This idea has been tried several times and it always ends the same way (with fail). Think about it, if it were really that easy to declare your own country with its own laws, every asshole with a sea-worthy boat would be proclaiming his own little kingdom. Idiots who believe you can do this are the same morons who think that you can murder someone in international waters and not face prosecution or that you can get out of paying taxes by sending a letter to the IRS stating that you refuse to recognize their authority (ask Wesley Snipes if that shit works).
The only real way to establish your own country is to get the people of an existing country to elect you dictator or to stage a coup overthrowing the existing leader (or at least seize a portion of their existing territory). And even then, your rule is only as stable as your ability to defend it (from both internal and external threats).
So if you plan on setting up your own little kingdom on some old oil rig just off the U.S. coast (or coast of any country) and doing whatever you want, you had better damn sure be ready to defend yourself when the Navy shows up in a big, heavily armed ship looking to introduce you to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the concept of Universal Jurisdiction. And if it's the U.S. Navy, you're probably going to need a *lot* of firepower on your little oil rig, Your Majesty.
Firefox and Chrome are the safest browsers out there, especially if you use Adblock and NoScript
Chrome doesn't have NoScript. The closest they have it NotScripts, which sucks by comparison. Nothing, IMHO, can touch Firefox with AdBlock and NoScript. Comparing any other browser to that configuration should almost have to come with an asterisk indicating that, though X browser may be more secure in the STOCK version, nothing compares to the POTENTIAL security of Firefox with the right add-ons.
No, I mean a stand-alone blu-ray recorder (not a burner on a computer). Apparently that country club was not only big on Sony, but also able to journey into some post-2011 future where those actually exist.
My personal favorite was in the Casino Royale remake. Not only was every single piece of technology in the movie Sony branded, but it even featured Sony technology which didn't even *exist*. When Bond infiltrates the country club, he finds the CCTV system--which is apparently recording CCTV footage on a stand-alone Sony blu-ray recorder. Pretty impressive considering that blu-ray recorders weren't even in the prototype stage at that point (and in fact, *never* made it into production). I'm just surprised Q didn't give a ten-minute speech explaining how all his tech came from the great people at Sony.
You lazy, spoiled punks with your Java and C# garbage collection. Back in my day, we collected our OWN garbage. It was a miserable task, but we were ignorant and didn't know any better. AND WE LIKED IT!
The most notorious example had to be the Mac-compatible alien technology in Independence Day. Thank god the aliens didn't go with Intel PC's, or we would've been fucked.
We've had this in the U.S. for ages, and the only side-effect that I've noticed is that I can't stop thinking about delicious, delicious fast food products. I recommend that you just relax and let the placements do their work. If you try to fight it, it'll just give you a really nasty headache. Then you'll have to take Tylenol-brand pain reliever, washed down with a refreshing Coca-Cola.
More like President Obama, in a long Presidential tradition going back to Nixon, advanced his *own* pile of bullshit about how we're going to conquer space, which he also has no intention of ever funding. His successor will do the same.
Ever notice how these promises are also far enough out that almost every NASA senior person involved will be long retired by then too? Pretty good way to ensure that you will never have to actually deliver on your bullshit promises (which will be long forgotten by then anyway).
We are a mere 30 years away from landing a man on Mars, and always will be.
Tesla was overrated. There, I said it. The only reason he is so fondly remember today is because Europeans refuse to admit that an evil American could have possibly every invented ANYTHING, or done anything better than a clearly superior European. Aside from alternating current and a bunch of bullshit urban legends, Tesla basically left behind no legacy at all, while Edison's legacy still permeates almost every field of modern technology (to varying degrees).
My friend and I used to play this "connections" game, mostly with movie stars, and always with funny variations like "Connect Tim Burton to Orson Welles, using the movie The Cannonball Run." We almost never needed six degrees to make even the most obscure connections. My favorite example was one we did when Rob Morrow played John Wilkes Booth in a miniseries: "Connect Rob Morrow to John Wilkes Booth." Seems hard no? Not really:
John Wilkes Booth's brother Junius was married to Agnes Booth, who was in the Palmer Theatre Company with Maurice Barrymore, who was the g-grandfather of Drew Barrymore, who starred with Ben Stiller in Duplex, who was on The Ben Stiller Show with Rob Morrow.
