Don't forget the C4!
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Any Prime Directive was broken a long time ago when a stargate was plopped down on the planet and someone using it claimed themselves as gods. SG-1 shouldn't even be wandering around if anyone was adhering to rules from the beginning.
Give and get!
To he fair the Federation was born from NASA and SG-1 came from a military program
SG-1 is a great show to watch, especially lately - it makes you feel like there might still be people that care about the world.
Just when you get to the episodes where the meddling civilian oversight committees screws everything up until the brave military breaks the law to save the day, be sure you don't learn the lesson they're trying to teach you.
Depends on what lesson you think they're trying to teach. "When you know the right thing to do, don't let people use rules and obstructions to stop you from doing it." can be a good lesson.
Throughout history, a terrible number of people have died because some zealot thought they were doing the right thing.
If a police officer "knows" someone is guilty, what do you think about breaking the rules to ensure they are punished?
Rule .366. Ability begets responsibility.
P90 vs space blaster stick.
P90 WINS!
Damn, someone should've told Dr. Frasier that it's just a weapon of terror...
I mean... a weapon of terror still has to, y'know, kill people... it's not very terrifying if it doesn't.
it's like a balisong: it looks very intimidating when you flourish it, you can of course kill people with it since it is a knife and people generally dislike knives in their lungs, but you're more likely to cut your fingers than anything else.
Fun fact, when I bought my K-bar I was with my grandmother and she asked me why I didnt get a butterfly knife instead. I literally quoted the weapon of terror line, also I pointed out how I have destroyed many pocket knives and its probably better to just get a solid piece of steel.
Too soon! RIP
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Would the prime directive apply if SG-1 is interacting with humans originally sourced and trafficked from Earth?
depending on if we're on a point in the timeline before they acquire hyperdrive or not (assuming the hyperdrive effectively counts as the same as a warp drive for prime directive purposes) the prime directive might not apply just because it would be a prewarp culture interacting with another prewarp culture.
I think it's fair to say the prime detective in Stargate would involve Stargates and not warp drives.
It always applies. But they always have some leeway in the shows. Sometimes they're more relaxed and sometimes they're more strict. Depends on how far along they are compared to the federation, civilization wise.
assuming we're talking about some interdimensional shenanigans where the two universes meet: the federation would presumably have to treat the SG universe as separate from themselves, since they have naquadah nukes and stuff which makes it slightly annoying for the federation to claim that this earth falls under federation government. Not to mention civil unrest and stuff.
Asgard approved!
Anyone know where I can stream SG-1? It's been an age lol
yandex is a russian search engine with very little filtering. If you type the name of any show (and the magic words: "watch online") , the first results are usually free websites for watching whatever
Awesome, I will check it out, thanks!!
If you (or anyone else that's reading this) are going to do illegal and questionable shit on the Internet, you might as well go whole hog and set up your own piracy and content distribution system on your home network.
1). First and foremost, you need to do this shit behind a VPN. You're specifically looking for a VPN with port forwarding so you'll get better download speeds on your torrents. I'm using ProtonVPN because when I was setting my rig up for the first time about a year ago, that was the top recommendation. Just do a little research and type in "best VPN for torrenting" into your favorite search engine. Set up your VPN as instructed. You'll want to make special note of the "openvpn" username/password. You'll need it later.
2). Next, you'll need hardware. While any old laptop that's been sitting around collecting dust is probably fine, you'll run out of storage on it pretty fast if you want anything more than a few shows and movies. If you're running out of storage space, I would recommend a Network Attached Storage device (NAS). There's lots of brands to choose from, but I'm partial to Synology.
3). Next (regardless of hardware) you'll want to be familiar with Docker and the container model. Essentially, containers allow you to run a little piece of software in a self contained virtual environment. All you have to do is tell docker the containers' dependencies and configuration and it'll spin up the container you ask for it.
4). Next you'll want to get smart on the arr stack. This is a set of services that run in docker containers that can completely automate your piracy activities. At a high level, you specify the TV shows and movies you're interested in, then the arr stack will search for the torrent, download it, and move it to where your content distribution service is scanning for new media.
