Piracy was traditionally punished by whoever caught the pirates, not necessarily the aggrieved countries. Just mount a gibbet on or near the docks (again traditionally, anything below the high tide line was Admiralty Courts business, not local laws), and go to it.
Less romantically, piracy was the origin of the idea of offenses against all nations, not just particular powers, as well as the classical example, long before the war crimes trials at the end of WWII.
Actually, it depends on which L4 and L5 one writes. The O'Neill space colonies were going to be at the Earth-Moon L4 and L5 points, whereas this is looking at the Sun-Earth ones, the equivalent of Jupiter's Trojans, about 93 million miles away (about 150 million km, according to unix's units prgm).
In the USA, you only have to pay taxes on barter if you barter what you would otherwise be paid to do. Thus, trading food for computer help given by a carpenter is tax free, as is carpentry by a user consultant.
If you do computer help for a living, price the meal, and declare it on the tax forms.
I am not a tax attorney, of course, but I knew people who had to declare these, a few years ago. Rules may have changed. Your mileage may vary. Past performance is no guarantee of future earnings. Etc.
It is always possible that some kind-hearted pychopath is trying to be helpful, like the pair who shot Frick (Andrew Carnegie's partner) during the Homestead Steel Strike against the Carnegie Steel Corporation.
> RFC0 had only NULL content, therefore wasn't retrievable > due to pointer dereferencing causing segfaults
Nonsense. That would point to register zero on the DEC-10 that they would have used, at the time.
Segfaulting due to zero being an illegal pointer value is a recent innovation not supported by all implementations (HP-UX 8 or 9 on PA-RISC would let you do that to your heart's content, frex) nor required of any.
> Among the often forgotten participants were UK, Canada, and Australia.
And Turkey, Greece, Ethiopia,...
The US commander had overall command of the UN Forces, but quite a few of the non-Warsaw Pact countries sent at least a few units to assist the RoKs.
OTOH, the poster ignored that the parent poster was referring to nuking Japan, not South Korea. Japan is not covered by UN resolutions, but bilateral treaties.
> Why should I care if you sue me in a UK court? You could > get a court order entitling you to a million pound. How > would you collect? Ask me to send you a cheque from the US?
Suppose that you take a trip to any European destination and are forced to divert to a British airport for safety reasons. Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines were in a movie exploring this possibility (except that it was the USSR from which MB's character had defected), called White Nights.
BTW, that would also hold for visiting the wrong island in the Caribbean.
BTW, Mk 2: You misspelled "check" in the British way. Looking to defect in case of losing a judgment?
> And suggesting, by mentioning Commodore Perry, that it should be done by force.
And, most importantly, look at how well that turned out (see Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, etc.).
Perry didn't use force, though. He used a veiled threat of force. Rather like what China used to get Great Britain to relinquish all of Hong Kong when the lease on the New Territories ran out.
And one gunship and a few hundred marines against the entire country would not have worked out well if there had not been Japanese noblemen wanting to do exactly what Perry wanted, but for entirely Japanese interests.
I guess my point is when citizens break BATFE rules, they go to prison, get fined or get probation(or all 3).
Or the FBI steps in, and arranges to exaggerate the natural level of paranoia of the besieged to the point that mass suicide seems the best alternative.
> They aren't kidding when they say money is the root of all evil.
How much was Charles Manson paid?
Better (for obscure reasons): How much was John Wayne Gacy paid, or Jeffrey Dahlmer?
The biblical "Love of money is the root of all evil" was stupid enough when it was originally written (especially given the Cain and Abel story); there is no need to propagate that any more.
> the Fugitive never would find his one-armed man,
He DID, though. The ratings for that episode were supposedly not matched until the last episode of MASH.
> The Prisoner would never escape from the island.
He did, several times. The last time has him discover that he (or his exact double) is also Number 1, as I recall.
That is 2 out of 3 examples that are wrong. Boy, do you suck at arguments.
The Invaders (a Quinn-Martin production, just like The Fugitive) didn't have an ending. Neither did Run For Your Life (Ben Gazzara as a lawyer with a fatal disease that will kill him in about a year) (not a Q-M Production, though), despite the premise almost demanding one. Nor even Mission Impossible (the series, not The Abortion That Lived that was the movie franchise). Try those as examples.
In your country if you're accused of a crime you consider it a natural right to have access to a free lawyer and access to free legal advice is enshrined in the highest law of the land. The spirit of socialism at its finest! But oddly there's no "socialism" conflict in that area, even from the "libertarians".
