E.E. mentioned to many people (Robert Heinlein being one of these) that he had a final 'seventh' Lensmen story to tell but had never bothered to write it up or publish it due to it's 'controversial' nature.
Although, since it's never been written down by anyone to anyone's knowledge, it can't be 100% clear what the book would have been about, the hints given by the Doc and those he spoke seem to point to a specific scenario that would have gotten the Doc lynched in the 40's and even today could have gotten him in deep water. This is far beyond the "Dumbledore and Snape were secretly in love" level of controversy.
If you remember at the end of the sixth book, the third-stage lensmen (the 'ultimate' lensmen) had finally been created, and as such the beings that were behind the 'good side' of the fight bowed out gracefully to leave the universe to their more perfect creations to rule over.
If you think about it however, there seems to be a problem with this: The third stage lensmen were the offspring of one couple, the 'pinnacles' of their separate evolution programs that had gotten together to pop out a son and two sets of twin daughters. A far far cry from the millions upon millions of Galactic police (all first and second stage lensmen) that were also the results of the good guys eugenics program. So how are five kids going to step up to take the reigns that were formerly held by an entire race of beings that had lasted eons? It's not as if they were immortal.
But, if you reread the last book you'll notice some things. I'll quote some of them for you and let you work it out from there. When I first stumbled on it, I was specifically looking for the answer after having reread one of my Heinlein short story collections where he talked about meeting the Doc, and had to have it spelt out to me before I realized what the implications were. If you still can't guess what many people have decided would have to happen in the seventh book, let me know and I'll do the same favor someone else did for me a long time ago.
"each of the Kinnison girls knew it would be a physical and psychological impossibility for her to become even mildly interested in a man not at least her father's equal. They each had dreamed of a man who would be her own equal, physically and mentally, but it had not yet occurred to any of them that one such man already existed."
"The kids were special in another way, too, he [Kit] had noticed lately, without paying it any particular attention... They didn't feel like other girls. After dancing with one of them, other girls felt like robots made out of putty. Their flesh was different. It was firmer, finer, infinitely more responsive. Each individual cell seemed to be endowed with a flashing, sparkling life; a life which, interlinking with that of one of his own cells, made their bodies as intimately one as were their perfectly synchronized minds."
"the feeling the Five had for each other was much deeper than that felt by ordinary brothers and sisters. She [Karen] didn't want to fight with Kit. She liked the guy! She liked to feel his mind in rapport with hers, just as she liked to dance with him; their bodies as completely in accord as were their minds."
"This was an equally strange Kathryn; blazing with fury yet suffusing his [Kit's] mind with a more than sisterly tenderness; a surprising richness."
"Your lives will be immeasurably fuller, higher, greater than any heretofore known in this universe. As your capabilities increase, you will find that you will no longer care for the society of entities less capable than your own."
The time may come when your descendants will realize...
PS. I stole the above quotes from another site. So your other alternative is to paste one of these into Google and see what people are saying. ^_^
I've read Doc Smith, all of him. And figured out (with help) what the final book would have been about had he had the 'courage' to write it and publish it.
But, to be honest, I only dimly remember caring about the ships. I remember that they were inertia-less and in a few cases planet-sized and used simply to ram worlds. But other than that, nada. E.E.'s contributions to my world were more of "wow, so this is how the Space Opera was formed" than "Man, this is a realistic and detailed view of the way the world works" and that may mostly stem from the fact that someone reading them in the 80's and 90's might have noticed just a twinge of racist and sexist overtones that were more acceptable back in the 30's and 40's.
His stories were larger than life with larger than life characters about larger than life ideas and consequently rapidly got into the "omg, that's so over powered" realm of fiction that I can read but don't particularly absorb.
I would imagine that there are things that you don't want sitting as close to your centrally located "super gyroscope+power plant+fuel cells" as a sphere would dictate. Possibly radiation/interference issues with things things like sensors or communications.
While you could compensate by making a bigger sphere, if your 'required distance' is small enough, it's easier just to shove it out as an extension.
As any mob boss will tell you, just because you tell the 'lackeys' to 'disappear' the evidence, doesn't mean they actually will. It just means it'll go away for a while.
