Well another year rolls around, and the boys still like peanut-butter sandwiches. Smart guys are still trying to build smart unmanned vehicles, and we’re still in Iraq. And I’m still getting reawarded Microsoft’s MVP award (year three!) for being active in the internet technical community. Don’t know when the Summit will happen this year, but it’ll be fun.

In other work-related news, I’m in the middle of trying to puzzle out the California state incorporation laws so I can file my own Articles of Incorporation. I’ve got a Dummies book, Inc Yourself, and Nolo’s Incorporate Your Business all open on the explosion I call my desk, as well as name reservation requests, fictitious business name filings and other junk. I’m hoping to charge on through it in the next 10 days. Share issuance rules, director meeting rules, shareholder meetings…what a pain.

One interesting thing I turned up was the rules about declaring subversive organizations. Want to start a violent revolution and get Wisconsin to secede from the Union? Better do your paperwork! Read up on the Subversive Organization Registration Law here.

35002. As used in this title, “subversive organization” means every
corporation, association, society, camp, group, bund, political
party, assembly, and every body or organization composed of two or
more persons or members, which comes within either or both of the
following descriptions:
(a) Which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches, or
practices, the duty, necessity, or propriety of controlling,
conducting, seizing, or overthrowing the Government of the United
States, of this State, or of any political subdivision thereof by
force or violence.
(b) Which is subject to foreign control as defined in Section
35003.

Rules on what’s involved in registration here.
Rules on distribution of literature here.
Rules on violation penalties here.

I think what caught my eye was “any group which…advocates indirectly…the conducting…of the Government of the United States…by force.” You could construe that a lot of ways. Some of my readers might think the Republican party would qualify.