Wednesday, December 29, 2010

They never give up do they?

Found in my spam folder.



World of Warcraft - Account Management‏
An investigation of your World of Warcraft account has found strong evidence that the account in question is being sold or traded.
Really? And what do you base that information on? The fact that traded or sold accounts usually have a crap load of gold in the account and at least one level-maxed character with all of the highest level equipment?

I have maybe 9,000 gold between all of my highest level characters, and none of them are level 85. Oh and they are far from having the highest level gear.

Then there is the fact that if you were paying attention to my account, you'd notice that I play most Tuesdays with the same three other accounts. I also frequently play with my wife and her account. So if you REALLY were Blizzard, you'd know that my account activity is about average for my demographic and not an account that is being power leveled for sale.
As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with Blizzard's EULA under section 4 Paragraph B which can be found here: WoW -> Legal -> End User License Agreement and Section 8 of the Terms of Use found here: WoW -> Legal -> Terms of Use The investigation will be continued by      Blizzard administration to determine the action to be taken against your account.
Oh I am aware that what you (and not Blizzard) have accuse me is against the Blizzard EULA. However I have not violated it in the slightest.

Were you aware that what you are doing here on the other hand *is* in direct violation? That by trying to impersonate Blizzard and Blizzard Personnel you are in violation of the law? I'm sure you are. In fact I'm even sure that you are creaming your jeans at the fact that by being in another country there is nothing that anyone can do about it since no one in your country even gives a shit about what you are doing.

And let me see. According to the traceroute on the header...you are in South Korea. Wow! North Korea is fixing to bomb the shit out of you and you're still more concerned about getting my account password from me? Damn but you fuckers need to get your priorities straight.

If your account is found violating the EULA and Terms of Use, your account can,and will be suspended/closed/or terminated. In order to keep this from occurring, you should immediately verify that you are the account. 
It's not in violation. And of you cock-munchers think you have the wherewithal to have my account yanked, you are more than welcome to try. The only way you could do anything to me involves trying to trick me into giving you my username (which you have thanks to Blizzard using e-mail addresses) and my password (which you can't guess since it's complex enough to require 500 billion years for a single desktop to crack).

All of that however is worthless since you also need my authenticator to get in.


To verify your identity please visit the following webpage:
www.worldofworcrcft.com
Gee! Can't you shitbags spell Warcraft? Oh! I'm sorry. I forgot. You probably CAN spell Warcraft correctly but since Blizzard bought the properly spelled web domain you can't do a fucking thing about it and must use obviously false web domains to try to scam me out of my entertainment.

Gosh I'm such an asshole. At least I'm not some pole-smoking scammer like you are. That would really suck ass.

Only Account Administration will be able to assist with account retrieval issues. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter, and your continued interest in World of Warcraft. 
Blizzard Entertainment Inc Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Blizzard Entertainmen
 You spelled Entertainment wrong the second time. There are three "T"'s in it. You left out the one on the end.

 So I now leave you with this heartfelt Christmas greeting. "Merry Go Fuck Yourself in the Ass with an Agave Cactus, and have a Happy Die in a Fire.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Support your local business.

Now I'm all for this. This is a biggy in the Role-Playing Game supply stores. Good gaming stores are harder and harder to find since it is far easier to get what you need on Ebay, Amazon, and online retailers in general. The more people order from the gaming companies directly, the less gaming stores are able to continue.

But this Christmas I've started wondering if it is the fault of the consumer that we go to the online retailers and not to the store. I'm starting to think that maybe it's the stores themselves that are driving the nails into their own coffins and making us go to the online retailers out of frustration.

Case in point. There is a very local store to us. These folks are 15 minutes away from our house and within walking distance to my work. Can't be much more convenient than that right? Except that every thing I've ordered, they lose.

Let me clarify. They order it and they get in, but they lose the piece of paper that says who ordered it and what their contact information is. And since they can't figure out who ordered it, it gets put on the shelves for sale.

Guess what happens to them then. I'll give you a hint. It rhymes with "it gets sold to someone else".

So when we get there to ask where our order is, we get "Oh Right! That was you guys who ordered the last copy of Munchkin Bites 2: Pants Macabre that our distributer has and will not be able to get until February when they get the next batch from Steve Jackson Games' printers."

To which we reply "Why yes, that was us. Where is it?"

"We didn't have your contact information and so we accidentally sold it out from under you...sorry."

