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Google has already addressed your misconceptions in their detailed explanation of "incumbent blocking premiums":

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2007/07/res toring-competitive-balance-to.html

A perfectly reasonable question, but the answer may well be "about the same". The NE in wiNE istands for "Not an Emulator". In a sense, WINE *IS* a native Linux graphics implementation albeit aided or hindered by using the Windows API interfaces. If I recall the WINE documentation correctly it says that WINE is sometimes faster than Windows on the same hardware and application and sometimes slower.

Here's a link http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/02/wine-vs-wind ows-xp-benchmarks.html that seems to say roughly the same thing.

"We" (as in: The American People vs RIAA) might not yet have the whole DoD on their site, but an Army Sergeant to start with: Maybe this will lead to involvement of DoD later on ;-)

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007 /07/riaa-backtracks-in-tennessee-case.html

What do you mean? Nobody complains about Linux, how dare you suggest otherwise? And OS X is flawless!

I can only conclude that you are employed by Microsoft and/or eat kittens for funsies.

What I'm facinated by is the battery aftermarket. In the US where the largest electricity market is, this could really shift the expense of batteries. At present we rely on the most expensive energy sources to meet peak demand. But getting a second life from the batteries prior to recycling looks like it could eliminate much of the need for the more expensive sources of energy. If you can treat batteries more gently in a power storage application than in a transportation application, the lifetime in the aftermarket could be substantially longer. So, if we are flowing storage capacity from the transportation sector to the power supply sector, we fairly quickly get to a day or two's worth of storage so long at the transportation sector adopts this technology as the majority mode. A couple days of storage means that both expensive power sources and some base load sources, especially those that have inconvinient square wave availability with month-long down times, could be eliminated. This is a very interesting concept could provide reduced costs for both the transportation and electric supply sectors.
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"Walter Benjamin wrote that photographs could not be considered art, because they were reproductions of the work, and no longer had the "aura" that true art contained."

"The nineteenth-century dispute as to the artistic value of painting versus photography today seems devious and confused. This does not diminish its importance, however; if anything, it underlines it. The dispute was in fact the symptom of a historical transformation the universal impact of which was not realized by either of the rivals. When the age of mechanical reproduction separated art from its basis in cult, the semblance of its autonomy disappeared forever. The resulting change in the function of art transcended the perspective of the century; for a long time it even escaped that of the twentieth century, which experienced the development of the film. Earlier much futile thought had been devoted to the question of whether photography is an art. The primary question - whether the very invention of photography had not transformed the entire nature of art - was not raised. Soon the film theoreticians asked the same ill-considered question with regard to the film. But the difficulties which photography caused traditional aesthetics were mere child's play as compared to those raised by the film."

Since it was mentioned in the summary, there's a new blog following the whole fiasco at http://medisonscam.blogspot.com/

Some interesting highlights from the last few days:

The old product pictures has been replaced on Medisons site. According to Comon.dk Medison have foretold that they were replaced by "real" pictures to get more trustworthy. They say that they have hired a professional photographer to take the pictures. The question however, is why a professional photographer would use a Canon Digital IXUS 60 digital camera at 10 in the evening (See the Exif-tags in the pictures). That is for those who don't know a small compact consumer camera... Yes we know that this doesn't "prove" anything, it's just another "fun fact" in this story.

A poster on SweClockers posted the following answer that is supposed to be from the manufacturer: "they got one pcs sample from our customer and not paid". Hmm, interesting, isn't it?

According to the Danish site Comon.dk, Medison will have a press conference on Wednesday to clear things out. They have also spoken with several people in the computer industry that claims, just like all other experts, that the price is "impossible".

The Asus Eee offer however is great I'm looking forward to their machine. You shouldn't look at this laptop from the perspective of using it as full blown desktop Machine. Consider all the stuff you get at mere $200, for a nice mobile computer with full-sized keyboard and rich internet abilities. It makes for far better browsing/mail checking than what you can do on your $600 iPhone.

fyi, yes anyone can deduct money from your bank account with minimal effort. do not give out your bank account number if you do not have to. this includes voided checks. read Catch Me If You Can (or watch the movie you want the cliffnotes) and you'll see a 30+ year old hole in bank security that is still wide the fuck open.

Of course you give out your account number every time you write a check. Scam artists still use this hole. Here's another example:

http://wamublamesgrandma.blogspot.com/

No, it's not a window manager. It's more analogous to something like GNOME or KDE with their associated libraries.

