The outcome for saying something inappropriate would also be a little worse than being banished to ConHome! (View Post)

The 'one rule for them, one for us' is the same all over. Angus Lapsley - who left files about UK and US special forces in Afghanistan at a bus stop - was made ambassador to NATO. (View Post)

GMT or EST? (View Post)

Any off world colony is going to resemble the PRC or (even North Korea!) far more than the Western Democracies - at least for the first few generations. The fragile, incredibly resource constrained e… (View Post)

That possibly depends on if your talking about group sex Heinlein or service-guarantees-citizenship Heinlein. (View Post)