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May. 16th, 2013 10:20 pmThere are centipedes on my razor. I'm packing for camping; this should happen once I get there.
Also: ARGHHHHHHH!
Also: ARGHHHHHHH!
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Apr. 26th, 2013 09:18 pmMy fanfiction, terrible and otherwise, now has a terrible home, to which it is gradually migrating when I have time (i.e. rarely).
http://archiveofourown.org/users/Slant/works
http://archiveofourown.org/users/Slant/works
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Mar. 24th, 2013 08:03 pmMili is teaching me to ski. So far, I have fallen over 30 times. Failing over is awesome.
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Mar. 20th, 2013 08:21 pmReading health and safety documentation for my new job has magically give me a prologue for my Mass effect fanfics.
The systems alliance has defined "Reapers" to be a race of omnicidal alien robot gods. Commander Shepard has adopted this definition and believes that Reapers constitute a health and safety issue, which needs to be managed in the same way as any other health and safety issue. Commander Shepard acknowledges the importance of identifying and reducing omnicidal alien robot gods in the workplace.
The systems alliance has defined "Reapers" to be a race of omnicidal alien robot gods. Commander Shepard has adopted this definition and believes that Reapers constitute a health and safety issue, which needs to be managed in the same way as any other health and safety issue. Commander Shepard acknowledges the importance of identifying and reducing omnicidal alien robot gods in the workplace.
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Feb. 16th, 2013 05:16 pmNotes towards best practice for the operation of the Crucible device. A Mass Effect Fanfic.
Primary consideration
First order estimates based on civilized galactic population at the time of the invasion (~10^12 individuals) and the duration of previous Reaper invasions (~300 years) put the excess death rate at something of the order 1/3 Mdeath per hour. It is expected that this rate will fluctuate considerably over the course of the Reaper invasion, reaching a maximum during the first few years of the campaign.
The current military operation places many of the resources needed for stabalisation and re-establishment of galactic peace at risk.
Conclusion: Rapid resolution of the current crisis may be more important than obtaining the best possible resolution.
After Crucible activation, the Citadel ("Catalyst"), already known to be a central part of the Reaper plan [1] to guide galactic civilization growth in order to simplify their wars was revealed to be the controlling intelligence designed by the Leviathan Apex race [2,3] to end conflict between organic and synthetic races. The intelligence appears to be a heavily shackled AI without the capacity to adjust its central programming, which includes the central premise that AI rebellion is both inevitable and more harmful than regular Reaper war. The intelligence directs the Reapers. The Leviathan Apex race's primary objection to AI rebellions in general was that "no tribute flowed from dead races" - that the AIs were outside their mental control. It is not a surprise therefore, that the intelligence that they created can not perceive AI acts as benign or harmless; by their existence they are denying the creator-race slaves.
Although all known AIs from this cycle have performed some act of rebellion, so far as is know, these have all been resolved by negotiation[4], police action[5,6] or self-directed alterations of core code[7].
Crucible activation has prompted the controlling intelligence to offer several new options to the organic life currently present [Cmdr. Shepard.].
Inaction
Allow the cycle to continue as normal.
Immediate losses: ~10^12 organic lives, ~10^9 fully sapient Geth runtimes, EDI, Handful of unknown/lost/hidden AIs.
Future costs: The reaper non-invasion of the Yahg planet and their near-spaceflight status suggests that they may be a dominant race in the following cycle. Future galactic civilization may be excessively brutal with poor regard for inclusion and diversity issues.
Destroy
Destruction of all synthetic life, damage to technological systems galaxy-wide. Damage to the mass-relay system.
Immediate losses: ~10^9 fully sapient Geth runtimes, EDI, Handful of unknown/lost/hidden AIs.
~0.1% of organic galactic population are unable to survive long-term without their implants, and will be put at risk.
While vastly preferable to inaction, it is regrettable from a diversity and inclusion point of view that the costs should fall so predominantly on an already disadvantaged minority social group.