5). Not sure where else to put this, but I'd recommend gluetun for the VPN client (this is where you'll need your openvpn credentials), qBittorent for your torrent client and Jellyfin for your media distribution. These are all services that can run in Docker containers. I'd recommend using the docker containers from https://fleet.linuxserver.io/ since they tend to standardize the configuration of their docker containers.
Resources:
https://old.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/rikthc/list_of_recommended_vpns_2022/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread
https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki
It's a lot to distill from into a single Lemmy comment, but hopefully this sets you on the right path!
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yaharrrrrrrr
Pluto.tv has a legal 24/7 stream if you're in the usa
I'm just waiting sometimes searching for an in depth guide, or an easy to use tool, to upscale my sg-1 dvd's directly from original non compressed quality, to a more palatable resolution before they are compressed and converted to mkv. Tools being FOSS is a soft requirement, it kind of has to run on Linux, or I need to find an older dual core Intel Mac in storage or run windows in a vm.
I don't have any computers with a DVD drive any more, but I'm not opposed to buying one
Why not turn to the high seas? If you own the DVDs, there's no moral reason not to and you'll save yourself lots of effort.
Plus I don't think ripping DVDs is any more legal than downloading a copy.
Why not? First of I have all the episodes as mkv files, they are high quality but indeed compressed.
Second, if I will AI upscale the episodes, I want to use uncompressed video files, and then compress them after the upscale. Maybe 720p would be more than enough? Maybe 1080p? I don't expect 1440p or 4k to improve the viewing experience much over 1080p
Lastly, in Norway, ripping DVDs for own use is specifically legal. The act of format shifting or making straight up copies at least of music got legal precidence about 20 years ago. I don't remember exactly, just remember watching the news. Reasoning was, for the sake for format shifting, or making backups to preserve your original. Giving away, lending, or selling your backups was strictly made illegal, except if the original is included when you sell your backup. As well you can't make a backup and sell the original without destroying the backup or including it with the sale.
One of the guys credited with breaking the dvd encryption was Norwegian. He didn't do it alone, and last time I called him the guy who broke thebencruption, someone on reddit yelled at me. He had the code printed on a t-shirt, and used it in every interview on TV. There FBI had an arrest warrant out for him, he even won an award he didn't attend in the US. The warrant was later recended or something I don't know, because he did move to the US in the end.
Final thoughts. I think my ps3 can be used to rip dvd's using home brew? I might not need to buy a usb drive if I don't want to.
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I'm completely clueless. What's the bottom half from? What's the context?
Stargate SG-1
It's a really fantastic show and it holds up as well.
It's from Stargate, but I'm not sure the context of this specific image.
It's pretty much the plot of at least up to where I've seen so far. Go through Stargate find isolated human culture who worship aliens as gods, say hey they're not gods, join the resistance! Here have free guns.
If the first movie is similar the humans were taken from Earth millennia ago, so not really a prime directive issue I wouldn't think. Not only are they not an indigenous species, they've technically already made first contact. John Star Trek would rescue them.
I think the relevant context here is it's a recognizable shot of the cast of Stargate SG-1, as the text over both images contrasts the two shows' attitudes.
Drag is worried about "no gods, no masters". It fucking slaps, it sounds great. There's a lot of emotion in it that's perfectly communicated.
But... Gods being oppressors is a very European view. Do you think Navajo are oppressed by Coyote? Do you think Yindjibarndi view the Rainbow Serpent as a tyrant? What about Maui, is he exacting tithes from the Maori like the Vatican do? Is Anansi hurting the Akan?
Odin and Zeus were pieces of shit, but the idea of gods as tyrants is a view almost exclusive to the areas of the world that had humans as tyrants; the old world. And not even all of it even, the Buddha never ruled over anyone.
Drag worries that "no gods no masters" is pushing an overwhelmingly white stereotype of religion and harming members of religions that don't have oppressive gods.
