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Uriah Tedanih
Tech Four Media Group
#61 - 2012-05-23 21:25:21 UTC
LATEST STORY: Alleged Assassination Attempt on Lai Dai Researcher Thwarted

Some curious details surround this event.
Uriah Tedanih
Tech Four Media Group
#62 - 2012-06-24 15:45:12 UTC
LATEST STORY: Independent Holovid Studio to Release Tech Four Disaster Reel

I hope this is handled with some decorum. Also, I'm not sure I like the look of the actor playing the part of me. He seems very stern and serious and doesn't look much like me at all.

I think it would have made a better book.
Uriah Tedanih
Tech Four Media Group
#63 - 2012-07-15 10:25:43 UTC
LATEST STORY: Capsuleers to Riot Over Ship Redesign

Outrageous behaviour. Surely the authorities will curb this.
Uriah Tedanih
Tech Four Media Group
#64 - 2012-07-22 10:39:15 UTC
LATEST STORY: Senseless Capsuleer Protest Results in Hundreds of Deaths

A pointless, avoidable tragedy. If only these kinds of capsuleers could be policed effectively rather than left to behave like over-privileged wild children.
Lyn Farel
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#65 - 2012-07-22 10:47:17 UTC
Interesting. This was done only due to the changes made on the aesthetics of the ship according to you ?
Uriah Tedanih
Tech Four Media Group
#66 - 2012-07-22 13:55:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Uriah Tedanih
Lyn Farel wrote:
Interesting. This was done only due to the changes made on the aesthetics of the ship according to you ?


I've not yet heard a better explanation. As my appeal for the protest to be stopped proved, capsuleers showed themselves to be more interested in ship aesthetics than loss of life.
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
#67 - 2012-07-22 14:27:23 UTC
Correction: loss of baseliner life. And relatively little of it, compared to say, a cruiser exploding.
Scherezad
Revenent Defence Corperation
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#68 - 2012-07-22 14:43:24 UTC
Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote:
Correction: loss of baseliner life. And relatively little of it, compared to say, a cruiser exploding.


This is a textbook case of the Fallacy of Distraction, a form of red herring. Capsuleers are no more special or valuable than baseliners, and the crew numbers that have been killed in other actions are irrelevant to these events.

That a single person might be harmed for a Capsuleer's vanity is horrific.
Seismic Stan
Freebooted Junkworks
#69 - 2012-07-22 15:25:50 UTC
Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote:
Correction: loss of baseliner life. And relatively little of it, compared to say, a cruiser exploding.

Oh don't worry, we made sure plenty of cruisers exploded. In fact, all of them. I wasn't counting the corpses, but I heard the valeting costs of cleaning the guts off 200 capsuleer escape pods was astronomical.

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Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
#70 - 2012-07-22 15:37:37 UTC
Scherezad wrote:
Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote:
Correction: loss of baseliner life. And relatively little of it, compared to say, a cruiser exploding.


This is a textbook case of the Fallacy of Distraction, a form of red herring. Capsuleers are no more special or valuable than baseliners, and the crew numbers that have been killed in other actions are irrelevant to these events.

That a single person might be harmed for a Capsuleer's vanity is horrific.


A community of 300,000-odd among a cluster population of trillions... yes, my dear, we are far more valuable and special than baseliners, and they, by virtue of their ever-presence and rampant population growth, are simply... replaceable. We aren't going to run short of humans any time soon.
Scherezad
Revenent Defence Corperation
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#71 - 2012-07-22 16:07:59 UTC
Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote:
A community of 300,000-odd among a cluster population of trillions... yes, my dear, we are far more valuable and special than baseliners, and they, by virtue of their ever-presence and rampant population growth, are simply... replaceable. We aren't going to run short of humans any time soon.


Rarity does not relate to value. Psycopaths are rare and special in comparison to the baseline population, too. This does not make them more worthy than a normal person. So too with the Capsuleer. We are baseline humans with a bit of surgery and some new holes in our heads, nothing more. We are made from the baseline population you denigrate.
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
#72 - 2012-07-22 22:44:43 UTC
Nothing more? Aren't we forgetting immortality? The ability to command city-sized warships with our noggins? The ability to cross the New Eden cluster in a split second as pure information liberated from the pitiful, disease-prone, weakling meat-sack that gave rise to it? In addition, baseliners spend years if not decades mastering the skills we master... in days or weeks.

Perhaps you are content to call yourself a mere baseliner with plugs. I am not.
Tarryn Nightstorm
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#73 - 2012-07-23 05:43:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Tarryn Nightstorm
Uriah Tedanih wrote:
[...]

