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  5. Posted

    DGB doesn't necessarily need all of Tedd's data (e.g. his friends' clone forms), and there has been no statement by anyone which strongly implies that they got all of it.

    Yes, they got Tedd's notes - but even a single clone form is likely to be vastly more data than a human can put into notes in one lifetime. Particularly if that lifetime is, to date, about 18 years.

    If DGB got a set of devices - a scanner and a TFG - and any necessary software, they can build their own collection of data.

  6. Posted

    2 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Tedd apparently can't see through the illusion, otherwise he would be seeing Lavender differently now.

    It's explicit that he CAN see through the illusion, but Lavender is currently using a clone form - not an illusion.

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    And the tech he gave Will and Gill must not be widespread.

    Can't definitely comment on that, because Lavender would have privileged access to it - considering she works for MIB and is dating Tedd's dad.

    But we know that Tedd has built several TF guns, and it's reasonably likely that MIB took one or more and replicated them. So I'm guessing that quite a lot of Uryuom - at a minimum, the ones near Moperville - have access to it.

    Also, I'm guessing that the ability to see through the illusions comes automatically with being a seer (but may or may not be limited to them).

  11. Posted

    8 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Storm front rolling in.  Actually looks like thunder with in the hour.  Body aches.  This, in general, suck.

    You'd "love" it here. Yesterday we looked out at bright sunlight while hearing thunder - then the clouds and rain rolled in - then they rolled out again and we had bright sunlight for the rest of the afternoon - then just before sunset we had another thunderstorm rolling in...

  13. Posted

    Lots of wars where one side is the comparatively good guys...

    Right now in eastern Europe we have one country that picked up a piece of "logic" that - if they really believed in it - would have them spontaneously and unilaterally surrendering to a certain other country, and using it as justification to invade that other country. And bragging about committing multiple war crimes in the course of that invasion.

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    5 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    My personal attitude to calling him a traitor goes 'defending the right to own slaves? close enough to fit.'

    There is an ironic detail about that. General Lee resigned from the Union Army, went home and freed all his slaves, and then accepted command of the Confederate Army. Making his slaves among the very first to be freed as a result of the Civil War.

    Meanwhile, Union commander (and eventually top commander short of the President) General Grant and his wife held onto their slaves until the amendment banning slavery in the US took effect - making those among the very last to be freed.

    Quite a few Southerners, at the start of the war, did not think it was primarily about slavery. Instead they thought it was about whether the Constitution gave the federal government only the powers defined for it (which is what you might think if you read the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, or if you wonder why the Constitution has a list of specific powers granted, and what quite a lot of people thought before the Civil War), or gave it every power not explicitly prohibited to it (which was the Republican Party's position in the 1850s, and became the more common interpretation in the aftermath of the war - and remains so today).

    Granted, they were effectively applying that question and their answer in defense of slavery, which is despicable and makes them clearly not the good guys... but I can't say the Union were the good guys either.

     

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    4 hours ago, ijuin said:

    (That is to say, ignoring legal fictions such as “US-owned facilities in foreign countries count as US soil”.)

    There can be some interesting legal fictions. For example, four rooms in an Ottawa hospital were part of the Netherlands - and not part of Canada - for a short time in January of 1943.

    That legal fiction meant that when Princess Margriet was born in those rooms, she was not Canadian and officially did not have divided loyalties;  therefore she would be eligible to inherit the Dutch throne. (She still is - 8th in line according to Wikipedia; her oldest sister's son is the current monarch.)

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    "a dear bought victory; another such would have ruined us" - General Clinton, British Army, after the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolution.

    (Setup: Bunker Hill had a commanding view of Boston Harbor; if the rebellious Americans could put artillery there, they could deny the harbor to British ships. The land approaches to Bunker Hill, however, were similarly challenged by Breed's Hill. The American forces, then generally regarded as not amounting to much, were therefore entrenched on Breed's Hill, and the British decided that could not stand. In the end the British won, but in the process they lost nearly half of their forces in the Boston area - more than twice as many casualties as the Americans took - and 1/4 of all officers lost over the course of the entire war.)

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    5 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    What do you mean by "if"?

    We found an Earth-like planet, & we destroyed it.

     

    While the extent of our destruction is clearly and significantly non-zero, it is frequently exaggerated.

    There are people out there under the impression that life on Earth will be severely damaged by atmospheric CO2 levels less than half of what was normal when the giant dinosaurs were at their heyday. Somehow this does not greatly concern me.

    On the other hand, there is debate over whether humans are about to be a mass-extinction event, were a mass-extinction event starting a couple hundred years ago, or were a mass-extinction event starting, in North America, about 23,000 years ago (earlier on some other continents, a bit later in South America). I think at least one of those sides is probably correct, and it's past time to stop doing that.

  22. Posted

    1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    [<< Please note, preposition at end!, dammit. I will not write 'To where did ...', you pedantic twit. Who talks like that?]

    Allegedly, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did... at least once. "This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put."

    Then there's the time a father went upstairs to read his son a bedtime story, only to have the child express disapproval of the chosen book. "What did you bring the book I don't like to be read to out of up for?" (Ending a sentence with five prepositions.)

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