| syk0 on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:38:38 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> The probable end of Sealand |
What is your axe to grind with these people? An airconditioner failed and a generator fire started. I know people who have servers there and they are not in London. On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Patrice Riemens wrote: > "Sealand", a former gun platform on the North Sea just of the West coast > of England, featured prominently in fantasies about independent > micro-states (complete with passports and postage stamps). Somewhere in > the mid-nineties there was an attempt to recycle it as 'data haven', > Cryptonomicon style, but that floundered on the vagaries of Roy Bates, > Sealand's self-styled 'king'. It seems now to have reached the end of its > useless existence... <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]