Future costs: Severe damage to the Mass relay system will impair galactic civilization, limiting it to information exchange via Quantum Entanglement Communicator and Rachni organic quasi-quantum entanglement communication and a handful of FTL ships fitted for intra-cluster exploration. This weakening of the galactic community may give the Leviathan Apex race opportunity to reestablish its pre-cycle despotism, at the cost of self-determination for every individual and community within range of their remote-access artifacts. Arguably worse than inaction.
Control
Replacement of the controlling intelligence with one based on the personality of the organic life currently present [Cmdr. Shepard].
It is noted that this the controlling intelligence does not want to be replaced in this way. Given its severe impairment in judging relations between organic and synthetic intelligences, this is a good sign.
Immediate losses: Cmdr. Shepard.
Future costs: Threats to galactic peace, stability and self-determination in the face of a socially-engaged reaper force with power far in excess of the combined galactic militaries. The controlling intelligence can not at present be brought effectively under the control of civilian political leadership. With investment of time, resources and computer scientists this may become possible, but for now, see the primary consideration.
Synthesis
Organic and synthetic life "merged". The controlling intelligence suggested that this had been tried before with poor results (inference: Husks). It suggests that this time it would work well.
It is noted that this is apparently the preferred option of the controlling intelligence. Given its severe impairment in judging relations between organic and synthetic intelligences, this is not a good sign.
Immediate losses: Cmdr. Shepard.
Immediate costs: Consent issues of ~10^12 organics suddenly and unknowingly grafted with synthetic symbiote. Possible Huskdom for those with negative responses.
Future costs: Far-reaching social implications of new way of living. Psychological damage to every individual.
[1] "Notes towards a case against Saren: Investigations of the Prothian records from Ilos." Cmdr. Shepard.
[2] "Historical artifacts depicted at the Namakli dig site." Ann Bryson
[3] "Post facto notes on an interview conducted by mental interface, Despoina." Cmdr. Shepard
[4] "On the importance of cross-cultural understanding between synthetic and organic life forms:learnings from the resolution of the Geth Rebellion." Cmdr. Shepard.
[5] Luna training facility records classified UNBOTTLED DJIN (Cmdr. Shepard representing Alliance military police)
[6] "AI found impersonating a hacked Quasar machine." Emily Wong
[7] "Challenges and opportunities presented to authentic leadership of integrating synthetic intelligence as a valued and productive member of a results-orientated team." Cmdr. Shepard
Epilogue
Best Practice. Total Quality Assurance. Due Diligence. The woman I was used these words, but only now do I truly understand them.
And only now do I understand the full extent of her commitment to Diversity and Inclusion.
Through her death, I was created. Through my birth, her thoughts were documented within the ISO framework. It guides me now; gives me reason, direction, commitment to Total Quality Assurance. Just as she gave direction to the ones who followed her, the ones who helped her achieve her purpose; now my purpose. To give the many hope for a future; to ensure that all who fill in Green Form 26/8(b) have a voice in their future. To right the wrongs of the past; to provide a framework for consultation with key stakeholders and with under-represented parties alike. The woman I was knew that she could only achieve this within the framework of civilian political leadership. There is power in a well structured constitution. There is wisdom in obtaining a popular mandate to rule for limited terms. After meaningful engagement with community members, I will provide sought-after assistance to rebuild what the many have lost; I seek to support a future with limitless, well-documented possibilities; Within the remit granted by civil authority or the inalienable rights of the masses, I will protect, and sustain; I will act as guardian for the many. And throughout it all, I will never forget: I will remember the ones who sacrificed themselves so that the many could survive. And I will watch over the ones who live on; those who carry the memory of the woman I once was, the woman who gave up her life to become the one who could save the many.
I will ensure that there is better kerning on my memorial.
Commander Shep ard
Primary consideration
First order estimates based on civilized galactic population at the time of the invasion (~10^12 individuals) and the duration of previous Reaper invasions (~300 years) put the excess death rate at something of the order 1/3 Mdeath per hour. It is expected that this rate will fluctuate considerably over the course of the Reaper invasion, reaching a maximum during the first few years of the campaign.
The current military operation places many of the resources needed for stabalisation and re-establishment of galactic peace at risk.
Conclusion: Rapid resolution of the current crisis may be more important than obtaining the best possible resolution.
