Well, if you had a well established controlling interest in all industries world wide, it wouldn't just be an oil supply that you could cut him from. They needed manufacturing or at least raw materials for guns, tanks, uniforms, ammunition, supplies, etc, etc.
But we could play the what if game all day. I was simply proposing... well... I was making fun of TFA.:).. and so far there has been no real evidence of a Nazi nuclear weapons program. They knew we had one. They wanted one too. It was a race. I've read the rumors and speculation, but in reality no test sites have been found. No remains of the sites required to build such a weapon have been found. No prototype nor anything close to a prototype has been found. There have been a few things vaguely resembling notes, but they're as significant as if I drew a sketch of a saucer shaped UFO, labeled it "Secret US Gov't Space Craft", and gave it to someone else. Sketches don't mean you have a prototype or finished product.
If you can take that evidence as proof, then we have proof that we're just a few months away from seeing Duke Nukem Forever, and have been for over a decade.:)
Really, my sympathies to them if they do. I kinda of habitually switch drives, wipe them out and do clean installs of different OS's, etc, etc. Their best best for finding out what I know is either bugging the rooms (even easier tech). Or the classic no-tech abduction and interrogation. Oh, I mean detaining a potential person of interest and questioning.:)
Hmm, is that silent black helicopters I hear hovering overhead? Let me go check.
In my home machine? As a matter of fact, I would. It has a clear side, and an illuminated fan. I didn't get it for that purpose, it was just the cheapest case that the store had, that would do the job. It sits where I can see the inside of it while I'm using the computer. It only sits where I can see it, because it was the only place to put the machine. It is helpful to glance in to see if there is dust in the heatsinks or fans.
I know every wire and component that is suppose to be there, since I built it myself. They can install anything they'd like. Actually, I invite them to, but anything they leave on my property is considered a "gift" to me, to do with as I please.:)
You've also grown up, which changes things. Our teenage immortality is abandon for the reality that we are going to die soon, so lets not make it any more painful than necessary.
I was in a car accident in the 80's. I learned then that vehicles don't stop as fast as you want them to, and pain can last an awful long time (permanent damage to the fleshy operator). So I drive more and more conservatively as time goes on. But... Incidents have happened that were outside of my control. You can't control nor predict random actions of everyone on the road, especially in areas with heavy traffic. I've been in a few more accidents, which leaves me wanting to always drive where there are no other cars.
I know that more accidents will hurt me worse. After my last MRI, the doctor gave me very simple advice. If I planned on continuing to walk (or survive), don't get in any more accidents. If there's a hard hit, it's likely I'll either be crippled from the waist down, or from my neck down. The later would probably result in a rather short life expectancy (i.e., seconds).
Still, I do take my car racing (closed courses, not open street racing). I know the physical limitations of my car, how well the ABS works, etc, etc. If you put a mark on the road, I can be doing 65mph, and then stand on the brakes to stop within an inch of that mark. Do I do that as normal practice? Nope. Have I had to in an emergency? Several times.
As for traction control, it just annoys me. My car (2000 TransAm WS/6) doesn't have it. My friends car (2000 Camaro SS) does. It doesn't perform all that well with the traction control on. Well, for obvious reasons. It's limiting the possibility of tire slip. I'm practiced in controlling that myself, and can "drift" (I hate that term), but stay within the capabilities of the vehicle.
I was wondering how AI's would deal with the same thing. Around an international airport that I live by, they were changing the highways. About 5 highways go to or pass through that area. Pretty much over the last 6 years, all the roads have been torn up and laid back down. New ramps and overpasses have been installed. It was confusing enough that even locals who don't drive that route every day would get confused on where to go. Even when I drove it every day, sometimes I'd find that where the road went straight, today it went off somewhere else.
For about a year, there was one point where they had shifted all the lanes to the left pretty quickly They didn't paint over the old lines, so you had lane lines going a little to the right, and newer lines going to the left. It wasn't always clearly distinguishable, except I knew where the old lanes were from habit. It was very "interesting" to drive in the rain. With enough rain on the road, the lines would disappear (covered in water), so you had 3 lanes of cars doing 70mph, and you knew everyone had to shift. I don't know how many accidents happened there, but I'm sure there were at least a few.
