Not a bad boy, just a stupid one.

Here is what you call your "argument":

Leaving aside that this is a rant which could possibly indicate an underlying argument but is not an argument in itself, your subsequent attempt to invite others to regard it as either casuistry or sophistry indicates only your own confusion. If you claim you are not confused then it indicates how woefully you have overestimated your own intelligence. If you claim you are intelligent then it indicates your dishonesty, even with yourself.

All rather pathetic stuff, really. And the fact that you think it makes you "bad" simply renders it even more pathetic still. Allow me to be embarrassed on your behalf. You obviously don't have the intelligence to be.

Or in other words: you appear to have the world's sandiest vagina.

B) because you never presented really why it's ethically wrong to ask for money for a service provided, in this case the maintance of the server and this website/forum. But really you didn't make much of a point in your "arugment" because at no point did you provide an alternate means to bring in cash flow to maintain this website/forum. So I am going to have to say it was pretty pointless and stupid. Other than bitching about something and looking really stupid by trying to say asking for money is the same religions....well no it's not. You didn't even come close to connecting the two.

So what is it that you're actually "revelaing"?...that you're a self-serving attention seeking, antogonistic jizzbucket who gets his jollies from posting sophmoric nonsense on internet messageboards and wasting poeple's time?

Thanks a diaper load for the revelation. Personally, I hope you walk in on the person you love sucking the dick of someone who owes you money. Die in a chemical fire...no one cares.

Um, Rich, you did know that in a chemical fire, the worst is over in a few minutes, right?

I would prefer that he get radiation poisoning. With a good ingestible alpha emitter, his death could drag on for weeks.

You know... for a second... just a second... i thought you were talking about me

Ok. Here's a hint...

Casuistry: (n) Specious or excessively subtle reasoning intended to rationalize or mislead.

Sophistry: (n) A plausible but misleading or fallacious argument.
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More descriptive info:;
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Casuistry refers to case-based reasoning and is used to resolve moral problems by applying theoretical rules to specific situations.

Sophistry is the reasoning that might seem logical while being wrong, using difficult or complicated language to intimidate someone into agreeing. Or, it might appeal to someone's prejudices and emotions rather than logic.

fantastic.  prepare for some kind of pseudo-cryptic bullshit remark about the borg.

 Voyager kinda killed that, once and for all...

Well... Picard was probably the most famous/infamous federation capt. privy to all sorts of classified knowledge, which would in turn, benefit the borg. That, and the whole morale destroying factor of "Muahaha your federations mightiest leader is now one of us"

Both of which dont matter at all to an enemy like the borg in the first place... so... yeah...

precisely...

    I have this continuing dream about 7 of 9 throwing me on my back, jumping on me while proclaiming "resistence is futile". Then ravaging me for hours.   Oh hum................I have to go take a cold shower now.

Michio Kaku says that humanity is transitioning to a Kardashev type 1 civilization, and we'll all be integrated into a global hive mind via implantable brain-chip. I stopped liking Michio Kaku after I saw that. That's some fucked up shit right there.

I stopped taking him seriously after he went on Art Bell.  That's pretty much all it ever takes.

It is often said that the line between genius and insanity is blurry.  I'm pretty sure Michio has taken a belly flop off the cliff.  It's people like him, in my opinion, that drive the wheels of what I call the fallacy of future technology.  We get so damn excited about how awesome it's going to be when we harness the full energy of the sun that we forget that we've got to stop the sun from raising sea level ten feet in the next fifty years.

It's kind of a wonky concept.  Reminds me a little of Aliens.  Those sons of bitches are damn near perfect in a lot of ways.  You don't want to poke them because you'll get acid all over you.  They can apparently hibernate in just about any atmosphere for many, many years.  They can apparently impregnate just about any organic critter with a mouth.  Presumably, the fact that their phenotype changes according to their host, they become better adapted to their current environment.  It's a damn fine system.

However, they're not smart enough to deal with marines and guns.  But... marines without their machine guns aren't very good at dealing with aliens.

The point is, no matter how "perfectly" you design an organic life form, you can find an environment in which it's far from perfect.  So.. the whole Borg concept seems... like I said... wonky.

Although it certainly cleans up some of the loose ends.  If the borg queen has emotions, she might have gotten a crush on Picard, or had some kind of irrational reason for wanting to abduct him.  Now that you mention that, I remember the borg queen.  Was that from a movie or the STnG series?  I can't recall.

It also clears up the question of why they're so damn imperialist.  Maybe she's got an overinflated sense of narcissism and gets off on having her own personal army of drones.  Granted, it's not a collective in the strictest sense, but it's certainly a "directed collective."  So.... maybe she sets the parameters by which the collective functions, and can alter the thing as a whole, or as individuals.  If so, then it's not really so much a collective... it's more that she is some sort of multi-organism.  Rather than a single biological unit, she's a collection of brains.  I suppose if neurons can be a brain, brains can be a superbrain, at least in Sci-Fi.

But I've got to tell you, I lost absolutely all respect for Picard when he sent Hugh back to the collective with his own knowledge of individuality instead of a virus.  He should have been brought up on charges of treason against the whole fucking human race.  Kirk would have just recruited Chuck Norris to beam over and kick every borg ass on the cube, and then side kick the queen out of existence.