Especially if they have a good idea that you are on the way out and a new boss is on the way in.
My LG (LH30) LCD has a serial port that you can use to telnet into for 'remote' control. According to the manual, it's aimed for hotel usage - I assume for things like PPV and etc.
My goal is to hook that into the HTPC I'll get around to building right after I finish the great American Novel and switch from using a boring ol'IR remote to something WiFiy or Bluetoothy. Perhaps something that can also do HDMI CEC so I can play with the rest of the components too.
A Nook without a warranty, with an Android OS, and where the system is stored on a commodity memory card vs a ROM or proprietary storage method. A device that hasn't been TIVO'ed into only accepting signed system files, and which uses an OS with an active development community. For $300.
How worthless, how worthless indeed.
Free wireless means squat to me, I'm not a traveling man, I'm either at work or at home 90% of my life.
I was going to wait for the next gen, but the likelihood that B&N would keep it as accessible in the next hardware revision is about as much as Amazon buying these for all their employees.
These have existed for a while now, I remember seeing one that actually did turn pages (but used a real scanner and wasn't gentle when it turned the page).
I wonder if they realize one of the mini-objectives in Overlord II is to pick one of three (or possibly all three if you play it right) mistresses to have a roll in the hay with...
Red vs blue goes deeper than just platforms, there are also geographic lines biases involved.
Don't you dare admit to being a "dirty republican" in the farm belt of America, in some places that's almost a lynching waiting to happen (note: this is hyperbole, but just a little). Despite this, if you heard any of the esteemed residents of this area pontificate on their political opinions, you'd be hard pressed not to label them dyed in the wool neo-conservatives.
Conversely, there are more than a few places on the Eastern seaboard where admitting you are a Democrat is the equivalent of walking around dressed like an Appalachian hillbilly. You'd be taken more seriously by some if you claimed to be an escaped mental patient from the planet Xandu. (note: again, hyperbole, maybe)
Blizzard doesn't make new. Blizzard takes what's out there in raw form and polishes it so much that you have to be careful you go blind from the glare.
This is their 'special ability', it's what they do.
Odd isn't it. It isn't as if the cable companies chose the specs and design of the card themselves or anything (sarcasm alert, they did), how odd that supporting one would be such a PITA to them. Almost as if they were doing things half-assed just so they could say "We told you it wouldn't work and you need to use our locked down stuff instead."
This is the same dilemma as the old "on the count of three, wait do you mean 1,2,go or 1,2,3,go?" skit.
The latin translation of the phrase PM stands for is "after mid-day", similarly AM stands for "before mid-day".
So either way you look at it, you are screwed in someone's mind. If you use AM then you are literally saying 12:30pm is before noon. However as you've pointed out, it also seems odd that 12pm precedes 1pm.
Sometimes freedom isn't about saying no, but about the fact that you can. I can't say no to the border patrol, I can to Google.
More relevant, I have knowledge of the border patrol misusing their power and little evidence that they've actually helped me in any concrete manner. The revese holds for Google.
A 'bad' TOS is far far better than no TOS. At least if you have a bad TOS you know to avoid the service because you know what they say they can or can't do.
No TOS basicly means they could be doing anything they wanted, and you'd never know.
I agree, till we can prove, conclusively, that there are no giant, invisible, floating space gods looking down upon us and giving cancer to the ones who step out of their place by using 'magic talkie' boxes, I'm going with using a cell phone can lead to your painful and slow death.
A whistle blower is someone who alerts the media or authorities to wrong doing, by coming forward with evidence of this wrong doing.
A blackmailer is someone who alerts a victim that they have evidence of either wrong doing or simply humiliating facts and will go to the media or authorities if steps aren't taken by the victim.
Our "Mr. X" updated a Wikipedia article with possibly true information concerning our woman's expense reports and her child. They then sent two letters which implied they had more information they were going to share and had possibly already done so with part of it.
It really doesn't take a bright bulb to pick which slot Mr. X fits in here chief. Stop over reacting and realize that sometimes, just sometimes, the legal system is working.
