as Frank Zappa said: You are damned right.

what I had in mind was the 'rules' a pirate signed in times of Henry Morgan.

same risk ( yer life ) same reward - only the navigator got double

The greek were notoriously active as pirates during the Minoan time and then again during the Romans

And the left-over of the Phoenicians later operated as Corsars in the Western Mediterranean way past the Roman Empire.

most probably - you aren't

But please consider this : many democracies were introduced with pirating at least partly involved.

The greek were pirating the phoenicians

The Vikings all of Europe

And the British pirated on Spain

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Maybe we can expect some democracy in Somalia soon?

I agree fully and add my suggestion of e-government and e-parliament: I propose additionally the preparation of e-parliaments, e-senate and e-congress!

Every elected representative should stay in his election district and be only represented by a robot head and speaker in the parliament.

To this avatar-like representation the representative should have highbandwidth connection, so that his image and head movements as well as voice can be transmitted, and a back-channels showing the representative in his home-office the situation in the assemly room.

This way the taxpayer saves a lot by avoiding the cost of accomodation and transport for their representatives, while maintaining a dirtect contact between voters and representative locally iwithin the election district.

It has also the added benefit that lobbyists have more problems in contacting the legislative members and also contacts will be more visible as the voters will see who is contacting their elected representative - which can not when their representative is in Wahsington DC or their respective seat of government.

one possible product: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/278794,bell-labs-builds-telepresence-robots.aspx

you shall not....!

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when algorithms become patentable/protectable, the next will be recipes etc....

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THOU SHALL NOT ....!!!!

between the customers?

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UK Metropolitan Police, U.S. Secret Service, the Ministry of Defence and regimes in the Middle East

caused by shadows and light intermittent thrown on the outer parts of the cloud!

especially as it looks like repeated patterns.

or is the DC of Italy not trustworthy for Wintel?NSA to tell them that this comes already with every computer running a majority Operating System 7?

and you may want to use compression too:

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http://www.linuxweblog.com/dd-image

I agree fully!

BTW my former boss of IT is now there CIO.

this of course has nothing to do with your statement!

we go to the incinerating plant near us.

the person responsible for the destruction of the data remains with the batch of HD until they were turned into Emerald dust ( Al2O3)

Highly cost effective!

and outfit our representatives with high bandwidth channels into Congress, Senate or any other Parliament worldwide.

There they will be represented by a life size screen and a 100 W speaker.

And all without leaving home-town and electoral district!

the contradiction lies in :

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on one side developing secure technology

and on the other hand you want to eavesdrop

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you ain't need to explain that the NSA wants to eat the cake and keep it too!

and I'll bet that the ideas, if not the whole technology will land in the hands of those the NSA wants to spy on.

on the one hand they want to spy on each and everything

on the other hand they want to keep their turf secret

Does one have to be schizophrenic to work there?

if not mandatory, it sure would help!

SUE!

with v > C