We are not at war with Russia. In fact, they're our allies.
Generally, allies don't have missiles pointed at each other, nor do they have missile defense systems to block the other's missiles.
According to the State Department, officially, Russia is not our ally. If you disagree, don't argue with me, take it up with Rex Tillerson and Donald Trump.
How did this discussion become about "the children"? At some point in an education, it's worth reading something that you wouldn't have picked off the shelf yourself. If I hadn't been forced to read books, I'd still only be reading Mad Magazine and comic books.
Nobody decides all on their own that they're going to read the classics of literature. I know you SJWs don't like books by dead white men, but reading them will enrich your life and provide you with a level of cultural understanding that will allow you to branch out.
I never thought I'd hear someone call Fripp "too conventional."
Don't get me wrong. Maybe I should have said that Fripp is too influenced by the European classical tradition to be appropriate for a Neuromancer soundtrack. Too serious. I imagine the music for Neuromancer would be more informed by the disposable electronica, dubstep-influenced, and the chopped, sampled stuff. Not that it would be better music, just more appropriate.
I'm a big fan of Fripp. I've seen various incarnations of King Crimson (and the League of Gentlemen!) live and I've even seen Fripp perform his Frippertronics at an in-store performance at a record store back in the 80s (he autographed a copy of Exposure for me that day).
His ideas outstrip his writing, and when you get right down to it, those ideas tend to be rather obvious.
He's a pamphleteer disguised as a novelist, and his work would have been better shorter.
He's widely studied in English classes.
High school English classes. There's a lot of mediocre literature that gets studied in high school English classes, because 13 year olds need to be hit over the head with the idea of literature.
I don't think Orwell is terrible, I just think he's overrated.
I like Fripp, but I think his music might be a little too conventional for Neuromancer. Some of the contemporary electronica has finally caught up to Neuromancer.
You end up with a movie that runs 5 hours and you already left out half of what's important.
So make it a Netflix series, like Sense8.
A lot of the novel is internal monologue and information about the characters' mood, ideas, ideals, hopes and expectations.
There are directors and screenwriters who have been very skilled at conveying internal monologue, mood, ideas etc. I think of Kubrick's Clockwork Orange and Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation. Also Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Sam Mendes American Beauty. Lot's more come to mind but they are some well-known ones.
I could see David Cronenberg directing Neuromancer.
No offense intended, but you do realize you look like an idiot when you're still pushing the "Russians haxored the 2016 election to make Trump win" thing at this point, right?
Yes, like most Americans, I believe Russia intervened on Trump's behalf in the 2016 election.
Right before the election, Hillary was the overwhelming favourite to win.
The Russians had something else in mind. Maybe NK got wind that the fix was in.
What does this suggest? Can you be more specific?
It suggests that whatever NK learned from the hack, they began to really ramp up the wardance once Trump was sworn in, knowing that he lacked both public support for war and was too easily distracted to make anything like a coherent plan to stop them.
which includes commercials, for $5.99 per month for the first year
I pay $5.99 for the privilege of watching your commercials?
Tell you what, I'll sign up when the CEO of Hulu comes and sucks my hairy balls. And I'll only charge him $5.99 and he has to listen to me talk about my fantasy football team and the cute thing my cat did. For three hours. While he sucks my hairy balls.
Honestly, the cheek of these bastards. Do they not know how the whole idea of "commercials" works?
I'm taking the conservative approach: If it's legal it's free speech. Otherwise the advertisers wouldn't risk posting said info.
That's a very poor moral framework, and cedes too much power to the legal system. Legal does not equal moral and vice versa. I agree with the point you're making, but I believe putting morality subsequent to "legal" or "free" is one way we get into trouble.
Making it a free speech issue is taking it too far, it's always really just been about whether it's false advertising / fair trade / fraud / etc.
You make an interesting point. If we're going to pretend we're some free, market-based society, then there have to be consequences for deliberately misleading people on the internet. Since markets can only exist within some regulatory framework (even if that regulatory framework consists only of the person committing fraud getting his ass kicked), then of course the same regulatory framework must exist in some form on the internet too.
I look forward to this race being run in Finland in October next year with the same winning criteria.
Uh-oh. I'm sensing a really stupid statement coming up..
The success for real life usage will be when this works in a place with inclement weather and short days - like where most of the world's population lives for most of the year.
And...there it is!
