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To each his own. I like glancing at my home town newspaper without committing to a big subscription. If the ads don't work, though I won't have that option.

If you really want to live in the past, here's the Wayback Machine's take on Slashdot:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.slashdot.org

Note, it didn't exist before ads and it won't exist without them.

Don't complain to us, complain to all the websites that implement ginormous banners that slide right over the article I'm reading and ask me DO YOU WANT TO TAKE A QUICK SURVEY!!!??? FREE PS3 IF YOU DO!!!

I don't mind google ads or picture ads, but the second they start implementing flash and slowing my browsing experience down, it all goes out the window.

To each his own. I like glancing at my home town newspaper without committing to a big subscription. If the ads don't work, though I won't have that option.

If you really want to live in the past, here's the Wayback Machine's take on Slashdot:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.slashdot.org

Note, it didn't exist before ads and it won't exist without them.

There was more to the Climate Research publication than that. The paper was submitted to an editor that was more sympathetic to anti-AGW papers, which is fine. That is normal par-for-the-course stuff when submitting a paper, if you're allowed to select an editor to submit it to for that journal you will of course submit it to the one who tends to agree with your viewpoint the most. And normally this is fine; scientists will have different viewpoints. However one thing should come above all viewpoints: whether the science is sound.

Apparently, the paper in question at Climate Research was approved by the single editor (as per the rules of that journal) and allowed in, despite heavy criticism from the other editors who viewed it as that particular editor ignoring what was wrong with the science of the paper to voice a viewpoint. This caused a majority of the editors to resign their posts at Climate Research, including the guy who was going to become lead editor the very next week. This is what Michael Mann was referring to. The journal had indeed became illegitimate because of the majority of editors leaving the journal in protest.

Here is a description of the events, the paper in question, and the critiques of the paper that were ignored by the editor. Which, obviously, goes kind of against the whole concept of "peer review" if your peers' opinions are ignored and a unilateral decision is made. This seems like a perfectly legitimate comment by Mann to me, as the journal had lost credibility for failing for adhere to the peer review process and publishing faulty research.

I'm admittedly unfamiliar with the events at GRL though.

There was more to the Climate Research publication than that. The paper was submitted to an editor that was more sympathetic to anti-AGW papers, which is fine. That is normal par-for-the-course stuff when submitting a paper, if you're allowed to select an editor to submit it to for that journal you will of course submit it to the one who tends to agree with your viewpoint the most. And normally this is fine; scientists will have different viewpoints. However one thing should come above all viewpoints: whether the science is sound.

Apparently, the paper in question at Climate Research was approved by the single editor (as per the rules of that journal) and allowed in, despite heavy criticism from the other editors who viewed it as that particular editor ignoring what was wrong with the science of the paper to voice a viewpoint. This caused a majority of the editors to resign their posts at Climate Research, including the guy who was going to become lead editor the very next week. This is what Michael Mann was referring to. The journal had indeed became illegitimate because of the majority of editors leaving the journal in protest.

Here is a description of the events, the paper in question, and the critiques of the paper that were ignored by the editor. Which, obviously, goes kind of against the whole concept of "peer review" if your peers' opinions are ignored and a unilateral decision is made. This seems like a perfectly legitimate comment by Mann to me, as the journal had lost credibility for failing for adhere to the peer review process and publishing faulty research.

I'm admittedly unfamiliar with the events at GRL though.

Hear, hear. As Guy Forsyth once said (while still with the Asylum Street Spankers):

"I would like to talk about something called 'Musical Darwinism.' If you go see a band, and they suck? Don't tip. That way, they'll die and next week there'll be another band. But if you see a band that you like, Ladies and Gentlemen, give dearly." (Track 11)

If you went to the front page of the FreeBSD site during that time, you saw two releases. One was advertised as the production release, one as the new technology release. If you were deploying on a production system, you should use the 4.x series, if you were interested in testing new technology, you should use 5.x. I ran 5.x on my laptop, but 4.x on servers. I never had any issues with the laptop, but some people who ran 5.x did. The 6.x series is based on an evolution of the 5.x code, and was considered stable. If you go to the site today, you see 8.0 as the production ready release and 7.2 as the legacy release. The 5.x series was never marked as a production ready release.

i = i++; //increment i

That code does not increment i. It's undefined. Depending on the implementation, it might increment i, leave i the same, or print out "forty-two" and abort.

