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I admit I’m having trouble finding any transcript of the primary source. It’s supposedly an answer she gave during a local convention and it’s been repeated by enough websites citing each other that I don’t know which one was the original.

I’ll keep trying to find it, though.

According to his wife Majel, yes.

Gene Roddenberry was a Maoist. Pretty sure this was a studio thing, not a Gene thing.

The documentary Stargate already answered this question

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Software engineering as a discipline is pretty much a series of trick questions.

Aren’t all ants wingless wasps?

Every tenth line, this would evaluate to False, while on lines that aren’t multiples of ten, it would evaluate to True.

As a software engineer I’m inclined to agree

That’s different from the Japanese one… how, exactly?

Regular earthworms are also invasive in my area (as they are in most of the eastern US) so it’s one problem solving another problem I guess

How irresponsible are you that starting an uncontrolled fire with a tea candle is a risk?

When the CPC was losing to the KMT, they did not have more political power. I feel you’re misunderstanding the quote, which is a colorful way of saying that force is the ultimate basis of all political power—which should be obvious from a cursory examination of international politics.

Roddenberry died in 1991, which is well after 1972.

This seems like an opportune time to note that Gene Roddenberry was a Marxist who strongly supported China. He almost certainly thought well of Mao.

Try Connect? It feels very similar to Sync to me—I’m also a previous Sync user.

Can you imagine an episode where Picard doesn’t agonize over this decision for 22 minutes and ultimately not do it? The guy spared the Borg.

My cat would die in seconds if I let him outside. He’s too dumb to live.

They were changed from African pygmies in later versions of the book. You can still find early copies which describe them explicitly as such:

Willy Wonka tamped down speculation that he made them of chocolate. “They are real people! They are some of my workers!” He advised the group that these tiny black people had been “Imported direct from Africa!” They belonged to “a tribe of tiny miniature pygmies known as Oompa-Loompas. I discovered them myself. I brought them over from Africa myself—the whole tribe of them, three thousand in all. I found them in the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had ever been before.

The average age in the Gaza Strip is 18. Do you think that might have anything to do with Hamas not acting “grown up”? What do you expect out of one million teenagers you locked in a cell?