[TheForge] Oh, Jeeze...California Considers Table Saw Law

[Bruce .]

Kinda what I figured.

OTOH, the SCA may be missing a chance here:  Create a parallel set of
titles that one can ONLY get buy spending money.  Maybe $20k for the
Baron-equivalent, $100k for Viscount-equivalent, $500k for
Earl-equivalent, 2.5M for Marquess-equivalent, and $12.5M for
Duke-equivalent.  SCA immediately donates half of this to some worthy
charity (hospitals, feeding the hungry, etc.), earmarks another 10%
for "frills" for these nobility, and fills its coffers with the
rest...



On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Bruce . <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Doesn't surprise my you can buy UK citizenship.  You can buy your way
>> into the nobility there!  I'm not knocking this, mind you, but  in
>> America I'll bet you can't even buy your way into the nobility of the
>> SCA!
>
> Fairly accurate- everyone in SCA is considered a petty noble, and to
> be in the SCA you don't even have to do more than pay your site fee to
> attend an event. In fact, it requires hard work to develop a persona
> as a peasant or a beggar- it's kinda hard to be a good beggar or
> peasant if everyone refers to you as Milord or Milady ;-)
>
> For any other title (other than cultural variations on a basic milord
> or milady, and those variations require {horrors} research) you need
> to earn the title, whether by prowess in martial arts (read sporting
> activities) or by demonstrated skill in Arts or Sciences, or by hard
> work in the behind the scenes part of SCA (cooking, cleaning up sites,
> running events) and additionally be recognized by the current King and
> Queen (who got their title because one of them won a special
> tournament.) Only real exception is as a Court Baron or Baroness,
> which is an award designed to recognize people who would otherwise
> fall between the cracks, and may be given for pretty much anything, at
> the discretion of the K &Q.
>
> --
> Saint Phlip
>
> So, you think your data is safe?
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html?hpt=T2
>
> Heat it up
> Hit it hard
> Repent as necessary.
>
> Priorities:
>
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>
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Bruce
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