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ataraxion2012-09-14 08:53 pm
toasterprophet) wrote in ataraxion2012-09-14 08:53 pm
002 ∞ ANONYMOUS TEXT POST
[Leoben has been letting most of his encryptions on the network, when he bothers to use them, hover at around an 70-80% effectiveness, and basing them off the work of others so as not to tip his hand too much. It's still early in the game, and he hasn't had any pressing reason to break out his real talents.
This post, though. It's sent to everyone, original crew included, but anyone trying to figure out what number it came from is going to be dealing with an absolute bastard of a coded encryption, full of traps and false backdoors, created by someone who's not only an AI himself but a specialist among AIs in coding, network jamming, and sabotage.
Of course, there are probably one or two people onboard who will guess immediately who it came from, but oh well. Leoben's annoyed.]
Being ejected out the airlock of a spaceship isn't all that fun a way to die. Take it from someone who knows.
If we're going to be talking about instituting a death penalty for crimes committed onboard, fine, although I'd rather restrict such a thing to crimes actually already committed, and committed here on this ship, rather than those that're just potentially maybe possible if we don't act now and preemptively murder them. But either way there are more humane - if you'll excuse the expression - ways to do it.
And if you've been making jokes about it because airlocking doesn't seem like a real threat to you, or you assumed it was some kind of clean and painless space death, please keep in mind that in some of our realities it was the customary method of execution without trial for political prisoners. If you're going to be funny, maybe you should mix in a few references to firing squads and mass graves just to keep it evenhanded.
You throw garbage out an airlock. That's what's being implied when you kill someone that way. And aside from everything else, it hurts.
This post, though. It's sent to everyone, original crew included, but anyone trying to figure out what number it came from is going to be dealing with an absolute bastard of a coded encryption, full of traps and false backdoors, created by someone who's not only an AI himself but a specialist among AIs in coding, network jamming, and sabotage.
Of course, there are probably one or two people onboard who will guess immediately who it came from, but oh well. Leoben's annoyed.]
Being ejected out the airlock of a spaceship isn't all that fun a way to die. Take it from someone who knows.
If we're going to be talking about instituting a death penalty for crimes committed onboard, fine, although I'd rather restrict such a thing to crimes actually already committed, and committed here on this ship, rather than those that're just potentially maybe possible if we don't act now and preemptively murder them. But either way there are more humane - if you'll excuse the expression - ways to do it.
And if you've been making jokes about it because airlocking doesn't seem like a real threat to you, or you assumed it was some kind of clean and painless space death, please keep in mind that in some of our realities it was the customary method of execution without trial for political prisoners. If you're going to be funny, maybe you should mix in a few references to firing squads and mass graves just to keep it evenhanded.
You throw garbage out an airlock. That's what's being implied when you kill someone that way. And aside from everything else, it hurts.
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If you want to have a philosophical discussion about the rule of law and the rights of sentient beings I'm all for that, Mr. Edgeworth, but considering I started this post saying I personally have been executed without trial as a political prisoner, maybe you can see that my opinions on the subject are likely to be many, complex, and also possibly personally identifying in a way that might put me in danger.
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You must come from a very peaceful world.
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I remember I was dying just before I was brought here. [Not, you know, from having been airlocked - that was a whole nother thing, and there's been a lot of water under the bridge since then. But still.]