You are quite perceptive. Tachyon beams are exactly what I, myself, have been using, and am indeed using right now, to write messages on this very 'chatboard'.
Perhaps we are indeed violating the Prime Directive in the most appalling manner by allowing geeks from your time to view 'Star Trek' unabatedly. Your knowledge of events and technology that occur and exist in our time grows ever greater.
With this in mind, please disregard this comment. It does not exist.
Dear Mr. Nygard,
You are, of course, aware of the fact that 'Star Trek' is firmly grounded in reality, are you not? I myself am a living testament to that. This is why 'Star Trek' is so deeply respected by the intellectual people who are sometimes given the dubious and degrading title of 'geeks'. They know the real truth behind the alleged fiction.
I myself am in correspondence with many of these people. In my view, these are some of the most interesting people in all of the particular segment of the spacetime continuum that I am able to project my signals to. Of course, the Prime Directive forbids me to reveal any of the technological details that many 'geeks' hunger for, but these discourses can nevertheless be quite rewarding, if they are confined to matters that are common to my time and theirs.
Firstly, I must object to your subject, "Perhaps occasional lying is better than constant?". It assumes that the managers of the company under discussion, SCO, are deliberately spreading falsehoods. This is not an objective fact. You risk sounding like a zealot by using such strong language in this regard.
Also, if SCO is already, as you claim, partaking in regular 'lying' by means of press releases, what is the principal difference between this behavior and setting up a website that also regularily 'lies'? In no way do you explain why that would be as great a leap as you claim. I am puzzled as to your logic here. Perhaps you would care to elaborate on this issue?
Your logic seems somewhat flawed. I believe, unless I am very much mistaken, that reviews of this type are written to allow potential pursuers of the material that is the subject of review to discern whether the material is worthwhile.
In this particular case, the reviewer deems that the material is not worthwhile. Therefore, as you have stated yourself, you have been dissuaded from reading this particular book. Thus, time that could possibly have been wasted on reading material that is of inferior quality will not be.
I gather that this means that the review was indeed quite helpful. Don't you agree?
I believe humans have a saying: 'You can't always get what you want'. These are wise words.
The human propensity to obsess over their wants and wishes is rather puzzling, in my view. This viewpoint reeks of indivduality, a curiously human trait. Sometimes, bowing to the greater good is more beneficial than stubbornly sticking to one's own particular desires.
In the case of 'Windows', that particular piece of programming follows the philosophy of utilizing the combined knowledge of specialists to guide the less sophisticated users of the software and ease their work. That some people object to this on the grounds that it forces restrictions on them is understandable to a point, but this scheme of things is beneficial on the whole. Opponents of this approach may call this approach 'Appealing to the lowest common denominator,' or some variation thereof, but I myself prefer to call it 'Sacrifice for the benefit of the greater good.'
Discussion on this issue is something that I very much look forward to seeing.
But how much do we REALLY need to know about Klingon or memetics?
The merits of memetics are not fully known to me, but you can be assured that any knowledge of Klingons will be most useful in the future, when humans will meet them personally. I believe the old human phrase, 'Know your enemy' is most applicable in this case.
The lack of logic inherent in the 'Moderation' here confounds me at times.
For instance, would anyone please care to elaborate on why the Parent post here is moderated as '5, Funny', while this post is moderated as '-1, Offtopic'?
The humor inherent in the two posts is quite similar. Both are quips directed at the misspelling of the word 'Security' in the submitted story under discussion. While they may differ in the specific approach taken to achieve this goal, the fact that one could be considered 'Funny', while the other is thought to be 'Offtopic' is highly inexplicable.
Logically, neither post is more 'Offtopic' than the other. They are either both 'Offtopic', or neither one is. This state of affairs is therefore quite puzzling.
The logic on which you draw your assumption seems to be flawed.
Contact with the Klingon empire was first made in 2151. Therefore, it is only logical to assume that they were nowhere near human space in 2004. It is most likely that the phenomenon in question was an anomaly caused by temporal vortex flux.
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Your attitude is commendable, although your choice of wording is poor. However, it is, as you might say, the spirit that counts.
As described at some length in this post, the phenomena known collectively as 'Star Trek' should preferably be brought to an end as quickly as is practically possible.
The crew of Voyager are still in peril, and any actions taken in your timeline towards bringing about the end of 'Star Trek' would be most beneficial to our survival.
There is one crucial difference between the two games. Whereas Star Wars Galaxies is purely a fictional creation, this proposed game is firmly grounded in solid facts.
