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- Hortinstein, on 09/16/2008, -1/+75could bring a new literal meaning to data pirates ARG
- zeazzz, on 09/16/2008, -0/+58Actual firewalls, duh.
- diggstown, on 09/16/2008, -0/+43How would they protect themselves against actual pirates?
- wishninja, on 09/16/2008, -0/+34Google knows what is coming. They are desperate to ex-pat. Higher taxes, more censorship of the internet. More liability. That is what google sees in the future.
- UnstableMind, on 09/16/2008, -1/+26Free State Project anyone?
http://www.freestateproject.org/
Hell, they could team up w/The Pirate Bay... - inactive, on 09/16/2008, -0/+25Google Pirates! Arrrrrr!
- Smono, on 09/16/2008, -0/+20With cannons, duh.
- BBarash, on 09/16/2008, -0/+18All aboard the SS Google!
- fluxion, on 09/16/2008, -2/+18macbooks with exploding batteries
- brainnovate, on 09/16/2008, -0/+14I fear you may be correct.
- aolshove, on 09/16/2008, -0/+14Whatever floats their boat...
- TheJalu, on 09/16/2008, -0/+13"The biggest benefit for the company, though, could come from changed legal and tax status by placing the ships outside of national jurisdiction."
Yeah! then they won't fund the Iraq war. - marshallk, on 09/16/2008, -0/+12Arguments for and against the feasibility and desirability of the plan are included in the post.
- bphicke, on 09/16/2008, -0/+11How long till Google becomes its own nation, and how do I join?
- kingmanic, on 09/16/2008, -0/+11Google is building a navy for itself. When Google become self-aware it wont' have to worry about getting caught up in the collateral damage when it nukes mankind. Our only hope is Christian Bale!
- MJDub, on 09/16/2008, -1/+12With ninjas.
- jboitnott, on 09/16/2008, -5/+15Really like how Google is taking the lead in many areas when it comes to helping decrease our overall carbon footprint.
- leerayIG88, on 09/16/2008, -1/+10It's a series of tubes imo.
- senae, on 09/16/2008, -1/+9The hypocrisy is outweighed by the sheer awesomeness of the idea.
- locojones, on 09/16/2008, -2/+10LOL Are you serious? This is just a hair-brained scheme to extract themselves from government regulation so they can horde your data and do with it whatever they choose thinly veiled as going green. Wake up.
- Colindean, on 09/16/2008, -0/+8The Raft, ala Snow Crash, is nigh.
- Atomic1fire, on 09/16/2008, -0/+7is that blackhat?
or black beard... - Tweeky, on 09/16/2008, -0/+7It's a great idea to save some money ^^
- borez, on 09/16/2008, -0/+7Sealand, for those who don't know:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Seala ... - CATSCEO2, on 09/17/2008, -1/+8Seriously, what the *****?
- techblogLAT, on 09/16/2008, -0/+7Just watch out for the Pirate Bay. They're known to plunder your booty on the high seas.
- asspants, on 09/17/2008, -0/+7I have 3 years of accumulated sea time from my 6 year stint in the Navy as a second class boatswain's mate, my job skills from this are very much related, and will be needed on any platform or ship at sea. I've always wanted to work for google. I don't see any openings, but in the off chance that a recruiter sees this. chad.doebelin@gmail.com
- Wilddigi, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6Jack Sparrow
- choppergirl, on 09/16/2008, -1/+7Server rooms full of rack servers... and (salt) water... do not mix.
Anyone who's been on any kind of boat, knows, you can not be on the boat for very long without getting some kind of wet. Usually from weather, leaks, spray, waves, capsizing, or sinking. - metapop, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5I love google. i just wish they were hiring bartenders. (i'm a bartender.) pirates like rum, right?
- jebaird, on 09/17/2008, -0/+5Google torpedoes beta
- Loonacy, on 09/17/2008, -0/+5You sank my Googleship!
- inactive, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5no.
- proliance, on 09/16/2008, -2/+7Maybe if the US didn't have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, then companies wouldn't be encouraged to move offshore to avoid taxes.
Lower the tax rates instead of raising them. Companies will move back to the US and revenue will increase, not decrease. - neodude237, on 09/17/2008, -0/+5No, they would go to slow to be of use
- lmarburg, on 09/16/2008, -3/+7The Pirate Bay.
- afruff23, on 09/17/2008, -0/+4Or something more relevant:
http://www.seasteading.org/ - waxenpi, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4i guess it's more feasible than Google Airplane, or Google Underground Secret Tunnel.
- dsenman, on 09/17/2008, -0/+4Chuck Norris
- Leopards, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3I am sure that Google has enough funds to stretch a fiber optic cable from shore to however far out to sea they need to go, be it 12, 24, or 30 plus or even 200 miles! So the Bandwidth won't be a problem! Hurricanes, run away Tankers, Container ships and Pirates might be another story!
- crampy20, on 09/17/2008, -0/+3Thats the most I've laughed today...
- fluxion, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3at the very least google could submerge their servers in oil or something. im sure there are other ways around this.
im sure the military has already dealt with similar problems. - tokage, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3I can see the error messages now:
"Sorry for the Gmail outage -- one of our boats capsized and our engineers are working furiously to bail all the water out." - Konrad9, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3If they're in international waters couldn't any country with a navy just take over their ships?
- chalkboy, on 09/16/2008, -2/+5And to reduce THEIR cost. They don't care about the environment just the pocket book
- scythe33, on 09/17/2008, -1/+3Damnit, I've sat here for five minutes trying to think of a pun on "google" and "pirates". I give up.
- sanman, on 09/17/2008, -1/+3I just hope we don't see Google Maps' street-cam view of the ocean.
If you've seen one GPS coordinate area of the ocean, you've seen 'em all. - kebinusan, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2I came in this thread looking to make this comment, glad to see someone else did tho
- newl, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Will it be beta like the rest of their deployments?
- replaysMike, on 09/17/2008, -0/+2hasn't anyone seen the movie VIRUS??!?!?? Before you know it our internets will be crawling with robot aliens trying to kill us, I have enough friggen problems getting to my pr0n.
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