| From: | Ryan W. Bolduan emeottrw@***.umn.edu |
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| Subject: | A couple of Questions (2nd Question) |
| Date: | Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:39:31 -0600 (CST) |
> itself so he doesn't have to wear it. And in the Lone Star book they bring
> up a lot of those very questions about cruel and unusual punishment. There
> is also some shadow talk about just hooking them up to SimSense 24/7 and
> letting them serve their time that way.
>
> Rememeber, Lone Star is the cops, but its also a corp. And soemtimes they
> don;t always think about those legal niceties. Sounds like it would make
> for some very interesting situations.
>
> Sommers
> Insert witty quote here.
>
I have the Lone Star book, but this still doesn't answer all the
questions. Lone Star is obviously the police force and is a corp, but I
would guess that if a crime is comitted on either soil that is non-AAA
corp soil (remember, non-international corps do not have
extrateritoriality, just re-confirmed this one in the Double Exposure
Module) or soil of some corp that actually cares about public relations
(unlikely), you still have to deal with whatever the 21st century of the
ACLU is.
The magemask is a good idea, and for short stays, or for stays in a corp
prison or in a fed. prison for Terrorism (thank you for whoever brought
that up, I didn't know it), it will work. But for stays in prison for an
actual federal crime, you can't claim "it's a corp, they can do whatever
they want." As for the other solution of permenant simsense, what do you
do? Tape the rig to the mages head and feed them with an IV tube? Sounds
like another "cruel and unusual situation to me." You're not going to be
able to install a datajack (again violating rights of a mage), and leaving
somebody to waste away like that isn't a vaild option either.
I would immagine that the cells are produced with mages in mind. A cell
with Fat bacteria in the walls to prevent projection and spells would
work. Equip the cells with high DB emitters in case of emergency, and
equip every mage with a locked something that would allow an astral mage
to ground a spell through it. Other than those physical changes you're
going to run into constitutional problems.
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A person concerned with such important matters as I, need not, and should
not, attend to spelling.
--Napolean
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