'Star Trek' is a manifestation of a greater anomaly that has been called 'Retrograde Information Leakage' Its intricacies are somewhat complex, and are based on several scientific disciplines that have yet to be discovered in your time. Therefore, I will neither expound the cause of this anomaly, nor its details. A simple explanation of the specific effects of this anomaly will suffice.
Retrograde Information Leakage involves individuals getting 'Insights' into future events. Usually, this happens on a greatly limited and narrow scale. For instance, one might see in one's mind's eye, for a brief instance, a specific, single future event. However, there are instances when the anomaly takes on a much broader form. This happened, to an albeit somewhat limited extent, to Nostradamus 16th century.
The greatest manifestation of the anomaly, however, took place with Gene Roddenberry. His creation, 'Star Trek', which he based on the insights he received as a result of exposure to the anomaly, is amazingly accurate in most respects. Therefore, it is quite fortuitious that the human populace is unaware of the fact that 'Star Trek' is based on reality.
Now, the observant and intelligent among the readers of this exposition might wander why I am revealing the existence of Retrograde Information Leakage to the inhabitants of 21st Century Earth. The reason is simple: We have no choice. The crew of Voyager, along with a substantial segment of the population of the Federation of Planets, is faced with an immediate, dire threat, the existence of which can be traced to the 'Star Trek' Information Leakage anomaly.
In the interest of self-preservation, I have been ordered on behalf of Captain Janeway to utilize my newly established link to 21st century Earth to implore anyone who has the sufficient means to prevent the creation of this proposed 'Star Trek' 'MMOG' to utilize all resources at their disposal to do so.
This matter was debated heavily among the crew of the Voyager, as there are always very serious risks involved in attempting to tamper with the timeline. In the end, it was decided that the immediacy of the current threat is great enough to warrant tampering in this particular instance.
All we can do now is to wait and hope that our call has been heard.
Indeed. 'Back from the dead' would seem to imply that the subject in question was once a living entity, while it is plainly apparent that cold fusion is a permanently nonliving phenomenon.
However, I'm afraid that 'Cold fusion warmed over' is also an illogical statement. This has connotations with hot coffee, or some other drink or food item that is customarily hot, that has gone cold and has once more been made warm.
Both statements fail abjectly to address the issue at hand. The optimal statement here would be 'Cold fusion might yet be viable'.
Regarding this particular issue, I can only state that I, along with many of my contemporaries, know various facts about cold fusion that are yet unknown in your time. This includes the fact whether it is viable. However, reporting these facts here would be a direct violation of the Prime Directive.
how much bandwidth does doom3 need for network gaming?
It is typical of humans to focus primarily on the ways in which new technology can be utilized for 'fun'. Computer games are a particularily ubiquitous example of this phenomenon. Massively networked computers have the potential to become the greatest compound computational device that mankind has ever had access to. If only the proper effort were expended, multiple paralell processing tasks could quite easily be run on this supernetwork. The combined power of this cluster would thus be beneficial to all.
There is slim hope that this will happen, at least in the foreseeable future, human logic being as flawed as it indeed is.
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Perhaps we are indeed violating the Prime Directive in the most appalling manner by allowing geeks from your time to view 'Star Trek' unabatedly. Your knowledge of events and technology that occur and exist in our time grows ever greater.
With this in mind, please disregard this comment. It does not exist.
I myself am in correspondence with many of these people. In my view, these are some of the most interesting people in all of the particular segment of the spacetime continuum that I am able to project my signals to. Of course, the Prime Directive forbids me to reveal any of the technological details that many 'geeks' hunger for, but these discourses can nevertheless be quite rewarding, if they are confined to matters that are common to my time and theirs.
I have put my point across. Tuvok Out.
Firstly, I must object to your subject, "Perhaps occasional lying is better than constant?". It assumes that the managers of the company under discussion, SCO, are deliberately spreading falsehoods. This is not an objective fact. You risk sounding like a zealot by using such strong language in this regard.
Also, if SCO is already, as you claim, partaking in regular 'lying' by means of press releases, what is the principal difference between this behavior and setting up a website that also regularily 'lies'? In no way do you explain why that would be as great a leap as you claim. I am puzzled as to your logic here. Perhaps you would care to elaborate on this issue?
In this particular case, the reviewer deems that the material is not worthwhile. Therefore, as you have stated yourself, you have been dissuaded from reading this particular book. Thus, time that could possibly have been wasted on reading material that is of inferior quality will not be.
I gather that this means that the review was indeed quite helpful. Don't you agree?
The human propensity to obsess over their wants and wishes is rather puzzling, in my view. This viewpoint reeks of indivduality, a curiously human trait. Sometimes, bowing to the greater good is more beneficial than stubbornly sticking to one's own particular desires.
