Stateless

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The term stateless can mean more than one thing:

• A stateless society is another word for anarchy.
• In law, a stateless person is a person without a state, in other words someone who is not a citizen or subject of any state.
• The legal and social concept of statelessness applicable to communities of stateless persons
• In computer science, stateless refers to a system or protocol which does not keep a persistent state between transactions. See stateless server.
• In the fiction of Greg Egan, Stateless is a large artificial island that is home to refugees of all nations.
• Stateless is the title of a motion picture by filmmaker Chris Morrissey that stars latin actor Johnny Diaz Reyes.

[edit] In music

• Stateless is the title of the first album release by singer Lene Lovich.
• Stateless, a Leeds-based alternative band.
• Stateless, the self-titled debut album of the above mentioned artist, Stateless.
• Stateless is the title of an album which is the collaborative work of the bands Early Day Miners and Unwed Sailor. A film of the same name, by U.S. photographer Chris Bennett is also included on the Enhanced CD.

[edit] In literature

• Stateless is the title of the debut novel by Irish writer Mark Collins.