... A problem with this idea is that any profitable products would likely have to be sold to corporations or gubmint departments and would therefore likely...
"I don't want to escape the Matrix, but I want to make it comfy for me. I don't want to adapt to the Matrix and become fluent in it's ways, I want it to serve...
... me. ... I ... a CD ... Or in my case, I might concede to have sex with pretty girls provided they owned a CD burner etc. BTW, is there some point to the...
... Well.. it depends whether you were intent on making megabucks of profit, or just to break even (i.e. able to pay your employees enough to subsist). Also,...
Antinomian Antics - Sabotaging the Matrix <http://www.enemies.com/html/writing/antinomian_antics.pdf> by Illuminatus Maximus Eighteen hundred years ago, the...
... A quote from further on in the article: Those who engaged in each and every sin at least once would not be forced to live again; having paid their "debts"...
... That is fine, provided you have some specific ideas about the sabotage you mean to carry out and are not just humoring yourself with the possibility. I...
... True. ... There is the small matter of defence, as well. OK, so we don't do very much genuine defence any more (we seem to be keeping public enemy no.1 - ...
... Would be neat. I'm not sure how you'd bootstrap - I guess lots of English descriptions of *examples* of the patterns you're trying to represent, that...
... Even if it were thought necessary and desirable to help local gangs defend their turf from other gangs, there would surely be more effective and less...
Call to raise US debt threshold <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3529818.stm> US Treasury Secretary John Snow has urged Congress to raise the government's...
... me. ... I ... a CD ... "My life within the Matrix is a living hell but I'm far too cowardly to do anything about it, so I'll do the next best thing and...
At the risk of getting involved in what seems to be turning into an undignified slanging match.. ... Actually, I don't think Martin feels this at all. He seems...
... Well, that wasn't the intention, but y'know - cornfed556 displays his symptoms, and I display mine... ... With practice anyone can seem to be... ;-) The...
... Somebody should have told the founding fathers that. "The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in...
... Is that how you see yourself? I don't know a great deal about them (rich white landowners?), but they seemed to have engaged the world rather directly. ......
... will ... stay ... Why are you telling us this? You should be telling the pathetic droids immersed in the Alice in Wonderland world of the system, who often...
cornfed556 wrote ... <snip> Actually, this sort of response just helps to prove Martin's point. Despite the good information posted here too often it seems...
... One day, maybe. The desire's there. The opportunity and the skills I'm still working on. ... Nor do I. Whatever you think of their politics (and in...
OK, I'm going to risk wasting my electronic breath one more time, to see if we can understand each other better.. ... It wasn't intended as a compliment, as...
... OK! ... Do you mean you've experienced it's effects, or you've been the zombie? Personally, I've been the zombie. ... Alan showed it to you by writing it...
... That's actually a very good question. My "knee-jerk" response to the levels of immunity classification in R was that I was a strong partial immune....
... I've ... situations ... evidence. The ... stove ... A cat that jumps on a hot stove will never jump on a hot stove again. Neither will it jump on a cold...
Hi, I'm afraid I'm going to have to snip quite freely, please put back anything I shouldn't have; ... [...] ... I missed the part about where you were unsure,...
Thanks for the input.. a different perspective is useful.. ... It's a good point, though. The question is, if a new situation appears to be almost exactly the...
... [..] I've just suffered an enthusiasm failure, I'm afraid. I can see where you're coming from, and we certainly have some areas of agreement, but I've run...
... Pleasure ... a ... thing ... appears ... burnt, ... has ... search ... square ... I can relate to the experience. Personally, I took the build a square ...