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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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Post by [deleted] »

base698 wrote: post #245
brandall10 wrote: post #157

Just for people new to who Tynan is, he's a pretty far out guy. Some things I recall (sorry haven't kept up over the years) 1) Ran a successful professional online poker playing business, actually hired employees and trained them to predictably win. 2) Was one of the main characters in the book The Game (yes, that PUA one). 3) Did polyphasic sleep experiments in earnest (was it a couple months or so?). 4) Had a giant…

Not common place before 2008? A lot of anti materialism propaganda started way before that: AdBusters, Culture Jam and lots of other films that were even main stream.

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Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by javert »

ZoF wrote: post #296
javert wrote: post #179

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Knowing nothing about resistors, though, 2k8 intuitively means 2008. So I like this way of doing it.

Really? Because I would prefer "2008" to "2k8"... It's literally one more character...

For written communication, yes. For verbal communication, the 2000s can be a bit burdensome to pronounce.

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Post by dhughes »

papercrane wrote: post #283
tynan wrote: post #182

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VERY useful site-- thank you!

Those are Pacific water regulations. This site, http://novascotia.ca/fish/ is what you'd want. Just in general in Nova Scotia you don't need any license for non-commercial fishing in tidal areas (still need to observe bag limits though.) You do need a license for any fishing in fresh waters. If you're hand picking crabs you're fine. Just don't set any traps or snares, but you might want to check to see if they are sa…

Whoops! Didn't see that, good catch ;)

Re: My Friends and I Bought an Island

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Post by m_mueller »

tynan wrote: post #346
m_mueller wrote: post #310

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It's funny that the pool made it on the list of interesting things about tynan, but not the penguin.

To be fair, I never got the penguin :(

So the pool in your living room was just a preemptive one? ;)

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Post by moheeb »

e12e wrote: post #196
tynan wrote: post #25

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We're actually pretty close to a hospital. Five minutes to shore by boat and maybe 20 minutes to a hospital. Didn't see any scary spiders, but will keep an eye out next time I'm up there!

20 minutes at what speed? How long to row if you engine doesn't start?

...and you've accidentally cut off one of your hands building your cabin?

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Post by mcv »

burgerz wrote: post #360
mcv wrote: post #322

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If they cleaned it up and improved it a bit, they might be able to sell it at a profit.

So everything is about money, not doing something adventurous and exciting. zzzzz.

No, it means there's a backup plan.

The complaint was that it might only turn out to be adventurous and exciting for a little while. My point is merely that you can always get out again and spend the same money on something new and adventurous and exciting.

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Post by mcv »

wissler wrote: post #356
mcv wrote: post #316

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It is your property, but it's not your sovereign country. You still need to obey the law of the country your property is part of, and that severely restricts what you can do with it.

It is not your property. If it were your property you could build whatever you wanted so long as you don't bring harm to others. The word you're looking for is not property owner but "tenant."

You're confusing property with country.

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Post by breischl »

Jugurtha wrote: post #329
BrandonMarc wrote: post #306

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Sadly the US is a bit different. If a guest injures themself, they can sue you and win. If a tresspasser injures themself while you're not there, they can sue you and win. Heck, we even have reports of theives injuring themself and then turning around, suing the owner in court, and winning.

Are you serious ? What kind of nonsense is that and who invented those legal concepts ?

It's specifically called out in the wiki page linked to earlier, under the "United States" section.
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