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My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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You're confusing property with what they told you it was.

Property is an illusion. Still confused?

Property is a concept, different people can have different conceptions. I'll take your word for it that your conception is a delusion. You can't speak for everyone else though.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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post #258

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I believe he already said there was cell coverage. As someone who can only dream about owning a private island, how big would a helipad have to be? And how much concrete would it take to make that sort of thing?

From http://www.txairlife.com/calling_airlife/call_build.htm for example: "* How large of a landing area is required for the helipad and where should it be located? The size of the helicopter’s primary approach area, departure area, landing area, and the obstructions must be taken into consideration before determining the location. The AirLIFE helicopter must have a landing area of 100’ x 100’. The takeoff and approa…

Fascinating, thanks :)

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Yes, this is what I though too. He just bought property rights. It's still part of whatever country it's located within and they can apply all of their legal code on you. I imaging digging deeper than a few feet would be illegal on that without proper authorization first. Having a really sovereign country is kind of difficult.

If someone who read this get his very own country someday, please name it something that will give you the .gz ccTLD so I can finally buy www.tar.gz where I will offer visitors to download an archive of the Internet :-p.

I propose Gnu Zealand.

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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post #334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If someone who read this get his very own country someday, please name it something that will give you the .gz ccTLD so I can finally buy www.tar.gz where I will offer visitors to download an archive of the Internet :-p.

I propose Gnu Zealand.

I love it!
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