The amount (if any) of rights that visitors from another planet/dimension will garner will be based solely on what they look like.
For Example:
If they are vaguely humanoid looking, they stand a chance of having some rights.
If all of their internal organs are on the outside/their skin is translucent/they have tentacles, etc, they stand a pretty good chance of being locked up/burned/melted/studied/quarantined, etc.
If they have fur, and/or are cuddly, rest assured the soccer moms and cheerleaders of the world will be lobbying for their rights.
If there is any way that the commercial world can capitalize on them, they will have rights. For example, if they have enough appendages to make a kick ass action figure you can damn well assure that mattell will hire the best civil rights attorney's money can buy and those aliens will have all the rights they could ever want.
When I was 4, I threw a temper tantrum and destroyed my favorite doll. My mom said, too bad, guess you wont have a doll anymore.
If script kiddies are the ones using irc, and script kiddies are the ones trashing irc, they're screwing themselves, and they'll move on when the realize all the grownups found a new place to play.
I am reasonably certain I have never met anyone on the net that ever put their real adress on anything net related. Which is probably why that article was written by CNN and not slashdot. I would estimate that a good 90% of all webmasters could care less about WHOIS because I'm sure they simply filled in the information of a handy alias.
Please forward all criticism to
Miss Lydia Finnigan
912 Bells Avenue #77
Detroit, MI 48116
313/626-4200
It's a bummer that Netscape gave in to peer pressure from all the other greedy, bloodsucking monopolies out there (well, THE greedy, bloodsucking monopoly) so I guess using Netscape will remain being what it always has been: the Lesser of Two Evils.
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For Example:
If they are vaguely humanoid looking, they stand a chance of having some rights.
If all of their internal organs are on the outside/their skin is translucent/they have tentacles, etc, they stand a pretty good chance of being locked up/burned/melted/studied/quarantined, etc.
If they have fur, and/or are cuddly, rest assured the soccer moms and cheerleaders of the world will be lobbying for their rights.
If there is any way that the commercial world can capitalize on them, they will have rights. For example, if they have enough appendages to make a kick ass action figure you can damn well assure that mattell will hire the best civil rights attorney's money can buy and those aliens will have all the rights they could ever want.
Maybe Al Gore should have thought about all of this before he invented the Internet.
When I was 4, I threw a temper tantrum and destroyed my favorite doll. My mom said, too bad, guess you wont have a doll anymore. If script kiddies are the ones using irc, and script kiddies are the ones trashing irc, they're screwing themselves, and they'll move on when the realize all the grownups found a new place to play.
Please forward all criticism to
Miss Lydia Finnigan
912 Bells Avenue #77
Detroit, MI 48116
313/626-4200
It's a bummer that Netscape gave in to peer pressure from all the other greedy, bloodsucking monopolies out there (well, THE greedy, bloodsucking monopoly) so I guess using Netscape will remain being what it always has been: the Lesser of Two Evils.