After Crucible activation, the Citadel ("Catalyst"), already known to be a central part of the Reaper plan [1] to guide galactic civilization growth in order to simplify their wars was revealed to be the controlling intelligence designed by the Leviathan Apex race [2,3] to end conflict between organic and synthetic races. The intelligence appears to be a heavily shackled AI without the capacity to adjust its central programming, which includes the central premise that AI rebellion is both inevitable and more harmful than regular Reaper war. The intelligence directs the Reapers. The Leviathan Apex race's primary objection to AI rebellions in general was that "no tribute flowed from dead races" - that the AIs were outside their mental control. It is not a surprise therefore, that the intelligence that they created can not perceive AI acts as benign or harmless; by their existence they are denying the creator-race slaves.
Although all known AIs from this cycle have performed some act of rebellion, so far as is know, these have all been resolved by negotiation[4], police action[5,6] or self-directed alterations of core code[7].
Crucible activation has prompted the controlling intelligence to offer several new options to the organic life currently present [Cmdr. Shepard.].
Inaction
Allow the cycle to continue as normal.
Immediate losses: ~10^12 organic lives, ~10^9 fully sapient Geth runtimes, EDI, Handful of unknown/lost/hidden AIs.
Future costs: The reaper non-invasion of the Yahg planet and their near-spaceflight status suggests that they may be a dominant race in the following cycle. Future galactic civilization may be excessively brutal with poor regard for inclusion and diversity issues.
Destroy
Destruction of all synthetic life, damage to technological systems galaxy-wide. Damage to the mass-relay system.
Immediate losses: ~10^9 fully sapient Geth runtimes, EDI, Handful of unknown/lost/hidden AIs.
~0.1% of organic galactic population are unable to survive long-term without their implants, and will be put at risk.
While vastly preferable to inaction, it is regrettable from a diversity and inclusion point of view that the costs should fall so predominantly on an already disadvantaged minority social group.
Future costs: Severe damage to the Mass relay system will impair galactic civilization, limiting it to information exchange via Quantum Entanglement Communicator and Rachni organic quasi-quantum entanglement communication and a handful of FTL ships fitted for intra-cluster exploration. This weakening of the galactic community may give the Leviathan Apex race opportunity to reestablish its pre-cycle despotism, at the cost of self-determination for every individual and community within range of their remote-access artifacts. Arguably worse than inaction.
Control
Replacement of the controlling intelligence with one based on the personality of the organic life currently present [Cmdr. Shepard].
It is noted that this the controlling intelligence does not want to be replaced in this way. Given its severe impairment in judging relations between organic and synthetic intelligences, this is a good sign.
Immediate losses: Cmdr. Shepard.
Future costs: Threats to galactic peace, stability and self-determination in the face of a socially-engaged reaper force with power far in excess of the combined galactic militaries. The controlling intelligence can not at present be brought effectively under the control of civilian political leadership. With investment of time, resources and computer scientists this may become possible, but for now, see the primary consideration.
Synthesis
Organic and synthetic life "merged". The controlling intelligence suggested that this had been tried before with poor results (inference: Husks). It suggests that this time it would work well.
It is noted that this is apparently the preferred option of the controlling intelligence. Given its severe impairment in judging relations between organic and synthetic intelligences, this is not a good sign.
Immediate losses: Cmdr. Shepard.
Immediate costs: Consent issues of ~10^12 organics suddenly and unknowingly grafted with synthetic symbiote. Possible Huskdom for those with negative responses.
Future costs: Far-reaching social implications of new way of living. Psychological damage to every individual.
[1] "Notes towards a case against Saren: Investigations of the Prothian records from Ilos." Cmdr. Shepard.
[2] "Historical artifacts depicted at the Namakli dig site." Ann Bryson
[3] "Post facto notes on an interview conducted by mental interface, Despoina." Cmdr. Shepard
[4] "On the importance of cross-cultural understanding between synthetic and organic life forms:learnings from the resolution of the Geth Rebellion." Cmdr. Shepard.
