From: kay@invalid.net   
      
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   noreplies@jymes.com says...   
   >   
   > On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:28:39 -0700, Kay Shapero    
   > wrote:   
   > > In fact consistancy may be more important than   
   > >potential - I'm told there's a maximum IQ score allowed for potential   
   > >recruits.   
   >   
   > I ran into that once! I tried for a post, did all the tests, got   
   > rejected because I wasn't as good as some others. About two weeks   
   > later, they put me up for another post. Had to take exactly the same   
   > tests. Blew them away (about 20 pts. more than what I actually am).   
   > Rejected because I was too far above the others.   
      
   Grin - at least not all the services are like that - the Air Force got   
   Real Friendly after I took an IQ test and stored quite high.  But it was   
   only one of several options and I took one of the others, which given my   
   temperament at the time is probably a Very Good Thing.  I worked for the   
   AF for awhile, later, but never actually joined the thing.   
      
   >   
   > He bought an inconsequential little island nation and built his city   
   > so he could keep researchers away from prying eyes and to find people   
   > he can trust to share in his secret.   
      
   And in the interim gotten so paranoid that he's gone waaaaaay beyond   
   normal procedures for clearances, wherein the holder does not TELL   
   anybody not cleared for the information anything lest they get into   
   seriously nasty trouble*, but certainly is not forbidden to marry beyond   
   the usual fraternization rules in any heirarchy.  Been there, done that.   
   A whole city?  Ohboy. If the lowest echelon gets too unhappy, there's   
   either much turnover or if you try to keep them from leaving, you have   
   enough for a fairly messy revolution.  Since what looks like   
   paternalistically forbidding them sex like the kids in a British   
   boarding school novel is GOING to make them unhappy, I think there will   
   be considerably more problems than the Secret of the Time Viewer.   
      
   *Like turning some actions from misdemeanors into felonies...   
      
   I'm not saying that you can't tell this story, I'm just suggesting some   
   of what seems to be inherent in the sitation.  1984's a bit like this   
   after all, and it's a viable (if nasty) story.   
      
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   Kay Shapero   
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