The evil of the government in this film is driven not so much by cruelty as by bureaucratic incompetence, much of which is played for laughs. But some of the scenes look eerie today, in our post-9/11 world, and are good fodder for conspiracy theorists. Pay particular attention to the scene where the official boasts that the government is winning its war against "the terrorists." The movie is ambiguous as to whether there are any real terrorists, and we have a sneaking suspicion that the explosions are caused by the government itself. The plot is set in motion by a typographical error leading an innocent man to be arrested instead of a suspected terrorist. The movie is not about this man but about a meek government worker, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), who's observing from the sidelines. Robert De Niro has a cameo as the wanted "terrorist" whose crime, from what we see, consists of doing home repairs without the proper paperwork.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
'School isn't a place where kids learn, it's a place kids > age of 5 go for the day while mommy and daddy are at work.'
Are we talking about the same education system that was developed by rich robber barons in order to enslave the working class, (aren't they the ones who want to crush our ability to think, reason, act for ourselves), why would they be non advocates of open source software?... oh, I thought so, very well, as you were..
I think it's actually a reverse engineered version of a super weapon that one of the ancient earth protectors used to wear, it's kind of like the 5th element where they protected us in times of trouble, but the suit was stolen and has been an artefact and religious relic ever since, since no one knows how it works or how to put it on.. without great difficulties.. bad stuff..happens, if it's in the wrong hands, I'm surprised that it was Iron man and not an Indiana Jones Movie..lol
Yes,
What was the old joke about, drop $20.00 bills and bags of cocaine on them and they'll all kill themselves in the streets, fighting over the last bag of coke or $20.00 bill. Porn may work the same way due to gov't restrictions and the lack there of.. lol
I've been Beta testing Bell.ca's Internet Voice for about a year now, It works great, there were a few slight hiccups at rst (mostly dealing with my non standard [not a store-bought router firewall situation) but that's all long since been resolved. I've taken it all over the place and it works great on any high speed connection. As more people discover computers and what they can do with them, more people will adopt this type of tech, anyone who can grasp the concept of configuring their home networking router (eg. pointing a browser at 192.168.0.1 etc..) will have no problem setting up a voIP adapter. I think a lot of tech still has to be simplified for the masses, but the quality is ready for prime time, I haven't paid a long distance bill in a year.. yippee! /nev/dull/c
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070544/Planète sauvage, La (1973)
I for one would be pleased to be your new galvanic vestibular stimulation overlord.
This is terrifying and amazing at the same time.
Could you imagine the military applications, like radio controlled super troop swarms controlled by a team of users playing realtime video games with the controllee, or just the obedience collars for dangerous prisoners, mental patients or even good citizens. Big brother could build in RFID as well as GPS locating chips into them and have every citizen wear one for their own safety and security... -- um.. /nev/dull/c
Just recently,
My wife and I were at the local Walmart and lo and behold, right next to the store, (at a donation drop off box) someone had left a pristine computer case complete with mobo, cpu (AMD Duron 1.3G) and cables, there was no RAM H/D or cmos battery (easily fixed with spare parts), I threw a cdrom into it, 256Megs of RAM and it sits in my den as a spare knoppix box.
Why throw out perfectly good hardware, (win32 I guess). I know it was meant as a donation for the poor or whatever but I`m not rich and I couldn`t pass up perfectly good hardware just sitting at the side of the road.
Didn't one of the Aussie banking institutions
just make news about windows inherant instability and endless security flaws touting Knoppix as the secure way for it's users to do online banking (even going so far as providing clients with custom knoppix software to use). So how is tax time any less important a job than online banking, here's one old article about this./.
that's kinda neat, smoothwall.org does the same sorta thing with a root login screen through a web browser for command line (emu.) for firewall management. Don't get me wrong that's a very nicely done site, but the fact remains that js is mostly bloat and fails to really work in the heat of battle and day to day-workaday tasks, for the end user it's a major pain in the arse. I can't even count the times I've sat cursing under my breath at a page of java[code/scripting] errors all spilling forth like the puke of the gods.. It makes me want to toss my monitor out the window, it isn't just one company's platform either. Maybe it's just the programmers. All I know is that is has pissed me off more than any other "top 5" languages in the work place.
--/nev/dull/c
Uh,... actually don`t come up here we have our own problems, social programs in need of reform, unaccountable fat cat Government in need of slimming down, unbearably cold winters, dizzying wide open spaces and the firearms registry to name a few. And we already have a problem with people bringing their socio-political/religious problems here from afar.
Oh Canada!
no worries...
