From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:00:40 -0500
Subject: Pirates, USCG and concealed turrets and Reds under the Beds
1) Pirates and USCG Magic, when does an anti-piracy op change from CG control to Navy? What is the distinction? Jurisdiction? Severity? Who sees it? What? 2) Concealed turrets. I'd suggest you price the weapon as one size class larger. In this case, I'd suggest the weapon is an APSW (DS2 really needs a heavy APSW too...). So instead of taking 1 cap point, I'd say 2. If you mount an RFAC/1, I'd say 6. 3) Reds under the Beds Alan's story of the Tolkien Society (subversive movement if ever there was, probably inspired by all that Sindarin drivel and lead by someone with pretension of having long ears, a long life and a sharp tongue like Elrond *wink*) made me reflect to a model parliament we ran when I was in HS. It was in Alberta (the rest follows from that) and so we had the NDP (small but vocal faction with a lot of bright radicals), the Liberals (small but not so bright faction), the conservatives (mid sized faction, staid) and the ultra-conservatives (fairly large, quite active with policies like offering the US Quebec as a Cruise Missile test area). It was funny because at one point, NDP activists brought in "H20 SMGs" and mowed down the PM and a pile of the cabinet in a hail of "gunfire" (not quite the right term for water is it?). It was fun and everyone got a good feel for democratic process, including the dictatorship of the majority component.... now what was even funnier was seeing what had happened to some of the intellectual elite (okay, or so it seemed at the time) 10 years later at our HS reunion.... some just hadn't gone too far (or had gone quite a ways in a disreputable direction....). And yeah, wankers end up in politics. Smart people mostly avoid it like the plague unless they have a martyr complex. Tomb.