They almost certainly would. The prosecutor just has to make it clear that the only relevant fact is that he did download the images. It's completely irrelevant to his guilt or innocence that he immediately deleted the images. These laws leave absolutely no wiggle room with regards to intent.

Did you even read the indictment? The charge is that he "did knowingly receive and distribute ... [a visual depiction that] involved a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct" (my emphasis). So it is in fact relevant whether he knew that he was download CP.

Since we're exchanging links - if anyone wants to go really nuts over the matter of what knowledge can be owned and how, there's this philosophy thesis:
http://www.archive.org/details/OwnershipOfKnowledgeIsThereANaturalRightTointellectualProperty

Full disclosure: it's mine.

To take your automobile example, you can only drive certain types of automobiles due to the increased danger certain designs present to others driving,

And that is the key.

Also, you're wrong -- you can drive whatever you want, and I'm not even sure the age restriction applies. Laws restricting driving apply to what you do on public roads, not what you do on your own property.

In addition, your belief that knowledge will solve all problems is ludicrous.

When have I ever claimed this?

All I am saying is that education has a much greater chance of working than flat-out prohibition. For example: If you spread misinformation and propaganda, like Sex Madness, you hurt your cause. So, don't tell kids that Marijuana is addictive, or that it'll kill them, etc. Tell them instead that it'll make them stupid, hungry, and probably cause some damage to long-term memory.

I encourage an impartial, well funded cost/benefit analysis on the hard drugs as well.

I would, also, but I maintain that these are still a choice, and that it's very likely that prohibition of them does nothing to decrease the number of people using them.

And really, who are we to make that choice for the potential user?

But if you really want to go down that road, how about a cost/benefit analysis of smoking? It tends to more directly kill people -- most drugs, you can die from an overdose, whereas with smoking, you will die of cancer -- and according to some, it's harder to quit nicotine than cocaine.

Now, I will agree that drugs should be regulated -- in fact, I think that's going to have better results than outright prohibition. Someone else on this thread pointed out that it's far easier for teens to get drugs than liquor, because the drug dealer doesn't ask for ID.

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More interesting is what is not contained in the emails. There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to 'get rid of the MWP', no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no 'marching orders' from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords. The truly paranoid will put this down to the hackers also being in on the plot though."

If there were a conspiracy very few people would have to be "in on it." Most scientists do their work on global warming because that is where the money is. Added peer pressure and other social factors keep many people in line. Do you really think George Soros or some other $villian simply goes around paying everyone off in person?

You paint a picture of a conspiracy that isn't relevant in any context except some terrible plot on a television show. Your statement is nothing but a strawman that is a crazier conspiracy theory than anything I've read about global warming. As if you know exactly how to plan a global conspiracy to make trillions of dollars and implement more authoritarian controls.

There is no need for any secret evidence to prove that there is a conspiracy trying to promote global climate change. You can read publicly available documents and statements from books like The First Global Revolution.

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill...All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."

"The need for enemies seems to be a common historical factor. Some states have striven to overcome domestic failure and internal contradictions by blaming external enemies. The ploy of finding a scapegoat is as old as mankind itself - when things become too difficult at home, divert attention to adventure abroad. Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one, or else one invented for the purpose." (p.71)

Think of it like a pyramid. A few people at the top know everything. They have their lackies set up a system to control the flow of money, which trickles down to many different front companies, groups and scientists.