This isn't about "Oh! Johny said I was a lousy bint on Wikipedia!" it was about someone threatening someone and their child with public humiliation if they didn't give into whatever demands were made.If you can't say BLACKMAIL, then try EXTORTION, either way regardless of the medium being used, it's illegal.
Yes, I'm sure that'll show those damn blackmailers, "If you go to the Police, they'll force you to reveal to the public the information I'm blackmailing you over! Muhaha!"
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E.E. mentioned to many people (Robert Heinlein being one of these) that he had a final 'seventh' Lensmen story to tell but had never bothered to write it up or publish it due to it's 'controversial' nature.
Although, since it's never been written down by anyone to anyone's knowledge, it can't be 100% clear what the book would have been about, the hints given by the Doc and those he spoke seem to point to a specific scenario that would have gotten the Doc lynched in the 40's and even today could have gotten him in deep water. This is far beyond the "Dumbledore and Snape were secretly in love" level of controversy.
If you remember at the end of the sixth book, the third-stage lensmen (the 'ultimate' lensmen) had finally been created, and as such the beings that were behind the 'good side' of the fight bowed out gracefully to leave the universe to their more perfect creations to rule over.
If you think about it however, there seems to be a problem with this: The third stage lensmen were the offspring of one couple, the 'pinnacles' of their separate evolution programs that had gotten together to pop out a son and two sets of twin daughters. A far far cry from the millions upon millions of Galactic police (all first and second stage lensmen) that were also the results of the good guys eugenics program. So how are five kids going to step up to take the reigns that were formerly held by an entire race of beings that had lasted eons? It's not as if they were immortal.
But, if you reread the last book you'll notice some things. I'll quote some of them for you and let you work it out from there. When I first stumbled on it, I was specifically looking for the answer after having reread one of my Heinlein short story collections where he talked about meeting the Doc, and had to have it spelt out to me before I realized what the implications were. If you still can't guess what many people have decided would have to happen in the seventh book, let me know and I'll do the same favor someone else did for me a long time ago.
PS. I stole the above quotes from another site. So your other alternative is to paste one of these into Google and see what people are saying. ^_^
I've read Doc Smith, all of him. And figured out (with help) what the final book would have been about had he had the 'courage' to write it and publish it.
But, to be honest, I only dimly remember caring about the ships. I remember that they were inertia-less and in a few cases planet-sized and used simply to ram worlds. But other than that, nada. E.E.'s contributions to my world were more of "wow, so this is how the Space Opera was formed" than "Man, this is a realistic and detailed view of the way the world works" and that may mostly stem from the fact that someone reading them in the 80's and 90's might have noticed just a twinge of racist and sexist overtones that were more acceptable back in the 30's and 40's.
His stories were larger than life with larger than life characters about larger than life ideas and consequently rapidly got into the "omg, that's so over powered" realm of fiction that I can read but don't particularly absorb.
I would imagine that there are things that you don't want sitting as close to your centrally located "super gyroscope+power plant+fuel cells" as a sphere would dictate. Possibly radiation/interference issues with things things like sensors or communications.
While you could compensate by making a bigger sphere, if your 'required distance' is small enough, it's easier just to shove it out as an extension.
As any mob boss will tell you, just because you tell the 'lackeys' to 'disappear' the evidence, doesn't mean they actually will. It just means it'll go away for a while.
Especially if they have a good idea that you are on the way out and a new boss is on the way in.
Depends who you talk to.
My LG (LH30) LCD has a serial port that you can use to telnet into for 'remote' control. According to the manual, it's aimed for hotel usage - I assume for things like PPV and etc.
My goal is to hook that into the HTPC I'll get around to building right after I finish the great American Novel and switch from using a boring ol'IR remote to something WiFiy or Bluetoothy. Perhaps something that can also do HDMI CEC so I can play with the rest of the components too.
It's Youtube. :-P
A Nook without a warranty, with an Android OS, and where the system is stored on a commodity memory card vs a ROM or proprietary storage method. A device that hasn't been TIVO'ed into only accepting signed system files, and which uses an OS with an active development community. For $300.
How worthless, how worthless indeed.
Free wireless means squat to me, I'm not a traveling man, I'm either at work or at home 90% of my life.
No that's ethically brilliant and something I plan on rewarding them for with my dollars.
