wait, is this the same thing as the Yes Men Survivaball?

I don't know, this sounds a lot like a Korbomite Maneuver.

Dogs have masters. Cats have staff. (and no one knows who really said that first)

I hope Chris Carter's paying attention -- he may want to work in a revision of his earlier view by that name (opening of season 7 of X Files) as he prepares the neXt big thing for FoX. That whole ancient alien astronaut theme could use some dusting anyway.

BTW: Unless your editors enjoy creating neologisms, "existant" is not a word that is existent.

Caution is a healthy attribute of self-assessment. I too said "intermediate" of myself, though I know a dozen people at work who would protest that I'm under-estimating myself. But to be cautious in such things is to keep the door open wide for improvement, which is what we all naturally desire.

From something I wrote a while back:

Stupidity, typically, is not a product of Nature but of impudence. It has little or nothing to do with intellect: some of the most obtuse idiots I have met in my life have had above-average IQs.

It is an insult to the memory of Data's cat.

Just listen to the first 30 seconds of this from Alan Watts (nearly half a century ago).

And if 7 of 9 is in this new show, I'm watching. (ST Voyager, season 6)

Well the message is all the same, legalities or not: we are the NFL, a massive, mega-billion dollar, tax-exempt corporation with the government deep and firm in our pockets. If we say you've done something wrong and bring out our army of lawyers to intimidate you, you will be intimidated, make no mistake about that. You may therefore split hairs all you like; we can chop heads and get away with it.

On balance, anyway, I will join Zirin in rooting for Seattle because of what they can make socially of another victory. But I won't be watching.

I have different sense of it (the whole thing is here):

This “character” is the Orwellian collectivist organization that lives in a giant cube of wires and darkness and ignorance. There is a daring genius to this image: the program was exposing the insanity of its own genre, television. It is holding up the great mirror of Art to the very thing that gave it life. Wow.

Nowadays this seems the most sensible response; though I do recall years ago running the Yellow Dog distro on an ancient iMac with some benefit.

"if the self who is directing and executing the self-improvement is the same f-u'd self that needs improving, then how can there possibly be improvement?"

Agree completely. In fact, all the ST films failed to even approach the quality of the series. The best movie-length ST "films" ever made were the various 2-parters of TNG and Voyager, led by "Chain of Command."