tens of millions of dollars from the air, which would trigger some very nasty riots and major local economic,civic and social problems.
If you have any links regarding this, I would be most interested. That is one of the coolest stories I have ever heard.
Yes, I have observed this with my 9700 AIW. Check Rage3D and search through their forums. I didn't have any problems with mine until I got a new hard drive, reinstalled XP and decided to use Service Pack 1. All the common problems, waves, some games crashing, TV stuttering...
A small proggie from Rage3D fixed some problems but I think I am going to have to reinstall.
Card works fine in Redhat 9 btw, and is otherwise stable.
Then perhaps you haven't read enough western philosophy? The father of "modern" philosophy, Plato, believed that the world we see is only an incomplete projection from a world of ideas. His most famous example of this is the cave analogy, where the people in the cave only see the shadows of things in front of the cave entrance, and believe what they see in front of them is all there is.
First of all, its an allegory not an analogy. I will leave it to you to look up the difference, but it is decidedly not an analogy. Secondly, your post is one of the most hillariously ignorant I have ever read. I realize the art of bullshitting goes a long way in our modern society, but you are deluding yourself. Better becareful, pathalogical liars always get caught.
Further, you obviously have never read The Republic. That particular speech has absolutely nothing to do with this eastern concept of an illusory world. In fact, it is referring to the very concept of which I am speaking (enslaving the minds of men).
The Republic is a book about how to create the perfect society, perfect in the eyes of Plato. The allegory of the cave occurs in the chapter Warped Minds, Warped Societies, IIRC. That should give you a hint as to its purpose. The allegory is purely to show how it is possible to teach a man that the world is not as it seems. This, and other allegories ultimately lead up to Plato's concept of education of warrior/philosopher classes. But this barbaric method of "education" of the prisoner in the cave, is the way to train the lowest worker class. If you raise a man from birth so that he cannot see the real world, he will come to accept what you show him. Of course, when you take the allegory out of context (like what is done in intro books) it is easy to make the mistake you have done...
The Republic outlines a way to achieve the very society we have today, one where the state by way of schools creates a stratified society, with each class raisd to WANT to perform their duty. The man in the cave, deprived of the real world, knows no differently he doesn't WANT anything different. This is the feat our modern educational system has achieved today. The Republic was the greatest influence on the late 19th century social engineers.
Rene Descartes pondered what we can tell for sure about the world around us. His famous conclusion was "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am"). He meant, that one person may be just tormented by some demon who feeds him sensory information, but by thinking, the person can know for sure that he exists, and only that.
Thanks for that translation of one of the most over used phrases in history. You are so smart. I will be honest, anyone who needs to ponder their very existence is hardly a man... Rene Descartes was simply a Christian, uncertain in his faith, and needed to spend years answering these ridiculous questions on existence. For the most part, he is an abberation. Personally, I find him to be a snivelling fool, ultimately irrevelant to the world in which I live. He is the prime example of Christian narcissism.
I think your claim that western philosophy doesn't discuss the reality of the world is false. Reading a few books by Nietzsche doesn't make anyone a philosopher. I would recommend an exellent book "Sophie's World" by Jostein Gaarder as an introduction to the basics of western philosophy.
You, who do not even know the basics of the republic, telling me to read a introduction to philosophy? It seems to me friend, that if all you know about philosophy is the allegory of the cave and cogito, ergo sum you have done nothing but read introductions. Perhaps you should start reading the originals.
And, indeed, if the ideas you mention are the extent of your knowledge.. most of Nietzsche will not make sense to you. His writings are very much commentaries on all preceding philosophy, literature, and art.
The only respected "introduction" to philosophy is Bertrand Russell's
Ahh, and pray tell, what philosophy have you read in your life?
No western philosophy discusses in too great of detail whether this world is real or not. Western philosophy has realized for some time that the best way to control men's minds is to present to them a false reality. This is in fact one of the dominant themes in Nietzsche, that morality and tradition were created as tools of enslavement.
Today, the method is through education and corporatism. Enslave the mind and you have no need for shackles.
I would estimate that less than 1% of Americans are familiar with this concept as outlined by Nietzsche, you among them. The matrix presents this in a fantanstic way, and has the means to convey this important lesson to the viewer.
Would I rather have people read Beyond Good and Evil and The Geneology of Morals? Certainly, but that won't happen. Perhaps your inability to see any wisdom in the movie speaks of your own ignorance. What you believe to be philosophy is nothing more than jibberish... Modern philosophy seeks to answer more than simple and ultimately irrelevant metaphysical questions. That is for the buddhists and new age folks.
The idea that millions of minimum wage slaves will support a modern country is rediculous; nor will it come to pass in any of them unless they go dictator
Go to Mexico.
No, wages are sinking because of the same old boring factors of supply and demand.
