(24/11/2010 12:45 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  Japan has a lot of people yeah?  Would take a lot more than a "group of people" to listen through every single phone call that was ever made.

That's why you be smart about it.  Focus effort on times they were likely communicating (ie between the time Suzaku's trial being announced to the time that the procession was intercepted is a likely time that they'd be communicating).  You don't need to listen to entire conversations, plus you can run the convos at faster speed.
Then you can also narrow down likely regions.
A group of people can go through a bunch of convos over a few days eventually.

(24/11/2010 12:45 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  Anyway, if you think that way all the time, most crime/mystery stories would be bullshit, because the same thing can be applied to all of them.  Sure the governments probably aren't monarchies with absolute power in a lot of the other stories, however, considering the scale of a lot of what happens (eg. in Death Note, Light kills like many hundreds of people, without signs of stopping), they should do it anyway, monarchy or not.

Democracies do make it a lot harder yes.
And they do install taps in Death Note, though they've obviously been smart about it than doing it to everyone.  Then again, they've only got about ~5 people investigating the case in total.
With Death Note, there's also no suggestion that the killer is actually communicating with anyone anyway, whereas in Code Geass, there's a rather high possibility.

(24/11/2010 12:45 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  Could be hard to get to her normally.  Also, everyone knows beating her in battle (as opposed to assassinating her or something) would get you more supporters to join your cause.

Supporters is the only thing really, as I mentioned earlier.
If he could easily waltz into the prince's base in ep2 and kill him, I'm sure he'd have no trouble doing it to someone else.

Some things I do wonder about:

• What happens if you use the power and say something like "you will obey any command I issue, forever"?  Essentially permanent control?  Since there doesn't appear to be a limit to how long the effect lasts...  IDK if it drains one's energy or similar.
  
• If the signal is optical, can it be recorded and transmitted?
  
• Oh and the voice.  In the dubbed version, both Zero and Lelouch have the same voice and it should be easy for one to tell they're the same.  Surprising no-one can pick it up, especially his sister, who's possibly heard it over the TV (or maybe not, she does acknowledge the events going on).