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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 06 2021, @04:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the company-towns-and-company-scrip dept.

Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments:

Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.

Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state's economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday.

The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.

The measure to further economic development with the "alternative form of local government" has not yet been introduced in the Legislature.

[...] The governor's economic development office did not respond to questions about the zones Wednesday.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by fakefuck39 on Saturday February 06 2021, @10:42AM (8 children)

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Saturday February 06 2021, @10:42AM (#1109587)

    Have you, umm, been to the UAE? Most modern place in the world, you can order a helicopter in your uber app to take you from your skyscraper to the air conditioned solar powered beach, or the desert ski slope. Every company has an office there, from HP and Oracle, to the local popcorn shop. They make zero rules, and have zero influence on laws. I dated a girl there for a year or so. The companies come in, follow the archaic laws, make lots of cash that's barely taxed, then use it to expand in the country, because moving cash outside is taxed. Companies in the UAE do not dictate to their government. Company country? No, a country with lots of companies that follow the government rules to the letter, or they get kicked out. So literally what we want here for companies to do, just under our rules.

    so.. the opposite of what you said is true.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday February 06 2021, @08:23PM (7 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday February 06 2021, @08:23PM (#1109767) Journal

    Most modern place in the world, you can order a helicopter in your uber app to take you from your skyscraper to the air conditioned solar powered beach, or the desert ski slope.

    With enough money, you can do that from anywhere.

    Companies in the UAE do not dictate to their government.

    Things are not as they seem. I believe you are wagging the dog. The companies use the government to limit competition.

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
    • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Saturday February 06 2021, @10:08PM (6 children)

      by fakefuck39 (6620) on Saturday February 06 2021, @10:08PM (#1109795)

      With enough money you can use the Uber app on your phone to order a helicopter instead of a car? Well cool, you should tell that to people you know in real life so they can also laugh at the idiot making up blatantly obvious lies. It's very entertaining. "Enough money" in this case btw is $200. Super-rich, I know.

      >I believe you are wagging the dog
      Yeah, let's believe a guy without a passport talking about a country he's never been to, as opposed to me, who's spent a year there, lived there, and tried to open an office for my little company there to avoid taxes.

      >The companies use the government to limit competition.
      I don't even know what this means. You said the corporations run the government in Dubai and dictate the rules and laws there. This is blatantly false, and the opposite is true. Now you are claiming something else you pulled completely out of your ass. There is no limit to competition in Dubai. Literally everyone is welcome, and there are government incentives to open an office there. No one uses the government of Dubai, which is a monarchy and a dynasty. It is literally run by a fucking King who is richer than god, and does whatever the fuck he wants. He uses the companies, the companies do not use the King or have any say or influence in what he does.

      it's weird, every comment I notice you post you're talking out of your ass about shit you obviously know nothing about and have no experience with. not just on this thread - on just about every topic I see you post. I'm starting to wonder if this is some weird personality you invented for being online, because it's hard to believe someone could actually be like that.

      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday February 07 2021, @12:40AM (5 children)

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Sunday February 07 2021, @12:40AM (#1109835) Journal

        :-) You're funny. I like your style... World traveler who knows all...

        It's just plain old symbiosis. The government of Dubai will do what is necessary to bring in revenue. If their laws negatively affect business they will change them. Companies that support heavy restrictions on outsiders will happily prop them up. It's the only reason there is a "Dubai". It is a business, not a country, like Belize, and all those Caribbean islands. Big business likes big government. Works in the States too.

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        La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
        • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Sunday February 07 2021, @01:16AM (4 children)

          by fakefuck39 (6620) on Sunday February 07 2021, @01:16AM (#1109839)

          The reason it seems like "I know all" is because when I make statements like you do, it is about things I know. When I'm talking about shit I don't know and only think, I communicate that. Do give that a try sometime.

          But you won't will you.. You're going to keep shitting all over the internet with your theories, stating them as fact. And you just keep going and doubling down.

          Hey sherlock - the reason there is Dubai, is because it was a good place for fishing, so people started living and working there. As global trade established, voila - it was on a trade route from Iran, so it boomed. Then in the 70s there was a big oil crisis, and people started looking for more oil everywhere. And they found a bunch in Dubai. And the population tripled in under a decade and it became a huge modern city. It is now quite literally the busiest sea port in the middle east.

          Companies are there because taxes are low, and business is high because of tourism and the trade route.

          >Companies that support heavy restrictions on outsiders
          there are no heavy restrictions on outsiders. you keep saying literally the opposite of what is true. it is one of the most open and welcoming places in the world for outsiders. yes, companies do support heavy restrictions to outsiders. UAE does the opposite of what the companies support. And you're using that to say UAE policy is dictated by the companies...

          I'm 90% sure now this is some online persona you have. No one could be this dumb. You dip your hands in the water and say the ocean is dry, because if you were to dry your hands with a towel, they would be dry, and if the ocean had water they would be wet. You look at a black object and say it being black is proof that it's white. Either a goofy persona for the web, or you really, really need to get an MRI before you start crossing through traffic when you have a red. Because if you had a green, there would be no cars, so it's safe to cross on red.

          • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday February 07 2021, @02:56AM (3 children)

            by fustakrakich (6150) on Sunday February 07 2021, @02:56AM (#1109853) Journal

            And you're using that to say UAE policy is dictated by the companies...

            Of course it is. The company picks the government, not the other way around. The government complies, or there is a coup, or a boy king emerges from a death in the family.

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            La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
            • (Score: 3, Funny) by fakefuck39 on Sunday February 07 2021, @03:12AM (2 children)

              by fakefuck39 (6620) on Sunday February 07 2021, @03:12AM (#1109856)

              >The company picks the government, not the other way around

              Ok, so I was right. You're trolling with this online fake personality. Corporations picked the thousand year dynasty and its current king of UAE in that line of kings.

              >The government complies, or there is a coup
              right, and if fish had fur and went clubbing, they'd go bald and need hair loss medicine so they get all the young club chicks.

              here in reality, the king of UAE is part of a family dynasty going back a thousand years, and microsoft and oracle with their offices in tech park aren't unseating him, but following his rules.

              you're making up this hypothetical bullshit that doesn't exist. what we have is facts. those facts are, that neither the government, nor a single law or regulation in UAE has been put in place by a single corporation.

              and yes, maybe there is a chance that if the king did something to piss off some of those powerful corporations, which have less money than the dynasty does, they will rally the people who absolutely adore their king, and have him overthrown. and if a nuclear missle in the shape of an alien fish landed in dubai and a walrus stepped off of it and declared dubai an alien seaport, it would be populated by fish. see, I just proved dubai is an aquarium for aliens. but you are using your theoretical fantasy based on lack of any knowledge of the area to tell facts about the area. this is just funny.

              what's really funny is this is a thing you do, and you are guaranteed to do it in other aspects of your life. that knowledge puts a wide smile on my face, because you are now my personal clown.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2021, @02:48AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2021, @02:48AM (#1110114)

                I, for one, welcome our furry, club-hopping piscine overlords.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 09 2021, @08:43AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 09 2021, @08:43AM (#1110606)

                Another user figures out that fusty is just a troll. How sad would it be if he wasn't?