>Also too, you'd be unlikely to find any takers. Hunting pirates off
>the coast of Somalia and the straits of Malacca is unlikely to be at
>all profitable (modern real-life pirates tend to be deeply poor) and
>we haven't been at war with any nation-state who a private person
>could field their own private warship against with any expectation of
>profitable success since... I'm gonna say since the American Civil
>War.

Well, that's boring.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter