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2short2care

By 2short2care,
Posted on: 2011-08-16 13:11 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade View Post
I just picture this guy being told that it was illegal for him to do something, and he responded, "Oh yeah?! Well I'll build my own country! With blackjack! And hookers!" Wait forget the blackjack!
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Honestly though I kinda envy these people, I just hope for their sake they have a pancake ton of guns and ammo and RPGs and well their own small army.

 

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"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "
That's the one. Here's the attribution I have:

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.” – John Rogers, Kung Fu Monkey blog, 3-19-09

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Originally Posted by 2short2care View Post
Ha, free from laws, regulations, and moral codes, no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons doesn't that kind of sound like every third world country that we have now?


Just walk away. Leave the laws, codes, regulations, and your whole morality behind and I'll spare your lives.

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Wait...didn't a recently released team based FPS have this exact setting as their backdrop?

I've seen how that pans out...total sausagefest...I mean there wasn't one woman among the entire group of security of Resistance...going to be a boring place if you ask me.

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Its his money, he can do with it whatever he wills.

 

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Wouldnt it have been safer, cheaper and easier to just buy an island?

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Originally Posted by 2short2care View Post
That's when they start handing out the Soylent Green.
Oh, how is it?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post


Just walk away. Leave the laws, codes, regulations, and your whole morality behind and I'll spare your lives.
sorry but I had to XD

 

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How do morons keep getting richer than me?

 

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Wouldnt it have been safer, cheaper and easier to just buy an island?
Most likely yes...but *shrug* again his money. Maybe some interesting tech will come out of it.

 

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So...if you were a pirate, it would be a pretty good place to start your career.

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Honestly though I kinda envy these people, I just hope for their sake they have a pancake ton of guns and ammo and RPGs and well their own small army.
I think we can be sure that if one of these things actually happens they will have a "security force" that will be better armed and trained than most other countries' entire armed forces. Think "Blackwater" times 100.

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I think we can be sure that if one of these things actually happens they will have a "security force" that will be better armed and trained than most other countries' entire armed forces. Think "Blackwater" times 100.
I was thinking just this the other day after reading this thread. And then had a laugh as I saw them trying to plan it out:

"Okay, so we need to hire a security force, right? So we all pitch in say a million bucks each month and --"

"Hey, I came here to get away from paying taxes!!"

 

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"Hey, I came here to get away from paying taxes!!"
This is why these "floating utopias" usually mandate that their residents already be ultra-wealthy. They want all the comforts of living in a moderately sized country while also limiting the population of that "country" to only a few hundred people. Ironically these "I'm too cool to pay taxes" visionaries will likely pay millions for the privilege of living somewhere that supposedly doesn't levy all those yucky taxes against them.

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I think we can be sure that if one of these things actually happens they will have a "security force" that will be better armed and trained than most other countries' entire armed forces. Think "Blackwater" times 100.
What's to stop said security force from realizing that they could just, ya know, take everything from those rich guys? I mean, unless there's a kill-switch implanted in them to enforce loyalty, it seems like it's a no-lose scenario for those guys.

It's recipe for lulz on an epic scale. Bunch of rich guys who've probably never actually worked for a living with a bunch of armed and dangerous peons (to them).


 

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What's to stop said security force from realizing that they could just, ya know, take everything from those rich guys? I mean, unless there's a kill-switch implanted in them to enforce loyalty, it seems like it's a no-lose scenario for those guys.

It's recipe for lulz on an epic scale. Bunch of rich guys who've probably never actually worked for a living with a bunch of armed and dangerous peons (to them).
Well clearly the people organizing these communities will decide they'd be better off if they employed hyper-expensive robotic defenders that would be easier to "control" and wouldn't have to be paid. Then of course as we've learned from decades of science fiction those "robotic defenders" will eventually develop AI, kill everyone in the floating community, then move on to kill everyone else on the planet. Skynet has to start somewhere after all.

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So what's the Rapture reference?

Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
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Looser building codes cracks me up.

I think of countries like Pakistan that have skyscrapers fall down every time there is a bad earth quack thanks to institutionalized bribery.

I work at building my father was the maintenance man at for over a decade. He has made it expressly clear that our building codes ensure the building will not fall down on you or catch on fire,and that is about it. The contractor can screw you every other way from Sunday otherwise,and ours did. The fat cats that had my facility built got screwed over because they where cheap bastards that went with the lowest bidder, and never bothered to hire someone to police their investment.

Yes, poorer building codes then the USA is just what the world needs more of(sarcasm off).

 

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Bioshock, I think.
Yes, it is. But since other games are verboten, naming the city without naming the game was as close as I felt I could come. I imagine most people got the reference once they saw the link. But let's end discussion of the digital city at that point. Don't feel the need to get the thread deleted.


 

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Looser building codes cracks me up.

I think of countries like Pakistan that have skyscrapers fall down every time there is a bad earth quack thanks to institutionalized bribery.

I work at building my father was the maintenance man at for over a decade. He has made it expressly clear that our building codes ensure the building will not fall down on you or catch on fire,and that is about it. The contractor can screw you every other way from Sunday otherwise,and ours did. The fat cats that had my facility built got screwed over because they where cheap bastards that went with the lowest bidder, and never bothered to hire someone to police their investment.

Yes, poorer building codes then the USA is just what the world needs more of(sarcasm off).
There's an expression: (building) codes are written in blood. Most of the rules encoded in our building codes aren't there to prevent people from dying, they are to prevent *more* people from dying. Someone had to die to prove we should do that differently. And usually, it takes a lot more than one.

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