Seeing as Catalonia has? Catalan nationalism hits the web "The Spanish region of Catalonia has made a declaration of independence in cyberspace. The regional government in Barcelona has changed the address of its website from .es for Spain to .net. " I mean, we're already a .net.... You are now entering the Republic of Mod-rovia Please have your passports and expensive pieces of consumer electronics to bribe the border crossing guards ready....
/me trys to find a place to hide his smuggled dremel bits for fear of the border guards 'confiscating' them for 'inspection'
Too late - you look too shifty. "Guards - seize him! Take him for an.... Intimate search.... Bwuh hah hah hah ha!!"
So, as an independant state, we'll need a few things: A Flag - I suggest crossed dremels on a field of aluminum (maybe with a window. We'll have to have a referendum on that...) A Currency - Mod-rovian 'BITs' perhaps? A National Anthem - I propose "Never Mind The Pentiums" by Wierd Al, as played on Stylaphone . Any other suggestions as to 'We the people' need?
Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!
"Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help Help, I'm being repressed!!" "Bloody Peasants!"
I can't find the actual quote where Dennis talks about their system of government, and I would suggest that as our own. Something like there is one leader who serves for a period of two weeks, all rules concerning smaller matters are passed by a simple majority of the people, whereas more serious rules require a 2/3 majority. An anarcho-sinistic commune or something
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more.
Here ya go - the whole 'Dennis' Scene: ARTHUR: Old woman! DENNIS: Man! ARTHUR: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there? DENNIS: I'm thirty seven. ARTHUR: What? DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old! ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'. DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'. ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.' DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind you looked-- DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior! ARTHUR: Well, I AM king... DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! ....If there's ever going to be any progress-- WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do? ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that? WOMAN: King of the who? ARTHUR: The Britons. WOMAN: Who are the Britons? ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king. WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. ..... A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes-- WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again. DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would-- ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? WOMAN: No one lives there. ARTHUR: Then who is your lord? WOMAN: We don't have a lord. ARTHUR: What? DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. ARTHUR: Yes. DENNIS: But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. ARTHUR: Yes, I see. DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,-- ARTHUR: Be quiet! DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more-- ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet! WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is? ARTHUR: I am your king! WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you. ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings. WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then? ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king! DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. ARTHUR: Be quiet! DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! ARTHUR: Shut up! DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away! ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up! DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system. ARTHUR: Shut up! DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! --- HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed! ARTHUR: Bloody peasant! DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you hear that, eh?.... That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
no, I want to be a member of the BiT-tech republic. located on the moon (you can buy lots of the moon, do a search for moon ebasy), should anyone cross us we could rain chips upon the heathens (a mixture of chips and microchips.. helps for sticking to targets)
ni! actually delivery charges sgould be expensive . getting a man on the moon cost many milions of $s
so, take up all we need. a dremel factory, a microsoft factory (so we can laugh at the staff), a couple ISPs (with 100mbs broadband only), a few politicians so we can lock them into self-made dungeons.. with windows and high-speed, high-frequency fans (slowly make them deaf, cold and.. mod-ed), a sony factory (they do the best electronics, but we can charge the tax so we can pressure them into lowering prices.. where else will they go?) etc. NOTE: not that I've been dreaming about locking up politicians in a moon-prison or anything
if you use solar panels the electricity whould be really cheap or powering everything because the sun shines every day and night in space
the moon orbits the earth... so we would still have night & day but very hot days and freezing cold nights. we would need an environmental system. Dont forget, we would have our own laws so we could pirate anything we like (copyright isnt an international law, it must be adopted by a country).. here comes WinXP!!
the only problem is if pirating was allowed on the moon all countries on earth whould complain and trie and sue(especially bill gates)
no, you cant sue. its not against the law. countries already exist that dont accept the copyright law, like cuba and, and.. well I have a list of them somewhere..
I doubt any Earth court has any jurisdiction outside of the planet. Does Microsoft have any hold over the moon? LOL. If they don't yet, they probably soon will. You could pass laws to make anything legal, and there wouldn't be anything anyone on Earth could do about it. Remember most of Microsoft's EULAs aren't legally binding in Germany as they go against their consumer protection laws. edit: hmm, my user title no longer matches my av... oh well only a few posts left till I can change it myself!
