Re: Pirates and Privateers

> >Allen Goodall handed me a straight line:
> >> Because nations don't exist in a vacuum.
>
> And I did too! (Check the name spelling. *G*)

<blush>
I was just telling one of my coworkers today that, despite having
initials CD my memory is not ROM, but RAM--emphasis on "Random".

> >d) Take case C and add other governments to the list.  Is
there a
> >critical point--if so, what?
>
> That is a very, very good question. Ummm... it's a nation to
those who
> recognize it.

What is it to the other ones?

> I would suggest that the critical point is when the UN
recognizes it, if your
> universe has the UN... *S*

so....before the UN existed, what was the critical point?

<snip the discussion of the War of Northern Aggression>

> >Or economic.
>
> *L* There's a difference? Actually, you are quite right. It's
rare, though,
> that politics and economics aren't intertwined.

Rephrase Clausewitz:  Politics is an extension of economics by
other means.