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luka
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Milton Freeman. CEO of Total Correction.
Total Correction supplies policing, judgement and punishment services.
75% of governments use Total Correction services. Judges can be selected from the catalouge. The catalouge includes each judge's record; What cases they presided over, the charge, the defendants personal details, the sentence given etc. From this information the judge most likely to convict can be chosen. It is easy to infer any prejudice or personal amnitys of any judge from his record.
Total Correction supplies policing, judgement and punishment services.
75% of governments use Total Correction services. Judges can be selected from the catalouge. The catalouge includes each judge's record; What cases they presided over, the charge, the defendants personal details, the sentence given etc. From this information the judge most likely to convict can be chosen. It is easy to infer any prejudice or personal amnitys of any judge from his record.
luka
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COMPASSIONATE CONSUMERISM.
Pater Familias is administering the cane to one of his workmen. The man has been caught in an adulterous relationship, and Familias, although scrupulously fair, can be exceedingly firm with it.
Pater Familias’ workers all live in a village he had built for them. The buildings are small and homely, built of hewn stone and roofed in Welsh slate. ‘Built on the human scale’ as he likes to say, and arranged around the village green, where fetes are held on public holidays, such as Pater’s Birthday, and where the erring worker is now being caned.
‘And now the woman’ Pater brandishes the cane as the woman lifts her dress and bends over the caning block, presenting her pale derriere to Pater’s correctional cane. Punishment is administered equally, to both man and woman, as Pater holds the most enlightened ideals. 30 strokes across the backside.
‘I assure you, I don’t enjoy this my dear, I do it because it is my duty. I use the cane solely for your moral health and the moral health of our community’ THWACK!
The workhouses are light and airy and conditions are humane. Breaks of a generous length are given at set times without fail. Hours are comparatively short. (10 hrs per day) Work starts at 7am. Wakeup is at 6am. Bedtime is at 10pm. Pay is below industry standards but board and lodgings are included and are of a higher standard than the workers could hope to provide for themselves. The food is planned to give health and strength and good digestion. Breakfast for instance is muesli or porridge, and fruit. The workers are never given anything disadvantageous to their health. There is no alcohol (in fact workers are permitted a glass of port on Pater’s Birthday), no smoking and no absolutely no drugs. There are times allotted for exercise and for education and reflection. Houses are to be kept clean. There are regular inspections. Every house is provided with a copy of “The Aphorisms of Peter Familias” and a portrait of the man himself, which hangs above the fireplace. There are no forms of electronic entertainment. There are books and there are lectures and there is music all for the edification and entertainment of the workers.
All workers must wear the uniform. The uniform for men is a cloth cap, green, a green blazer with the Pater Familas family crest emblazoned on it, a white shirt and a striped tie. Shorts of navy blue and green socks pulled up to just below the knee. Black leather shoes must be worn. Women wear straw boaters with pink ribbon. Green pinafores also with the crest over white blouses and white socks pulled up to the knee. They also wear shoes of black leather.
Pater Familias is administering the cane to one of his workmen. The man has been caught in an adulterous relationship, and Familias, although scrupulously fair, can be exceedingly firm with it.
Pater Familias’ workers all live in a village he had built for them. The buildings are small and homely, built of hewn stone and roofed in Welsh slate. ‘Built on the human scale’ as he likes to say, and arranged around the village green, where fetes are held on public holidays, such as Pater’s Birthday, and where the erring worker is now being caned.
‘And now the woman’ Pater brandishes the cane as the woman lifts her dress and bends over the caning block, presenting her pale derriere to Pater’s correctional cane. Punishment is administered equally, to both man and woman, as Pater holds the most enlightened ideals. 30 strokes across the backside.
‘I assure you, I don’t enjoy this my dear, I do it because it is my duty. I use the cane solely for your moral health and the moral health of our community’ THWACK!
The workhouses are light and airy and conditions are humane. Breaks of a generous length are given at set times without fail. Hours are comparatively short. (10 hrs per day) Work starts at 7am. Wakeup is at 6am. Bedtime is at 10pm. Pay is below industry standards but board and lodgings are included and are of a higher standard than the workers could hope to provide for themselves. The food is planned to give health and strength and good digestion. Breakfast for instance is muesli or porridge, and fruit. The workers are never given anything disadvantageous to their health. There is no alcohol (in fact workers are permitted a glass of port on Pater’s Birthday), no smoking and no absolutely no drugs. There are times allotted for exercise and for education and reflection. Houses are to be kept clean. There are regular inspections. Every house is provided with a copy of “The Aphorisms of Peter Familias” and a portrait of the man himself, which hangs above the fireplace. There are no forms of electronic entertainment. There are books and there are lectures and there is music all for the edification and entertainment of the workers.
All workers must wear the uniform. The uniform for men is a cloth cap, green, a green blazer with the Pater Familas family crest emblazoned on it, a white shirt and a striped tie. Shorts of navy blue and green socks pulled up to just below the knee. Black leather shoes must be worn. Women wear straw boaters with pink ribbon. Green pinafores also with the crest over white blouses and white socks pulled up to the knee. They also wear shoes of black leather.
luka
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People walk down the streets wearing lenses and ear pieces which turn the living environment into a game. Missions into enemy territory, double agents, alien invasions. Pedestrians can be seen pressed into doorways, wriggling through the gutters on their bellies, sprinting through hotel lobbies. For the game player a briefcase could contain a bomb, there are snipers on the rooftops and hidden cameras in the old woman’s shopping bags, wild animals lurk in alleyways and spacecraft hover menacingly overhead.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Most of them are being formed in special economic zones, so I guess it mostly depends on the surrounding jurisdiction and how much latitude they're willing to give to entrepreneurs in the Zone.
kid charlemagne
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New book has been announced
kid charlemagne
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Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon: 9781594206108 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The new novel from Thomas Pynchon Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
