Failing upwards.

He’s going to take the same approach he did to Twitter. Just up and fire half the employees. He didn’t do a detailed analysis, it’s just mass firing.

I’m not sure I get it.

Your momma leaks government secrets.

I’ve heard it described as America’s Bible.

You learn to rinse your hands before the soap.

Fascinating.

I’m asking for a deeper origin of the joke.

Does anyone know how this joke came to be?

First, was it abandoned or were the residents fleeing for their lives under duress? Yeah the latter. This is very far from being long abandoned property. Even if the owner was killed, it’s not a sudden finders keepers. There are wills, or even without a will there are still legal inheritors that the courts figure out. Again, this is not an event from long ago, it literally just happened. If you want to claim legal ownership rights over something that wasn’t yours to begin with, it’s a serious task and the burden is on you. You don’t automatically assume legal ownership, basically the court would have to find in your favor that you can claim salvage. Until and unless that happens, you don’t have legal ownership. That means any difficulty/ambiguity/complexity in the matter leans away from the courts giving you legal ownership. Also, generally as the value of the object goes up, the difficulty of the salvage ownership claim goes up. The value and complexity of a working android is unfathomable and the difficulty of your salvage claim just shot into the stratosphere.

Second enlistment. This is not about learning. Enlisting is a contract. You need to have agency to sign that contract. This is why people under 18 and feeble minded people can not enter into a contract - they do not have agency.

That’s what Picard should have argued: 1) The very act of Starfleet accepting Data’s signature shows they thought Data had agency. Precedent was set. That means both sentience and the ability to decide to resign. That alone basically wins the case. But failing that we can look at the other side: 2) If the judge says that he has no agency to resign from Starfleet, that means that Data never had agency to enlist in Starfleet in the first place. The entire contract is null and void. Data has no legal relationship with Starfleet, they can not give him orders to report to Maddox, and Data is free to go. Which leaves you with the salvage claim, and as above good luck with that you’re going to need it.

That’s basically the same as what I said before but with more elaboration. That’s as elaborate an explanation that I care to make so I think that’s my last reply.

I’m having a hard time understanding what you’re trying to say.

Salvage rights are very complex on their own, you don’t automatically own other stuff simply because you come to their rescue (as in rescuing a ship) or flip a switch. It’s quite literally someone else’s property. So Starfleet didn’t own him.

Second, he’s an officer. You have to apply to officer school. Just like the children on the ship aren’t automatically enrolled in Starfleet, they and he have to apply. It’s a serious application. It’s not like this android was just kicking around on a ship and fell into being an officer. (Same goes for enlisted.) *For anyone that doesn’t want to read my next longer comment: Data signed a contract to enlist. To sign a contract requires agency, which starfleet accepted.

Honestly I agree, the legal parts were cringe. I even saw a legal analysis of it on YouTube and they thought it was legally great.

But it’s pretty simple in my mind: if he didn’t have agency, he wouldn’t have been able to join Starfleet. The very basis of Starfleet accepting him means that he is capable of making his own decisions. And the very act of accepting him means he is not the property of Starfleet.

Either way Data is out. Sentient because you accepted him. Not sentient means his acceptance contract is void and obviously not property of Starfleet.

You can’t be serious. Yeah you aren’t, so you pivot to trees.

Seriously?

implies

What is implied depends on the tone in which it is said.

From the GOP that “whether or not you vote is public record” in a sudden red text, and “your family friends and coworkers will know”, along with fucking binoculars carries a very sinister tone.

The Dems “Thank you!” and “Please vote” does not. The whether you vote is public record looks to me pretty matter of fact. Why it’s even said is a bit out of place, which is what I said was poorly worded.

This is not “both sides same” like the other guy suggested.

Saying “your vote is private” isn’t a threat.

Yeah I don’t think that’s a threat, poorly worded maybe. The Trump one was hinting at it (because plausible deniability is how they work).

Need to see it to see the tone. Saying “your vote is secret” can be taken a good way.

Q Riker idea.

But he didn’t feel a day over 100.

I’m pretty sure it was just the next generation/iteration of the show. They played around with Kirk and Spock at the academy and Captain Sulu and probably some other ideas. I think Greenfield like they did was the correct path.