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bmacsmith · **Joined:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:52 pm **Posts:** 8288

at least thats the way it looks to me.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... cisco.html

Quote:

PayPal-founder Peter Thiel was so inspired by Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand's novel about free-market capitalism - that he's trying to make its title a reality.
The Silicon Valley billionaire has funnelled $1.25 million to the Seasteading Institute, an organization that aspires to launch a floating colony into international waters, freeing them and like-minded thinkers to live by Libertarian ideals.
Mr Thiel recently told Details magazine that: 'The United States Constitution had things you could do at the beginning that you couldn't do later. So the question is, can you go back to the beginning of things? How do you start over?'

The floating sovereign nations that Thiel imagines would be built on oil-rig-like platforms anchored in areas free of regulation, laws, and moral conventions.
The Seasteading Institute says it will 'give people the freedom to choose the government they want instead of being stuck with the government they get.'
The venture capitalist who famously helped Facebook expand beyond the Harvard campus, Mr Thiel called seasteading an 'open a frontier for experimenting with new ideas for government.'

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given2trade · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:23 am

good luck with that

dkfan9 · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:00 pm

good topic title

broken iris · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:09 pm

Is he going to allow black people?

Electromatic · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:15 pm

broken iris wrote:

Is he going to allow black people?

Haiti is available.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:23 pm

broken iris wrote:

Is he going to allow black people?

Sure, who else will do all the shit jobs?

broken iris · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:33 pm

cutuphalfdead wrote:

broken iris wrote:

Is he going to allow black people?

Sure, who else will do all the shit jobs?

Did you read Atlas Shrugged?

bmacsmith · **Joined:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:52 pm **Posts:** 8288

since they will have no industry or resources, i assume everyone will be living off the government?

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:51 pm

broken iris wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

broken iris wrote:

Is he going to allow black people?

Sure, who else will do all the shit jobs?

Did you read Atlas Shrugged?

Oh heavens no.

Rebar · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:39 pm

Waterworld was one of thodoks' favorite movies. Or was it lenny? Possibly Alex?

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:41 pm

You can not pee into a Mr. Coffee and get Taster's Choice!

broken iris · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:46 pm

cutuphalfdead wrote:

broken iris wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

broken iris wrote:

Is he going to allow black people?

Sure, who else will do all the shit jobs?

Did you read Atlas Shrugged?

Oh heavens no.

Spoiler: show: The world's smartest and most capable producers do the shit jobs in Rand's Galt's Gulch. One of Rand's points in the story was that in a proper functioning economic system, the best people start at the bottom and earn their way to the top. They don't get appointed or elected or inherit it or are give it as an entitlement, the earn it. Bullshit, but then so is a lot of that book.

LittleWing · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:43 am **Posts:** 10694

You don't need natural resources for a place like this to work. Financial services, outsourced engineering work, software development, and all the associated commerce that goes along with it could exist. Getting it off the ground will be the most difficult part.

Orpheus · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:50 pm

Man I'm bout to fuck some Big Daddies up.

Alex · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:53 pm

the shadow of the thodoxicon's influence knows no limits

dkfan9 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:28 pm

Alex wrote:

the shadow of the thodoxicon's influence knows no limits

this is more like a littlewing/humanbass thing to do. only littlewing if they fight wars though.

Alex · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:33 pm

dkfan9 wrote:

Alex wrote:

the shadow of the thodoxicon's influence knows no limits

this is more like a littlewing/humanbass thing to do. only littlewing if they fight wars though.

there is room for the insane and condescending in the thodoxicon

thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

Alex wrote:

dkfan9 wrote:

Alex wrote:

the shadow of the thodoxicon's influence knows no limits

this is more like a littlewing/humanbass thing to do. only littlewing if they fight wars though.

there is room for the insane and condescending in the thodoxicon

even the I Hail Randy Mosses of the world get a turn at the wheel every once in a while on the good ship thodoks

Alex · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:19 pm

thodoks wrote:

Alex wrote:

dkfan9 wrote:

Alex wrote:

the shadow of the thodoxicon's influence knows no limits

this is more like a littlewing/humanbass thing to do. only littlewing if they fight wars though.

there is room for the insane and condescending in the thodoxicon

even the I Hail Randy Mosses of the world get a turn at the wheel every once in a while on the good ship thodoks

ingenuity's magnetism guides the compass

LittleWing · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:43 am **Posts:** 10694

dkfan9 wrote:

Alex wrote:

the shadow of the thodoxicon's influence knows no limits

this is more like a littlewing/humanbass thing to do. only littlewing if they fight wars though.

I'm not real big on fighting wars...

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