The Fleet Of Ages story is interesting. That would make for an interesting book or movie. It has so much to explain, that it eluded to in so few words.
Why did the future become barren? Could it be corrected by eliminating the future tech that had been brought back? Is Earth barren because humanity moved on to a higher plane of existance, or went to colonize the stars? Or was it because a person or group that was to have never existed was created (cure cancer, two patients reproduced, now you have a family tree where it would have simply ended?), who did something disastrous? Did an advancement in technology cause and end to the population (Stargate SG-1 S04E16 or Stargate SG-1 S10E20)? Did the final travel to future Earth simply land at a location that was populated, but is now abandon (i.e., the Manhattan National Forest, rather than the metropolis Manhattan, New York)?
It would have required the whole scenario that suggested. Basically own a controlling interest in every company in the world.:)
Hitler (Godwin law safe, since it is in the timeline we are discussing) would have an awful hard time fighting a war, if he couldn't buy and sustain the equipment for his miltary. There is historical proof that it his side of the war was close to failure just on the fact they were having a hard time getting fuel for the vehicles. Just as you could prevent a company from doing bad things by crippling it by preventing them from getting raw materials, you can stop a war from happening. If you ordered a stop of distribution for raw weapons materials, and finished products, he would have just been a crazed militant without an army. They're pretty benign without the required support.
Of course, that would change other things. If WWII never happened, Einstein wouldn't have made it to America. Nuclear technologies would likely have never been invented, so there would have been no nuclear weapons, but it's also likely that nuclear power would have never been invented.
If WWII never happened, those who died in the war would have survived and some would have reproduced. The timeline would have changed significantly, and the population of the world today wouldn't be the same population as exists now.
What I'd be curious about is to do the math and figure out if it would be cost effective, accounting for inflation.
According to the National Mining Association, in 1928, 1 troy ounce was $20.66. In 2008, it was $871.96. Today it was trading at $1343.32. Would it be financially wise to buy gold at $1343? Adjusting for inflation, what can be purchased now for $1343 would cost approximately $108.22 in 1928. Since the loss would be a net gain over time (82 years, as we're presuming), it wouldn't matter much.
But there is the power aspect of it. What if you had a controlling interest in major industry (manufacturing of all sorts, including automotive), technology, and had a controlling or strong interest in every company, which in turn would give you a strong negotiation position with political figures world wide. Political leaders simply won't say no to someone who can honestly say "I have controlling interest in 90% of the business and industry in your [city/state/region/country]. Do what I say, or I will depopulate your entire country and bankrupt you. You will be the king of your kitchen staff, because there won't be anyone left." Greed and corruption falls out of the picture, when corporations aren't fighting against each other, and everyone has open access to everything they need or want. Sorry for the socialist ring to that, it's totally unintentional.
Imagine every war starting at WWII never happened. No nukes. No cold war. No traumatized (physically and mentally) war veterans. No starving people. No overworked, underpaid slaves in sweat shops.
That's something the world needs. Rather than letting politicians fight over things, and start wars, things could be settled in a good business manner. Keep the people happy. Happy workers are productive workers. And we could avoid so many things that are obviously not right. The massive pollution that we've spewed from the beginning of the industrial age is senseless, but could be fixed. The same recursive loop that would set the position of power could also bring back technologies from 2010 to 1928, in turn having better technologies to bring back on the next trip.
Dammit, and I can't find the keys to my time machine. Anyone know how to hot wire a DeLorean?
Well, the voices in my head usually sound like Casey Kasem. I can't always hear the words, but there's something about counting down, and top something list... I may be telepathically listening to terrorists. At least the demons are gone. One place I lived, I could hear talking, and then I could hear Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath a lot.
Thinking about it, I haven't heard them since I had some dental work done about a year ago.
That would be "Chesapeake and Potomac (C & P) Telephone Company", you insensitive and anachronistic clod.
The problem would be to show up with properly dated currency. If you show up with a 2010 currency and try to buy anything, you'd get laughed at, or end up in jail.
You could set up a nice recursive loop though. Purchase one share, and compound the dividends and interest over 82 years. Go back with that money, and buy more shares. Lather, rinse, repeat, and you'd be primary share holder immediately (well, in quite a few loops, but it would appear to happen instantaneously. Lets not forget about that whole pesky "don't change the timeline" rule. When you (or your trust) ends up being the majority shareholder of every company that survives through 2010. Your decisions on buys and sells would make or break a company. "JWSmythe Industries bought their stock? BUY BUY!"
