Lady Britannia

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  1. I disagree with that. ST.com is a joke to be quite blunt. I have been to many websites in my day and i have never seen such rude,despicable people as i have at ST.com.(don't get me wrong, there are nice people there also,but they are in the minority to say the least)

     

    Define "rude" though. What one person considers rude may be perfectly acceptable to others.

     

    For example, i have seen others get quite personal and vulgar in their attacks and have nothing done to discourage this behavior, meanwhile the victims of these attacks usually end up having their accounts "deactivated" Imo, very ghastly indeed.

     

    My cousin posts on the official website. He has never mentioned any problems. Members on that site tend to have enormous post counts which suggests that account deactivation is not very common.

     

    After about 8 years at ST.com i found this place and have forever left that site far behind. The people here are very cool and treat each other with respect,plus everyone has a good time. Without a doubt, my fave of all star trek websites.

     

    "Treating each other with respect" could actually be a case rather of people posting things in order to please others. For example Member A says something. Member B is offended. So the next time Member A posts something, they dilute it in order to avoid offending someone else. But since offense is often in the eye of the beholder, it can have the effect of creating a "safe" and bland environment where no one is willing to post their honest opinions for fear of upsetting others, which I don't think is particularly constructive.


  2. The country's health care system cannot afford to open its doors to overweight immigrants, a spokesman for New Zealand's Fight the Obesity Epidemic explained to the Daily Mail.

     

    Sounds reasonable.

     

    The alternative could be to allow overweight people into the nation, but make it very clear than the Kiwi NHS would not offer any treatments based on weight-related ailments and conditions.


  3. Constructive Comments

     

    - It all sounds a little "Mary Sue-esque". Make sure you don't end up with a situation where everyone seems to be in love with your lead character.

     

    - Change the name of your lead character. "Cindy Smart" sounds like a porn star.

     

    - Replace "Janeway" with someone else. You could do without such a dud character in your story.

     

    - Get rid of the "birds sang with joy and flowers open" bit. You may as well have cherubs singing while floating on clouds.

     

    - I don't buy the whole "she falls in love with Data simply by looking at his mission profiles" bit. How would those files know that he was "introverted but amusing?". Would Geordi's mission profiles say "chief engineer on the Federation flagship.....decorated several times by Starfleet.....shy in a sexy sort of way.....expert CONN officer".

     

    - Data did lose his creators, his android offspring and the woman who used him while intoxicated for sexual thrills (I presume you are referring to Tasha Yar) but he didn't seem to "suffer" from it. His reaction basically consisted of a gormless unemotional blank expression.

     

    - Q offered to turn Data into a human being, but Data refused.

     

    - I'm not sure how credible or desired it would be to have the counselor as XO on a Federation starship.

     

    - Your "handsome Lieutenant" sounds like a male version of a Mary Sue.

     

    - I don't see why Q would help. What "dilemma" does she face? She either stops having fantasies about a destroyed piece of machinery or she can stop being silly and get on with her duties.

     

    - Based on how you describe this character, I think SHE needs a counselor. Quick.

     

    - Wanting Data but instead focusing on B-4 is like wanting Brad Pitt, but instead settling for his retarded identical twin.

     

    - I wouldn't describe B-4 as a "poor android". He was barely aware of his surroundings. He was the Forrest Gump of androids.


  4. well, i think its dumb.... theatres are incredibly loud, whats the matter if one guy is sitting there talking, im pretty sure you can still hear what is going on in the movie.. that slike someone yelling in your face and you have someone talking beside you.. its not a big deal, get over it! Its a free country.

     

    People don't pay money to go to the cinema to listen to people talking in the audience. They go there to watch a movie. As such, talking on a phone or otherwise is inappropriate in a cinema.


  5. Aside from the possible dangers with not being able to make a phonecall when absolutely necessary, what gives the jammers the right to prevent others from using phones? If I want to use a phone in a restaurant, what right do others have to stop me? Nor is it their right to decide what is considered "inane" or not. It's common politeness to turn a phone off when in the cinema though. So they find ringtones and people talking on phones to be annoying. So what? If they find it annoying when babies cry are they going to invent a "baby jammer" that sprays sleeping gas into their faces to keep them quiet? I would recommend that someone invents a "phone jammer jammer" that instantly causes a phone jammer to overload and explode in the hands of whomever is using one.


  6. First of all, no offense, but I didn't even realize that Canada had participated in WW1!

     

    However, since they obviously did, I believe that conscription is based on need. If Canada had the required troops to fulfill their comittment to WW1, then no conscription was required. If not, then conscription would be needed.

     

    Its much like the USA's involvment with Iraq right now. With our forces stretched to the max and war with Iran imminent, conscription may be right around the corner for us.

     

    Any government that introduced conscription would be committing political suicide.

     

    If the opposition to the war in Iraq is large now, just wait and see the chaos and anger that would be unleashed if a government tried to force people to fight.


  7. The effects of natural selection and evolution upon human beings are interesting, because unlike other animals who have to survive in the environment they find themselves in, human beings have the ability to change the environment to suit them and we can make use of such things like technology and medicine to deal with things that might otherwise kill us. As such, any mutations that occur for humans may not play as big a role in matters of survival as they once did. This doesn't mean however that evolution is not acting human being still though. For example a mutation giving human beings the ability to resist HIV would be very beneficial.