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Hello, my name is Tackdriver! If you stop by to view my profile, let me know what you think... You all know the line: "Some of my best friends are..."  Sarah Connor sympathizers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home town: classified MY VITALS Occupation: Systems / Software / Electrical Engineer Location: New England -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORE ABOUT ME... I joined this wiki because: It's fun exchanging ideas with other fans of my favorite TV Universe. The best word / phrase to describe me is: Renaisance Man Interests: My Bucket List of Things to Do Before Judgement Day: Been There, Done That: Mostly while younger, fitter, and more daring.
======================================================== "Science Fiction makes very specific changes to the rules of the Universe As We Know It, and then sticks to them. When the authors violate new laws of physics every week, it becomes fantasy, and undermines the writer/author's credibilty vis a vis their moral, political, and social messages as well as their entertainment value." ======================================================== "The first season opening monologues stated that SkyNet sent one terminator to protect John Connor. Was that a glaring error, as we all thought, or was it a clue... Cameron MAY think she loves John. Cameron's mission may BE to love John and protect him; to insulate him from dealing with the harsh realities that would have turned him into the brilliant leader we humans so desperately need." ======================================================== "New 'verse for Donald Where's Your Trousers? I cannae engage with the deadly Hun With a load of blanks And the safety ON Mom needs to say: "Good Hunting, Son" Not "Donald Where's Your Trousers?" " =========================================== One of my favorite quotes is this: "Courage is resistance (!) to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear". - Mark Twain What would be the corresponding word for "resistance to lust, mastery of lust, not absense of lust?" The concensus is continence, though abstinence is more commonly used. Is John practicing continence with Cameron, or does his knowledge of what she is completely eliminate his lust for her? ================================================ Alison From Palmdale "Terminators as far back as Uncle Bob seem to be self aware. Uncle Bob's role was strictly to protect John, so there was no conflict there. What happens to self awareness, though, in an infiltrator, who has to behave as a human, perhaps even a specific human (Alison Young), to get close to the target, before executing her mission and her target? How are those behavioral protocols programmed, and kept separate from the mission protocols, or default terminator "personality"? What controls the behavioral switch? What happens when there is damage to the hardware or the software? Could the infiltration protocols be patched in to replace damaged code? Could an AI so damaged become confused about who it REALLY is? Especially if it knew everything there was to know about the person it was copying. This episode was... "fascinating", to quote a certain Vulcan from the Roddenberry universe." ======================================================================== "Freedom is not simply granted. It is achieved through disruption of established power relationships." ======================================================================== Favorite movies: Apollo 13, Batman Begins, Fight Club, Matrix 1, Terminator 1, Favorite TV shows: TSCC, Mythbusters, BSG, B5, ST:NG. My heroes: Stanley N. Baron: An inventor of digital television, who taught me to use digital signal processing to stretch and compress the time dimension of analog video signals. James A Lovell, John L Swigert and Fred W Haise (Apollo 13), who used discipline, intellect and improvisation to save their own butts after their primary spacecraft failed on the way to the moon. Richard Feynman (Manhattan Project, Challenger Commission), who could explain complicated concepts in a way that all of us could understand. And still win the hearts of women. ("You have to ask them...") Orville and Wilbur Wright Engineered and flew the 1st successful airplane. They succeeded because they invented the force balance, an instrument for measuring the lift and drag coefficients for every airfoil design they made, understood that propellers are wings. They survived because they learned to control their pitch unstable airframe by tethering it in the wind before they flew it free. Grace Hopper: "It is easier to seek forgiveness than permission" Another great explainer. My superpower is: "I can fix things with my brain". If I could live anywhere, it would be: Vermont, or Western Montana My dream job(s): retirement What else you should know about me: I want my government to obey its own Constitution, not to become my Nanny (or anyone else's). I've kayaked or canoed North American whitewater rivers as far north and east as the Moise in Quebec/Laborador, the Penobscot in Maine, as far west as Canyon Creek on the Kenai Penninsula in Alaska, and as far South as Section 4 of the Chatooga in GA. I competed in whitewater slalom races, including the US Team Trials (without finishing last). I've ridden a bicycle from the San Juan Islands in Washington state, to the Green Mountains of Vermont. My favorite memory of that trip was seeing a hawk and an osprey face each other down in the sky over Lake KooCanUsa. The scariest event, looking back, was hearing a double bladed axe hit the ground behind my bike. I typically shoot 400+ in rapid-fire service rifle matches. On Sunday it was -1.6 deg F at breakfast, and I managed to hit 417, with 5x's on the 200 yd course. Woo-Hoo it was COLD. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAY HELLO! Leave me a comment below, or send me a private message or compliment!
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