I don't know if you're ready to see what I want to show you. MESSENGER: Thomas Anderson? Yeah, that's me. Either you choose to be at your desk on time from this day forth.or you choose to find another job. Thus, if an employee has a problem, the company has a problem. This is one of the top software companies in the world.because employees understand they are part of a whole. You believe that you are special, that the rules do not apply to you. What is the Matrix? The answer is out there, Neo. And when he found me.he told me I wasn't really looking for him.I was looking for an answer. I know, because I was once looking for the same thing. I know why you hardly sleep.why you live alone and why, night after night.you sit at your computer. How did you do that? Right now, all I can tell you.is that you're in danger. The Trinity? That cracked the IRS D-base? That was a long time ago. How do you know that name? I know a lot about you. Get some R and R? What do you think, Dujour? Should we take him with us? Definitely. Ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or dreaming? All the time. CHOI: Something wrong, man? You look a little whiter than usual. What? What the hell? "Follow the white rabbit." Who is it? CHOI: It's Choi. BROWN: We have the name of their next target. I sent two units! They're bringing her down now! No, lieutenant, your men are already dead. You give me that "juris-my-dick-tion" crap, you can cram it up your ass. Lieutenant, you were given specific orders. ![]() COP 1: Freeze! Police! COP 2: Hands on your head! COP 2: Do it! Do it now! - Lieutenant. CYPHER: You don't, do you? TRINITY: Did you hear that? CYPHER: Hear what? TRINITY: Are you sure this line is clean? CYPHER: Yeah, of course I'm sure. CYPHER: Do you? TRINITY: It doesn't matter what I believe. TRINITY: Morpheus believes he is the One. ![]() CYPHER: You like him, don't you? You like watching him. ![]() TRINITY: I know, but I felt like taking a shift. Still, the settling of claims and conflicts over “stolen” rain will be a new and problematic form of dispute for the world particularly if the summers are likely to remain as hot as this one.TRINITY: Is everything in place? CYPHER: You're not to relieve me. A four decades-old UN convention bans “ hostile use of environmental modification techniques,” for what that is worth, and international outcry is likely should a country seek to inflict an endless dry season upon their opponents. If controlling the weather is a luxury of the powerful and wealthy, water access may become a tool of pressure or a trigger of conflict. The geopolitical implications would become more troubling as calls for restitution are likely to escalate. The jurisdiction over not yet fallen rain “resources” will be tricky, with no applicable international law regulating the issue directly. If cloud seeding becomes more mainstream, it is easy to imagine the Iranian regime (or other authoritarians) using weather modification as a weapon against internal and external opposition, or blaming a neighbors’ seeding efforts as the source of domestic weather woes.Ī hot or thirsty country triggering rainfall to the detriment of their neighbors is arguably taking what’s not theirs. On the other end of the Persian Gulf from the UAE, the heat has triggered a severe drought in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan region, with the government violently repressing desperate protesters. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Yet as thousands of workers toil day and night to finish the project, Ethiopian negotiators remain locked in talks over how the dam will affect downstream neighbours, principally Egypt. Across Ethiopia, poor farmers and rich businessmen alike eagerly await the more than 6,000 megawatts of electricity officials say it will ultimately provide. ![]() The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a 145-metre-high, 1.8-kilometre-long concrete colossus is set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa. A general view of the construction works at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba.
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