In my own experience, having a good lawyer as your legal-flak handler makes all the difference in the world. Do not wait for a court date to be handed to you by a summons server. "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." If they see that you have a bright, shiny, well made shield the attack may be called off. "Doh! Thought we were just picking on a little guy and could get what we want with little or no fight."
If that does not work then when they do sue P/R them to death. "Hey, everybody, this big brute of an institution is wasting money with frivolous lawsuits."
Then next time pick a name that is completely unrelated i.e. "Red Brick", "2X4", "juice", whatever.
Open Source goverment. This is what the Greeks had in mind. It is what the writers of the Constitution had in mind. They felt it necessary in put barriers in the Constitution to protect it from the uneducated masses. In their time that was a very large majority of the population. Despite all the disparaging comments about our schools the truth is that a vast majority of the population can do a little reading, four function math, and has a vague notion of what a globe is, its purpose, and maybe even how to use it.
But who has time to contribute to an 'open source' government when 40+ hour work-weeks are required simply to put food on the table, a roof to sleep under, and power for my CPU (I don't have kids). We need to push into the post-scarcity era. It is not by accident that the government keeps cutting NASA's budget.
Free people from the slavery of having to work two or more jobs to make ends meet and they will have the free time to be concerned about government and other higher issues. The Greeks you refer to, as well as the founders of the U.S. were part of this leisure class. They had the free time to go off to Philadelphia and debate the structure of a new goverment for six months or more at a time.
Orson Scott Card is one of those authors that before I even finished reading the first book by him I knew he was going to be one of my all time favorites. He is right up there on my list with Frank Herbert, Neal Stephenson, Asimov, Heinlein, et. al.
It is a fine day indeed to hear the news that Card is going to revisit the milieu of Ender and his cohorts.
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In my own experience, having a good lawyer as your legal-flak handler makes all the difference in the world. Do not wait for a court date to be handed to you by a summons server. "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." If they see that you have a bright, shiny, well made shield the attack may be called off. "Doh! Thought we were just picking on a little guy and could get what we want with little or no fight."
If that does not work then when they do sue P/R them to death. "Hey, everybody, this big brute of an institution is wasting money with frivolous lawsuits."
Then next time pick a name that is completely unrelated i.e. "Red Brick", "2X4", "juice", whatever.
Open Source goverment. This is what the Greeks had in mind. It is what the writers of the Constitution had in mind. They felt it necessary in put barriers in the Constitution to protect it from the uneducated masses. In their time that was a very large majority of the population. Despite all the disparaging comments about our schools the truth is that a vast majority of the population can do a little reading, four function math, and has a vague notion of what a globe is, its purpose, and maybe even how to use it.
But who has time to contribute to an 'open source' government when 40+ hour work-weeks are required simply to put food on the table, a roof to sleep under, and power for my CPU (I don't have kids). We need to push into the post-scarcity era. It is not by accident that the government keeps cutting NASA's budget.
Free people from the slavery of having to work two or more jobs to make ends meet and they will have the free time to be concerned about government and other higher issues. The Greeks you refer to, as well as the founders of the U.S. were part of this leisure class. They had the free time to go off to Philadelphia and debate the structure of a new goverment for six months or more at a time.
Orson Scott Card is one of those authors that before I even finished reading the first book by him I knew he was going to be one of my all time favorites. He is right up there on my list with Frank Herbert, Neal Stephenson, Asimov, Heinlein, et. al.
It is a fine day indeed to hear the news that Card is going to revisit the milieu of Ender and his cohorts.
hasty la via on out of here