This happened to us three times. As Queen Victoria (one of our more frumpy queens - Eddie Izzard) is famous for saying "We are not amused."

Ok, so this guy is out. Well there is another store that is a bit of a haul up the road from us, but still day-trippable and we can do it on a circuit of Ikea, them, and Nightdreams and then head on home. Normally they have been nothing but awesome to us. Until now.

We wanted to order stuff for AFTER Christmas. No rush, no hurry, no screaming wobblers if it doesn't get to us until after the New Year. We wanted...

The two Munchkin Christmas expansions (Nope, they're out of print)
The Red Dragon Inn? (Company gone out of business)
Pass me the Brain? (Out of print)
Killer Bunnies Purple expansion? (Sorry out of print)

By this point we were starting to feel like John Cleese in the "Cheese Shop" Sketch.

So by the time we've asked about the 8th item we give it up.

When we check it out, the only one that we honestly can not get at all is the Red Dragon since they seem to have gone tits-up as a business entity. Hopefully someone else will come along and buy their games up. It's likely, SJGames is great for picking up games from defunct companies and re-printing them under their name. Lord of the Fries and Pass me the Brain were originally made by Cheapass Games until they folded and were picked up by SJGames. They actually sell better under their care.

The rest of the games could be found on Ebay, Amazon, and the respective websites of the makers of the games.

So with this store's "Can't be arsed" attitude, we now have a bad taste in our mouth about buying from the only local guys.

As much as I wanted to support you, you didn't want to support your customers. And with this attitude, you have the gall to piss, bitch and moan over how we're killing your business by shopping from the manufacturers of the games directly?

Well maybe if you actually remembered the lessons of customer service you would actually still have customers to service.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some ordering to do.

Friday, December 10, 2010

The Christmas Spirit...

Yeah, pretty well lost it.

I tried to get myself into the Christmas Spirit. Went to Busch Gardens with friends to see the Christmas celebration there, watched my favorite Christmas movies such as Patrick Stewart's "A Christmas Carol", "The Polar Express" and (sorry Mom but I liked it) Ron Howard's version of "The Grinch who Stole Christmas".

Almost had it too.

But then I had to go and do something pretty fucking stupid. I listened to the news.

Let's see, there is our Federal Government (more like Federal Cluster Fuck). The Republicans were saying that they're going to hold millions of unemployed hostage unless the Democrats agree to their precious (My...Precioussssss) tax cuts. Obama says fine, we'll compromise. The Republicans say OK, that's fair but the Democrats now call Obama a traitor and a wimp and a spineless jellyfish that caved into the Republican's demands and so will not call the vote,

So now we have Repubs who aren't going to help the unemployed since they'll never get their tax cuts and the Dems who aren't going to help the unemployed since they pretty much will never listen to Obama ever again.

Merry fucking Christmas to the unemployed who can't find a job because three hundred people are fighting over the only three jobs opened at the K-Mart. This is no exaggeration. My wife was one of the three hundred people trying to get work and she was told by the people at K-Mart what the deal was.

Then we have the butt fuckers (and this is the literal usage of Butt Fucker") who raped and burned and killed a family (including the anal violation of an 11-year old...hence butt fucker). One of them has decided that he really doesn't want to push the issue any further and is not appealing the death penalty. So what do people do? They assume that this guy is insane (No! Really? You think?) since obviously he doesn't want to fight for his life and so they're filing the appeal for him.

Yes, we have some people who want to delay and/or stop the sending of this defective product back to the manufacturer. Dude. There is OVERWHELMING evidence that they did it, they do not deny that they did it (one saying that he doesn't know why he did it) and we're going to keep them alive at tax payer expense?

Merry fucking Christmas for the families and friends of the people these convicted criminals sodomized and BBQ'ed.

Then there is the kicker. This is the one that is making my blood boil. My step-daughter is in High School getting ready to go to college to get a degree in education and the assistance of special needs children. This is a girl with a gift. There are children that she has helped that will talk to her. In some cases, she is the only person they will talk to including their own parents. She has a gift. She told of a problem at the school. There are students that think that the greatest, bestest game in the whole of the universe is to hunt down the special needs children and punch the lunch trays so they fly into their faces.

What fun.

One kid was carrying hot food and took it into his face. He is deaf, barely able to speak more than a few words, and can not sign due to a deformity to his hands. Now you may think that the Children are the evil bastards here, but wait there's more! The staff at the school (fuck it) at Calvert High School in Prince Frederick Maryland (if they don't like it they can kiss my ass) will not do anything since the children attacked can not identify those doing it.

