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• Telephones - main lines in use: 473,031 (2000)
• Telephones - mobile cellular: 2,994 (1997)
• domestic: principal trunk system, end to end of country, is coaxial cable; fiber-optic distribution in Havana and on Isla de la Juventud; 2 microwave radio relay installations (one is old, US-built; the other newer, built during the period of Soviet support); both analog and digital mobile cellular service established
• Internet country code: .cu
• Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 4 (2001)
• Internet users: 60,000 (2000)

But obviously it's not a perfect place to live, otherwise so many people wouldn't risk their lives on makeshift rafts and boats trying to cross to the U.S.

And while PCs may be expensive compared to the per capita income, obviously some people have them and can connect the to Internet, and it would seem that is what the Cuban government is trying to limit.

Enigma is more famouse for being the German code machine during WWII. Germans thought is was unbreakable. Story goes that a group of Poles stole the machine and gave it to the Brits, they figured out how to use it and crack the German communitaction.

More information and a picture here

Two posts above, I stated my source: The CIA World Factbook. It's alright you didn't see it, but I didn't want you to think I hadn't stated it.

But, you are right, China doesn't have an ag GDP 1/3rd of the US. The number I gave was ag+industry GDP.

Which also sounds great until you realize that:
a) it isn't true. China has a GDP of 4.5 trillion, the US 10 trillion.
b) the US's GDP is 80% services, versus China's 35% services. Thus, 3 trillion of China's economy is from industry and agriculture, compared to 2 trillion of the U.S.'s. If you just want industry, then it is 2.2 trillion (China at 50%) vs 1.73 trillion (US).

Here's my source. You should read the other things these environmentalists are saying about the U.S., like "the US is the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels; water pollution from runoff of pesticides and fertilizers; very limited natural fresh water resources in much of the western part of the country require careful management; desertification". Those wacky ecoterrorists at the Central Intelligence Agency will say anything, huh?

Surely this top secret terrorism buster logo was meant to be classified; there is no way the CIA would be stupid enough to let this information out into the public arena, where it would expose them to ridicule!

actually, it's a federal republic.

elected monarchy is probably close enough, tho. ;)

China

The standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt." That means that, even if you THINK he did it, if you can see a reasonable situation where he DIDN'T do it, he walks. (Please note that he WAS guilty of the civil suit for wrongful death.)

While I agree with this (certainly of what I know of the case I don't think I could have said guilty beyond reasonable doubt), but the OJ Simpson case highlighted the inequity of the U.S.: that you have to have a high price lawyer in order to be able to enjoy the rights that were given to you over 200 years ago. A poorer man would have most certainly been given a guilty verdict given the same circumstances.

America has slowly been turning itself into everything it is supposed to stand against. It is a democratic republic, but the same families appear everywhere. The same money appears everywhere. It is becoming more and more casted. Regular people are being pushed down more and more. Evenutally there will be no difference between the Republic that is America, and a Republic like Iraq.

I am glad that there are organizations like the ACLU to push back, but the fact remains that we are losing ground. The ACLU fights infringments of our rights, some it wins some it looses. The times it looses, the line is pushed back and the republic puts up another line of laws to fight against. There's no time to fight to get back the rights we've lost, because we have to fight to keep the ones we have.

And such is life in the here and now.

The bottom line is that people die in Canada because there isn't enough quality health care to go around, and ultimately the state choses who lives or dies.

The two most basic indicators of health care are the infant mortality rate and life expectancy. In both these stats, Canada is ahead of the United States. Infant mortality in Canada is 5.0/1000 live births vs. 6.7/1000 in the U.S. Life expectancy in Canada is 79.5 years vs 77.3 in the U.S. If the Canadian government is deciding anything, it is that more children should live and live longer.

Should the healthy bear the costs of the sick to that degree?

That's the way insurance works, even in the U.S.

That's why this Canadian legally works in the U.S.A.

Let us hope then that you don't have a catastrophic illness and have your insurance cancelled or get laid off and have no insurance at all. You can, of course, always come back to Canada and receive treatment as soon as you cross the border.

Don't forget French Guiana. No A-bombs dropped there.

Using 'communist' or 'commie' as a derogatory
term is back! People are calling each other 'commies' in such fashionable ways:

You FUCKING COMMIE!
Go suck some red dick!

or my favourite

GODLESS COMMIE SCUM!

You too can take part in political slander! Join now!

The Chief of State is Jacques Chirac, so I'd guess this place.

