JamesSavik

you don't need one for the other to be true. the first law of thermodynamics states that energy can not be created or destroyed- it merely changes form. What are we at our most basic essence if not energy?

Where have I lived? That is a difficult question. I can't remember all the lifetimes and people that I've been. I remember Babylon and her Hanging Gardens, They called us the Immortals there In the land of the rivers crescent. In Macedon I met a noble prince and followed him across the world but after a summer of conquest came a very long fall In Carthage I stood upon the walls in service of a king most fair The Romans bleed in horrific war killed us all and picked the corpses bare Again against Rome I losed my sword In a place called Massada Again the hoardes came and picked our bones In the land some call Holy. Upon the Steepes from the East came a plague called the Khan His riderers spread across the horizon At a last stand in Prague we broke them and they receeded like the tide. The Popes called for a rightious Crusade So pilgrims could visit the holy lands In pluder the noble lost their vision Many Lords of Chrisendom fell into heathen hands. At Agincout I joined Prince Henry and his merry few All the might of France fell that day and there in the mud we slew. Against the Franco Emperor, Prussia's horsemen stood like a wall Pressed we were to the bitter end We were at Waterloo to see him fall. Once again heeding freedom's cry This time in the Brave New World At Shiloh and Vicksburg we broke the gray we saw the end of slavery a worthy reason to die. In Flanders field we fough the Kaiser And broke his imperial ambition There we saw the horror of modern war and endless battles of attrition. Barely a generation later after an unjust peace, We fought against the evil one, The coming of a horrible beast Europe lay broken even after the war was one. When freedom is at stake, There is no need to call. The Immortals will always be there Until the day we can finally rest and there is freedom for all.

Battlestar Galactica The Liberation of New Caprica

This is Blackie. He decided that he liked me and came to stay. Blackie and his mate Sweetie. This is Boo. When he's not eating or sleeping, he reads the works of EleCivil.

Reality TV is what it is because its cheap to produce and people watch it. A reality TV show costs a mere fraction to produce compaired to a made for TV series drama or movie but it fills a time slot and advertisers pay to air their commercials at the same rates. Basically it is the worst of the worse video junkfood that the networks have to offer. I hear there is an all reality cable channel in the works. I can't wait to ignore that. They make a profit for their networks so the only way to kill them is not to watch.

We've all been here before Yesterday and tomorrow the same all that changes are the faces and names and the gods that we chose to blame The fire was burning long ago and we are merely fuel the river of time has no branches just a steady flow where nothing is brand new No one can say its destination We can only hold on for the ride yesterday was once tomorrow and soon tomorrow will be yesterday again If you seek a reason, ignore the lyrics and listen to the song for tomorrow will be yesterday again it will not take so long.

I can't make two-way relationships work so you'll understand if I take a pass on this one.

I can't imagine a more tragic and complete waste of consciousness. Reality TV is like curly baldness: it is a complete contradiction in terms.

for dummies books are a good cheap tutorial or review on a number of topics. They are one of the most cost-effective series there is when you are dealing with technology. Books on Math or tech start at ~$40 (if you're lucky). For Dummies books cost ~$20. Instead of calling them For Dummies books, they should call them For Smart People Who Want Results and Don't Want To Pay TOO Much.

It does if that feminine characteristic/quality is never knowing when to shut up.

There are some str8 people that think that all gay men are effeminate and if you're not, you are being deceitful in some way. Of course they are slack-jawed yokels with family wreaths instead of trees but they are out there.

