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Now, James Bond famously had a licence to kill, but — let’s face facts — there is only so much you can do with that. Once you have bumped off Scaramanga that’s really that. | Now, James Bond famously had a licence to kill, but — let’s face facts — there is only so much you can do with that. Once you have bumped off Scaramanga that’s really that. | ||
[[Eagle Squad]]’s power is all the more fearful in that it contemplates indefinite torture of the ''living''. Legal can insist on the most petulant, self-contradictory or wilful editions, on pain of ''everyone having to stop and wait till the matter is resolved''. Whereas others in the legal documentation flow — notably, the heoric, benighted [[negotiator]]s who are the real brave | [[Eagle Squad]]’s power is all the more fearful in that it contemplates indefinite torture of the ''living''. Legal can insist on the most petulant, self-contradictory or wilful editions, on pain of ''everyone having to stop and wait till the matter is resolved''. Whereas others in the legal documentation flow — notably, the heoric, benighted [[negotiator]]s who are the real brave foot-soldiers of legal practice, however hotly the [[eaglery]] denies it — have meaningful commercial constraints on the perversity they can bring to their task, a fully credentialised Eagle Squad member suffers no such constraint. | ||
Negotiators are measured, their performance gauged, their daily activity reduced to [[metric]]s, [[service level agreement]]s, [[KPI]]s — the whole ornate ''smörgåsbord'' of [[modernist]] fripperies by which their overlords can impel them to carry on — propel them to find solutions, make accommodations, engineer compromises and basically box on with no allowance for gratuitous abstrusity — but | |||
She can resist a [[Sovereign immunity|sovereign immunity waiver]] from an industrial corporate having no particular association with any organ of state indefinitely, on principle, notwithstanding the fatuity of the request — indeed, ''because'' of the fatuity of the request! — with no second-guessing or cajoling from the cheap-seats. It does not matter that the customer would have no hope of ''claiming'' sovereign immunity | She can resist a [[Sovereign immunity|sovereign immunity waiver]] from an industrial corporate having no particular association with any organ of state indefinitely, on principle, notwithstanding the fatuity of the request — indeed, ''because'' of the fatuity of the request! — with no second-guessing or cajoling from the cheap-seats. It does not matter that the customer would have no hope of ''claiming'' sovereign immunity |