In the case of 'Windows', that particular piece of programming follows the philosophy of utilizing the combined knowledge of specialists to guide the less sophisticated users of the software and ease their work. That some people object to this on the grounds that it forces restrictions on them is understandable to a point, but this scheme of things is beneficial on the whole. Opponents of this approach may call this approach 'Appealing to the lowest common denominator,' or some variation thereof, but I myself prefer to call it 'Sacrifice for the benefit of the greater good.'
Discussion on this issue is something that I very much look forward to seeing.
I think I will have a brief lie down.
Humans have the strangest thought glitches at times ...
The merits of memetics are not fully known to me, but you can be assured that any knowledge of Klingons will be most useful in the future, when humans will meet them personally. I believe the old human phrase, 'Know your enemy' is most applicable in this case.
For instance, would anyone please care to elaborate on why the Parent post here is moderated as '5, Funny', while this post is moderated as '-1, Offtopic'?
The humor inherent in the two posts is quite similar. Both are quips directed at the misspelling of the word 'Security' in the submitted story under discussion. While they may differ in the specific approach taken to achieve this goal, the fact that one could be considered 'Funny', while the other is thought to be 'Offtopic' is highly inexplicable.
Logically, neither post is more 'Offtopic' than the other. They are either both 'Offtopic', or neither one is. This state of affairs is therefore quite puzzling.
Contact with the Klingon empire was first made in 2151. Therefore, it is only logical to assume that they were nowhere near human space in 2004. It is most likely that the phenomenon in question was an anomaly caused by temporal vortex flux.
As described at some length in this post, the phenomena known collectively as 'Star Trek' should preferably be brought to an end as quickly as is practically possible.
The crew of Voyager are still in peril, and any actions taken in your timeline towards bringing about the end of 'Star Trek' would be most beneficial to our survival.
'Star Trek' is a manifestation of a greater anomaly that has been called 'Retrograde Information Leakage' Its intricacies are somewhat complex, and are based on several scientific disciplines that have yet to be discovered in your time. Therefore, I will neither expound the cause of this anomaly, nor its details. A simple explanation of the specific effects of this anomaly will suffice.
Retrograde Information Leakage involves individuals getting 'Insights' into future events. Usually, this happens on a greatly limited and narrow scale. For instance, one might see in one's mind's eye, for a brief instance, a specific, single future event. However, there are instances when the anomaly takes on a much broader form. This happened, to an albeit somewhat limited extent, to Nostradamus 16th century.
The greatest manifestation of the anomaly, however, took place with Gene Roddenberry. His creation, 'Star Trek', which he based on the insights he received as a result of exposure to the anomaly, is amazingly accurate in most respects. Therefore, it is quite fortuitious that the human populace is unaware of the fact that 'Star Trek' is based on reality.
Now, the observant and intelligent among the readers of this exposition might wander why I am revealing the existence of Retrograde Information Leakage to the inhabitants of 21st Century Earth. The reason is simple: We have no choice. The crew of Voyager, along with a substantial segment of the population of the Federation of Planets, is faced with an immediate, dire threat, the existence of which can be traced to the 'Star Trek' Information Leakage anomaly.
In the interest of self-preservation, I have been ordered on behalf of Captain Janeway to utilize my newly established link to 21st century Earth to implore anyone who has the sufficient means to prevent the creation of this proposed 'Star Trek' 'MMOG' to utilize all resources at their disposal to do so.
This matter was debated heavily among the crew of the Voyager, as there are always very serious risks involved in attempting to tamper with the timeline. In the end, it was decided that the immediacy of the current threat is great enough to warrant tampering in this particular instance.
All we can do now is to wait and hope that our call has been heard.
However, I'm afraid that 'Cold fusion warmed over' is also an illogical statement. This has connotations with hot coffee, or some other drink or food item that is customarily hot, that has gone cold and has once more been made warm.
Both statements fail abjectly to address the issue at hand. The optimal statement here would be 'Cold fusion might yet be viable'.
Regarding this particular issue, I can only state that I, along with many of my contemporaries, know various facts about cold fusion that are yet unknown in your time. This includes the fact whether it is viable. However, reporting these facts here would be a direct violation of the Prime Directive.
It is typical of humans to focus primarily on the ways in which new technology can be utilized for 'fun'. Computer games are a particularily ubiquitous example of this phenomenon. Massively networked computers have the potential to become the greatest compound computational device that mankind has ever had access to. If only the proper effort were expended, multiple paralell processing tasks could quite easily be run on this supernetwork. The combined power of this cluster would thus be beneficial to all.
There is slim hope that this will happen, at least in the foreseeable future, human logic being as flawed as it indeed is.