The Atlas Shrugged Themepark?

[PopeTom]

I want to know what's going to happen first a Cocoanut Grove like fire due to non-existant building codes or a slave indentured servant rebellion.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

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. 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."

Because there's no way that will go wrong.

[Disco Pickle]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

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. 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."

Because there's no way that will go wrong.

Third thread about this of the day.

I'm beginning to think you guys like to laugh at libertarians.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I didn't see the other two, sorry. But yeah, they're always good for a chuckle. Mod, pls delete or merge if necessary.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Ahahaa. There they are.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I want to know what's going to happen first a Cocoanut Grove like fire due to non-existant building codes or a slave indentured servant rebellion.

The best part is that they're modular, and each module is fully maintained by the occupants, like a tiny floating empire. Which means that, with no codes or regulations, the potential for lulzy disaster is endless!

[PopeTom]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

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. 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."

Because there's no way that will go wrong.

Third thread about this of the day.

I'm beginning to think you guys like to laugh at libertarians.

we're Discordians, we know a bad idea when we see it!

[PopeTom]

I want to know what's going to happen first a Cocoanut Grove like fire due to non-existant building codes or a slave indentured servant rebellion.

The best part is that they're modular, and each module is fully maintained by the occupants, like a tiny floating empire. Which means that, with no codes or regulations, the potential for lulzy disaster is endless!

So it'll be like a community of sovereign where a neighbor's dog pooping on your lawn will be answered by land mines, shot guns, and eventual invasion and enslavement?

Or at least that's what I'm hoping for.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hey PopeTom, check this thread for a fairly amusing discussion of this: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=29963.0;topicseen

Yea I had noticed that after my initial post.

I missed it because much like advertisements for singles sites I don't see references to Ayn Rand unless I deliberately look at them.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

This whole thing fills me with glee.   

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I want to know what's going to happen first a Cocoanut Grove like fire due to non-existant building codes or a slave indentured servant rebellion.

The best part is that they're modular, and each module is fully maintained by the occupants, like a tiny floating empire. Which means that, with no codes or regulations, the potential for lulzy disaster is endless!

So it'll be like a community of sovereign where a neighbor's dog pooping on your lawn will be answered by land mines, shot guns, and eventual invasion and enslavement?

Or at least that's what I'm hoping for.

In Libertarian Sealand, anything is possible!

There is no way for this not to turn epic. My greatest worry is that it will fizzle out early, before the potential for lulz really develops. It has to START OUT a ripping success, so that when it starts to fail it can be really, REALLY good.

I think this should ideally occur over a timeline of about 40 years, so hopefully I'll still be alive for the good stuff.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Actually, I can see it really going places in only 30 years... the first ten, a Utopia of building and cooperation, the second ten, we see the first failures, the last ten, pure anarchist feudalism, disaster, and mayhem out on the open seas!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This century is starting to look AWESOME.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I give it ten years tops. Utopias have a tendency do go dystopian within a handful of years.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Also since they are technically separatists they should be stripped of us citizenship.