Anguilla in the top 100

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:40 pm

Yes indeed the mighty boinc credit tax haven that is Anguilla has broken into the top 100 countries in boincdom

Anguilla stats here http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/country/detail/168

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:02 am

The mighty Anguilla is now 96th in the world of Boincing 8) Onwards and upwards I say. Yarrr !!
Of course any defectors to the Caribbean are welcome with a raised Mojito !!

Janos (retired) · Post by **Janos (retired)** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:25 am

Uhm, why Anguilla?

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:36 pm

Family legend has it that when Anguilla was claimed for the crown my lot on the Irish side had a hand in the whole affair

Also when I joined it was in 221st place or so, absolute bottom of the barrel, and nobody crunched for them, so for an ego trip I get a whole country to be and have singlehandedly moved it up into the big boy table.
Besides, go look at some pictures of the place...in November, in Scotland, who wouldn't want to be there

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:08 pm

alezevo1 wrote: Besides, go look at some pictures of the place...in November, in Scotland, who wouldn't want to be there

I was in the Dominican Republic last year on honeymoon at it looks very similar to Anguilla - very nice, sandy beaches, palm trees. Pretty hot and humid in the summer for us Scots though!

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:13 pm

Silver wrote:
alezevo1 wrote: Besides, go look at some pictures of the place...in November, in Scotland, who wouldn't want to be there
I was in the Dominican Republic last year on honeymoon at it looks very similar to Anguilla - very nice, sandy beaches, palm trees. Pretty hot and humid in the summer for us Scots though!

... You mean as opposed to it being cold and humid in bonnie Scotland ?

...Congratulations, by the way!

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:33 am

PinkPenguin wrote: ... You mean as opposed to it being cold and humid in bonnie Scotland ? ...Congratulations, by the way!

Cold in Scotland!? Don't know what you mean

And thanks :)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:42 am

Hasn't exactly been cold the last few weeks for sure and congratulations too.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:50 am

alezevo1 wrote:Hasn't exactly been cold the last few weeks for sure and congratulations too.

It has been almost tropical, i might have to get air con. My little home office is getting warm with my computer running constantly..
Thanks too, seems like a long time ago now!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:53 am

Silver wrote:
alezevo1 wrote:Hasn't exactly been cold the last few weeks for sure and congratulations too.
It has been almost tropical, i might have to get air con. My little home office is getting warm with my computer running constantly..
Thanks too, seems like a long time ago now!

If your's was a long time ago. mine was a life time ago

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:34 pm

alezevo1 wrote:
If your's was a long time ago. mine was a life time ago

Sorry!
We got married the year before but ran out of money/time for a honeymoon, so it feels a bit strange getting congratulated.
(hoping not to have dug myself a bigger hole!)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 2:27 am

87th in the world now !!!

Onwards and upwards for the pirates haven...

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sat Aug 17, 2013 3:06 am

83rd now. Anyone else who wants to join the pirates are of course more than welcome to join the Boinc credit haven. Crunching by yourself is a lonely business

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 1:07 am

alezevo1 wrote:83rd now. Anyone else who wants to join the pirates are of course more than welcome to join the Boinc credit haven. Crunching by yourself is a lonely business

I'm tempted, I just though that it was your solo project!

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 1:12 am

Silver wrote: I'm tempted, I just though that it was your solo project!

The island is big enough for a few of us to bury booty and collect credit !!! Yaaar, and you get to be Long John 'Silver'

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 6:54 pm

alezevo1 wrote:
Silver wrote: I'm tempted, I just though that it was your solo project!
The island is big enough for a few of us to bury booty and collect credit !!! Yaaar, and you get to be Long John 'Silver'

Ahoy there, my new neighbour

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 10:24 pm

Yarr, now there be 2 pirates

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 11:00 pm

To be a big fish in big pond or to be a big fish in a shallow puddle, that is the question!

Do I want to be UK #6 or Anguilla #1?

I've got to say that as someone with 1 Welsh & 3 Scottish grandparents who prior to returning permanently to Scotland, spent time working & living in Northern Ireland & England I don't feel that Anguillan.

The above considerations count as nought when set against the prospect of going though 75 projects and changing my details.

So, through sheer laziness, I'm sticking with the UK- unless an independent Scotland should hove into view. Which, unless David Cameron reintroduces the poll tax while simultaneously out-lawing the deep fried Mars bar and declaring Scotland an alcohol free zone, ain't going to happen.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 11:54 pm

alezevo1 wrote:Family legend has it that when Anguilla was claimed for the crown my lot on the Irish side had a hand in the whole affair
Also when I joined it was in 221st place or so, absolute bottom of the barrel, and nobody crunched for them, so for an ego trip I get a whole country to be and have singlehandedly moved it up into the big boy table.

as previously posted...

I'm Scots, Irish, Norwegian and Spanish in the last 5 generations. My kid can add English to that

I've spent the last 25 years in more countries than I can name. It's simply a laugh to see how far a small island can be pushed up the list of countries in Boinc. With the amount of windmills I can see from my house now, thanks to the Scottish government, I would be forgiven for crunching for Holland !!!!!

