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HavenCo In Trouble?
Evil Al writes "News.com is reporting on the talk given by Ryan Lackey, former CTO of HavenCo, at DefCon. Lackey claims that the company is teetering on the edge due to internal upheaval and lack of customers. Oh, and 9/11, of course."
Not only that, this place would be an early target for the RIAA to test out the bombers in its new air force.
"The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better eaarn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way"
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given by Ryan Lackey, former CTO of HavenCo, at DefCon
Even their ex-CTO was a Lackey!
Well that's what you get for having your office 10 miles out to sea.
I heard the investor prospectus came with some floaties.
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Wow, sounds like a great business plan.
Who in the hell is going to do business with some lunatic who fancies himself as the "Prince" of a gun platform?
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
But what about SARS? Blaming 9/11 is old-school.
They're short on money, but I'm sure someone would be willing to send them a few million to keep afloat.
They're just another victim of the dot-com fallout, really. Yet another company that completely missed the boat.
I mean, their business directors must really be lost at sea as to how to resolve these problems.
Perhaps they'd succeed with a new software strategy? Say, pier-to-pier filesharing?
Oh, I kill me....
Does "quirky fellow" mean "complete idiot?"
Now I feel really insulted. I'm always getting called quirky!
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get them liquored up and invade Sealand?
What would happen?
Did you happen to read the article?
No, s/he didn't. Why should s/he when s/he gets her/his posts modded up anyway?
what does this have to do with anything? When Sealand was claimed it was more than the 3 miles off shore that the UK had claimed as it's territorial waters. It later expanded those territorial waters but it could not also claim Sealand as it was already a soverign state at the time.
I seriously doubt that the UK is terribly interested in a reclaiming a rusted gun platform in the middle of the ocean with a single toilet.
The HavenCo employees all went to and from the platfom through Heathrow airport. They could have been arrested by the UK authorities any time they wanted to. Lackey was working in the UK without a work permit.
You're giving the our government way too much credit by implying a lack of action due to apathy.
The reality is that they probably haven't got a clue who Robert Lackey is. He flashed his US passport at customs. The only record of who he is and how long he's been here will be in his passport.
I think much of British prosperity comes down to the incompetence of our politicians allowing business to go on relatively unencumbered.
I mean, really, where else is it written in law that there's fine of a loaf of bread if you throw your faeces out of your balcony window and hit a passer-by in the street.
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Sending royal marines into a "sovereign" nation would be a violation international law, oh wait never mind.
Did you happen to read the article?
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You're new here, aren't you?
Well, duh. Have you seen a picture of the place? It's two concrete pilings with a construction shack on top. WTF else is there to do after someone puts in some server racks with a fibre optic network uplink?
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