Illegal speculation and profiteering... on the Moon
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Firm fights to sell moon real estate[^] Generally intersting, but I thought a couple of sentences were worth pointing out... A Chinese company is fighting for the right to pitch plots of land on the moon for sale after authorities shut the scheme down on charges of profiteering and lunacy. :rolleyes: Earlier this month, the Lunar Embassy started selling domain names for the "extra-terrestrial Internet", which the company says will eventually include Web sites with such endings as .lunar, .space and .uranus. :laugh: -J
Think of a computer program. Somewhere, there is one key instruction, and everything else is just functions calling themselves, or brackets billowing out endlessly through an infinite address space. What happens when the brackets collapse? Where's the final 'end if'? Is any of this making sense? -Ford Prefect
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Firm fights to sell moon real estate[^] Generally intersting, but I thought a couple of sentences were worth pointing out... A Chinese company is fighting for the right to pitch plots of land on the moon for sale after authorities shut the scheme down on charges of profiteering and lunacy. :rolleyes: Earlier this month, the Lunar Embassy started selling domain names for the "extra-terrestrial Internet", which the company says will eventually include Web sites with such endings as .lunar, .space and .uranus. :laugh: -J
Think of a computer program. Somewhere, there is one key instruction, and everything else is just functions calling themselves, or brackets billowing out endlessly through an infinite address space. What happens when the brackets collapse? Where's the final 'end if'? Is any of this making sense? -Ford Prefect
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Firm fights to sell moon real estate[^] Generally intersting, but I thought a couple of sentences were worth pointing out... A Chinese company is fighting for the right to pitch plots of land on the moon for sale after authorities shut the scheme down on charges of profiteering and lunacy. :rolleyes: Earlier this month, the Lunar Embassy started selling domain names for the "extra-terrestrial Internet", which the company says will eventually include Web sites with such endings as .lunar, .space and .uranus. :laugh: -J
Think of a computer program. Somewhere, there is one key instruction, and everything else is just functions calling themselves, or brackets billowing out endlessly through an infinite address space. What happens when the brackets collapse? Where's the final 'end if'? Is any of this making sense? -Ford Prefect
jasontg wrote:
.uranus
Tee hee. A while back, we had a small private network where the machine names were based on planet names. We were forced to add a machine for one of the Q.A. guys who was a real jerk. The name for his machine: Uranus, of course.
Software Zen:
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Firm fights to sell moon real estate[^] Generally intersting, but I thought a couple of sentences were worth pointing out... A Chinese company is fighting for the right to pitch plots of land on the moon for sale after authorities shut the scheme down on charges of profiteering and lunacy. :rolleyes: Earlier this month, the Lunar Embassy started selling domain names for the "extra-terrestrial Internet", which the company says will eventually include Web sites with such endings as .lunar, .space and .uranus. :laugh: -J
Think of a computer program. Somewhere, there is one key instruction, and everything else is just functions calling themselves, or brackets billowing out endlessly through an infinite address space. What happens when the brackets collapse? Where's the final 'end if'? Is any of this making sense? -Ford Prefect
jasontg wrote:
profiteering and lunacy.
You of course know the root for the word "lunacy", right? Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
I wouldn't want to visit any website in the uranus domain.
I know a guy would buy a domain just to be annoying, and another just because of the planet name. The first guy was running a network in El Paso and to keep people from mounting his drive on the unix system, he named it "woody". After that, no one would mount the drive manually. The other guy was asked to name our network machines for a government contract, but they gave him a list of bad words (he had a past habit of naming machines cuss words) that he was not allowed to use. He had to come up with a theme, and all the machines had to fit the theme. After reading all this he looks up and says, "solar system planets" and the bosses all look at each other and say "great idea." and left him to do it. The first machine, and his machine on the network, was Uranus. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)