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True, but the lesser the number of crew members, the more chances that they'd have a consistent story.

But good point about the 'captain's log' though.

Yes, but the scene of crime in this case is still available for the police to look at, and the dead body doesn't go anywhere.

The position of the body can in most cases show if the victim tripped or was pushed. Tampering with the body after the fall leaves even more clues for the police to find.

Sorry for this off topic comment but it's related(kind of): I've always wondered how a crime committed on a ship can be caught. For example, the crew of a ship mutinies against their captain and throws him overboard. When they get back to port, they claim that their captain was swept overboard during a storm. The crew, as one man, sticks to their story. Will anybody ever be able to prove otherwise?

This approaches being the perfect crime as the number of crew members go down, doesn't it?

How is this handled?

The rise of the Tea Party movement in the US has most countries worried about the consequences. China, with its state media, is in a better position to influence its populace along the lines that it considers beneficial to its foreign policy.

While the same isn't true for most of the other large/powerful countries, it is a fact that even the free press in these countries take quite an alarmist view over the growing influence of Tea Party thinkers in the US.

If you click on the "ask" link at the top of the page, you will get a list of all the "Ask HN" and "Offer HN" threads, if that's what you're looking for.

I see, thanks c1sc0.

I'm not so sure about the Aggressive Pacifism. From the Wikipedia article about the book --> The book is also interesting historically as Butler points out in 1935 that the US is engaging in military war games in the Pacific that are bound to provoke the Japanese. "The Japanese, a proud people, of course will be pleased beyond expression to see the United States fleet so close to Nippon's shores. Even as pleased as would be the residents of California were they to dimly discern through the morning mist, the Japanese fleet playing at war games off Los Angeles."

What WePay went ahead and did just proved to me that they aren't a bunch of stuck-up suits, which is unfortunately what PayPal seems to have become. Rather than seeing this as naive, I admire their creativity and their guts in pulling this off. They just earned my respect.