What about Indy on the dark side? In the context of the Indiana Jones movies this would mean Indy joining the... Nazis.
After all, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering, suffering leads to the dark side. Or maybe Indy just gets fascinated by the black uniforms and blonde ladies.
If this has to happen in the fifties maybe the escaped lead nazi has decided that there should be only two nazis, a master and an apprentice.
1) The return of Jar-Jar Binks 2) The return of the Ewoks 3) The return of the Ewoks AND Jar-Jar Binks 4) How Luke and Leia were made
Proposal number four might be entertaining to some Natalie Portman fans.
Proposal number four might also feature other interesting things such as whatever those pink nymphomaniacs in the Star Wars comic magazines were. They also were actually visible in the Episode IV Mos Eisley cantina scene... Actually there were some kind of funny samurai-spirited Goths in the Star Wars comics of the eighties as well... Anybody remember these things?
Seems like Slashdot readers confuse Greenpeace with groups like Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front.
Greenpeace = Non-violent direct action such as harassing whaling ships with boats
Earth Liberation Front = Damaging property by nailing trees etc.
Animal Liberation Front = Damaging property and the ecology by releasing minks into nature etc.
So no way can you call Greenpeace an ecoterrorist organization, though ELF/ALF could indeed be called ecoterrorists. ELF/ALF have a history of arson and such actions i believe.
Though it's a real insult to real terrorists like Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush to call groups like ELF/ALF terrorists...
How easy do you geeks actually think Linux is for average home or business user?
To me it seems like too many Open Source people are still too much like 15-year old boys screaming they are "31337 d00d5". There is a generic arrogant dislike towards an average computer user while a business like Microsoft at least understands marketing. Open Source products are too often too difficult to use and very poorly documented, which most likely has something to do with geeks who want to show of computer skills.
Would somebody at Microsoft say something like: "Gee your stupid. Can't even use a product i programmed. Newbie."
I think that this attitude means that Linux will never ever conquer the average user's desktop. Nerds love to configure their computers for hours, ordinary users just want to read their e-mail or type some pages on a word processing software without any problems. Essentially Linux is still a toy which is used by adult boys to show off computer skills.
In a sense a baseless claim like this feels so bad. Bluetooth has been like a good friend to me, it feels like a job and a dream at the same time. Yeah, i quess that some day it will be over, but let us no bury our friends before they are dead, ok?
"His writing is great, but he is more poet than scientist."
Actually most science fiction writers are... Neal Stephenson seems to be the more cyberpunkish writer who seems to get his facts right...
"Try 'Ooblik' by Phillip K. Dick for a VERY early cyberspace concept."
Actually that book is called Ubik.
Ubik is excellent but i think that Dick got it even better with Scanner Darkly or Radio Free Albemuth!
I don't think it does justice to Dick to compare him with cyberpunk writers. After Neuromancer Cyberpunk is a childishly repetitive and cliche-filled genre when compared with the original visions of Philip K. Dick. I think that Neal Stephenson is the only cyberpunk writer with original ideas. Besides Gibson of course. Cryptonomicon is soooo "cyberpunk in the nineties and forties"...
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They should call it the TOUR DE FREEDOM.
Like, those French are totally gay and everything.
USA! USA! USA!
Read my lips. We shall see whose capitalism stands in the end, the American one, the French one or the Iraqi one. Sissies.
What about Indy on the dark side? In the context of the Indiana Jones movies this would mean Indy joining the... Nazis.
After all, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering, suffering leads to the dark side. Or maybe Indy just gets fascinated by the black uniforms and blonde ladies.
If this has to happen in the fifties maybe the escaped lead nazi has decided that there should be only two nazis, a master and an apprentice.
My suggestions:
1) The return of Jar-Jar Binks
2) The return of the Ewoks
3) The return of the Ewoks AND Jar-Jar Binks
4) How Luke and Leia were made
Proposal number four might be entertaining to some Natalie Portman fans.
Proposal number four might also feature other interesting things such as whatever those pink nymphomaniacs in the Star Wars comic magazines were. They also were actually visible in the Episode IV Mos Eisley cantina scene... Actually there were some kind of funny samurai-spirited Goths in the Star Wars comics of the eighties as well... Anybody remember these things?
Star Wars quote, Monty Python quote, something about Borgs, Microsoft is so evil, blahblahblah...
You geeks are so ANSI-standardized! What if a geek would become himself and become truly original.
I think that geeks are a above the average population though, in terms of self-respect and intelligence.
Seems like Slashdot readers confuse Greenpeace with groups like Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front. Greenpeace = Non-violent direct action such as harassing whaling ships with boats Earth Liberation Front = Damaging property by nailing trees etc. Animal Liberation Front = Damaging property and the ecology by releasing minks into nature etc. So no way can you call Greenpeace an ecoterrorist organization, though ELF/ALF could indeed be called ecoterrorists. ELF/ALF have a history of arson and such actions i believe. Though it's a real insult to real terrorists like Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush to call groups like ELF/ALF terrorists...
To me it seems like too many Open Source people are still too much like 15-year old boys screaming they are "31337 d00d5". There is a generic arrogant dislike towards an average computer user while a business like Microsoft at least understands marketing. Open Source products are too often too difficult to use and very poorly documented, which most likely has something to do with geeks who want to show of computer skills.
Would somebody at Microsoft say something like: "Gee your stupid. Can't even use a product i programmed. Newbie."
I think that this attitude means that Linux will never ever conquer the average user's desktop. Nerds love to configure their computers for hours, ordinary users just want to read their e-mail or type some pages on a word processing software without any problems. Essentially Linux is still a toy which is used by adult boys to show off computer skills.
In a sense a baseless claim like this feels so bad. Bluetooth has been like a good friend to me, it feels like a job and a dream at the same time. Yeah, i quess that some day it will be over, but let us no bury our friends before they are dead, ok?
I quess that any Perl script seems like it is written by Ziggy Stardust?
Actually most science fiction writers are... Neal Stephenson seems to be the more cyberpunkish writer who seems to get his facts right...
"Try 'Ooblik' by Phillip K. Dick for a VERY early cyberspace concept."
Actually that book is called Ubik.
Ubik is excellent but i think that Dick got it even better with Scanner Darkly or Radio Free Albemuth!
I don't think it does justice to Dick to compare him with cyberpunk writers. After Neuromancer Cyberpunk is a childishly repetitive and cliche-filled genre when compared with the original visions of Philip K. Dick. I think that Neal Stephenson is the only cyberpunk writer with original ideas. Besides Gibson of course. Cryptonomicon is soooo "cyberpunk in the nineties and forties"...