Germany is third. As of the start of 2002, Germany had 1.8 million DSL subscribers. For a country with a net population of something around 10 million, this is pretty good.

The freedom notions are somewhat of a fairytale, common law affords you as much freedom worldwide, today, one such example is the personal privacy laws in Europe and Britain make US provisions laughable.

The difference is the US constitution is written and explicitly set out, however the freedoms it explains aren't something that suddenly popped into existence 250 years ago, they have existed for centuries in common law, take the Magna Carta.

When colonies were established charters were granted guaranteeing that the inhabitants and their heirs would "have and enjoy all liberties and immunities of free and natural subjects." Scant generations later, when these American colonists raised arms against their mother country, they were fighting not for new freedoms but to preserve liberties that dated to the 13th century. So, nothing new there.

It's worth noting that the war of independence was also largely about land, money and the politicking of a bitter France. Look at George Washington and Co it was hardly a peasant revolt.

Of course history is to some extent a looking glass. I can remember sitting in Washington in the early 90's a bunch of people were rebuking apartheid in South Africa, an honourable course I thought, then they went onto how great the US is and how such a thing could not happen here, they neglected to mention that the same system was operating very effectively in the US some 30 years earlier.

It's also interesting to see how today the war of independence was see as American v. British, remember "America" was rather ill-defined back then, it was more like 'wealthy British colonists v. the old country'.

QEII is still the 'chief of state' in Canada according to the US government, the state of the flag doesn't change that.

See http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/marki v.htm

F*ck, I mangled the link, should have previewed, sorry...

Believe it or not, the CIA has thier own museum complete with cool old spy gizmos. It's even online at:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/

I think it is worth recognizing the unfortunate hand that these refugees have been dealt. Planning on starting over in .au and ending up on Nauru!? Nauru is one of the strangest places on the planet. difficult to believe it's history wasn't written by Kurt Vonnegut. Seems that after 60 years of mining Naru has nearly depleted it only cash cow - phosphate. In the process they have converted a large portion of their once lush island into a field of jagged rocks. Their other schemes to provide a national income are as equally short-sighted. Attempting to start an regional airline, aiding money laundering institutions, and other poor investments have left this coutry with little other option than to get paid for accepting refugees. sad - almost comical...like monty python humor. but for 20 million i would consider taking 400 refugees...actually that is only US$25K each. maybe not.

Well one easy data point: CIA world factbook The onrush of technology largely explains the gradual development of a "two-tier labor market" in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households.

It's a well known fact for the US case. The rich get richer, the poorest break even. In Europe, due to higher taxation (whether it's good or moral or not), in some cases, the employees got their share, or in some other cases, the State got the improvements ; in general everyone got better, depending on the cases ; US is the extreme.

Maybe those poor people should get off their ass and work for a living then, rather than relying on handouts from the wealthy folks. Ok, that's probably a little harsh. But really, where is it written that I must hand over my wealth to someone who hasn't earned it somehow.

STOP. First a point: you must realize that the effect of some policies (like globalization), is not neutral at all for all people. If lowering the barrier of trades, gets you more opportunities and more money, but kills someone's job, the hard question is: why shouldn't he be compensated? After all, the gov. used a policy which is contradictory to his interests. And yes, I do know many people who were simple workers, who got jobless, or were close to be (example: my grandfather, paid minimal wage for his entire career - 20+ years in the same factory, retired only 2 years before the decades-old factory got bankrupt - because of foreign competition). Of course, they _could_ find another job, but there is definitly a cost that they have to pay.

Note also that free market theory says global income improve, but say nothing about its repartition: it is possible in theory that 0.1% of the people gets incredibly better and 99.9% of the people get in desperate situation.

Maybe those poor people should get off their ass and work for a living then, rather than relying on handouts from the wealthy folks. Ok, that's probably a little harsh. But really, where is it written that I must hand over my wealth to someone who hasn't earned it somehow. Life isn't free.

You are basically contending that poor people are lazy people. This is not true, at least 100% true, especially in the US and the UK: you have a whole set of "working poor" people, who are barely earning their living (and sometimes have to do several jobs, and a big worktime). But note, that there are also all quite a number of people, who didn't get the chance to have a good education, who are old and where fired when machines doing the same job as them arrived, the people who are losing their jobs due to globlization, etc... Points are: 1) being poor is not equal to be lazy, it can be lack of luck, evolution of economy or worse due to the same policies that allow some other people to earn more money 2) even if you are in the proportion of the lazy and poor people, then there are deep psychological, and social reasons for you to be that way, and this reasons are caused partly by the society. [for instance, a cousin of mine is now on welfare for one year, because he is disgusted for having robbed in some way or another by employers 3 times in a row - the last time, the worse, being the employer pocketed the money, didn't pay any salary and flew to another country - I don't think it's a good reason, but also going back in time, you see that he didn't have any chance of getting a good education before, that he had TREMEDOUS family problems, etc... which is why he could only start in an entry-level job, tried to kill himself, etc.. etc.. and more common facts for poor people]. .