It's all about control and power.

http://web.archive.org/web/19961219235234/www.artbell.com/art/audio.html
Found some stuff from 1996. Art Bell from AM radio fame use to put his shows and parts of his shows up on the internet where you could download or stream them.

I think at some point you had to pay for some of the "podcasts". Though I never did.

But if this wasn't podcasting I don't know what is.

Waste from slow-neutron reactors (pressurized-water types, the current standard) is dangerous for something like ten thousand years. According to this article, the waste is as safe as the original uranium ore after two centuries, and there's about 1.7 kilograms of it produced per megawatt-year.

Every time I read about this, I headdesk a little bit more that the advanced liquid-metal reactor project was cancelled back in the mid-1990s.

I had a start up, Nisvara Inc. 2002 - 2006 We had water cooled and could run whole server rooms with no air conditioning at all! Even had a partnership with NASA Ames.

  Our system used sealed copper tube, and something I called a thermal ground, basically a copper or aluminum plate with the tube bonded too it. Then shims that connect the heat sources, the CPU, Northbridge, Southbridge and CPU Power supply and possible ram. Powersupply and hard drives were also connected to the plate to remove the heat.

  We had many meeting with all the big players, Intel, Siemens, Sun, Maxtor, Pac Bell to name a few. None would allow water cooling in data centers. The liability for damaged equipment is too high.

We did come up with a lower cost fluorinert like solution that we could use, but still getting them to eliminate air conditioning was a very hard sell at the time. Also to including the extra plumbing and what not.

Maybe today they might start to change there attitude but I am not so sure about it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040901070743/http://www.nisvara.com/

At one point there was a very promising idea for a universal metadata storage system that would free metadata from a particular program and make it available to every part of the OS.

Too bad the main programmer had some personal problems and couldn't finish the job...

http://web.archive.org/web/20070717064839/www.hiend3d.com/hq4x.html and http://web.archive.org/web/20070717064839/http://www.hiend3d.com/bin/hq4x_src_c.zip

http://web.archive.org/web/20070717064839/www.hiend3d.com/hq4x.html and http://web.archive.org/web/20070717064839/http://www.hiend3d.com/bin/hq4x_src_c.zip

Here’s one example of an indirect test: Are twentieth century hunter-gatherers really worse off than farmers? Scattered throughout the world, several dozen groups of so-called primitive people, like the Kalahari bushmen, continue to support themselves that way. It turns out that these people have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors. For instance, the average time devoted each week to obtaining food is only 12 to 19 hours for one group of Bushmen, 14 hours or less for the Hadza nomads of Tanzania. One Bushman, when asked why he hadn’t emulated neighboring tribes by adopting agriculture, replied, "Why should we, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?"

From "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race" by Jarad Diamond in Discover Magazine (1987).

Technology did help hunter-gatherers though. Weapons are likely a lot easier than endurance hunting (interesting tidbit: humans are the best daylight distance runners in the animal kingdom), and baskets certainly make gathering a lot easier. It's just that most hunter-gatherers were nomadic (hence nothing long standing), and had little motivation to further reduce their workload. Although the time frame is a bit off, it wouldn't surprise me if the Axial switch in religion reflects the change in workload from hunter/gatherers to farmers. (Pre-Axial religions are mostly explanations of natural phenomena, Post-Axial religions more say that life sucks but there's a heavenly reward.)

While not a pure mandelbrot, but a buddhabrot rendering: For the curious, here's a nice 2D projection of such a (rotating) 4D fractal I whipped up a while back.

And, yes, I do realize Apple stole the GUI from Xerox...

On Xerox, Apple, and Progress. Fact is in return for Xerox allowing Steve Jobs and a development team to tour PARC Jobs allowed Xerox to invest in Apple by buying 100,000 shares of stock at $10 a share. Less than a year later that $1 million investment netted Xerox $17.6 million when Apple had it's IPO.

