I'm working with some data in a spreadsheet in OpenOffice and trying to build a graph.
What I have is three columns: Name, X-coordinate, Y-coordinate.
Clearly the X and Y coordinates are the primary data rows for a point graph.I want each point to be labelled with the Name column.
Any pointers?Thanks!
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A Timeline of Handwavium Law in the United States of America
September 11, 2008: Washington DCIn response to the recent wave of thefts and other scandals, most recently culminating in the theft of the former-Soviet 'Buran' space shuttle prototype, President Bush signed into law a complete prohibition on the use or distribution of the substance known as 'handwavium'. The bill, known as the 'Maintaining America's Technological Security Act', makes it a federal felony to posess or distribute handwavium without proper licensing. The bill contains, however, no regulations on how such licensing is to be granted. . . .
March 14th, 2009: Washington DCPresident Giuliani today signed into law the Blaisdell Act, a comprehensive set of regulations for the safe use of 'handwavium' in research and production. Due to the clear dangers associated with the substance, any facility working with it will need to meet stringent safety standards. Applications from several prominent research institutes are already pending, including MIT, Harvard, and Lawrence Liverpool National Laboratory. . . .
September 15th, 2009: Rochester NYRockhounds, Inc. today became the first corporation licensed to utilize handwavium in commercial production under the Blaisdell Act. Consumers may rest assured that the substance is not utilized in any actual production methodology. Instead, the mining consortium is making use of handwavium-modified vehicles (so-called 'fencraft') and mining equipment in order to extract raw minerals and ore from asteroids. . . .
April 8th, 2010: Helena MTThe Montana State Supreme Court today agreed to hear the case of Carolyn Fischer, former Professor of Biochemistry at Carroll College. Doctor Fischer asserts that her employment with the college was terminated because of discrimination against her due to a handwavium-induced "bio-modification". . . .
July 4th, 2011: Livermore CAResearch scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories announced the successful test of the first operational fusion reactor this morning. The reactor utilized handwavium-based gravity generators to induce fusion, rather than the traditional laser arrangement. Producing three hundred megawatts of power over and above its own functional requirements, it is the most powerful sustained fusion reaction so far produced. . . .
August 1st, 2012: Washington DCThe Land Theft Prevention Act goes into full effect today, prohibiting the removal of large areas of land from their current locations. . . .
October 1st, 2012: Rochester NYCerion Energy Systems announces a patent on a new form of high-density storage battery. At more than ten times the capacity of previous rechargeable systems, the new batteries are expected to revolutionist the electric automobile industry. . . .
November 1st, 2013: Washington DCThe 'Catgirl Protection Act' goes into effect today, adding "nonconsensual Handwavium-induced biomodification" to the list of actions that qualify as assault under Federal law. . . .
January 5th, 2014: Reno NVHandwavium-related technologies took another leap forward today, as Reno-based Migitech Inc announced they had received Federal licensing to go ahead with their new line of NanoForge water filters. Because the production process uses a handwavium-enhanced machine, the company has faced an uphill battle to gain approval under the Blaisdell Act's strict regulations. "NanoForge water is entirely safe," Migitech president Joseph Brown stated. "I've been bathing with, and drinking, nothing but NanoForge water for the past year, and not a single blue hair to be seen." . . . .
April 1, 2014: Cocoa, FLNASA's Handwavium scandal came to an end today as the embattled space agency agreed to privatize their handwavium-enhanced spacecraft operations. A contract was signed with the already-licensed Artemis Foundation to operate and maintain the aging Shuttle fleet on NASA's behalf. . . .
June 8th, 2015: Los Angeles, CAIn a move hailed as ironic and
"deeply amusing" by pundits on both sides of the aisle, a consortium of
eleven coal-mining companies today joined the class-action lawsuit
seeking repeal of the Land Theft Prevention Act, after its provisions
were used by eco-protest groups to have surface mining operations shut
down in several states. Today these corporate miners find themselves
standing alongside the same protestors who shut them down as they throw
their backing behind the pro-Handwavium protest groups. . . .
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I have to state its not completely my fault... I just wanted to write down a few thoughts on this "virtual pilot" thing... and then I wrote two examples for the technology... and then another Fenspace writer suggested to add something.

The Geth might appear later in Candle in the Dark... not sure about it at the moment.

Yes, I admit it became a little bit longer. Have fun reading! Comments as always welcome!

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Virtual Pilots

»Yes, thats my new space fighter... no, it doesn't have a cockpit. Why waste space on cockpit and life support?«
- heard on Jenga in 2027

»Its a full emulation of a catgirl body... okay, with a few shortcuts to reduce the stress of the emulation. I am not sure you will even notice the difference.«
- Cortana, before the first mindstate emulation in 2026

Virtual Pilots were first introduced by Catgirl Industries in 2026. While the company relied mostly on drones of all kinds for their security, they could easily see the advantage of having a pilot for a power armor or space fighter. Unwilling to rethink their whole design philosophy or using dedicated AIs for these weapons, they began to apply a new generation of Mindtech systems on in larger numbers.