I know isn't it sad? We have 3 billion people on this planet, and somehow we need to find work for them? We had 100 years of making human labor obsolete through the machinery, now our own brains are becoming obsolete due to computers. What happens in 50 years when the human being as a productive instrument is no longer necessary for anything other than prostitution and food service? What happens if the demand for humans sinks so low a BJ costs you $1 from a blondie, and you can hire a whole cadre of servants for $1 a week? Meanwhile, that apartment still costs $500 a month? Thats going to take a lot of whores to fill up that studio apartment.
Do we just jack up on heroin all day and forget about it? but wait, how do we afford the drugs???
All protectionist tariffs do is protect a certain segment of the economy (those who make things domestically that are imported and therefore tariffed) at the expense of those who buy them (by making those goods more costly in the market) and those who export goods (scarcity of your currency in foreign markets drives up the value of your currency in relation to other currencies, making export goods less attractive.).
Ahh, a college student. He still thinks the fundamental aspect of an economy is based on the scarcity of goods.
As has been said countless times here and elsewhere, the United States once funded its entire government with tarriffs, and that was when the country was most free. From a purely economic standpoint, tariffs are perhaps a bad idea. But we don't care about economics. We realize that right now, wealth and prosperity is acquired by this thing we call "work". We can't have a society where there is no work, otherwise what the fuck is the point of living? The community is the reason we exist.
The laws of supply and demand work for people too. Right now, the demand for human ingenuity and artistic vision is very very low, so the majority of people are corporate/government bureaucrats, impotent university drones, or modern day servants. This is not a society of which we should be proud. I mean, look at yourself. Maybe if it was your job, your family, your house, on the line you would think a little differently. Do we really want a society where grown men act like children reading ridiculous economics books until they are 30 years old? How is that life?
My advice to you, is get your head out of the economics book and learn a little bit about human nature of life. Your senseless faith in the cult of efficiency that is economics is a disservice to your humanity and society as a whole. We don't need people for purely productive purposes, we have more than enough people to produce whatever we could possibly desire. Lets give our own people that work.
Actually, VMWare pretty much sucks for running a wide variety of non-unix, non-windows operating systems. Look back to previous posts about Microsoft purchasing Connectix. Part of the reason this really was a problem is Connectix just makes a better product.
Anyhow, I am running OS/2 Warp 4 on VirtualPC no problem here.
As long as you think of the Matrix (and other fiction, for that matter) as just escapist fantasy, you miss most of its value.
I fail to see how you believe I made such an assertion.
Nietzschean, though, there you're onto something.
As it said in The Matrix, it is the question that drives us. Nietzsche absolutely did not agree with Plato's answers, but he agreed with his questions. The whole reason he wrote The Birth of Tragedy was to outline how that theory affected Greek thought, and ultimately Christian thought.
As I said in a previous post in this thread, Nietzsche was more about outlining problems and questions than finding the answers. His questions, and the problems he predicted in modern society are still unanswered. Perhaps someone will take up his charge and create The Philosophy for the Future, but until then, we have his questions to guide us.
but I admit I havent read enough of him to know if he actually proposed any *solutions* on how one should change one's world-view to escape this mind-slavery.
Bullshit you have. There is a reason it is called "Prelude to a Philosophy for the Future". Nietzsche never articuluated what that philosophy was, but he was honest enough to admit it. That is why the book outlined which questions future philosophers would have to answer to discover to cure the problems which face society. He was profoundly accurate in predicting the ills of the 20th century, particularly how 19th century anti-semintism would manifest itself in 20th century Nazi Germany.
His questions are still as of yet unanswered.
Perhaps that is a downer to you, but maybe you should take up the charge of being a Future Philospher.
Until then, we are left with a world of emptiness and lies, and many people full of your pessimism and ignorance. Of course, if you truly read Nietzsche, you would understand this basic premise of his most famous work.
A grow tired of these astoundingly ignorant reviews of the matrix. Is it entirely possible that some people, especially hipster professional pop culture critics, are so ignorant of life and philosophy they truly have no idea what the fuck they are talking about?
The matrix is a great movie beacuse it is the first and only movie to really focus on the use of illusion as a tool of social control. From Plato and the allegory of the cave to Nietzsche and is exploration of slave morality, this has been a dominant theme amongst the greatest philosophers.
This movie did well because the people know in their hearts they are not free. They are enslaved by school, learning nothing but conformity and submission, then they work at a company contributing nothing of substance, wasting their lives away until its time to retire.
People know that their lives are impotent, that their hopes and dreams are completely disconnected from the reality in which they live.
This is the story of the 20th century, of people lost without the fiction of religion imposed on their minds, with governments scrambling to impose all sorts of substitutes to give life meaning to a nihilistic population, as well as find new ways to raise a worker class now that physical slavery no longer exists.
The entire social structure of the modern world is a fiction, just as the matrix is a fiction. Both serve the same purpose: to enslave the mind of free men.