Here's a rough step-by-step:

1. Install the dependencies listed here: http://gnustep.blogspot.com/2006/10/gnustep-on-ubu ntuppc-610.html

2. Use the GNUStep "Startup" package (you need a newer version of GNUStep than what is bundled with Ubuntu): http://www.gnustep.org/experience/Startup.html

3. Compile Etoile per the instructions in the tarball.

It's a bit different procedure than your average configure, make, make install. My hope is that someone will start packaging current versions for Ubuntu. Maybe I'll get off my duff and start doing that.

Cheers,
Peter

Some school boards are responsible and providing MUCH better services at the same time and saving tax money to be spent on other needs...read a few examples here:

http://www.linux.com/articles/62285

or education/linux in general:
http://cdneducation.blogspot.com/

Yeah, let's vote for the guy who believes that cross-burning is free speech* and that there shouldn't be a separation from church and state: "Cross burning could be a crime if they were violating somebody's property rights,'' he said during his campaign. But if you go out on your farm some place and it's on your property and you put two sticks together and you burn it, I am not going to send in the federal police."

In some sense, he is (or could be) correct here. While I in no way support cross burning and personally believe it crosses the line on free speech, Ron Paul's position is valid. Other expressions of free speech fall in various places on this gray belt, including flag burning, hanging the flag upside down, beneath other flags, flying the Southern Cross (which is not, incidentally, the "Confederate Flag", that is the "Stars and Bars," but it ended up being confusing on the battlefield), and a whole host of expressions of protest, or simply of opposing tradition. Drawing a line is not easy. As an example, the Southern Cross was displayed by someone in my school (a long time ago) in their dorm room. They had ancestors who died at Gettysburg. A black student was "terrorized" by this, and it erupted into a school-wide conflict. Do the emotions of the viewer trump those of the displayer? How about the swastika which is an ancient symbol of Jainism?

I think it is unequivocal, however, that once they cross the line from expression to action, or to specific or generalized threat of harm, that all of the force of the state come down on them.

"The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government's hostility to religion. The establishment clause of the First Amendment was simply intended to forbid the creation of an official state church like the Church of England, not to drive religion out of public life."

This is also arguably correct. The founding fathers littered the government process with Christian rhetoric and apparently thought nothing wrong with it ("God save the United States and this Honorable Court!"). The oath on the Bible in court is also traditional. This has come up in discussion before the Supreme Court justices on several occasions. There *is* no basis in founding works for that rigid separation. This is a separate issue from whether their *should* be such a separation. Even if we presumed that the country were entirely Christian (which it clearly is not), the extremes of belief and morality within just this one religion would argue for strong protections against persecution on the basis of religion. Establishing religious practice within the government de facto persecutes by making people of other religious stripes (or none) uncomfortable about participating in procedures or expressing different traditions, and this is the tack the Supreme Court has largely taken, except to preserve a small number of specific long standing traditions. This, however, is a development from the Constitution, not a strict adherence to it.

Great candidate you have there.

Personally, I don't know what candidate I endorse at the moment. All candidates have serious flaws. Their beliefs are not the problem per se, but their integrity and the degree to which they feel the need to impose those beliefs on others. That is the serious flaw with Bush II. He not only has strong beliefs, but accepts no others and any such professed beliefs are traitorous. Many of Ron Paul's Constitutional beliefs are a breath of fresh air after over a century of extreme federalism. Others are borderline but defensi

Judd, shouldn't you be at the office, preparing for your SEC deposition? "Writerjudd" aka "WordBomb" and several dozen other aliases, is Judd Bagley, Director of Communications at Overstock.com. Bagley trolls the web smearing critics of Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne. Both Byrne and Overstock are under investigation by the feds for lying to the media. See here and here. and here.

Well, not that you'll see this.

But you say you were censored by Blogger, it's always better to believe that than a technical issue.

You aren't the only one on Blogger experiencing the same issue, it's technical, not censorship. Login to Blogger>Dashboard>Settings>Publishing and you'll see your blogspot subdomain has disappeared from there. Re-enter it and save. It's happened to many people over the last few days. I know that because your Blogger profile
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Lists the blog still there but with the address of
http://.blogspot.com/

Technical (incompetence maybe?), not censorship.

Yeah, let's vote for the guy who believes that cross-burning is free speech* and that there shouldn't be a separation from church and state:

"Cross burning could be a crime if they were violating somebody's property rights,'' he said during his campaign. But if you go out on your farm some place and it's on your property and you put two sticks together and you burn it, I am not going to send in the federal police."

