Recent content by Vetrom

That screenplay totally needs to be written, maybe on a backdrop reminiscient of a deconstructed 'Smiley's People'

Uhh. Am I getting whooshed here? I am not sure. In case I'm not, in this case the jobs even fail to materialize, making it a net loss even for corrupt as fuck municipalities. Thinking about the problem and boning up on some reading, this is my third rewrite of an answer to this. It's not a...

Big Sans energy right there, "never understood why people don't use their best attack first."

I'm sure all the enlightened designers of these 15 mimute cities will do a wonderful job of keeping freedom of association and self-determination in mind (i think thats where i lump freedom of travel?) Anyways, im pressing X to doubt.

The examples im thinking of arent 'low taxes', its cases where some cities have ended up with a multi-decade history of giving business sweetheart deals that don't pan out in any of business income/property taxes, jobs gained (thus more income and investment in the city) or even population base...

Not sure even defaults would help when so many municipalities are still in love with giving corporations and land developers sweetheart tax deals and even payments in the hopes that they set up shop. on a financial scale, thats done even more damage over thr decades than any amount of migrant...

No Princess Leia?

Lila 1 reports the Wraith camp has been scouted but there are stragglers.

It's a bit of a hot take, but im cool with government mandated safety training *if and only if* said training and at least an initial round of testing is provided to all comers, at government expense If it's 'too expensive', that means maybe the government is demanding too much. We regulate...

When we hit the magical mecha samurai girls I honestly thought we left the ports of hard fiction behind.

Those bolt action rifles have to come in useful sometime. I'll throw in a endorsement for the Chinese development aid. We could even give them broad spectrum designated marksmen training. Everybodys hard until they see a Sturmtiger powerslide around a corner and pop off that mortar danger close!

Grapeshot/Flechette RPGs when? Sounds like something Gallia needs.

Bullpups are more useful in certain specific situations. However, the tradeoffs they make to reduce overall length tend to be a net negative in generalist use. I would specifically call out: Longer trigger linkage complicating design, maintenance, and longevity. Technologically, soultions (say...

Is there a written treatment you could recommend about those reasons for which the ninth circuit was never split? I imagine there's political factors in the supreme court itself as well as the states (each justice oversees one of the circuits. Do they also allocate them?)

Its almost as if some psychotic designers are taking Magnasanti and Koyaanisqatsi as blueprints, not warning signs.