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The Pirate Bay plans to buy island (File sharing website)
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| January 12, 2007
| James Savage
Posted on 01/12/2007 7:20:52 PM PST by RWR8189
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posted on
01/12/2007 7:20:55 PM PST
by
RWR8189
To: RWR8189
Interesting concept. I think it's been tried before though with a predictably poor outcome.
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posted on
01/12/2007 7:36:36 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: RWR8189; juggernaut
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posted on
01/12/2007 7:42:10 PM PST
by
RushCrush
(War out!)
To: kinoxi
Yeah, these guys are dreaming.
To: kinoxi
Buying Sealand is one thing but operating it is quite another.
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posted on
01/12/2007 7:48:13 PM PST
by
Boiler Plate
(Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
To: RWR8189
If these Swedes pull this off on Sealand, watch the RIAA, MPAA and their British equivalents hire Blackwell Security type of outfit to raid and conquer the country.
To: JerseyHighlander
They need to develop nukes, then problem solved. Maybe they could buy one from Iran or N Korea.
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posted on
01/12/2007 7:55:15 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: RWR8189
I can imagine these guys hacking something from Bill Gates, and claiming sovereignty and free from copyright laws.
Then I can picture Gates getting ticked off, hiring some mercs, for some "heads of state" elimination.
Better yet, Gates buys his own sovereign island, and his island goes to war with Sealand. And to the victor the spoils.
I wonder if they plan on applying for membership in the UN, and if they'll play by UN rules? Yeah right, no oen else plays by UN rules.
Maybe they'll attack the United States and declare war on us. Does anyone remember The Mouse That Roared?
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posted on
01/12/2007 7:59:10 PM PST
by
mountn man
(The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
To: RWR8189
The sovereign nation of Sealand. Wonder what happens when a murder is committed in there.
To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball
The guilty person sentences himself to prison.
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posted on
01/12/2007 8:07:43 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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posted on
01/12/2007 8:20:25 PM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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posted on
01/12/2007 8:26:35 PM PST
by
Buddy B
(MSgt Retired-USAF)
To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball
Looks like a great place for a hotel, to get away from it all.
All rooms have an ocean view!
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posted on
01/12/2007 8:30:30 PM PST
by
Mr. Jazzy
(VPD of LCpl Smoothguy242 USMC of 1/3 Marines, K-Bay Hawaii.)
To: RWR8189
A firm of Spanish estate agents has valued the island at £504 millionOver a billion dollars?!? Good luck trying to raise that.
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posted on
01/12/2007 8:32:39 PM PST
by
billbears
(Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
To: RWR8189
I can see this being made into a Movie, what a great story of Sealand.
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posted on
01/12/2007 8:37:26 PM PST
by
beericus
To: RWR8189
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posted on
01/12/2007 8:40:18 PM PST
by
Polybius
To: RWR8189
Buying Sealand is God's way of telling you you've read too many Neal Stephenson books. (Or is it God's way of telling you you haven't read *enough* Neal Stephenson books...)
Redneck Ronins forever!
To: ForegoneAlternative
You beat me to it. Straight Cryptonomicon.
To: dhs12345
Walks the plank. Gets caisson -hauled.
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posted on
01/12/2007 8:54:38 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: JerseyHighlander
That so called country of "Sealand" is going to last just as long as it is not vexing to monied interests. I bet they don't even buy it.
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