Re: [TML] Credit, Debt, and Travel Restrictions
Phil Pugliese 27 Nov 2014 21:36 UTC
Another idea would be to take your chances w/ a 'last-class' cryo-pod!
And then there's always the 'British Solution' of loading up a ship-full of criminals in cryo-sleep & 'transporting' them to, wherever....
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On Thu, 11/27/14, Ian Whitchurch <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TML] Credit, Debt, and Travel Restrictions
To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
Date: Thursday, November 27, 2014, 5:57 AM
During the
Gold Rush era, Sydney used to export criminals to California
by deliberately setting them up to jump bail and go to the
US, thus becoming their problem. Look up the "Sydney
Ducks".
If we move the
Imperium to a "high travel" model by abandoning
the KCr 2 "life support" cost and so on, we might
be able to push hot bunked "third class" travel
down to ICr1500 a jump or so. At that point, going 10
parsecs will cost about half a years pay for a high-tech
citizen (per per capita income figures from Striker and TCS)
- tough, but doable to start a new life.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at
6:46 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Phil
Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
wrote:
In those
3I sectors that border 'vargr land', I've always
wondered how many folks abscond across the border expecting
that the 3I will never be able to 'get' them over
there.
In the eastern regions of the
late-19th-century U.S., many criminal cases were closed with
the notation "GTT," which stood for "Gone To
Texas."
IMTU,
many criminal cases in the rimward reaches of the Spinward
Marches are similarly closed with the notation
"GTD," which stands for "Gone To District
[268]."
--
Richard Aiken
"Never insult anyone by accident."
Robert A. Heinlein"A word to the wise
ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need
the advice." - Bill Cosby"We know a
little about a lot of things; just enough to make us
dangerous." Dean Winchester
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