THEY ARE SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN YOU COCK-SUCKERS! Many of them (like the aforementioned kid with the bad hands and is a deaf-mute) can not function well enough to be able to identify the ones doing it. Don't you think that (oh I don't know...) YOU as the school staff ought to do something about it like putting someone there to monitor the situation? Oh, but then again this is the same school that my wife has witnessed a drug deal going on in the hallways and no one seems to be doing a goddamned thing about that either.

Merry fucking Christmas to all the hot, scalding soup wearing special needs children who don't even fully understand the concept of bullying. At least when they did that shit to me as a child I understood why it was being done (I was different and they were douchebags) but many of them don't understand and that makes it that much more frightening.

So I'm starting off my Christmas season with a serious case of the humbugs. And right about now if the Ghosts of Christmas shows up? "One swift knee to the happy sacks and he'll drop like anyone else"

Thank you David Lister.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

A Christmas Carol

The classic Dickens tale has been done so many ways and in so many styles that it has become a Christmas favorite of mine to watch. But is is amazing how few of them actually get it right.

I've actually read the original story thanks to Project Gutenberg and my iPhone's e-book reader app from Apple. Made a nice way to kill time while waiting for things. and comparing it to all the versions done it made me realize that so many of them got it wrong in degrees varying from slightly off to "what the Sam hill were they thinking?"

My personal favorite versions are as follows.

A Christmas Carol - done in 1999 starring Patrick Stewart. This version was I'd have to say one of the closest versions of the story I've seen. They left out a few minor tidbits. This bit most notably.

'Spirit?' said Scrooge, after a moment's thought, 'I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people's opportunities of innocent enjoyment.'
   'I!' cried the Spirit.
   'You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all,' said Scrooge. 'Wouldn't you?'
   'I!' cried the Spirit.
   'You seek to close these places on the Seventh Day,' said Scrooge. 'And it comes to the same thing.'
   'I seek!' exclaimed the Spirit.
   'Forgive me if I am wrong. It has been done in your name, or at least in that of your family,' said Scrooge.
   'There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all out kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.'
 And I can excuse that bit since it is a very common misconception that everyone in that era had access to a stove. After all in America in the same time period, most people had at least a small stove of their own and many had access to their own oven or would cook a bird in a stove-top covered pan which acted as an oven. So quite a number of people in our era are unaware that cooking a dinner often involved a local baker who would be more than happy to toss in a bird (already prepared by the owner) for a quick half-penny.

Another favorite is the Muppet's version. Largely accurate if you can get away from the Muppets and their unique brand of chaos (Beaker flipping off Scrooge...seriously! look for it when Scrooge tosses them out of his office). But they leave out Scrooge having dinner at his nephew's house and the reconciliation between them and replace it with a moment with Bob "Kermit" Cratchet and his family.

My last favorite is not so much a version of the classic, but a fun new twist on the story. I of course refer to "Scrooged" with Bill Murry. "The bitch hit me with a toaster" How can you not love that?

What prompted this blog post is the fact that I re-watched the latest version with Jim Carey in it. And I discovered that I flat out do not like it.

First of all, there is all the 3D for the sake of 3D and not for the sake of the story. It seemed to me like the love child of a 50's 3D "B" movie and Christmas Carol. After Scrooge capped the ghost of Christmas past, the cap launched him into low orbit as if Scrooge had wrapped himself around the nose cone of a Saturn V rocket.

Secondly they made him out to be down right evil in his old age. George C. Scott, Patrick Stewart, and Michael Caine had it right to the story. Scrooge was never evil. He was disillusioned with life and had pretty much given up on ever experiencing joy from it. He thought he had lost it all with the exception of the business and since that was all he had left, he held onto it with a passion.

Jim Carey's version was a very evil person who was so miserly that he had a hard time paying for the funeral of Marley and in fact took the tuppence from his eyes. Scrooge was a man of business and of honest commerce. He admired Martha Cratchet for her dedication to her work. The Albert Finney version (not a favorite of mine for reasons that I'll discuss later) at least showed Scrooge ranting and railing about all the people skipping out on payments due to him and then praising a store clerk who actually had the ability to pay  what was due that week.

