At 08:16 PM 6/7/00 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote:
>>
>> Of course the black helicopters will eventually come. And it is important
>> that they do. The value of Havenco is that every fight against tyranny
>> requires a martyr. Their willingness to serve in this role is admirable
and
>> should be honored. We should be prepared to make the most of it.
>
>I'm sure the investors will be pleased to hear this.
>
As a Gedankeninvestor, I'd be interested more in who their first N customers
were and their motivations. However, it may be difficult for Havenco to say
at this moment, and possibly forever. Still, their advertising will indicate
their market. Maybe they won't have to advertise?
Not having the King in control of the
island is good, as Baptista says, because law changes every time a judge
(or king) farts.
(With all due respect to Roy, hey, I want to visit like everyone else.)
Corporate control
may be useful for bootstrapping, for initial deployment.
The most worrisome thing is that the island represents a single point of
failure,
no matter how hardened. *Were* Havenco to become a *necessary* part of
some US-vital
infrastructure, they would be more immune from those NIMA cruise missile
jokesters.
("Sorry guys, the Estuary coordinates got mixed in with the
afghani-yugoslav-ira[q|n]i-oceania dataset")
Get the NASDAQ on Sealand, then you can put OrganBay (tm) auctions up..
I would like to see the insurance policies (if any) which are used to cover
H'co or its
customers.
Ryan, if you're listening, feel free to port the implied questions to your
slashdot Q&A.
Maybe the single-point-of-failure can be addressed by getting other
Sovereigns to set up
data havens. A distributed island data network. Tonga has more than a
cute TLD: it has
its sovereignty. Similarly Anguilla. That's a lot of islands to nuke. HM
Roy might
show others how to live independently.
We just figured out how to reduce metal. Some say it will be used for bad
things. They
are right; but it will be used for many many more good things. We can't
tell what the
machines are saying to each other, it sounds like noise. Everyone can
understand that.
We just lay cable. It is a shame people say bad things, but we just lay
cable.