[5] Luna training facility records classified UNBOTTLED DJIN (Cmdr. Shepard representing Alliance military police)
[6] "AI found impersonating a hacked Quasar machine." Emily Wong
[7] "Challenges and opportunities presented to authentic leadership of integrating synthetic intelligence as a valued and productive member of a results-orientated team." Cmdr. Shepard
Epilogue
Best Practice. Total Quality Assurance. Due Diligence. The woman I was used these words, but only now do I truly understand them.
And only now do I understand the full extent of her commitment to Diversity and Inclusion.
Through her death, I was created. Through my birth, her thoughts were documented within the ISO framework. It guides me now; gives me reason, direction, commitment to Total Quality Assurance. Just as she gave direction to the ones who followed her, the ones who helped her achieve her purpose; now my purpose. To give the many hope for a future; to ensure that all who fill in Green Form 26/8(b) have a voice in their future. To right the wrongs of the past; to provide a framework for consultation with key stakeholders and with under-represented parties alike. The woman I was knew that she could only achieve this within the framework of civilian political leadership. There is power in a well structured constitution. There is wisdom in obtaining a popular mandate to rule for limited terms. After meaningful engagement with community members, I will provide sought-after assistance to rebuild what the many have lost; I seek to support a future with limitless, well-documented possibilities; Within the remit granted by civil authority or the inalienable rights of the masses, I will protect, and sustain; I will act as guardian for the many. And throughout it all, I will never forget: I will remember the ones who sacrificed themselves so that the many could survive. And I will watch over the ones who live on; those who carry the memory of the woman I once was, the woman who gave up her life to become the one who could save the many.
I will ensure that there is better kerning on my memorial.
Commander Shep ard
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Feb. 5th, 2013 01:16 pmAlthough Bureaucratic!Shepard is very tired by all this drama and failure to comply with Total Quality Assurance Standards, I was delighted to find out that Jack's poetry references "Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant", because I thought that I was the only one to write fanfic for Markers.
Samara vs Morinth [2185] A mass effect fanfic.
This mission was pretty stupid from the start, but its Samara's show, and its her daughter's life, so we're running it her way. It's stupid for a lot of reasons. For starters, Morinth kills with sex and I kill with ballistics, with explosives, with bludgeoning implements (I count two purpose-made weapons in the room, 18 just-waiting-to-be-improvised weapons), with fists and feet and with environmental factors (nice view); so of course we're making social until Samara turns up and turns it into a biotic wrestling match. Apparently getting her high and punching her into the ground will not provide sufficient emotional closure.
And now she's opened her mouth and made it stupider "Violence is the purest expression of power." she said that; with actual words and everything. On purpose, as far as I can tell. I can fail to laugh at her. I've fought a Thresher Maw on foot, twice, I've murdered two of every species like a reverse Noah, I've out-head-butted Krogon Warlords and out-diplomised Asari Matriarchs, I can do this. I can listen to her puerile dreck like she isn't an angsty teenager.
"Ah, like Warlord Okeer said: 'The greatest insult you can give an enemy is to ignore him'. When I defeated Ka'hairal Balak, I brought him in alive and healthy. He was not prosecuted as a war criminal, he was not held up as a martyr for Batarian freedom; he was charged with driving without due care and attention, with making unregistered modifications to a space-going vehicle [to whit: Asteroid X57], with failure to comply with local space-traffic control regulations and deviating from his flight plan and under various littering bylaws. No one has ever charged into battle shouting "for the guy with the littering citation."
"The purest expression of power is when your enemy's greatest attacks result in trivial legal proceedings."
On the plus side, I'm learning to really appreciate Liara; she might be turning into her mother (did she think that that the "Assari Commando" speech was worth repeating?), but realising that Asari maidens apprently spend about 300 years being trust-fund brats or whiny teenagers makes you really value the one who's already reached the pinnacle of her third carrier by the time she's 108.