I use the Bam account manager, so changing anything there ie country, changes it across all the projects attached to the manager. It's how I control resources, which projects run etc. whilst I'm away.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 1:01 am

Anguilla stats can be found here http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/country/detail/168

If Mega jumped ship then Anguilla would be catapulted to 42nd in the world !!

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 1:06 am

Megacruncher wrote:To be a big fish in big pond or to be a big fish in a shallow puddle, that is the question!

Do I want to be UK #6 or Anguilla #1?

Have to say I'm going for glory.
Moving from being just outside the top 1550 in the uk to being inside the top 5 8)

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 1:28 am

Silver wrote:
Megacruncher wrote:To be a big fish in big pond or to be a big fish in a shallow puddle, that is the question!

Do I want to be UK #6 or Anguilla #1?
Have to say I'm going for glory.
Moving from being just outside the top 1550 in the uk to being inside the top 5 8)

Spoken like a true pirate :occasion5:

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 5:53 pm

alezevo1 wrote:
Silver wrote:
Megacruncher wrote:To be a big fish in big pond or to be a big fish in a shallow puddle, that is the question!

Do I want to be UK #6 or Anguilla #1?
Have to say I'm going for glory.
Moving from being just outside the top 1550 in the uk to being inside the top 5 8)
Spoken like a true pirate :occasion5:

arrr, thanks captain :pirate:

Number two in the new colony :)
think catching the leader is somewhat unlikely though!

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:08 pm

Still number two in the country

I'm enjoying the weather and scenery too

Post by **Megacruncher** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:55 pm

44th Now! Between Argentina & Saudi Arabia- what can be happening?

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 9:11 pm

Megacruncher wrote:44th Now! Between Argentina & Saudi Arabia- what can be happening?

I'm guessing my ranking is going to have dropped by a place then

Pull up a deck chair and have cold beer while the sun sets on our tropical paradise

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:29 pm

Silver wrote:
Megacruncher wrote:44th Now! Between Argentina & Saudi Arabia- what can be happening?
I'm guessing my ranking is going to have dropped by a place then
Pull up a deck chair and have cold beer while the sun sets on our tropical paradise

My rank stays the same as Captain

Peeeeep, Admiral on deck

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:17 am

Does this mean we get our own section on the forum to ? My goal was to get Anguilla as high as I could and to try and be in the top 100 for the projects. With the three of us that will be easier

Anymore Caribbean tourists in the wings ?

Post by **Megacruncher** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:09 pm

Going by Boincstats Anguilla seem to have accepted my credits but not my citizenship.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 2:28 pm

Megacruncher wrote:Going by Boincstats Anguilla seem to have accepted my credits but not my citizenship.

And that is why you should never trust pirates

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 1:12 am

Your credits from other projects are slowly filtering through and you show as a citizen in the projects where your credit has been transferred. Have patience and a tropical cocktail....government bureaucracy at work

Remember this is the pirates tropical hangout, we're a bit slack on the paperwork :thumbup:

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 12:04 am

and now you have been granted citizenship and pirate status

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 12:31 am

alezevo1 wrote:and now you have been granted citizenship and pirate status

Even though that means I've been demoted to third in our country - welcome aboard! :pirate:

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:00 am

I see this as some sort of long overdue and totally inadequate consolation for the Darien Disaster. At last Scotland is succesfully colonising the Americas! Hurrah!

Which begs the question - do we know what the real Anguillans think of this?

A similar exercise has been tried by UBT-MacTooth hijacking the identity of the Pitcairn Islands. This is a community of 46 descendents of the mutineers of the Bounty and the Polynesian women they kidnapped & raped. In the last 2 decades the main economic activity on the Islands has been a major trial of most of the the adult males on the Islands on charges of child sexual abuse, followed by the same men having to construct a jail so they could serve their richly deserved sentences. Bastards!

No doubt compared to this the far more numerous inhabitants of Anguilla live lives of irreproachable respectability, hence my qualms. Do they welcome our Piracy as bringing glory on their islands or do they resent the boorish Scottish interlopers?

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 10:23 am

Megacruncher wrote:I see this as some sort of long overdue and totally inadequate consolation for the Darien Disaster. At last Scotland is succesfully colonising the Americas! Hurrah!

Which begs the question - do we know what the real Anguillans think of this?

A similar exercise has been tried by UBT-MacTooth hijacking the identity of the Pitcairn Islands. This is a community of 46 descendents of the mutineers of the Bounty and the Polynesian women they kidnapped & raped. In the last 2 decades the main economic activity on the Islands has been a major trial of most of the the adult males on the Islands on charges of child sexual abuse, followed by the same men having to construct a jail so they could serve their richly deserved sentences. Bastards!

