The Borg, explain to me
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But you're the only one to ever mention this, in fact you brought this up a few months ago.
(Spock: First Vulcan in the Fleet? August 22 2011, 08:18 PM)
YOU: ... and putting a smiley face at the end of legal nonsense and self-contradictory arguments doesn't make it right
ME: I place a smiley face at the end of most of my posts. Not just here, but on other boards as well, and on my E-mails too.
And I do, the smiliey face has been a fixture of my written correspondences, internet exchanges, and class work going back to when I was a child, and not something specially dished up just for you.
So, let me get this straight ... I've hurt your feelings Sci?
Hahaha, I got a chuckle out of this one. I respect your wishes in wanting to effectively "sign" your posts with a smiley, but this particular quote above really came off as "trollface".So, let me get this straight ... I've hurt your feelings Sci?
Maybe I should start signing all of my posts with Spot (my avatar).
Snippy? Perhaps, I actually don't see the problem.
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Hahaha, I got a chuckle out of this one. I respect your wishes in wanting to effectively "sign" your posts with a smiley, but this particular quote above really came off as "trollface".So, let me get this straight ... I've hurt your feelings Sci?
Maybe I should start signing all of my posts with Spot (my avatar).
So that's what the smiley face looks like close up. Who knew?
Actually, the Klingons evolved from DNA seeded by the original humanoid race in the Galaxy, and developed along a similar evolutionary path to all humanoid aliens by genetic design.
So....
But you're the only one to ever mention this, in fact you brought this up a few months ago.
(Spock: First Vulcan in the Fleet? August 22 2011, 08:18 PM)
YOU: ... and putting a smiley face at the end of legal nonsense and self-contradictory arguments doesn't make it right
ME: I place a smiley face at the end of most of my posts. Not just here, but on other boards as well, and on my E-mails too.
And I do, the smiliey face has been a fixture of my written correspondences, internet exchanges, and class work going back to when I was a child, and not something specially dished up just for you.
So, let me get this straight ... I've hurt your feelings Sci?
There was a long time poster on this board who ended all of his interactions with smiley faces too, named himself after a famous starship, and it pretty much drove half the board crazy. Perhaps you remember him?
Not that I give a shit, smiley face all day long.
The good ship U.S.S. Lollypop?
A name carried on the solar winds and whispered in forums when all grows dull from those aspiring to call themselves troll.But you're the only one to ever mention this, in fact you brought this up a few months ago.
(Spock: First Vulcan in the Fleet? August 22 2011, 08:18 PM)
YOU: ... and putting a smiley face at the end of legal nonsense and self-contradictory arguments doesn't make it right
ME: I place a smiley face at the end of most of my posts. Not just here, but on other boards as well, and on my E-mails too.
And I do, the smiliey face has been a fixture of my written correspondences, internet exchanges, and class work going back to when I was a child, and not something specially dished up just for you.
So, let me get this straight ... I've hurt your feelings Sci?
There was a long time poster on this board who ended all of his interactions with smiley faces too, named himself after a famous starship, and it pretty much drove half the board crazy. Perhaps you remember him?
Not that I give a shit, smiley face all day long.
And I do, the smiliey face has been a fixture of my written correspondences, internet exchanges, and class work going back to when I was a child, and not something specially dished up just for you.
So, let me get this straight ... I've hurt your feelings Sci?
A fellow poster tells you that your posts come across as rude and condescending, and you chose to reply in a rude and condescending manner while completely changing the topic, insulting your fellow poster instead of reconsidering how much respect you're showing to everyone you speak to.
Ok, folks, I see this thread has gone off-topic. Let's sort it out...
You're not exactly helping your case here.
But I do. I don't have a problem with your signing off your posts with a smilie but in this case tighr summed up quite succinctly how it came across. This is borderline baiting because you were already in a somewhat heated and personal argument with Sci about the smilie. Your follow-up post doesn't help to disperse this impression. It's not enough for a warning but please be a little less "snippy" in the future.
Sci, please don't mini-mod. This usually leads to an escalation and thread derailment. If you feel that someone's trying to rile you up use the notify Mod button, please.
Comments (if you have any) to PM.
And now back to the Borg!
And I do, the smiliey face has been a fixture of my written correspondences, internet exchanges, and class work going back to when I was a child, and not something specially dished up just for you.
So, let me get this straight ... I've hurt your feelings Sci?
You're not exactly helping your case here.
Snippy? Perhaps, I actually don't see the problem.
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But I do. I don't have a problem with your signing off your posts with a smilie but in this case tighr summed up quite succinctly how it came across. This is borderline baiting because you were already in a somewhat heated and personal argument with Sci about the smilie. Your follow-up post doesn't help to disperse this impression. It's not enough for a warning but please be a little less "snippy" in the future.
Sci, please don't mini-mod. This usually leads to an escalation and thread derailment. If you feel that someone's trying to rile you up use the notify Mod button, please.
Comments (if you have any) to PM.
And now back to the Borg!
Tim Taylor wanted to do something really special for the Tool Time movie, and, well, it went too far. Al's Mom was the original Borg Queen and she served on two Borg Cubes.
Right, but you have to take into account all the stupid people that exist in every society. For every Stephen Hawking the Borg assimilate, they assimilate two dozen Rick Perry. I'm shocked that they can sustain such an extreme socialist society.Also, by assimilating all that they encounter, surely this must be as near to unbeatable as possible, yet somehow Picard, Janeway et al have frequent victories over them.
I am puzzled
Its not socialist, its indifferent...as the popular saying goes these days, "it is what it is"...the only have to justify themselves when they come down to our level of singular existence (Borg Queen, 7 of 9, etc). By assimilating them, they take such varied social/intellectual differences out of the equation, and every biological body has the same aptitudes for them, partly because they take external stimuli away. Also such differences are pretty subjective, there is no reason why the Borg couldnt get the same "brain power" from a Rick Perry that they could from a Stephen Hawking.
The fact is no one knows the exact origins of the Borg. Granted, it probably started with whatever made the Queen into a Queen.I read a TOS graphic digest a few years ago that dealt with the subject but the details are sketch in my mind how it worked out, but it offered an origin for the first generation of Borg complete with Queen.
Possibly it all started with the Queen, but there is no certainty there. Whatever she might have said on the subject is not necessarily truthful.
I feel that the Queen was probably not there from the beginning. She was probably a creation out of necessity for the development of the hive.
Evidence for this is the Voyager episode Unity, where the former drones re-initialize a cooperative, and they have no need for a Queen. But as the size of the collective grows, it makes sense for there to evolve a hierarchy.
Evidence for this is the Voyager episode Unity, where the former drones re-initialize a cooperative, and they have no need for a Queen. But as the size of the collective grows, it makes sense for there to evolve a hierarchy.
The Borg may very well have evolved originally without a Queen, i like to think so but that doesn't make it fact or canon. And what she says typically could be considered as lies. Remember, she thinks the Borg are on a path to perfection and all that jazz.
Isn't that how it works in actual bee hives?
Nope. In bee hives (and ant nests and termite colonies, etc.) the Queen is first.
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