Nah, we will go back to the days when the whole world consists of this valley and the one next door.

When our village attacks those bastards from over the mountain we will call it a world war.

We don’t talk about Fight Club…

The author, James Clavell wrote 6 novels set in Asia that span 400-ish years. Shogun - 1600 to the last set in the 1990s.

Shogun is one of the best but they are all worth a read.

My rating of the Series.

Shogun & Noble House tied for first. (both were made into mini-series in the 80s)

Tai-Pan

Gai-Jin

King Rat (his first novel, based on personal experence in WW2)

Whirlwind

Give them advice about how to do it to someone else.

The vast majority of people (i include myself in this) will fuck it up in some way and end up harming themselves. If you seek to destroy someone’s life and you don’t actually end it, you leave behind someone who has nothing left to lose and is highly motivated to find who is responsible.

If you destroy someone’s life they may end yours.

S tier: Keyser Söze…

Watched this for Stanley Kubrick, following his filmography for a while and his ambiguous portrayal amused me.

While Kubrick directed Spartacus, Kubrick himself did not consider it was a Kubrick Movie.

He did not control the script. He had no control over the production or the final cut. The original director was fired from the production and Kubrick was brought in on the suggestion of Kirk Douglas as they had worked together three years before on Paths of Glory.

While the finished product is excellent. IIRC Kubrick hated being a gun for hire and the studio meddling in the production was a big reason that he never worked on another film without having full control of the production.

Did you read the comment you replied to or did you just spit out this pre-packaed reply that addresses nothing the original comment raised?

Simply put.

We wouldn’t notice anything.

Our perception of the world would be based only on the compute cycles and not on any external time-frame.

The machine could run at a Million Billion hertz or at one clock-cycle per century and your perception of time inside the machine would be the same.

Same with low ram, we would have no indication if we were constantly being paged out to a hard drive and written back to ram as required.

Greg Egan gave a great explanation of this in the opening chapter of his Novel Permutation City

Am I the only one who thinks T2 was the last good film in this series?

Since then it has disappeared up it’s own arse the time lines and stories are so ridiculous.

I know, I have seen them.

I was sysadmin for a Bankruptcy and Insolvency Firm for more than a decade and walked into 100s of businesses on the point of failure. Many of them could not be saved simply because their systems were so bad it was better for a buyer to buy their equipment and start with a clean sheet.

The ice cream business was going under because the partner who had been the access self starter had an argument with the others and had walked out 18months ago.

The access system ran the entire business (accounting and wages were on other programs but the db feed them data) and he was the only one who had any idea.

Shit started to go wrong and they had no idea what to do.

I believe you. I can even guess the story.

In the late 80s/early 90s a staff member (self taught in office/access) quickly threw together something at the request of a manager as a stop gap wile a new proper system was specked out.

The person learned as they went and the system grew in functionality and complexity until the term spaghetti code was a massive understatement. It became their job.

The new proper system never arrived and they have been making do for the past 30-40 years.

I ran into the same thing a decade or so ago and it was a nightmare, but it was just an ice cream franchise, not prison related

The prisoner transport system ran on MS access lol

This is just…Well, if you wrote a prison escape movie that involved accessing an Access DB to reroute a transport you would be laughed at.

I understand not wanting to continue and how hard translating God Emperor to the screen would be but I wish he would give it a go.

As @chaogomu said, Dune Messiah completes Paul’s story arc but the comparison between Paul’s unwillingness to take the golden path and Leto’s acceptance of it could be a great thing to see.

Paul clings to his humanity and billions die in his name, Leto sacrificed it and changed the destiny of the human race.

Don’t worry Captain, it is logical. The needs of the many outweigh

The needs of the few

…or the one.

Mate, you are a none track record.

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I’m involved in our local community garden. We have just completed expanding our compositing facility and have a couple of hundred households households using it. The amount of food waste that no longer gets sent to a landfill is pretty gratifying and we produce huge amount of ridiculously rich compost. All from an inner city location in a city of 2M+ people.

And yet the 10,000 years of the clock’s run time is not even a single tick in comparison to geological time or the lifespan of the sun.

Human life spans are so short in comparison to the wider universe it is hard for the human mind to grasp. We are not even a blink in the eye of a person who lives to 100.

True but the problem is that they see 1,000,000s of people using the free version and think they are leaving money on the table by not charging and assume ~50% will happily pay for it when the conversion rate from free to paid is usually closer to 1% than it is to 50%.

Giving something away for free then expecting to make people pay for it is always a winning strategy…

I feel this post only applies to the MCU.