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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: bijou on August 14, 2011, 01:36:33 PM
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housewolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Aug-14-11 02:00 PM
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Get this! PayPal Founder Funding Off-Shore FLOATING COUNTRY!!! a la Ayn Rand
Edited on Sun Aug-14-11 02:01 PM by housewolf
From the "you can't make this stuff up" file -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024761/Atlas-S...
Silicon Valley billionaire reveals plan to launch floating 'start up country' off San Francisco
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:46 AM on 11th August 2011
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. Mr Thiel and his colleagues say their ocean state would have no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.
Aiming to have tens of millions of residents by 2050, the Seastead Institute says architectural plans for a prototype involve a movable, diesel-powered, structure with room for 270 residents. The long-term plan would be to have dozens and eventually hundreds of the platforms linked together.
read the article...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024761/Atlas-S...
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Start-up community planned for around 2019
Hard to pick the stupidest reply but this comes close:
tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Aug-14-11 02:26 PM
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8. In a real life Atlas Shrugged scenario, nobody would miss the dipshits who left
The people who think they are the elite, the idea people and the jobs creators could all leave tomorrow and hardly anybody would notice or care.
Mr Thiel, if he ever gets his big giant raft afloat, will find that out to his dismay.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x620935#620944
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Cool concept!
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Like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand
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Kewl. Not my personal cup of tea, I am definitely a landsman, but interesting nonetheless.
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He can call his country Ronulandia.