As long as this is my day to post messages to the HP3000-L, a little while
ago, I wrote:

> If a complex and significant internet taxation becomes more truth than
> poetry, there is a substantial economic opportunity awaiting the people who
> inhabit the small out-of-the-way places where the local government would
> promise never to impose or enforce any form of external taxation, such as
> many of the islands of the Carribean either do now or are likely to in the
> near future.
>
>  It is the nature of the internet that physical location really doesn't
much
> matter any more -- and once you escape the reach of the legal soverignty of
> the taxing body, they have little or no recourse to collect whatever taxes
> they might aggressively impose on you. Locating a large bank of servers
> anywhere in the world only requires a good telecommunications
infrastructure
> and a reliable supply of electricity nowadays.

While the second part of this posting -- Microsoft moving to British Columbia
-- has come and gone in a flash (but who truly knows?), this first part may
become reality sooner. The following story was put up on ABC News' webpage
today:

    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/sealand000606.html

Wirt Atmar