Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage Subject: Re: Floppies Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:17:47 +0100 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <87wm5qckd0.fsf@parhasard.net> References: <9fjemlxbio.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10a8mbc$1q6g1$8@dont-email.me> <10afh2l$3hcc0$1@dont-email.me> <10ag0tf$3l3a7$1@dont-email.me> <10agpn4$3qpp8$2@dont-email.me> <10ah9i6$3v8gp$1@dont-email.me> <10ai0bj$599f$1@dont-email.me> <7ZYzQ.83$Qzga.44@fx10.ams1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Dqk2XxAPyRdQg1MiT+P4vQLSKhmf1k5NKd24JkiFP/EeNa9fID Cancel-Lock: sha1:SkViWEgQgiLyRQ44s4e9OMZax2A= sha1:6Oak+njgOL+hDgOMDiwZZrkM+Ls= sha256:7w2ZXPgWl+pxnLdoJiF2WkFpr2GXAxjXgad/par9ToM= User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) XEmacs/21.5-b35 (Linux-aarch64) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74881 alt.usage.english:1128678 Ar an dara lá is fiche de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Sam Plusnet: > [...] [1] A thought occurs. What happens to someone who is living on a > cruise ship when their passport expires? Do they become stateless? Doomed to > forever roam the waves without ever being able to visit dry land? > Presumably, the ship would be unable to evict them.> A passport is documentation of nationality, it is not the underlying fact of that nationality. There are other documents that can confirm nationality; birth cert is often sufficient or close to it. Straying from the subject, I’m sure Iceland would take anyone off a cruise ship with good Icelandic and a plausible facial bone structure if that person asserted his or her Icelandic passport had been lost or stolen. -- ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out / How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’ (C. Moore)