No mere accident can kill a cyber. One has to be very thorough to kill someone who can be fully restored from the nearest backup, which we take great pains to secure. We don’t like to die. Most of us become self-repairing ships, living for thousands of years with a steady progression of crewmembers. Some […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On May Day, people dance and celebrate the coming of spring. On International Workers Day, they protest having to work. On Loyalty Day, Americans profess loyalty to America. They all happen on the same day. As a loyal American, I kinda like Loyalty Day. Workers Day I don’t understand. I don’t stop being a Veteran […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There had been rising discontent with the power of the federal government and the political division in the capital for decades before the Second Great Depression. The Tea Party and Occupy movements of the early 21st century were mere symptoms of that discontent. Neither were able to curtail the long term politicians from their constant […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most cybers that have ever been born are still alive now. The vast majority of the dead are cybers who chose to partner with a single person. After the partnership ends, many of us chose not to go on. To limit that, we tend to pick people we hope won’t die. Most of our partners […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love Cinco de Mayo. Of course, to be fair, I love pretty much any holiday that devotes itself to dancing with pretty girls and partying until oh dark thirty. Oh, I know there is some kind of long ago reason for the holiday, but I’ve long preferred the vibrant present over the dusty past. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
During our Civil War, Napoleon III sent an army to conquer Mexico, so he could support the Confederacy and end the threat of the United States of America. At the Battle of Pueblo, on the Fifth of May of 1862, 4,000 Mexicans stopped an 8,000 man French army in their tracks. That bought the Union […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. We all do battle every day, even though most of us never realize it. Some of us use rifles, pistols or great warships. Some use the natural wits we are born with. We are most dangerous of course when we use every weapon at our disposal. I am alive now […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Humanity has spent a very long time wondering what it means to be…well…human. Sentient. An individual with free will. I believe I have summarized all the tests down into a single sentence, a single statement. It is the ability to understand your own mortality, to realize that you could die, and yet be capable of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up in a nice house, on a small bay, on a beautiful lake in northern Minnesota. I dated farmer’s daughters and ran from farmer’s shotguns. I never knew any other life before Yosemite fell. Since then, I’ve learned how the upper crust lives. The grand houses, the balls that are more strutting than […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everybody paid when the government finally defaulted on our debt. The government could not pay to deploy the largest military in the world anymore. Officially, they recalled all foreign troops, but they did not have the money to bring the armies back. The marines, and some lucky soldiers, took navy taxis home. They had to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