And suddenly, I want a nook.
I was going to wait for the next gen, but the likelihood that B&N would keep it as accessible in the next hardware revision is about as much as Amazon buying these for all their employees.
These have existed for a while now, I remember seeing one that actually did turn pages (but used a real scanner and wasn't gentle when it turned the page).
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/
That isn't to take away from what was done here, just to point out this isn't so new that the publishers/manufacturers don't already know about it.
I wonder if they realize one of the mini-objectives in Overlord II is to pick one of three (or possibly all three if you play it right) mistresses to have a roll in the hay with...
Red vs blue goes deeper than just platforms, there are also geographic lines biases involved.
Don't you dare admit to being a "dirty republican" in the farm belt of America, in some places that's almost a lynching waiting to happen (note: this is hyperbole, but just a little). Despite this, if you heard any of the esteemed residents of this area pontificate on their political opinions, you'd be hard pressed not to label them dyed in the wool neo-conservatives.
Conversely, there are more than a few places on the Eastern seaboard where admitting you are a Democrat is the equivalent of walking around dressed like an Appalachian hillbilly. You'd be taken more seriously by some if you claimed to be an escaped mental patient from the planet Xandu. (note: again, hyperbole, maybe)
Blizzard doesn't make new. Blizzard takes what's out there in raw form and polishes it so much that you have to be careful you go blind from the glare.
This is their 'special ability', it's what they do.
To be fair, the cartoon where Boba Fett is first introduced to the world was interesting, in retrospect at least.
Odd isn't it. It isn't as if the cable companies chose the specs and design of the card themselves or anything (sarcasm alert, they did), how odd that supporting one would be such a PITA to them. Almost as if they were doing things half-assed just so they could say "We told you it wouldn't work and you need to use our locked down stuff instead."
This is the same dilemma as the old "on the count of three, wait do you mean 1,2,go or 1,2,3,go?" skit.
The latin translation of the phrase PM stands for is "after mid-day", similarly AM stands for "before mid-day".
So either way you look at it, you are screwed in someone's mind. If you use AM then you are literally saying 12:30pm is before noon. However as you've pointed out, it also seems odd that 12pm precedes 1pm.
It should be fairly easy, find the home towns of each of the major investors to Ebay, there are your communities that come out better in Kijiji.
Executive Summary: We are out of our frigging minds and don't realize this is going to bomb faster than the orginal DIVX.
Sometimes freedom isn't about saying no, but about the fact that you can. I can't say no to the border patrol, I can to Google.
More relevant, I have knowledge of the border patrol misusing their power and little evidence that they've actually helped me in any concrete manner. The revese holds for Google.
A 'bad' TOS is far far better than no TOS. At least if you have a bad TOS you know to avoid the service because you know what they say they can or can't do.
No TOS basicly means they could be doing anything they wanted, and you'd never know.
I agree, till we can prove, conclusively, that there are no giant, invisible, floating space gods looking down upon us and giving cancer to the ones who step out of their place by using 'magic talkie' boxes, I'm going with using a cell phone can lead to your painful and slow death.
A whistle blower is someone who alerts the media or authorities to wrong doing, by coming forward with evidence of this wrong doing.
A blackmailer is someone who alerts a victim that they have evidence of either wrong doing or simply humiliating facts and will go to the media or authorities if steps aren't taken by the victim.
Our "Mr. X" updated a Wikipedia article with possibly true information concerning our woman's expense reports and her child. They then sent two letters which implied they had more information they were going to share and had possibly already done so with part of it.
It really doesn't take a bright bulb to pick which slot Mr. X fits in here chief. Stop over reacting and realize that sometimes, just sometimes, the legal system is working.
BLACKMAIL.
Repeat it with me, BLACKMAIL.
This isn't about "Oh! Johny said I was a lousy bint on Wikipedia!" it was about someone threatening someone and their child with public humiliation if they didn't give into whatever demands were made.If you can't say BLACKMAIL, then try EXTORTION, either way regardless of the medium being used, it's illegal.
Yes, I'm sure that'll show those damn blackmailers, "If you go to the Police, they'll force you to reveal to the public the information I'm blackmailing you over! Muhaha!"