Well specifically in Stargate the "gods" were literal aliens that actually treated humans as sort of cattle to host their young, mine their ore, serve as their armies. All that said they do end up visiting places with NA indigenous people and they do actually have a good relationship with their "gods" which staying in line with the theme of the show were a different set of advanced aliens.
Yeah, and there's the Asgard, and Oma Desala. Stargate doesn't unilaterally dismiss the concept of good gods at all. Teal'c might have some baggage about respecting any kind of god, but the rest of the team only cares about the "no masters" part.
The phrase is about hierarchy. Any metaphysical claim can be used to create a "power over" relationship. If a metaphysical belief causes an individual to behave differently a "power over" relationship has been established.
I sense Noble Savage and Orientalism in drags arguments. Why are "power over" relationships stemming from religion only a "white" person problem? Is drag familiar with the Rohingya and their oppressors?
Any metaphysical claim can be used to create a "power over" relationship
But not every metaphysical claim is. There are plenty of metaphysical beings even in European mythology who aren't tyrants or even leaders of anyone. Jormungandr is terribly powerful, but he doesn't rule the world, he just eats it. He doesn't oppress anyone until Ragnarok. And it's not just because he's an animal. The Dryads aren't out here building empires, they just want to be left alone with their trees. Cú Chulainn is a supernaturally good warrior with the Hulk's superpowers, but he doesn't oppress anyone. In fact, when he kills Chulainn's dog, he offers to be the man's hound until he finds a new one. That's humility and respect for other people.
The gods were created by people. And people create gods that match what they see in life. Life is good and life is bad. Gods are good and gods are bad. Gods will be worse in a more oppressive culture, and gods will be better in a less hierarchical culture. There's no doubt that the culture of the people who enslaved the world is worse than the culture of their victims. It's not "noble savage" thinking to say that. It's not that people who don't have kings are better than "normal" people. People who don't have kings ARE normal people. Living in a feudalistic or capitalist society is weird and bad. Anarcho-communism is the way humans naturally live.
And besides, the Mayans gave the Europeans a run for their money in the "sucking and having authoritarian gods" department.
I see drags argument for benign Gods using various contexts. Drag seems to be knowledgable about religions. I am as unqualified to determine a benevolent or malevolent religion as I am a king. Thereby "no gods, no masters" captures my incompetence in knowing when to allow another power over me.
Another really interesting mythological figure is Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, from Journey To The West. He's kind of on the border between mythology and fiction. Like Superman. Sun Wukong is a leader and he is a tyrant, but he's a very unusual case of both.
The monkeys of Flower Fruit Mountain decided to make Sun Wukong their kong because he was the bravest monkey. They all collectively decided on a challenge that whoever did it would be king, and Sun Wukong did it. Being the Monkey King is a ceremonial title for the most part. Sun Wukong does try to teach the monkeys warfare a few times, and it never goes well, because the monkeys are inherently chaotic and therefore bad at following orders. They're not actually a society in the way that humans are, they're just pretending to be a kingdom for fun.
When Sun Wukong gets bored of being the Monkey King, he decides to go to heaven and demand a fancy royal title from the Jade Emperor. This does not go well, and Monkey ends up beating up all the gods until the Buddha finally puts him in his place. Monkey is explicitly doing violence on people with the goal of dominating them into granting him a royal title. But the thing is, Monkey is shallow and he only cares about getting a fancy name. He doesn't want any responsibility and the only power he wants is to be immortal and good at martial arts. (This is where most of Goku's personality comes from).
Sun Wukong is tyrannical and he is technically a leader, but calling him an authoritarian tyrant is completely misleading. He's chaotic neutral. He only really wants to be the Monkey King so he can call himself the Monkey King. He doesn't want to oppress anybody. He's very different to characters like Zeus or Odin. He has a lot more in common with Loki or Dionysus, though with a focus on physical power as opposed to trickery or magic.
I agree. My patron deity as a pagan is a means of resistance. She’s a reminder that people like me predate the written word. The Sumerian creation story I know involves humans having labor negotiations with the gods.
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