However, the formality of the power structure was thrown into stark relief when the US government under George W Bush intervened directly on the subject of .xxx domain names, and then moved responsibility for certain naming from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Iana) to Icann.
You can make a case (not a very good one, but you can make it) that the money that Apple earns under the protection of the US Government, in the US, should pay something towards the costs of running that US Government.
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Bosnia was split into two autonomous regions - joined by a relatively weak central government - under a US-brokered peace deal that ended the 1992-95 war.
However, a US government official - speaking under condition of anonymity - told Reuters that an adoption bid was under way.
However, a US government official - speaking under condition of anonymity - told Reuters news agency that an adoption bid was under way.
This is because, after record global crops in 2008 and 2009, worldwide wheat stocks have risen substantially in the past couple of years, peaking in June at just under 194 million tonnes, according to US government estimates.
But this would only be at the invitation of the Afghan government and under an agreement guaranteeing US troops immunity from Afghan law.
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Eventually the US government stepped in, sending the army under Major Richardson to construct, for real, the fanciful route into the hinterland the steamship companies had promised.
"Suddenly, the government, under some conditions, is allowing us an issue they have lost on before every judge who has ruled on this case to date, " Patel said.
It is that drone programme, acknowledged by the US government but never detailed, that will fall under the Senate spotlight.
Over recent years, computer hackers identifying themselves under the Anonymous umbrella have carried out a series of attacks on US government sites and linked organisations such as the US-based intelligence company Stratfor.
Under his presidency, the divide between the conservative and liberal elements of the US government has grown wider, not narrower.
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It should be pointed out that Mr Kempin only worked under Mr Ballmer's leadership for a year or two, more than a decade ago, and that he left the company under somewhat of a cloud after deals he signed with PC makers were used as ammunition by the US government's anti-competition investigators.
This would mark a shift from the current set-up in which such matters are looked after by non-profit bodies which are officially under the remit of the US Department of Commerce, but in effect operate at arm's length from the US government.
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