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Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by beAbU »

torginus wrote: post #68
rsstack wrote: post #25

A Jewish comedian made a joke about how jews (only in the US*) were offended that Ferengi in Star Trek were based on them - "why would we assume these ugly greedy people are _us_?" *Outside the US, it looks like the Ferengi are mocking American capitalist culture.

Sidestepping your original premise - how do the Ferengi even make sense in Star Trek? Its supposed to be a post-scarcity society, at least on an individual level - and an imperialist one on a civilization-scale, the latter being a step back even from how the modern world works.

Ferengi is not part of the Federation AFAIK

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by spython »

giardini wrote: post #77
alexpotato wrote: post #33

I'm always fascinated by these tricks of game theory. e.g. in business school, the dean of the undergraduate school had this story: "When I was a practicing lawyer working on wills and estates, people would often ask me to cut someone completely out of their will. I would always say that a better option was to write something like 'To my daughter Susan, I leave $1,000. She always said that she wanted to be financiall…

My estate lawyer told me that, to prevent challenges, he advised clients to add a clause directing that anyone contesting the will would be excluded completely from the estate.

Would that be enforceable? Can people be excluded from the right to a legal dispute? It seems that otherwise any contract would include a clause that it can not be contested - which it sometimes does with mandatory mediation.

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by ahartmetz »

krapp wrote: post #72
rsstack wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everything is post-scarcity, mostly food and clothes. Land, fuel, weapons, art, fame, and labor are still limited resources in the Star Trek world. Also, not everywhere is post-scarcity, as we see many "poor" or restricted societies. The post-scarcity bit is mostly about a social safety net for individuals in the Federation.

Even within the Federation, colonies can collapse and fail, experience famine, plague, etc. Tasha Yar came from one such colony that had regressed into violent anarchy. The Federation is a post-scarcity utopia until the writers want something interesting to write about. Then the Federation gives some colonies to the Cardassians and you get the Maquis.

> The Federation is a post-scarcity utopia until the writers want something interesting to write about.

Similar to Iain Banks' Culture novels. The Culture is so utopian that there is no interesting conflict, so all of the action is driven by contact with less developed civilizations.

(You talk about the Federation itself, but IIRC Star Trek also often deals with external forces - in any case, "everything is great" isn't interesting for long)

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by port11 »

didntknowyou wrote: post #73
alexpotato wrote: post #33

I'm always fascinated by these tricks of game theory. e.g. in business school, the dean of the undergraduate school had this story: "When I was a practicing lawyer working on wills and estates, people would often ask me to cut someone completely out of their will. I would always say that a better option was to write something like 'To my daughter Susan, I leave $1,000. She always said that she wanted to be financiall…

idk if that would work in real life. there are cases where one sibling gets less than another and judges still rule things have to be split equitably and children should be provided for.

I guess it depends on the country and how much the will deviates from reasonable clauses?

I’m looking into making one now, and a notarised will has to have reasonable clauses straight away; an enclosed will that is open later can say whatever you want, but might be contested if it’s unreasonable.

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Post by thomascgalvin »

spython wrote: post #82
giardini wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My estate lawyer told me that, to prevent challenges, he advised clients to add a clause directing that anyone contesting the will would be excluded completely from the estate.

Would that be enforceable? Can people be excluded from the right to a legal dispute? It seems that otherwise any contract would include a clause that it can not be contested - which it sometimes does with mandatory mediation.

Forced arbitration seems to be legally enforceable, and I don't see why this would be any different, but IANAL

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Post by red-iron-pine »

spython wrote: post #82
giardini wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My estate lawyer told me that, to prevent challenges, he advised clients to add a clause directing that anyone contesting the will would be excluded completely from the estate.

Would that be enforceable? Can people be excluded from the right to a legal dispute? It seems that otherwise any contract would include a clause that it can not be contested - which it sometimes does with mandatory mediation.

the clause comes after the "we leave her $2000000.00" section.

she is not excluded at any point; she gets $2M. (or $0.02, whatever)

Or nothing if she wants to fight cuz she thinks she deserves $10M, etc. etc.

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by red-iron-pine »

khurs wrote: post #18
conartist6 wrote: post #10

I'm sure South Park had no idea about any of this

It's pretty amazing that South Park hasn't been sued (or lost?) I wonder if Peter Thiel took umbrage at how South Park portrayed him recently [0] and is lurking in the shadows planning Gawker v2 [1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfSOC6-G044 [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/06/21/peter-thi...

> It's pretty amazing that South Park hasn't been sued (or lost?)

they've been sued a bunch. But they make comedy central boatloads of money and have free speech protections on their side (for now...)

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Post by sillyfluke »

rsstack wrote: post #25

A Jewish comedian made a joke about how jews (only in the US*) were offended that Ferengi in Star Trek were based on them - "why would we assume these ugly greedy people are _us_?" *Outside the US, it looks like the Ferengi are mocking American capitalist culture.

I never knew about this complaint either, the connection never occured to me at the time as the capitalist cristicism seemed par for the course for a post-scarcity Federation. I don't understand this knee-jerk self -owning behavior. It's like that bizarre tweet by the Israeli government about the photo of an IDF soldier destroying a Christian ornament. The gov. official insisted that the physical features of the soldier contained so many antisemitic tropes that it had to be AI. Thus, the guy was inadvertantly described as the ugliest person on the planet in excruciating detail by his own government.

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by red-iron-pine »

torginus wrote: post #68
rsstack wrote: post #25

A Jewish comedian made a joke about how jews (only in the US*) were offended that Ferengi in Star Trek were based on them - "why would we assume these ugly greedy people are _us_?" *Outside the US, it looks like the Ferengi are mocking American capitalist culture.

Sidestepping your original premise - how do the Ferengi even make sense in Star Trek? Its supposed to be a post-scarcity society, at least on an individual level - and an imperialist one on a civilization-scale, the latter being a step back even from how the modern world works.

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