"The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government's hostility to religion. The establishment clause of the First Amendment was simply intended to forbid the creation of an official state church like the Church of England, not to drive religion out of public life."

Great candidate you have there.

* free speech ends when it's purpose is to terrorize others.

OK. The formatting is going to suck though...

M.A.D. R.I.P.

(If you haven't already done so, please read the Iranian nuke vs. Israeli nuke post, you can consider this post to be a continuation and/or expansion of the points made therein.)

M.A.D. of course stands for Mutual Assured Destruction.
It is what passes for sanity these days in international affairs. That
said, it is also enjoying over a half-century of success. M.A.D. is the
policy that justifies the nuclear arsenals being deployed throughout
the world. The Soviet Union had them because the U.S. had them. France
and the U.K. had them because the Soviet Union had them. China had them
because all of the above had them. India had them because of China,
Pakistan because of India. Now we see North Korea has them: they have
them because we have them, we're the adversary sitting on the other
side of the D.M.Z.

Every nation in possession of nuclear weapons
today has them because they're afraid some other nation has them and
they're afraid that if they don't similarly arm themselves, their
nation may only exist in the future as an entry in a history book.

Every
nation but one of course: Israel. Israel has no nuclear-armed
adversaries. To be sure, it has adversaries aplenty, arguably of its
own making, but it has demonstrated repeatedly now that its military --
as provided for by the U.S. taxpayer -- is handily capable of defending
against any manner of aggression these adversaries are capable of
producing.

The other way of saying this is that Israel is the
only nuclear nation in the world today that is not employing M.A.D. as
the rationale for possessing its nuclear arsenal. Israel is doing
something else.

(that's alarming because M.A.D., as policy, works. Israel pursuing some other policy therefore is really terrifying.)

Here is a story by The Sunday Times titled Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran .
So if you're wondering why it is I feel compelled to bring this subject
up again, there you go. Israeli Prime Minister Ohmert recently
acknowledged Israel was in possession of nuclear weapons too, and an
entire post could be dedicated to the incredible hypocrisy seen
expressed by our media in response, but what is likely a sober and
factual report on impending nuclear war takes top billing today.

Israel
is set to take the world into nuclear war. And why? We are told time
and time again that it is because it can't permit Iran to possess
nuclear weapons. The Sunday Times story even trots out the
"Israel must be wiped off of the map" quote attributed to Iranian
President Ahmadinejad as rationale, even though it's been shown that he
never said any such thing. It is being drilled into our heads that a
nuclear Iran must mean the end of Israel. That M.A.D., a policy that
has kept the world free of nuclear war for over fifty years -- and
despite the bitterest hostilities between opposing nations -- cannot
possibly work between Israel and Iran. And so therefore America must
attack, or at least, look the other way as Israel attacks in its stead.

Of
course, this reasoning is flawed, its conclusion blatantly false. The
established precedent is that M.A.D. works. Not only that, the
precedent is that nations locked in cold war eventually tire of it and
learn to accept the other side. I made this point before: if Iran had
gone nuclear back in 1967, the internationally recognized border
between Israel and Palestine would undoubtedly be the de facto border
today and we'd likely see peace in that part of the world where we now
see nothing but war. It is the huge imbalance of power in the

If what you say is true, then why the censorship?

(could it be the Muslims?)

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If what you say is true, then why the censorship?

(could it be the Muslims?)

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If what you say is true, then why the censorship?

(could it be the Muslims?)

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If what you say is true, then why the censorship?

(could it be the Muslims?)

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Find a web hoster that's sympathetic to your cause (meaning they won't drop you) and host your blog there.

Find a web hoster that's sympathetic to your cause (meaning they won't drop you) and host your blog there.

Find a web hoster that's sympathetic to your cause (meaning they won't drop you) and host your blog there.

Find a web hoster that's sympathetic to your cause (meaning they won't drop you) and host your blog there.

Excuse me, but how do you know their actions weren't mandated by the government?

We certainly know they censor content when China asks them to.

Why wouldn't they do the same when the U.S. Government asks the same?

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Excuse me, but how do you know their actions weren't mandated by the government?

We certainly know they censor content when China asks them to.

Why wouldn't they do the same when the U.S. Government asks the same?

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Excuse me, but how do you know their actions weren't mandated by the government?

We certainly know they censor content when China asks them to.

Why wouldn't they do the same when the U.S. Government asks the same?

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Excuse me, but how do you know their actions weren't mandated by the government?