My mistake on the years. For some reason I mentally associated "Hera" with "Lucy".
It's still way too long for a 1st or 2nd generation character to exist, and since they kinda blew up all their ships, there wouldn't be much more than trace evidence to work with. It's not like Star Trek. As far as those story lines go, the major groups live on, so they can always make a new show or movie with a fresh cast and only hints of stylings of the old ships, etc. They *could* place a movie 150,000 years in the future, and the fans may accept it.
There were some pretty harsh shadows, so there would have been some pretty bright lighting (or a bright morning/evening) when it was filmed.
They could have been shielding their eyes from the light, holding their wig on, or as others suggested, an early hearing aide.
Talking to yourself isn't all that uncommon. Sometimes you're just reminding yourself what the grocery list is. Sometimes you're talking to voices in your head.
Or lets go with the conspiracy. They were on a cell phone, with no cell towers. They were on a satellite phone without any satellites (or at least that humans put there?).
We'll apply Occam's Razor to figure this one out. It's obvious that a wormhole was opened through time and space. This allowed the future traveler to "accidentally" walk in front of the camera, while talking on his cell phone, which did have service through the wormhole. He was here to show past generations that there is hope for the future of humanity, regardless of the darkness that will be falling upon us soon. Fear not linear time travelers, some of you will survive.
Or it was just an old guy with primitive but contemporary hearing aide.
I'll agree there. A little acid trip, hallucinating he's marrying his bed buddie, with the rest of the cast filling in family and friends parts (huh?), and then she has to save the day. It's expected there will be a not so great episode mixed in with the rest. I prefer it to be the exception, rather than the rule. That's usually where viewership drops off significantly. They can tolerate a few crappy episodes in a row, but after that, they'll go find something else to do.:)
SGU is getting a bit better. I had some serious doubts about it at the beginning.
Episode 1) Oh look, we're on a ship. We're trapped a billion light years from earth. We're all going to die.
Episode 2) Oh look, the ship leaks, and we have no air. We're all going to die.
Episode 3) Ditto 2.
Episode 4) Oh look, we're out of power. We're all going to die.
Episode 5) Oh look, we're flying into a star. We're all going to die.
Episode 6) Oh look, we're out of water. We're all going to die.
At least it got generally better from there.:) I'm looking forward to the next two episodes. The blurb S02E07 looks interesting. I predict fist fights, confessions, and more control over the ship (and therefore get rid of the tedious crap like the countdown timer)
My girlfriend likes Caprica, so I've been passively watching it (and more actively fucking around on my computer). It doesn't have anything resembling a story line I can get into, and there are some rather annoying bits, like modern props and somewhat contemporary (modern to 100 years ago) styling. It wasn't quite so prevalent in BSG, except for that who Gitmo-esque subplot.
I told my girlfriend, the biggest reason I can't get into it is because I already know how it ends. It's a timeless classic. People build robots. Robots get big, mean and eventually out of control. They fight with the humans. The humans fight back. There's years of pouting where they live on different planets, and then the robots get their revenge. Big explosions, almost everyone dies. Subplots. Subplots. Subplots. The survivors go run off and find another planet, and start over yet again.
Sorry if I wrapped up Caprica and BSG for any of you to easily.
The fucked up the ending of BSG, so they have no room to continue it, so they had to do a prequel. Well, unless you consider millions of years of "they lived happily ever after" an adequate time to pick up a sequel. Obviously, the story had a finite beginning and end. It wasn't necessary to try to drag it on.
Just kidding. I can't afford enough bullets to bring the ratio of idiotic people down to a dull roar rather than a majority. That means I'll never get a jury of my peers. I'll get a jury of idiots, ala Idiocracy.
Maybe we can just get a happy medium, and get a kill switch that'll shut down the idiots side of the Internet. Well, not entirely shut down. It'll have to give them a message that tells them, "Because you are stupid, you cannot play on the online."
You know, it doesn't really matter. I, uh, I don't like my job. I don't think I'm gonna go anymore. I don't know if I'll get fired, but I really don't like it so I'm not gonna go.
