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Do you think people on the spectrum should have their own country?
Yes 40%  40%  [ 64 ]
No 60%  60%  [ 95 ]
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15 Aug 2011, 9:44 am

Resource extraction and limited refining is easier to set up than manufacturing, generally, depending on how complex the objects in question are. An Aspie/Autist micronation could probably be set up with farming, clay and wood production (for example) as the primary sector, the production of wood, wool, leather, and clay objects (houses, furniture, utensils, musical instruments, clothing etc) as the secondary sector, and using this to pay for the tertiary sector (teaching, paying for healthcare etc). There's a lot one can do without pissing off the powers that be that will allow such a micronation to be self sufficient. It does require land, but in America and Canada that seems to be in plentiful supply. Heavy relience on cottage industry, granted, but if it provides jobs for Autists... of course, not everyone would be engaged in the primary or secondary sector.

Ideas like this are closer to reality than fantasies about creating a fully fledged nation-state by taking over another country.



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15 Aug 2011, 10:00 am

Magneto wrote:
Resource extraction and limited refining is easier to set up than manufacturing, generally, depending on how complex the objects in question are. An Aspie/Autist micronation could probably be set up with farming, clay and wood production (for example) as the primary sector, the production of wood, wool, leather, and clay objects (houses, furniture, utensils, musical instruments, clothing etc) as the secondary sector, and using this to pay for the tertiary sector (teaching, paying for healthcare etc). There's a lot one can do without pissing off the powers that be that will allow such a micronation to be self sufficient. It does require land, but in America and Canada that seems to be in plentiful supply. Heavy relience on cottage industry, granted, but if it provides jobs for Autists... of course, not everyone would be engaged in the primary or secondary sector.

Ideas like this are closer to reality than fantasies about creating a fully fledged nation-state by taking over another country.


Interesting. But really, we should conquer fiji :P



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15 Aug 2011, 10:27 am

Like I said, unrealistic fantasies get us nowhere... :p



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28 Oct 2011, 1:18 am

Umm did it occur to anyone that, there would be only 1 female per 3 males in the country? That might turn out to be a bigger problem that all the other ones.


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28 Oct 2011, 5:25 am

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Umm did it occur to anyone that, there would be only 1 female per 3 males in the country? That might turn out to be a bigger problem that all the other ones.

1 to 3? I don't think that's true. It's certainly unequal, yes. According to the statistics. But then again according to statistics it probably would have been more unequal in the past.



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28 Oct 2011, 6:44 am

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1 to 3? I don't think that's true. It's certainly unequal, yes. According to the statistics. But then again according to statistics it probably would have been more unequal in the past.

Well I'm just quoting the latest statistics. Can't quote something that's not been proved :)


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28 Oct 2011, 7:27 am

Dhawal wrote:
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1 to 3? I don't think that's true. It's certainly unequal, yes. According to the statistics. But then again according to statistics it probably would have been more unequal in the past.

Well I'm just quoting the latest statistics. Can't quote something that's not been proved :)

Which statistics? Also why should I believe statistics that are very likely inaccurate given the prediliction for under-reported statistics on female autistics.

Under-reported statistics on female autistics.

Sounds like a rhyme.



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28 Oct 2011, 10:10 am

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Like I said, unrealistic fantasies get us nowhere... :p

An ironic statement coming from someone called Magneto. :lol:


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28 Oct 2011, 10:12 am

Lecks wrote:
Magneto wrote:
Like I said, unrealistic fantasies get us nowhere... :p

An ironic statement coming from someone called Magneto. :lol:


That isn't so important to the point he's making. I do disagree with magneto though. Have you posted on this part of the forum before lecks?



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28 Oct 2011, 10:12 am

I thought it was 6:1? :lol:

I don't think the gender ratio will be much to worry about, at least compared to the other issues one would have to solve...



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28 Oct 2011, 10:14 am

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I thought it was 6:1? :lol:

I don't think the gender ratio will be much to worry about, at least compared to the other issues one would have to solve...


You know what until someone can actually get me some real statistics I don't trust what I am hearing. 6:1, 3:1, that's a discrepancy where I guess millions of women dissapear.



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28 Oct 2011, 10:52 am

Gedrene wrote:
Lecks wrote:
Magneto wrote:
Like I said, unrealistic fantasies get us nowhere... :p

An ironic statement coming from someone called Magneto. :lol:


That isn't so important to the point he's making. I do disagree with magneto though. Have you posted on this part of the forum before lecks?

I browse it occasionally.

I realise my comment is irrelevant to the conversation, I just like to point out humorous things now and then. Carry on. :)


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28 Oct 2011, 11:28 am

Lecks wrote:
Gedrene wrote:
Lecks wrote:
Magneto wrote:
Like I said, unrealistic fantasies get us nowhere... :p

An ironic statement coming from someone called Magneto. :lol:


That isn't so important to the point he's making. I do disagree with magneto though. Have you posted on this part of the forum before lecks?

I browse it occasionally.

I realise my comment is irrelevant to the conversation, I just like to point out humorous things now and then. Carry on. :)

Nah, it's fine. What irrelevance it had was negligible. I don't think in black and white terms like that. I just like to point things out.



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28 Oct 2011, 4:35 pm

I fail to see how you disagree with me saying unrealistic fantasies get us nowhere?



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28 Oct 2011, 5:08 pm

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I fail to see how you disagree with me saying unrealistic fantasies get us nowhere?

I don't disagree with the principle. I just disagree the point at which you measure something to be an unrealistic fantasy. There's a difference between hard, unlikely and impossible.


hard: I bench press fourty pounds right now.
unlikely: When I flip a coin seven times it always lands on heads.
impossible: I don a viking helm, get on one of those mlp things and fly around the world so fast that I cause time to go backwards. I then land in anglo-saxon england and take down the Kingdom of Mercia with an AK-47 and lead my viking invaders in a great warband with my trusty sidekicks Ivarr the Boneless and Sigurd snake-in-the-eye to conquer europe.



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29 Oct 2011, 1:50 am

We need at least two. And a secret hideout.