> On Apr 19, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Paraphrased from memory: "I've never seen anybody actually *use* those f***ink monstrosities, as there's maybe two or three trucks out there that run on it. But the Feds says it's the comin' thing, so everybody has to put one in or get fined. Just another reason I'm a Libertarian."

Sez the guy whose profession pretty much only exists because of the (Federally funded, Federally mandated, and supported with both federal and sate subsidies) Interstate system. (Those gas taxes you all complain about don’t begin to cover maintenance and expansion costs for the system)

ROFL.

And the REASON the feds have that rule?

Lobbying by the flush-with-cash oil extraction industry which has been fracking gas out of the ground in gargantuan quantities, thanks to Federal laws regarding mining and other resource extraction, making extracting resources from public lands extraordinarily cheap and profitable. So they have a LOT of natural gas to sell.

The Mining Act of 1876 means that 'We the people' pretty much give ‘They the profiteers’ the stuff they take out of the ground for free, plus they get to declare bankruptcy when they’re done and leave it to 'We the people'  to clean up the mess they leave behind.

It is to Nelson Laugh. Bitterly bitterly Nelson Laugh.

oBTrav, since the entire economic system of the OTU is pretty much based on this model (fer gawdsakes the ONLY thing covered by ‘law level’ is just how big of a gun you can carry in public) I’d expect it to translate right on over, so there are probably a crapton of worlds that are essentially mined-out toxic dumps. After all when corporations can have military divisions, the concept of rule of law was gone a long long time ago; Ol’ Cleon 1 built his empire on economic warfare and genocide, and the 3I took it’s cue from that. This is what ‘Rule of Man’ entails.

The member worlds have nominal autonomy, but since the 3I controls the ‘space between the worlds’ any place that gets out of line can be Shock Doctrine’d into submission tout suite.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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