I don't think I'll like the second movie though...this plot doesn't seem to fold out like the first one's did. It just seems like he randomly got the power to go back in time, but Evan's was some sort of bloodline trait.

i agree, i just watched it and it does nothing to deserve the name "butterfly effect". the first movie made at least some sense in its own logic and it made one care about the characters, but this one is just badly written. absolutely not worth watching it... 

That was just a simple explanation but should be enough to tell that Hackers are healthy, Crackers unhealthy.

that's only partially true, well, depending from which point of view crackers as opposed to hackers, yes, the are evil, mostly use tools they dont understand to gain access to a system (script kiddies). but there are also a different kind of crackers which im very fan of: copy-protection crackers, i love them. the silliest copy-protections are inventend by even sillier companies which they sell for the most silly prices to software manufacturers, just to see it cracked even before the software hits the stores 

why i hate copy-protection? not because i do not want to buy the game (i buy most of them), but because im sick of paying 40$ for a game and then not be able to install it because of the CP - most prominent for such "behaviour" is surely starforce. nevertheless, companies are still trying to "protect" their goods with that bull, and cracker will hopefully always try to crack that.

[ Edited for language. --Karyuu ]

System of a Down - Selftitled -> for starting SOAD in general and never before heared vocals, lyrics, drums and arrangement
Slipknot - Iowa -> for having the most pressing, heavy & energetic tracks from slipknot and all other rock/metal albums
Pink Floyd - the dark side of the moon -> for countless hours on different drugs   
Kidney Thieves - both albums -> for deus ex 2 soundrack and some of the most dramatic rock/industrial mixes i ever heared
Portishead -> both studio albums + live album -> well its portishead, what else i have to say?  a class of its own
Massive Attack - Mezanine -> for a new style of triphop, just massive

im sure there are dozens more albums worthy the title "favorite ground breaking album", but that's all i can think of rightnow

But nower days with people like Geroge Bush, you can actually believe someone wrote it seriously.

well, judging from the PC they included in the article i believ george bush senior was maybe president at that time, surely not junior. it doesnt even have a 3 1/4" floppy, only 5 1/2" - i'd say its mostlikely a 386-486, so the year would be somewhat around 1994

can the poster of the article provide us with any information on when the article was published?

Orwellia BS, exactly!  Why make laws designed to prevent people from hurting themselves or exploiting people who are sick?

i begin to understand what kind of a person you are...

well you say, "Humans will always be biased, imperfect, socially driven creatures." - that sounds to me as if this was something bad and should (be) change(d). i mean, what would be a perfect, unbiased, non-socially driven creature to you? define perfect or unbiased for that matter. a borg might fit that describtions but you hopefully agree with me that borgs are far away from being humans. but if i take the opposite of every adjectiv you used for the description of humans, i end up with the description of a borg.

as i said, it "sounds" to me like you want humans to be changed. i believe you are going to tell me know that this is not the case, that humans simply are the way they are and to conterweight our "failures" we should put our faith in science. as an answer to that, let me quote from System of a Down:

Making two possibilities a reality,
Predicting the future of things we all know,
Fighting off the diseased programming
Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries.

Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence

I love all of those bands you just mentioned. I was going to reccommend Stone Sour to you, but then I saw the end part of your post

yeah the first stone sour album didn't kick as much as i hoped, but the second one is pure love

btw, to any swiss citizens here (are there any, btw?), stone sour will play the 1st of november in zurich's rohstofflager. it's certainly something you do not want to miss if you like stone sour (and live in switzerland, of course ) or good rock music in general.