Military/spy thriller author Tom Clancy has died. Note, in the first photo, where he was and what's on his hat: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/02/us/tom...html?hpt=hp_t1
Military/spy thriller author Tom Clancy has died. Note, in the first photo, where he was and what's on his hat: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/02/us/tom...html?hpt=hp_t1
We should have a shuttle named Clancy
A Stormtrooper and a Red Shirt have a firefight.
The Stormtrooper misses every shot
The Red Shirt dies anyway.
^ LOL, anyrose.
Graham's contemplation of Kylah's potential STD made me cackle.
The Star Trek economy...was always a little hard to grok in terms of whether or how many people needed to work for pay. I thought this was a good article about the fact that we are making progress toward a "Star Trek economy"--for better or worse, depending on how we manage it:
Digitization is creating a second economy that’s vast, automatic, and invisible—thereby bringing the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution.
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/str...second_economy
Of course, as with most changes, there is a downside. I am concerned that there is an adverse impact on jobs. Productivity increasing, say, at 2.4 percent in a given year means either that the same number of people can produce 2.4 percent more output or that we can get the same output with 2.4 percent fewer people. Both of these are happening. We are getting more output for each person in the economy, but overall output, nationally, requires fewer people to produce it.
There’s a larger lesson to be drawn from this. The second economy will certainly be the engine of growth and the provider of prosperity for the rest of this century and beyond, but it may not provide jobs, so there may be prosperity without full access for many. This suggests to me that the main challenge of the economy is shifting from producing prosperity to distributing prosperity. The second economy will produce wealth no matter what we do; distributing that wealth has become the main problem. For centuries, wealth has traditionally been apportioned in the West through jobs, and jobs have always been forthcoming. When farm jobs disappeared, we still had manufacturing jobs, and when these disappeared we migrated to service jobs. With this digital transformation, this last repository of jobs is shrinking—fewer of us in the future may have white-collar business process jobs—and we face a problem.
The system will adjust of course, though I can’t yet say exactly how. Perhaps some new part of the economy will come forward and generate a whole new set of jobs. Perhaps we will have short workweeks and long vacations so there will be more jobs to go around. Perhaps we will have to subsidize job creation. Perhaps the very idea of a job and of being productive will change over the next two or three decades. The problem is by no means insoluble. The good news is that if we do solve it we may at last have the freedom to invest our energies in creative acts.
Thanks for the link. Yes, ST has been inconsistent over the years, veering between "the Federation is a utopia and we don't even use money" to "the Federation is part of a vast interstellar economy, and you've gotta have credits (or gold-pressed latinum) if you wanna buy really cool stuff." I think the simplest explanation is that the show isn't about economics, after all (and thank God for that!), and whatever will serve the storyline for that particular episode is what they're gonna say.
I love how Rec Room 3 is getting all this action. I suppose the producers figure now that we've built the set, we might as well use it.
*starts humming the theme tune for Cheers*
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Nah. He's too physically fit, isn't married to an always-unseen woman, and doesn't hang around with a badly-misinformed postal carrier.
Well Graham could gradually put on weight (and maybe lose some hair too!) until he's a portly 50 year old white guy with a bald patch and a gray pony tail, and we could learn that his wife isn't actually dead, he just made that story up to avoid having to talk about her...granted, for all Graham's issues that's just a wee bit less than I aspired to for the character...
A Dope thread from a few years ago: Just how good a doctor was McCoy, anyway?: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=616650
Fascinating...I just recently talked with a friend who's an internal med MD. She said that while what we all hear about in terms of shorter appointments and insurance paperwork being sources of stress for general practitioners, the biggest source of stress is that the scope of medical knowledge today is too broad to keep in one person's head at any given moment...that the cultural norm of "patient walks in, talks to you, and without using say...the Internet!...or, for that matter, texting a colleague who's a specialist in something"....you're supposed to make an accurate, fully informed diagnosis off the top of your head is just totally impossible for a single human brain.
And that's just for humans in a first world country.
I can easily believe it. It can't help when patients already firmly think they know what they have from either (a) half-assed Internet research or (b) a drug company's ads.