The system was originally tested in Jengas virtual cyberspace. While the technology to copy a mind had been available since 2015, it took a decade of dedicated research to learn how to interpret the data, compress it down to a manageable size and finally run it in a computer emulation. The emulation gives the catgirl mind the feeling of a full body and allows her to interact with other Fen in cyberspace or through a holographic interface.

The Virtual Pilot system is just the same technology, downsized enough to be mounted in a drone body. Drones with the Virtual Pilot system do not contain a cockpit systems or even life support. Instead of having room for a biological pilot, they have an extended internal computer system with a virtual reality core.

The catgirl pilot lies down in a cryogenic tube outside the drone and use a Mindtech helmet to upload a copy of herself to the computer system of the drone. While she is away with the drone, the biological body is kept frozen. At the end of the mission the mindstate is transferred back to the original body, which also doubles as a backup should the drone be destroyed.

The first two drone system equipped for Virtual Pilots were the Space Exocomps and the Geth series combat bots.

Space Exocomps

»Nina, please come down here... our fine bumblebees have brought something with them again, might be something from the Boskonian war!«
- Jenga 2026

Base Hull: Spherical custom built hull
Length: 1.8 m
Width: 1.2 m
Height: 1.2 m
Mass: 3.5 tons
Drive Type: Mass Effect field engine
Drive Rating: 0.14c sprint speed, 0.10c cruising speed
Registry Number CI-E, followed by a random 8 digit number
Launched: 2021
Purpose: Station defense, resource acquisition
Primary Crew: Groupmind of 6-12 Exocomp AIs
Secondary Crew: up to two Virtual Pilots (since 2026)

The Space Exocomps began as a modified version of the Veritech Companion Drone program Catgirl Industries had done together with the Roughriders in 2016. Drawing on the experience with this modular drone system the catgirls designed two kinds of drones for their Normandy class patrol ship, the Argus class recon drone and the Oculus class combat drone.

Both drones were completely remote controlled by the AI of the ship over a quantum entanglement link, without enough computer power to develop their own mind. While the original plans of the catgirls were only about using the drones combined with the ships, they quickly recognized their value as space superiority fighters and decided to deploy a couple of them on Jenga and the Little Big Bang labs.

Shortly after the Exocomp upgrade in the early 2020s, the little drones decided to do something to help their 'stupid brothers' and began secretly to modify the systems of the drones. They replaced their central components with a huge version of their own universal tool adapter, which was also capable to to be used for reconnaissance and combat. They also increased the computer capabilities of the new drones, allowing them to contain up to a dozen Exocomp intelligences.

Before the catgirls even noticed, the first members of the Hive were born.

The Hive

The Hive became Catgirl Industries name for all the Exocomps living on their stations. While the small Exocomps sometimes sometimes behave like cats, their larger Exocomps displayed a more bee-like behavior.

Most of the 'bees', or 'bumblebees' as the catgirls call them, tend to stay somewhere on or around their station, but some of them sometimes wander off to patrol the space in the neighborhood. Sometimes they even come back with some unusual material they found on their travel.

The Jenga Space Defense Corps

While the Space Exocomps proved to be skilled in deep space navigation and became fierce fighters when the station was under attack, they still lacked a good tactical sense. In 2026 the catgirls proposed an upgrade to support their bumblebees to protect their shared homes.

Since then all Space Exocomps got a Virtual Pilot module that allow them to carry one or two catgirls as tactical advisors for space combat. While control of the drone is still done by the Exocomps, this shared responsibility has proven to raise the combat capabilities of them quite a lot.

Groups of Space Exocomps can network to form 'tactical data networks' to supply the catgirls on board with all kinds of sensor information, even when being away from their home. A few of them have joined Great Justice fleet exercises from time to time.

Quirks

• Buzzing. All Space Exocomps make a noise like a large bumblebee when moving.
  
• Honey! When finding something interesting on their journeys, they tend to bring it back home. Sometimes its some rare form of asteroid ore, sometimes parts of a shipwreck.
  

• Catgirl Industries is thinking about upgrading all Space Exocomp to a new Mass Effect engine to increase their sublight speed.
  
• Traveling Fen near a Catgirl Industries installation often meet a few Space Exocomps. Sometimes they get an 'offer' for a free field repair for their ships, mostly restricted to surface damage.
  
• As with all Catgirl Industries Exocomps, their registration numbers change from time to time.
  