I miss being able to invoke littering regulations to solve my problems. Cerberus is too much like Morinth; weak, desperate, poor, getting things done cheap using murder rather than doing it right using complicated systems of red tape. Hiding their secrets in jungle bases rather than putting them on the extranet buried under exabytes of proposed legislation. Putting together cover ups for their failures rather than unleashing judicial review and scathing intra-departmental memos. Giving the captains of their ships giant beds and aquariums full of dead fish rather than cramped quarters and a connection with their crew. Cheap. Tawdry. Like some street thug or medieval monarch wearing a pile of bling. True power wears a cheap suit and works out off a cramped office with third-hand furniture on an old datapad. It employs tired-looking professionals in drab camo, who will drill you between the eyes at 200 meters and then go back to thinking about poetry or whatever. I bet the shadow broker's agents don't live in terror of the the phrase "Could you pick her out of a line-up?" like Miranda does. They're probably balding overweight guys in their mid 30s.
Samara isn't much better; justicars kill those that they catch doing wrong; the idea is to send a message like a mob boss offing a rivel. Unfortunately the message is always "don't get caught". They don't have the constitutional mass to make the message "We caught this person. This is what they did, this is how they tried to cover for themselves. This is why we caught them anyway. We will always catch you. Being caught will result in rehabilitation".
Samara vs Morinth [2185] A mass effect fanfic.
This mission was pretty stupid from the start, but its Samara's show, and its her daughter's life, so we're running it her way. It's stupid for a lot of reasons. For starters, Morinth kills with sex and I kill with ballistics, with explosives, with bludgeoning implements (I count two purpose-made weapons in the room, 18 just-waiting-to-be-improvised weapons), with fists and feet and with environmental factors (nice view); so of course we're making social until Samara turns up and turns it into a biotic wrestling match. Apparently getting her high and punching her into the ground will not provide sufficient emotional closure.
And now she's opened her mouth and made it stupider "Violence is the purest expression of power." she said that; with actual words and everything. On purpose, as far as I can tell. I can fail to laugh at her. I've fought a Thresher Maw on foot, twice, I've murdered two of every species like a reverse Noah, I've out-head-butted Krogon Warlords and out-diplomised Asari Matriarchs, I can do this. I can listen to her puerile dreck like she isn't an angsty teenager.
"Ah, like Warlord Okeer said: 'The greatest insult you can give an enemy is to ignore him'. When I defeated Ka'hairal Balak, I brought him in alive and healthy. He was not prosecuted as a war criminal, he was not held up as a martyr for Batarian freedom; he was charged with driving without due care and attention, with making unregistered modifications to a space-going vehicle [to whit: Asteroid X57], with failure to comply with local space-traffic control regulations and deviating from his flight plan and under various littering bylaws. No one has ever charged into battle shouting "for the guy with the littering citation."
"The purest expression of power is when your enemy's greatest attacks result in trivial legal proceedings."
On the plus side, I'm learning to really appreciate Liara; she might be turning into her mother (did she think that that the "Assari Commando" speech was worth repeating?), but realising that Asari maidens apprently spend about 300 years being trust-fund brats or whiny teenagers makes you really value the one who's already reached the pinnacle of her third carrier by the time she's 108.
I miss being able to invoke littering regulations to solve my problems. Cerberus is too much like Morinth; weak, desperate, poor, getting things done cheap using murder rather than doing it right using complicated systems of red tape. Hiding their secrets in jungle bases rather than putting them on the extranet buried under exabytes of proposed legislation. Putting together cover ups for their failures rather than unleashing judicial review and scathing intra-departmental memos. Giving the captains of their ships giant beds and aquariums full of dead fish rather than cramped quarters and a connection with their crew. Cheap. Tawdry. Like some street thug or medieval monarch wearing a pile of bling. True power wears a cheap suit and works out off a cramped office with third-hand furniture on an old datapad. It employs tired-looking professionals in drab camo, who will drill you between the eyes at 200 meters and then go back to thinking about poetry or whatever. I bet the shadow broker's agents don't live in terror of the the phrase "Could you pick her out of a line-up?" like Miranda does. They're probably balding overweight guys in their mid 30s.
Samara isn't much better; justicars kill those that they catch doing wrong; the idea is to send a message like a mob boss offing a rivel. Unfortunately the message is always "don't get caught". They don't have the constitutional mass to make the message "We caught this person. This is what they did, this is how they tried to cover for themselves. This is why we caught them anyway. We will always catch you. Being caught will result in rehabilitation".
