Not really.

Well connected nobles can provide a shield against the local government that the immortal resides at. We can _call_ it a corporation, but names matter not.

Instead, a well connected, informed, and rich immortal can create a form of shadow government in which he is the ruler. Instead of by commanding force, (s)he uses influence to bind them. Instead of restriction, being under the immortal OPENS doors that those nobles would not usually have.

If you knew that a tithe of 10% of your wealth to them opens up relations to 3 Chinese houses and a Japanese house, along with numerous other European houses, being alligned is a no brainer. Once the wealth is engrained, the immortal could even influence to step away from war, knowing that would be bad for business as trade routes would have crumbled.

Who would have known that being a SCAdian would actually be used in the mundane world :D

But these laws need to be figured out, as our fellow humans in Tibet have already done so, to an interesting extent.

In the Tibetan region, reincarnation isn't some religious lofty newage crap: it's true and obvious to their culture. It's well known that you are born, live, and die, and when you die, you'll find a new place to be reborn in. Almost always, unless otherwise needed, you will be reborn somewhere on your family tree, just as the ancient Celts also believed.

Understanding that: Tibetans and Ancient Celts alike form contracts that are binding between lives. Now admittedly, these contracts aren't in the usual that some property is transferred, but instead promising protection or other services one can do themselves.

I say have the US military run the reactors.

Have them exempt from standard safety and architectural laws per state, and devise a foolproof reactor plan that is to be copied everywhere in the US. These reactors will then be run by the US Military (I suggest Navy due to excess of nuke carriers). People in the Navy have the requisite knowledge to maintain and repair these type of reactors. We know that for-profit businesses cut and crimp where they should not, as BP did with skipping required safety protocols.

And gee, if the Military is running the reactors, they also have security covered as well. They can legally have flakkers, SAMs, and heavily armed personnel. "What, you have an airplane? I have firey death for you."

As per the "OMG THEY WILL MAKES MORE NUKES!!!" You have not just 1 reactor, but a series of them. Output of #1 goes in as input to #2. And you keep going for about 5 jumps until you get "glowing lead". Milk that fissionable product for all of its energy.

I served on a jury as foreman in a small town in Indiana (Nashville).

Background: 2 city cops were railroading a guy all of us perceived as innocent (the cop lied 3 times during testimony and deposition).

During selection, they started with 40 people. 20 were immediately dismissed due to questionnaire. Out of the 20, the school superintendant dismissed, family with law enforcement ties were dismissed, as were others that had conflict in the case. And I had broke my shoulder 3 weeks prior, so im in a sling. Everything was 'decent' in terms of no discrimination on schooling or intelligence. And it was painless.

However, during sequestering, I heard some of the most bile I've heard from others. I DO NOT like authority only because almost all abuse it. This case was no exception, but my fellow jurors went to the point of "I know who that cop is, and he's a dirty one." then she proceeds to tell stories about his covered dirt. I stayed... ahem... impartial, but the cop lied about his own testimony in open court.

I asked the judge in her quarters why wont he be charged with perjury. No answer...

That case alone let me know that the jury system does work. We would have acquitted within 10 minutes f cop 1's testimony.

What're you talkin about?

Do it for V For Vendetta :D

All I have to say is...

Reduce, Reuse, Reanimate
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The blog says now all you need to do is send a txt message to 466453 (google) with name and city and state.

It's easier that way, at least with a cell phone.

Right wing: very conservative views on politics and social issues. Religiously watches Fox news, attends Tea Parties, and loves Rush Limbaugh. And is self claimed conservative. Believes that Obama is not a citizen, and is wreaking the country.

Christian: Actually tries to follow the non-condemnation that Jesus preached, along with the Beatitudes. She does not proselytize, but instead shows what she believes by actions, not empty words. She knows what separation does as she was kicked out of the Catholic church for divorcing a severely abusive husband.

Like I said: She was happy that I was happy.

Bisexual.. How is that "blackmailable"?

I'm most likely bisexual, though I have yet to be with a guy yet. I am polyamorous. My direct GF has another guy as well as well as 2 GF's. Right now, four of the five of us live together.

However, it does NOT mean we're easy. They are committed relationships we have to each other. I'd do pretty much anything for them, as they would for me. It also means that for anybody to date one of us, we all agree.

And I even told my grandmother, who is extreme right wing Christian. She was happy that I was happy.

I wonder if the courts would issue an order that would legalize hacking of unstoppable network computers to prevent ongoing attacks?

Other normally illegal tactics can be utilized legally, if a judge deems them necessary or in a court of law. You know, 1st degree murder vs E-Chair?

How long did it take Apple to figure out how to send and receive MMS messages?

Yeah, there was an "app" for that. Cause the default one couldn't.

And a magic incantation can be ignored by a null or a true believer. The rest, well, are susceptible.

Not hardly. Yeah, TI does sell and push a lot in the educational market. However, we also see math textbooks that have which button sequence to press to get the maths done. And its all in some dialect of TI (usually TI83+). And due to that, most people here in the states have no understanding of why math is where it is. They just learn how to press the buttons. Conversly, my uni calculus classes were forbidden to have calculators of any style until way later. It was all logic and understanding of calculus identites and other interesting transforms. And the prof made sure simple math did not need a calc (ex. large constants or coefficents).

I had this same problem recently. I was using a Belkin USB-Serial adapter for controlling a ICOM multiband scanner. It uses a windows program to control it over the serial port, with a lineout for output.

I installed WINE and proceeded to hook up the hardware. I plug in the USB-Serial. Linux autodetects and is device /dev/ttyUSB0 everything good so far.
I then try to figure out how to get Wine to see the serial port, as it only accepts com0-com9. Yuck. So, documentation states to make a symlink to the device.

chmod 0777 /dev/ttyUSB0 # its my laptop and im not worried
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/COM0

I started back up the ICOM software control, aimed it at COM0 and it works perfect. Well, aside its a win95 program and a bad gui, but its working perfectly as they designed.

Dell : 90 days.