Sadly, pop culture experts never read philosophy they look at everything as a fashion, a fad. "The Matrix is a mixture of kung-fu and sci-fi". The Matrix is no more "about" those things than Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is about sex or Plato's Republic is about unemployed Greek guys dressed in Togas. There is a difference between the medium and the message, and this review gets it all wrong.
The Matrix simply uses pop culture theatrical tools as a means to an end, to open the eyes of a people doomed to a life of slavery. It is a noble effort, and one that should be applauded.
Nothing will blow your mind like reading Nietzsche however especially Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy for the Future.
There is also a whole book out discussing the philosophy of the matrix, but IMHO it is weak.
First, that's simply not true. Fire houses, at least in NYC, tend to be spaced in such a way that minimizes response time for the whole city, not just one neighborhood, regardless of population density or income level.
Pray tell then, great specialist in urban planning, if such planning was so centralized, how is it half those fire houses were constructed before Brooklyn even merged with New York City? Did New York and Brooklyn secretly plan their fire coverage in the 1880's to provide the perfect coverage 130 years later? Do you realize many of these firehouses date from an age before combustion engines??
Have you been to Bushwick lately? The number of condemnded buildins and empty lots is startling. How could you possibly need the same fire coverage in a neighborhood that has 25% buildings than it once did.
I hate to tell you but you are quite misinformed about these particular firehouses. Each one of them has another firehouse in perfect working order just a few hundred meters away, and response time to the surrounding community will be increased by a minute or two.
Oh, and population density is very much a factor in determine where to place firehouses. Why don't you waste your time and tell us how many are in the industrial portions of the south Bronx.
But besides all that, you're missing my point. This is a way to save the city a few bucks. What's better -- closed firehouses and slot machines in the city (another wonderful Bloomberg idea), or open firehouses and open source?
How about we trim all redundant services, including redundant firehouses, open casinos on Far Rockaway so something can go on there besides housing projects, AND we have open source to save money on software licenses?
What could you possibly have against casinos? I think its a great idea. Plus, Bloomberg will have a hard time maintaining the smoking ban then...
ProAudioSpectrum 16 with onboard SCSI-1. I wish I hadn't sold that soundcard; it was best I have ever used.
Those things were great. I remember comparing it to a Sounblaster 16... The SB16 looked like it had been constructed from radio components purchased from the rat shack, numerous huge capacitors, random layout. The Pro Audio Spectrum had a tight layout, mostly on chip components... AND the SCSI-1 connector like you said.
Ahh the memories.
MOST of thse closed firehouses are in northern Brooklyn in East Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed-Sty, etc... These firehouses date from when these were the most popular neighborhoods in Brooklyn (1880-1920). When many were built, southern areas like Bensonhurst still had farms. Today, this part of Brooklyn is among the worst ghetto in the city and the population is far less than it once was. Even though the population density of Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge, and the southern neighborhoods have grown tenfold, they have not received further fire coverage.
These neighorhoods will have fire coverage in line with the city average.
I believe one firehouse is being closed downtown, a relic from when more people lived there. It could be argued that trend is reversing (I mean, look at the price for an apartment on the Lower East Side, a total ghetto just 10 years ago)... But most of those firehouses just don't need to be there.
"Its not who you know, its who you blow"
Get on your boy!
Read Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason. I think you would be very surprised how the Founding Fathers criticized christianity, and all religions. Their reasons are very contemporary.
One could EASILY argue that the American Revolution lead to Emerson's transcendantal ideas, which inspired Nietzsche to create the modern criticism of religion as a tool of enslavement.
Btw, the income tax RATE wasn't 1%, but the minimum you had to make a year in 1920 was about $100,000 a year in order to get taxed. The rate WAS high but then as now the argument was they can afford it. Only about 1% of the working population made enough money to qualify for the income tax. Today, despite all the talk about taxing the rich, the reality is its the middle class which pays the most in income tax.
Yes, the original design spec of the NexGen Nx586 upon which The K6/Athlon/Operton is based allowed for the process to switch from 386 mode to its native RISC instruction set, which ultimately was to be PowerPC compatible.
Some of this I believe may have had something to do with the processor being manufactured by IBM around the same time as OS/2 PowerPC edition was being finalized... That all fell apart however.
Actually, tax withholding was implimented during World War II in order to insure the government would have a steady supply of money for the war effort.
Remember, it wasn't until the post war world where the government was funded by the average schmoe making 35K and paying income tax. Prior to that, only 1% of the American people paid income tax. Now its like 80% of workers.
The largest source of revenue used to be tariffs, now in the era of "free trade", tariffs are pretty much irrelevant as a source of income.
While people may argue TODAY that we should have withholding because most people won't pay, that is not entirely the reason the law was enacted. The monthly stream of revenue was far more important.