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Kim Dotcom 400 Million Dollar Plan for NZ Free Internet!
Renegade:
No quotes for this one... It's such a jaw-dropper, that you have to read it yourself.
http://theintelhub.com/2012/11/04/kim-dotcom-announces-400-million-dollar-plan-to-provide-new-zealand-with-free-internet/
Free Internet? Wow. Ambitious!
I really like this guy more and more all the time! :D
40hz:
^Fun idea that does a lot to really put the whole issue into sharp focus and clearly expose what is really behind the current agenda.
Too bad. Because what he's proposing is soooo not gonna happen.
There's no national government that will let him do that. None. Zip. Nada. And his network has to be physically located somewhere.
Hmm...maybe it's time to get really serious about opening portals to alternate dimensions?
In the immortal words of the poet E.E.Cummings:
listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go
Works for me. I'm in! :Thmbsup: ;D
TaoPhoenix:
No quotes for this one... It's such a jaw-dropper, that you have to read it yourself.
http://theintelhub.com/2012/11/04/kim-dotcom-announces-400-million-dollar-plan-to-provide-new-zealand-with-free-internet/
Free Internet? Wow. Ambitious!
I really like this guy more and more all the time! :D
-Renegade (November 07, 2012, 09:35 AM)
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What does he get out of it? 400 million is a lot for a "present" to give a country! (In other news, does operating megaupload make that much money? Or is someone else financing this for him?)
wraith808:
What does he get out of it? 400 million is a lot for a "present" to give a country! (In other news, does operating megaupload make that much money? Or is someone else financing this for him?)
-TaoPhoenix (November 07, 2012, 11:33 AM)
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That's the 400 Million Dollar question- especially as part of the money is being fronted by 'silent investors'. Of course, it could be national pride and philanthropy.
40hz:
Yeah. I'd like to follow the money myself. Although there are enough self-styled mavericks (Shuttleworth, Sir Richard Branson, Turner, et al.) backing various social agendas who do have the financial resources and connections to either pull it off - or put a consortium together.
The only problem is it will paint a big red bullseye on the forehead of any major backer dumb enough to go public about funding it. Be interesting to see where the money would be kept too. It would be pretty easy to seize it under a variety of pretenses if it were banked in any of the usual "legit" places.
"Curioser and curioser," said Alice.
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