You are invited - to a Celebration and party to follow!!!

[Dantoo]

Brilliant work there Ensign. I do believe it's time the fleet had the services of a full time Intelligence Officer.

I will personally reccomend you for promotion to "Head of Galactic Intelligence".

I still haven't heard any more on sdgilvey and cowboykran, "who the hell are those guys?":Q

Heh, it's funny the DPC's felt challenged by this little in-house party. Bring on the assimilations, "we have not yet begun to fight" (of course this would be a useful time to start)

 

[HeavyIron]

It is an honor to be a part of Team Anandtech!
The elevator ride to the penthouse is fun too.

 

[LeBlatt]

Cpt Dantoo, please note that (former) Ensign PeterN has been promoted to Captain right after his sucessful training in Starfleet academy...

 

[Dantoo]

My humblest apologies......

Damn well deserved too.

The Americans must be starting to smell coffee and bacon by now. I'm off to bed. 12:45 am here.

Before I go, forgive me, a little story way way OT:

My father called earlier and related a story from my hometown. This is a true story and it happened today.

The world's dumbest (surely) bankrobbers attempted a holdup at a local bank today. (The town's first ever hold-up). The would be thieves couldn't steal a get-away car, so they actually hired one! Next, the actual robbery went very wrong. The holdup man wrote a note on a withdrawal slip while his partner waited outside in the hire-car. The bank teller refused to hand over any money, so the would be robber fled.........leaving his wallet on the counter!!!!!!!

The police arrested the "hardened criminals" less than three blocks from the scene of the crime whilst they were trying to decide what to do next.

I did check, they didn't look at all like MW and dvch on the hunt for blocks

 

[MWalkden]

Penthouse party? Oh ya, I remember that place, we stayed there for a few days once!

Sure Dantoo! Thanks for the invite!

Keep us up to date on DPC traffic too.

Mike

 

[RC]

PeterN congratulations on your promotion to the rank of Captain.
As "Head of Galactic Intelligence" you will be a great asset to our group.

Cpt. Dantoo, as usual you have done an excellent job in keeping our activities well organized.

Cpt. RC

 

[MrAtheist]

Thanks guys ! Now I'm nervous



PS> Shields at 100%

 

[jinsonxu]

Not to throw this off topic or anything, but i came across this paragraph in my research and decided to ask the Federation guys here.


On 26 May, since COMINT suggested the Japanese intended to approach from that direction, submarine USS Gudgeon (SS-211) sailed for a surface patrol northwest of Midway. Also on the 26th, aircraft ferry USS Kitty Hawk (AKV-1) arrived at Midway with reinforcements for Marine Air Group (MAG) 22, a light tank platoon earmarked for a mobile reserve, and the 3d Defense Battalion, equipped with 3-inch antiaircraft guns. On that same day, Task Force Sixteen (TF 16) under the command of Rear Admiral William F. Halsey, and centered around USS Hornet (CV- 8) and USS Enterprise (CV-6), returned to Pearl Harbor from the South Pacific to begin preparations for the upcoming battle. Although suffering from damage inflicted by Japanese bombs during the 7-8 May Battle of the Coral Sea, USS Yorktown (CV-5) returned the next day.

How come in Star Trek, alot of the ship names are used from WWII? Also, why are the ship designations of USS?
Does the USS registry in the above paragraph mean that the ships come from the US?

If so, does that mean that ST starships come from the US? Hmm...

 

[LeBlatt]

afaik, absolutely.
ST is a US-centric series, i'm afraid.
but The Federation has US, UK, AU and FR members

 

[jinsonxu]

That's a shame,
cause i'm a Star Trek fan too.

 

[Anybody]

Cmndr. Anybody reporting in from deep space patrol: Recon fleet has recieved orders and now proceeds to intercept the transwarp enabled vessels...


Cmndr. A... out...

 

[PeterN]

No offence taken, Captain Dantoo. Messages pass by very quickly these days, but not as fast as transwarp-blocks.
Thanx to everyone for the kind congrats to both my promotion to Captain and the recommendation for Head of Galactic Intelligence. I hereby accept the nomination and will try to be a good intelligence officer (strategically and tactically ).

Also the USS in Startrek is ment as United Star Ship.
'United' because the full name of the Federation is:
The United Federation of Planets.
This resembles our little Federation of TA, because of all the nationalities involved.
Now let's start and assimilate some bajoran, klingon and Dominion ships. Then we will truly be a United Federation of Planets.

 

[Engineer]

Vice Admiral Engineer hereby gives a Medal Of Intergalactic Honor to every member of the Federation...

TeAmwork....for TeAm Anandtech

I love you guys and this TeAm!

Thanks for the Great day and I sincerely hope you all had as good of one as I did...

Vice Admiral Engineer out!

 

[Dantoo]

Don't worry about Star Trek being so US-Centric.

One of it's strongest efforts of its producers was to internationalise the series right from the beginning. In 1967 the thought of having a Russian and a Japanese Officer on the bridge of a ship Captained by an American was out there. To add a black female Officer as a major player was courageous in a US market struggling to come to terms with the challenges of race and human rights.

In one episode there was even an attempt to gain understanding of hippies. In fact as I recall, Spock allied himself closely to their cause.

The tradition continued in later series. Jean-Luc Picard (fairly obviously French) surely honoured the exploits of the great submariner Captain Picard of the Trieste.

NASA clearly found some inspiration from the series. Naming a shuttle "Endeavour" was clearly to honour the exploits of the greatest of all marine navigators - James Cook.

You have to understand that these shows are funded almost totally by US audiences. If that audience does not identify and take up the show, we all miss out.
Long live Star Trek - the show itself boldly went etc etc..........


MW! Get your feet off the couch and get your dog off it too.....Oh sorry dvch thought you were MW's dog. What have you been drinking?

 

[Engineer]

Interesting notes from today:

The Federation:

Mika's Daily stats: #1 in OGR with 9.84 T-nodes and #1 in RC5 with 661929 WU's

Mika's Weekly stats: #5 in OGR with 31.26 T-nodes (Was #2 yesterday until GMT 0:00) and #1 in RC5 with 746576 WU's (WOW!)

Mika's Full stats: #8 overall with 213.27 T-nodes and #8 in RC5 with 4034993 WU's...

Great job Federation members and all of TeAm Anandtech! We Love you guys and you deserve a break......
.
.
Ok..Breaks over...back to work!

Take care all and enjoy

 

[MWalkden]

dvch, did you hear that Dantoo! Find me a phaser!:|

Great work everyone!

Come on stats!!!!!!!!!!!

(dvch, let me have that floppy, ya, the one I tried on the cash register!)

/me stands up and says "Well I never!" and stops off into the other room!

 

[Dantoo]

<Dodging phaser blasts>




<< 616,783 blocks were completed yesterday (0.00089754% of the keyspace) at a sustained rate of 1,916,278 KKeys/sec! Ranked 1 for the day. >>

 

[LeBlatt]

616,783 blocks were completed yesterday (0.00089754% of the keyspace)
at a sustained rate of 1,916,278 KKeys/sec! Ranked 1 for the day.


MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!




Even though [DPC] Burnin' Cows tried and flushed 294K, they couldnt reach our ankles

 

[optoman]

That was beautiful to see. Keep up the good work!

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[jinsonxu]

Pity the update for main teams aren't up yet.

 

[KGB]

Congratulations FEDERATION! Great job

GO TA!

 

[MrAtheist]

And the delta still is 1 million !

 

[Joe O]

Anand Tech 2,145,930 Blocks for the day!

 

[Dutchman2000]