LCARs – (Design)

http://www.okudagrams.com/ Domain by artist http://www.joseralat.com/

heres a nice one – http://www.trekker-reactor.isq-networks-server.com/lcars/

The screen saver is very nice http://www.mewho.com/system47/

LCARs STYLE GUIDE: (As defined on bracercom.com) LCARS was designed by Michael Okuda as the computer interface aboard federation vessels in the Star Trek Universe. In honor of him, LCARS was often referred to as okudagrams.

http://www.lcarsdeveloper.com/ – provide’s a set of ‘LCAR – standards’.

Three Easy Rules to Beat Scam Artists

Another useful information resource in the same category http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

QUOTE – Taken from  the Russian-Brides.com.au website – You will have to follow the link below to read HOW the ‘Three-Easy-Rules’ work in full.

The wide spread of Internet dating in the last 10 years has created a new kind of scam artists – people who make Internet dating scams their profession. If you are new to the world of Internet Introduction it is easy to fall for the scams.

However, it is equally easy to avoid them if you know about typical ways these scams are usually performed.

RUSSIAN BRIDES has a very clear and simple policy on scammers. We run compulsory verification security checks on all women who apply to be included in our Photo Catalogue. We consequently publish only about 15% of all applications we receive.

dead peasants insurance

THIS; is quite a popular google search; -  dead peasants insurance

WHAT DOES IT MEAN? – (benefits payable to the corporation)

Corporate-owned life insurance
Corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) is life insurance on employees’ lives that is owned by the employer corporation, with benefits payable to the corporation. COLI was originally purchased on the lives of key employees and executives by a company to hedge against the financial cost of losing key employees to unexpected death, the risk of recruiting and training replacements of necessary or highly-trained personnel, or to fund corporate obligations to redeem stock upon the death of an owner. This use is commonly known as “key man” or “key person” insurance. Once, COLI was used for masses of non-key employees in order to get tax benefits, a practice known as “janitor insurance” or “dead peasant insurance”. Congress set limits on the practice in 2004, and today COLI is limited to the more senior executives of a firm.

The truth is out there

Flat Earthers

I love these people – just so genuine in their belief – and the arguments put forth are really convincing – I think i believe, .. – the Earth is Flat.

When they put it like this – “Ours is the truth, the truth of the world’s flatness” – you have to believe

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“The facts are simple,” says Charles K. Johnson, president of the International Flat Earth Research Society. “The earth is flat.“

But why? Why do we say the Earth is flat, when the vast majority says otherwise? Because we know the truth.

The space beyond the edge of the world was a dark realm inhabited by all sorts of unholy beasts. Fire and brimstone billowed up from the very depths of hell itself -

How Big is BIG?

GOOGLE – the milky way galaxy facts AND;  Swinburne Astronomy Productions – Bigger than Big

This reminds me of the Monty Python movie – Life of Brian, song ‘Always look on the bright side of life’, where they spew out all these Milky Way facts, pointing out that you, and I are insignifigant in the bigger scheme of things,  – ‘How Big is Big?’

OUR HOME: The Milky Way Galaxy;
The arrow points to our Star the Sun, which is any one of several hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. – Pictured here, – The Star closest to our Sun is 4.5 light years away. – A Light Year is the distance light travels in one year. – Light moves at the speed of 186,272 miles or 300,000 kilimeters per second. – Our Sun is 30,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. – So the light that we see coming from our Milky Way Galaxy’s center, left there 30,000 years ago. – The know Universe contains over 1,000,000 Billion of other Galaxies. – The Milky Way Galaxy contains at least 400 billion stars. -

We are living on a planet that is in constant high-speed motion around itself and traveling on its orbit around the Sun. – The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 25,000 miles or 40,000 kilometers. – The Earth rotates around its axis once every twenty-four (24) hours time, or one whole day and night. While Planet Earth is rotating on its axis at the speed of over 1000 miles or 1609 kilometers per hour, Earth is also traveling, revolving on its oval orbit around the Sun at the speed of about – 67,000 miles or 107,200 kilometers per hour once every 365 days or one whole year.

How Big is BIG?

All About the Milky Way – The Milky Way is simply the common name for the galaxy that encompasses our solar system.

Sentient Beings

Science fiction

Post below copied from the ‘science fiction section’ of the Wiki-Pedia, and this definition suits me the best.

In science fiction, an alien, android, robot, hologram or computer who is described as sentient is usually treated as a fully human character, with similar rights, qualities and capabilities as any other character. Foremost among these properties is human level intelligence (see above), but sentient characters also typically display desire, will, consciousness, ethics, personality, insight, and many other human qualities. Sentience is being used in this context to describe an essential human property that brings all these other qualities with it. The words “sapience”, “self-awareness” and “consciousness” are used in similar ways in science fiction.

Some science fiction plot lines explore ethical concerns analogous to the concerns of advocates of animal rights. In an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “The Measure of a Man,” Data, a sentient android, takes legal action to prove that he has the same rights as a human being. In the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Author, Author” the Doctor, a holographic program by nature, fights for his rights as a sentient lifeform. The film Artificial Intelligence: A.I. considers a machine in the form of a small boy which has been given the ability to feel human emotions, including the capacity to suffer. In these examples, sentience plays the same role as it does in the philosophy of animal rights.

The word sentient is also used to describe the Agent programs in The Matrix, however in this case it only means that these programs are self-aware, self-governing and of human-level intelligence – no individuality or personality is inferred.[dubious – discuss]

In many science fiction works sentience is often used as a synomym for sapience meaning “human-level or higher intelligence”. But others make a distinction; for example, in David Brin’s Uplift stories, the Tandu are undoubtedly sapient (both technologically skilled and cunning) but only marginally sentient, since they regard other races and sometimes other Tandu mainly as potential prey.[citation needed]

In the science fiction MMORPG “Jumpgate” “sentients” are special specimens of the otherwise AI-species “Conflux” which are controlled by employers of the game company in special events to create a greater challange for the players than the usual computer-controlled NPCs.