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[sophiaserpentia]

To be honest, I'm not terribly worried about Matrix.

I've worked in the IT industry and can make a reasonable guess that officials were sold on the system by a team using a highly-scripted, very limited, barely functional "mock-up" of what the system "will" do once it is "complete."

A product of this scope must surely suffer from massive amounts of mission creep as well. The mission for even a simple product like the management system for a small office creeps so much it often takes years to develop something that should take a month or so.

Still, something like Matrix is probably an inevitability.

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[waysmeanstonola.livejournal.com]

gives an entirely different meaning to the phrase "the matrix has you."

Re: being stalked by d'peach mode

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Synchronicities usually seem to mean, "Hey, you. Yes, you! Pay attention!"

Many of the synchronicities that happen to me deal with music or musical artists. For example, the day after I saw Matrix II I said to myself I must make a note to find out more about the artist who did the music for the rave/orgy scene. The artist's name is Fluke. The next day I noticed that Fluke did a notably excellent remix of Bjork's "Big Time Sensuality" on a CD I recently bought.

[cruelly-kind.livejournal.com]

I agree that it's not likely to succeed -- government-contracted software projects are even worse than corporate ones, IME.

But, gadzooks -- the potential for abuse this monster has!

"We're tracking a sex killer -- give me a list of everyone for a 200 mile radius who buys porn and/or BDSM gear. Er, but leave out police chiefs and congresscritters."