No car chases, plane crashes, parental death, alien abduction, being adopted by rich and powerful relatives you've never heard of, being eaten by vampires, getting between a flock of vampires and a van Helsing cult, finding alien artifacts, discovering your new car is an autobot, being sold into white slavery, being eaten by werewolves, finding out you have a twin from which you were seperated at birth who hates and wants to kill you for no apparent reason (and is evil of course), discovering something vary valuable and dangerous in your attic/basement, being mistaken for an assasin, being mistaken for a terrorist, being mistaken for a spy, having a reporter slip you an incriminating videotape before he is murdered for attempting to reveal an evil secret of the military industrial complex, being a patsy in an assasination, being targeted as an arch-criminal via idenity theift, being mistaken for the leader of an elite commando group, being mistaken for a politician, being a plliticians double, being a politicians who gets murdered double and being used as a puppet, being forced to do something horrible because your kid has been kidnapped, being kidnapped, being kidnapped and escaping, having a guy with a chain saw chasing you...

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You wanted some eighties tunes? the Fixx- Saved by Zero the Cars- All Mixed Up The Cars- Moving in Stereo Rolling Stones- Miss You Eric Clapton- Cocaine Supertramp- the Logical Song Supertramp- Goodbye Stranger The Police- Roxanne The Police- Don't Stand So Close to Me The Babies- Midnight Rendevous Blondie- Call Me Pink Floyd- Comfortable Numb Cyndi Lauper- Girls Just Want to have Fun Eurythmics- Here Comes the Rain Again

Heavy Metals Parliament Fleet Annex Epsilon Auriga April 10, 2681 Ellis Dutton, Chief of the Parliament Office of Galaxy Minerals, looked at the official Request for Proposal that his office had received earlier that day. If he could secure a fraction of the order, his five percent commission would make him rich beyond the dreams of avarice. He looked at the list and he looked at Captain Osborne of the Fleet Procurement Office and said,

