Uhhhhhhhm… I was gonna say ‘my mom’s’ but then if you don’t like it that could cause some kind of incident, I suppose, sooooo… yeah! Chocolate cake it is!
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I’m a proponent for the freedom of speech. So I will not be sending people to extract you.
Are you serious? And that’s why these hypotheticals exist. Because the judicatory statutes are a mess. But I don’t really care what you do in the Republic. My point is directed towards the Federation and the lie that there is, “freedom of speech.”
But thank you for validating my point. It’s all a bunch of arbitrary nonsense.
My point exactly.
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Democracy, would it be direct or indirect is one of the lest efficient managing methods. If you are going to become a leader, why stick to such degrading and backwards methods as democracy, if you will have a power to change everything to the best? Democracy is one of the first things that shall be eradicated from the Federal life if you want to turn Federation into something humane.
Respecting such disrespectful and dishonorable piece of <censored>, that is known for public slanders and the most disgracing thing one could commit - outright treason, making you yourself not worthy of any respect.
Even if you don’t want to position yourself as a respectful State Citizen, respecting dishonored traitors like that won’t let you position yourself even as respectful human disregarding your loyatly or lack of thereof.
For shame.
Trial implies privilege of being granted option to defend yourself in front of jury.
For enemies of the State trials are possible only if the said enemy will lower the arms and surrender, then they will be treated as POWs and trials on them are possible only if they are suspected in committing of war crimes.
Other than that enemies of the State that don’t surrender don’t get a privilege of a trial and can simply be eliminated on contact for simple suspect of a crime, or without that anyway just for being within the State borders. Operations to seek and destroy enemies of the State suspected in any crime are allowed outside of State borders.
Non-citizen capsuleers in the State aren’t granted privilege of trial either and any security guard can eliminate a capsuleer if that capsuleer will be suspected in any crime on the territory of Caldari State.
AFAIK. After all, I am not a security officer myself, just a soldier.
You may not respect me, but I still respect you.
That’s one thing that can be said about you Strike Commander Kim. Your Loyalty to the State doesn’t falter.
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Diana darling, sweetie, just as the efficiency of speech is improved by the comparatively free allocation of resources among potential speakers, it turns out the comparatively free allocation of resources among potential decision makers produces similar benefits. When there is an “excessive” concentration of decision making in one decider, what ends up being efficient is… well… imagine the following thought experiment:
There is only one ultimate decision maker.
Their fleet commanders express a need for new quantum flux defibrillators in field project arrays.
The ultimate decision maker allocates 100 Billion ISK for new quantum flux defibrillators with the click of a virtual button.
This allocation comes with the natural deduction of the ultimate decision maker’s service fee, and so 70 Billion ISK is deposited at the financial institution which services the fleet. Coincidentally, an ultra super mega yacht of Gallois design docks in one of the ultimate decision maker’s secret hideaway Amarrian yacht harbors.
The financial institution’s president, who was appointed by the ultimate decision maker, supervises the placement of the money in the right account - deducting a service fee.
50 Billion ISK is allocated to the fleet’s Chief Financial Controller, who was appointed by the ultimate decision maker, and a new super mega yacht of Gallois design docks in the bank leader’s hideaway Amarrian yacht harbor.
The fleet’s Chief Financial Controller transfers 40 Billion ISK to the Chief of Fleet Maintenance Expenditures, who was appointed by the ultimate decision maker, and a new mega yacht of Gallois design docks in another harbor.
The Chief of Fleet Maintenance orders his Chief of Quantum Widgetry to purchase 30 Billion ISK worth of quantum inversion manifolds. More yachts.
The senior account executive of the Quantum Inversion Manifold Monopoly (established by the ultimate decision maker) expresses doubts the fleet really needs quantum inversion manifolds, but (under threat of being shot for slowing down execution of the ultimate decision maker’s decision) agrees to process the order.
20 Billion ISK worth of quantum inversion manifolds are produced, along with yet more yachts.
The Chief of Fleet Maintenance Docks receives a shipment of quantum inversion manifolds, half of which are actually used relativistic converters that fell off a Thukker transport ship. The other half of the quantum inversion manifolds are traded to Sedevacantists for exotic dancers. The Sedevacantists use the quantum inversion manifolds to build what they believe to be divinely powered tactical nuclear weapons.
