- A woman in Spain claims to now own the sun.
- Saudi women sue male guardians who stop marriage. (From Chasmosaur.)
- Nike harnesses ‘Girl Effect’ again.
- Sad truth. (From Mark.)
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See. they wait until the second to last paragraph to pull out what should be a major point in the Nike article. “Well we’re totally donating money to help young girls improve their lives…. except for all those young girls that make our products. We don’t want to have to pay them more! hahaha.”
I call dibs on Alpha Centauri and all it’s planets, and all those planets’ moons.
I call dibs on the Oort cloud, but only those bodies that are in orbits that won’t cause them to be, or be involved in the disturbance that creates, the comet that destroys life on Earth.
Or maybe I’ll just demand $100 000 per year for keeping my property from destroying civilisation.
Actually, to hell with it. I call dibs on the visible universe.
Take that, natives of the Andromeda Galaxy!
Remind me again why western governments aren’t clamoring for sanctions agains Saudi-Arabia?
She claims ownership of the Sun?
IMHO, not very bright…. (ducks)
I wonder which nation’s property laws she’s using to determine her ownership. Or which nation is going to support her in a property dispute.
Can you even claim property no one’s ever actually physically visited? Or without having a way of marking your property as being yours (so people know they’re on your property)?
Otherwise I could decide to “own” all the space surrounding the earth and demand a toll for every space shuttle and sattelite passing through …
The Saudi guardians story just makes me sad.
@Bjornar: Same reason we never call them on their obvious fucked-in-the-headedness. We want their oil. Quite frankly, decreasing the influence and affluence of the Saudis is more than enough reason to explore off-shore drilling and alternative fuel sources.
@im_robertb: You can have the visible universe. I call the infrared spectrum, high energy wavelengths, and dark matter.
I call dibs on foreclosed penthouses in Chicago.
I aim low.
can i bag a black hole and its singularaty (sp?) i just want the option of playing with time dilation all day.
After reading the Saudi Arabia story I didn’t think I could be sadder…..
Then I started reading the comments. I had to stop to save my sanity. WTF is wrong with people?
Oh… and I OWN URANUS!
@Elyse
Hee Hee :)
I feel a little better now.
The Saudi women story is several layers of disappointing. The women are fighting for the right to escape the tyranny of their fathers. But how? By getting their fathers to marry them off to a husband who will then have complete control over them. Hard to be too enthusiastic about that fight.
I hereby patent the sun.
I discovered the sun (was unpatented) and can claim this legitimately.
If DNA can be patented so can the sun.
All users of the sun must immediately cease and desist further use or pay me a royalty.
$.000001 per kw/h ought to keep me in good stead.
Now fork it over.
The sun in Spain falls mainly in my domain?
I hereby own the area of space inhabited by the sun and will immediately begin charging her rent for her star.
Does the woman who owns the sun have a flag?
You know, she thinks she’s being smart now, wait till she gets the class action from all the people with skin cancer.
I hereby claim the location in space occupied by the earth on the winter soltice, and will shortly construct a virtual toll booth.
From now on everyone on earth owes me $1.00 every winter solstice.
@Elyse
Oh yeah? Now I own the universe, except the sun, moon, Earth, and Uranus. Take that! :)
@IBY:
URANUS IS MINE! MINE MINE MINE!
I own Uranus. You are not allowed to touch Uranus. Only I can touch Uranus. You cannot just take Uranus from my grips!
All Uranus are belong to me.
@Elyse: Ok, that quickly went from funny and a little bit kinky to weird and a little bit creepy. ;-)
@Elyse
I did say one of the exception was Uranus. Now I am sad that I got shouted at. :(
@weatherwax:
“I hereby claim the location in space occupied by the earth on the winter soltice, and will shortly construct a virtual toll booth.
From now on everyone on earth owes me $1.00 every winter solstice.
Hmm, clearly, owning a patch of space runs into some issues concerning frame of reference. Technically, the earth never occupies the exact absolute spot in space every winter solstice. Only once. But that’s still good for a 6+ billion dollar payout at $1 per inhabitant.
“You are not allowed to touch Uranus.”
Then I hope you’ll be available when I need you, TP in hand.
@Elyse
@mikespeir called you an asswipe.
heehee