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Finally something has pissed off enough geeks. I thought the government's lack of respect towards due-process, the systematic breakdown of basic freedom or the

Finally something has pissed off enough geeks. I thought the government's lack of respect towards due-process, the systematic breakdown of basic freedom or the massive wealth transfer to the rich via dollar printing/bailout would've done it. V for Vendetta.

russellallen 16y ago
V for Vendetta starred Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, and Steven Fry. It was a mainstream Hollywood movie which took over $132 million at the box office. It was a Warner Bros film, a subsidiary of Times Warner which is "the world's second largest entertainment conglomerate in terms of revenue (behind Disney and ahead of News Corporation and Viacom), as well as the world's largest media conglomerate". Your dreams of anarchism were manufactured in a bottle and sold to you on a silver screen. Grow up. (Edit: as acknowledged below, the final 'grow up' is a bit snarky. Sorry, that's withdrawn)
- chailatte 16y ago
  V for vendetta is a ten-issue Graphic-Novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd. In writing V for Vendetta, Moore drew upon an idea for a strip titled The Doll, which he had submitted at the age of 22 to DC Thomson.
  - russellallen 16y ago
    Oh I knew everyone would say "But it was a graphic novel". Bar humbug. Anonymous all wear plastic masks from the movie at protests for a start.
    - pyre 16y ago
      Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the masks were in the graphic novel too.
- kariatx 16y ago
  Not exactly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta
- lurker17 16y ago
  https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/V_for_Vendetta https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/V_for_Vendett... """ V for Vendetta is a ten-issue Graphic-Novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. A mysterious revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. Warner Bros. released a film adaptation in 2006. """
- andrewljohnson 16y ago
  Down-voted, not because I disagree with you (though I do), but rather down-voted for being both snarky and cliched. Your comment would have sat better without the "grow up" there at the end.
  - russellallen 16y ago
    Fair enough. It was a bit snarky. I withdraw it.
- ladon86 16y ago
  Yes, and 1984 is a book which has sold over 25 million copies for a publisher which is now an imprint of Random House which is owned by Bertelsmann (2009 revenue €15b). That doesn't diminish its value as a work of art or as a cultural reference point.
borism 16y ago
V for Vendetta subtle http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=V http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=V
nerfhammer 16y ago
> massive wealth transfer to the rich via dollar printing Wat?
- smokeyj 16y ago
  Expanding the money supply diminishes the value of those holding the current money, such as those with savings and fixed income. We bailed out banks and other big companies, it's not like we started up the printers to enrich the needy and poor. Inflation is rising, jobs are dwindling, credit is unavailable yet dirt cheap.
  - nerfhammer 16y ago
    Price inflation hurts savers and helps those with debt. Unless you're saying the poor have savings and the rich are in debt this would seem to help the poor and hurt the rich.
    - smokeyj 16y ago
      Inflation does lessen the burden of debt, but you would have to have huge of debts for the payoff of inflation to be worth it (which is true for the government). Lets say a poor person has $3k in debt, if the cost of living increases they would be less likely to service the debt, while accruing more interest on the debt.
      - nerfhammer 16y ago
        There still doesn't seem to be a "massive wealth transfer to the rich" in there
        smokeyj 16y ago
        Previous comment was explaining inflation doesn't help the poor, this is pretty non controversial. The transfer of wealth would be the fact that we bailed our companies that made stupid risks because they were greedy, and the only way to fix it was to give them gobs of cash. These gobs of cash are simply printed, contributing to inflation, while keeping greedy banksters employed. We saved the wealthy while subjecting the rest to inflation.

russellallen 16y ago

V for Vendetta starred Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, and Steven Fry. It was a mainstream Hollywood movie which took over $132 million at the box office. It was a Warner Bros film, a subsidiary of Times Warner which is "the world's second largest entertainment conglomerate in terms of revenue (behind Disney and ahead of News Corporation and Viacom), as well as the world's largest media conglomerate". Your dreams of anarchism were manufactured in a bottle and sold to you on a silver screen. Grow up. (Edit: as acknowledged below, the final 'grow up' is a bit snarky. Sorry, that's withdrawn)

chailatte 16y ago
V for vendetta is a ten-issue Graphic-Novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd. In writing V for Vendetta, Moore drew upon an idea for a strip titled The Doll, which he had submitted at the age of 22 to DC Thomson.
- russellallen 16y ago
  Oh I knew everyone would say "But it was a graphic novel". Bar humbug. Anonymous all wear plastic masks from the movie at protests for a start.
  - pyre 16y ago
    Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the masks were in the graphic novel too.
kariatx 16y ago
Not exactly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta
lurker17 16y ago
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/V_for_Vendetta https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/V_for_Vendett... """ V for Vendetta is a ten-issue Graphic-Novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. A mysterious revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. Warner Bros. released a film adaptation in 2006. """
andrewljohnson 16y ago
Down-voted, not because I disagree with you (though I do), but rather down-voted for being both snarky and cliched. Your comment would have sat better without the "grow up" there at the end.
- russellallen 16y ago
  Fair enough. It was a bit snarky. I withdraw it.
ladon86 16y ago
Yes, and 1984 is a book which has sold over 25 million copies for a publisher which is now an imprint of Random House which is owned by Bertelsmann (2009 revenue €15b). That doesn't diminish its value as a work of art or as a cultural reference point.

borism 16y ago

V for Vendetta subtle http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=V http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=V

nerfhammer 16y ago

> massive wealth transfer to the rich via dollar printing Wat?

smokeyj 16y ago
Expanding the money supply diminishes the value of those holding the current money, such as those with savings and fixed income. We bailed out banks and other big companies, it's not like we started up the printers to enrich the needy and poor. Inflation is rising, jobs are dwindling, credit is unavailable yet dirt cheap.
- nerfhammer 16y ago
  Price inflation hurts savers and helps those with debt. Unless you're saying the poor have savings and the rich are in debt this would seem to help the poor and hurt the rich.
  - smokeyj 16y ago
    Inflation does lessen the burden of debt, but you would have to have huge of debts for the payoff of inflation to be worth it (which is true for the government). Lets say a poor person has $3k in debt, if the cost of living increases they would be less likely to service the debt, while accruing more interest on the debt.
    - nerfhammer 16y ago
      There still doesn't seem to be a "massive wealth transfer to the rich" in there
      - smokeyj 16y ago
        Previous comment was explaining inflation doesn't help the poor, this is pretty non controversial. The transfer of wealth would be the fact that we bailed our companies that made stupid risks because they were greedy, and the only way to fix it was to give them gobs of cash. These gobs of cash are simply printed, contributing to inflation, while keeping greedy banksters employed. We saved the wealthy while subjecting the rest to inflation.