The Red Pill might as well be a coded reference to LSD. A few philosophical papers on the official website indicate that it takes a traumatic and mind altering experience for a person to question the reality in which they're living. Now if dancing babies' corpses on marionette strings coming out of shadows and a mirror liquidizing and consuming my body are in the same ballpark when it comes to "mind altering and traumatic" then I suppose you could make that analogy.
It is interesting that the W brothers chose to let the human body transcend The Matrix. If the they really wanted to blow my mind, Neo would have awoken to a reality where nothing but the cognitive functions of his brain translated into the next world, where the causalities of the environment we live in (gravity, seeing the inside of a building instead of the outside when we walk into it, etc.) were all in question, where Neo would have had to learn how to use a body completely alien to himself and interact in a universe that functioned under different rules.
The paradox of Neo "freeing" people from the Matrix is that real freedom only exists within the simulation. Those who have been enlightened have the power and will to function outside of normal environmental limitations in the "real" world. Everyone else is just a peasant.
The Federal Communication Commission will require wireless carriers in the 100 largest cities to support local number portability beginning November 24, 2003.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act bans automated predictive dialer calling to any phone number where the recipients pay call costs (like cell phones).
Telemarketers fear they may inadvertently reach a cell number and violate the TCPA because of the number portability. Telemarketers avoid doing so currently because carriers assign specific area codes or digits to wireless numbers; dialers then do not ring those numbers
I actually look forward to changing my phone number when I move to new cities so telelmarketers won't have my number, but I guess random dialing won't prevent them from finding it eventually. Maybe it's time I permanently got rid of my land-line, which, like the radio, has become a tool for marketing rather than communication.
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The Red Pill might as well be a coded reference to LSD. A few philosophical papers on the official website indicate that it takes a traumatic and mind altering experience for a person to question the reality in which they're living. Now if dancing babies' corpses on marionette strings coming out of shadows and a mirror liquidizing and consuming my body are in the same ballpark when it comes to "mind altering and traumatic" then I suppose you could make that analogy.
It is interesting that the W brothers chose to let the human body transcend The Matrix. If the they really wanted to blow my mind, Neo would have awoken to a reality where nothing but the cognitive functions of his brain translated into the next world, where the causalities of the environment we live in (gravity, seeing the inside of a building instead of the outside when we walk into it, etc.) were all in question, where Neo would have had to learn how to use a body completely alien to himself and interact in a universe that functioned under different rules.
The paradox of Neo "freeing" people from the Matrix is that real freedom only exists within the simulation. Those who have been enlightened have the power and will to function outside of normal environmental limitations in the "real" world. Everyone else is just a peasant.
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Among a host of other military technologies that are in place to guarantee the authenticity of a user
Here's an interesting article that talks about how Telemarketers feel about number portability. Telephone Consumer Protection Act
The Federal Communication Commission will require wireless carriers in the 100 largest cities to support local number portability beginning November 24, 2003.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act bans automated predictive dialer calling to any phone number where the recipients pay call costs (like cell phones).
Telemarketers fear they may inadvertently reach a cell number and violate the TCPA because of the number portability. Telemarketers avoid doing so currently because carriers assign specific area codes or digits to wireless numbers; dialers then do not ring those numbers
I actually look forward to changing my phone number when I move to new cities so telelmarketers won't have my number, but I guess random dialing won't prevent them from finding it eventually. Maybe it's time I permanently got rid of my land-line, which, like the radio, has become a tool for marketing rather than communication.
Other dignitaries who attended the event were Dr. Maxim Faget
I bet that guy got hell when he was a kid. I wouldn't be able to stand people calling me Maximus.
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