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Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier
Vodalian writes "Distinction as the last surviving Aircraft Carrier built in England for WW II and commissioned as the HMS Vengeance in late 1944, this unique vessel served the British then the Australian Navy as HMAS Vengeance prior to her sale to Brazil In 1956. Undergoing reconstruction and overhaul in Rotterdam from 1957 to 1960 she was commissioned as the Minas Gerais in December of that year. During her service with the Brazilian Navy she was overhauled from 1976 to 1980 completing a 5-year refit in 1981. She was decommissioned on the 16th of October 2001 and is currently for sale."
Great place to throw a party, cruise outside the reach of the law in internatinal waters.
Hope the weather is good tho.
$4.5 million sounds like a steal. It probably costs more than that to keep it in port for a year, let alone what it would actually cost to operate.
So a complement of 1.300, each paying $400 a month rent...
That's easily a half million rent a month! So living aboard, for a year, would generate $6 million, which covers the cost of upkeep and purchase in 2 years, and profitable in 3!
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Don't forget all those hidden fees when buying this carrier.
-Insurance (Ow.)
-Crew (you could get away with under a crew of thousand without aircraft and weapondry, I'm sure)
-Supplies
-Fuel (that's gonna kill ya)
-Licencing (I'm sure the government isn't just gonna let you run around with a spare carrier without some sort of tax)
-ATM fee
I don't care if it is only 4.5 mil. You're gonna have to have deeeep pockets just for upkeep, let alone taking it out for a spin... And you can stop with the Neal Stephenson jokes now. They've all been taken.
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Application #1: With current issues regarding DMCA laws and a whole bunch of bogusness... I'm rather shocked someone isn't considering buying such a beast in order to start up an off shore server in international waters. Pirate telivision / radio would also be a logical application.
Application #2: Organizations such as Green Peace need boats in order to get around and block access. This is a big boat.
Application #3: Off shore power plant. Production of things like hydrogen or other fuels.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Hmmmm. This must be some new, European definition of "free" that hasn't yet spread to the US.
Shhhh! You're supposed to pretend that it's the United States which has been trying for centuries to become a fascist, totalitarian empire, and Europe which is trying desperately to preserve Western civilization. It's the new fad, you see.
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"Brazil ain't the richest of nations (or the free-est, for that matter),"
Man, do you at least know Brazil to say that? Really sad to see that education, even in the "rich free countries" is going down to the drain...
The US has ID cards, too: social security and drivers licenses. No modern society can function without them. In contrast to the US, Europeans have worked out strong privacy laws and carefully designed ID cards to address privacy concerns. The net effect is that privacy protections in Europe are stronger than in the US because Europeans are actually tackling issues of privacy, while Americans just stick their heads in the sand and pretend that the problem doesn't exist.
Similar comments apply to cameras. As for key escrow, I'm not aware of any Europe-wide adoption of key escrow policies. Can you point to any?