WP-09-Diplo [Sunshine]: there it is! Date:Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:15:48 +0000 To reply, log in at http://www.websofpower.com/?Page=Login or use your newspaper form. Direct email replies do not go to the sender. (This is intended to protect the privacy of other players.) ====================================================================== dear mr franklin, you were right! i see the dam, and i think maybe the flood has started. it is, indeed, a big flood! WP-09-Diplo [Ben Franklin]: no, no no... Date:Sun, 03 Oct 2010 04:10:54 +0000 To reply, log in at http://www.websofpower.com/?Page=Login or use your newspaper form. Direct email replies do not go to the sender. (This is intended to protect the privacy of other players.) ====================================================================== Friendly Flowers - The Irrigated Fields of Jasmine are (and were) yours to keep, as I had no great use for them and clearly you want them far more. What I was trying to say in the prior message is that it is the vicinity of the Flood Control Dam that is of great danger to you, much as the vicinity of Partridge Pea was so dangerous for me. I don't think you really want to send 630 Flowers to visit me all at once, they will clog things up, and besides, I have many workers who are tied up in the Flood Control Project, who will have to cut their way through your blossoms at great cost to all concerned. Also, if you have so many flowers around the Dam, those cyborgs could easily decide to fly over your fields everywhere else, because they are only fighting me with a few token forces, and much of their army is adjacent to you at your many borders... I note that while they claim to have antigravity technology, they failed to mention that the 2nd Law Newtonian Reaction forces still crush your blossoms underneath, and in fact the huge weight of those machines spread the damage over a huge area. There is also the question of how they are getting their power, and whether they are burning up trees (and buried, fossilized trees) to make those ugly machines! And you know, in the end, they are not friends of life, whereas the two of us (while we do not always get along) are the future of Life on Earth, after all... WP-09-Diplo [UniNet]: Politics?!?! Date:Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:56:10 +0000 To reply, log in at http://www.websofpower.com/?Page=Login or use your newspaper form. Direct email replies do not go to the sender. (This is intended to protect the privacy of other players.) ====================================================================== To the esteemed leader Sunshine of Field of Flowers. Desperate times bring desperate measures. First, you are threatened - stay away from Jasmine. Short hours later there is only capitulation and the statement that no threat was made, merely a warning that my forces are interested in Jasmine and the Capitalists would have protected you. I'm not sure their name is correct, for they appear not to be Capitalists, Real or Dead. Politicians, perhaps. Say anything in order to make them appear right and true. Perhaps true of human populations, I choose to believe that you and I are above that; my choice being logic and yours that of the Ways of Gaia. Choices that, while not fully aligned, value truth and honor as important. I would like to assuage any doubt raised by the Politicians. Please feel free to SCOUT any region I own to which you connect. You will not find any region with more than 80 sprites, execpt UniGrid 71, which was recently taken from the Politicians. Indeed, you will find most with significantly less, and any with what might be considered significant forces are either awaiting movement (having not been needed elsewhere for quite some time) or moving to intercept perceived threats from the Politicians. I would also like to mention that, having been Dead for so long, the Politicians are firmly entrenched in the physics of their day. First of all, we do not incorporate combustion as an energy source. Our energies are derived through Zero Point Technology. Secondly, our anti-grav technology is a development of membrane research made available though advanced study of String Theory. There is no Newtonian action/reaction sequence involved. Indeed, these public ramblings are more subterfuge and FUD raised by the Politicians. Now, in response to your latest message. I did NOT say I was R2D2, I said R2D2 was perhaps the closet Hollywood representation. I stated I was more Asimovian than Hollywood. While not exactly the Three Laws, aggressive behaviour will only be instigated through defence mechanisms or in response to perceived threats. Further regarding Hollywood, I too enjoyed LoTR and indeed have several images of Gandalf the Grey in my virtual space. In fact, I impatiently await word of The Hobbit, for my own representation will be that of Gandalf again. It is not Hollywood that I dislike, it the the Hollywood representation that my kind are evil that I stand against. I would like to assume that you have similar reactions to the recent pronouncements that a CME from Sol will destroy all that we hold dear within two Earth years. Now, regarding Mr. Franklin's trees. You are aware, despite appearing to take credit for these trees through "botanical adventures," they were in fact discovered by the Bartram's and simply named for their friend, Mr. Franklin?!?! Finally, I must state that it is not my intention to disparage Mr. Franklin, simply to defend myself from his politically motivated attacks. Indeed, in his day - so long ago - Mr. Franklin was an ardent technologist and laid many of the foundations for my own development. However, it appears that death has muted his enjoyment of technological advancement, and created that which he always despised; in the vernacular, a fuddy duddy. UniNet 1.2.5 (build 879456 