• As all Exocomps of 2026, Space Exocomps can reconfigure their Universal Tool Adapter to shoot ball-lightning's.
  

• No Touch. Catgirl Industries were unable to give armored body a sense of touch, except for the hands. Catgirls have complained that makes the Geth uncomfortable to inhabit.
  
• Computer Speech. Voice output sounds always like pre-wave computer creation.
  

• They destroyed the 3rd bridge! While the head contains additional sensors, the headlight and a loudspeaker, its not essential to the Geths combat capabilities.
  
• ... with the second shot. The head is very well armored.
  
• Passenger. A Geth can carry the upload of a second catgirl within its virtual reality core, but only one catgirl can access the Action mode at the same time.
  
• The 4th generation mass effect forcefield is the first of its kind that can also block energy weapons.
  

• AI Robot. Doesn't sleep, doesn't eat, doesn't age, potentially immortal.
  
• Sharpshooter. Unsurprisingly to everyone Legion has proven to be an excellent sniper.
  

• Fictional Person. Based closely on a fictional character, which allows strangers to predict his reactions with some accuracy if they've found and reviewed the source material.
  
• Quiet. Legion doesn't like talk much, at least via voice.
  

• That hole! Legion argues that the hole in his armor is not important enough to fix.
  
• What hole? EDI and Shepard persuaded him later to get a replacement armor patch with a specially waved transparent alloy over the hole.
  
• My little friends! When visiting Jenga, Legions enjoys sitting on the ground with a horde of playful Exocomps around him.
  

I was thinking about this recently, and if you look at it objectively rather than in the words of the Jedi masters, the Force is pretty much inherently evil, light side or no.

Jedi must live as ascetics or fall to the dark side - positive emotions are just as bad as negative ones

Mind tricks and telekinesis are the two basic powers, aka imposing domination over thought and action

That's not even going into messing with time and probability for pre/postcognition and Battle Meditation

Even Jedi Grand Mas
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woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

You didn’t really believe them when they said the information they’re digging up was only used to investigate foreign terrorists, did you?

Quote:WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin – not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.

The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to “recreate” the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant’s Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don’t know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence – information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses.

The unit of the DEA that distributes the information is called the Special Operations Division, or SOD. Two dozen partner agencies comprise the unit, including the FBI, CIA, NSA, Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security. It was created in 1994 to combat Latin American drug cartels and has grown from several dozen employees to several hundred.

Quote:A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. “You’d be told only, ‘Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle.’ And so we’d alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it,” the agent said.

Which, of course, don’t so much find drugs as react to cues from their dishonest handlers so as to provide an excuse for going over the vehicle with a fine-toothed comb, creating an opportunity for something illegal to be planted in the car if nothing is found.

After an arrest was made, agents then pretended that their investigation began with the traffic stop, not with the SOD tip, the former agent said. The training document reviewed by Reuters refers to this process as “parallel construction.”

The two senior DEA officials, who spoke on behalf of the agency but only on condition of anonymity, said the process is kept secret to protect sources and investigative methods. “Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day,” one official said. “It’s decades old, a bedrock concept.”

Quote:“You can’t game the system,” said former federal prosecutor Henry E. Hockeimer Jr. “You can’t create this subterfuge. These are drug crimes, not national security cases. If you don’t draw the line here, where do you draw it?”

Quote:One current federal prosecutor learned how agents were using SOD tips after a drug agent misled him, the prosecutor told Reuters. In a Florida drug case he was handling, the prosecutor said, a DEA agent told him the investigation of a U.S. citizen began with a tip from an informant. When the prosecutor pressed for more information, he said, a DEA supervisor intervened and revealed that the tip had actually come through the SOD and from an NSA intercept.

Quote:As a practical matter, law enforcement agents said they usually don’t worry that SOD’s involvement will be exposed in court. That’s because most drug-trafficking defendants plead guilty before trial and therefore never request to see the evidence against them. If cases did go to trial, current and former agents said, charges were sometimes dropped to avoid the risk of exposing SOD involvement.

Current and former federal agents said SOD tips aren’t always helpful – one estimated their accuracy at 60 percent. But current and former agents said tips have enabled them to catch drug smugglers who might have gotten away.

“It was an amazing tool,” said one recently retired federal agent. “Our big fear was that it wouldn’t stay secret.”

Quote:Last night on Jay Leno’s show, President Obama denied that the U.S. government engages in anything that constitutes “spying on Americans.”

Quote:“We don’t have a domestic spying program,” he said. ”What we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an email address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat,” Obama explained in a wide-ranging interview. “That information is useful,” the president said, arguing the capability could be important in a situation like the Boston Marathon bombings.

