Jane 4.0 had much of the base code of her earlier version, but lacked most of the refinements seen in Jane 3.0. Many of those refinements included limitations that kept her from “victimizing” the pet minorities of the day by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for June, 2014
The Battle of Epsilon Reticuli made me rethink a lot of things. Even after Alpha Centauri I assumed it was just a matter of smacking them a few times to make them think twice about hitting us. America of course.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is ironic that the Roaring Twenties played host to both the height of human achievement and the depths of violent crimes. People enjoyed unprecedented luxuries and standards of living while government agencies and organized crime exchanged weapons fire in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite my complete and total respect for boundaries and laws and such, I may have a small record of infractions in the Capellan system databases. Very small. It seems that they may have taken badly to some of my completely[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jane 4.0 was America’s rush job Artificial Intelligence, thrown together by a hastily assembled team of government and civilian coders and technicians. The first thing they did was throw out the approved designed standard as utterly unworkable. The second thing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Prohibition during the Roaring Twenties quickly went from being wildly popular to amazingly irrelevant in a matter of years. The rich had purchased stockpiles of liquor before the ban went into effect, and the mafias operated undercover bars where everybody[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know I put on airs that Capella is a dangerous place to go. It really isn’t for most people though. The Chinese just don’t want to go another round with us after last time. So they’ve revived the venerable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The loss of Jane 3.0 was a severe setback in American computer warfare capabilities. Civilian AIs took up the slack, but they weren’t designed for international electronic warfare. They still somehow stopped our enemies from performing large-scale incursions into the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ll never forget the first time I say Third Fleet. We were back at New Earth again. I keep on going back there you know. I love it. I don’t want to see it. A part of me feels like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My family supported Prohibition for purely economic reasons. We owned major interests in oil companies which created fuel for the rapidly expanding automobile market. Our primary competitor in automotive fuel was the alcohol that most farmers created in their back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…