They apparently almost take AKM stocks , but require some sanding for the wood , don ' t know that I ' d bet on it without someone else documenting the modification . <| sep |> Back to PoD soon ! <| sep |> I definitely think he is a reference to MIB but he also had Loganlike characteristics . He seems like he wants to go black hat but is too inhibited . When his opportunity comes to have his way with the rancher ' s daughter he passes it off to Rebus . <| sep |> Mathematics and science are by definition the least ' made up ' things there are . They are completely objectively true they exist independently of anyone ' s knowledge of them . Nor are they necessarily high technology the natural laws described by scientists and mathematicians don ' t just govern the technology you view as a mistake , they govern everything natural as well . Some of my favourite mathematics , Euclid ' s Geometry , was crafted from pure logic and was unrelated to what little technology existed at the time 2500 years ago . An interesting thought Ted Kaczynski was a truly superb mathematician and a strong supporter of Positivism . I think I may go look through his manifesto again , I disagree with his moral axioms but it was still very interesting . Perhaps there is danger in modern civilisation like he said . But in that case I would seek an accommodation , not an abandonment of technology . Ted said science marches on blindly , without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard ''. I think science should march on blindly without any political or moral impositions . It ' s true we are not adapted to civilisation , we are still huntergatherers . But why should we stick to only what we are originally adapted to to what is most comfortable ? Is there no virtue to creating new marvels of machinery and ingenuity ? I am not saying we need a vast population of consumers buying worthless tacky trash , but I do think scientific advancement is a worthy homage to the natural laws that created the universe . Doesn ' t an eternity of lowtech stable happiness and health , with no suffering for a higher cause such a technological advancement strike you as a little boring ? We already had hundreds of thousands of years living in our natural lifestyle what point is there in returning to yet more of it ? What ' s your opinion on the possibility of humanity changing , or being changed , to fit in more neatly with technological civilisation ? Transhumanism , I should have said . Rather than see technology as a mistake , I am tempted to see our current huntergatherer genetics and bodies as obsolete .