bonham15 writes: wouldn't the orb act as a repository of knowledge and culture as far as the empire is concerned? every citizen is mentally linked to it, so who is to say the orb doesn't act on societal cohesion on some sublevel? I'd love to see the Orb burn out the mind of any Dragaeran who says, "My bad." rone -- {Regarding SCO's claims against Linux,} the idea that I came up with is that Linux should claim to be a parody of UNIX, since parody is Fair Use and Protected Free Speech and all that. - Anthony de Boer <abuse at leftmind.net>