We certainly know they censor content when China asks them to.

Why wouldn't they do the same when the U.S. Government asks the same?

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Technorati simply banned my site. Google first truncated links from other sites leading to pages on my blog, and when that wasn't enough, they simply had Blogger delete the blog.

No kiddie porn, no copyright violations, not even libel. Critical of America over the war on drugs and Israel over the war on terror though? You bet.

The posts that triggered this orgy of censorship saw me positing the likelihood that Israel had nuclear weapons forward-deployed in other nations. Shortly after the second post in the series, Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli who blew the whistle on their nuke program, got arrested again. It would seem as though there are some subjects Israel would rather we didn't discuss. I guess I can understand that, but since when does Israel get to control what I can or can't say?

They want to pretend censorship like this is only taking place in places like China. That's bullshit. It's happening here in America and with ever increasing frequency.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- Johnn F. Kennedy

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Technorati simply banned my site. Google first truncated links from other sites leading to pages on my blog, and when that wasn't enough, they simply had Blogger delete the blog.

No kiddie porn, no copyright violations, not even libel. Critical of America over the war on drugs and Israel over the war on terror though? You bet.

The posts that triggered this orgy of censorship saw me positing the likelihood that Israel had nuclear weapons forward-deployed in other nations. Shortly after the second post in the series, Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli who blew the whistle on their nuke program, got arrested again. It would seem as though there are some subjects Israel would rather we didn't discuss. I guess I can understand that, but since when does Israel get to control what I can or can't say?

They want to pretend censorship like this is only taking place in places like China. That's bullshit. It's happening here in America and with ever increasing frequency.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- Johnn F. Kennedy

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Technorati simply banned my site. Google first truncated links from other sites leading to pages on my blog, and when that wasn't enough, they simply had Blogger delete the blog.

No kiddie porn, no copyright violations, not even libel. Critical of America over the war on drugs and Israel over the war on terror though? You bet.

The posts that triggered this orgy of censorship saw me positing the likelihood that Israel had nuclear weapons forward-deployed in other nations. Shortly after the second post in the series, Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli who blew the whistle on their nuke program, got arrested again. It would seem as though there are some subjects Israel would rather we didn't discuss. I guess I can understand that, but since when does Israel get to control what I can or can't say?

They want to pretend censorship like this is only taking place in places like China. That's bullshit. It's happening here in America and with ever increasing frequency.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- Johnn F. Kennedy

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Technorati simply banned my site. Google first truncated links from other sites leading to pages on my blog, and when that wasn't enough, they simply had Blogger delete the blog.

No kiddie porn, no copyright violations, not even libel. Critical of America over the war on drugs and Israel over the war on terror though? You bet.

The posts that triggered this orgy of censorship saw me positing the likelihood that Israel had nuclear weapons forward-deployed in other nations. Shortly after the second post in the series, Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli who blew the whistle on their nuke program, got arrested again. It would seem as though there are some subjects Israel would rather we didn't discuss. I guess I can understand that, but since when does Israel get to control what I can or can't say?

They want to pretend censorship like this is only taking place in places like China. That's bullshit. It's happening here in America and with ever increasing frequency.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- Johnn F. Kennedy

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Sensors indicate the phenomena is a form of information reference, however, scanners are unable to ascertain just what that information may be.

Spock, have you tried using Google News to find a link to the story that doesn't require registration? :::raises eyebrow not to convey fascination, but annoyance:::

Doh! The message is coming on the viewscreen now Captain.

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Sensors indicate the phenomena is a form of information reference, however, scanners are unable to ascertain just what that information may be.

Spock, have you tried using Google News to find a link to the story that doesn't require registration? :::raises eyebrow not to convey fascination, but annoyance:::

Doh! The message is coming on the viewscreen now Captain.

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Sensors indicate the phenomena is a form of information reference, however, scanners are unable to ascertain just what that information may be.

Spock, have you tried using Google News to find a link to the story that doesn't require registration? :::raises eyebrow not to convey fascination, but annoyance:::

Doh! The message is coming on the viewscreen now Captain.

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If you want me to elaborate, post a comment on my blog and I will post a blog about it. Basically, I could not easily see a place to configure it in the GUI; the pulldown list of wireless encryption algorithms only showed WEP. I was able to set up WPA---I'm using WPA in Ubuntu to post this message, in fact---but I had to use apt-get to install packages. I also had to edit text files.

when i was researching which firmware to use, i found this : http://xwrt.blogspot.com/2007/02/dd-wrt-continues- to-exploit-free-open.html

All LCD screens get their light from a single backlight. When the display is on, the backlight is on. Always.