To Scrooge, paying for the funeral was what was proper. Money pair for services rendered. Granted, Scrooge likely paid for the cheapest service but would have had no issue paying what was due. For him to do otherwise would be hypocritical since he expected others to do that as well to him. You pay what you owe.

Also Scrooge (the Jim Carey version) seemed to delight in being mean. The book just showed Scrooge as being a little unfeeling, but not out and out mean. Something that is hit or miss in the various Scrooge actors.

The aforementioned Albert Finney version had some scenes that were a little off to me. For one it was a Musical and I'm limited as to the Musicals that I like. I really detested the Christmas Present sequence where they seemed to not teach Scrooge a lesson, but to get him drunk of his ass on the Milk of Human Kindness or something. To me he didn't learn anything but to get his happiness from a bottle.

I wish Hollywood would pull it's head out of its ass and realize that the story stands on its own. That the lessons contained in it are simple and easy to understand and do not need embellishment. That we don't need to make Scrooge a villain before you reform him. That you don't have to have him showing up at the Cratchet house to make for a happy ending. That you can leave the story alone and it will be a good one.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Yahoo Answers fun

On Yahoo Answers, I occasionally see questions that are rants ans/or slams against people instead of honest questions. This one for example. The person was asking how many states are there in America. This question has been asked about a dozen times and seems to be a slam against President Obama who after a jet-lagged slip of the tongue is being painted as an idiot. 


I even understand the 58 states comment and how it came about. He was trying to describe the fact that he had been to 48 states and had 2 to go. However being tired the brain seems to have fixated on the truthful statement that there are 50 states. One tired brain and you get a combination of the two...the aforementioned 58 states. God only knows that I've made several amusing gaffs. So have many members of my family. 


One such gaff was a very tired step-son of mine whom in the middle of a card game (Munchkin Bites...fun game and highly recommended) was given a card "Imitate Bela Lugosi - Go up a level". Not knowing Bela Lugosi, he did his best and upon prodding by us on the simple line of "I vant to suck your blood" (the card's rule said that it didn't have to be a good impression) said in the stereotypical Gothic Dracula sort of cheap Euro-trash accent. What came out however was a Freudian slip of epic proportions and he uttered instead "I vant to fuck your blood".


So verbal gaffs are quite possible. Obama and his 58 states comment being blown out of proportion is nothing more than the media outlets creaming their collective jeans over the slightest anything that they can use to painting the President in a negative light. Hell look at what they did to Gerald Ford and his one (1, uno, ein un, одно) slip getting off of an aircraft. 


So I posted the following answer.



There are 50 states. 
Obama's comment was likely due to the fact that he was jet-lagged like a son of a @#$%^.
Being tired can do that to a person.
This "58 states" crap is very similar to how we perceived Gerald Ford as a clumsy buffoon simply because of one (1) singular misstep coming off of an aircraft. They really didn't like Ford, so that slip up became the brunt of a thousand jokes. Obama's little sleep-deprived slip of the tongue is the same. People don't like him so they look for any excuse to call him an idiot and a fool.
Grow up people. If you REALLY don't like him THEN GET OF YOUR ASSES AND VOTE IN 2012 FOR THE OTHER PERSON.

Yeah I know, that last bit was a little ranty on my part, but then again I'm sick to freaking death of all the "Birther" crap, how he's a Muslim Extremist in disguise or any number of the ways that people are bad mouthing the President. He is the President, he was elected by the will of the people filtered through the Electoral College, he is the man in charge until at least 2012 when he's up for reelection... assuming he wants to run again and frankly I don't blame him if he doesn't want to.


So I get the following in my e-mail from another user.



From:  (Y!A ID changed to cover my arse)
Subject: hey jagoff

Message: i don't care how freakin tired, drunk, high or stoned a person is, i've been stoned, drunk or so freaking tired i couldn't see at all let alone see straight and i would never ever say anything other than 50 states in the uinion. then again, i'm actaully a citizen having learned this little tidbit in first or second grade, and wouldn't spend $2 million hiding my records which prove it either.
But if you were drunk and/or stoned, how would you know what you said? I've seen drunk people trying some of the stupidest shit that anyone with a little common sense would know is a very bad idea. I've seen drunk friends try to jump over a moving car coming right at them. I've seen stoned people have to have a tattoo removed from their face because they thought that having a penis inked next to their mouth would be funny. Drunk or otherwise intoxicated people say and do the damnedest shit. Don't believe me? Turn your TV to the TruTV channel and watch "The Smoking Gun Presents: The World's Dumbest..."


