The weird thing is that some of his posts are (or at least were) plain text. Maybe the difference is the device he sends from?

 

It just seems to me - particularly when it's being "yelled" - that he's stating his opinions as if they were facts. And in particular Greg seems to discount the variable tech levels of the OTU. This list has gone round and round and round (many, many times) about how realistic such variability is, particularly given the enormous stretch of time available to bring everyone up to TL 15 (although it seems Greg believes TL 9 is sufficient for at least military purposes).

Unless I am much mistaken, the reason organized bonding/registering of mercenary units makes sense in the OTU is that low/mid-tech worlds can thus hire entire units of high-tech soldiers on short-term contracts to deal with specific problems. If everyone was at the same tech [moderately high] level, the market for such units would be much smaller. Nobody is hiring Traveller-like merc units for deployment in HIGH-tech countries in the real world, for instance.