knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there was no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there s so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time, movies and boxing were the bread and butter of hbo. people watch a show because you re partly a [ bleep ]. i think what we learned through shows like the larry sanders show or oz is that we could do serious television. there s something in the air. and it ain t love. oz was cutting edge in what it was willing to share with the audience. hit me. hit me.
cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything is there was no commercials. we are depending on sponsors. there is so much we can do with language, violence and sex. to a large degree executives were sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time, movies and boxing were the bread and butter of hbo. people watch a show because you re partly a [ bleep ]. what we learned through shows like the larry sanders show or oz is that we could do serious television. there s something in the air. and it ain t love. oz was cutting edge in what it was willing to share with the audience. hit me in the face, brother.
network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there s so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to a large degree executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time movies and boxing were the bread and butter of hbo. people watch a show because you re partly an [ bleep ]. what we learned through shows like the larry sanders show or oz is that we could do serious television. there s something in the air. and it ain t love. oz was cutting edge in what it was willing to share with the audience. hit me! hit me! hit me in the face, brother.
and i ll leave without disturbing anything. would most hackers say that that s okay? thomas: yes. yes. anthony: it s in the service of knowledge, that s thomas: that s okay for most the hackers in our communities. i was lucky, i got into a very big, big hacker community here in shanghai and met a lot of great mentors. anthony: started in business at 21? thomas: exactly. anthony: quite an accomplishment. thomas: i didn t go to the college. anthony: you didn t go to college? thomas: i didn t go to the college. anthony: why not? thomas: most professors are way behind the, uh, the the development speed of the communities. anthony: why? your thomas: because anthony: your country is so advanced in so many other ways, why in this area? thomas: it s a network problem here in china. uh, we have the gfw. it s a great firewall and it blocked a lot of, uh, important information websites inside china and a lot of people they cannot get the cutting-edge technolo
breaking in to a an information base. thomas: yes. anthony: i m not doing any damage. i m gonna go in, i m gonna look around, i m gonna see how things work. and i ll leave without disturbing anything. would most hackers say that that s okay? thomas: yes. yes. anthony: it s in the service of knowledge, that s thomas: that s okay for most the hackers in our communities. i was lucky, i got into a very big, big hacker community here in shanghai and met a lot of great mentors. anthony: started in business at 21? thomas: exactly. anthony: quite an accomplishment. thomas: i didn t go to the college. anthony: you didn t go to college? thomas: i didn t go to the college. anthony: why not? thomas: most professors are way behind the, uh, the the development speed of the communities. anthony: why? your thomas: because anthony: your country is so advanced in so many other ways, why in this area? thomas: it s a network problem here in china. uh, we have th