Falcon

Which is a shame, somewhere with unabiguously legal content available freely and freely would be great. I have plenty of content that i would happily share freely, but im not going to pay to share it. Id bet there's a few others in a similar situation aswell.

If you're serious, consider The Internet Archive. Servers around the world, zero cost, unlimited uploading and downloading for all, and no size limits (as far as I know). IA hosts a lot of large files (full-length movies, DVDs, some periodic TV shows upload broadcast-quality episodes). I'm sure they'll host your images too.

On the other hand, even if such a place did exist, having only 512kbit upload would make sharing multi-gigabyte, multi-gigapixel images tedious anyway.

So are you looking for gratis hosting or aren't you?

It's interesting that the patent examiner was perfectly aware of su, sudo, gksu, kdesu, Ubuntu integration with gksu to call it as needed automatically, etc. Look at the "Other References" section of the patent:

"GKSU: A gtk+ su front end Linux Man Page" retrived at http://www.penguin-soft.com/peguin/man/1/gksu.html

Lawrence, "Using Sudo", Linus Tutorials, May 12, 2005, retrieved at http://web.archive.org/web/20050530041932/www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/linux/using-sudo-050511/page1.html

Miller, "Sudo Manual", Jul. 11, 2004 retrived at http://web.archive.org/web/20040711020526/http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/man/sudo.html

Miller, "Sudoers Manual", Jul. 11, 2004, retrived at http://web.archive.org/web/20040711020555/www.gratisoft.us/sudo/man/sudoers.html

Quick HOWTO: Ch09 : Linxus Users and Sudo, Dec. 23, 2005, retrived at http:web.archive.org/ web/20060203023004/http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/

"The KDE su Command", Nov. 20, 2004, retrived on http://www.linfo.org/kdesu.html

"The Ubuntu Quick Guide. Chapter 3. Applications Menu: System Tools.", retrieved on http://people.ubuntu.com/.about.mako/docteam/quickguide/ch03s07.html

It's interesting that the patent examiner was perfectly aware of su, sudo, gksu, kdesu, Ubuntu integration with gksu to call it as needed automatically, etc. Look at the "Other References" section of the patent:

"GKSU: A gtk+ su front end Linux Man Page" retrived at http://www.penguin-soft.com/peguin/man/1/gksu.html

Lawrence, "Using Sudo", Linus Tutorials, May 12, 2005, retrieved at http://web.archive.org/web/20050530041932/www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/linux/using-sudo-050511/page1.html

Miller, "Sudo Manual", Jul. 11, 2004 retrived at http://web.archive.org/web/20040711020526/http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/man/sudo.html

Miller, "Sudoers Manual", Jul. 11, 2004, retrived at http://web.archive.org/web/20040711020555/www.gratisoft.us/sudo/man/sudoers.html

Quick HOWTO: Ch09 : Linxus Users and Sudo, Dec. 23, 2005, retrived at http:web.archive.org/ web/20060203023004/http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/

"The KDE su Command", Nov. 20, 2004, retrived on http://www.linfo.org/kdesu.html

"The Ubuntu Quick Guide. Chapter 3. Applications Menu: System Tools.", retrieved on http://people.ubuntu.com/.about.mako/docteam/quickguide/ch03s07.html

It's interesting that the patent examiner was perfectly aware of su, sudo, gksu, kdesu, Ubuntu integration with gksu to call it as needed automatically, etc. Look at the "Other References" section of the patent:

"GKSU: A gtk+ su front end Linux Man Page" retrived at http://www.penguin-soft.com/peguin/man/1/gksu.html

Lawrence, "Using Sudo", Linus Tutorials, May 12, 2005, retrieved at http://web.archive.org/web/20050530041932/www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/linux/using-sudo-050511/page1.html

Miller, "Sudo Manual", Jul. 11, 2004 retrived at http://web.archive.org/web/20040711020526/http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/man/sudo.html

Miller, "Sudoers Manual", Jul. 11, 2004, retrived at http://web.archive.org/web/20040711020555/www.gratisoft.us/sudo/man/sudoers.html

Quick HOWTO: Ch09 : Linxus Users and Sudo, Dec. 23, 2005, retrived at http:web.archive.org/ web/20060203023004/http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/

"The KDE su Command", Nov. 20, 2004, retrived on http://www.linfo.org/kdesu.html

"The Ubuntu Quick Guide. Chapter 3. Applications Menu: System Tools.", retrieved on http://people.ubuntu.com/.about.mako/docteam/quickguide/ch03s07.html

That shouldn't happen with a project whose stated goal is to be simpler.

You have not read the project goals, have you?

a small, simple browser that just did one thing well

That that was the goal is a myth. These were the real goals of Firefox:

Beginning with the core Mozilla code, unnecessary UI was removed, existing UI were refined and new UI added with the goal of providing efficient (speedy, easy to use, useful) web access. The goal was, and is not to have more or less features than any other client (Mozilla included) but to have the right set of features to let people get their jobs done.

From the Mozilla Firefox Development Charter.

It's designed for audiophiles, what did you expect? Audiophiles are the kind of people who are willing to pay premium cash for a light pen (you know, for coloring the CD's....). Or how about these cables? After all, it produces sound that is "Notably relaxed and highly detailed" (just like the stuff I defecated yesterday) for only $9000 for eight foot pair of speaker-cables! And when you REALLY want that "something extra" to your sound-quality, here's a wooden knob for just $485.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060221022525/http://www.liddyshow.us/mustread11.php Read that, and tell me GGL didn't have a functioning brain cell or two.

The "wisdom of the crowds" nor iTunes' Genius wonn't help if you have music that's so unique that it can't be pigeonholed. Think Ska in the 50s, Raggae in the sixties, Rap in the seventies.

None of these genres were anywhere near popular when when they were new in the times listed. Nor were they played on the radio.

I doubt that iTunes Genius will ever serve up The Station to anyone, despite the fact that IINM you can "buy" their stuff from iTunes (or get it free from archive.org)

It was a product that was just a little ahead of its time for the home market, but it never really took off. Cool in concept, being able to listen to voicemail on pc or the phone. If I remember correctly though, the downside for why I didn't buy one was that I wasn't leaving the computer on all day back then. Microsoft Cordless Phone

http://web.archive.org/web/*/paypal.x.com/*

I knew it was familar, being a PayPal member since 2000.

Archive.org has the whole history of the site:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.x.com

Before 2000, it was owned by Rob Walker, then purchased by a company named x.com, which became Paypal:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000520015239/http://www.x.com/

Archive.org has the whole history of the site:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.x.com

Before 2000, it was owned by Rob Walker, then purchased by a company named x.com, which became Paypal:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000520015239/http://www.x.com/

"I would just like to point out that everyone is getting their information from a single point: Michael Geist's blog."

Not at all. Jamie Love has been covering this for ages. http://twitter.com/jamie_love

I met Jamie 10 years ago in the formative icann debacle; he and Ralph Nader got involved and were bitch slapped by Esther. http://web.archive.org/web/20030228143244/dns.vrx.net/funnies/mystified/

These are some ways to deal with increasing joblessness, even if our economy recovers for those who still have jobs or money, which will be explored in more depth over time:

• temporary measures like unemployment insurance and retraining funds, and when those fail, letting people live with relatives who still have jobs or be homeless (the USA now has one million homeless schoolchildren, an amount that has doubled in the last two years);
• government public works like in the 1930s (infrastructure, arts, research, medicine, etc.);
• a basic income for everyone, essentially Social Security and Medicaid for all with no means testing;
• improved local subsistence like with 3D printing and organic gardening;
• a p2p gift economy (like Wikipedia and Debian GNU/Linux);
• a shorter work week (like tried in France);
• rethinking work to be more fun so it is done as play;
• alternative currencies or other forms of exchange like barter or more formal rationing;
• increasing advertising to entice people into more debt (one cause of the current economic crisis as the debt bubble burst);
• intentionally producing shoddy merchandise or things with planned obsolescence, perhaps encouraged by promoting faddism in the culture;
• more prisons (employs guards and keeps people out of the labor pool);
• more schooling (employs guards/teachers and keeps people out of the labor pool) while suppressing true education; and
• more war (employs guards/soldiers, blows up and wastes abundance, and kills or disables workers to keep them out of the labor pool).

