I just wonder on how many revolutions throughout history have been started over less.

Chapter VI: Improvisations

K'vot watched through the one-way glass intently, his elbow tucked in as he stroked his beard absent-mindedly. Asiliaa was much more concerned with the neuroprogramming monitors before her, watching the progress of each code fragment as they uploaded. Only occasionally would she glance up at the subject in the next room. Semil was strapped to a table, fidgeting and straining against the restraints, his head encumbered by a large probe device.

"The inputs are registering nominally," the Orion doctor reported. "It should only be a minute more."

K'vot didn't bother nodding. Without Asiliaa noting, his free hand slipped into a utility pouch, producing an isolinear memory crystal, which he held out for the doctor, turning to her.

She eyed him with suspicion. "What's this?"

"The General has felt some... creativity is perhaps in order." K'vot almost smirked. It had been little secret that he relished these opportunities to assert his dominance, despite Asiliaa's protests. It was hardly the first time he had invoked the General to countermand her work. But this was most certainly a new manifestation of their typical Klingon bullying.

She took the crystal in hand from K'vot without breaking eye contact. "I hope you know the risk you're taking." She knew this would be an unwinnable argument, as so many others had been. "This engrammatic programming hardware is cobbled together from what your brutes could pilfer during the Dominion Wars and from the chaos of the Romulan schism; it's hardly ideal for your... 'improvisations'."

"Doctor, humor me." K'vot smiled to himself with fond memories of those times. Desparate battles against the Jem'Hadar and assault raids on underdefended Tal'Shiar labs were certainly preferable to these nursemaid duties.

Asiliaa begrudingly inserted the crystal into a port. "I'm at least going to inspect your handiwork before I do anything that will irreparably fuse his synapses." Her fingers tabbed at controls busily. Her eyes rolled as she leafed through the program contents, her eyes slowly widening. She stopped herself before protesting any louder. "So are you ordering me to upload this... this -- barbarism?"

"Let us consider it a strong recommendation."

Of all the Klingon traits she found unappealing, their capacity for patronization was the most galling. Asiliaa gritted her teeth as she keyed in the compile and upload commands. "I hope you know what you're doing."

With a final keystroke, the program uploaded. They both turned their heads to watch.

In the next room, Semil tensed violently, screaming out. He thrashed against the restraints, as multitudious images of violence and depravity flooded his cerebral cortex through the neuroprobes.

Asiliaa turned her eyes back to the monitors. "Adrenergic signals are spiking. Dopamine, cholinergics -- all rising."

Through the audio pickups in the otherwise soundproofed room, over the screams and cries, Asiliaa could hear the crack of Semil dislocating his own shoulder as he writhed and bucked, still screaming. "I'm putting a stop to this. Now." No sooner than she began to key the shutdown sequence that she could hear more sounds of breaking and shattering in the room.

She shook her head as she completed the shutdown. Again, the Colonel would be ruining her work with his presumptiousness and impatience.

With the shutdown commands complete, she turned again to peer into the room, fearing the worst. What she saw gave her pause - Semil had broken free of his restraints, in spite of (or was it the reason for?) his dislocated shoulder. The neuroprobe helmet had been mostly pulled from his head, as he lay at the foot of the examination chair curled as a fetus, trembling and rocking in place.

The shoulder would be easy enough to fix, but how to assess what other damage K'vot had done? Asiliaa reached for a medkit.

Having stepped back well outside the Doctor's sight, K'vot quietly smiled to himself.

Thanks for the Sigs! They are awesome!!!

Bah I haz to wait for 2 days we don't get it in Australia until the 7th of March :P

I could not agree with you more. The other problem with people deciding to make a change is that many of them have been socialized and educated to believe the exact opposite of how wealth is actually created and the working of an economy. Sadly, I just don't see enough people taking the initiative to educate themselves properly on business, wealth, and the economy to counter balance and overcome all the false information being spewed by the government, wall street, and the media.

ZOMG! Super Excited for Tomorrow!

Congratulations to the both of you! You two are amazing and I'm glad to have you guys as friends. 17 years and many more to come. :cheer:

You can sigh, "Well, that's just how it is" all you want. One of the points the video makes is that most people believe that what is, is wrong. And we've been convinced to castrate ourselves and point fingers at each other, we at the bottom of those curves, and to wallow in mediocrity, so that we've completely convinced ourselves that we can't do a gd thing to change anything. And when people do try to make a change, the puppetmasters pull our strings to mock the changemakers.

Our only hope for this species is generations down the road, if we manage to get that far. This generation is lost.

Our country wasn't founded on the notion of equality of results it was founded on the notion of equality of opportunity. So for income disparity to exist is not inherently evil or a flaw of our system, it's simply a reflection of human nature. However, having said that the current income disparity being suffered is a direct reflection of several competing interests, both special and mundane that have led us to the economic disaster we now face. Good intentions and all that.

Hee, thanks for the clarification. I was on an LGBT message board that banned userpics of couples for this very reason. (They also banned shared accounts, for that matter.)

It's not just the US, other places just have the intellectual honesty to iggnore the pretence of equality. Reminds me of John Winthrop's “A Modell of Christian Charity” 1630 God Almighty, in his most holy and wise providence, hath so disposed of the condition of mankind, as in all times some must be rich, some poor, some high and eminent in power and dignity, others mean and in subjection.

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I'm always amused at the lame arguments people regurgitate from the mainstream media when it comes to the simple facts of what is actually happening here. In American politics, it is never "my party's" fault.

This is not about industry vs. individuals and who gets the greater burden of taxation, or the BS about "Makers versus Moochers." The media distracts us enough while the real tyrants make off like bandits.

Fox News, for one, should put this in its "We built that" pipe and smoke the sh*& out of it. But fabricated opinions are worth more money.

I weep for my nation.

/endrant

Sadly this is gonna get worse.

Jacien: Yeah, these are the countries that will benefit most from this discovery, if it holds as viable. It should definitely be pursued and explored with all due haste for this reason alone.

Saint: Yeah, that's about what it is. There are several standard antiretroviral drug cocktails which can be administered to combat HIV and it's becoming very clear that the sooner they are administered after infection, the less likely the virus will be able to gain a sufficient foothold for AIDS to manifest.

However, these drug cocktails have only really been tested on adults, and even then there are some side effects. However, they're temporary and well worth it to stop an HIV infection. I don't believe their effect on infants is known, especially if the infant is having to continually take them for a period of time.

I saw this makes me gag

This video was uploaded in November of 2012, but is just now going viral. Pretty informative video. I wish we could make the US more like the ideal equality.

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Apropos of nothing, I've always wondered which one of you in the pic is the actually MrIzzy.

LOL! I am the one on the right. I do need to upload some new pics, but I don't like taking pictures. There are not very many to choose from. I just had a photo shoot with my dog, I will post up some of those when I get them!

From the NPR report it's not to different from the HIV cocktail they give to rape victims

If the treatment is viable it's a tremendous boon to African nations.

Just e-mailed my stuff to you (2 e-mails) I forgot the ship designation as well. Going to put it here so I don't inundate you with a barrage of e-mails.

Ship designation: U.S.S. PHANTOM NX-91367