Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations 692
MadMartigan2001 writes with a pretty crazy article on a project involving floating libertarian paradises. From the article: "PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters. Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties."
I know! (Score:3, Funny)
A barge with a nuclear reactor to provide electricity!
An important public service (Score:2, Funny)
Quarantining rabid libertarians out in the middle of the ocean? Where can I send my contribution to this marvelous project?
Re:Beyond the protection of the law, too (Score:4, Funny)
That'll make for an interesting story for the grandkids. "We came to this land to pirate software freely, but then we ran into those looking to freely pirate our land."
Old joke (Score:4, Funny)
Old Hungarian joke:
- Where do you work?
- At the Ministry of Naval Affairs.
- Are you kidding, we don't even have a seashore!
- Hey, we got a Ministry of Public Welfare too.
Re:Only as "free" as your ability to defend it (Score:3, Funny)
obstetrical
"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
Re:Only as "free" as your ability to defend it (Score:5, Funny)
Kill the pig! Slit her throat!
Bash her in! Kill the pig!
Slit her throat!
Bash her in! Kill the pig!
Slit her throat! Bash her in!
Kill the pig! Slit her throat!
Bash her in!
Kill the pig!
Look. We killed a pig!
We stole up on it!
You let the fire out.
We can light it up again.
You should have been
with us, Ralph.
There was lots of blood!
You should have seen it.