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Do you support Sealand?
Yes 67%  67%  [ 8 ]
No 17%  17%  [ 2 ]
Your mom goes to college 17%  17%  [ 2 ]
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10 Oct 2011, 1:17 am

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I can only imagine Dox having a colorful array of dancing sailors in peculiar colors singing songs in his under water fortress while he smokes a pipe.


Hmm, I do smoke a pipe occasionally (hooray for latakia!), but I'm far more likely to be found smoking a cigar these days. I'm smoking my way through a nice Rocky Patel sampler at the moment, I already know that I like what he makes but I hate paying for fancy boxes and I couldn't resist the sale price.


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10 Oct 2011, 1:20 am

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Someday I plan on purchasing a de-commed deep sea oil rig and declaring independence myself, so of course I recognize Sealand and it's colorful royal family.


The ocean is a big place, with abundant resources... It seems likely that if the technology is there, it could be the place where libertarian (among other political ideas) "experimental communities" might coalesce


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10 Oct 2011, 1:31 am

Can anyone say Bioshock? :twisted:



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10 Oct 2011, 1:45 am

It probably matters more whether the UK recognizes it, or figures that it's citizens can have dual citizenship with the UK, or can enter the UK freely.



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10 Oct 2011, 7:33 am

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I can only imagine Dox having a colorful array of dancing sailors in peculiar colors singing songs in his under water fortress while he smokes a pipe.

Think you're forgetting one thing. No great underwater lair is complete without a cathedral-grade pipe organ.


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10 Oct 2011, 7:37 am

Vigilans wrote:

The ocean is a big place, with abundant resources... It seems likely that if the technology is there, it could be the place where libertarian (among other political ideas) "experimental communities" might coalesce


Our species was adapted by evolution to live on land. We can only live in the ocean for limited periods of time and in small numbers. This latter aspect makes building a society unfeasible. One needs a "critical mass" of skills and numbers to make a society work.

Captain Nemo's sub was not a society. No women.

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11 Oct 2011, 11:57 am

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Someday I plan on purchasing a de-commed deep sea oil rig and declaring independence myself, so of course I recognize Sealand and it's colorful royal family.


I'm putting in my dibs right now to be your Minister of Foreign Affairs. I miss having a diplomatic passport, and if I'm not going to have another Canadian one, I may as well have one from the Republic of Dox!


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11 Oct 2011, 12:28 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Vigilans wrote:

The ocean is a big place, with abundant resources... It seems likely that if the technology is there, it could be the place where libertarian (among other political ideas) "experimental communities" might coalesce


Our species was adapted by evolution to live on land. We can only live in the ocean for limited periods of time and in small numbers. This latter aspect makes building a society unfeasible. One needs a "critical mass" of skills and numbers to make a society work.

Captain Nemo's sub was not a society. No women.

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The wonderful thing about evolution is it is not a set destination. However what I was suggesting wasn't that millions of people will go live on aquatic structures but that small communities of self-reliant and self-sufficient, probable libertarians, would be the first to try long term sea life. Fish farming and tidal energy can go a long way, especially if the population is kept stable. "Sea Stead" is an up-and-coming company that specializes in ocean habitats. Its probably some years away (if at all) that such communities would appear

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Dox47 wrote:
Someday I plan on purchasing a de-commed deep sea oil rig and declaring independence myself, so of course I recognize Sealand and it's colorful royal family.


I'm putting in my dibs right now to be your Minister of Foreign Affairs. I miss having a diplomatic passport, and if I'm not going to have another Canadian one, I may as well have one from the Republic of Dox!


He should go with either Doxistan or Doxico :P the bank notes will be circulated in increments of 47


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11 Oct 2011, 2:14 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Vigilans wrote:

The ocean is a big place, with abundant resources... It seems likely that if the technology is there, it could be the place where libertarian (among other political ideas) "experimental communities" might coalesce


Our species was adapted by evolution to live on land. We can only live in the ocean for limited periods of time and in small numbers. This latter aspect makes building a society unfeasible. One needs a "critical mass" of skills and numbers to make a society work.

Captain Nemo's sub was not a society. No women.

ruveyn


No Women = no fun. I could not imagine being in a world or society without women. It would be like sucking the color from the world.



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11 Oct 2011, 3:09 pm

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No Women = no fun. I could not imagine being in a world or society without women. It would be like sucking the color from the world.


Speak for yourself! ;)


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15 Oct 2011, 6:28 am

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He should go with either Doxistan or Doxico :P the bank notes will be circulated in increments of 47


Actually, I was planning on issuing arms backed securities, redeemable for AK47s or equivalent weaponry. I figure that would be a good inflation hedge; I've been buying and selling guns a long time and have yet to lose money in the process. Unlike gold or precious stones, guns are always in demand and have intrinsic rather than nominal value, so I think they'd work just fine as a currency backing, at least for small scale.


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15 Oct 2011, 9:46 am

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No Women = no fun. I could not imagine being in a world or society without women. It would be like sucking the color from the world.


No women = no future.

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15 Oct 2011, 9:57 am

ruveyn wrote:
Scythe wrote:

No Women = no fun. I could not imagine being in a world or society without women. It would be like sucking the color from the world.


No women = no future.

ruveyn

You sure? With all the overcrowding and the number of eccentrics who'd like to live on the head of an oil rig just because their them - immigration could cover it. Besides, for a society of that size you just wouldn't have the room for all the extra stuff you'd need like schools and what not for kids. You may want a specialist on board who can HIV-test the guys or be a GP to them (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Doxica where there's no such thing as an out of network doctor) but, that's about it.

Besides, if there were women BCBS Doxica would either have to raise the premium on the guys or tell them that head injuries from thrown objects or frying pans aren't covered.


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17 Oct 2011, 3:33 am

Vigilanszuela will be a nuclear-armed microstate, with hidden weapons placed strategically on the sea floor ready to create undersea landslides and thus massively destructive tsunamis. In return for not destroying everyone's coastline it will demand a tribute of sexy, sexy women to maintain the population. Image


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17 Oct 2011, 7:23 am

Techslovakia will actually be a big sea-farming community with containment areas set up. We'll make our geographic position our profit, aim for BIG export surplus.


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