Ahh, the good old days. Thats one thing I remember about playing NES as a kid. The urge to throw it over a cliff when I got killed in Castlevnia by falling off the ledge for the millionth time, and now had to go back and do it again.
I never did throw it off the cliff, but I did give it a pretty decent, if somewhat toned down, "Office Space" style ass-kicking once though.
Yea, Now all they need to do is get around to a do not e-mail list, and fixing the patent office, and maybe even get their lips off of Mickey's ass, and allow copyrights to expire.
That was the first message that got a real laugh all week. It reminds me off that old Saturday Night Live skit where they are in the business of making change. If I had mod points you would get some.
Did you read what he said in he interview? It sounds like he has learned something. Here is a quote
"I don't encourage, and in fact, discourage anyone from doing any illegal activity that affects other's property rights."
He said what he did is wrong and took responsability for his actions. Here is another quote for you.
"I have stated repeatedly, that the crimes I committed were wrong, and that I deserved to be punished."
Give the guy a break. No matter what he did he deserves all of the protections that the Constitution provides for him.
If you talk to a buddhist, (s)he would probably tell you that you are continually dying and being reborn with every breathe and every thought in your mind. There is no "you" in that the idea of you being some kind of eternal self is just an illusion we want to believe.
Sorry if someone already pointed this out, but doesn't it bother anyone that the reason the machines are keeping people around is to use them as batteries. That is so stupid. There is no way people would make an efficent battery for machines. You have to put a lot of energy in, and it would not be easy to extract. Then you have the energy it takes to setup the ability to feed all those people, it just doesn't make sense.
Even if you can make some convincing arguement for why the machines should use people as batteries. Why not just lobotomize them, then you don't even need a matrix. Its not like they have to physically procreate, they could just do everything the same but have breain-dead people instead.
So I am not just seen as a complainer, I will offer up another rationale for why the machines might create a matrix. Maybe they need us for our brains, not our "battery-like bodies". Maybe it turns out that the matrix is just a beowulf cluster of people that use our massively parallel brains to process stuff. Then at least it would make sense to have eveyone jacked in. Because when you are busy doing whatever "work" you are doing in the matrix, in reality you are calculating PI to a gazillion decimal places for the machines, or some other explanation like that.
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Ahh, the good old days. Thats one thing I remember about playing NES as a kid. The urge to throw it over a cliff when I got killed in Castlevnia by falling off the ledge for the millionth time, and now had to go back and do it again. I never did throw it off the cliff, but I did give it a pretty decent, if somewhat toned down, "Office Space" style ass-kicking once though.
Yea, Now all they need to do is get around to a do not e-mail list, and fixing the patent office, and maybe even get their lips off of Mickey's ass, and allow copyrights to expire.
That was the first message that got a real laugh all week. It reminds me off that old Saturday Night Live skit where they are in the business of making change. If I had mod points you would get some.
Thanks.
Did you read what he said in he interview? It sounds like he has learned something. Here is a quote "I don't encourage, and in fact, discourage anyone from doing any illegal activity that affects other's property rights." He said what he did is wrong and took responsability for his actions. Here is another quote for you. "I have stated repeatedly, that the crimes I committed were wrong, and that I deserved to be punished." Give the guy a break. No matter what he did he deserves all of the protections that the Constitution provides for him.
If you talk to a buddhist, (s)he would probably tell you that you are continually dying and being reborn with every breathe and every thought in your mind. There is no "you" in that the idea of you being some kind of eternal self is just an illusion we want to believe.
Sorry if someone already pointed this out, but doesn't it bother anyone that the reason the machines are keeping people around is to use them as batteries. That is so stupid. There is no way people would make an efficent battery for machines. You have to put a lot of energy in, and it would not be easy to extract. Then you have the energy it takes to setup the ability to feed all those people, it just doesn't make sense. Even if you can make some convincing arguement for why the machines should use people as batteries. Why not just lobotomize them, then you don't even need a matrix. Its not like they have to physically procreate, they could just do everything the same but have breain-dead people instead. So I am not just seen as a complainer, I will offer up another rationale for why the machines might create a matrix. Maybe they need us for our brains, not our "battery-like bodies". Maybe it turns out that the matrix is just a beowulf cluster of people that use our massively parallel brains to process stuff. Then at least it would make sense to have eveyone jacked in. Because when you are busy doing whatever "work" you are doing in the matrix, in reality you are calculating PI to a gazillion decimal places for the machines, or some other explanation like that.