A person, or a corporation? A corporation is a legal fiction, created by the threat of force of a nation (in the end, it always boils down to force) and therefore it cannot exist without a nation. But a person who amassed sufficient capital (of whatever kind) to for example move onto an aircraft carrier[-sized vessel] in international waters, and who renounced their citizenship, might reasonably not be a resident of any nation. Problem is, when it comes time to make more money, someone will still try to collect some taxes from you. And also, nations like for you to belong to some nation so that they can decide how to treat you without having to think, based on your passport.

DOS ain't done 'till Lotus won't run predates DR-DOS. The issues with Windows 3.1 on top of DR-DOS were a whole other thing. I was surprised they were actually affecting people since it really didn't make sense to run Windows on DR-DOS anyway. You'd run MS-DOS and MS Windows, or you'd run DR-DOS without any GUI (they provided a DOS task switcher with multitasking which was actually fairly decent) or you'd run Desqview. But apparently many people were quite incensed that Windows wouldn't run properly atop DR-DOS.

Learning is surely great in all forms.

Which is why no one should leave school without being able to solve quantum mechanical wave functions. They are, after all, about as useful to an average person as a language they never really learned and thus won't use. And no more of a nightmare being force-fed than languages are to not linquistically oriented.

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot: it's no shame being bad at math but being bad at languages is due to laziness.

Chinese, for dealing with anyone outside the BPO / ITO / major trade companies: government, state owned and specialists yes.

And this is another thing: it's simply foolish to conduct business on you business partner's native language if it's foreign to you, since it puts you at a disadvantage. Use an interpreter rather than risk the distraction.

Nobody needs the code to 1-2-3. But it would be highly interesting to have the code to 1-2-3 1.0, because it would be fascinating to see how it was done on such limited platforms as original PCs. I had 1-2-3 1.0 on a PC-1 with 448kB memory — 384kB of which was on an ISA expansion card. Those were the days, I guess.

I had a machine with 8" floppies, but it wouldn't run lotus. It would run Wordstar, though. But I actually ran it on the machine with 5.25" floppies, because it actually worked. I would say Kaypro 4 forever, but obviously I got rid of that long ago

Apparently Plutarch already knew this little puzzle called the ship of Theseus problem.

I'm highly confident that some US judges will finally put those those annoying logicians and philosophers to rest and give us the ultimate correct solution.

The ultimate correct solution is that the definition of "ship of Theseus" is not entirely fixed, so neither is the point where it becomes something else. And that means that lawyers are exactly the correct people to decide the matter, seeing how it depends on splitting hairs over semantics.

No, see, Apple hasn't done those things, wholly-owned subsidiaries have done it... So it's both true and irrelevant

To my knowledge, no allegations have been made against Judge Wright.

Sure they have: the grandparent just made some.

with small fees (cent per transaction)

$1.2 per transaction, actually. The default transaction fee is 0.01 BTC, and current exchange rate is $120 per BTC.

That's becoming somewhat of a problem, actually.

It might just be to improve the chances of conception. Google 'fruitbat fellatio', which would also be a great name for a band

One of the nice things about MITX is that the homework and tests are the same they take at the actual school. No watering down. Of course the negative is that you don't have all the resources you would on campus (fellow students, office hours, etc), making it harder.

The whole point of a turing complete machine (within the limits of finite amounts of memory) is that it isn't a different machine for a different program. The appeal is that one machine can run a variety of different programs; in theory, perform any calculation for which it has enough memory.

So no, no matter what software you have loaded, you haven't made it a different machine. Not even if you load different microcode. Only if you are burning fuses or proms (real proms, or at least some kind you can't erase for one reason or another) are you making it something in particular.

Wild snails are dirty. That's why you feed them corn meal for a while until you eat them. I don't know how you can tell when they're done, but I've never really given too much thought to inspecting snail shit.

Not if his mucus has anything to say about it.

You can't get that OTC, can you? I've seen Triclosan toothpaste but it was prescribed.