Trust me, after 15 minutes you'll start wondering if they should just let these fuckers die so the gene pool would self-chlorinate.
making excuses for this lame schmuck is all you people have left, time to grow up and face facts, he is a snake oil salesman, and you made a bad decision.
First of all, in a private election how do you know who I voted for? I could have voted Libertarian for all you know. I could have voted for McCain. I could have done a write-in vote for Bill the Cat. So saying that I made the wrong choice is a matter of opinion on your part and nothing more. Secondly he is a politician. That means that right off the bat he LIES. He's no different from "W", Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Tricky Dick Nixon, etcetera and so on.


There is the old joke. "How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips are moving."


So yelling at me and railing that he is a snake oil salesman is pointless since they all try to blow sunshine up our asses and tell us that the world is filled with cute bunny rabbits masturbating in the meadows and ejaculating rainbows. Tell us something that we don't already know.
he will be out next election simply becasue many state will require the info he has been hiding before he is allowed on their ballots. he is out regardless of what he has said anbd once we understand that he wasn't eligible in the first place, everything he has signed will be revoked as illegal and he may even go to jail &/or be deported. good ridance to the little f^ck.
And here we see that you are one of the many people who think that he shouldn't have been president. Sorry, he was born on American soil (Hawaii being made a state just shy of two years prior to his birth), he was elected by the popular vote which told the Electoral College how to vote and so he is the president. You may not like him but the simple fact remains that he IS the president and I seriously doubt that he will be arrested and everything he has done will be thrown out as illegal.


And he'll likely be out next election because he simply not run again. All this Birther crap is nothing more than a way for Racist Americans to say in a politically correct fashion "Oh my GAWD! Who let that [racial slur for African-Americans] become president?" He knows it and he is bone tired of all of it.


I tried to reply to him, but he has me blocked to prevent me from messaging him back. A cowardly way to attack someone, but that's the blessing and the curse of the internet. People can rant and rail at people in ways that they would never do in real life for fear of what the person might do to them. And yes I do this as well by doing my blog. I can say what is on my mind without fear of reprisal. The difference between him and me is that I will allow people to speak their minds here even if that is a rant against me. I'm thick skinned and I can take a few insults. You don't grow up as a nerdy outcast in the public school system without learning how to cope. 


And should fa91338 should make it to my blog and post, don't try and attack my being a nerdy outcast. What I was in school is not what I am today and attacking that would be like me attacking you because you at some point in your life wore diapers and quite likely at some point in your life pissed your bed.


So I have replied (in red) to his points here on this blog since I can't really do it elsewhere. However I amended my answer to include a little stab at him.



Oh and fa91338? The next time you want to send me an email calling me a jagoff and other vile things, don't block my ability to reply privately. It only makes it seem as if you are afraid of my rebuttal. You might not be, but that's how it comes across.
Just saying.

To which I got this lovely and gramatically incorrect reply. The spelling errors and the grammar leads me to believe that I am yet again dealing with a childish mentality. Not saying that he is a child, but damn if he doesn't come across as a 10-year-old with a serious chip on his shoulders. My replies in red as usual.



From: fa91338
Subject: too freakin bad sport
Ooh! Insults right off the bat. This is going to be a nice conversation.
Message: the fact that you break the rules to which you agreed in order to use y/a whne you 'answer' (rant) only shows that you dont' really have anything sensible to offer.
And you and your comment of "according to obama, 58" (and yes he seems to not be really big on capitalization.) is something sensible to offer? What makes your insult to our President any less sensible than mine?
i block you becuase i doubt you have anythign else to say you haven't, which is futile at the onset.
Your grammar is making my head hurt. My friend who was a Fifth-Grade English teacher would have to take steps to keep her brain from exploding at your unwillingness and/or inability to speak as if you were properly educated.
if you dont' like the way people email you, block them, breaking the rules/vioating in an answer will only getour suspended and i am not anywhere close to afraid of you or your kind.
Why should I take the cowards way out? Why should I hide behind a fence like a little yippy-skippy dog and bark at the Pit Bulls walking past? And speaking of violating the rules, there is the interesting rule in the Terms of Service that states that being abusive to other users through the message system is also a violation. Pot calling the kettle black there don't you think?
ht eproblem is now that if i ublkock you i cannot re-instate it later, so too bad, deal like an adult and move on. otherwise i am sure you will end up suspended in the long run. it is obviousyou'r childlike mind will eventually end up w/ 1 of these 2 results, you will learn or you will get suspended.
Me? Childlike? that's laughable. Seriously, are you really that uneducated that you can't type correctly? Or did my comment inflame you to the point of being so blind with rage that you are only able to bang at the keys and hope for the best? In either case it is very amusing to me. 