No, we consider it required by a US Supreme Court decision, Gideon vs. somebody (it changed when the state Attorney General changed) (look up "Gideon's Trumpet" on Amazon for the book that I read about the case). Until that decision, people charged with petty crimes either paid for a lawyer, got one provided by a charity interested in the case (eg, NAACP for racial cases), or defended themselves. For major crimes, the judge usually assigned a defense lawyer (usually whoever was in court that day, and couldn't prove that they were too busy, although some states had public defender offices for that, already).
But when it comes to the right to some basic level of healthcare, no go. If you're poor you and your children can suffer.
Wrong. You go to an Emergency Room, where they are required to treat you. Then, since you are indigent, the hospital ends up eating the cost. Sometimes, if you are poor, some program exists to reimburse the hospital some from the coffers of your state, at least for normal care (sorry, don't expect the hospital or the state welfare department to pay for a heart-lung transplant or years of chemotherapy).
So people are happy to fund legal representation for lower class criminals.
When anything bad is reported about Job's health, Apple stock drops. (So much for corporations being beholden to the shareholders... that is just a convenient excuse after all isn't it? Corporate leaders continue to do whatever they want regardless of what shareholders think.)
Yeah. How dare he come down with a dangerous illness? His fiduciary duty to the other shareholders requires him to become immortal and impervious to all harm, ala Dr Manhattan in Watchmen (won't that have an effect on tales of the Reality Distortion Field around him?).
Seriously, the stock price fluctuations are the fault of fanbois on Wall Street, not his actions or inaction.p
And your rant is of no interest to anyone unless you are a shareholder, in which case you can go to the shareholder meetings and try to get it on the agenda.
the vast majority of aircraft competing were either WWII fighters or relatively minor variations on a WWII fighter airframe (i.e., the modified F8F Bearcat that set the world air speed record in 1969).
Oh, did it beat the SR-71, just entering service? What about the F102/F106, from the late 1950s? Aircraft races were designed to be competitions among piston-powered airplanes because the REALLY fast planes were too expensive for hobbyists. They had as much to do with real speed as do America's Cup yachts, compared to a Moth hydrofoil sailboat.
> For a comparison of more similar weapons, take a large bore hunting rifle.
Or an M-1 Garand from WWII. The.45 ACP round was not designed to penetrate armor, but to provide single shot kills or stops against unarmored opponents (Philippinos running amuck, aka berserk, actually); overpenetration would have lessened their effectiveness.
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Less romantically, piracy was the origin of the idea of offenses against all nations, not just particular powers, as well as the classical example, long before the war crimes trials at the end of WWII.
So you were right and wrong at the same time.
> (If the activity is illegal, claming it on your taxes is among the least of your problems. :)
Tell that to Al Capone.
We examined every frame of this disgusting film. Twice!
In the USA, you only have to pay taxes on barter if you barter what you would otherwise be paid to do. Thus, trading food for computer help given by a carpenter is tax free, as is carpentry by a user consultant.
If you do computer help for a living, price the meal, and declare it on the tax forms.
I am not a tax attorney, of course, but I knew people who had to declare these, a few years ago. Rules may have changed. Your mileage may vary. Past performance is no guarantee of future earnings. Etc.
After all, that turned out so well (not).
> We need some new thinking. Not rehashes of dead TV shows and old comic books.
Yeah. After all, Shakespeare never stooped to stealing plots from previous works.
Oh, wait...
> RFC0 had only NULL content, therefore wasn't retrievable
> due to pointer dereferencing causing segfaults
Nonsense. That would point to register zero on the DEC-10 that they would have used, at the time.
Segfaulting due to zero being an illegal pointer value is a recent innovation not supported by all implementations (HP-UX 8 or 9 on PA-RISC would let you do that to your heart's content, frex) nor required of any.
> Given how much Kim likes to party these could just be really big fireworks.
Obviously, someone never saw the movie Ragtime, where a fireworks designer offers his services as a bomb maker.
> Among the often forgotten participants were UK, Canada, and Australia.
And Turkey, Greece, Ethiopia, ...
The US commander had overall command of the UN Forces, but quite a few of the non-Warsaw Pact countries sent at least a few units to assist the RoKs.
OTOH, the poster ignored that the parent poster was referring to nuking Japan, not South Korea. Japan is not covered by UN resolutions, but bilateral treaties.
> And he still has them all.
No, he read The ODESSA Files, and so uses them for electrical insulation where electrical tape will not stick.
Does that count as the required car analogy for any Slashdot discussion?
> While they get enough vitamin D to prevent scurvy
Rickets, not scurvy. Scurvy is caused by lack of vitamin C.