LATEST STORY: Senseless Capsuleer Protest Results in Hundreds of Deaths

[...]


Hmphf...Ugh

No...ahhh...ideological editorial slant...here, now is there. No way, couldn't be.

Don't bite the hand that feeds, bru. Especially when that hand is 100% of your own creation.

E:

Yeah, I'm a little late to this party--just got back "in closer," so to speak, from the arse-end of Derleik/Devoid--but it needs saying, regardless.

As well: I want my "Dragon-Frill" back, dammit!

Star Wars: the Old Republic may not be EVE. But I'll take the sound of dual blaster-pistols over "NURVV CLAOKING NAOW!!!11oneone!!" any day of the week.
Tarryn Nightstorm
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#74 - 2012-07-23 06:07:37 UTC
Rek Jaiga wrote:
Caellach Marellus wrote:
Rek Jaiga wrote:
You know, for an effective-immortal this sport sounds kind of fun!


I agree, if only there was a way to do a brain scan seconds before being reduced to a scattering of particles.


Do a scan before your morning coffee. If you end up splattered on the side of a station, you'll just end up in a clone with no memory of the day's events. Or, provided you do it right, you have a real blast! It's a win-win.


And yes, Valentina. I quit boosters long ago. Man's gotta get his kicks from one thing or another, right?


Heh.

A "blast," indeed...(Now where did I park my MWD/Nanofibre Drake, anyway?)

Star Wars: the Old Republic may not be EVE. But I'll take the sound of dual blaster-pistols over "NURVV CLAOKING NAOW!!!11oneone!!" any day of the week.
Scherezad
Revenent Defence Corperation
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#75 - 2012-07-23 07:16:52 UTC
Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote:
Nothing more? Aren't we forgetting immortality? The ability to command city-sized warships with our noggins? The ability to cross the New Eden cluster in a split second as pure information liberated from the pitiful, disease-prone, weakling meat-sack that gave rise to it? In addition, baseliners spend years if not decades mastering the skills we master... in days or weeks.

Perhaps you are content to call yourself a mere baseliner with plugs. I am not.


Your immortality is a function of the destructive scan equipment in your pod, and has no bearings on your worth as a sentient being. Your ability to command engines of destruction is a function of your neurocortical implants, which remap the input towards your hypothalamus and the output of your cerebellum, and has no bearings on your worth as a sentient being. Your ability to be transmitted across a fluid router network is cognitive trickery, implanting the memories of a dead man into a new clone, and has no bearings on your worth as a sentient being. Your ability to learn quickly is the engrams and memories of other dead people being grafted onto your cognitive epicycles, and has no bearings on your worth as a sentient being.

Whether you like the idea of being a "baseliner with plugs" is irrelevant to whether the fact is true. Every part of you responsible for making you who you are is functionally indistinguishable from any other human, baseline or not. You are a human.

May you see clearly, Istvaan Shogaatsu-haan. May that power you wield prove no impediment on your path to truth.
Seismic Stan
Freebooted Junkworks
#76 - 2012-07-23 10:45:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Seismic Stan
Dunno, I think the problem is being over-thought. No-one complains when cattle are culled, because the folk who are doing the eating consider themselves more deserving than the cattle. The cattle just served a purpose. It's the way it's always been.

Evolution baby, yeah!

EVE Online: The Text Adventure --- GameSkinny Correspondent --- Freebooted Blogger
Scherezad
Revenent Defence Corperation
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#77 - 2012-07-23 14:21:02 UTC
Seismic Stan wrote:
Dunno, I think the problem is being over-thought. No-one complains when cattle are culled, because the folk who are doing the eating consider themselves more deserving than the cattle. The cattle just served a purpose. It's the way it's always been.

Evolution baby, yeah!


Just because it's the way it's always been doesn't mean that it's the way it should be.
Lyn Farel
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#78 - 2012-07-23 14:56:45 UTC
Capsuleers have always done the work given to them by baseliners, intendedly or not. Tools thinking that they are the masters. Blessed, the delusioned.
Uriah Tedanih
Tech Four Media Group
#79 - 2012-07-23 14:59:11 UTC
LATEST STORY: Capsuleer Technology Repurposed for Medical Benefit

In an effort to move on from dwelling on the social failings of the capsuleering system, here's evidence that some benefit does come from your military advancements.
Uriah Tedanih
Tech Four Media Group
#80 - 2012-09-27 01:10:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Uriah Tedanih
LATEST STORY: Intercepted Messages Bamboozle CONCORD Experts

It seems our esteemed security forces are stumped. Should we be concerned?

See this thread for Intergalactic Summit discussion on this topic.