> This has however been rendered pointless once the courts ruled in Accolade's favor in Sega v. Accolade, where Sega's trademark enforcement system was questioned as being monopolistic, and bypassing it by third parties on the grounds that it is for the purposes of lawful interoperability was ruled as fair use.
They are referring to Tesla selling the lower half of a car. It'd be battery pack in the middle, motors, suspension, wheels and then you build the rest of the car around the barebones powertrain from Tesla.
did mainland china get a chance for the personal website stuff? i feel like I've seen a boatload of japanese/SEA blogs and websites in my years but never chinese. maybe they all skipped that phase and went straight to the social media megacorps over there and its all behind a walled garden
No, personal web in China almost doesn’t exist anymore because you need a ICP filing [0] to legally operate a website (even for a blog). It’s simply too much trouble for most people.
Literally from the abstract in the link: "The findings reveal that, overall, far-right populist discourses in alt-tech communities predominantly support the processes of democracy and uphold most (though not all) of its values. Understanding these discourses is crucial for safeguarding liberal democracy in a context of rising illiberalism."
I have read the article! It's not much about this subject, nor making a particularly strong case for what is and isn't included in a definition of democracy. I wonder why you are quoting it at me and not at the other commenter?
Amazon.com Inc is feeding off the egregore of the Amazon rainforest. Its not a coincidence that the Rainforest retreats at the same pace Amazon.com's profits climb.
Purple dyes can be made easily from many natural sources.
Nevertheless, none of those has the lightfastness and the permanence of the pigment extracted from snails, which were the reasons for its very high value in the antiquity.
After Tyrian purple, the blue dyes from indigo or woad are the next best in lightfastness, and then some of the red dyes. Most natural dyes fade rather quickly, so in antiquity it was usual to dye again the expensive garments from time to time, not only to wash them.
Now it is possible to synthesize the pigments that compose the Tyrian purple, but the process is much more expensive than for the cheap purple synthetic dyes that are commonly used.
I recall a lot of micronations seeking to have their country mentioned in writing by any official, with some beseeching the Queen or other foreign affairs ministries.
Apparently a polite mention in a letter is enough in their interpretation to qualify as an actual nation.
I go by a de-facto interpretation. That way a country isn't defined by people wanting or not wanting to accept reality, but rather by facts on the ground.
Those aren't facts on the ground, they're legal fictions for another country.
Have you been to an un-recognised country before? I have. It's just... a country. Currencies, police, military, border security. Those are the facts on the ground. What their neighbours think are not.
Both are just as real interpretations. If a gang were to run a city it doesn't mean they start issuing passports that do anything or get to apply to vote on things in the UN. Just because you don't recognize the neighboring group doesn't mean they can't wage war against you or take control of what happens in the region.
For most contexts I'd agree being recognized by other countries is the most common interpretation between the two angles. That doesn't mean it's the only valid interpretation.
What happens when one country decides their claim extends into another's land? What if that land is populated by that country's culture? What about if they're of the other culture? Who, exactly, gets to determine who controls that land? Should we just have full on wars and kill thousands or millions of people for every single border conflict?
Or do we rely on legal fictions and group consensus to define rules on who gets to claim what?
Facts on the ground are I've claimed part of your country's territory as my own country. Your borders are a legal fiction.
Facts on the ground are you went on vacation, I broke into your house and now I live there. Your deed is a legal fiction.
If group consensus recognizes my claim over yours, my claim becomes valid and yours is not. I get the benefit of protection of the law. You, personally, can try to take it from me, but the police will recognize my claim and not yours.
If you claim part of my territory and group consensus rejects your claim, my armies and my allies' will enforce the legal fiction that is my borders and remove you from my territory.
Have you considered why these countries want legal recognition? If the law is fiction and facts on the ground matter more, why care about recognition?
The examples you provided are misconstruing the comment you are responding to. As they said, if an unrecognized nation has a systems for functional "currencies, police, military, border security", although I'd also add independent taxation, then it is functionally a nation. This is not a random declaration of sovereignty or declaration of conquest over an area they are referring to, but a place that has all of the elements of a nation or independent state, but is simply not widely recognized.
A well-known example of this is Kosovo, which operates as a sovereign state, with its own police, military, taxation and secure borders with border security, but is only recognized by only a little over half of the UN. Another example is Taiwan, which has its own currency, independent taxation system, passport, military, police and representative governance, despite not being officially recognized by many member states of the UN. Israel is an example of a nation which was not recognized by any of its neighbors, despite being in control of its territory, but ended up being recognized around the world all the same.
A country being diplomatically unrecognized, which is what was being referred to, does not mean that it is unknown or obscure. Both Kosovo and Taiwan are not obscure, but are still widely unrecognized.
The thread started on countries so desperate for a scrap of recognition that a single letter is extremely important.
When you point out countries that are only officially recognized by half the countries on the planet, that's not in the same ballpark. Those countries have widespread but not universal recognition.
For a proper example of an "unrecognized" country... I'd say for sure there should be less than 10 UN members that recognize it, and even that is an intentionally loose bound.