More yachts appear in more harbors.
Each step of the process has been made with great expediency, and 5 Billion ISK worth of the wrong parts are installed in the fleet’s ships. The fleet breaks down in a muddy field halfway to Okkelen, where Guristas blow them up with faction rockets acquired from a quartermaster who, though typically loyal, has a bad porn addiction.
The yacht manufacturer has a blowout New Year’s party, as do several yacht harbors.
Every system has its problems, darling.
But none of that really matters. Because have you noticed that four nations with dramatically different systems of decision making all nevertheless arrive at every new innovation at exactly the same time? Every economist who has ever existed, living or dead, would expect at least some variation in the speed with which products were not only developed, but also adopted, based upon cultural differences.
Yet reality shows us that is not the case.
The proverbial “something” is proverbially going on, and as President, I will get to the bottom of it.
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A) They don’t. For example, the Amarr were the first to produce Tactical Destroyers. Restoring parity usually takes the better part of a year after such innovations. The reverse-engineered T2 Triglavian hulls were also unveiled one empire at a time, for that matter.
B) To the extent that they do retain parity, what ‘is going on’ is kind of obvious: Yulai. Part of the treaties that created CONCORD include a requirement for sharing technological advances. They’re legally obligated to do so, and thus far, they have. So, congratulations ‘President’, you have now gotten to the bottom of a totally legal and completely above-board shadowy conspiracy that absolutely nobody is hiding from the public.
You’ve reminded me that two things are constant no matter how much time passes: I will always know where Diana darling stands, and you will always be a dipshit. For a single large organization to change lightbulbs in a year would be instantaneous, let alone for three interstellar nations to deploy lightbulbs, cybernetic ground pounders, new warships, or whatever within a similar timeframe. That would be true even if they all derived from the same culture. Dipshit.
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Right, because developing things quickly through research sharing is totally impossible. It’s not like all four empires weren’t coordinating the development of Force Auxiliaries together after the Drifter assault on Jamyl Sarum. And it’s not like CONCORD basically requires them to not roll crap out until there’s a rough concensus on ‘yes, we’re all basically at the point of release’. Oh, wait, those things are demonstrably true.
I mean, hell, it takes all of 24h to assemble a structure over 150km x 150km x 150km. I think maybe production technology’s up to a quick roll-out of new ships.
It’s true. It takes me about 48 hours to change a light bulb.
Gotta contact the land lord, give an explanation as to the problem, and then they have to dispatch someone to come to my place. And then they usually have the wrong bulb so they have to go to Fed-Depot to get the right one. Then they have to come back and install it, which is usually a joke and I have to remind the technician that “righty tighties, and lefties loosy”
Where as I can tip a hopper full of garbage into an industrial thingy-mah-jig, press a button on my terminal screen for “which ship?” And boom, about 15 minutes later a fully functional Merlin is pooped out of the machine! It’s fantastic!
I was not familiar with “righties tighties lefties loosies” darling! That explains everything!
Well, that is harder than building spacehips.
I think it’s funny that capsuleer centric industrialist think that what they do is hard, or something.
But nope. Literally, tip trash into a hopper, select your product (so long as you have a license for it) and baddabing-baddaboom!
You built a capsuleer thingy!
Which is really nice, because if it was more complicated than that, my poor little toddler brain wouldn’t handle it.
Wait…
Why is it so easy? I need a blueberry smoothie and think about this.
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Speaking of blueberry smoothies, I wonder if the space cuttlefish know about righty tighty lefty loosy. It’s little things like that which give away otherwise impenetrable disguises.
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If you had some friends and knew what a friendship is, you wouldn’t be so toxic.
For the sake of the cluster, I hope they do not. Can you imagine what they could do with such powerful knowledge?
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Great SOCT, darling, you’re right! They could loosen every bolt that’s been bolted. I wonder what kind of torque a face tentacle generates…
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Lovely, I fear face tenticles would have ways of making you torque…
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Oh behave, darling! These are monstrosities we’re talking about! Or, more accurately, abominations…
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