What do the things in the title have in common? Well, I'm going to tell you.
(AFP) - After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner -- a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.
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Duran, who lives in the town of Salvaterra do Mino, said she now wants to slap a fee on everyone who uses the sun and give half of the proceeds to the Spanish government and 20 percent to the nation's pension fund.[2]
So, apparently, some stupid lady thinks she own the sun now, and wants everybody to pay for its usage.[2]
Great... Yet another stupid person co-opting what belongs to everybody.
What's more surprising is that, somehow, this is legally allowed:
There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals, she added.
It seems like she's right. However, I would make an argument that, by personal ownership and her being a part of a country, the sun is actually property of Spain in some ways. But I guess somebody else will be left to argue this in court and laugh this lady into madness.
Yes, yes, I do realize that I'm not being at all humorous today. And do you know why? There is nothing at all funny about this... AT ALL. It's just really fucking sad.
Well, okay, maybe there is this:
I originally found out about this story while reading about the Cafe Hon controversy here. On the page, a commenter wrote that "when a woman in Sweden (or Switzerland can't remember which) just claimed to owning the SUN". Sweden? Switzerland? Yeah, people confuse them sometimes. I'll give them that... But it was Spain. SPAIN. Nowhere in the same ballpark, unless you count that they all start with "S" and are part of the continent known as Europe...
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2. Goth kids luck out - they won't have to pay much at all!
(AFP) - After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner -- a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property....
Duran, who lives in the town of Salvaterra do Mino, said she now wants to slap a fee on everyone who uses the sun and give half of the proceeds to the Spanish government and 20 percent to the nation's pension fund.[2]
So, apparently, some stupid lady thinks she own the sun now, and wants everybody to pay for its usage.[2]
Great... Yet another stupid person co-opting what belongs to everybody.
What's more surprising is that, somehow, this is legally allowed:
There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals, she added.
It seems like she's right. However, I would make an argument that, by personal ownership and her being a part of a country, the sun is actually property of Spain in some ways. But I guess somebody else will be left to argue this in court and laugh this lady into madness.
Yes, yes, I do realize that I'm not being at all humorous today. And do you know why? There is nothing at all funny about this... AT ALL. It's just really fucking sad.
Well, okay, maybe there is this:
I originally found out about this story while reading about the Cafe Hon controversy here. On the page, a commenter wrote that "when a woman in Sweden (or Switzerland can't remember which) just claimed to owning the SUN". Sweden? Switzerland? Yeah, people confuse them sometimes. I'll give them that... But it was Spain. SPAIN. Nowhere in the same ballpark, unless you count that they all start with "S" and are part of the continent known as Europe...
1. Source
2. Goth kids luck out - they won't have to pay much at all!
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