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  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    Here's a thing you have to remember about American policing The police have no legal duty to protect you. Quite the opposite in fact. Public duty doctrine - the idea that government owes duties to the public at large -...
  • Commented on Hiatus
    Well I'm going to hijack this comments thread in the name of picking the minds of regular posters. I'm re-reading "Neptune's Brood" and a scenario comes to mind. Branch 50 (and presumably branches 1-49) had to infiltrate those systems, essentially...
  • Commented on Down tools
    So did you include the discussion of spacesuit design or did that get axed?...
  • Commented on Spoiler Thread
    re: TEACUP this needs to be a thing...
  • Commented on Spoiler Thread
    It is when Bob is talking to Angleton after Mhari got put on the committee. Bob goes to complain and it comes up. They are immune to bonding with the V-symbiote, but nothing about being immune to being eaten if...
  • Commented on Spoiler Thread
    Poor Andy. I've always liked him. Not playing the office politics game, not trying to be the hero, not messing with Bob's head to teach him things... Just a guy trying to do his job to the best of his...
  • Commented on Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ...
    seems like the logical endpoint is for those executives to push for privatization and selloff of the Laundry, with them becoming the new replacement agency, similar to what PMCs have been doing with state security forces. So you'd have the...
  • Commented on Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ...
    I thought Emma MacDougal got her account "settled" by "Slug" Johnson in PIMPF, but in Rhesus Chart she's still a fairly high up person in HR, the person Oscar goes to try and play? I'd have thought that kidnapping a...
  • Commented on Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ...
    You know, when it first hit I thought about coming in here and pretending I had already read it, and comparing you to George RR Martin to antagonize the UK readers who want to know who lives. But I decided...
  • Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
    So I expect that you'll be leaving the state of their marriage a cliffhanger here so as to allow that to be part of the Character study of Mo in Armageddon Score. But will it be wrapped up there, or...
  • Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
    He gets moved to Mahogany Row 2 months after the events in Colorado Springs. The start of the book sets up the time jump, which doesn't come into play until the last epilogue...
  • Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
    Breaking from discussing this chapter, this might be relevant to future books http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.abstract "We show, via a massive (N = 689,003) experiment on Facebook, that emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the...
  • Commented on World Cup: engage Grinch mode now!
    Mr Stross So what subreddits would you say are usually worth following then? (though they are currently overrun with soccer fans) I tend to avoid the place as it seems to be a hole for the worst of the ostensibly...
  • Commented on Schroedinger's Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained
    You are rather underselling how badly Thatcher damaged Scotland in your history, I remember seeing an estimate in ~2010 when this started getting talked about more that Thatcher's policies saw the transfer of wealth from Scotland to the Tory heartland...
  • Commented on The myth of heroism
    well darn, I was hoping the marriage falling apart was related to the events of "Fuller Memorandum" and had been resolved. Now I am emotionally invested in worrying about the health of a fictional character's marriage...
  • Commented on The myth of heroism
    So does "The Armageddon Score" take place before or after "The Apocalypse Codex"?...
  • Commented on Checking in
    "stealth" in that it borrows very liberally from Rule 34, right down to the AI having a direct line to the crazy person to get them to act as a direct agent in setting things up for the "enforcement" team...
  • Commented on More Sitrep
    Will you be soliciting fan notes for printing mistakes on the Merchant Princes Special Edition anytime soon? I have powered through them the past few days and noticed a few. Minor things like Egon being both the Third and the...
  • Commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
    The singularitarian lovecraft is Peter Watts...
  • Commented on Parasites
    [ DELETED BY MODERATOR - human specialities disallowed ]...
  • Commented on On Syria
    The moral, political, and strategic calculus of the situation all demand that the US do something. The problem is then you have to come up with what that something is. There isn't an arrow in the quiver that can resolve...
  • Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
    Two points 1) Greenwald and Snowden had direct contact, this was not a wikileaks dump. While Greenwald has worked with wikileaks material before, this is a different set of reveals 2) the issue with feeding false returns is getting the...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
    Huh, and here I always thought TAC was based off the Tom Clancy structure. Good to know!...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
    Sir "* Mil-SF (it's a neurotic tic prefiguring an imperial power in decline; while we still read Rudyard Kipling today, 99.9% of his British imperialist contemporaries have gone to deserved obscurity)" I'm rather skeptical of this one. Firstly, even if...
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