User:Mlorrey
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Specs
- Name: Mike Lorrey
- DOB: 1/19/68
- Location: New Hampshire
Known for
Libertarian politics. Presented NH state flag to Killington, VT town fathers on their vote to secede and join NH on March 2, 2004. Hopes to help spawn the development of Franchise Operated Quasi-National Entities (FOQNE) by encouraging other Vermont towns, and overtaxed communities across the US, to secede from their home states.
Former Vice-Chair LP of NH, 2004-2005. Campaign manager for congressional candidate Rich Kahn. Has appeared on NH Public Radio's "The Exchange", and other radio broadcasts. Author of online essays and blog(s).
Noted Extropian and transhumanist. Invented electroluminescent retrofit kit for exit signs and a tool called the "Slack Jack".
blog: The International Libertarian
Founder: Constitution Park Foundation - Pursuing eminent domain a la the Kelo v New London decision on the Plainfield, NH property of Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer to build Constitution Park. This has resulted in the passage of a state constitutional amendment to restrict eminent domain specifically to government owned projects, which will go to a statewide vote in November, 2006.
Metaweb pages authored
- Stephenson:Neal:The Diamond Age:33:Common Economic Protocol...(Mike Lorrey) (5637 bytes)
- Stephenson:Neal:Snow Crash:14,41: Franchise-Organized Quasi-National Entities (Mike Lorrey) (26906 bytes)
- Stephenson:Neal:The Diamond Age:40:Protocol Enforcement...(Mike Lorrey) (3089 bytes)
- Simulation Argument (Mike Lorrey) (11670 bytes)
- Stephenson:Neal:Snow Crash:83, 414-416, 436-437:Fido, aka The Rat Thing (Mike Lorrey) (11916 bytes)
- Stephenson:Neal:Snow Crash:03:CosaNostra Pizza University(Mike Lorrey) (15396 bytes)
- Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:518:Ultima Ratio Regum (Mike Lorrey) (5454 bytes)
- Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:170:John Locke was writing a constitution for Carolina(Mike Lorrey & Alan Sinder) (31838 bytes)
- Stephenson:Neal:Snow Crash:The Librarian
- William I of Orange
- U-Stor-It
- L Bob Rife
- The Library
- Gargoyles
- The Raft
- Ng Security Industries, Inc.
- Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong
- Dollar
- N60 High Explosive
- First Distributed Republic
- Burbclaves
- Franchulate
- Snooze n' Cruise
- Eutropians
- Temporary Republic of Kodiak and Kenai
- Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:Gomer Bolstrood
- Metaverse Perverse: Why the Metaverse Didn't Happen (Mike Lorrey)
- Private Provider of Law
- Private Protection Agency
- Final arbiter
- Stephenson:Neal:Snow Crash:Central Intelligence Corporation
- Fort William and Mary
- John Stark
- Bunker Hill Monument
- Leveller
- Digger
Other Published Articles Elsewhere
- It's About The Trust - Commentary on how incremental statism occurs by the slow corruption and redefinition of key words used in the US Constitution.
- Unsafe At Any Law - Discussing the problems of attempting to control the behavior of artificial intelligences, like natural intelligences, with easily corruptable 'laws', focusing on Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics with respect to the release of the movie "I, Robot".
- "Live from the Free State", Liberte-Cherie International, 2003
- "Terraforming Mars and Venus", Innovative Concepts in Science Fiction, European Space Agency, 2001
- "High Density Fuels, Boron Fuels, and Diboride Thermal Protection Systems", Island One Society, 2006