PS: if the only thing you are using the stochastic parrot to do is do a bunch of Google searches and save you the time of typing all the different search terms, you can do this just as easily with a small Perl script. You used it for more than that, you fucking liars.
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(and I was a reject, for virtual paneling)
*Well, except for people they didn't like who got bonus scrutiny.
Excess money is held by the organizing committee and they have to report on it until it's gone.
Most cons sign on to pass-along funds which means that much excess money gets sent to the next -three- cons, ...
So, that means I could award my own “Hugos,” use their logos, and no one would have the resources to do anything about it?
Every set of institutional rules has rules for amending the rules.
Much back and forth, then “well, it would take two World Cons to do that.”
Then why not start this year?
“We can’t do that. Every Con is its own. “
“We can’t do that. No one has control, but we we can’t fix a mistake from the past because there are rules.”
Wait, then doesn’t that mean someone has control?
No one has control, but we can’t…
Rinse.
Repeat.