h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yeah, gigabane, you may be right. I mean, look at what happened when you tried to have an influence on a few threads involving maybe a dozen people: You pissed them all off.

I agree, FM.

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GiGaBaNE (of the 13th zodiac)

"i have land chosen that has less than a quater of a million people on it. i can enrich their lives to the point of being sworn in as king.
thats fairly easy."


"as to large land mass.
that is dictatorship, the point to my system is that appropriate people join voluntarily and may leave the fold.
try to take to large a land and you garuntee to piss off some of the natives.
"



So, it's alright to take over 250,000 people but taking over 1,000,000,000 is a dictatorship...

Sounds like that very old (and not very efficient) chat-up line...

"Would you sleep with someone for a million pounds?"
"Yes?"
"Ok then, now the principles out of the way, let's haggle!"


Now, these 250,000 people, what would happen to those who wanted to stay in their houses and continue to live their lives as they had before you arrived?

And those that want to leave... How would you organise for them to be given the right to settle where they'd like?

So, I got the job then? and... a few posts back... someone said.... something like....
'sexual devience alright... so long as no one gets hurt'.... But what if the sexual devience and those involved in it, consent to the 'getting hurt' bit?

No, I aid 'no HARM comes to anybody'. That is, no permanent tissue damage.

Ahh, no perminant harm I could be minister for 'Sexual devience'?

i would simply wait out those who would not budge.
i plan on immortatilty.

every country has requirements of entry, i would fund these being met to the best i can.

Malcolm? Can I call you Malcolm?

What would happen if the ones that would not budge do not budge. Would you budge?


This is silly. This is really totally silly.

Look Gigabane just because you've played Civ 3 and Total War on your computer doesn't mean you're suddenly qualified to rule the world.

2legs keep your 'sexual deviences' to yourself mate.

i agree. the fact that i am capable is what gives me the right, nothing more.
i cant argue with you guys i have too many interests to protect to reveal all.

and yes you may call me malcolm if you wish but dont get used to it i chage my real life identity far more than my cyber.

'keep them to yourself'.... Thats exactly what she said! Well, logically, if they won't budge, and as this is a state being run by the sounds of it as adictatorship, which would, I guess, becasue of those things citizens arn't aloud to do, would necessitate a good secrete poliece, the obvious thing would be to take them outside, and blow their brains out.

i would just wait for them to die of old age.
only those within the society would be allowed full immortality, and even then only a select few. some chosen by me some by my public and some with a world vote.

the rest of humanity will just have to settle for 500 yr lifes or somthing till i can move out. then you can have whatever technologies i havent already given.
if you ahniahlate yourseves after that, well shame.

"only those within the society would be allowed full immortality"



been there. done that.

A FINAL lasting promise before i turn off this infernal chat place.

microsoft will fall i will buy it whole and then...the magic words...
OPEN SOURCE!!!
then you will know my face, and only then.
GiGaBaNE (of the 13th zodiac)

Hello mother.

Hello, Mrs. Gigger-baiter.

Ooh hasn't he grown. He's a clever little fellow isn't he? Can he talk?

Yes of course I can talk mother, I'm Minister for Overseas Development.



Sorry. I hate it when that happens.

Hello Gigger-brain! How's it hanging? Just thought I'd pop in and analyse one, tiny little part of your amusing rantings:

"as soon as you start these gay pride jobbies, then weak minds get warped"

Let's get the terms of reference set, first. I'm heterosexual. Always have been. Never, in my life, going back as far as I can remember, have I ever wanted to so much as kiss a man, much less... you know... bumsex.

I have, on the other hand, had sexual relations with a number of ladies.

Fine.

Now, the other day, I went to London. Among other things, I went to see the exhibition of paintings by Jack Vettriano at the Portland Gallery. While travelling there, I couldn't help but notice that there was a pretty high proportion of, shall we say, flamboyant people on the Tube, even by London standards.

"What is this?", I thought to myself, "Bloody Gay Pride day or what?"

