The Old Hack

The Moderator: Not pushing it. Crossing it. This is not acceptable. Please avoid it.

I understand that APCs in the Danish Army use snails.

And importantly, the effects are no different from what direct rejection would be. It still hurts Tedd and causes pain. That pain alone is enough to render Mr. Verres unsafe. That he may mean well does not matter. There is a place that is notorious for being readily accessible by way of good intentions and this is where Mr. Verres is currently steering his relationship with Tedd.

Only high end Bentleys and Rolls Royces. Most other cars are stuck with old-fashioned hamsters.

Damn, Amazon Prime is getting efficient.

Tedd no longer feels safe with their father, and therefore does not trust him. Sad but true.

That's udderly ridiculous.

*sigh* Well, we have your backs as best we can. Vent to us if it gets really bad. And as always, take care of yourself.

Okay, okay. A five year old. *grumblemuttergrumble* Whoever was in charge of programming Voyager's computer security system should really have made a better screening method than just: DO YOU WANT TOTAL ACCESS TO ALL SECURE FILES AND SYSTEMS Y/N DO YOU WANT TO LOCK OUT ALL OTHER USERS Y/N

That is unfair to the Independence Day aliens. For one thing, the humans had one of the aliens' own computers. For another, they had Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith. Whereas in the case of Voyager, various aliens routinely log into the Voyager's main computer with no access to either Earth technology or Hollywood movie stars. Voyager's computer 'security' is so crappy that a three year old with an abacus could probably completely screw all their systems over in a matter of minutes.

But then Orwell would have lived in vain. *sigh*

Alternative Facts, aka Made Up Facts.

Wait, what? They aren't documentaries? I've been fibbed to!

Pfft. Then the time needed to achieve the fatal radiation dosage would be extended to fifty years. And to be frank, on that diet I would probably be wanting to die in less than a week.

The where in the what in the which now sportsball contest?

This reminds me a little of my calculations after reading this page on XKCD. I worked out that if a human being ate a ton of bananas every day for a year, it would receive so large a potassium-induced radiation dose as to make death from radiation sickness a near certainty. When I informed my father of this unimaginable health hazard (he is an M.D. who has worked in clinical chemistry for decades) he rather dryly informed me that he could see other health-related problems that would make this a nonissue long before even getting near a fatal dose of radiation. In short, my genius quite simply goes unappreciated. I am going back to work on my brilliant idea for a banana-fueled nuclear power plant now.

I just had a dream that made me go WTF but which I in retrospect have to admit was really freaking cool. I was watching a Star Wars spinoff show in which Doc and Roger of The Whiteboard fame were somehow the main characters. They stole a flying APC by fast talking the pilot, then started modifying it literally on the fly while being pursued by Stormtroopers on speeder bikes. Roger was in the engine, taking things apart and putting them back together in what he called 'more exciting' ways and Doc was calling suggestions of how to proceed to him while putting the flying APC through wild aerobatics and returning fire on the Stormtroopers. They somehow lost the pursuit and landed the APC at a place that looked like a small airfield and barracks with random tech scattered about. As they left the APC Sandy got into their faces and asked them, "Are you two idiots trying to start a war?" and Doc replied, "Well, technically we are already in the middle of one." Then I woke up and went WTF one more time when I realised with what terrifying ease you could fit Doc and Roger into the Star Wars continuity.

Hm. Yes. I agree that together they comprise a quite decent argument that Pandora can either to some degree read minds or simply read people so well that she can get this basic information, which amounts to the same thing for all intents and purposes. Mind you, I personally consider it more like telempathy than actual mind reading, but that may just be quibbling over details. *scratches head*

I doubt it. It seems to me that as the simulation is in her head, Sarah would just continue to interact with it internally while her body is being moved around.

Show an in-story example of this, please.

I wonder how eager Nanase was to have a fairy avatar with herself in it destroyed before she knew what would happen.

You are unfortunately not alone. My wife has also had to deal with a series of migraines. I am wondering if it may be a combination of the weather and sheer stress from the ongoing events. I hope you feel better soon, but please keep us posted.

Then it is a good thing we have a whole forum full of decent people here. And we don't want to lose one of our best, for that matter.

Good Lord. Prof, do take good care of yourself. Yes, I know, you will have Mrs. Prof watching you like a hawk, but I worry.

I am unconvinced of the merits of no-hands steering.