I was making a lark in jest (archetypically) to get a very generalized point accross..not trying to be historic-political/ly accurate.. but good
points anyway.
c
ok, ..so some not so good guys doing some bad stuff
(ie. hacking into webspaces (to host phishing sites (highly illegal))
get their hacked stuff hacked into, by these good guy white hat hackers
(super-Gandalfian data-magus overlords), who take over and expose
(0wn3d 45535) the bad guys to show them who really has the net going on..
so how does law and copyrights fit into all of this ,
... it's the wild f&*($'n west.
get on yer horse and ride (use linux),
All jokes aside..
we should be careful that the entire star wars sage is not banned by the Christian right, the way they`re trying to ban video games and Ozzy albums, for being a evil influence on our youth.
Damned Sith!
/nev/dull/c
I almost lost my tinfoil hat falling off my chair! ... when I saw this story, it triggered some thing in my deep memory.. I had the same problem in Vancouver B.C. ten or so years ago with my neighbours, only one thing that saved me. My trusty tinfoil hat, yep.. made it myself, cna't buy ones like this in the stores no.. I never take it off not even to sleep.
--WARNING TINFOIL-HAT construction and use AT OWN RISK!!
Works great make yours today!
;)
TINFOIL HAT HOW-TO:
good for keeping evil radio waves gov't conspiricies/ufo's or phone companies from frying your brain with their long range EMF trickery or listening in on your private thoughts etc.
MATERIALS:
50' roll of off the shelf tinfoil (from local supermarket or grocer) [try not to let anyone see you buying it or they might think it's strange (avoid suspision)].
METHOD:
Just giv'er 30 - 40 good wraps around the old noggin', try not to have any unshielded spots, ( leakage can produce unexpected failure of the tinfoil hat's shielding properties)
MOD:
I put some cool viking horns on mine and it looks really cool now, my wife won't let me wear it in public though, she's embarassed or something.
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Yes, Only for penguins running 'doze, of course. lol
and we Canadians still love Bob and Doug today like the couple of idiot cousins, making fun of the establishment that they are, true Canadians .. lol
What a bunch of idiots..
Maybe a top secret underground internet.. shhhh.. :)
The evil of the government in this film is driven not so much by cruelty as by bureaucratic incompetence, much of which is played for laughs. But some of the scenes look eerie today, in our post-9/11 world, and are good fodder for conspiracy theorists. Pay particular attention to the scene where the official boasts that the government is winning its war against "the terrorists." The movie is ambiguous as to whether there are any real terrorists, and we have a sneaking suspicion that the explosions are caused by the government itself. The plot is set in motion by a typographical error leading an innocent man to be arrested instead of a suspected terrorist. The movie is not about this man but about a meek government worker, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), who's observing from the sidelines. Robert De Niro has a cameo as the wanted "terrorist" whose crime, from what we see, consists of doing home repairs without the proper paperwork. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
'School isn't a place where kids learn, it's a place kids > age of 5 go for the day while mommy and daddy are at work.' ... oh, I thought so, very well, as you were..
Are we talking about the same education system that was developed by rich robber barons in order to enslave the working class, (aren't they the ones who want to crush our ability to think, reason, act for ourselves), why would they be non advocates of open source software?
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/emp-for-navy.html It hasn't been forgotten, just by the public.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, who's making their gear ready for this sort of thing besides the U.S. Navy?
But seriously folkes.. if all the lights went out tomorrow, what shape would you be in..?
lol, I can see it now.. what a disaster, when will we ever learn, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora's_Box
I think it's actually a reverse engineered version of a super weapon that one of the ancient earth protectors used to wear, it's kind of like the 5th element where they protected us in times of trouble, but the suit was stolen and has been an artefact and religious relic ever since, since no one knows how it works or how to put it on.. without great difficulties.. bad stuff..happens, if it's in the wrong hands, I'm surprised that it was Iron man and not an Indiana Jones Movie..lol
Yes,
What was the old joke about, drop $20.00 bills and bags of cocaine on them and they'll all kill themselves in the streets, fighting over the last bag of coke or $20.00 bill.
Porn may work the same way due to gov't restrictions and the lack there of..
lol
All your base are belong to us!
I've been Beta testing Bell.ca's Internet Voice for about a year now,
It works great, there were a few slight hiccups at rst (mostly dealing with my non standard [not a store-bought router firewall situation) but that's all long since been resolved. I've taken it all over the place and it works great on any high speed connection. As more people discover computers and what they can do with them, more people will adopt this type of tech, anyone who can grasp the concept of configuring their home networking router (eg. pointing a browser at 192.168.0.1 etc..) will have no problem setting up a voIP adapter. I think a lot of tech still has to be simplified for the masses, but the quality is ready for prime time, I haven't paid a long distance bill in a year.. yippee!
