Last month, the US and Niger struck an agreement on the status of US forces as the two nations "define precisely what kind of military presence we may have in Niger in the future", a spokeswoman for the US state department said.
It may not be possible to define software patents precisely, it may be easy for patent applicants to game any software-specific rules, and we have to find a way to remain in compliance with our treaty obligations.
To define this business more precisely, it consists of using sophisticated distillation methods to extract money from taxpayers and hand it to Archer Daniels Midland.
The tools used to stop spam get in the way of stopping these messages precisely because they occupy that hard-to-define space between real junk and real messages.