Likely we will see a mix of all those in the future, and in fact, a mix of all those is what we have now (not that the last five options of advertising, faddism, schooling, prison, and war are recommended, even as our society currently relies on them heavily to destroy abundance and create guarding jobs). This web site will go into the details of all this over time. That list is defining the landscape of a jobless recovery, showing connections between things that dont usually seem connected. Like for example, why President Obama just suggested the school year should be longer while our best educators say compulsory school as we know it should disappear entirely.

The important thing to remember is that joblessness is not necessarily a bad thing. It means people have more time for family, friends, hobbies, and volunteerism. What is bad about formal un

>>>Download it at the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/his_girl_friday

Isn't public domain great? If the MAFIAA and Disney had their way, His Girl Friday and all the other movies on that sight would still be under copyright until ~2040.

Those who think "sensationalism" or "political slant" is anything new need to go watch the movie His Girl Friday, made in the 1930s.

Download it at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/his_girl_friday

It's a terrible idea, because a distribution that old will have lots of security holes and won't be supported by security backports anymore. A better option is just to pick a less bloated OS, like OpenBSD. The stock install fits in about 300MB, including X, although if you're running X.org on a machine with only 28MB of RAM you may want allocate a fair amount to swap. If you're running a web browser, you'll want even more; things like JavaScript, big images, and the DOM tree take up a huge amount of RAM.

OpenBSD still comes with a floppy disk image for installation, I think, but I've installed it on CF cards without using the installer (if you've got an existing OpenBSD machine somewhere it's pretty easy). I wrote an article explaining how it do it which you can still get at via the WayBack Machine.

Pet Peeve: What the hell is a "virii"? Don't you mean "viruses"?

Jeez...

Most memories of Grandpa have been archived. It's time to pull the plug. RIP you browser crashing old coot.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050211210119/http://reverse.lostrealm.com/protect/ldd.html

1985? The message you linked was from 2005...

Either way, though - whether this has been known for four years or twenty-four years, it'd be nice if they'd fix it...

http://web.archive.org/web/20050211210119/http://reverse.lostrealm.com/protect/ldd.html

"On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school."

I should have caught that as a problem too. Someday, public schools may be much more like public libraries open to anyone to use than day prisons for children of working parents, but until then, consider:

"Links about alternative peer-oriented education"
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Education

"The Underground History of American Education" by 1991 NYS Teacher of
the Year John Taylor Gatto
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm

"The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher" also by John Taylor Gatto
http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt

"State Controlled Consciousness" also by John Taylor Gatto
http://www.the-open-boat.com/Gatto.html

"The Big Crunch" by David Goodstein, Vice Provost, Caltech
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html

"Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmidt
http://www.disciplined-minds.com/

"What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream" by Noam Chomsky
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm

"University Secrets:Your Guide to Surviving a College Education" by Robert D. Honigman
http://web.archive.org/web/20060707100524/www.universitysecrets.com/us.htm

"In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness " by Chris
Mercogliano, who spent thirty-five years teaching at the Albany Free School
http://www.chrismercogliano.com/childhood.htm

"Teach Your Own" by John Holt (and other books)
http://www.holtgws.com/

"The Teenage Liberation Handbook" by Grace Llewellyn (and other books)
http://gracellewellyn.com/

"The Emergence of Compulsory Schooling and ... Resistance" By Matt Hern
http://web.archive.org/web/20071014123355/http://www.social-ecology.org/article.php?story=20031028151034651

"Sustainable Education" by Jerry Mintz
http://www.greenmoneyjournal.com/article.mpl?articleid=195&newsletterid=1

"Federated Learning Communities"
http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-1/learning.html
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ilc/models.html

"The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them: An Introduction to
Life/Work Planning" by Richard N. Bolles (also writes "What Color is Your
Parachute")
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Boxes-Life-How-Them/dp/0913668583

General related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me

"On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school."

