M Fnord wrote:
Subject: Re: [smof-politics] Thought for solving two housing crises, but is the cost too high?
From: Jeph Antilles (lordandmaster@jmc.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/12 01:31
To: undisclosed-recipients
>> But do the cis-Jovians have a stake in this? Is it at all fair to ask
>> people who don't live anywhere near Mars to pay for something that's
>> only going to benefit Port Lowell?
>Maybe you missed it upthread, but Jeph Antilles offered the use of his
>Blue Midget fleet for transportation; that's one of the major cisjovian
firms
>right there pitching in. We do these things because we ought to,
doing right
>by all people regardless of having a stake in the outcome.
That's the whole
>point of the Convention, of Great Justice, of the
Patrol, hell, even the
>astroball league.
I do know that Serenity Valley could use a few 'prefabbed' structures to go under the upcoming domes the next couple of years themselves. Right now, the locals are pricing options for bringing in, of all things, _mobile homes_ to put under the domes. Granted, with a coat of 'wave for each, they'll be pretty resilient in and of themselves, but if better could be brought in when the time's right, so much the better.
JMC has the operating capital to do this one for cost, believe me. Besides, if it raises the standard of living out here, and makes it look better in the bargain? This isn't about profit, I'm thinking it's more a point of pride.![[Image: banana-dance.gif]](http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/forumimportfiles//banana-dance.gif)
>This brings up a point we should consider; in going into this
house-
>transplanting project perhaps we should deal with the Irish
government
>as *the Convention.* In this way we're *not* acting as a
bunch of
>investors put together by billionaire Noah Scott as one of his
wacky
>schemes; instead we're representatives of the Fenspace
national/metanational
>government dealing with another sovereign nation.
It adds that much more
>legitimacy to our operations if we do it under
the banner of the Convention
>than under the Stellvia Corporation flag.
It would certainly put a more humanitarian face on things. At the very least, people are only slightly less cynical about a government body getting into charitable potential over a _corporation_. Not that they _won't_ be cynical about our motives, but it's less easy to just point to cash flows that way. And we can show the Danes that we are, indeed, actually a party that should be _respected_, if not liked.
--
"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor
Subject: Re: [smof-politics] Thought for solving two housing crises, but is the cost too high?
From: Jeph Antilles (lordandmaster@jmc.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/12 01:31
To: undisclosed-recipients
>> But do the cis-Jovians have a stake in this? Is it at all fair to ask
>> people who don't live anywhere near Mars to pay for something that's
>> only going to benefit Port Lowell?
>Maybe you missed it upthread, but Jeph Antilles offered the use of his
>Blue Midget fleet for transportation; that's one of the major cisjovian
firms
>right there pitching in. We do these things because we ought to,
doing right
>by all people regardless of having a stake in the outcome.
That's the whole
>point of the Convention, of Great Justice, of the
Patrol, hell, even the
>astroball league.
I do know that Serenity Valley could use a few 'prefabbed' structures to go under the upcoming domes the next couple of years themselves. Right now, the locals are pricing options for bringing in, of all things, _mobile homes_ to put under the domes. Granted, with a coat of 'wave for each, they'll be pretty resilient in and of themselves, but if better could be brought in when the time's right, so much the better.
JMC has the operating capital to do this one for cost, believe me. Besides, if it raises the standard of living out here, and makes it look better in the bargain? This isn't about profit, I'm thinking it's more a point of pride.
>This brings up a point we should consider; in going into this
house-
>transplanting project perhaps we should deal with the Irish
government
>as *the Convention.* In this way we're *not* acting as a
bunch of
>investors put together by billionaire Noah Scott as one of his
wacky
>schemes; instead we're representatives of the Fenspace
national/metanational
>government dealing with another sovereign nation.
It adds that much more
>legitimacy to our operations if we do it under
the banner of the Convention
>than under the Stellvia Corporation flag.
It would certainly put a more humanitarian face on things. At the very least, people are only slightly less cynical about a government body getting into charitable potential over a _corporation_. Not that they _won't_ be cynical about our motives, but it's less easy to just point to cash flows that way. And we can show the Danes that we are, indeed, actually a party that should be _respected_, if not liked.
--
"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor