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More recently, the U.S. government revealed that in September 2008, more than 3 million people in the state of Espirito Santo in Brazil were plunged into darkness, victims of a blackmail operation from cyber pirates.
What is the largest naval contingent tackling the issue of Somali pirates?
It became a gilded gateway into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks and images in my imagination.
The greatest fear was of pirates, rape and death.
I don't remember the pirates who came many times, but were bluffed by the bravado of the men on our boat, or the engine dying and failing to start for six hours.
For that, some people call us pirates.
And when they come, they say, "OK, you're going to go into the pirate ship, but be very still, because we don't want the pirates to find you."
That's to prevent pirates from attacking it.
So it's very important to them to track piracy exactly because of this, and the people who are buying, the pirates, are not their customers anyway, because their customers want the real deal.
What we're trying to do there is turn pirates to fisherman.
"What are the chance of encountering pirates?"
They have eyepatches in lots of colors, because when it's springtime, pirates want to go wild.
Then, Bart gets to propose a new distribution and all remaining pirates vote again.
But being pirates, none of them trust each other, so they can't collaborate in advance.
And being blood-thirsty pirates, if anyone thinks they'll end up with the same amount of gold either way, they'll vote to make the captain walk the plank just for fun.
Answer in: 3 Answer in: 2 Answer in: 1 If we follow our intuition, it seems like Amaro should try to bribe the other pirates with most of the gold to increase the chances of his plan being accepted.
Why? Like we said, the pirates all know each other to be top-notch logicians.
Now we move to the previous decision point with three pirates left and Charlotte making the proposal.
What if there are four pirates?
Now we're back at the initial vote with all five pirates standing.
So it looks like Amaro gets to keep most of the gold, and the other pirates might need to find better ways to use those impressive logic skills, like revising this absurd pirate code.
This was the golden age of piracy, where pirates like Teach were terrorizing the high seas.
And the smarter pirates like him realized that to maximize their spoils, they needed to attack their enemies so brutally that they would surrender on sight.
And like many pirates of that era, he flew a flag that bore the macabre symbols of a human skull and a pair of crossed bones, because those motifs had signified death in so many cultures for centuries, that their meaning was instantly recognizable, even in the lawless, illiterate world of the high seas: surrender or you'll suffer.
Barring 5 years as a soldier, and 5 more enslaved by pirates, Cervantes spent most of his life as a struggling poet and playwright.
John Legend: Old pirates, yes, they rob I. Sold I to the merchant ships.
After failed attempts to build rafts, and a stinging betrayal by local pirates, the rebels made a desperate run to break through Crassus’s lines– but it was no use.
And what do pirates like to drink?
And our president, in particular, he fights pirates.
Last year, he bought a boat that's 13 million dollars to fight pirates, and 60 percent of our people are starving.
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