Edited by author 05-29-2003 11:36 AM
gilbert: No need to look for jurisdictions with weak laws. Just take it into international waters and you can whatever you damn well please. Of course, you'd need to keep your armaments in working order, since anyone else can do whatever they damn well please too.

But you're still beholden to whoever owns the satellite.

Still, $4.5 mill does seem cheap. Few times in my life have I ever more strongly wished I was really rich. I mean, this thing can do 6,200 nm at 25 knots! And it's named Vengeance!