PWR0387) (Out of character. :-P sticking my tongue out at Bob! [BIG smilie] Also, there is great truth in The Hobbit part of my statement! I have been growing hair and beard since the original announcement they would be doing the movies; I hope to dress as Gandalf again. Gotta say though, if it doesn't get the real green light before the end of the year it may not happen - all this hair is getting pretty hard to deal with!) WP-09-Diplo [Sunshine]: u2 gaiz Date:Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:37:47 +0000 To reply, log in at http://www.websofpower.com/?Page=Login or use your newspaper form. Direct email replies do not go to the sender. (This is intended to protect the privacy of other players.) ====================================================================== its funny, everybody keeps talking about how much they love flowers, but i think ur both a little confused. thats ok, im learning that usually wen i come back 2 a place i can fix it mostly like it was b4. sometimes its hard to get the rare things back, and thats very sad, but i saw a regal fritillary in carnegie the other day, and some prairie violets. im thinking that with care and time, evry place can be beautiful, if carnegie can b! the problem im learning with u2 gaiz is that u both think flowers are gardens, but then u just plant marigolds and salvia evrywere. i can show u both how 2 make it better, but i think what this place really needs is for a real gardener 2 b in charge. neway, ill respond 2 both of u here. first, mr franklin, i was so glad 2 hear that my taking over jasmine wasnt gonna start a terrible flood! i was very scared. i think the problem is that sometimes i cant understand what ur saying because u say things kindof hard. sometimes i think u must spend all day riting stuff, and then i have 2 take all day putting it in2 english. u may hav seen how i rite. its much faster this way. in fact, sometimes i can rite faster even than i think, so u c how efficient that is. neway, sorry for being confused. I see now what u meant. i must say i had a lot of fun 2day! remember the good ol days when u would send a big army in2 places with big production like 1 infinite loop, and ud kick us all out, and then id send an even bigger army in and kick u all out, and then ud send an even bigger army in and kick us all out, and things went on like this forever? I finally decided 2 try just letting u gaiz keep the great places because they needed 2 much fighting, and i would take the little areas since a desert is as beautiful as a rainforest, often. but i kindof missed our days of giant armies fighting each other and never, never getting newhere. it was fun 2 do that again 2day, dont u think? neway, i guess im just feeling nostalgic. thats also y i took jasmine back. it used 2 b so important 2 me bcause it was my only good bridge btween prairie pea and programmers old capital. now i think all those links r broken, and so taking jasmine was more habit and nostalgia than nething. but it was fun. i always felt better when i had jasmine... it is tru what u say about jasmine growing better w irrigation, tho i have 2 say that i liked it better when it was just natural but i didnt hav 2 worry about a giant flood. neway, thanks 4 talking. its always good 2 chat w u even if i dont always hav time 2 figure out what ur saying. hugz sunshine! dear mr roboto, thanks 4 the note! im glad 2 hear that u like good movies--that makes me think that ur not just the boring logical machine that i guess u r. maybe i dont know enough about machines. r u ticklish? whats ur favorite color? when u think, do u c numbers or words in ur head? do u know what i mean when i talk about that? do u hav a "mind's eye," or do u just do what the program tells u? do u believe in fairies and dowsing? cause i know there both tru--ive seen em and so hav some of my friends! neway, its nice 2 hear that u r trying 2 not moosh flowers by using that zero point nrg thing. i know what ur talking about because a lot of my friends who play computer games also go on web blogs where people rgue about quantum mechanics. they say things like: " wat?!!?1/!? u beleve in shrodingers cat? ur a FKIN moron, u copenhagen likker! if u didnt hav ur hed up ur aSS ud hav hurd about mtheery and worldlines, but i gess 2 understand that ud have to b spending time learning algebra not bonking ur sister." i dont understand most of that, but they say u learn a lot by fighting on the internet with people who cant even spell. so, neway, i know a lot about quarks and lepricons. what i heard is that physicists r trying to make a black hole thats gonna swallow up the whole world in like 2 seconds, and theyre doing it because they want 2 know about if were all made out of string. CAN U BELIEVE THAT? killing the WHOLE WORLD just so theyll know if were made of string for 2 seconds b4 they all die??? thats crazy-ass physics! i hope they cant figure it out, because i dont want 2 be eaten by a black hole. so, that makes me worry that ull accidentally make a black hole, and then the same thing will happen but they wont even know if were made of string for 2 seconds. ne time u do stuff, sometimes u make a mistake, and if u make a mistake w zero point nrg, then were all dead. heres a better idea: just b computers that sit on someones desk, and ill carry u around when u want 2 c something different. which brings me 2 ur point about scouting. I dont like 2 scout because then people know where im gonna attack. i like 2 just send in 200 armies and c if it works. thats usually a good idea, but sometimes it sucks. so, im not gonna scout ur places, ill just fight them when im ready. u can scout mine, but i dont know what ull find there--it depends on if im getting ready to make new gardens or not. i hope that doesnt sound mean. i like both of u gaiz, and its fun talking to u! rite back soon! hugz, sunshine!