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| From: Twink <neptune@mars.superlink.net>
| To: extropians@extropy.com
| Subject: Oceania?
| Date: Sunday, December 21, 1997 8:24 AM
|
| At 11:52 AM 12/21/97 +0100, den Otter <otter@globalxs.nl> wrote:
| >P.s: whatever happened to the Oceania Libertarian Island project? Can't
get
| >any useful (up to date) information from their website, and they don't
| reply to
| >info-requests...
|
| I believe I heard about this in the early 1990s and dismissed it as yet
another
| quixotic "new country" project. Such projects have been around for a
long
| time. (See Erwin S. Strauss's _How to Start Your Own Country_.)
Usually,
| they turn out to be too head-in-the-clouds or just real estate schemes.
|
| This does mean I'm against the idea. It's a great one, but until someone
can
| come up with a practical plan, as opposed to a neat idea with some slick
| brochures/web pages, I remain skeptical.
|
| Daniel Ust