The studios also learned a neat trick a long time ago. You dazzle your young artists with big houses and lots of bling (most, if not all of it, owned by the studio of course) that they get to "keep" just as long as they're still making you money. When they burn out, you just kick them to the curb and pass on the mansion, cars, and jewelry to the next sucker. Fans see these rap stars flashing all this shiny crap in videos and living in fancy digs. But they never hear about what happens after they're not making money anymore and hammer time has turned into eviction time.
Yeah, they were way more expensive than those master recordings. But if you have the means, I highly recommend it.
Expect "clarifications" to this law any day now--just like Congress constantly revises copyright law to make sure that nothing past 1923 is EVER out of copyright (after generous campaign contributions from the good people at Disney, of course).
And if you're thinking there is anything that you as a citizen can do, don't you worry your pretty little head about it. With both major parties supporting pro-industry IP legislation, there is really nothing you can do about it. But if you want a nice form letter to frame, you can go ahead and waste a stamp and write to your Congressman.
My psychic powers are tingling. I'm sensing a "It was just an honest mistake, a simple oversight from our graphics department. Nothing to see here. These aren't the Droids you're looking for." statement coming from Apple. If I'm right, James Randi owes me money.
Why does Mozilla keep treating Firefox like it's something they need to apologize for? Firefox has the best add-ons out there, hands down. And it's been around for years. Why are they acting like Chrome and others are setting the standards now? Why do they act like they're in some kind of pissing contest with Google? Google is the one with something to prove here, not Mozilla.
So it's better for your personal situation to stay unemployed than to lower your salary requirements?
It doesn't work like that. Unless an employer is really desperate, they'll look at your salary history as a guide in this. If you made $X at your last job, and their job pays $X/2, they'll write you off as "overqualified." "Overqualified" is their polite way of saying that they're thinking "If this guy is taking ths huge pay cut, he's going to be looking to jump ship as soon as a decent job comes along. And he might have a bad attitude too, since he's bitter about having to work for such a shit salary. Better to hire the kid who will be happy to work for this small salary."
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Would you kindly stop reading Ayn Rand
This idea has been tried several times and it always ends the same way (with fail). Think about it, if it were really that easy to declare your own country with its own laws, every asshole with a sea-worthy boat would be proclaiming his own little kingdom. Idiots who believe you can do this are the same morons who think that you can murder someone in international waters and not face prosecution or that you can get out of paying taxes by sending a letter to the IRS stating that you refuse to recognize their authority (ask Wesley Snipes if that shit works).
The only real way to establish your own country is to get the people of an existing country to elect you dictator or to stage a coup overthrowing the existing leader (or at least seize a portion of their existing territory). And even then, your rule is only as stable as your ability to defend it (from both internal and external threats).
So if you plan on setting up your own little kingdom on some old oil rig just off the U.S. coast (or coast of any country) and doing whatever you want, you had better damn sure be ready to defend yourself when the Navy shows up in a big, heavily armed ship looking to introduce you to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the concept of Universal Jurisdiction. And if it's the U.S. Navy, you're probably going to need a *lot* of firepower on your little oil rig, Your Majesty.
Firefox and Chrome are the safest browsers out there, especially if you use Adblock and NoScript
Chrome doesn't have NoScript. The closest they have it NotScripts, which sucks by comparison. Nothing, IMHO, can touch Firefox with AdBlock and NoScript. Comparing any other browser to that configuration should almost have to come with an asterisk indicating that, though X browser may be more secure in the STOCK version, nothing compares to the POTENTIAL security of Firefox with the right add-ons.
No, I mean a stand-alone blu-ray recorder (not a burner on a computer). Apparently that country club was not only big on Sony, but also able to journey into some post-2011 future where those actually exist.
Using nuclear power on a ship?
My personal favorite was in the Casino Royale remake. Not only was every single piece of technology in the movie Sony branded, but it even featured Sony technology which didn't even *exist*. When Bond infiltrates the country club, he finds the CCTV system--which is apparently recording CCTV footage on a stand-alone Sony blu-ray recorder. Pretty impressive considering that blu-ray recorders weren't even in the prototype stage at that point (and in fact, *never* made it into production). I'm just surprised Q didn't give a ten-minute speech explaining how all his tech came from the great people at Sony.
You lazy, spoiled punks with your Java and C# garbage collection. Back in my day, we collected our OWN garbage. It was a miserable task, but we were ignorant and didn't know any better. AND WE LIKED IT!
The most notorious example had to be the Mac-compatible alien technology in Independence Day. Thank god the aliens didn't go with Intel PC's, or we would've been fucked.