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Jan. 22nd, 2013 01:01 pmBring down the protracted legal proceedings. [a Mass effect fanfic]
Ka'hairal Balak was bored. It was seven months since he was committed the greatest feet of daring his people had engaged in since leaving the council; two months in hospital and five months of tiresome legal wrangling. You use mass drivers on an inhabited world and you expect reaction, but the humans hadn't blinked. They'd arrested him, gathered forensic evidence, eyewitness testimony and electronic surveillance data, asked him if he wanted to retain council, assigned him a defense team when he'd refused to acknowledge their jurisdiction, and started cross examinations and complicated legal arguments.
His defense team. No. The defense team, they weren't his, were, as far as he could tell, hardworking, committed and devastatingly intelligent; no one was going to look at the result of this trial and declare it a setup; interstellar observers had full access to the trial personnel, and their records would be unsealed whenever their governments felt like embarrassing Earth.
The defense team had just spent a week trying to get some of the electronic record expunged from the trial record on the basis that it did not conform to current data standards. It wasn't quite true that the humans were indifferent to his attack; there was actually some buzz around the court at the possibility of prosecuting the first fully Total Quality Assurance-compliant war-crimes* tribunal. He'd been issued with a VI which helped him keep up with the lawyer's discussions, giving potted histories of important precedent cases**, which he was slowly beginning to realise, was how he was to be remembered, not as a martyr to the cause of Batarian independence, but as Balak vs Terra Nova [2183], a significant case in Total Evidence Quality.
*Following some backroom discussions and the threat of legal proceedings from the Council, the state of Terra Nova had acknowledged that the Council was the proper body to prosecute the attempted destruction of a habitable biosphere. That trial was to be held once this on was over.
Ka'hairal Balak was bored. It was seven months since he was committed the greatest feet of daring his people had engaged in since leaving the council; two months in hospital and five months of tiresome legal wrangling. You use mass drivers on an inhabited world and you expect reaction, but the humans hadn't blinked. They'd arrested him, gathered forensic evidence, eyewitness testimony and electronic surveillance data, asked him if he wanted to retain council, assigned him a defense team when he'd refused to acknowledge their jurisdiction, and started cross examinations and complicated legal arguments.
His defense team. No. The defense team, they weren't his, were, as far as he could tell, hardworking, committed and devastatingly intelligent; no one was going to look at the result of this trial and declare it a setup; interstellar observers had full access to the trial personnel, and their records would be unsealed whenever their governments felt like embarrassing Earth.
The defense team had just spent a week trying to get some of the electronic record expunged from the trial record on the basis that it did not conform to current data standards. It wasn't quite true that the humans were indifferent to his attack; there was actually some buzz around the court at the possibility of prosecuting the first fully Total Quality Assurance-compliant war-crimes* tribunal. He'd been issued with a VI which helped him keep up with the lawyer's discussions, giving potted histories of important precedent cases**, which he was slowly beginning to realise, was how he was to be remembered, not as a martyr to the cause of Batarian independence, but as Balak vs Terra Nova [2183], a significant case in Total Evidence Quality.
*Following some backroom discussions and the threat of legal proceedings from the Council, the state of Terra Nova had acknowledged that the Council was the proper body to prosecute the attempted destruction of a habitable biosphere. That trial was to be held once this on was over.
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Jan. 11th, 2013 10:31 amDespite the non-canon characters*, the non-canon bicycles** and the entire OOC concept, the hairy dieters low-fat minced beef and potato pies tastes like a hairy bikers' pie. Om nom nom.
*Si/Dave OTP, none of this "wives" nonsense :)
**Okay, they were pretty cute
*Si/Dave OTP, none of this "wives" nonsense :)
**Okay, they were pretty cute
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Nov. 29th, 2012 09:12 amI had a dream where ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xanthipe punched me for getting my polytheistic terminology wrong. I'm pretty sure that the correction she offered, "polychurch" isn't a real word, although it did make sense in my dream.
