Subject: Re: [smof-politics] Thought for solving two housing crises, but is the cost too high?
From: "Gen. Mal Fnord, VVS" (fnord@sovietairforce.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/11 23:15
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.
Or at least that's how I was taught, and Mom, Dad, Upton Sinclair & Superman haven't steered me wrong yet.
--Mal
Subject: Addendum to my last msg (Was: Re: [smof-politics] Thought for solving two housing crises, but is the cost too high?)
From: "Gen. Mal Fnord, VVS" (fnord@sovietairforce.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/11 23:15
To: undisclosed-recipients
> That's the whole point of the Convention, of Great Justice, of the Patrol, hell, even the astroball league.
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.
--Mal
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
From: "Gen. Mal Fnord, VVS" (fnord@sovietairforce.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/11 23:15
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.
Or at least that's how I was taught, and Mom, Dad, Upton Sinclair & Superman haven't steered me wrong yet.
--Mal
Subject: Addendum to my last msg (Was: Re: [smof-politics] Thought for solving two housing crises, but is the cost too high?)
From: "Gen. Mal Fnord, VVS" (fnord@sovietairforce.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/11 23:15
To: undisclosed-recipients
> That's the whole point of the Convention, of Great Justice, of the Patrol, hell, even the astroball league.
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.
--Mal
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"