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Old 19-11-09, 05:32 PM   #41
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Where can I get a vaild Sealand passport...that would be recognised in, say, Mongolia?

I'm kinda tempted to be a lord....and not a gaylord*!









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Old 19-11-09, 06:01 PM   #42
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Where can I get a vaild Sealand passport...that would be recognised in, say, Mongolia?

I'm kinda tempted to be a lord....and not a gaylord*!









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Old 19-11-09, 06:07 PM   #43
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Hmm. Modern torpedoes are designed to detonate underneath a ship and break it's back so that it sinks as fast as possible. Not too useful against a pair of concrete pillars which are already resting on the sea bed.

Best bet is a bunch of divers and an effing big demolition charge.
Why blow it up? Assault and install some servers somehow, all the Nigerian fraudsters would be queuing up to buy email accounts from you.

Ok probably not, but it would be an entertaining evening.
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Old 19-11-09, 06:09 PM   #44
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Why blow it up? Assault and install some servers somehow, all the Nigerian fraudsters would be queuing up to buy email accounts from you.

Ok probably not, but it would be an entertaining evening.
I think he's already got a load of servers in there - that's the main profit from it.
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Old 19-11-09, 06:18 PM   #45
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I think he's already got a load of servers in there - that's the main profit from it.
yep, I'm sure in theory though anyone (with a lot of money) could just build a micronation somewhere?
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Old 19-11-09, 06:29 PM   #46
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Old 19-11-09, 10:58 PM   #47
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I think he's already got a load of servers in there - that's the main profit from it.
Surely he isn't really best placed for a server farm, he cant exactly have fast access to the Internet out in the middle of the sea.
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Surely he isn't really best placed for a server farm, he cant exactly have fast access to the Internet out in the middle of the sea.
America is also in the middle of the sea. Britain too for that matter.
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Old 19-11-09, 11:14 PM   #49
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America is also in the middle of the sea. Britain too for that matter.
Yes but Sealand doesnt have the demand to have high speed fibre leading to it like the island of GB and uh USA.

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easy enough to drop a cable in the sea or use satellite connectivity. Jersey and Guernsey manage.
btw awesome diagram there.
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