The LCD crystals in the screen act as tiny shutters, and can open or close to allow that light through, or keep it out. Although these shutters take a small amount of energy to open and close, it's insignificant compared to the amount of energy it takes to power the backlight.

A commenter in this thread commented that an Apple 17" display attached to a lab supply is measured as drawing 0.6W less when displaying a white screen than when displaying a black one.

CRT screens probably do draw less power when displaying a black screen, but on the whole they still draw considerably more power than an LCD under any circumstance. On the same note, CRT users may find that the white-on-black scheme is easier on their eyes -- I still have a CRT in my cube at work, and setting my editor to the white-on-black scheme is definitely more legible and less stressful on my eyes. (I still find it more legible on LCDs, although eye strain isn't an issue at all)

I don't get it... CowboyNeal should know better than this. Is he intentionally seeding flamebait?

You know...I'm waiting for Microsoft to drop the other shoe. I'm waiting for a Microsoft rep to go to Dell's offices and say "You know, we really can't give you the volume discounts that we've been offering you if you continue to sell those Linux laptops". Which will be very quickly followed by Dell saying that they are phasing out their Linux line due to "lack of interest" or some such.

This is what Microsoft did with IBM in the mid-1990s when they tried to make computers with OS/2 preinstalled. [source]

Now, in terms of the computers Dell is selling, they're quite good. I have a full review of my experiences with the Dell 1420n Ubuntu model up on my blog. Summary: Everything works, except for suspend, which kinda-sorta-maybe works. Linux isn't quite ready for the end-user desktop yet; their are still some rough edges, such as needing to edit text files to enable WPA.

The 1420 is a little bulkier than my older Thinkpad 600-series (the late 90s version of their T series), but this is compensated for by being (pretty much) fully Linux supported.

IBM's Blue Gene still uses Ethernet. Eric's added Jumbo Frame support to Plan 9 From Bell Labs which boots on the cpu and I/O nodes now.

In that case the network has it's own dedicated nodes, so yes, the network is the computer!

To summarize, its all the same circular issues:
  Lack of competition, stupid people willing to pay extremely high demand and not seek quality, and rediculous lock-in contracts which most people don't have the common sense to know how to get out of (there are many ways). Most consumers don't even know the gov't passed a law some years back to make it legal to unlock your phone and yet people willingly let themselves stay locked in. Not to mention you can use roaming to cancel your plan without fees or cancel due to them changing the plan without your authorization (a letter doesn't count as an "okay, go ahead").
  The next problem is that even with such things, most providers have no competition, and still manage to lock people in due to stupidity. There's a lack of choice and excess of charges. Remember that USF charge? People are still being charged for that under a different name. (cnet news.com link)

first off, i applaud you, US senators, for not inviting civil liberties groups to this hearing. they may have voiced a different opinion disagreeing with yours and probably would have offered varying perspectives on the issue. this whole idea of listening to many and obtaining a more thorough, comprehensive understanding of the issue would have been a time consuming inconvenience. obviously you, the members of the US senate, know what is best for all members of our society.

secondly, i think it's wonderful we're taking the necessary steps to create our own great firewall similar to that of communist China. that's done wonders for their country and i'm sure we'd see similar results over here.

lastly, taking the parental duties from parents to monitor what their own children are doing is a step in the right direction. parents shouldn't have a say in how they go about raising their own children anyway. obviously you, the government, can do a much better job. i mean come on, it worked for the Hitler Youth and Nazi Germany right?

http://robotbrother.blogspot.com/

Which is next to impossible. Not directly because of Linus, but because the whole Linux codebase is not owned by a single entity, and you would have to convince everyone who has ever submitted code to the kernel to agree (which would take an act of St. iGNUcious)

If a mobile phone mast falls in the forest and no hypochondriacs are there to feel relief, did it really radiate electromagnetic energy?

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If a mobile phone mast falls in the forest and no hypochondriacs are there to feel relief, did it really radiate electromagnetic energy?

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If a mobile phone mast falls in the forest and no hypochondriacs are there to feel relief, did it really radiate electromagnetic energy?

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If a mobile phone mast falls in the forest and no hypochondriacs are there to feel relief, did it really radiate electromagnetic energy?

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A random sample, yes. Of people. Who are living today. On Earth.

This Earth, not some other Earth.

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A random sample, yes. Of people. Who are living today. On Earth.

This Earth, not some other Earth.

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