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WCDT 2116-2120 (6-10 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 3
Delator:
--- Quote from: dreed on 09 Feb 2012, 02:07 ---@Delator @Andy147
You are concentrating on a wrong thing. It is not important what is exactly her job on the station (although she was supposed to monitor incoming guests to the station)
she, as a military person, who just received millions of dollars while on duty as a member of american military force. That is definitely not going to be seen as innocent gesture by her superiors as you seem to believe.
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If she had been given that money by a human while Earthside, you'd have a point.
She was given the money by an AI while in orbit...and off duty, i might add, unless being half dressed in your own quarters counts as on-duty these days.
I'm pretty sure her CO is not so daft as to assume that the AI upon which all their lives depend is for some reason going to subvert station operations via bribery to a low ranking officer. Considering their physical autonomy, it probably never gets farther up the chain than that.
Hell, for all we know, Station already told him about it and received approval.
--- Quote ---Military can probably take all that money away from her probably while at the same time kicking her out (or worse) from the service.
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My guess is Station himself has probably set things up in such a way as for that to be impossible. They might kick her out of the service (not bloody likely...pretty sure Jeph doesn't give two shits about this notion), but the money's probably untouchable in a legal sense.
daryljfontaine:
LOVE the hairsplosion.
Art speculation: That little photo to the right of Lt. Potter's calendar -- a younger Sam? If so, perhaps she's the Lieutenant's favorite niece or something. The situation doesn't fit Potter being Sam's mother.
We all know how small details can come back to be plot points later...
D
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Soulsynger on 09 Feb 2012, 04:07 ---btw...
--- Code: ---If 0.76% => 4.600.000 US-$ ("4.6 million dollars")
then 1% = 4.600.000 x ( 1 / 0.76 ) = 6.052.631,579 US-$
ergo 100% = 605.263.157,9 US-$
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Now... is my math faulty or do I just not see the "billion"? °O
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That 605 million dollars would be the value of Station's share of E-C technologies. Those who have commented on HannerDad's net worth first attempt to guesstimate the percentage of the stock owned by Station. 0.1 per cent might be in the ballpark. In that case Station offered Ltn Potter 0.76% of 0.1% of HannerDad's company making the company worth 605 billion. Of course, that 0.1% figure could be too high or (less likely IMHO) too low. We have no way of knowing.
dreed:
--- Quote from: Delator on 09 Feb 2012, 04:37 ---
If she had been given that money by a human while Earthside, you'd have a point.
She was given the money by an AI while in orbit...and off duty, i might add, unless being half dressed in your own quarters counts as on-duty these days.
I'm pretty sure her CO is not so daft as to assume that the AI upon which all their lives depend is for some reason going to subvert station operations via bribery to a low ranking officer. Considering their physical autonomy, it probably never gets farther up the chain than that.
Hell, for all we know, Station already told him about it and received approval.
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She is on duty. She is always on duty when being stationed. That's being part of military. She gets time to relax, free time but she is never off-duty when being stationed. Just like soldiers ain't off-duty when playing pool in Iraqi base.
so
she is off-duty as in having free time for herself during that particular part of the day
but she is on-duty by being part of military on assignment. Two different on-duty concepts.
not sure how being on orbit changes anything tough?
Why would CO agree? Where is the gain for him/for military in that? I can only see drawbacks.
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My guess is Station himself has probably set things up in such a way as for that to be impossible. They might kick her out of the service (not bloody likely...pretty sure Jeph doesn't give two shits about this notion), but the money's probably untouchable in a legal sense.
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probably true if he is 'smart' enough to do that. he does act a bit reckless so we can't be sure he did all proper paperwork (she is going to have to pay tax on that and IRS will check everything very carefully. You can't just give 4 million dollars worth of stocks to someone)
but it is possible.
There is also another problem.
Most lotto winners lose the money fairly quickly. Some even kill themselves because they can't handle so much wealth. It depends on how rich she/her family was before and how well she can handle this situation but the odds are against her.
Spiff:
Have you considered that we don't know if she has accepted the apology or if she even gets anything. Station could easily trick her.
Station: "Blink once for 'go fuck yourself', twice for 'apology accepted'."
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Station: "Alright, so you want me to 'fuck myself' twice."
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