Good Gawd, is there no end to this?

[Live and Learn]

Unable to qualify for a work visa? No problem, just hop on this cruise ship.

Will the World's Next Great City Be Sited on a Cruise Ship?
By Amy Schellenbaum | Curbed – Thu, Apr 18, 2013 10:15 AM EDT

While the world has no shortage of pie-in-the-sky renderings for floating cities, a new proposal by Silicon Valley start-up Blueseed is perhaps the first to invoke entrepreneurial spirit and the American Dream in its soapbox pitch. Looking for a way to give foreign-born tech entrepreneurs access to the enterprising atmosphere of Silicon Valley, the founders of Blueseed are hoping to revamp an old cruise ship to create a community, of sorts, 12 nautical miles off California's coast in international waters, so international techies could live within commuting distance without a work visa. With a simple business tourism visa, denizens of the vessel could take a 30-minute boat ride to the mainland once or twice a week. Of course, creating an inhabitable community on water—one that people would live on six months or a year at a time—requires some interior design finagling, including incorporating lots of light and open space.

Pictures of the ship here: http://homes.yahoo.com/news/worlds-next-great-city-sited-cruise-ship-141500160.html

[OhioChick]

1. Pathetic n/t

[ZombieHorde]

2. Interesting. nt

[quinnox]

3. Watch that MoFu ship sink

in the first year. Titanic!

[Cleita]

4. Somehow I still think they would need a work visa. There are those little problems

of withholding from paychecks for taxes and paying under the table can only be done for small amounts or a good IRS auditor will find out about it. The only other alternative is not to pay them. This means Silicone Valley would be using slave labor kept on a ship that they can't leave if the employers so decided.

[Retrograde]

5. Not this again!

Is this another of Peter Theil's hare-brained schemes? It seems to pop up every 18 months or so.

BTW, the government knows about the trick of using multiple entrances on a tourist visa to work in the US: I know one person who was deported for doing it.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. If they do this, I hope it turns into one of those

Carnival cruises to Hell.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. And then a Pineapple Express sets up

resulting in....

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. k&r

It will lead to employee abuse

[LongTomH]

9. Want to be this turns out to be a "Floating Foxconn Dorm?"

Yeah, I looked at the concept drawings; but, the reality is likely to be far different. What they're looking for is cheap labor.

Edited to add: Now, look for posters showing up to defend the idea of using offshore labor in 5.....4......3.....2.......1

[tanyev]

10. What could possibly go wrong?

Brought to you by Carnival Cruise lines.

[elehhhhna]

11. it's all hunkydory til the toilets break down

[NBachers]

12. A floating roach / bedbug motel. What happens to all the waste products and trash?