Perry Nelson
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Well, well, well...
First of all, if I wanted to read this thread anonymously, then I would. Yes, I have come back and checked this thread several times over the course of the last 36 hours, because, as I have stated, I am waiting for someone to show up here.
I do, however, have things I am supposed to be doing here. Research takes a great deal of time, particularly comparing what I know as historical fact with what is actually happening in the present. In fact, I will have to leave this board for several days soon in order to make a trip to Ohio, and yes, my trip is to observe certain details involved in the election problems currently taking place in that state.
Responding also takes me a certain amount of time, because writing in standard, twenty-first century English is difficult. I do speak English, but the language has evolved somewhat, due to the influx of other languages and, of course, technological advances which always have an effect on language. It is not quite as bad as the differences between Shakespeare's English and your own, though spellings have been simplified somewhat, and that is what really slows me down. Speaking is much easier.
To answer three questions quickly: there is no draft, at least not in the way I think you are envisioning it, which is to gather troops for an external war; Iran will be handled in a manner very different from Iraq; Canada will be safe for those on the left side of the political divide. The map that you have possibly seen on the internet which has "The United States of Canada" and "Jesusland" on it will be true, in a certain sense, for a time during the twenty-first century.
My own problems stem from the fact that there is a growing faction in the twenty-third century of people who are vehemently against time travel. There has been talk of many different actions that they might take against us, one of which involves actually coming back and tampering with our observational missions. Obviously, this would cause them to use the technology themselves, thereby becoming part of what they profess to be against, but fanaticism remains fanaticism, even in the twenty-third century.
I will be honest; I am not certain what such interference would do, and as an historian rather than a scientist, I tend to ask ethical questions a little more often than my scientific colleagues. This is another thing which hasn't changed much. While I have more scientific training than was generally provided to a college graduate in the twenty-first century, my field of specialization is still late twentieth- and early twenty-first century history, and given that we have moved to a methodology which requires that the Ph.D. level be expert in several microhistories within the larger field, that is more than enough for a single mind to be expertese in.
I do not know if this answers all of the questions in this thread. There is an important matter I must observe in action today, so I will not return to this forum for many hours, possibly not until tomorrow. After that I will be in Ohio for at least four days, possibly five. Here I am lucky, in that I have chosen to live near a person with an unsecured wireless connection. In Ohio, I have had to be far less selective in my choice of residences.
As for a photograph of my equipment, I have none with me. That is a little more difficult to explain, and you will have to wait until I have more time to do so. I expect that some of you will now begin attacking me because I am not explaining this immediately.
I know nothing of hacking attempts on any of your computers.
First of all, if I wanted to read this thread anonymously, then I would. Yes, I have come back and checked this thread several times over the course of the last 36 hours, because, as I have stated, I am waiting for someone to show up here.
I do, however, have things I am supposed to be doing here. Research takes a great deal of time, particularly comparing what I know as historical fact with what is actually happening in the present. In fact, I will have to leave this board for several days soon in order to make a trip to Ohio, and yes, my trip is to observe certain details involved in the election problems currently taking place in that state.
Responding also takes me a certain amount of time, because writing in standard, twenty-first century English is difficult. I do speak English, but the language has evolved somewhat, due to the influx of other languages and, of course, technological advances which always have an effect on language. It is not quite as bad as the differences between Shakespeare's English and your own, though spellings have been simplified somewhat, and that is what really slows me down. Speaking is much easier.
To answer three questions quickly: there is no draft, at least not in the way I think you are envisioning it, which is to gather troops for an external war; Iran will be handled in a manner very different from Iraq; Canada will be safe for those on the left side of the political divide. The map that you have possibly seen on the internet which has "The United States of Canada" and "Jesusland" on it will be true, in a certain sense, for a time during the twenty-first century.
My own problems stem from the fact that there is a growing faction in the twenty-third century of people who are vehemently against time travel. There has been talk of many different actions that they might take against us, one of which involves actually coming back and tampering with our observational missions. Obviously, this would cause them to use the technology themselves, thereby becoming part of what they profess to be against, but fanaticism remains fanaticism, even in the twenty-third century.
I will be honest; I am not certain what such interference would do, and as an historian rather than a scientist, I tend to ask ethical questions a little more often than my scientific colleagues. This is another thing which hasn't changed much. While I have more scientific training than was generally provided to a college graduate in the twenty-first century, my field of specialization is still late twentieth- and early twenty-first century history, and given that we have moved to a methodology which requires that the Ph.D. level be expert in several microhistories within the larger field, that is more than enough for a single mind to be expertese in.
I do not know if this answers all of the questions in this thread. There is an important matter I must observe in action today, so I will not return to this forum for many hours, possibly not until tomorrow. After that I will be in Ohio for at least four days, possibly five. Here I am lucky, in that I have chosen to live near a person with an unsecured wireless connection. In Ohio, I have had to be far less selective in my choice of residences.
As for a photograph of my equipment, I have none with me. That is a little more difficult to explain, and you will have to wait until I have more time to do so. I expect that some of you will now begin attacking me because I am not explaining this immediately.
I know nothing of hacking attempts on any of your computers.
