The Reavers equate to Native Americans?
POSTED BY: Novagrass
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 00:00
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As for Hollyweirds portrayal of "non-whites" look at the current portrayal of Business men and "the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy."
Hey, I always thought that was spot-on! But then I'm a fuzzy-headed liberal. (Well almost, I don't drive a Volvo.) So I guess I'm just obeying my own stereotype!
Keep current man! Liberals drive Subarus like me (OK the wife gets the new Subie, I get the old Van)
Jeff
Who scored farther left on the scale than his wife.
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[Hey, remember the computer piracy issue of Byte? The cover was a Viking ship with a 5-1/4" floppy instead of a sail. (Scary thought. Is anybody here besides Jeff and me old enough to remember 5-1/4" floppies?)
Hey! I BOUGHT 8" floppies for a DEDICATED WORD PROCESSOR! And ribbons and daisywheels as well.
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Radiation is an interesting issue. Since JW is bent on doing "hard" SF, I might have expected him to leave out the traditional mutant monsters. It's bad science -- mutation means minor changes, not instant transformation into an X-Man.
The radiation effects on the Reavers would be considerable pain, insanity, combined with the drugs needed to dull the pain, and the sure knowlege they are gonna die real soon and NOTHING they do matters.
Jeff
Who spent a number of years learning about the effects of chemistry and radiation on humans.
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Is anybody here besides Jeff and me old enough to remember 5-1/4" floppies?)
I'm not old at all, I was one of those snotty nose little kids who just liked playing video games and owned my first home computer back in 1979. It was an Atari 800 with 48K of RAM and a 80K disk drive.
In school, I messed with the Apples and TRS-80s. And during a summer job I even got to play with the boss's IMSAI, which to this day, I'm told, still runs. After that, it's a bunch of CP/M boxes, mainframes like the PDPs and IBM System whatevers, then finally to the IBM PC with DOS and eventually Windows.
It's really kinda hilarious sometimes when I talk about the good'ole days to people 2 or 3 times my age. Oh, and remember the movie War Games? We did all that stuff and then some. Remember all the fun with Captain Crunch?
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The last time I picked up a Tom Clancey (the one where Jack Ryan becomes President -- now that's a scary thought!), he made quite a good case for Volvos as the fuzzy-head car. People who have silly qualms about guns and other security measures drive them for the illusion of safety. Lot of good it does you when the terrorists are out to destroy your way of life!
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