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is that a synonym for sheer luck?

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 04:49:57 AM EST
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If I am not mistaken, in the Physics of Immortality Frank Tipler claims that the Holy Ghost is the Quantum Wavefunction of the Universe.

Do you still want to read it?

Oye, vatos, dees English sink todos mi ships, chinga sus madres, so escuche: el fleet es ahora refloated, OK? — The War Nerd

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 05:26:35 AM EST
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i would have dug taking a long bus ride with him in the seventies, i think.

now he seems too far out.

what do you think of david deutsch?

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 06:04:39 AM EST
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Re: Wednesday Photography Blog (4.00 / 2)

I not very familiar with his specific work nor have I read The Frabric of Reality, but he's not a crackpot.

Oye, vatos, dees English sink todos mi ships, chinga sus madres, so escuche: el fleet es ahora refloated, OK? — The War Nerd

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 06:08:27 AM EST
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Reminded of that marvellous moment at the end of "Bladerunner" - "Time...to Die" - when the android Roy Batty lets go, as his time runs out, of the dove he has hold of, and the camera follows it upwards...

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 04:18:38 AM EST
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Re: Wednesday Photography Blog (none / 0)

"Bladerunner" - What a great film! If only there were more like that - even if it had little to do with the great Philip K. Dick's story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" upon which it was supposedly based.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 10:02:15 AM EST
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Re: Wednesday Photography Blog (4.00 / 2)

If not for any other reason, I have a soft spot for that film as I spent the entire interview to get onto my philosophy degree discussing that film. Left with the lecturer saying, of course you can have a place, if we have four years of you we might actually get to talk about something we want to.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 10:17:19 AM EST
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Bladerunner (none / 0)

I picked up a DVD of the 'director's cut' for 6 quid when I was last in London. I've been waiting for the right evening (darker, without interruptions) to strip off the cellophane.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 11:15:19 AM EST
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ah so no voiceover and the subplot that explains certain important details put back in. (plus the bit of the shining taken out)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 11:22:40 AM EST
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I'll report back maybe by the weekend ;-)

The nights are dawing in and I am plannng to do very little of note, except tinker with a presentation

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 11:27:39 AM EST
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Ha. I wonder if Izzy made the director's cut?

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 11:33:04 AM EST
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Hmmm... tell us more

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 11:43:36 AM EST
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She was an extra is all I know... Or all I can tell you withut having to kill you. ;)

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 11:49:10 AM EST
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Re: Bladerunner (4.00 / 4)

What am I supposed to do? Check shoes in all the crowd scenes?

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 12:05:47 PM EST
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they must have been her own shoes, can you imagine them trying to get the shoes they'd lent her back at the end of a days filming? ;-)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 12:14:20 PM EST
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She has already had half this blog skinning their eyes on that movie frame by frame*, and no one has ever found her.

But the director's cut, now...

(* slight exaggeration possible)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 12:18:50 PM EST
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What kind of shoes are we looking for? Moon boots? ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 12:58:34 PM EST
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Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 01:10:27 PM EST
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Are you sure these are LA in 2019?

I'd say more Barthelona 1989, but whadda I know? I only wear Docsides year in and year out, unless the snow gets above 1 meter deep.

I Dubbin them.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 01:23:37 PM EST
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These will go in any era. We used to have a name for these shoes when I was a horny young man in my mid twenties, but I can't say it on this family site.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 01:42:14 PM EST
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Oh go on! We're very relaxed about such concepts here in the W*st, you know.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 01:45:36 PM EST
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I don't want to be troll rated by every woman on ET and lose my "trusted user" status.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 01:50:25 PM EST
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Where's your sense of adventure? We also have to remember redemption. Why should we be still punished for mistakes we made when we young? Oh, but I forgot, you are still breaking wind en famille so you haven't grown out of that younger personality yet ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 02:25:52 PM EST
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Believe me; it's a shock when I look at myself in the mirror each morning.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 05:20:27 PM EST
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Replicant or Human? (none / 0)

Emphasizing Deckard's struggle to find his own identity, and so provoke the audience to feel as he does in their struggle to grasp Deckard's identity, and ultimately to question their understanding of how we can know our humanity is different, and how we can know at all (cf. epistemology). If the audience ignores the answer until the end, and the characters do not know it either, then the story again provokes the audience, and the characters, to ask: What is the difference between being human and being non-human, if I can be either, and I need someone else to tell me which I am?

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 01:47:36 PM EST
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Your skinned eyes are not my fault! I already told you you can't see me in it. Oh, well. I send apologies anyway. To tell the truth, I've never seen the director's cut.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 03:56:04 PM EST
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