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  1. Re:Blah. by pinkushun · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Can Egypt's Telecom Giants Be Sued In the US?

    There is a bigger picture involved.

    During the Egyptian revolution the telecom companies, instead of supporting the people, complied with and acted upon the requests of a tyrannical leader to shut down internet access, in an attempt to silence the people. [1]

    They also complied to send out pro-government, anti-democracy [2] mobile text messages [3].

    Don't buy Vodafone's excuse, they abide to a mad man's "emergency laws", while the people and journalists risked life and limb to have their voice heard. Vodafone agreed to his terms, a guy who is now facing the death penalty under charge or premeditated murder against civilians[5], and need to grow a pair.

    And do you know why?
    "Its not clear who paid for the messages which could amount to hundred of thousands of dollars worth of messaging."

    [1] http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011128796164380.html
    [2] http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=133349
    [3] http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/02/03/unsolicited-pro-mubarak-text-messages-from-egypt/
    [4] http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
    [5] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/us-egypt-mubarak-idUSTRE74N3LG20110524

  2. About Co2 emission trading by BlueTrin · · Score: 1 · on SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon

    I work in trading and saw these articles when I bumped onto this entry ... thought it could be interesting as it gives a different point of view ...

    Is carbon the new uranium ?
    EU too lax on emission permits

    For the ones who do not know the scheme, it forces emitters to buy contracts if they go over the quota allowed by the government and is supposed to give an incentive to the companies to modernize ... although it has been reported that the EU has issued too large quotas rendering the system ineffective ...

  3. There are other countries by Drog · · Score: 1 · on Stanford Jumps Into Cloning Fray
    Unfortunately, the US is not alone in this. According to this article, the US proposal for a treaty which bans all forms of cloning human cells has the backing of the Philippines, Spain, Italy, Argentina and Costa Rica. I'm a little confused about Italy though, since they seem to have no problem with reproductive human cloning--the first human clone due to be born next month. To my knowledge, France is still undecided as to whether it should follow suit or just ban reproductive human cloning. Research on embryonic stem cells was banned in Germany, though, until last January, when their parliament agreed to allow some stem cell imports, as detailed here South Africa's current draft of their National Health Bill, as detailed here, will outlaw any form of embryo stem cell research, making it "more conservative than even the legislation promulgated in the US and most European countries". "Most" may be exaggerating it a bit though--I know that Denmark, Spain and Sweden allow it, as detailed here.


    I think that's about all the time I have to research this.

  4. Links to additional press coverage by chris.dag · · Score: 2 · on Biohackathon

    To date we were the Feature National story in Business Day: LINK

    Computer Week online - top story on their home page today: LINK

    sa.internet.com picked up the press release and covered it: LINK

    Some additional media interviews were given today so there will likely be additional coverage. It's nice to see the press get most of the details correct :)