It won't matter much. I think Milton wants to set the building on fire. I think he'll probably do it.
I don't think I'd like another job. I never really liked paying bills. I don't think I'll do that either. I want to take Joanna over at Chotchkie's out for dinner and then I wanna go to my apartment and watch Kung Fu.
Filters are your friend. Forward anything not directly sent to you (i.e., you are a Cc/Bcc) to a holding folder. Of you need to dig out a specific message, you'll have it. Otherwise, you can ignore them all until you have time to get to them (which could be never).
The only thing worse than getting 100 emails a day, is having 100 walk-up or phone interruptions asking if you got the email that you ignored.:)
Your 24 hour mark seems consistent with what I've seen other people say about staying awake for prolonged periods.
I used to do 48 hours pretty regularly. I'm fairly confident that I have "Delayed sleep phase syndrome", but I haven't had insurance to go see the proper specialists about it. The main symptom is sleeping in late, and going to sleep late. One of the other symptoms is that if I miss a sleep period, I won't typically feel tired, so I'll continue the second day like I had proper sleep. The following night, I'll catch up though.
If I try to stay up beyond the 36 to 48 hours, I'll have intermittent auditory hallucinations. It's things like someone calling my name, when they couldn't have possibly done it. 72 to 96 hours is my limit, but at that extreme, I really drag along until I can find somewhere resembling comfortable to fall down.:)
I'm not a pshrink, but I'm fairly sure he'll do some mental damage to himself, or eventually just pass out before the end of his 40 days. At some point your body can't take it any more, and you will fall out, even if you're walking and talking as you do so.
Well, I've been planning something slowly with a few people. Unfortunately, we have lots of brainpower, but not a lot of capital. A bit better more comfortable than a Saturn V, a bit more stylish than a Soyuz.:)
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Well, if you had a well established controlling interest in all industries world wide, it wouldn't just be an oil supply that you could cut him from. They needed manufacturing or at least raw materials for guns, tanks, uniforms, ammunition, supplies, etc, etc.
But we could play the what if game all day. I was simply proposing ... well ... I was making fun of TFA. :) .. and so far there has been no real evidence of a Nazi nuclear weapons program. They knew we had one. They wanted one too. It was a race. I've read the rumors and speculation, but in reality no test sites have been found. No remains of the sites required to build such a weapon have been found. No prototype nor anything close to a prototype has been found. There have been a few things vaguely resembling notes, but they're as significant as if I drew a sketch of a saucer shaped UFO, labeled it "Secret US Gov't Space Craft", and gave it to someone else. Sketches don't mean you have a prototype or finished product.
If you can take that evidence as proof, then we have proof that we're just a few months away from seeing Duke Nukem Forever, and have been for over a decade. :)
Nah, they'd never do that. :)
Really, my sympathies to them if they do. I kinda of habitually switch drives, wipe them out and do clean installs of different OS's, etc, etc. Their best best for finding out what I know is either bugging the rooms (even easier tech). Or the classic no-tech abduction and interrogation. Oh, I mean detaining a potential person of interest and questioning. :)
Hmm, is that silent black helicopters I hear hovering overhead? Let me go check.
In my home machine? As a matter of fact, I would. It has a clear side, and an illuminated fan. I didn't get it for that purpose, it was just the cheapest case that the store had, that would do the job. It sits where I can see the inside of it while I'm using the computer. It only sits where I can see it, because it was the only place to put the machine. It is helpful to glance in to see if there is dust in the heatsinks or fans.
I know every wire and component that is suppose to be there, since I built it myself. They can install anything they'd like. Actually, I invite them to, but anything they leave on my property is considered a "gift" to me, to do with as I please. :)
You've also grown up, which changes things. Our teenage immortality is abandon for the reality that we are going to die soon, so lets not make it any more painful than necessary.
I was in a car accident in the 80's. I learned then that vehicles don't stop as fast as you want them to, and pain can last an awful long time (permanent damage to the fleshy operator). So I drive more and more conservatively as time goes on. But... Incidents have happened that were outside of my control. You can't control nor predict random actions of everyone on the road, especially in areas with heavy traffic. I've been in a few more accidents, which leaves me wanting to always drive where there are no other cars.
