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[spacey]

The Pirate Bay a large BitTorrent tracker are now collecting donations to buy their OWN nation. Primarely it was for circumventing copyright laws but apparently the project has grown a substantial amount and now it is more about a new and free nation.

Check it out:
http://www.buysealand.com

[Aegist]

looks like they are around.... £100,000,000 or more short.....

http://en.wikipedia....lity_of_Sealand

[siberia]

Well, what can you expect from the stingiest clientele in the world after all?

[lunarsolarpower]

I threw in my $0.02

[John Schloendorn]

Wow, I think the universal trustworthiness rating system is very smart. Could this work in the real world?

[samson]

Call me mad (please?), but I like the idea. Anybody familiar with comic "Cable&Deadpool" might remember a similar idea. An artificial island situated on international waters, in the comic called "providence".
Personally when faced with the growing number of modern authoritanian countries, I feel the need to establish a haven for personal freedom. It might not be Sealand, but a similar structure could be perhaps constructed in the future on grandeur scale. What do you think?

[mitkat]

Call me mad (please?), but I like the idea. Anybody familiar with comic "Cable&Deadpool" might remember a similar idea. An artificial island situated on international waters, in the comic called "providence".
Personally when faced with the growing number of modern authoritanian countries, I feel the need to establish a haven for personal freedom. It might not be Sealand, but a similar structure could be perhaps constructed in the future on grandeur scale. What do you think?

Funny you say that, you remind me of Deadpool a bit (although it could just be the Spider Jerusalem face, wise-crackin', etc). [thumb] However, if you review the history of most of those micronations, you'll see the one common fact that strings them together: failure.

[Athanasios]

[samson]

Funny you say that, you remind me of Deadpool a bit (although it could just be the Spider Jerusalem face, wise-crackin', etc).  [thumb] However, if you review the history of most of those micronations, you'll see the one common fact that strings them together: failure.

Deadpool is the second greatest cartoon character ever created. Right after Jerusalem. I mean, I try.

And yes, I know, utopias have a tendency of FAILING. Still you gotta remember, I'm the fuckhead. Follow the fuckhead, trust the fuckhead. I'm also a romantic. Dreams were meant to be pursued, and fatalism is the source of all the weak people. I mean, I GOTTA be a mad shit-**** to believe that I can get people to change the world...

Also:

[lunarsolarpower]

It might not be Sealand, but a similar structure could be perhaps constructed in the future on grandeur scale. What do you think?

Actually on the buysealand forums the idea of buying sealand is generally taking a backseat to buying a physical island somewhere.

[MichaelAnissimov]

The Principality of Minerva supposedly still exists and is doing okay (they have an up-to-date website), though they're constantly threatened by Tongan troops.

[basho]

They could setup their own distributed virtual nation, hidden within a darknet and protected by layers of anonomizing router nodes and other security measures to protect the identity of themselves and their members (citizens?).

Actually, it would be pretty cool to be a member of a pirate nation [pirate]. You'd get to talk like a pirate: "Ahoy! Avast ye landlubber! Yarrrr!" Well, it would be fun until the heavy hand of one of the corporate gestapo caught up with you [:o] Shiver me timbers!

[lunarsolarpower]

Although it's hard to tell if the original guy is just taking the money and running (I suspect he is), a new site has come out of this. I remain hopeful that this can be the beginnings of something like The Australia Project from the book Manna

[nanos]

(waves @ everyone) I formed a breakaway group from the FreeNation Foundation people after censorship issues came to a head (it was a case of, do as I say, not as I do..) and it all rapidly in the space of two weeks since its first steps, turned into a classic Animal Farm scenario.

Wandering the web I came across the reference here and joined as my lifes goal is technological immortality.

The create a commune/society/community idea was born out of simply that it would be easier for me to do more research with help than on my own.

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