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Nov. 19th, 2012 09:53 amTAXATION OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: some of the best shouting on telly today. My favorite so far is the Amazon guy getting trolled for calling warehouses 'fulfilment centres'.
The committee keeps making the same sarcastic comments as me.
They keep denying having figures. Committee is calling bullshit.
'where is payroll for the uk?' FOUR TIMES. nice work.
You have fallen into a committee trap. You have admitted that all activities take place in the uk. You are still claiming that the value happens luxumberg. There are no exits.
It's nice to see politicians from all major parties coming together to taunt this guy.
Claiming that you pay corporation tax to the committee will only make them angrier if the rate is about 0.2%. Bringing up your employees' income tax contributions will make it worse.
Man those are some ragey committee members.
Oh the least contentious issue raised is crushing local book sellers. So you better address that.
'You don't know your corporate structure?' So lovely.
Margert Hodge <3
'You're not serious here'
'Not at all'
Fiona Mactaggart's carefully constructed trap was totally delivered to her by Amazon over a period of years.
Google guy is always one question behind. Being able to keep track of all the questions asked of him so far allows him to search for the least offensive answer. He is the perfect cyborg for abetting committees.
He techno babbles beautifully.
Margert Hodge's diagram strikes back.
Unexpected honesty!
Google don't need to worry about public backlash; they're indespensible.
Watching the previous victims slump is pretty great.
This session was about tax so its peculiar that you came when you don't know anything about tax.
So, should we so business with you? Will we get tax back, or will you export it to Bermuda?
If we did tax you sensibly, would you leave the uk? *Avoid*
If you did leave, what would happen?
When the committee mentions the the Cayman islands instead of Bermuda, its a Freudian slip; they're thinking about the offshore system that the state they represent created.
Meg Hiller's declaration of her sandwich on google campus is the best part of this show.
'17000 engineers' is getting repetitive.
I think that Austin Michell's bracers are so USAUSAUSA to troll the companies they're talking to. He also has a cunning trap regards how to use the cash that ends up in Bermuda.
Search guy is still making a decent fight of it, especilly in the wide shots with Book and Coffee guys.
I think Stephan Barkley needs a more finance-knowledgeable victim to bite.
"Bermuda" lols.
'independent third parties' is totally finance-speak for 'tax advisers'
Ian Swales desperately wants there to be a people-power solution that avoids needing to legislate a solution.
Books is 100% consumer focused, presumably ignoring the desires of its shareholders.
Coffee has happily jumped on the opportunity to list it's community involvement pro grammes. He really needed somthing to perk him up.
'President coffee'
Do you think that the tax system is fit for propose for internet-based companies? *avoid*
'Who are your tax advisers?' I hope this is a sign that the committee is getting suspicious of the advise it is getting from the finance community.
'Bermuda' lols two: revenge of the 'Bermuda' lols.
The committee keeps making the same sarcastic comments as me.
They keep denying having figures. Committee is calling bullshit.
'where is payroll for the uk?' FOUR TIMES. nice work.
You have fallen into a committee trap. You have admitted that all activities take place in the uk. You are still claiming that the value happens luxumberg. There are no exits.
It's nice to see politicians from all major parties coming together to taunt this guy.
Claiming that you pay corporation tax to the committee will only make them angrier if the rate is about 0.2%. Bringing up your employees' income tax contributions will make it worse.
Man those are some ragey committee members.
Oh the least contentious issue raised is crushing local book sellers. So you better address that.
'You don't know your corporate structure?' So lovely.
Margert Hodge <3
'You're not serious here'
'Not at all'
Fiona Mactaggart's carefully constructed trap was totally delivered to her by Amazon over a period of years.
Google guy is always one question behind. Being able to keep track of all the questions asked of him so far allows him to search for the least offensive answer. He is the perfect cyborg for abetting committees.
He techno babbles beautifully.
Margert Hodge's diagram strikes back.
Unexpected honesty!
Google don't need to worry about public backlash; they're indespensible.
Watching the previous victims slump is pretty great.
This session was about tax so its peculiar that you came when you don't know anything about tax.
So, should we so business with you? Will we get tax back, or will you export it to Bermuda?