I know that more accidents will hurt me worse. After my last MRI, the doctor gave me very simple advice. If I planned on continuing to walk (or survive), don't get in any more accidents. If there's a hard hit, it's likely I'll either be crippled from the waist down, or from my neck down. The later would probably result in a rather short life expectancy (i.e., seconds).
Still, I do take my car racing (closed courses, not open street racing). I know the physical limitations of my car, how well the ABS works, etc, etc. If you put a mark on the road, I can be doing 65mph, and then stand on the brakes to stop within an inch of that mark. Do I do that as normal practice? Nope. Have I had to in an emergency? Several times.
As for traction control, it just annoys me. My car (2000 TransAm WS/6) doesn't have it. My friends car (2000 Camaro SS) does. It doesn't perform all that well with the traction control on. Well, for obvious reasons. It's limiting the possibility of tire slip. I'm practiced in controlling that myself, and can "drift" (I hate that term), but stay within the capabilities of the vehicle.
I was wondering how AI's would deal with the same thing. Around an international airport that I live by, they were changing the highways. About 5 highways go to or pass through that area. Pretty much over the last 6 years, all the roads have been torn up and laid back down. New ramps and overpasses have been installed. It was confusing enough that even locals who don't drive that route every day would get confused on where to go. Even when I drove it every day, sometimes I'd find that where the road went straight, today it went off somewhere else.
For about a year, there was one point where they had shifted all the lanes to the left pretty quickly They didn't paint over the old lines, so you had lane lines going a little to the right, and newer lines going to the left. It wasn't always clearly distinguishable, except I knew where the old lanes were from habit. It was very "interesting" to drive in the rain. With enough rain on the road, the lines would disappear (covered in water), so you had 3 lanes of cars doing 70mph, and you knew everyone had to shift. I don't know how many accidents happened there, but I'm sure there were at least a few.
If you make it, they will come.
I can just picture the van with shag carpet and disco lighting, and Number 5 driving.
and of course, appropriate music.
(I couldn't resist)
The Fleet Of Ages story is interesting. That would make for an interesting book or movie. It has so much to explain, that it eluded to in so few words.
Why did the future become barren? Could it be corrected by eliminating the future tech that had been brought back? Is Earth barren because humanity moved on to a higher plane of existance, or went to colonize the stars? Or was it because a person or group that was to have never existed was created (cure cancer, two patients reproduced, now you have a family tree where it would have simply ended?), who did something disastrous? Did an advancement in technology cause and end to the population (Stargate SG-1 S04E16 or Stargate SG-1 S10E20)? Did the final travel to future Earth simply land at a location that was populated, but is now abandon (i.e., the Manhattan National Forest, rather than the metropolis Manhattan, New York)?
It would have required the whole scenario that suggested. Basically own a controlling interest in every company in the world. :)
Hitler (Godwin law safe, since it is in the timeline we are discussing) would have an awful hard time fighting a war, if he couldn't buy and sustain the equipment for his miltary. There is historical proof that it his side of the war was close to failure just on the fact they were having a hard time getting fuel for the vehicles. Just as you could prevent a company from doing bad things by crippling it by preventing them from getting raw materials, you can stop a war from happening. If you ordered a stop of distribution for raw weapons materials, and finished products, he would have just been a crazed militant without an army. They're pretty benign without the required support.
Of course, that would change other things. If WWII never happened, Einstein wouldn't have made it to America. Nuclear technologies would likely have never been invented, so there would have been no nuclear weapons, but it's also likely that nuclear power would have never been invented.
If WWII never happened, those who died in the war would have survived and some would have reproduced. The timeline would have changed significantly, and the population of the world today wouldn't be the same population as exists now.
What I'd be curious about is to do the math and figure out if it would be cost effective, accounting for inflation.
According to the National Mining Association, in 1928, 1 troy ounce was $20.66. In 2008, it was $871.96. Today it was trading at $1343.32. Would it be financially wise to buy gold at $1343? Adjusting for inflation, what can be purchased now for $1343 would cost approximately $108.22 in 1928. Since the loss would be a net gain over time (82 years, as we're presuming), it wouldn't matter much.