And of course I walked out of Piccadilly tube station to find that, yes, indeed, it was exactly that day, and I'd arrived just as the parade was about to start. So we (my young lady and I) went and looked at the paintings. Then shortly after that, we came back and watched the parade. And lots and lots and lots of well-built, good looking young men with very few clothes on braved the rain and made it absolutely clear that they were out and proud.

Now... the interesting thing about this, and the reason I bring it up, is this: I don't consider myself a particularly strong-minded person. I drink Guiness because they make good adverts, and I choose what fast food to buy based not on taste, but on what toys come with the meal. In short, I'm reasonably suggestible.

And yet, at no stage while the THOUSANDS of celebrants paraded past me on the bona fide Gay Pride parade through the centre of London's Piccadilly, not once during that wanton display of young queer flesh did I look round at the young lady by my side and think "There must be more to life than this, maybe I should give s**gging blokes a try. Try anything once, eh?".

Oddly enough, my favourite person in this year's UK Big Brother is Dan - an out gay man. I don't mind saying that he's the kind of guy I'd like to have as a friend. I don't want to s**g him, though.

And yet... you seem to think that it's possible to "turn" people gay. The funny thing is, when you start to examine this quite common opinion, what you find is that the people who hold it have things in common. Usually, they have a deep personal revulsion for the actual act of gay sex. Often, they have a fairly strong revulsion or at least guilt complex about the act of STRAIGHT sex. And they are absolutely, VIOLENTLY sure they're straight. They're also sure that they themselves could never, ever, ever be "turned gay", of course. Oh no - it's other, "weak minded" people they're worried about, not themselves. There's no danger of them loathing themselves for having secret fantasies about other people of the same gender. No danger of them being influenced away from their "real" sexuality into something "deviant". Oh no. No chance at all. It's OTHER people who are "gay in the head". Not them. Really. Truly.



H.

So it's true then, Hoo, you really are coming out as beeing...












Weak minded! <

B****y h*ll Hoo! You took your time getting here didn't you

You must be slipping in your old age!

im afraid your argument is a little small minded.
first when i talk about corrupting minds.
do you look like a child who is trying to figure out what means what in life.?
similarly, does peer presure not exist in underage sex and other deviaces.

as to my own sexual persuasion.
i have had a few casual girls...(not many)
there have been two special women in my life.
the first i was with for over seven years and we broke up because she thought i wasnt ambitious, and just a dreamer.(i didnt earn quite as much as i do now.)

the other i have to say was a rebound for the first. but she was special in her own way, i just wish it took longer to meet her. anyway she just cant follow where i go so we are to split ways.
as far as men are concerned, i have had encounters, before.
my problem is not that i am a homophobe or that it really revulses me.
i am simply concerned that far too much human time is wasted on such pathetic events in the course of human history.

we should suppress lust, and lovemaking should be only about babies and love.

call me a prude if you wish, but i dream of a day when a man and a woman meet and mate for life and i will activly encourage anything possible to make this a reality,well exept religeon.
gg

"do you look like a child who is trying to figure out what means what in life.?"

Judge for yourself what I look like:

http://public.fotki.com/azahar/h2g2_friends/hoovooloo.html

"does peer presure not exist in underage sex and other deviaces"

I am sure peer pressure exists. However, I'm also sure that no amount of peer pressure would have convinced me to have "encounters" with other guys.

I find your argument small-minded, frankly. You don't seem to be able to understand that other people, out in reality, are different than you. You have a weak, malleable and apparently disposable sexuality. Bully for you. Not everyone is like that. Some of us have more defined identities than that, and we're quite happy with them, thanks.

And I'll take lessons from you on whether sex, or anything else for that matter, is a distraction the day - get that, the very day - I see the first scrap of evidence that you're not just a fantasist freak. Go ahead, make me look foolish. I WANT you to make me look foolish. Swat me like a bug with a demonstration - in the REAL WORLD, mark you - and I shall bow down and work for you for nothing. (I'm a chartered chemical engineer, for your information, and I can write HTML too, if that's any use).

Try me.

H.

>we should suppress lust, and lovemaking should be only about babies and love.<

You might want to rethink that in an immortal society. The Planet's going to be a mite crowded, methinks.

Oh wait, we're all going to alpha centauri, right?