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The 10 biggest disappointments of the Decade
There have been some surprising events, affirming life in the last ten years. But you do not want to hear about them, right?
Thought not. Here are the most crushing disappointments of the decade …
10. The Y2K Bug: Crappest techno-crisis of its history (January 1, 2000) The disappointments began earlier this decade. For years there have been rumors of an impending crisis IT due to the widespread (and rather short-sighted ") abbreviation of the year in double digits.
As the media alarmist apocalyptic countdown '00 Conversion, the millennium hype increased considerably and, as I recall, people started storing food cans and smooth analog steam hair in a desperate attempt to prevent the annihilation of civilization.
Now, I'm no Luddite apocalypse-longing, but I expected a little excitement after the millennium – perhaps some light looting, or the eradication of global data of credit cards. He also had a huge pile of unread books for catch up.
Unfortunately, 2000 is here, what we get? Problems bus ticketing in Australia. Garbage.
9. Firefly was canceled: What a disappointment gorram (December 2002) of Joss Whedon quietly impressive science fiction series was doomed from the beginning, when television executives decided to air Fox idiots initial episodes in the wrong order before removing it without compunction.
It was not necessarily the height of the best shows of the decade, but many products are less inexplicably blocked our TV season after season, year after year (* cough * Cough * Lost * Prison Break).
But not poor old Firefly, which lasted less than one in seven for years. That's almost three-quarters of a decade Captain Reynolds and crew jokes, bar fights, bank robberies and we lost. Instead we dollhouse useless.
8. Indiana Jones 4: One more proof that George Lucas hates mankind (May 22, 2008) by George Lucas, Dark Lord of Deception bearded, spent his early career with love making wonderful escapist fantasies that defines our childhood years and captured the imagination of a generation to flourish.
During the 1990s, however, completed their journey to the dark side of engineering alone cinema 20th century most heartbreaking disappointment: The Threat Ghost.
In this decade, after more than defecating on our childhood dreams with two more kicks intergalactic scrotum, turned Mephistophelian hand to supervise the destruction of his other beloved creation: Indiana Jones.
Nuclear explosion-proof refrigerators, clichés son conspiracies so long absent and abroad: it was not the Indy gay whipping of old, but a cynical, hackneyed fake, CGI-dotted. Why we are so hate it, George?
7. Windows Vista: Bill Gates faces validates the smug Mac owner (January 30, 2007) The monolithic Microsoft Corporation has had much criticism for years. All this is fully justified after the release of its latest operating system, which managed to be even crapper than above. Security flaws, hardware compatibility issues, the draconian digital rights management – the list goes on and on (and does the length of cases, p. Wikipedia entitled "Criticism Windows "Vista.)
However, the most disappointing thing about Windows Vista is that justified the target = "_blank"> Disturbing self-satisfaction of Apple Mac users, making them much more irritating and punchable.
6. Duke Nukem Forever: Duke Nukem Never (2000 onwards) 13. That's how long we've been waiting for the triumphant return of the wise-cracking, decidedly hunting PC video no action hero. After announcing the game way back in 1997, the developer, 3DRealms, under long-suffering fans to a trickle hilariously prolonged screenshots, rumors and bold manifestoes of contents, the teaser trailer released on strangers to keep their hopes alive every time more tenuous.
You may wonder what on earth were used to develop this game. The Antikythera mechanism? Windows Vista? However, some think – despite that are fun – were rendered irrelevant in May this year when 3DRealms announced they were closing and that development on the eight-time winner Wired.com 'S annual awards vapourware had finally left.
Or maybe not? It is rumored that DNF is still in the cards. It's time to let go people …
5. Large Hadron Collider is turned on: It's OK (September 10, 2008) are not to blame for the hype, I suppose, for the LHC is nothing if not is quite esoteric. Therefore, to justify the enormous costs, and to leave us ordinary people in the whole affair, which cranked up the generator humming media.
The popular press excitably proclaimed that humanity was on the cusp of discovering the unifying theory of everything in the history of everything (always), while nutjobs doomsaying predicted that we were about to be sucked into a black hole of our own making.
And dammit, it worked. It was an exciting time: absolutely incomprehensible, yet pregnant with the wonderful possibilities of human effort. The LHC was like the lair of a Bond villain because of Christ. Had particle physics made sexy.
But then lights it. And there was no black hole and not scientific epiphanies snapshots, and our brains MTV revelry, the search for instant gratification just off.
And then blew a fuse.
4. The aftermath Matrix: The Wachoswkis away their own burrows (May / 2003) in November thanks to the avalanche of terrible movie sequels, film historians will look back in the Noughties as "The Decade of the imagination forgotten." But while most did not make sense, continuations of franchises cynical past-their high risk or previously concluded (see No. 8), the Matrix sequels are a much more disappointing.
The original movie 90 years ended in a highly satisfactory synthesis of existential angst, visual flare, innovative action and intellectual depth that seemed to herald the exciting future of the new millennium cinema.
But instead of delivering on this promise, the Wachowski blew. Twice. The first inventive action movie was replaced with CGI exercises tired and exaggerated, playful deconstruction of the concepts of reality gave way to annoyingly oblique cod-philosophy and mysticism tough religious, and what we get instead of the original effort to cool? That ridiculous rave scene.
3. re-election of Bush: The Rest the blows against the World (November 2004) OK, manipulation of voting on one side, somehow, almost made sense. I mean, the Democratic candidate … umm … One moment … John Kerry (just Wikipedia'd), was not a memorable candidate. But of all the other logical (and logical) point of view, was completely of confusion. Bush? Again? WTF America?
There is a saying where I come from, voting for a fool once, shame … shame on you. Vote for a fool twice umm … all … everyone is very, very disappointed.
2. The effects of financial crisis: Time for a change? Erm … no (2007 onwards) Where the financial crisis reached in the latter part of the decade, bombarded by grandstanding bravado on economic reform policies, I found myself trapped by a fleeting moment of delirious optimism, which I almost believe that our treacherous leaders pandering votes were actually capable of instigating a tangible and positive change.
"Finally, I thought," the world has accepted that the global economy is a ridiculous farce, surely our benevolent leaders rip it and instead we will build a progressive, fair and sustainable system advent of an era of peace and harmony that will last for eons. "Shame and disappointment soon after.
To use the neologism of Homer Simpson, the economic crisis was the quintessence of "Crisitunity." Provided a real opportunity for real change. We could have slapped the smug look gill of bankers and take out the damn irresponsible derivatives and greed.
But with hands greased by political rhetoric powerless, public apathy and the hegemonic influence of the banking sector, the opportunity slipped hands. Instead, bankers allowed to pursue their greedy business, threatening global economic security in the relentless pursuit of growth and benefits. This time, however, with us footing the bill.
As Homer would say: D'oh!
1. No contact with life forms Alien: Seriously, this is very boring (2000 to present) We know you're little green bastards out there. A simple hello would have sufficed. We had spent the previous decade with Mulder and Scully almost proving its existence, stamp the notion of his imminent arrival in our collective consciousness on a weekly basis. Y do not even have the decency to upload.
Here's an idea for you: give up the hidden cavity poll, grow some balls – or the equivalent anatomical extraterrestrial – And stop all disappointing.
You better come out next year with a good excuse or you do some sweet gadgets Arthur C. Clarke target = "_blank"> seems right Dick. And that's not right.
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