it's a better bargain then what they would get back home,the mandate is to prevent any fanatics spying or trying to sabotage Avalon.anyway it would probably be in place for at least 150 years. that's long enough for the old generations to die.then their great grandchildren can vote to ratify the mandate or not.
Vorkosigan Saga usually has some social critique, but I think contraceptive implants were a put forward as a serious population control method. It pretty much works out fine for them.
That's true... but I'm not sure how a contraceptive implant would work for men. Suppose that a man gets a child permit, gets the implant disabled, then goes to have sex with two different women, getting both of them pregnant. It seems like it would need to re-enable itself after every ejaculation, or it wouldn't really work.
No, no, no. That's the mistake that the US govt makes too, except worse and it does it intentionally. You make the fines start at the cost of the crime. If you charge them the cost of the actual purchase, what's the incentive? Plus, if the money is distributed back to the music producers, then the govt doesn't get any money to pay for the people and equipment that was needed to actually enact this.
What are you talking about? You can be sued for up to $150000 per work in the US.
Okay, then fine them twice the cost of the purchase. Or the cost of the purchase plus $100. The point is that it doesn't need to be as much if it's more consistently enforced.
Well, I got us started on birth control, we might as well drag things down even more.
Oh, my bad entirely. I wasn't clear enough. I meant in their actions for other kinds of crimes, not piracy in particular. More specifically, fines where the perpetrators are corporations.
Yeah, all of that is fine, and along the lines of what I meant.
Let's bring in gun control, too.
I assume you're talking about this:
It's a terrible idea. I assume you're talking about doing this in retaliation for the CUI murdering a city in order to kill Behemoth. Here's the thing: that is not the worst war crime committed in the past 150 years. That is not even the worst war crime committed by China in the past 150 years.
That's not necessarily a good thing. Earthquakes kill 13000 people each year. It's really only a matter of time before you're trapped and unable to move while people build new buildings on top of you.
Or that. This is my new headcanon for why he keeps Sveta around - applying the WD40. (His hands would stick to the can, you see.)
Ah, gotcha.
RaptureTech is not infallible they could have the power to bypass it or be hypnotized or mastered sleeper agents.there wont be any disenfranchise citizens on Avalon,they just wont have any political authority.
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Ummm... Intentional ? Or a typo ?
Damn good process, really. The non-parahuman things get dealt with quickly and simply, which is one of the biggest issues with the legal systems.
and what if was a human Manchurian Candidate that gets though...yeah, that would be a disaster.
Okay, but that's also true of pretty much anyone from any country. The CUI could teleport into some prospective citizens house, have their Master stare at them for 10 minutes (or however their power works) and teleport away.
North Korea gives all citizens over the age of 17 the right to "elect and be elected." Just because people have the right to vote doesn't make a country a democracy.
who ever said Avalon was a true democracy,it looks like a militarized Federacy on it's way to became a Confederation with Gaea and Khepri as the high queens of Avalon.
that means she ends up the prettiest Alzheimer's patient.
True, but it sounds like people will choose how their local governments will be run, which matters a lot.
I wouldn't want to be the orderly assigned to her.
If they could dedicate time to it, probably not very long? The problem is that they keep getting other things to worry about. Sure, taking the time now to work on the dimensional gates would probably pay off in a huge way later, but it would be difficult to justify it when they could be doing Endbringer prep.
