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To: elmatador who wrote (74128)	10/29/2010 12:09:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation of 74559

The islanders want people with big piles of money to go there. One of the reasons people can't go to such places is because there's no good internet. There are swarms of Geeks with loads of money and if they could live in Cook Islands for a few months a year during northern winter, they'd love it. <One's choice to live in an island incurs the a price to pay: The price of no one bothering with serving you. > Many things can be done without but some things are deal killers. Of course the service has to be economic, so an island paradise will always have reduced services compared with downtown Beijing, Tokyo, London and Los Angeles, but there are compensating advantages. If islanders want to get some income, they have to provide the services which are economic and are necessary to attract people. The islanders also want good cyberspace. Good cyberspace comes before flushing toilets and most other things. One can always dig a hole in the ground for poop. The oder of requirements for life are water, food, fibre ... then on to the less important things.... Mqurice

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