Innovation System: Sol Saturn's moon Titan Barlow Heavy Industries April 10, 2681 As the Grayhound class executive transport jumped into the Titan system, Commander Rutledge felt a bit of regret. It wasn't often that he got to travel in such luxery. Grayhound series ships usually shuttled Admirals around to useless meetings but today it was taking his team to do something useful. Rutledge and his team of five naval archictects and engineers were members of the Fleet's Design Bureau. They were assigned to develop the Fleet's next generation of ships on an impossible schedule and Barlow Industries might have just the edge that they needed. The Grayhound's pilot activated the PA system in the passenger cabin and said, "We have arrived at Titan and will be landing momentarily. We are cleared directly to the Barlow Naval Yard. Eveyone please be seated and prepare for landing." Rutledge looked out his window at Titan but he couldn't see very much. Everyone else was looking at Saturn- the ringed gas giant that still intrigued humans after centuries of space travel. Titan's soupy atmosphere obscured all but the most basic details of the surface. The surface of Saturn's largest moon was a key industrial facility and Titan Station in orbit was the largest Fleet installation in Earth's solar system. The pilot skillfully landed on a waiting pad at Barlow Industries sprawling complex. An eight-wheeled utility crawler attached itself to the hook on the nose of the Grayhound and pulled her into a nearby hanger. Even through the hull they could hear the hiss as the hanger was pressurized and finally an ear rending pop and the ship equalized pressure with the hanger. Rutledge and his team debarked the ship into a clean, brightly lite hanger and were greeted by a delegation from Barlow Heavy Industries. A man wearing a lab coat approached Rutledge and extended his hand, "I'm Dan Barlow. Welcome to our facility. I hope you had a good trip." Rutledge took his hand and said, "We got to fly on a Grayhound. The trip was gravy. We're looking forward to seeing your work with ceramics and advanced composites." Barlow beamed. "Then lets get to work." He lead them to a subway car and when everyone had piled in he programmed the car to take them to the R&D center within the complex. Barlow began speaking as the car got underway. "Pratically every sub-system within star ships is modular these days. Engines come as pre-fabed modules. Power plants come as pre-fabed modules. So do computers, life support systems, weapons- the whole bit. With conventional ship construction, the only thing that is fabricated by hand is the hull." "We realized in our own yards that if we could pre-fabricate the hull in modules, we would cut construction time for ships of all sizes, lower our labor costs and dramatically reduce the time it takes to build ships of all classes. What our company has been working on for several years is the right mix of technologies to make this happen." The car came to a stop and Barlow said, follow me to the conference room and I'll show you what we've got." Rutledge and his team followed Barlow's men up a flight of stairs to another level. He brought them into a nicely appointed conference room where he got down to brass tacks about his new process. "To make this happen we had to get the right materials, machinery and the technology. First we looked at materials. We experimented with a number of metal alloys and they all had the same problems. Metal components require welds and that creates a structural weakness from the very start. Metals are heavy and they make bright sensor contacts. When we looked at ceramics and carbon composites and realized we had exactly what we needed." He passed around four samples. "These are the materials that we are plan to use. Two are ceramics and the other two are carbon composites. All four are harder than any metal but have very special properties. Before they are heated, they are more or less a goo and are easily worked by our machinery." "The second part of our process involves the casting of components.We have created a very special casting machine that is controlled by computer. We put the blueprints in, the computer programs the mold and then we put in one of our four materials and within five minutes we have a cast module that is perfect down to the millimeter and ready for installation." Jerry Nash, Rutledge's composites expert asked, "How do you eliminate the need for welds?" Barlow smiled and replied, "Nanotechnology. We put nanites into the material matrix in the casting machine. Once the cast is done, the nanites begin doing their work. They actually knit the material of the hull together in the strongest possible molecular configuration down to the atomic level. They even vary the density of the material to provide radiation protection for the crew that would take inches of highly dense metals like iron or lead. When we put the modules in place, we program the nanites to knit the hull modules together without welds. Its like one very strong whole without seems or welds. The nanites remain in place for the life of the vessel and can perform modifications to the hull or repair damage." Barlow said, "For military applications I think you'll like the carbon mix. It has the same blackbody curve as carbon and would be hard as hell to pick up on sensors- very stealthy. Enough sales talk. A prototype is worth a thousand words. Let's have a look at a ship built with the carbon composite I like for your ships." Again the delegation followed Barlow to hanger where a crew was finishing up work on a sporty looking black scout. Barlow said, "This is my prototype for the Scout-62 contract. We cast its hull this morning, installed the systems and it's ready to fly this afternoon. My cost per unit is less than any conventional shipyard in the Alliance and I can build thousands of them." Rutledge ran his hand over the smooth hard surface of the scout. He looked at Barlow and he looked at his team and said, "Mr. Barlow. I think we can do business. We need to talk to our superiors but we want to leave you some our designs for your consideration..."

Aspirin and no greasy foods for a few days and that mean ole hangover will history.

You might be surprised how many shows that we consider staples of American TV are products of Canada. Here is a short list: Da vinchi's Inquest 21 Jump Street Andromeda Battlestar Galactica the Commish the Crow: Stairway to Heaven Danger Bay (Vancouver) Dark Angel Dead Zone First Wave Harsh Realm Higher Ground Highlander House M.D (Pilot) Jeremiah John Doe Lone Gunmen Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years Lonesome Dove: The Series MacGyver Millennium Outer Limits Sliders Smallville Stargate SG-1 Stargate Atlantis Transformers Twilight Zone UC: Undercover Viper Wolf Lake X-Files Canadian production companies and facilities are willing to take on more challenging and riskier projects than shitty American studios/production companies based in Hollywretch. If you look at the list you'll see that American production companies are making CSI, Law & Oder and a buttload of worthless shit-coms. Canadian companies made Battlestar Galactica. Nuff said. Hollywood is heading towards where the rest of American business has been for years: producing an inferior product at an inflated price. I would be tickled pink to see Hollywood fall on its guilded prima donna arse. Keep it up Canada and you can have all of our Hollywood people. You just have to promise to keep them.