Most of the world's population does not live "in a place with inclement weather and short days". Most of the world's population lives within 30 degrees of the equator. Finland is the anomaly, not Australia.
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Generally, allies don't have missiles pointed at each other, nor do they have missile defense systems to block the other's missiles.
According to the State Department, officially, Russia is not our ally. If you disagree, don't argue with me, take it up with Rex Tillerson and Donald Trump.
How did this discussion become about "the children"? At some point in an education, it's worth reading something that you wouldn't have picked off the shelf yourself. If I hadn't been forced to read books, I'd still only be reading Mad Magazine and comic books.
Nobody decides all on their own that they're going to read the classics of literature. I know you SJWs don't like books by dead white men, but reading them will enrich your life and provide you with a level of cultural understanding that will allow you to branch out.
I just hope an unsent text on a mobile never counts as a marriage proposal.
Don't get me wrong. Maybe I should have said that Fripp is too influenced by the European classical tradition to be appropriate for a Neuromancer soundtrack. Too serious. I imagine the music for Neuromancer would be more informed by the disposable electronica, dubstep-influenced, and the chopped, sampled stuff. Not that it would be better music, just more appropriate.
I'm a big fan of Fripp. I've seen various incarnations of King Crimson (and the League of Gentlemen!) live and I've even seen Fripp perform his Frippertronics at an in-store performance at a record store back in the 80s (he autographed a copy of Exposure for me that day).
Neither is overrated. Well, maybe Great Gatsby, a little bit.
His ideas outstrip his writing, and when you get right down to it, those ideas tend to be rather obvious.
He's a pamphleteer disguised as a novelist, and his work would have been better shorter.
High school English classes. There's a lot of mediocre literature that gets studied in high school English classes, because 13 year olds need to be hit over the head with the idea of literature.
I don't think Orwell is terrible, I just think he's overrated.
I like Fripp, but I think his music might be a little too conventional for Neuromancer. Some of the contemporary electronica has finally caught up to Neuromancer.
So make it a Netflix series, like Sense8.
There are directors and screenwriters who have been very skilled at conveying internal monologue, mood, ideas etc. I think of Kubrick's Clockwork Orange and Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation. Also Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Sam Mendes American Beauty. Lot's more come to mind but they are some well-known ones.
I could see David Cronenberg directing Neuromancer.
Orwell and Solzhenitsyn are both overrated. Especially Orwell.
That's why God made reliable mechanics.
I don't know. England has been known to make a few nice cars.
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Yes, like most Americans, I believe Russia intervened on Trump's behalf in the 2016 election.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/22/...
and the raw data...
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2...
Probably.
The Russians had something else in mind. Maybe NK got wind that the fix was in.
It suggests that whatever NK learned from the hack, they began to really ramp up the wardance once Trump was sworn in, knowing that he lacked both public support for war and was too easily distracted to make anything like a coherent plan to stop them.
Is that specific enough?
No woosh. You're the woosh.
If you have a level 5 autonomous car, I suggest waiting before you download the latest drivers.
I pay $5.99 for the privilege of watching your commercials?
Tell you what, I'll sign up when the CEO of Hulu comes and sucks my hairy balls. And I'll only charge him $5.99 and he has to listen to me talk about my fantasy football team and the cute thing my cat did. For three hours. While he sucks my hairy balls.
Honestly, the cheek of these bastards. Do they not know how the whole idea of "commercials" works?
Oh, that's OK then. Carry on.
You just did it again. So far, twice within just a few comments.
You realize you just responded to an AC troll, right?
^^^WHAT HE SAID^^^
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. It never has.
That's a very poor moral framework, and cedes too much power to the legal system. Legal does not equal moral and vice versa. I agree with the point you're making, but I believe putting morality subsequent to "legal" or "free" is one way we get into trouble.
You make an interesting point. If we're going to pretend we're some free, market-based society, then there have to be consequences for deliberately misleading people on the internet. Since markets can only exist within some regulatory framework (even if that regulatory framework consists only of the person committing fraud getting his ass kicked), then of course the same regulatory framework must exist in some form on the internet too.
Uh-oh. I'm sensing a really stupid statement coming up..
And...there it is!
Most of the world's population does not live "in a place with inclement weather and short days". Most of the world's population lives within 30 degrees of the equator. Finland is the anomaly, not Australia.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
I think it's supposed to be "bacon", not "beacon".