If Paddy Roy Bates is the master of Sealand, do his subjects call him Master?

Sure, the HTC CEO reads slashdot every day.

Freedom of speech is a human right, unless it's insulting.
But no-one was directly insulted in this joke, it was only a stupid pun.

Maybe dark as in the other side, so no communication with Earth because the Moon is in the way.

"Houston, we're going dark" (Appollo 13, almost ;-)

There's bound to be a corollary to Rule 34 about xkcd... ;-)

This isn't technically true. Democratically elected officials have been lobbied into passing legislation. If you didn't vote for incompetent crooks, this wouldn't happen.

Où sont mes points de modération quand j'en ai besoin ?

Not yet, but they're trying very hard though :-(

I love how this is getting Informative mods... :-)

Well, with Jimmy Darmody gone, maybe Nucky Thompson will make it!

Ever since programming languages existed, they have been classified in 2 categories:
- Those every one bitches about,
- and those nobody uses...

This is not a rant against Web 2.0 ;-)

Backward companies who still run win2k exist...

That's when the domain falls to the ground, unconscious.

Paris is the same. You can use 2G everywhere, 3G in some (too rare) cases, and keep a phone conversation going all the way.

Simply put, the UK is not known for its infrastructure. Hell, half the tube stops every week-end for refurbishment and it's still slow and unreliable. But as the French and Germans are slowly taking them over, the Brits finally get a taste of technology ;-)