April 10th - Non-negotiable

Bengaley · Post by **Bengaley** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:55 am

[quote="RHJunior]

Actually, California IS losing population. They're hemmorhadging American citizens at a horrific rate.

However, this is almost balanced by the number of ILLEGAL ALIENS flooding into the state....

Paints a whoooooole new picture on that "amnesty/citizenship for illegals" bill they're ramrodding through congress.... doesn't it.[/quote]

Oh my god! There IS something on which RH and I agree on!

I am shocked and amazed.

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:31 am

OK, let's look at this from a "It's a comic strip" point of view.
Ralph would not set up a situation like this unless he intended it to be the start of a major story arc.
He is not going to provide a simple resolution which gets Q off the hook, that would be a letdown with a THUD.
Q is the hero of a comic strip, therefore he is not likely to fail in the end.
So what is going to happen is that Q will go on the Quest and come back successful.
BTW, away from the Luxfont the human world will be a "Low Lux" area. This arc could get...interesting.

TMLutas · Post by **TMLutas** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:27 am

RHJunior wrote:
TMLutas wrote:
Zorro wrote:This is pretty Standard California Style Land Politics.

99% of the state is marked as off limits to humans only so that land developers can make $1 Million dollars the normal price for a 3-bedroom 2-bathroom house in a gangland war zone.

It is just a case of "Fuck You! I'M a Millionaire because I own a House!" mentality.

Destroy a Racoonian city and cause a housing shortage so you can be rich; California is the test case for this.

I am seriously considering, moving to New Mexico, Texas or Ohio just to be able to buy a place to live.
California may just not gain any population if it doesn't watch itself. If it really fouls up, it could lose population. I can just imagine the earthquake in the state's self image if it starts losing congressmen.

Getting back to the questorverse, the mistwall pretty much makes moving outside the polity a nonstarter. This is a lifeboat situation in some very real respects.

Actually, California IS losing population. They're hemmorhadging American citizens at a horrific rate.

However, this is almost balanced by the number of ILLEGAL ALIENS flooding into the state....

Paints a whoooooole new picture on that "amnesty/citizenship for illegals" bill they're ramrodding through congress.... doesn't it.

For political power (census reapportionment) they count people, not legal residents or citizens. You can be for or against any sort of changes to legalization, that doesn't change the apportionment math which is based on warm bodies in state on census day (month/year really).

Now reinstituting a stiff program of expulsions might just change the number of warm bodies but it'll also likely change other things about California, some of which may make the state more attractive to legal residents/citizens. It's tough to say without an actual bill to read

TMLutas · Post by **TMLutas** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:29 am

Tom Mazanec wrote:OK, let's look at this from a "It's a comic strip" point of view.
Ralph would not set up a situation like this unless he intended it to be the start of a major story arc.
He is not going to provide a simple resolution which gets Q off the hook, that would be a letdown with a THUD.
Q is the hero of a comic strip, therefore he is not likely to fail in the end.
So what is going to happen is that Q will go on the Quest and come back successful.
BTW, away from the Luxfont the human world will be a "Low Lux" area. This arc could get...interesting.

So wouldn't a reasonable accommodation be a mini lux generator? Those gargantuan machines handle lux generation for an entire city plus 7 villages. How small could you get something that just needs to handle the needs of one individual?

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:51 am

Hard to tell. We have hand-held batteries but not hand-held nuclear reactors...

DracoDei · Post by **DracoDei** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:59 am

There are smaller Lux generators... you just need something to power it with. I beleive I have heard of goat treadmill powered ones.... IMHO what Q could most easily use would be ANYTHING powered by a heat difference, even if it was very inefficient, so long as it didn't weigh more than a pound at MOST (remember small size). He would just make his camp fire a little larger at nights, and stick the hot side of the device in the flames with the cold side sticking out beyond the fire circle.

Sariah · Post by **Sariah** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:55 am

DracoDei wrote:There are smaller Lux generators... you just need something to power it with. I beleive I have heard of goat treadmill powered ones.... IMHO what Q could most easily use would be ANYTHING powered by a heat difference, even if it was very inefficient, so long as it didn't weigh more than a pound at MOST (remember small size). He would just make his camp fire a little larger at nights, and stick the hot side of the device in the flames with the cold side sticking out beyond the fire circle.

Ah, but what if he's trying to hide from someone? Can't exactly light anything or risk giving your position away. But under normal circumstances, that might work.

MikeVanPelt · Post by **MikeVanPelt** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:35 pm

DracoDei wrote:There are smaller Lux generators...

Hey, maybe something that looks kind of like an old-fashioned railway lantern.

Painted green.

"In brightest day, in blackest night,
no evil shall escape my sight!
Let those who worship evil's might,
beware my power.. Wildcard!"