But there is the power aspect of it. What if you had a controlling interest in major industry (manufacturing of all sorts, including automotive), technology, and had a controlling or strong interest in every company, which in turn would give you a strong negotiation position with political figures world wide. Political leaders simply won't say no to someone who can honestly say "I have controlling interest in 90% of the business and industry in your [city/state/region/country]. Do what I say, or I will depopulate your entire country and bankrupt you. You will be the king of your kitchen staff, because there won't be anyone left." Greed and corruption falls out of the picture, when corporations aren't fighting against each other, and everyone has open access to everything they need or want. Sorry for the socialist ring to that, it's totally unintentional.
Imagine every war starting at WWII never happened. No nukes. No cold war. No traumatized (physically and mentally) war veterans. No starving people. No overworked, underpaid slaves in sweat shops.
That's something the world needs. Rather than letting politicians fight over things, and start wars, things could be settled in a good business manner. Keep the people happy. Happy workers are productive workers. And we could avoid so many things that are obviously not right. The massive pollution that we've spewed from the beginning of the industrial age is senseless, but could be fixed. The same recursive loop that would set the position of power could also bring back technologies from 2010 to 1928, in turn having better technologies to bring back on the next trip.
Dammit, and I can't find the keys to my time machine. Anyone know how to hot wire a DeLorean?
Well, the voices in my head usually sound like Casey Kasem. I can't always hear the words, but there's something about counting down, and top something list... I may be telepathically listening to terrorists. At least the demons are gone. One place I lived, I could hear talking, and then I could hear Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath a lot.
Thinking about it, I haven't heard them since I had some dental work done about a year ago.
(just kidding, I just like feeding urban legends)
That would be "Chesapeake and Potomac (C & P) Telephone Company", you insensitive and anachronistic clod.
The problem would be to show up with properly dated currency. If you show up with a 2010 currency and try to buy anything, you'd get laughed at, or end up in jail.
You could set up a nice recursive loop though. Purchase one share, and compound the dividends and interest over 82 years. Go back with that money, and buy more shares. Lather, rinse, repeat, and you'd be primary share holder immediately (well, in quite a few loops, but it would appear to happen instantaneously. Lets not forget about that whole pesky "don't change the timeline" rule. When you (or your trust) ends up being the majority shareholder of every company that survives through 2010. Your decisions on buys and sells would make or break a company. "JWSmythe Industries bought their stock? BUY BUY!"
My mistake on the years. For some reason I mentally associated "Hera" with "Lucy".
It's still way too long for a 1st or 2nd generation character to exist, and since they kinda blew up all their ships, there wouldn't be much more than trace evidence to work with. It's not like Star Trek. As far as those story lines go, the major groups live on, so they can always make a new show or movie with a fresh cast and only hints of stylings of the old ships, etc. They *could* place a movie 150,000 years in the future, and the fans may accept it.
Ditto there.
There were some pretty harsh shadows, so there would have been some pretty bright lighting (or a bright morning/evening) when it was filmed.
They could have been shielding their eyes from the light, holding their wig on, or as others suggested, an early hearing aide.
Talking to yourself isn't all that uncommon. Sometimes you're just reminding yourself what the grocery list is. Sometimes you're talking to voices in your head.
Or lets go with the conspiracy. They were on a cell phone, with no cell towers. They were on a satellite phone without any satellites (or at least that humans put there?).
We'll apply Occam's Razor to figure this one out. It's obvious that a wormhole was opened through time and space. This allowed the future traveler to "accidentally" walk in front of the camera, while talking on his cell phone, which did have service through the wormhole. He was here to show past generations that there is hope for the future of humanity, regardless of the darkness that will be falling upon us soon. Fear not linear time travelers, some of you will survive.
Or it was just an old guy with primitive but contemporary hearing aide.
I'll agree there. A little acid trip, hallucinating he's marrying his bed buddie, with the rest of the cast filling in family and friends parts (huh?), and then she has to save the day. It's expected there will be a not so great episode mixed in with the rest. I prefer it to be the exception, rather than the rule. That's usually where viewership drops off significantly. They can tolerate a few crappy episodes in a row, but after that, they'll go find something else to do. :)
SGU is getting a bit better. I had some serious doubts about it at the beginning.
Episode 1) Oh look, we're on a ship. We're trapped a billion light years from earth. We're all going to die.
