Author Archives: Pace Arko

Keyboard and Otherwise, Accessible Client Scripts

Posted on October 31, 2000 by Pace Arko

As I said, there a many reasons why I don’t use DHTML on this site. However since the world at large continues to use the suspect stuff, the least I can do is provide examples of how to design client … Continue reading →

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On the Morality of Superhumanly Intelligent Artificial Organisms

Posted on May 22, 2000 by Pace Arko

Let me explain what I mean by that title. I don’t mean to ask if the creation of superhuman artificial intelligences is a wise decision or not because a lot has already been said about that. Also I am not … Continue reading →

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Zip the commercials!

Posted on February 22, 2000 by Pace Arko

Advertising is everywhere these days. It’s becoming like that Pohl and Kornbluth story, where advertising was even on the wallpaper and toilet paper. I think it’s gone far enough. I think people should be allowed to pay more for no … Continue reading →

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Background for Chumbe Bandia

Posted on February 21, 2000 by Pace Arko

What is the Industrial States Trust? In Chumbe Bandia, the Industrial States Trust, or simply, IT, is the name of an alliance of economically powerful and highly technological countries who, before the war, ruled the global economy. Most of the … Continue reading →

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Chumbe Bandia

Posted on February 21, 2000 by Pace Arko

“Entry 64 “Things are quiet now and I have a few to jot a note in my diary before before they send us to Prep. Warden Mausa says it’s another sample mission?just routine. That’s a patent lie though. If these … Continue reading →

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What I Have to Say About Music

Posted on February 21, 2000 by Pace Arko

Or, how a young man was warped by endless exposure to college radio When I was a kid I really couldn’t make up my mind about music. Like a lot of kids, I was a knee-jerk nonconformist and as such … Continue reading →

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Role Playing Games in Twenty-first Century

Posted on January 12, 2000 by Pace Arko

I’m a hardcore nerd and, as proof, I relate the following history: I starting playing Dungeons and Dragons back in high school the late Seventies, just as the hardbound rulebooks were coming out. Around the same time, a friend of … Continue reading →

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Militant Extremists To Radically Impose Conversion (METRIC)

Posted on August 5, 1999 by Pace Arko

Or, why I decided to form a terrorist cell to serve a sadly neglected cause Okay. How many of you remember when they promised us in grade school, back in the Seventies, that they’d convert this country over to the … Continue reading →

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Thoughts to Spur Discussion

Posted on August 5, 1999 by Pace Arko

Or, what few, vapid ideas Mr. Farlops could think of to spur discussion in his bulletin board. History is not a fractal and history is not a cycle. History is an infinite landscape that always changes, and while looking self-similar … Continue reading →

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Interests

Posted on July 21, 1999 by Pace Arko

Music My musical tastes tend towards the eclectic. Perhaps a good expression to use in characterizing them is “college radio.” The stuff you hear on college radio at 3 in the morning gives a good example of what I listen … Continue reading →

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