If the wealthy person wasn't around, the poor person would have to earn the right to stay alive somehow.

Haha! But they would do much better individually, because they won't have the competition of the wealthy persons (more efficient, with more capitals, or with more education). For instance quite-below-average programmers would now be top programmers. Of course, collectively they would do worse (i.e. higher price because more paid work needed per item), but it's absolutly not obvious that if top wealthy people were to disappear suddenly the poorest wouldn't live a better life.

Not to worry. There is an "unnamed location" still 5 meters above sea level, so who are we kidding here: Tuvalu will last for at least a few decades.

Population: 10,991 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 33.28% (male 1,862; female 1,796)
15-64 years: 61.6% (male 3,241; female 3,529)
65 years and over: 5.12% (male 236; female 327) (2001 est.)

Government type: constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy; began debating republic status in 1992
Capital: Funafuti

Economy - overview: Tuvalu consists of a densely populated, scattered group of nine coral atolls with poor soil. Subsistence farming and fishing are the primary economic activities. Government revenues largely come from the sale of stamps and coins and worker remittances. About 1,000 Tuvaluans work in Nauru in the phosphate mining industry. Substantial income is received annually from an international trust fund established in 1987 by Australia, NZ, and the UK and supported also by Japan and South Korea. Thanks to wise investments and conservative withdrawals, this Fund has grown from an initial $17 million to over $35 million in 1999. The US government is also a major revenue source for Tuvalu, with 1999 payments from a 1988 treaty on fisheries at about $9 million, a total which is expected to rise annually. In an effort to reduce its dependence on foreign aid, the government is pursuing public sector reforms, including privatization of some government functions and personnel cuts of up to 7%. In 1998, Tuvalu began deriving revenue from use of its area code for "900" lines and in 2000, from the sale of its ".tv" Internet domain name. Royalties from these new technology sources could raise GDP three or more times over the next decade. In 1999, with merchandise exports falling and financing reaching less than 5% of imports, continued reliance was placed on fishing and telecommunications license fees, remittances from overseas workers, official transfers, and investment income from overseas assets to cover the trade deficit.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $11.6 million (1999 est.)

Looking at that last number, it looks like Tuvalu got something like 4x their GDP on this deal.

Consider: Arable land, zero. Pastures, crops, zero. Changes in sea level, a major issue. If you could put saltwater in a car, the world would have beaten a path to their doorstep, but it's not and they haven't. This little purchase is a little over four times their listed GDP, for crying out loud. Me, I'm happy to see countries with very little else going for them in the high tech world be able to make a buck off of things like this.

Yes, for you "this is old news" jokers, the old Wired Magazine article is here.

Consider: Arable land, zero. Pastures, crops, zero. Changes in sea level, a major issue. If you could put saltwater in a car, the world would have beaten a path to their doorstep, but it's not and they haven't. This little purchase is a little over four times their listed GDP, for crying out loud. Me, I'm happy to see countries with very little else going for them in the high tech world be able to make a buck off of things like this.

Yes, for you "this is old news" jokers, the old Wired Magazine article is here.

Tuvalu is a democracy. Queen Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch, represented by a governor general, who has mostly ceremonial power. Actual power is in an elected council and prime minister.

Tuvalu is also quite poor; a group of sandy islands with few natural resorces and little industry. The gov't gets much of its money from selling stamps and coins. And now, from selling its TLD for $45 million. Great deal for them, probably.

from the throat-singers-need-not-apply dept.

What I want to know is: who are the politicians making all of these progressive decisions

The German Government is a coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Green Alliance.

On the Bundesministerium Wirtschaft und Technologie's (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology's) site you can see more about who makes up the ministry. The BMWi's site also carries more information about this story.

Heise is a leading German news source. You'll find more information about similar technology news there.

The German CIA fact file has some more background about Germany.

Most of these sites have English versions, but there's not always the same level of detail. If you can stand its translations, it might be worthwhile firing up Babelfish or a similar translation service.