I should have caught that as a problem too. Someday, public schools may be much more like public libraries open to anyone to use than day prisons for children of working parents, but until then, consider:

"Links about alternative peer-oriented education"
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Education

"The Underground History of American Education" by 1991 NYS Teacher of
the Year John Taylor Gatto
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm

"The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher" also by John Taylor Gatto
http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt

"State Controlled Consciousness" also by John Taylor Gatto
http://www.the-open-boat.com/Gatto.html

"The Big Crunch" by David Goodstein, Vice Provost, Caltech
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html

"Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmidt
http://www.disciplined-minds.com/

"What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream" by Noam Chomsky
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm

"University Secrets:Your Guide to Surviving a College Education" by Robert D. Honigman
http://web.archive.org/web/20060707100524/www.universitysecrets.com/us.htm

"In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness " by Chris
Mercogliano, who spent thirty-five years teaching at the Albany Free School
http://www.chrismercogliano.com/childhood.htm

"Teach Your Own" by John Holt (and other books)
http://www.holtgws.com/

"The Teenage Liberation Handbook" by Grace Llewellyn (and other books)
http://gracellewellyn.com/

"The Emergence of Compulsory Schooling and ... Resistance" By Matt Hern
http://web.archive.org/web/20071014123355/http://www.social-ecology.org/article.php?story=20031028151034651

"Sustainable Education" by Jerry Mintz
http://www.greenmoneyjournal.com/article.mpl?articleid=195&newsletterid=1

"Federated Learning Communities"
http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-1/learning.html
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ilc/models.html

"The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them: An Introduction to
Life/Work Planning" by Richard N. Bolles (also writes "What Color is Your
Parachute")
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Boxes-Life-How-Them/dp/0913668583

General related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me

Many are, though a good deal aren't. I don't see a way to browse their texts archive by language (am I missing something?), but you can search by specific language in the advanced search. I can't get them to add up to anything near 1.6 million, so presumably many aren't language-tagged.

But some rough figures:

• 354,000 - English
• 101,000 - French
• 99,000 - German
• 22,000 - Italian
• 17,000 - Spanish
• 14,000 - Latin
• 7,000 - Russian
• 6,000 - Dutch
• 4,000 - Portuguese
• 2,000 - Polish
• 2,000 - Arabic
• 800 - Urdu
  400 - Swahili
• 200 - Malay
• 200 - Turkish
• 200 - Tamil

Definitely a skewed distribution, but e.g. 17,000 texts in Spanish is quite a few, certainly more than most children can read!

What? Download a free file? Do you think I'm made of money? Help me light this poop I found!

I'd hazard a guess you won't find mcgrew.info or holy-bible.us there, either.

• holy-bible.us In archive, 2006-2008.
• mcgrew.info blocked by current "robots.txt" file. The Archive treats "robots.txt" files as retroactive; if the current "robots.txt" won't allow archiving, then the Archive won't display old archived copies. The data is still in the Archive, but not publicly visible.

The entire content of the Internet fits in a 20x8x8 box operated by the Internet Archive. Cuil, which searches as much of the Web as Google, has one relatively modest data center. About half the system does the crawl and builds the index; the other half answers queries. So Google's main search engine function doesn't really require that much capacity by current standards. Of course, Google has a huge number of query servers front-ending the main index, which is of course replicated.

Why does Google need so much server capacity? YouTube? Command completion? GMail spam filtering? Ad serving?