I lost it for Kaku when he decided to inject himself into politics. Specifically surrounding a project to study the feasibility of launching nuclear waste into space. I am probably forgetting some details but he was concerned about potential environmental damage should a rocket be destroyed on the launch pad or in the first few minutes of flight. Mind you, he did not tender that opinion until after the system had already been destruction tested with a sample payload of some short lived isotopes.

As far as the Borg go, they are not “adding to their perfection”, they are “adding to their distinctiveness in pursuit of perfection”. Knowing that difference is crucial to any understanding of them.

Mind you, the producers are not big on constructing a consistent cannon, so the Borg have changed in some critical ways over the years. In some episodes they have been assimilating for “thousands of centuries”, in other episodes, it has been stated that they were a relatively minor annoyance in the delta quadrant a mere 900 years ago (actually 600 years in our time).

Another interesting thing is that they got the assimilation technology from Species 149, thus indicating that they probably were more of a military threat prior to that time. Also, outside of filmed episodes, it has been stated that they developed from the race known as the “Preservers”, who are noted for having kidnapped humans several tens of centuries ago and transplanted them on dozens of planets, thus explaining why the enterprise was so good at finding them nearly everywhere that they went.

My father was Force Recon.  Those bastards on Aliens were not marines.  They were shit.

Presumably, aliens would always lose to people on the moon.  People = wear spacesuit.  Alien = boil blood, explode.  We know they do that because it happened on that one movie.

Proving once again my maxim that a movie without boobs (or ass crack, in Sigourney Weaver's case) cannot be considered a good horror/action movie.

I watched all of STnG.  I never watched voyager or the other spin-offs.  I think I've seen all the movies, but I can't swear to it.  (Well, I haven't seen the newest movie.)

You know what Chuck Norris keeps in his beard?

ANOTHER FIST!@

Gauche, what's playing in your avatar?

Looks like Shatner pre-Startrek. Possibly a Twilight Zone episode.

It's from an episode of the original twilight zone series called "nick of time" starring William Shatner and Patricia Breslin. In the episode Shatner plays a superstitious man who becomes obsessed with a fortune telling machine in a diner.

First he gone an decided ta make sumfin of himsulf, an not sign his life away wit dem young nobal patriots *tear*

Den he go an got himsulf casterated...

Dat boy just ain't right...

Mmhmm

Not as nerdy as...

Knowing THAT O_O

Nordman, as you're still attending classes for the scatologically challenged
allow me to congratulate you for still having maintained shit for brains.

Interesting. You're into fucking crabs with your tiny penile bone, eh?

Independent thought is what you despise. No wonder you believe your infantile loyalty to ignorant masses is defensible.

Go back to using your vacuum cleaner, ya dick head.

Talking about your own posts, eh. ZZZZzzzz.......

 I wonder if anybody will ever concoct a super-villain worth a damn.  Battlestar Gallactica had something pretty decent going with the toasters, but as a fan of evolutionary biology, I had a really huge problem with the premise.  If Cylons are different from humans, their DNA is different.  Maybe they still use DNA, but it would have to be different.  You don't just include cyborg machinery in a living being without rejection unless you have altered the DNA significantly.

If you're telling me that they have thousands of years of DNA technology, and they can't grab a dead Cylon, sequence the DNA and locate clear as day genetic markers not shared by humans... well... I'm not buying it.

The Borg were pretty good at first because they were just so... unyielding and powerful.  The problem is, that kind of one-dimensional character doesn't work for repeat performances.  After the third or fourth appearance, it's boring.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  It's the Borg.  Bang bang!  Look, they've adapted to our adaptation to their modulating shields!  DATA!!!!  Make some science magic!  Ok, Captain, here's a SUBSPACE modulating X-9 Space modulator!  Bang, bang... we've barely defeated the Borg... again.... 

but they'll be back...

Then there were the Reavers.  The reavers were pretty badass.  They're absolutely insane, but still sane enough to maintain and pilot spaceships, and all they really want to do is rape people in unthinkable ways before skinning them alive, eating them, and grafting parts of their bodies onto their ships and suits of armor.  

Really scary.

Only... again, it loses its punch.  Once we know what the reavers are like, we aren't scared by them any more.  Hell, I was much more scared of Nitchka (however you spell it) than the reavers.  He was sane.  Sane evil men are much scarier than monsters.  In any case, Whedon did the right thing by putting a twist on the reavers and making them victims.  They had run their course as a scary enemy.  Plus, the evil empire -- whatever it happens to be called -- is always better than a single monster.  If the "two-by-two, hands-of-blue" gets old, you send an assassin.  If that gets old, you send undercover operatives.  If that gets old, you send a squadron of elite troops.

This is one of the ways the original Star Trek (and to some degree STnG) failed.  They invented some great enemies, but they left them one-dimensional, and never bothered to develop them much beyond a few cameos.  The Romulans... gee, they look pretty much just like Vulcans.  There's all sorts of plot fodder there, but it was hardly ever developed.  The Klingons.  Pretty damn nasty, but clearly, they have a society that works.  They're quite authoritarian and lawful, when it comes down to it.  Tradition, loyalty, honor.  Lots of material there.

Now that I think about it, ST was following an older plot style, where our hero encounters a new danger each week.  Once writers discovered the soap opera, this style just doesn't seem to hold water.  That, if you ask me, is why BSG is stronger than Buck Rogers, and why Star Wars is stronger than Star Trek... at least from the perspective of compelling writing.