Episode 2) Oh look, the ship leaks, and we have no air. We're all going to die.
Episode 3) Ditto 2.
Episode 4) Oh look, we're out of power. We're all going to die.
Episode 5) Oh look, we're flying into a star. We're all going to die.
Episode 6) Oh look, we're out of water. We're all going to die.
At least it got generally better from there. :) I'm looking forward to the next two episodes. The blurb S02E07 looks interesting. I predict fist fights, confessions, and more control over the ship (and therefore get rid of the tedious crap like the countdown timer)
My girlfriend likes Caprica, so I've been passively watching it (and more actively fucking around on my computer). It doesn't have anything resembling a story line I can get into, and there are some rather annoying bits, like modern props and somewhat contemporary (modern to 100 years ago) styling. It wasn't quite so prevalent in BSG, except for that who Gitmo-esque subplot.
I told my girlfriend, the biggest reason I can't get into it is because I already know how it ends. It's a timeless classic. People build robots. Robots get big, mean and eventually out of control. They fight with the humans. The humans fight back. There's years of pouting where they live on different planets, and then the robots get their revenge. Big explosions, almost everyone dies. Subplots. Subplots. Subplots. The survivors go run off and find another planet, and start over yet again.
Sorry if I wrapped up Caprica and BSG for any of you to easily.
The fucked up the ending of BSG, so they have no room to continue it, so they had to do a prequel. Well, unless you consider millions of years of "they lived happily ever after" an adequate time to pick up a sequel. Obviously, the story had a finite beginning and end. It wasn't necessary to try to drag it on.
Just kidding. I can't afford enough bullets to bring the ratio of idiotic people down to a dull roar rather than a majority. That means I'll never get a jury of my peers. I'll get a jury of idiots, ala Idiocracy.
Maybe we can just get a happy medium, and get a kill switch that'll shut down the idiots side of the Internet. Well, not entirely shut down. It'll have to give them a message that tells them, "Because you are stupid, you cannot play on the online."
You know, it doesn't really matter. I, uh, I don't like my job. I don't
think I'm gonna go anymore. I don't know if I'll get fired, but I really don't like it so I'm not gonna go.
It won't matter much. I think Milton wants to set the building on fire. I think he'll probably do it.
I don't think I'd like another job. I never really liked paying bills. I don't think I'll do that
either. I want to take Joanna over at Chotchkie's out for dinner and then I wanna go to my apartment
and watch Kung Fu.
Filters are your friend. Forward anything not directly sent to you (i.e., you are a Cc/Bcc) to a holding folder. Of you need to dig out a specific message, you'll have it. Otherwise, you can ignore them all until you have time to get to them (which could be never).
The only thing worse than getting 100 emails a day, is having 100 walk-up or phone interruptions asking if you got the email that you ignored. :)
Your 24 hour mark seems consistent with what I've seen other people say about staying awake for prolonged periods.
I used to do 48 hours pretty regularly. I'm fairly confident that I have "Delayed sleep phase syndrome", but I haven't had insurance to go see the proper specialists about it. The main symptom is sleeping in late, and going to sleep late. One of the other symptoms is that if I miss a sleep period, I won't typically feel tired, so I'll continue the second day like I had proper sleep. The following night, I'll catch up though.
If I try to stay up beyond the 36 to 48 hours, I'll have intermittent auditory hallucinations. It's things like someone calling my name, when they couldn't have possibly done it. 72 to 96 hours is my limit, but at that extreme, I really drag along until I can find somewhere resembling comfortable to fall down. :)
I'm not a pshrink, but I'm fairly sure he'll do some mental damage to himself, or eventually just pass out before the end of his 40 days. At some point your body can't take it any more, and you will fall out, even if you're walking and talking as you do so.
You took care of the association, I just made fun of it. :)
Privately Owned Vehicle.
It's ok to get your mind out of the gutter once in a while. I swear, it won't kill you. :)
Well, that depends on which nomad.
PBN-1 Nomad
GAF Nomad
SS Nomadic
Chevrolet Nomad
or the Nomad MK-15c
Well, I've been planning something slowly with a few people. Unfortunately, we have lots of brainpower, but not a lot of capital. A bit better more comfortable than a Saturn V, a bit more stylish than a Soyuz. :)
So you were forced to watch this and this