Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage Subject: Re: Floppies Date: 23 Sep 2025 04:04:24 GMT Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <9fjemlxbio.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10a6t8d$1d082$8@dont-email.me> <4cnjplxbgm.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <101fck52laaigefq5tubi6i7b0qpccmuic@4ax.com> <9DOdncYo-vBzE1r1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> <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 1AuVz5jvsxDtgQBIP0PMCQljtzvfsjD+R1n4F/Uk+tcJH30I/+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:glTqnoiwujVgMVL+jTJ4tWWdaJs= sha256:xjrNTUgrRamTkTGccyd3mzmHdx3vXaqatsusBRVmKtY= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74915 alt.usage.english:1128699 On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:48:40 +0100, Sam Plusnet wrote: > [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.> B. Traven's 'Das Totenschiff' (The Death Ship) comes to mind. The crew consists of stateless people who can never leave. The Yorikke isn't seaworthy but they somehow keep it afloat. I never saw it but I think there was a movie based on it but completely overshadowed by 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madres'.