No matter how livable you make it here, there will be people like me who will always want to go somewhere else. Like all of those people in Europe who left and came to the New World. Why didn't they stay in Europe and make it more livable?
From my understanding of Conflict of Laws issues there is a great deal of case law suggesting that even if the memberless LLC were created that the first court to see one would immediately declare it dissolved regardless of what the Operating Agreement said because it violates the intent of the legislation. Or, to use Scherer's words, "courts recognize that “some things ‘go without saying'” in legislation just as they do in everyday life, and legislatures thus legislate “against the backdrop of certain unexpressed presumptions.” Bond v. United States, 134 S. Ct. 2077, 2088 (2014)."
It also seems that both FATCA and the OECD Common Reporting Standards treaty supersedes state incorporation rules concerning reporting of Ultimate Beneficial Owner for an entity that pays taxes in any 'acceptable' jurisdiction. One could probably create a memberless LLC in Somalia but have zero luck accessing a modern legal jurisdiction.
Take the Series LLC that can be setup in Delaware. No one outside the US recognizes the individual series as being separate from the others and thus combines all of the assets of the parent LLC, rendering the form useless outside the US. Just because one State creates a memberless LLC obligates no one to recognize it.
I had lunch with Jerry at DragonCon this past weekend and he was enjoying himself. He was using a walker but only when necessary. He told some of the same stories I heard at Space Access but they were still enjoyable because they were his. Because he was there. I'm going to cherish that memory forever.
Rest in peace, Dr. Pournelle. We will carry on with the fight.
> - It's really hard to access academic journal articles online.
That's because of the business model around funded research. Academic research funding is driven by a limited number of funding agencies being bombarded by huge numbers of proposals. One of the key metrics they use is how many peer reviewed journals has the author been accepted by. Those journals make money by charging access fees and by being semi-trusted gate keepers. Journals WANT it to be hard to access them online since they view the Internet publishing paradigm as a threat.
People have been trying to disrupt that business model since the mid 90s.