02-02-2018, 12:45 AM | #81 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Diane Duane and I both stole that from Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. That was the Professor's proposal for the Lunar legislature (they decided to go with a more traditional format).
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02-02-2018, 06:07 AM | #82 | |
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02-02-2018, 10:29 AM | #84 |
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Well, in the United States and the United Kingdom that seems to be true. Though it's mainly a way of conceptualizing various legal assumptions: That a corporation exists perpetually, that it's not destroyed when one of the original founders withdraws, that it can own property and enter into contracts, and that its shareholders are not legally liable for its actions, among others.
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02-02-2018, 11:21 AM | #85 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
One idea Brownstown mentions is "Right of Piscary", which is about fishing rights.
Peter Ackroyd notes something similar in his book about the Thames. Fish traps would keep getting built until someone brought suit that it was impeding the waterflow or taking to much fish or whatever. Then several traps would be torn down and licensing procedures firmed up. Then people would start building traps again including some which were clearly adulterine. And so on around the cycle. Another interesting thing from Ackroyd's book is the origin of "Flotsam and Jetsam." Flotsam is undifferentiated litter in the water, jetsam was actually tossed overboard.
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02-02-2018, 03:11 PM | #86 | |
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(I suspect that somewhere in the back of this is an incentive to let captains cut cargo loose when a ship is in danger of foundering.)
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02-02-2018, 03:28 PM | #87 | |
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02-03-2018, 03:04 AM | #88 |
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"Flexible barge" or more specifically "dracone barge" are the key phrases here. It's been tried occasionally, but mostly right now it seems to be lots of promises and investment opportunities.
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02-03-2018, 05:35 AM | #89 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Investors are probably shy of backing an oil transport technology that can spill its entire contents so easily.
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02-03-2018, 06:29 AM | #90 | |
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ObModeratelyOnTopic: floating oil is clearly flotsam.
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