According to traditional laws of territory, once a person sets his/her foot on an unclaimed territory and sets a simbol of ownership, a flag for example, then that location is owned to that person. The US did it first, however they have given up their "ownership rights" to the "people of earth". Its like someone reaches a new land, and then claim it for an entire planet population and not for a certain country. Due to that, anyone who want to 'own' a piece of land from the moon will have to ask permission from a united body that will represent the planet - something that we do not have yet, anyway. Besides - that guy from Lunar Embassy is using US territory laws to claim these territories. If I am not mistaken, the area under control of the US ends somewhere above the atmosphere, when you dont see blue anymore. The moon is WAY out of their control. So its like buying pieces of land in Germany by using a goverment office in Japan. No connection what so ever. I say, that guy should get sued.
Which reminds me about that tiny hard disk in the size of a coin - obviously its seposed to be installed in portable devices. How can THAT thing handle bumps and all?
I like to use AltaVista just to search stuff. This is how it was since I have first found it, and how it is now. I really dont see the point of having "yet another portal". Infact, ever since AltaVista started putting more portal-like features and graphics, I began to use only the text-version of the site.. until they removed the link to it, as well! ...actually, that version still exist, even though there is no official reference to it in the page (as far as I've seen, that is.). Here is a direct URL to it. Its just a search field. No graphics, no portal. Pure altavista!:) http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text
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According to traditional laws of territory,
once a person sets his/her foot on an unclaimed
territory and sets a simbol of ownership, a flag
for example, then that location is owned to that
person. The US did it first, however they have
given up their "ownership rights" to the
"people of earth". Its like someone reaches a
new land, and then claim it for an entire planet
population and not for a certain country.
Due to that, anyone who want to 'own' a piece
of land from the moon will have to ask permission
from a united body that will represent the
planet - something that we do not have yet,
anyway. Besides - that guy from Lunar Embassy
is using US territory laws to claim these
territories. If I am not mistaken, the area
under control of the US ends somewhere above
the atmosphere, when you dont see blue anymore.
The moon is WAY out of their control. So its
like buying pieces of land in Germany by using
a goverment office in Japan. No connection what
so ever.
I say, that guy should get sued.
Which reminds me about that tiny hard disk in the size of a coin - obviously its seposed to be installed in portable devices. How can THAT thing handle bumps and all?
I like to use AltaVista just to search stuff. :)
This is how it was since I have first found it,
and how it is now. I really dont see the point
of having "yet another portal". Infact, ever
since AltaVista started putting more portal-like
features and graphics, I began to use only the
text-version of the site.. until they removed
the link to it, as well!
...actually, that version still exist, even
though there is no official reference to it
in the page (as far as I've seen, that is.).
Here is a direct URL to it. Its just a search
field. No graphics, no portal. Pure altavista!
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text