Oh and saying that I'll get suspended? Have you even read what goes on in Yahoo Answers? Racial slurs, insults to people of religion (or against those who do not ascribe to it at all), slams against popular celebrities? And all of these very thinly veiled as legitimate questions from people who do this at least three times a night and have accounts that have been active for several years. You think that I'm going to get suspended? Again I am amused.
as top your idiotic comment in the answer, like the other assh0le mentioned that what you and he think was meant by the 58 states comment never had any such reasoning when bush was president so why should anyone cut this idiot any slack?
Because he is a human and thus subject to making human mistakes. Something that the world at large has forgotten. That our celebrities are not Gods and are as subject to the same personal demons as the rest of us are. Because at some point we are are going to make a mistake and we're going to hope like all hell that someone will be forgiving towards us in a way that you do not seem to be towards others. Because some of us believe in not being douche bags.
oh yeah, the 2 faces of the libs, thats why. the other guy also mentioned having vistited another country and was confused. it was during campaign mode in the US, he hadn't been in another country. this is the kind if idiottic rhetoric which makes you kids so useless on y/a...

FYI: I am not a kid. I have a wife, a job and three step-children and am in my late 30's. You want to talk about useless? Why not kvetch at all the "What is my boyfriend thinking?" questions? Or all the shock-value questions of "I just stuck my cat in the microwave and turned it on. How do I revive fluffy so my parents won't be mad at me?" questions? Why not consider the "Spiritually Speaking" questions that have nothing to do with religion or spirituality in any way, shape or form? There is far more that is useless than anything I can put forth.


So now I'm going to post the link to this blog entry and see if this chap is willing to take this further. I welcome it in fact. There is nothing he can say that'll raise my blood pressure the slightest notch. And who knows. he may be amusing.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Who owns the sun? Not this woman.

Angeles Duran of Spain has laid a claim to the Sun.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333776/Spanish-woman-Angeles-Duran-claims-owns-sun--plans-start-charging-ALL-users.html

And further to that, she wants to slap everyone who used the Sun and it's energy with a fee. Now She does plan on using half of the fee for a charity which is nice and all but how in the name of Zeus's sweat soaked jock strap does she plan on enforcing this?

How is she going to collect a fee from the over six billion people on this planet? I'd LOVE to see her try and collect from Al Qeada or the religious leaders of Iraq. Or North Korea! That'll be a fun one.

Further to that, how could she collect a fee for something that she has no way of stopping? Frankly if she did try, the first thing I'd say to her would be "Nope! Don't want to pay for the service. Don't really need the Sun. Go ahead and cut me off."

Also did this woman think of the downside? I could sue her for every time I got a sunburn. All the people who got Skin Cancer would be suing her. Everyone who got a really high electricity bill from having to run the AC in the summer to counter the effects of the Sun. Or every dashboard that cracked from the exposure. Anything that faded from solar exposure. Anything negative that can be attributed to the Sun would open her ass wide open for a lawsuit.

But she is damn lucky. While she thinks she is able to own the sun thanks to the Outer Space treaty signed in 1967, there is a passage that proves her dead ass wrong.

Her argument (and the argument for the chap selling deeded property on the moon) is that no government can lay claim to the celestial bodies out there. Their thinking is that the governments can not, but there is nothing that says that individuals can't.

Oh but there is chicky, there is.


Article VI states:
States Parties to the Treaty shall bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, whether such activities are carried on by governmental agencies or by non-governmental entities, and for assuring that national activities are carried out in conformity with the provisions set forth in the present Treaty. The activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty. When activities are carried on in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, by an international organization, responsibility for compliance with this Treaty shall be borne both by the international organization and by the States Parties to the Treaty participating in such organization.
or by non-governmental entities
This means people like her are covered under the same international treaty as the Governments of the world which signed it.

The activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty.
Meaning that even if she could lay claim to it, The Spanish Government (which did sign the treaty BTW) would have to back her and the odds of that happening are somewhere between "A whelk's chance in a supernova" and "None"

So nice try lady...nice try.