No doubt compared to this the far more numerous inhabitants of Anguilla live lives of irreproachable respectability, hence my qualms. Do they welcome our Piracy as bringing glory on their islands or do they resent the boorish Scottish interlopers?

Whoa, that be quite a question for a Sunday morn, after a night on the rum!

I'll refer you to our more time served member, Captian Alezevo

PinkPenguin · Post by **PinkPenguin** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 10:42 am

Megacruncher wrote:Which begs the question - do we know what the real Anguillans think of this?

...Anguilla is a Tax Haven, "offshore" this and that, so as long as you bring in the booty I don't think they'll ask a lot of questions! Naturally, their lack of curiosity does require a modicum of maintenance from time to time. I presume "captive insurance" means abducting insurance salesmen and holding them to ransom... 8)

Anyway if it doesn't work out you can always try Antarctica which is basically international, has a lot of space, and some reasonably active inhabitants who would probably welcome a little light relief... or if you really want to start a scrap there is New Caledonia I'm sure AF will not be slow to pick up the gauntlet (given it's name it should, after all, be Scottish)...

Post by **Megacruncher** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:43 pm

43rd Now!

We just whipped some Saudi butt!

Unfortunately I can't get some of my credits offshore because they were earned in now retired projects.

I'll stick with Anguilla until its time for me to return to blighty and take my place in the UK top five.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:17 pm

Megacruncher wrote:
43rd Now!

I'll stick with Anguilla until its time for me to return to blighty and take my place in the UK top five.

Desertion... Mutiny.... Ya scurvy pirate ya !!!!
Oh wait, that's the whole point of this pirate thing .....

Going by Boincstats I'm pretty certain Anguilla stopped caring about Boinc sometime in 2008 so as far as I'm concerned it's a vacant property

I would have a Mojito to toast our overtake but the vessel I am currently bobbing about on is dry

I obviously walked up the wrong gang plank

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:47 pm

and I presume the Caribbean holiday is over. I could join you as #44 in UK but why leave paradise

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:51 pm

On the plus side it means I'm ranked second in the country :)
Every cloud.......

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:14 pm

and we get to spank all those countries as we pass them on the way up for a second time

Post by **Megacruncher** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:17 pm

alezevo1 wrote:and I presume the Caribbean holiday is over. I could join you as #44 in UK but why leave paradise

My holiday is over but nearly all my my credits remain offshore (repatriating a few of my smaller projects, with only a few thousand credits between them, was enough to persuade Boincstats that I was a Brit.)

So I get to be a major player in a major league again (UK 6th - 4th by Xmas, 3rd by RAC) and Anguilla continue to be a rising international power (still 43rd by TC & 30th by RAC). Win win.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:14 am

# 42 now, though with Mega's credit slowly bleeding away as his dual citizenship expires it leaves more work and fun for me and Silver :)
eventually we will get the projects all in the top 100.
As always any budding pirates are welcome

Einstein comp on just now and Anguilla 105 in the world behind Armenia and the isle of man. I refuse to be behind a country famed for tractors ? and another that isn't even a country. Crunch on I say or the plank it will be

Yarrr.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:51 pm

We've passed the land of tractors and the country that isn't a country.
Next in line is Jordan and then a place in the top 100

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:00 am

We just took a big hit on mega's credit bleeding away. Down to 55 now. Now we get to overtake all over again

. Unless we drop any further Luxemburg is our next victim.

Post by **Megacruncher** » Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:09 am

Hi guys,
I'm afraid this Pirate just walked the plank.
The sad literalist in me couldn't let go of the fact that I've never come within 1000 miles of Anguilla whereas I've actually lived in Scotland (48 years), England (3 years), Northern Ireland (6 months) and visited Wales (6 hours) and my maternal grandfather was born & raised there. So to UK I have returned.
Sorry, but I am who I am.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Oct 24, 2013 3:12 am

Sounds like a party political broadcast/recruitment drive by Aleck of the SNP there

I will wish you all the best in your new homeland (not as good as the first season though)
Thanks for your time spent in our tropical paradise. Lots of love your former pirate chums

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:09 am

68th now, Latvia the new target, unless we fall further. Guess we wait till the dust settles then crack on.
No need to apologise Mega, the whole thing is a bit of a laugh anyway. We just get more targets to get past again. Up in the rarefied atmosphere of the to 40's we were going to take ages to overtake anyone anyway. Hope you enjoyed the holiday, drop by for a rum or two when we're not out pillaging

Post by **Megacruncher** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:22 am

You will sink no further. Only my solitary QMC million remains to be repatriated.
68th is pretty good: A good 20 places higher that when I joined the crew.
The Latvians will be surprised when you board them - it's a long way from the Caribbean to the Baltic.

Alez · Post by **Alez** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:33 am

Megacruncher wrote: The Latvians will be surprised when you board them - it's a long way from the Caribbean to the Baltic.

I am glad I specified the GPS upgrade to the fleet, unintended international incidents due to drunken map reading can be so embarrassing 8) Gives Pirates a bad name.