What does it run on?

"These executive orders need to go."
Yes. Executive overreach is the biggest problem in gov't. I would love to see someone running promise to reverse the precedent. I don't understand the process enough to know why there isn't legal machinery to stop the president from doing this.

I read it so many times that I rendered it unreadable (by me) for the next 40 years. It is probably time for me to pick up a copy and read it again now...

I could see many bad movies being made from that book. It would have to be an inspired production team that was able to make a good movie of it - and it would probably be R rated.

Jan

I agree - When he described to Eowyn what war was like and why Merry should not go to Minas Tirith, you could tell that he knew that Eowyn was thinking of going to battle herself and that he was actually talking to her, not about Merry.

As you say, macho - but a good actor. I was surprised that Eomer was not given more renown in the post-LOTR press.

Jan

No worries. If I had the same experience you did, I would have a similar opinion. Who needs cliques!

""Let that be Your Last Battlefield" made her wonder what in the world was going on. "
A lot has changed since then, and "change is the essential process of all existence".

I still have some of the FASA software. Haven't played it in ages, but still have it.

Seems like the concept of communication can be expanded from neurons firing, to visual and audio, to chemical, even to reactions. Can an ecosystem be thought to communicate through macroscopic interactions? Is this the same as an economic system (e.g. voting with your wallet)?

Another book idea - Lay out a "socialist" ecology, and show how it fails.

These executive orders need to go.

This is one of the 'borderlands' themes. We are taught not to listen, not to smell, hear, see. We do not have a direct neural connection with Gaea, but there is a lot more communication than we are aware of - we have tuned it out. (Specific instances include chemical transmission of data across forests.)

Jan

I have to find this thing!

Oohh. I had a 3D chess set as a kid. I played it a few times, and don't remember any more.
I have an Autographed Warf picture.
Did attend a convention for 1 day in college.
No simulator, RPG or CCG.

10 points! (But I could only give you one.)

Art should lead. If it isn't doing this, then it should get off its lazy butt and do so. Worse yet: If it _is_ leading right now, zombie dystopias is the future we are creating for ourself.

Jan

Robert Heinlein, no question, "A Stranger In A Strange Land," one of the great classics. More recently, Ben Bova. Also, let's not forget the man who started off the 20th century with "The Scientific Romances Of H. G. Wells."

My God Jim!!! He's dead.

Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" is an all time great story. I've always been surprised that it hasn't been made into a movie yet. I'm just as surprised that King's "Dark Tower" series hasn't been either.

Ain't that a co-inky dink though? I hold it against congress that they have let him get away with that executive order crap. I wish this congress would null and void it. Both GOP & DNP are betraying the legal citizenship. Anyone that has voted with Obama is a traitor to this country in my book.

I like him. He's played mostly macho men to far, but I think he's a good actor.

You've got me beat then.

The people I played with preferred the FASA Starfleet Combat Simulator to Starfleet Battles for more realistic play and better matchups. I agree that in Starfleet battles the cloak was pretty tough. In the FASA one, the Klingon Bird of Prey was the only Klingon ship with cloak and it took some real luck to tangle with the Constellation- or Enterprise-class heavy cruisers and live. Probably the nastiest ships were the Federation and Romulan battleship classes. We had fun using those against outposts.

We also tried playing a double-blind - a cloaked Bird of Prey vs a cloaked Romulan Warbird. We had to abandon the cloaks because it was almost impossible to guess where the other person was!

But it is a good start!

Ah...well....lets see

I can honestly answer yes to every one of those.

Whether that is good or bad is anyone's guess.

Star Fleet Battles was one of my favorite tabletop games ever. My friends forbade me to play Romulans or Klingons with cloak because I could pull an ambush on anyone. :)

Well, thanks for sharing that. Perhaps it's my own interactions with fans at conventions, but when it comes to being a Trek fan, I just don't like the term "Trekkers", because the fans who I've talked to who use that term think that they are better than those of us who are "Trekkies" and wear that label proudly.

I actually have no problem with the word Trekkers outside of the Trek fan community; my favorite travelogue show is "Globe Trekker", after all. It's just when I run into Star Trek fans who use the term like they're setting themselves above Trekkies.

I guess that even though I have watched almost every episode of every Star Trek incarnation that I am not a true Trekkie.

So here's a test for TRUE trekkies:

Can you actually play 3D chess?
Have you actually engaged in a table-top battle simulator?
Did you ever play any of the old unlicensed RPG's?
Have you ever attended a convention? Did you get autographs?
Can you even answer the question: Kirk or Picard?
Did you ever engage in the CCG (collectible card game)?

For me, the answers are:
Yes.
Yes. Still have the original one that got banned by the official Trek memorabilia store.
Yes. Have it, but noone to play with. :(
No. Never have had the money.
Nope. This one's a trick question ;)
Yes. By far the hardest card to get was Data.

Kind of with you here. Pretty movie, but didn't like the anti-corporate theme. Did like the concept of the planet though. Believe someone wrote a book about Jupiter like that. Older book. I read it as kid.