We already had a refferendum on this last year. We said no. The EU and the government bitched at us, then told us to vote again. It was purely due to fearmongering tactics by the government that this bloody thing passed. The EU has made it quite clear they don't give a s**t about democracy any more...

How? There was a referendum and people said yes.

LINK Ireland backs EU's Lisbon Treaty Irish voters have strongly endorsed the European Union's Lisbon Treaty - 16 months after their first vote rejecting it plunged EU reforms into deadlock. About 67% voted "Yes", official results from the latest referendum showed. Irish Prime Minister Br...

Of course Janeway's decision would've been irrelevant if S8472 weren't a bunch of spineless cowards who ran away at the first sign of trouble instead of throwing everything they got on the Borg and wiping them out before they deploy the nanoprobes en masse. Of course even this still makes bioships s...

I think that's pretty ridiculous. If anything, declaring FX Uber alles is the more dishonest route. You missed my point. If we acknowledge that what we're seeing is FX than any and all discussion about firepower, speed or resilience of starships is meaningless since they are not starships but plast...

But in the end, whatever the FX say is secondary to my mind. You may differ, of course, and that's fine. I'm not saying you are wrong to analyse it the way you do. I do think you are wrong to insist that your way is the best or only way. I would say that the scientific method combined with suspensi...

but back to the point at hand, you say the space is relativly small, but we're talking an area 8,000LY long on one axis, 3,000 on another and a guestimated 6,000-8,000 on the last. this is a huge space. 150 life supporting worlds is easy to fit into that space. All I know about is Picard stating th...

Do they even know about the mobile emitter? At the end of the episode where Doc gets the emitter the new Braxton doesn't even remember Janeway stating he never experienced "that" timeline. So it would seem that whenever you alter time you actually jump to another timeline which branches of...

8472's and their little ships might get irrelevant if Q continuum civil war gets out of hand.

EDIT: I just realized. Janeshit caused it all in the first place. Nevermind.

I am not by any means saying that 100% homosexuality is a realistic possibility. I was merely pointing out that impact of homosexuality on reproduction is limited by low numbers of homosexuals. If there were much more homosexuals reproduction would then be threatened. Again I am not, nor was I ever,...

I was actually just responding to your wording. But to the point you mention, having an anecdotal detrimental effect is obviously not the same has having a more than nominal effect on the size and rate of growth of the entire species. The effect is limited because the cause is also limited. A Earth...

You're going backwards... we both said that the breeder birthrate offsets any impact of homosexuality; now you're pointing out examples which are offset by birthrate, not which offset it. How do they not offset the birthrate if fertile people are killed? In any case the point is that something does...

Actually, that's exaclty what that fact does - "...WHICH COMPLETELY OFFSETS ANY IMPACT... - your words. Homicides are also offset by population growth as are earthquake or tsunami victims. That doesn't mean aforementioned events are not detrimental to the continuation of the species does it? A...

Homosexuality is detrimental to continuation of the species. But detrimental is not the same as end of the species. The fact that humanity is faced with other factors such as large number of children per woman which completely offset any impact homosexuals might make doesn't change that fact. You ha...

Really? The World Clock seems to disagree. Watch the Birth Rate and the Death Rate numbers, and keep in mind that abortions are only listed at the bottom. The numbers suggest something more along the lines of one child per 2.1 women, rather than every woman having 2.1 children to sustain zero birth...