I'm not sure Hollyweird shoudl do this one justice...
Though a Scanner Darkly has some parallels with a great amount of what I tend to call life. My generation (ew tacky cliche) didn't need Vietnam to kill quite a few of us off. We had ourselves & the sense that we were never going to die doing that for us. Dick was writing & selling stories 10 years before I was born & that makes it more frightening. I've still got 2 or 3 old friends around that still stare blankly at nothing for hours on end because of some combo of something chewed them up. Quite a few of the others simply aren't around to stare at anything and adding a more surreal note, alot of the ones who made it through are now totally denying that part of their lives existed.
Having read some of his later interviews & such, I can also relate to a bit more of his thinking than is comfortable. But I do enjoy the typewriter story.
The Martian Defense forces are doing a pretty good job of keeping the invaders away from strategic areas in spite of having to deal with another round of heavy budget cuts from the Planetary Overlords.
http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/William_Gibso n/gibson_disney_death.article
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Now what it STILL doesn't answer...
Will the router still be externally reconfigurable w/o the owner/user's knowledge.
Big nasty now well publicized backdoor "feature" on a router that could end up in small medical offices or used by home transcriptionists.
HIPPA regs are scary to the "little" folks who have to comply w/em. They're hellishly terrifying to large companies that could face sanction just because somebody working from home saved $5 on a router with known security issues.
For any Medical Office that uses this gear. You'd be amazed at the fur that flies at the mention of "a possible HIPPA violation". If you've got a router that can be tweaked from the outside without your knowledge or concent, you've got something to be concerned about.
Why?
One of the real reasons was that Nixon saw the whole thing (somewhat correctly) as something started by JFK. That was reason enough for the Paranoid-In-Chief to make sure that the funding for the scheduled flights faded away
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_ 18_20.html
gives the schedule & a polite reason why.
Sadly, JFK's crowd saw the DynaSoar as a waste of money that stood in their way to the moon & Nixon just lumped it all in with that "space crap".
Wonder why the shuttle fleet was built with nowhere to go until just a few years ago?
Wonder why Australia vs Skylab happened?
Wonder why the shuttle that finally flew was so far behind schedule & nowhere near the original concept?
Remember, we really don't need unlimited resources while we still can dig strip mines in rainforests.
Cheer up!! Toxins always build up in closed environments.
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At least his electric company loves him. ...and folks said there'd be no market for home fusion reactors....
I'm not sure Hollyweird shoudl do this one justice...
Though a Scanner Darkly has some parallels with a great amount of what I tend to call life. My generation (ew tacky cliche) didn't need Vietnam to kill quite a few of us off. We had ourselves & the sense that we were never going to die doing that for us. Dick was writing & selling stories 10 years before I was born & that makes it more frightening. I've still got 2 or 3 old friends around that still stare blankly at nothing for hours on end because of some combo of something chewed them up. Quite a few of the others simply aren't around to stare at anything and adding a more surreal note, alot of the ones who made it through are now totally denying that part of their lives existed.
Having read some of his later interviews & such, I can also relate to a bit more of his thinking than is comfortable. But I do enjoy the typewriter story.
The Martian Defense forces are doing a pretty good job of keeping the invaders away from strategic areas in spite of having to deal with another round of heavy budget cuts from the Planetary Overlords.
http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/William_Gibso n/gibson_disney_death.article
(this message brought to you courtesy of Belkin. You see what you need to see and nothing more)
Now what it STILL doesn't answer... Will the router still be externally reconfigurable w/o the owner/user's knowledge. Big nasty now well publicized backdoor "feature" on a router that could end up in small medical offices or used by home transcriptionists. HIPPA regs are scary to the "little" folks who have to comply w/em. They're hellishly terrifying to large companies that could face sanction just because somebody working from home saved $5 on a router with known security issues.
For any Medical Office that uses this gear. You'd be amazed at the fur that flies at the mention of "a possible HIPPA violation". If you've got a router that can be tweaked from the outside without your knowledge or concent, you've got something to be concerned about.
Why? One of the real reasons was that Nixon saw the whole thing (somewhat correctly) as something started by JFK. That was reason enough for the Paranoid-In-Chief to make sure that the funding for the scheduled flights faded away http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_ 18_20.html
gives the schedule & a polite reason why.
Sadly, JFK's crowd saw the DynaSoar as a waste of money that stood in their way to the moon & Nixon just lumped it all in with that "space crap".
Wonder why the shuttle fleet was built with nowhere to go until just a few years ago?
Wonder why Australia vs Skylab happened?
Wonder why the shuttle that finally flew was so far behind schedule & nowhere near the original concept?
Remember, we really don't need unlimited resources while we still can dig strip mines in rainforests.
Cheer up!! Toxins always build up in closed environments.