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ImaginaryHuman

I just use one Long value representing a unique computer on the network and one Long value representing an object on the local computer. Together they form the `internal` and `external` viewpoints of an object's boundary, and to generate new ones I just add 1 to the previous counter. The only drawback perhaps is you have to store the previous counter permanently like in a file rather than basing it off the date/time, and you need an orchestrated way of giving each networked machine a local id number.