Kylah should have taken Collins up on her offer to accompany her to meet with Ferguson. Even if she doesn't trust Collins, at least there'd have been a witness to the whole conversation.
Very true! But I don't think Kylah would've gotten any information out of Ferguson if anyone were there to hear them. Even with just her there, he ended up lying about the incident--can you imagine how tightly he'd've clammed up if Collins arrived with her?
At that point, when Collins offered, Kylah assumed or at least hoped Ferguson would just explain that he hated Elasians or even that she reminded him of someone he disliked; she certainly didn't think he'd stonewall her completely. God knows she didn't expect this secretive guy to cause a public scene by embarrassing her in an incredibly scummy way. If you ask me, the dude's a sociopath.
Of course the sad thing is that the only two people Kylah told of this incident prior to the confrontation, Rangin and Collins, are the two Kylah is least likely to want to go to for support. She doesn't want Rangin to know she went against his advice -- plus she's too embarrassed about what Ferguson said to admit it to a guy she has a crush on. And obviously she's not keen on sharing this with Collins. Especially since she thinks much of what she told Collins could be misinterpreted.
Basically this mess is a combo of Kylah's own stubbornness, her secretive nature due to her keeping her empathic abilities hidden (not to mention her planet's double-dealings with the Federation/Klingons), and her just not being prepared for Ferguson--as I put it delicately to Elendil's Heir when he surprised me with it--to pull such a dick move.
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BTW I'm fascinated by Collins's behavior today. First she's jittery, then she has an odd conversation with herself, and now she's running away from a game. There's one explanation I can think of but I have no idea if it's part of her background. Yipe! Looking forward to find out where this is heading.
And Rangin! Who knew he was such a gossip? This could get hilariously awkward.
I will point out you just used some of the very worst of Doctor Who with that particular image.
You're not doing Collins any favours.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Don't you dare diss River Song!
Oh you did not just go there did you. It is so on.
We will need a new thread for this.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
I know nothing and care less about Modern DW (well, at least until Capaldi shows up), but no one disses my girl Alex Kingston! (I know her from ER and Moll Flanders.) Kylah will have Collins's back on this one.
Ok ladies - River Song Thread
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
I always thought Alex Kingston would make a great Star Trek captain... and I haven't even seen her on DW.
Oh, you're in for it now.
eta (CiaS is, not EH)
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Looks like news of Kylah's encounter has not spread as far she might have thought...
Rangin is not a gossip, just social
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
There are a few hundred crew aboard. Surely there is another, more senior, Assistant Chief among them?
This is how Collins felt during the chess game
Well, now you know the big secret I've hid for three years (or two months depending on if you look at the RL calendar or the game one)
Whoa, so only two months have passed since the start of the RPG? Holy cow. I guess that explains why we haven't seen her going through this before. You've kept it well-hidden, nice going!
And she's also preggers, too. Tsk tsk tsk. Man, Kylah's mistrust suddenly feels a lot more explicable.
Just about three months, actually. The starting date is in the first post of every mission thread. Mission #1 started on Oct. 19, 2269; Mission #2 started on Dec. 3, 2269; the current mission started on Jan. 15, 2270, and we're a few days into that one.
How is the Stardate calculated? I've been trying to figure that out for(what seems like)ever. (never occurred to me to google it, but before I do, maybe one of you know)
There was no rhyme or reason to stardates during ST:TOS, when you get right down to it. I'm just doing them in what seem to be reasonable increments. They were a bit more regularized in ST:TNG and thereafter.
Love kitties and love chess. What a great pic!
Very interesting about Collins and her "addiction". Can't wait to see how this plays out during our mission!
You don't need quotation marks there.
He's a true Disney villain, that Aldaan. Killing off the king and queen to gain access to the throne, then aspiring to marry the daughter to assure it.
Heh. I prefer to think of him as a baddie out of ancient Rome or a Greek tragedy. Anyone in I, Claudius would probably have Aldaan for breakfast. The way I see it, he's content to see his nephew in the driver's seat, but Aldaan still wants to hold the steering wheel.
Yipe, what the hell is that, Looney Tunes if designed by Giger?!
It's a scene from Cool World