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So he's still harping on the same examples? That is of course a fine sign of cherrypicking (as if we didn't know he was doing that already). Most of them have already been covered, but I'll take a look at some others. The court examples: Apparently Volly didn't get it when I pointed out that he expe...

What I never understood about this episode is how those freighters were in business to begin with. You'd think they'd be run out by established alien freight companies with faster ships. For that matter why did no earth company seek out some deals to at least get a warp 3 engine from somebody? Who ...

Jon wrote:According to the guy who designed it, it's not supposed to be a 1:1 scale version of the ENT, but a larger ship with the same overall aesthetic shape.

Then why the fuck did he give it the Big E's hull lettering? I'm just confused now.

By this point I am completely convinced that Volly is either a complete moron or a troll, repeating the same arguments over and over again, sometimes without even bothering to rephrase them. I'm also pretty sure the only reason he hasn't been banned yet is that Mike has taken a special interest in h...

Thanas wrote:The dictionary part was hilarious.

Agreed. I got the feeling it was pre-empting something, although as I've tried not to expose myself to this idiocy more than I have to, I couldn't guess what.

PeZook wrote:Then there's the Boston Tunnel, an undertaking which was completely insane when it was incepted, and only became slightly less so after introduction of various technological aids.

Well, if we're talking about tunnels what about the Channel Tunnel here in England? It's over 30 miles long.

I suppose it's too much to ask that it only disrupted the forcefield based holograms and left the replicated matter behind?

What the fuck are you guys arguing about? I'm pretty sure that's rhetorical, but I'll sum up the relevant portion of our argument anyway in case any other observers are confused. Before Mike showed that the power cost of a shipwide holographic defense system was prohibitive, I made an offhand comme...

Ah, a little grammar nazi. Kindly go fuck yourself. Is that a coherent enough sentence for you? So pointing out that you are speaking nonsense is akin to being a grammar nazi now, is it? I'll try once again to spell this out to you: the holotrooper system is worse than useless because it would be s...

Is it such a good idea to try to prevent evidence against them? The burden of proof is clearly not with you, and it might be better to remind people of this.

That has me torn between disgust at what those homophobic arseholes are trying to do, and amusement that my reaction to pretty much all of their examples of 'terrible, terrible things' was along the lines of "Hmm, I wonder if that's true? Be a bloody good thing if it is."

aside from Enterprise nx01 does anyone remember any starfleet starship ever stopping at a space station or what not for antimatter, or for that matter running low under normal operations. I know voyager had power problems but was it due specifically to lack of antimatter?.. IIRC it was Deuterium th...

More so that you constantly bleating that they "could be" useful because you really really really really really really really want them to be. That isn't even a coherent sentence. What is more so than my arguments? And I quite strongly suspect that this would be an appeal to motive even i...

I'm not sure how much is made of concrete, but I always found the Panama canal pretty impressive. Although I do remember seeing a documentary at one point that told how it was basically built on slave labour.

The biggest problem isn't his failure to take an economics course. It's the fact that he doesn't recognize challenges to the axiomatic "truths" upon which his argument hinges. For example, he will simply declare that unregulated industries always outperform regulated ones, or that industr...

How can he be unaware of failures like: "Tragedy of the commons", externalities, and public goods. That's introductory Econ (usually a freshman intro course) stuff. The most obvious explanation would of course be that he has never taken an economics course in his life, as also evidenced b...

Well, here's another factory ship, and it also has weird-looking vertical tubes on it. I wonder what they are?

You see, I just went down the list and provided counter-points to every passive metal being used that I could. Hyperonic radiation stops all fed tech, so it would be stupid of them to use. Nucleonic radiation poses a danger to humans - certainly something of an occupational hazard to leave it going...

How fucking stupid do you think these people are? Why wouldn't they just use a waveguide to push the signal to an emitter on the hull, and receive it the same way? We already know they can use tractor beams to redirect a transport signal. The hole could be miniscule. Can we be sure if that would wo...

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Non-sequitur. The ability to produce fanatical individuals does not equate to the ability to withstand the kind of grinding fatigue brought on by sustained counter-insurgency warfare. You're completely missing the point here, and quite frankly being more than a little dense. There's a reason why in...

Not to be a fly in the ointment; but the federation relies pretty heavily on their own transporter technology. Using 'transport-blocking metals' and such in the hull, therefore, seems like a bad idea. Quite, and I would therefore argue for active jammers rather than passive building materials. I'm ...

Well, we know from real life that indoctrination can produce fanatical loyalty, up to and including the suicide bomber. I think the real question here is if these techniques can produce similar loyalty in regular forces without compromising their effectiveness. Did Palpatine need to use his force po...

More so that you constantly bleating that they "could be" useful because you really really really really really really really want them to be. That isn't even a coherent sentence. What is more so than my arguments? And I quite strongly suspect that this would be an appeal to motive even i...

Marines aren't aboard every ship, in the case of the US Navy they are only on the CVN's. And their just present for general security, the idea that someone would be able to board a CVN which has a battlegroup escorting it is pretty stupid. I was going to call him on that, but I couldn't find a reli...