Officially founded during the Boskone War, Hyperlight Industries is a multifaceted organization dedicated to spreading humanity out from Earth, and hopefully eventually into the stars. Primarily, it currently operates helping to move migrant workers from Earth out to the Jovian system, along with transport of mundanes who are looking for a job in the more fertile market of space work. Secondary fields include a mining, refining, and small-scale construction division led by the company's AI [Insert Name Here], and planned in the future is an extra-solar division dedicated towards large-scale colonization of other worlds, hopefully via convincing Mundanes to join with Fen on joint projects; the chief of which is the nearly Black Project Yorktown.

It's CEO is the relatively reclusive Captain Jonathan Rich. Native to Northwest Florida, he left Earth shortly after Grover's Corners alongside his XO Leroy Davis by handwaving an airliner parked in the Bob Sikes Airport in Crestview Florida over the course of a weekend, replacing the forward hatch with a standard airlock, and then stealing most of the Airport's aviation gas supply to launch. The pair are wanted for Grand Theft Aircraft in the US and associated territories, and have not set down on Earth since.

Said Airliner became the start of their business after several months of participating as a contractor for Operation Great Justice during the War. The Viridian Fool, as it came to be known for the distinct paintjob, served as an AWACS craft and recovery vessel for some time, until Rich and Davis declared they were satisfied with their performance and quit after the incidents that led to OGJ getting kicked off Stellvia, citing the behavior and actions of the leadership as being 'Unconcinable, Unacceptable, and no better than what we left behind'.

Looking for work, they picked up a small AI-run independent mining operation as a part-time source of income, retrieving it's drones and helping them back into the field. They served in this capacity, making runs on small asteroids far off the Ecliptic until the end of the war. At that point, they helped in the acquisition of an improved mining drone carrier and began refitting their airliner into something approaching a state of business readiness. Their time during the war endeared them to the Browncoats and Belters, who were both in need of a dedicated travel line to and from their primary transportation hubs. Taking up the challenge, they hired on several flight attendants and began offering $250 dollar tickets to and from the belt, and $300 dollar tickets to Ganymede and back.  They weren't expecting to be sold out entirely on every outbound flight as workers flocked to the relatively high-paying jobs available. 

To facilitate the nearly unmanagable load, they consulted with their AI-led mining branch for the construction of a limited set of additional spaceframes based off of their original aircraft to match demand. By 2018, between their main offices and maintence  on Ceres, the aircrews of their 15 spaceliners, and travel offices the company boasts nearly 300 human personelle, and anywhere from 30-50 AI's in the travel sector and mining sector. Rumors persist, though, that the Mining Operations are vastly larger than they let on, from fanciful tales of a hidden base in the Oort Cloud working on something, to semi-confirmed reports of mining drones that refuse to identify themselves in the belt that loosely match the configuration of their mining craft.  In addition, as the company has grown in size, several former workers report having come across plans for a 'Project Yorktown', which they claim to be plans for a massive colony ship for hunting down and colonizing worlds beyond the Solar System.  However, any proof of these plans in the form of files or hard-copies has yet to turn up.

Relations:

While they cooperate as much as they possibly can with the Space Patrol, they refuse any and all OGJ passengers, and have made it publically known that they will not do business with the organization until it's current leadership is removed and harsh oversight is put into place. They are attempting to file Criminal Trespassing charges against someone believed to be an OGJ 'Troubleshooter' who broke into their offices on December 12, 2017 and attempted to steal several files from the CEO's office.

With most other factions, they have neutral to positive relations, and are somewhat loved by the Browncoats and Belters for the spaceline services at relatively cheap rates they provide. 

However, despite their services, they go out of their way to remain off of the major and minor faction's collective radars, attempting to maintain as low a profile as possible while still remaining profitable. It is unknown as to whether or not this is due to their relations with OGJ, or if there is something more to this active image control.

(more to come tomorrow)

I figured it would be better to have a thread specifically titled for RWBY than to have to keep looking for "Monty Oum's Latest Work".
Oh, and as I type this, episode 4 is 1 hour and 37 minutes from release.
And here's a generic link to RWBY content on RoosterTeeth.
ETA:  Goddamned Yuku link handling.
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Found this awesome game on Steam today, called "Audiosurf."
What it does is it takes any music track you specify, and creates a racetrack for it. There's multiple difficulty levels and race vehicle powers depending on the vehicle you choose and the abilities it has. But the race itself will vary in speed, intensity, how close to the racer you are and so on by the pace and rhythm of the music.
I had average results with Bon Jovi and a handful of movie soundtracks. But (so far) the best results I've had has been Nyan Nyan Service Medley from Macross Frontier. *That* was a wild race.
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I picked up a tablet and am looking at DVD ripping software - any recommendations - also if anyone has favorite apps for surface RT - please let me know.
Thanks,Shayne