> Why should I care if you sue me in a UK court? You could
> get a court order entitling you to a million pound. How
> would you collect? Ask me to send you a cheque from the US?
Suppose that you take a trip to any European destination and are forced to divert to a British airport for safety reasons. Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines were in a movie exploring this possibility (except that it was the USSR from which MB's character had defected), called White Nights.
BTW, that would also hold for visiting the wrong island in the Caribbean.
BTW, Mk 2: You misspelled "check" in the British way. Looking to defect in case of losing a judgment?
Damn you, I wanted to be the first to post that.
The perfect comment, and it is only +2 Funny, right now.
> And suggesting, by mentioning Commodore Perry, that it should be done by force.
And, most importantly, look at how well that turned out (see Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, etc.).
Perry didn't use force, though. He used a veiled threat of force. Rather like what China used to get Great Britain to relinquish all of Hong Kong when the lease on the New Territories ran out.
And one gunship and a few hundred marines against the entire country would not have worked out well if there had not been Japanese noblemen wanting to do exactly what Perry wanted, but for entirely Japanese interests.
> If we needed to see in the dark to survive, we would be able to see in the dark.
In fact, *we*can* see in the dark, thanks to a wonderful invention called "FIRE".
> Pollution is bad for you. Well Duh...
Hey, at least they didn't take one and a half (big!) volumes to prove that 1+1=2, like Whitehead and Russell.
Or the FBI steps in, and arranges to exaggerate the natural level of paranoia of the besieged to the point that mass suicide seems the best alternative.
> ....mom and dad always told them they were incredibly special, and would do amazing things.
Weird. My mother told me if I didn't get all A's that I would end up digging ditches (with shovels, not a backhoe, and certainly not as a Civ Eng).
> They aren't kidding when they say money is the root of all evil.
How much was Charles Manson paid?
Better (for obscure reasons): How much was John Wayne Gacy paid, or Jeffrey Dahlmer?
The biblical "Love of money is the root of all evil" was stupid enough when it was originally written (especially given the Cain and Abel story); there is no need to propagate that any more.
> the Fugitive never would find his one-armed man,
He DID, though. The ratings for that episode were supposedly not matched until the last episode of MASH.
> The Prisoner would never escape from the island.
He did, several times. The last time has him discover that he (or his exact double) is also Number 1, as I recall.
That is 2 out of 3 examples that are wrong. Boy, do you suck at arguments.
The Invaders (a Quinn-Martin production, just like The Fugitive) didn't have an ending. Neither did Run For Your Life (Ben Gazzara as a lawyer with a fatal disease that will kill him in about a year) (not a Q-M Production, though), despite the premise almost demanding one. Nor even Mission Impossible (the series, not The Abortion That Lived that was the movie franchise). Try those as examples.
No, we consider it required by a US Supreme Court decision, Gideon vs. somebody (it changed when the state Attorney General changed) (look up "Gideon's Trumpet" on Amazon for the book that I read about the case). Until that decision, people charged with petty crimes either paid for a lawyer, got one provided by a charity interested in the case (eg, NAACP for racial cases), or defended themselves. For major crimes, the judge usually assigned a defense lawyer (usually whoever was in court that day, and couldn't prove that they were too busy, although some states had public defender offices for that, already).
Wrong. You go to an Emergency Room, where they are required to treat you. Then, since you are indigent, the hospital ends up eating the cost. Sometimes, if you are poor, some program exists to reimburse the hospital some from the coffers of your state, at least for normal care (sorry, don't expect the hospital or the state welfare department to pay for a heart-lung transplant or years of chemotherapy).
No. Required, not happy.
Yeah. How dare he come down with a dangerous illness? His fiduciary duty to the other shareholders requires him to become immortal and impervious to all harm, ala Dr Manhattan in Watchmen (won't that have an effect on tales of the Reality Distortion Field around him?).
Seriously, the stock price fluctuations are the fault of fanbois on Wall Street, not his actions or inaction.p And your rant is of no interest to anyone unless you are a shareholder, in which case you can go to the shareholder meetings and try to get it on the agenda.
Oh, did it beat the SR-71, just entering service? What about the F102/F106, from the late 1950s? Aircraft races were designed to be competitions among piston-powered airplanes because the REALLY fast planes were too expensive for hobbyists. They had as much to do with real speed as do America's Cup yachts, compared to a Moth hydrofoil sailboat.
> For a comparison of more similar weapons, take a large bore hunting rifle.
Or an M-1 Garand from WWII. The .45 ACP round was not designed to penetrate armor, but to provide single shot kills or stops against unarmored opponents (Philippinos running amuck, aka berserk, actually); overpenetration would have lessened their effectiveness.