INAL either, but disrupting the US government is not treason, inasmuch as the government is not the nation. This is a distinction that gave Richard Nixon a great deal of trouble. I can love my country and despise its agencies, and even screw them up (ala Daniel Berigan) without committing treason. For that matter (sorry, letter carriers), postal workers who shoot their coworkers are committing murder, not treason. Now there are some special rules dealing with the killing of a Federal law enforcement agent, but I don't know if they would apply to an astronaut. Jurisdiction might be exotic, too, if the death occured (ocurred? occurred? happened?) in orbit. Would Florida handle it, as the point of departure, or would the state from which the cracker was operating? And of course, we're implicitly assuming here that the cracker was American -- if this was some renegade from Luxembourg, for instance, treason is wholly inappropriate. IIRC, for many years there was no Federal murder statute, such things being the responsibility of the various states (which is why the Feds used to prosecute lynching as a "civil rights violations" -- they did have a law for that!)
"If it does, I would put my money on a planetful of life specially evolved for that planet's conditions over a couple dozen carpet-bagging bacteria from a warm and comfy inner-system world like Earth."
And I would have put your money that rabbits from England would never hack the Australian climate and indigenous life.
If you could move fast enough to parry bullets, I'm guessing you wouldn't need a sword -- just put your head down and run at your opponents (becoming a man-sized bullet yourself). A crash helmet might be a good idea, though.
Not that I don't like StarOffice, but (unless it's hidden away in there someplace I haven't found it) there's no equivalent to Access, and I have to say that's a major issue for a lot of people.
Strikingly, I notice that the apps being mentioned don't seem to include any other desktop RDBMS either. SQL servers are great at one end of things, and sorting lines in a spreadsheet at the other, but there must be something like Access (or like Approach, if you prefer) for Linux.
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INAL either, but disrupting the US government is not treason, inasmuch as the government is not the nation. This is a distinction that gave Richard Nixon a great deal of trouble. I can love my country and despise its agencies, and even screw them up (ala Daniel Berigan) without committing treason. For that matter (sorry, letter carriers), postal workers who shoot their coworkers are committing murder, not treason.
Now there are some special rules dealing with the killing of a Federal law enforcement agent, but I don't know if they would apply to an astronaut. Jurisdiction might be exotic, too, if the death occured (ocurred? occurred? happened?) in orbit.
Would Florida handle it, as the point of departure, or would the state from which the cracker was operating?
And of course, we're implicitly assuming here that the cracker was American -- if this was some renegade from Luxembourg, for instance, treason is wholly inappropriate.
IIRC, for many years there was no Federal murder statute, such things being the responsibility of the various states (which is why the Feds used to prosecute lynching as a "civil rights violations" -- they did have a law for that!)
And I would have put your money that rabbits from England would never hack the Australian climate and indigenous life.
If you could move fast enough to parry bullets, I'm guessing you wouldn't need a sword -- just put your head down and run at your opponents (becoming a man-sized bullet yourself). A crash helmet might be a good idea, though.
Strikingly, I notice that the apps being mentioned don't seem to include any other desktop RDBMS either. SQL servers are great at one end of things, and sorting lines in a spreadsheet at the other, but there must be something like Access (or like Approach, if you prefer) for Linux.