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[Ormorof]

If a baby is delivered on an airplane over US airspace (for the sake of argument lets say its slap bang in the middle of North America) from a British woman on a German airline, can the mother claim US nationality for her child? Or does it go on the nationality of the carrier, or on the citizenship of the mother?

it depends a bit on the laws of your parents country, for example anyone with an irish father automatically qualifies as an irish citizen regardless of where they are born

Also i believe in Aviation the laws of the nation you are leaving from are in effect until you actually touch down - so in effect the baby might end up with German nationality too if flying from Germany->US - but i think the EU already has thought of this shiz and put an end to it as a friend of mine has 2x british parents but has a passport from Phillipines on top of his British one as he was born somewhere over the indian ocean while his parents were on their return trip from holiday (i have no idea why his parents decided to fly halfway around the world in the 80s while his mom was heavily pregnant but some people are crazy like that)

on the other hand other nations dont allow dual nationality (within the EU at least), leaving me in the bizarre situation that i cant legally vote anywhere, bah!

 

[Lamp]

I need help locating 4 pictures. I found them on Flickr yesterday. I've deleted my browser history & cache. I've tried every search term I can think of in advanced search on Flickr (olive, olives, bowl, olive oil, white background, etc etc). Done a reverse image search on Google. Zippo.

Here's one of the four pics. The three others are almost identical, just varying degrees of zoom. The guy's photostream was quite classy, no idea of his name.

Other than typing "olive" into Flickr and going through 600,000 images one by one, any ideas?

 

[Gwadien]

it depends a bit on the laws of your parents country, for example anyone with an irish father automatically qualifies as an irish citizen regardless of where they are born

Also i believe in Aviation the laws of the nation you are leaving from are in effect until you actually touch down - so in effect the baby might end up with German nationality too if flying from Germany->US - but i think the EU already has thought of this shiz and put an end to it as a friend of mine has 2x british parents but has a passport from Phillipines on top of his British one as he was born somewhere over the indian ocean while his parents were on their return trip from holiday (i have no idea why his parents decided to fly halfway around the world in the 80s while his mom was heavily pregnant but some people are crazy like that)

on the other hand other nations dont allow dual nationality (within the EU at least), leaving me in the bizarre situation that i cant legally vote anywhere, bah!

What do you mean, you can't vote anywhere? Not even where you were born? :S

 

[dysfunction]

I need help locating 4 pictures. I found them on Flickr yesterday. I've deleted my browser history & cache. I've tried every search term I can think of in advanced search on Flickr (olive, olives, bowl, olive oil, white background, etc etc). Done a reverse image search on Google. Zippo.

Here's one of the four pics. The three others are almost identical, just varying degrees of zoom. The guy's photostream was quite classy, no idea of his name.

Other than typing "olive" into Flickr and going through 600,000 images one by one, any ideas?

Google image search.
Drag that pic into Google's search page...

 

[Cerb]

I tried that for him already and it doesne work!

 

[DaGaffer]

Not coming up on Tineye either.

 

[DaGaffer]

If a baby is delivered on an airplane over US airspace (for the sake of argument lets say its slap bang in the middle of North America) from a British woman on a German airline, can the mother claim US nationality for her child? Or does it go on the nationality of the carrier, or on the citizenship of the mother?

Ah true, though airspace might be a special occasion that can be used to naturalize a baby. Most probably not, but might be.

Huh, turns out with a bit more research that I was both right and wrong. In general, the nationality of the plane is treated as sovereign territory, but the US is a specific exception under a principle called jus soli, so if you're above US airspace up to the 12-mile nautical limit, yes, you could claim US citizenship and one day be president. (The only exception is if the mother or father is "not subject to the jurisdiction" of the US; e.g. a diplomat or other foreign official). The US isn't the only country to apply this rule, but most don't.

 

[Nate]

Don't they tell expectant mothers not to fly at so many weeks pregnant anyway?

 

[rynnor]

Don't they tell expectant mothers not to fly at so many weeks pregnant anyway?

I thought this but it turns out they just need a certificate from their doc.

 

[Gwadien]

'They' Also tell you you'll go blind if you masturbate too much, and I've got 20 20 vision.

 

[Lamp]

I can so identify with this





View: http://youtu.be/HBImg8LdQc4

 

[Edmond]

 

[Lamp]

I found a pic of a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny frog on a shroom

All hail our new master

 

[Lamp]

Oh, while we're on the subject, 10 points to the first person to give me the latin name of the following:

 

[old.Tohtori]

Amanita muscaria?

 

[Lamp]

10 points right there, Sir. Well done.

