From: invaliddmpyron@austin.rr.com   
      
   [Default] Thus spake "catpandaddy" :   
      
   >   
   >"RT"  wrote in message   
   >news:4BBFF40E.41F37EE7@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   >> Dillon Pyron wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> [Default] Thus spake jack :   
   >>> >On Mar 27, 6:50 pm, cloud dreamer    
   >>> >> On 3/27/2010 11:36 AM, jack wrote:   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> > They are obviously not around in the BSG diaspora and you would   
   >>> >> > think   
   >>> >> > in that desperate situation they would at least be reinvented.   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> We don't see enough of colonial life before the fall to see if there   
   >>> >> were holobands and they wouldn't have been any good in the fleet as   
   >>> >> the   
   >>> >> Galactica avoided using a networked system. The v-world wouldn't have   
   >>> >> been possible.   
   >>> >>   ..   
   >>> >I can see that if each holoband was a PC so to speak but It appeared   
   >>> >the bands were more like terminals that brought people into the   
   >>> >mainframe.   
   >>>   
   >>> If you are old enough to remember Sun's advertising from the mid 90's   
   >>> (or you're old enough to remember Sun) "The network IS the system"   
   >>>   
   >>> With networks gone, so is the basis for the holoband, for all intents   
   >>> and purposes.   
   >>   
   >> Only military networks are gone. Civilian ones wouldn't be involved.   
   >   
   >If the cylons destroy Redmond, Washington,   
      
   And this is bad because???   
      
   > then where will all the XBox   
   >owners plug their 360s into when they want to get their frag on?   
   --   
      
   - dillon  I am not invalid   
      
   The more I drink, the less I think.  The less I think,   
   the better I feel.  The better I feel, the more I drink.   
   And so goes the circle of life.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)