If we did tax you sensibly, would you leave the uk? *Avoid*
If you did leave, what would happen?
When the committee mentions the the Cayman islands instead of Bermuda, its a Freudian slip; they're thinking about the offshore system that the state they represent created.
Meg Hiller's declaration of her sandwich on google campus is the best part of this show.
'17000 engineers' is getting repetitive.
I think that Austin Michell's bracers are so USAUSAUSA to troll the companies they're talking to. He also has a cunning trap regards how to use the cash that ends up in Bermuda.
Search guy is still making a decent fight of it, especilly in the wide shots with Book and Coffee guys.
I think Stephan Barkley needs a more finance-knowledgeable victim to bite.
"Bermuda" lols.
'independent third parties' is totally finance-speak for 'tax advisers'
Ian Swales desperately wants there to be a people-power solution that avoids needing to legislate a solution.
Books is 100% consumer focused, presumably ignoring the desires of its shareholders.
Coffee has happily jumped on the opportunity to list it's community involvement pro grammes. He really needed somthing to perk him up.
'President coffee'
Do you think that the tax system is fit for propose for internet-based companies? *avoid*
'Who are your tax advisers?' I hope this is a sign that the committee is getting suspicious of the advise it is getting from the finance community.
'Bermuda' lols two: revenge of the 'Bermuda' lols.
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Nov. 11th, 2012 03:14 pmI've got an interview down in Gloucester on Wednesday, and taffeta_rose is letting me crash at her place in the evening. Is anyone around before I need to find my way onto a train on Thursday noonish?
taffeta_rose is letting me crash at her place in the evening. Is anyone around before I need to find my way onto a train on Thursday noonish?These things my grandfather left me: a book, pages ancient and crumbling, ink faded, leather binding cracked and obviously taken from something with hands, a copy in his own hand, in better repair, a statue, in curious greenish-black soapstone, a tiara suited for a head of stunningly elliptical outline, the bearded glass, a healthy respect for the hazards of book and statue and tiara, and the knowledge that the stars were Wrong.
They are not wrong anymore; they are falling in their thousands; a giant stands to squeeze out the sun; the world is ending, and knowing that the game will end soon shifts optimal behaviors; "cooperate" is no longer the hyperrational choice.
I don the head-wear, read the book, bow to the statue, and tonnes of black ropey tentacles pour into the euclidean 3-space of dieing Narnia from directions I cannot perceive, writhing over each other and in and out of the spaces known to man; a cross section of something bigger and stranger than I can know plucks me from my world like the last sailer helicoptered off a sinking ship, taking me somewhere free and wild and beyond the Lion's narrow definitions of Good and Evil.
They are not wrong anymore; they are falling in their thousands; a giant stands to squeeze out the sun; the world is ending, and knowing that the game will end soon shifts optimal behaviors; "cooperate" is no longer the hyperrational choice.
I don the head-wear, read the book, bow to the statue, and tonnes of black ropey tentacles pour into the euclidean 3-space of dieing Narnia from directions I cannot perceive, writhing over each other and in and out of the spaces known to man; a cross section of something bigger and stranger than I can know plucks me from my world like the last sailer helicoptered off a sinking ship, taking me somewhere free and wild and beyond the Lion's narrow definitions of Good and Evil.
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Oct. 30th, 2012 09:44 amSo I wrote this after the LL36H (well, I put most of the idea together over breakfast and neither appyamy nor fourmyle actully tried to stop me).
( Its Symerna/Ketch friend-fic. )
appyamy nor fourmyle actully tried to stop me).( Its Symerna/Ketch friend-fic. )
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Sep. 14th, 2012 08:36 pmI appear to have written terrible Narnia fan-fiction entitled ( ... and storm the gates of heaven )
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Aug. 22nd, 2012 01:49 pmHave just been spammed by a gamma-ray spectrometer company trying to sell me their products. (Medium-resolution gamma-ray spectrometers are USB plug-and-play these days)
http://www.kromek.com/products_nucleardetection.asp
Yay?
http://www.kromek.com/products_nucleardetection.asp
Yay?