We've had this in the U.S. for ages, and the only side-effect that I've noticed is that I can't stop thinking about delicious, delicious fast food products. I recommend that you just relax and let the placements do their work. If you try to fight it, it'll just give you a really nasty headache. Then you'll have to take Tylenol-brand pain reliever, washed down with a refreshing Coca-Cola.
More like President Obama, in a long Presidential tradition going back to Nixon, advanced his *own* pile of bullshit about how we're going to conquer space, which he also has no intention of ever funding. His successor will do the same.
I hear that by 2020, we'll only be 30 years away from it.
Ever notice how these promises are also far enough out that almost every NASA senior person involved will be long retired by then too? Pretty good way to ensure that you will never have to actually deliver on your bullshit promises (which will be long forgotten by then anyway).
We are a mere 30 years away from landing a man on Mars, and always will be.
Tesla was overrated. There, I said it. The only reason he is so fondly remember today is because Europeans refuse to admit that an evil American could have possibly every invented ANYTHING, or done anything better than a clearly superior European. Aside from alternating current and a bunch of bullshit urban legends, Tesla basically left behind no legacy at all, while Edison's legacy still permeates almost every field of modern technology (to varying degrees).
And every generation after mine are dumb. Human intellectual achievement peeked with *MY* generation. All subsequent ones need to GET OFF MY LAWN!!
My friend and I used to play this "connections" game, mostly with movie stars, and always with funny variations like "Connect Tim Burton to Orson Welles, using the movie The Cannonball Run." We almost never needed six degrees to make even the most obscure connections. My favorite example was one we did when Rob Morrow played John Wilkes Booth in a miniseries: "Connect Rob Morrow to John Wilkes Booth." Seems hard no? Not really:
John Wilkes Booth's brother Junius was married to Agnes Booth, who was in the Palmer Theatre Company with Maurice Barrymore, who was the g-grandfather of Drew Barrymore, who starred with Ben Stiller in Duplex, who was on The Ben Stiller Show with Rob Morrow.
The studios also learned a neat trick a long time ago. You dazzle your young artists with big houses and lots of bling (most, if not all of it, owned by the studio of course) that they get to "keep" just as long as they're still making you money. When they burn out, you just kick them to the curb and pass on the mansion, cars, and jewelry to the next sucker. Fans see these rap stars flashing all this shiny crap in videos and living in fancy digs. But they never hear about what happens after they're not making money anymore and hammer time has turned into eviction time.
Yeah, they were way more expensive than those master recordings. But if you have the means, I highly recommend it.
Expect "clarifications" to this law any day now--just like Congress constantly revises copyright law to make sure that nothing past 1923 is EVER out of copyright (after generous campaign contributions from the good people at Disney, of course).
And if you're thinking there is anything that you as a citizen can do, don't you worry your pretty little head about it. With both major parties supporting pro-industry IP legislation, there is really nothing you can do about it. But if you want a nice form letter to frame, you can go ahead and waste a stamp and write to your Congressman.
My psychic powers are tingling. I'm sensing a "It was just an honest mistake, a simple oversight from our graphics department. Nothing to see here. These aren't the Droids you're looking for." statement coming from Apple. If I'm right, James Randi owes me money.
Jeez, we already know how to do hydrogen fuel cells. Come on nature, give us some info we can USE for once.
Why does Mozilla keep treating Firefox like it's something they need to apologize for? Firefox has the best add-ons out there, hands down. And it's been around for years. Why are they acting like Chrome and others are setting the standards now? Why do they act like they're in some kind of pissing contest with Google? Google is the one with something to prove here, not Mozilla.
Just knock it off and stick to your strengths.
I've found that if I turn my monitor 90 degrees, I can mod sideways.
Fat, drunk, and humorless is no way to go through life, son.
So it's better for your personal situation to stay unemployed than to lower your salary requirements?
It doesn't work like that. Unless an employer is really desperate, they'll look at your salary history as a guide in this. If you made $X at your last job, and their job pays $X/2, they'll write you off as "overqualified." "Overqualified" is their polite way of saying that they're thinking "If this guy is taking ths huge pay cut, he's going to be looking to jump ship as soon as a decent job comes along. And he might have a bad attitude too, since he's bitter about having to work for such a shit salary. Better to hire the kid who will be happy to work for this small salary."
Depressing, but this one deserves the rare +10 mod.
The same place your car's starter gets the energy to crank the engine, from a battery.