/nev/dull/c
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070544/Planète sauvage, La (1973)
/nev/dull/c
I for one would be pleased to be your new galvanic vestibular stimulation overlord.
This is terrifying and amazing at the same time.
Could you imagine the military applications, like radio controlled super troop swarms controlled by a team of users playing realtime video games with the controllee, or just the obedience collars for dangerous prisoners, mental patients or even good citizens.
Big brother could build in RFID as well as GPS locating chips into them and have every citizen wear one for their own safety and security...
-- um..
Just recently,
My wife and I were at the local Walmart and lo and behold, right next to the store, (at a donation drop off box) someone had left a pristine computer case complete with mobo, cpu (AMD Duron 1.3G) and cables, there was no RAM H/D or cmos battery (easily fixed with spare parts), I threw a cdrom into it, 256Megs of RAM and it sits in my den as a spare knoppix box.
Why throw out perfectly good hardware, (win32 I guess). I know it was meant as a donation for the poor or whatever but I`m not rich and I couldn`t pass up perfectly good hardware just sitting at the side of the road.
nevdullc
Didn't one of the Aussie banking institutions just make news about windows inherant instability ./.
and endless security flaws touting Knoppix as the secure way for it's users to do online banking
(even going so far as providing clients with custom knoppix software to use).
So how is tax time any less important a job than online banking,
here's one old article about this
that's kinda neat, smoothwall.org does the same sorta thing with a root login screen through a web browser for command line (emu.) for firewall management. Don't get me wrong that's a very nicely done site, but the fact remains that js is mostly bloat and fails to really work in the heat of battle and day to day-workaday tasks, for the end user it's a major pain in the arse. I can't even count the times I've sat cursing under my breath at a page of java[code/scripting] errors all spilling forth like the puke of the gods.. It makes me want to toss my monitor out the window, it isn't just one company's platform either. Maybe it's just the programmers. All I know is that is has pissed me off more than any other "top 5" languages in the work place.
--/nev/dull/c
I agree. c p.s. sorry this is so far after the fact!
Uh, ... actually don`t come up here we have our own problems, social programs in need of reform, unaccountable fat cat Government in need of slimming down, unbearably cold winters, dizzying wide open spaces and the firearms registry to name a few. And we already have a problem with people bringing their socio-political/religious problems here from afar.
Oh Canada!
no worries ...
I was making a lark in jest (archetypically) to get a very generalized point accross..not trying to be historic-political/ly accurate.. but good
points anyway.
c
ok,
..so some not so good guys doing some bad stuff
... it's the wild f&*($'n west.
/nev/dull/c
(ie. hacking into webspaces (to host phishing sites (highly illegal))
get their hacked stuff hacked into, by these good guy white hat hackers
(super-Gandalfian data-magus overlords), who take over and expose
(0wn3d 45535) the bad guys to show them who really has the net going on..
so how does law and copyrights fit into all of this ,
get on yer horse and ride (use linux),
All jokes aside ..
/nev/dull/c
we should be careful that the entire star wars sage is not banned by the Christian right, the way they`re trying to ban video games and Ozzy albums, for being a evil influence on our youth.
Damned Sith!
I almost lost my tinfoil hat falling off my chair!
... when I saw this story, it triggered some thing in my deep memory.. I had the same problem in Vancouver B.C. ten or so years ago with my neighbours, only one thing that saved me. My trusty tinfoil hat, yep.. made it myself, cna't buy ones like this in the stores no.. I never take it off not even to sleep.
;)
/nev/dull/c
--WARNING TINFOIL-HAT construction and use AT OWN RISK!!
Works great make yours today!
TINFOIL HAT HOW-TO:
good for keeping evil radio waves gov't conspiricies/ufo's or phone companies from frying your brain with their long range EMF trickery or listening in on your private thoughts etc.
MATERIALS:
50' roll of off the shelf tinfoil (from local supermarket or grocer) [try not to let anyone see you buying it or they might think it's strange (avoid suspision)].
METHOD:
Just giv'er 30 - 40 good wraps around the old noggin', try not to have any unshielded spots, ( leakage can produce unexpected failure of the tinfoil hat's shielding properties)
MOD:
I put some cool viking horns on mine and it looks really cool now, my wife won't let me wear it in public though, she's embarassed or something.
ttfn,
These aren't the droids you're looking for ...
move along. ;)