 

[Bigmac]

Apparently theres a shooting star/meteor in the sky just now, people on facebook going nuts about it. I don't think it is and I will be the first to welcome our alien overlords.

 

[Shagrat]

i couldnt give a fuck ive drunk two bottles of wine.

 

[Shagrat]

Woah, havent got a clue what just flew/passed over oakham but it was making hell of a noise. Was just noise nad a light in the sky by the time I got outside(was havig trouble with keys and keyholes...)

 

[Lamp]

A 25-year-old man has been mauled by a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City after he jumped from an elevated train into a tiger enclosure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19683408

 

[Nate]

A 25-year-old man has been mauled by a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City after he jumped from an elevated train into a tiger enclosure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19683408

So what drugs was he on? 10 points for correct answer!

I remember a Simpsons episode where Reverend Lovejoy jumped in to a baboon enclosure to save Ned. Hmm. In Marge we Trust

 

[Ormorof]

What do you mean, you can't vote anywhere? Not even where you were born? :S

in Denmark you lose your right to vote if you are living outside the country for more than 2 years, unless you are a student, as i have been a "permanent" resident outside of Denmark for the last 14 years i cannot vote there at all, in Finland (where i live) and in the UK you need to be a citizen to vote (in UK its slightly different Irish citizens can also vote and channel islanders i believe)

so i cant vote in any general elections anywhere

that should change soon though as Denmark will start allowing dual (or more) nationality of 2 EU countries sometime in the next year meaning I am eligible for Irish and Finnish passports on top of my Danish one, allowing me to vote in 2 countries but still not my "home" nation which is a bit absurd

 

[Lamp]

Little point in voting at the moment over here.

All the political parties are wet, weak, bags of u-turn election-breaking corrupt scumbags. Nigel Ferage seems to be the only MP who consistently knows where he stands on every issue, but UKIP doesn't tick all the boxes for me. None of them do.

Our current government is a joke. None of the MPs have any backbone, integrity, empathy, common sense, or character. Critically, none of them are experienced. They're so young. Long gone are the real politicians (eg Tony Benn, Nye Bevan, etc) - men of principal, character, and integrity. Our current batch don't have a clue how to run the economy, our defence, our health service, our schools, or our bizarre attachment to foreign aid. They seem to treat running the country like a game, or a hobby (you know, pick it up one day, play with it, break it, then put it back in the drawer for someone to glue it back together later). The way we treat the elderly over here is shameful. Our care homes aren't fit for purpose. They're all too scared of the whips and end up toeing the party line (whatever flavour it happens to be on the day) instead of truly representing their constituents or following what they know in their hearts to be right and proper. Ministers switch jobs every 3 weeks, so one minute you're responsible for Agriculture, the next you're in charge of our nuclear bases and armed forces. We end up with cretins like Baroness Warsi in Cabinet. What is going on? Its all namby-pamby, nanny-state, politically correct, ooh-we-can't-be-seen-to-be-too-left-or-too-right-any-more bollocks.

 

[Access Denied]

I think we should put an actual, successful businessman in charge of the economy and a lifetime member of our armed forces in charge of the MoD.

 

[Lamp]

Its time we had a new political party. A party for the people. A party that stands for common sense. A truly democratic party. A party that actually puts in place changes that affect ordinary people at an every-day level as well as fixing the catastrophic cock-ups at the national & international level. The old-hackneyed phrase "well it takes time, it can't happen overnight" is a euphemism for laziness and inefficiency. Start by getting rid of all the wasteful & useless NHS management structures, pulling our troops home from bloody Afghanistan, scrap Trident, and put looking after our elderly, sick & vulnerable several hundred rungs up the priority ladder.

 

[fettoken]

I think we should put an actual, successful businessman in charge of the economy and a lifetime member of our armed forces in charge of the MoD.

Exactly. Someone that is already well financed and successful. Not someone that wants to get rich and successful by sitting there

 

[Lamp]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj59/features/powerlaps

I think the Ferrari FXX did it in 1.10 (slick tyres, so didn't count) and an F1 car did it in something like 51 seconds (not road legal)

 

[Job]

Little point in voting at the moment over here.

All the political parties are wet, weak, bags of u-turn election-breaking corrupt scumbags. Nigel Ferage seems to be the only MP who consistently knows where he stands on every issue, but UKIP doesn't tick all the boxes for me. None of them do.

Regardless of your opinion of his tactics, you have to agree he isn't lying.

 

[Raven]

Distorting the truth.

 

[Job]

You have to fight fire with fire, I think the lies of the Euro zone are in their own league