For garbage service, I saw one guy who had his own garbage company. He bought a truck that could hold 6 garbage cans in the back. He would go out in the morning, pick up the full garbage can and drop off an empty. Then go drop the garbage off at the dump.

Even if he only did 6 houses per day, that is 180 houses a month times $10 each per month...$1,800 per month income just for owning a truck and making a garbage run every day. $2,600 per month if he makes two trips a day.

A corporation could buy him out. Then the next guy would go out and buy a truck and do the same thing...

And...everyone is forced to pay for fire service. Some people may not want the monthly option as I did not.

Obviously not since my fire station gave me an option when I moved in.

Pay $20 per month OR pay $2,000 to put out a fire when it happens.

I opted to chance it and not pay the monthly fee.

And the private fire station is still going strong with top ratings.

If bitcoin dies then I will buy as much of it as I can and do all of the mining with my GPU at work for free.

I will then start selling once all 21 million are mined.

Everyone is born with inalienable rights.

How quickly they are suppressed is another question.

Using your imagination and using brain power to come up with solutions is a much better way than just fighting humanity, as tends to be the environmentalist solution.

You cannot stop greed. The best you can do is direct it toward being beneficial.

To try to fight greed only works with guns and oppression.

Before Hawker responds, I figured I would help him out with this one.

Hawker: But what about people who want to go out and fish? How can you keep boats out of the ocean? What if the Japanese Navy wants people to kill whales, there is nothing you can do about it. How are you going to stop people from going to the beach? People on beaches step on ocean creatures. How do you stop that? 80% of people live within 2 miles of the ocean, how will you keep them out of the water? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming

It is great that you are coming up with all of these "holes" that nobody has considered with seasteading.

But you may be enlightened to actually do some research to know that others too have considered it and look for ways at solving them.

http://www.seasteading.org/search/node/defending

Of course, government is always the concern. Somalia is being stifled because of UN attacks. The answer to most threats of war is to trade peacefully with a nation and its citizens so that attacks would be unproductive and harm the nation doing the attacking as much as the one being attacked.

Not sure, but I believe this service was discontinued.

https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=253.0

Perfect opening for someone else to step in.

This.

With bit-pay, a merchant does not need to know nor care anything about Bitcoins other than the fact that it is easy to set up (NO SETUP FEES), he can expand his customer base and that the transaction fees are cheaper.

Most importantly, that he can get paid in cash just like with a credit card.

I have acquired plenty of knowledge on free market environmentalism. What knowledge do you have of it? Perhaps you should acquire knowledge.

A good start would be "Healing our World" by Mary Ruwart
http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap8.html

The whales would probably not be conducive to nets, but fish would...and they do already as the story posted shows.

For whales, GPS would be an option.

The tragedy of the commons is that, without ownership then it is a free for all. First one to get it all wins. With no consequences.

This is the same with the government leasing out timber land and other natural resources to be bleed dry with no considerations for the future use of that land. If someone actually owned it, they would want the value to continue forever.

And you would rather treat humans like cattle instead? Or perhaps sheep?

To be clear...are you saying that the use of force by a government against someone that has not initiated force against that government is a bad thing?

You were asking about saving the whales...

Last time I checked the cattle population has done nothing but climb...at around 1.3 billion as of 2009.

Such growth at even 1 millionth through property rights would be worth it.

Wow, I have been called out. 

The article I quoted is speaking of harvesting fish. Nets are not a new concept in fish farming.


http://www.badinotti.com/news.html

That is the key issue? Really?

If a small community evolves in an area of the sea and creates an economy based upon harvesting and herding fish/whales, then they will be very resentful toward any ship coming into their proximity to steal their livestock.

And they would have the incentive to encourage replication and growth of the fish and whale populations. While having the incentive to protect it.

You seem to be completely unaware of the aesthetic quality of purpose built engineering that fulfills a need.