Leonid Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 (edited) http://www.dailymail...coast-Silicon-V Blueseed's founders say that more than 250 start-up companies - many of them international - are interested in acquiring space on the yet-built vessel, which would be docked in international waters by Silicon Valley. Edited June 8, 2012 by Leonid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aequalsa Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024761/Atlas-Shrugged-Silicon-Valley-billionaire-reveals-plan-launch-floating-start-country-coast-San-Francisco.html Link didn't work. Cool though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonid Posted June 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 (edited) I just checked it. It works. You used wrong link . Try http://www.dailymail...coast-Silicon-V Edited June 8, 2012 by Leonid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 (edited) http://www.dailymail...-Francisco.htmlLink didn't work. Cool though.This is the company's web-site. The thing seems to be in a formative stage. Like many similar ventures, it may never take off. Edited June 8, 2012 by softwareNerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aequalsa Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 This is the company's web-site. The thing seems to be in a formative stage. Like many similar ventures, it may never take off. I agree. A big difference is Thiel though. He's kinda a doer of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicky Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 It actually sounds good, from a financial standpoint. I do have some concerns: 1. I assume law enforcement will be a negotiated affair, between the "host" country and the owners of the ship (the owners will have a negotiating position because they could, in theory, switch flags if the country's government acts out too much). But still, there would be cops from the Bahamas on board, and anyone who is arrested will be hauled off to the Bahamas for trial and potential imprisonment. As a person known to break the law on occasion (pretty sure pot is illegal in the Bahamas too), I would be worried. A Bahamian prison doesn't seem like something I'd do well in. 2. International crime networks would undoubtedly view the ship as a potential trafficking hub (and probably a market, too, for drugs and prostitution). With the limited resources a country like the Bahamas has to fight them, what will prevent the cartels from exploiting this weakness? 3. A ship filled with rich westerners 12 miles off the coast of California will be an attractive target for terrorists, Islamists, radical leftists and American nationalist alike. To counter this, the Royal Bahamas Defense Force has 700 men and exactly two ships and an aircraft at its disposal. But, sadly, it doesn't have any pilots trained to actually fly the aircraft. So it's just two ships, really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMeganSnow Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 Wasn't there a news story recently about an independent construct of this kind that ran into trouble and tried calling for Britain to send police, only Britain refused because, hey, if you're a sovereign extraterritoriality, then you gotta handle your own problems? Micro-states of this nature are generally a pipe dream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicky Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 (edited) Wasn't there a news story recently about an independent construct of this kind that ran into trouble and tried calling for Britain to send police, only Britain refused because, hey, if you're a sovereign extraterritoriality, then you gotta handle your own problems? Micro-states of this nature are generally a pipe dream. The're not trying to be a sovereign state though, they're just trying to be subject to the laws of a tax haven, while 12 miles from the technological capital of the world. Their legal status would be the same as any other ship sailing under the flag of a small nation. The only problem would be that they wouldn't actually be sailing, but instead they would be a stationary target. However, that might be at least to some extent offset by the extremely safe location they are choosing to be stationary in. Edited June 9, 2012 by Nicky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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