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(...) Spot on. And then there's the reason the war started- the humans essentially blotted out the sun to cut off the machines from their solar power. Were they fundamentally unaware that they were cutting off the *only* source of food for humans? (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Hey! Dems fighting words! Shatner's Canadian! Well, that's the entirety of my arguement, really... So I got nothing. Dave K (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, but Shatner is a weinie. -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Well actually you get the same amount of energy out that you put in, just in a differnt form. In this case the heat (which is considered wasted energy that "disappears" into the void, for most things) is actually the desired form of energy. So (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) My problem with the Matrix is that they put (obviously) a lot of work into little easter eggs like that essay expounds on, and have done an generally quite credible job of hanging their mythology carefully - and then they hung the whole thing (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Uh... Yeah Trekkies do get into Star Trek that much. I have been told all sorts of scientific "facts" by Trekkies. Such as; heat is not a form of kinetic energy, mass has nothing to do with momentum, NASA wishes they could harness the power of (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler wrote: snip (...) Think it's just the rantings of a fan... Yeah, he went a little overboard in some bits, like fans sometimes do :) Dave K (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(URL) Star Trek was brought up... :) Dave K (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Is it official in any way, or is it an imaginitive fan connecting the dots? I confess, when it got into the wacky numerology bit ("Hey, one has three letters and three is divisible by One") I got a little queasy and had to look away. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Oh, I've met Trekkies. The movie 'Trekkies' is pretty much dead on. The imfamous SNL skit with Shatner--pretty much to a tee. "Get a life! Have you ever kissed a girl? Thought not..." Beyond that, I liked Matix and MR, and will see (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) snip (...) I have a C64 emulator on my laptop right now! Maybe the Matrix is just 'Impossible Mission' on steroids? Dave K (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) **snip** (...) Very nice! My problem with the whole Matrix thang isn't Keanu (though he's awful in absolutely everything he does), and I don't even really mind that the writers cobbled their little is-it-real pastiche out of a hundred other (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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Gee, where have I heard all of this before...? A well-known philosopher once gave a public lecture on The Matrix. He described how The Matrix had existed many times before, how Zion was inextricably linked to the goals of the creators of The Matrix, (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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Taken from another NG I read-- ((URL) a long read, but if you liked the Matrix series--is a good one) Warning--may contain spoilers and plot elements that may ruin the series (though I didn't think so) The Matrix Reloaded Explained This may seem (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I just found this and I thought it was pretty cool. The vehicles being used here are on the scale of things like older SUVs, not LEGO bots... but it's still cool. LA to Vegas over rough terrain, autonomously... winner (of 100ish teams entered) gets (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.robotics)
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I just found this and I think it's pretty cool. (URL) then I knew someone who was a savant at playing back to Bacon so... besides I'm a sucker for totally frivolous uses of technology. It leads to some other neat places too, like determining what (...) (21 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Since we've finally announced, I thought I'd let y'all know what I've been working on for the past year and a half: (URL) lugnet.off-topic.geek Frank (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Courtesy of www.topfive.com October 14, 2003 The Top 9 Geek Proverbs (Part II) 9. if ( ! succeed() ) try { again() }; 8. Early to keyboard, early to mouse, makes a man divorced (and his wife keeps the house). 7. MasterCard is the root of e-commerce. (...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately it isn't that simple in this case. My new image host, pbase.com, assigns names to each image that are unique 8-digit numbers. To direct link to an image, I have to use this sort of URL: (URL) old (...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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