>Lucky:
>
> >I agree with Peter in that Sealand may wish to consider adding a nuke to
> >their budget of small arms. Nuclear powers are the only sovereigns that
> >command any kind of respect from the other members in the club.
>
>Kick that N up to BC arms so the start-up budget is doable. The cost of
>a suitcase nuke is about that of a fully loaded 18-wheeler (~$150K) while
>B or C fannypacks can be obtained for <10K. Say there are a half-
>dozen sysadmins on Sealand (if any), each could wear one of these
>which would activate if any server is improperly tampered with. Say
>you love the sysadmins, then have them wear BC protective suits
>under the fannypacks. Say you wonder if a sysadmin will freak
>from seabreezed gullshit and mistakenly tamper with a server, then
>have the fannypack contain an injection kit that will VX the nut if a
>PAL is mishandled. Say you wonder if all the sysadmins will freak
>from bonephone attack by the TLAs, then ban headsets at work.
>That will reduce the pool of employables to <1. If the servers
>can indefinitely run without human intervention, pack Sealand
>with Ebola strains, cover those containers with quilts of GB,
>all rigged to activate with power loss or server tamper
>If this is uninteresting stick with interstate flattening of Beetles.
Simply fill one of the lower legs of the platfrom with
mercury, and a little high explosives. Have a panic button in the ops
center. The SAS lands, and 1000 gallons of pure mercury are blasted
out into the channel. That wouldn't be nice.