In that case they are out of line but that's Microsquat for you: they are all about gay rights until its in their own back yard. Just say no to the dark side or forever it will be in your pocket. hehehehehe

The media is looking for a freak-fest; anything to sensationalize. They will look for the one freakiest guy there and take hours of footage of him. They've done it over and over. CBS still has stock footage of a gay pride march where Sister Boom-Boom and the sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were doing their thing and I don't think they've been around for years now.

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French-Canadian men are so hot, they must be kept in Canada to prevent global warming.

A lot of this depends on where you live. You see more aggressive behavior in places like the bible belt. In my case its like waving a red flag in front of a bull. I've had enough of it and repay it in broken bones. To me the threat isn't from a skin head in an alley. I'll f**k him up so bad his mother won't know him. The real problem is that "skinhead" or religious nut in authority- the one that's a cop, or an employer or a judge.

The Galaxy Today- Your Source for Alliance News You Can Use Perry Grant, Political Desk April 8, 2681 Alliance Senate Takes Up a Massive Series of Bills Conservatives optimistic, Labor Jubulent, Greens Furious and commentators bewildered After a series of mysterious closed committe meetings earlier this week, the Alliance Senate has taken up an unprecidented series of bills. Lead by an unlikely coalition of Senate Conservatives and Labor, a bi-partisan working group has began drafting one of the most far reaching and progressive programs in Alliance history. Tenatively named the Alliance Modernization and Expansion Act, the bill addresses a number of issues that have long been discussed but have never made it out of committe. The Alliance Modernization and Expansion Act (AME) consists of ten distinct parts Alliance backed low-interest loan program for industrial expansion Transit Improvements Including a network of new jumpgates from the core systems to the frontiers New R&D partnerships between the Alliance and Corporations A modernization and expansion of the Fleet & Marine Corps An Expansion of the Merchant Fleet via Low Interest Loans and tax incentives for new construction Reform of Commerce Laws Inhibiting Development On the Frontier Expansion of the Ministry of Science & Technology Designation of duty-free zones to encourage rapid development in economically distressed sectors Alliance matching funds for local defense construction The sale of rights to key planets for colonization or commercial use to pay for the costs of these new measures At a cost of some 450 Trillion standard credits, AME is the most expensive single bill ever considered by the Alliance senate. It is also widely considered one of the most timely and progressive bills ever considered by that body. It seems to offer something for everyone with enthuastic support from politicians both the core systems and the frontier and all of the various parties and factions within the senate. Even the fiscal conservatives are pleased with the bill as it includes a self funding mechanism up front and will pay for itself in economic growth within a decade. The speed, size and far-reaching scope of AME has many insiders at Parliament stunned. Even powerful lobbists like Jason Devries were caught completely off guard. Devries said, "I had been working, no pleading, for the new jump gate construction and repeal of those awful ICC (Interstellar Commerce and Customs) regulations for twenty years and suddenly overnight it looks like it is happening. I've never seen the Senate display this kind of vision and dare I say even courage in passing a series of bills that will solve todays problems and profoundly affect the future of the Alliance." Senator Chou yung-Li (New Canton, Conservative) said, "We are espically proud of this bill. It funds itself and does no leave a huge debt burden on future generations while it gives the Alliance the tools with which it can grow and expand." Not everyone is pleased with AME. Senator Todd Faulks (Sirius, Green) senior member of the Greens party said, "We're making a big mistake selling off those reserved planets. Those are pristine and fragile ecosystems that still have a lot to learn about. By opening them to commerce and colonization, they will be changed forever." AME is expected to pass the senate either late this week or early next week and will then be taken up by the Executive Committee. Any serious objections to the bill by the Executive Committee will be taken up in Conference. Pending its ratification by the Executive Committee, it could be law by the end of the month. Economic Analyst like what they've heard so far. Galactic Markets are up 255 points and the D&K index is up a record breaking 22%. Markets appear to be in a broad based rally with blue chip industrials, technology, transport and agro stocks leading the charge.

sounds like a story to me technical difficulties: the story of a young man, his computer/home network and the studly repairman