Tired of the BS in this country? A solution:

[46Tbird]

I saw an island completely made from recycled plastic bottles and odd and ends 2 weeks ago.

[Broncojohnny]

Sans laws, regulations, etc. these new "nations" would degenerate into anarchy and implode in short order, human nature being what it is.

It just says it is a libertarian exercise, not total anarchy. If he wants anarchy he can save a lot of money by just going to Somalia.

[The King]

It just says it is a libertarian exercise, not total anarchy. If he wants anarchy he can save a lot of money by just going to Somalia.

He wants to start from scratch however, a condition that would not be met by going to Somalia. Granted though, Somalia is free of laws, regulations, and moral codes.

[mustang_revival]

http://boingboing.net/2010/09/13/gentleman-lives-on-f.html

[32vfromhell]

sooo, basically he wants to be Andrew Ryan and make Rapture. Got it.

[UserX]

Sans laws, regulations, etc. these new "nations" would degenerate into anarchy and implode in short order, human nature being what it is.

It depends on who you allow on the "island"... with no laws, you can pick and choose based on race, salary, cup size, criminal background, credit rating, hell anything you want.

[mstng86]

It depends on who you allow on the "island"... with no laws, you can pick and choose based on race, salary, cup size, criminal background, credit rating, hell anything you want.

I would like to be Mayor of Double D village.

[UserX]

I would like to be Mayor of Double D village.

And in order to be a resident of Double D village, you have to blow the Mayor, daily.

How's that for entry criteria?

[The King]

It depends on who you allow on the "island"... with no laws, you can pick and choose based on race, salary, cup size, criminal background, credit rating, hell anything you want.

Who decides the initial criteria for inclusion....a Dear Leader maybe? To maintain the exclusivity of the new "nation", regulations would have to be enacted and enforced by the "citizens", however regulations are one of the things the initiative is supposedly against.

[Snatch Napkin]

I don't see total anarchy happening as fast as other countries wanting to overtake it for a strategic position, thus causing the United States to act first.

How far off the coast would they have to go before there are no land laws? What maritime laws? Would Interpol now be a governing body over these new Utopias?

[Denny]

Who decides the initial criteria for inclusion....a Dear Leader maybe? To maintain the exclusivity of the new "nation", regulations would have to be enacted and enforced by the "citizens", however regulations are one of the things the initiative is supposedly against.

If you don't agree with the selection process, then don't go. I like prerequisits. Genetically blessed people only, like when people look for egg or sperm donors.

[CJ]

Pretty interesting in concept, wonder if will ever actually get built.

Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.

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."

"There are quite a lot of people who think it's not possible," Thiel said at a Seasteading Institute Conference in 2009, according to Details. (His first donation was in 2008, for $500,000.) "That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about those people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously. And they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late."

The Seasteading Institute's Patri Friedman says the group plans to launch an office park off the San Francisco coast next year, with the first full-time settlements following seven years later.

Thiel made news earlier this year for putting a portion of his $1.5 billion fortune into an initiative to encourage entrepreneurs to skip college.
Another Silicon Valley titan, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced in June that he would be funding the "Clock of the Long Now." The clock is designed to keep ticking for 10,000 years, and will be built in a mountain in west Texas.

fuck paypal.

[Cooter]

sounds awesome... unless you've spent any length of time on an offshore platform before! LOL

[32vfromhell]

[46Tbird]

Sounds absolutely awful.

"Nothing to do, nowhere to go-oh... I wanna be sedated."