Would You Live Here?

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Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.

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 lat-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."

"There are quite a lot of people who think it's not possible," Thiel said at a Seasteading Institute Conference in 2009, according to Details. (His first donation was in 2008, for $500,000.) "That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about those people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously. And they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late."

The Seasteading Institute's Patri Friedman says the group plans to launch an office park off the San Francisco coast next year, with the first full-time settlements following seven years later.

Would you volunteer to go live on one of those???

My first thought - hurricane.

Second thought - no good roads to ride a motorcycle on.

Yeah... perfect for those who thrive living in a gated community. Not for me, TYVM. No riding places either...yep, I don't thinks.

although..................

You can see those anywhere on open water. Don't need to live in a HurricaneHouse to enjoy the view of that.

Not a chance.

I've worked in the offshore oil industry long enough to know that sooner or later something bad will happen.

1) Thunderhorse: http://xpda.com/junkmail/junk187/ThunderHorseList.jpg

2) Typhoon: http://hydrogencommerce.com/images/typhooncapsized.jpg

No thanks...

Only if you're aloud to have guns.

trav72 wrote:

Only if you're aloud to have guns.

Apparently, before you get to that question, you have to be able to spell.

Jäger wrote:

trav72 wrote:

Only if you're aloud to have guns.

Apparently, before you get to that question, you have to be able to spell.

Damn, "smart" phone.