DougMerrill

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• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  Hugo Administrator in 2019 was Nicholas Whyte, who is Glasgow's WSFS Division Head. Hugo Administrator in 2014 was ... Dave McCarty....
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  Good to know! "the main coordinators are paid and they work year round: the moment one Pyrkon ends, they start on preparing the next one." Also good to know! "but the main people are paid and everything is done by...
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  Poznan, for example, puts on an annual volunteer-run convention that's roughly ten times the size of contemporary Worldcons. I've recently learned of Comiket in Japan, which is fan-run, twice annually, and has attendance in the range of half a...
• Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  Argh. I had intended for "There will be no renegotiation." to be emphasized....
• Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  A number of comments above have suggested that the UK can avoid starting the Article 50 process, or that a way can be finessed so that Leave does not actually mean leave. In addition to statements by current PM Cameron,...
• Commented on The unspeakable truth
  "D.C. is very deliberately not a state, and was carved out of two other states which voluntarily gave up land to form a federal governing district that is Constitutionally mandated to be controlled by Congress." The US Constitution (Article I,...
• Commented on The unspeakable truth
  How quickly could another Scottish referendum follow Brexit? I would expect that to zip right to the top of the agenda in Holyrood. Given that Scotland would have accepted all of the acquis, I also think that EU accession could...
• Commented on Not a Manifesto
  Have you read "The Prince of Gosplan" by Viktor Pelevin? It's a day at Gosplan, reimagined as an Infocomm text adventure game. Unless it's vice versa....