What I want to know is: who are the politicians making all of these progressive decisions

The German Government is a coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Green Alliance.

On the Bundesministerium Wirtschaft und Technologie's (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology's) site you can see more about who makes up the ministry. The BMWi's site also carries more information about this story.

Heise is a leading German news source. You'll find more information about similar technology news there.

The German CIA fact file has some more background about Germany.

Most of these sites have English versions, but there's not always the same level of detail. If you can stand its translations, it might be worthwhile firing up Babelfish or a similar translation service.

Anybody look at their website lately? Here is their lame attempt to respond to ubiquitous evidence that the CIA in the past provided training and funding to terrorists like bin Laden. Even the tobacco companies did better than that! But what I really want to know is how much of our tax dollars funded the CIA's development of this "terrorism busters" logo. yeesh.

Anybody look at their website lately? Here is their lame attempt to respond to ubiquitous evidence that the CIA in the past provided training and funding to terrorists like bin Laden. Even the tobacco companies did better than that! But what I really want to know is how much of our tax dollars funded the CIA's development of this "terrorism busters" logo. yeesh.

Anyone have any idea how much these products are in China? I mean, China has a per capital GDP of $3600 (see here), vs. $36,200 in the USA (see here), so if Photoshop costs $600 there, that would cost 2 months of salary, equivalent to at least $6000 here, in addition to the fact that they still need to spend money for life's necessities (i.e. food, clothing, shelter).

Anyone have any idea how much these products are in China? I mean, China has a per capital GDP of $3600 (see here), vs. $36,200 in the USA (see here), so if Photoshop costs $600 there, that would cost 2 months of salary, equivalent to at least $6000 here, in addition to the fact that they still need to spend money for life's necessities (i.e. food, clothing, shelter).

Or from what agency Usama got his training...

The United Kingdom has a population of around 60 million people, with 241,590 sq km of land.
That's a population density of 241 people per square Kilometer.
source
The Continious 48 states have an area of 7.7 million square Kilometers, and a population of around 285 Million. That's 37 people per square kilometer, on average.

About 1/6 the density of the UK.
So that means in any given area in the United Kingdom, there are 6 times as many people there to use public transportation, making investing in public transportation far more economical, and also making it economical to run efficient, timely connections to just about any place one would want to go.

In the United States, because we are so spread out, for most of the US, there are not enough close points of interest to make it feasible to build usable public transportation. Where the population density is high in the United States, such as New York, Boston, Los angeles, or a number of other Cities, you have an advanced system of public transportation that would rival anything in Europe.

But outside of that, there just aren't enough people in the right places to make a good system.

That is why we are so hung up on our cars. Because we, for the most part, can not build a public transportation system that will get us where we want to be, when we want to be there. The economics just aren't there. I'm sure in most of the UK, you can get anywhere you want by PT within 15- 20 minutes of when you want to be there. Here, except in cities, if there is public transportation, it will get us to our destination within 40 to 120 minutes of when we want to be there.

Would you find that acceptable?

Population: 12,974,361 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 42.11% (male 2,789,189; female 2,674,747)
15-64 years: 54.25% (male 3,518,209; female 3,519,851)
65 years and over: 3.64% (male 220,640; female 251,725) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate: 2.6% (2001 est.)
Birth rate: 34.61 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate: 6.79 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate: -1.84 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.88 male(s)/female
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 45.79 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 66.51 years
male: 63.85 years
female: 69.31 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate: 4.58 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 1.38% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 73,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 3,600 (1999 est.)
Nationality: noun: Guatemalan(s)
adjective: Guatemalan
Ethnic groups: Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish or assimilated Amerindian - in local Spanish called Ladino), approximately 55%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, approximately 43%, whites and others 2%
Religions: Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs
Languages: Spanish 60%, Amerindian languages 40% (more than 20 Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, and Xinca)
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 63.6%
male: 68.7%
female: 58.5% (2000 est.)

Source: CIA

Yeah, thats more or less what I thought. The government does, however, place much of that work into the public domain, take a look at the CIA World Fact Book, for example.

(OT) Are you trying to use UTF8 there in your post? Instead of quotes I see a mess (a-circumflex/euro/oe-ligature for the openquote, a-circumflex/euro/box for the closequote). If you were cut-and-pasting my quote symbols, I spell out the HTML entities (“ for example); I dont actually type them in. UTF8 will not go through well since the Content-Type of the page is not set to understand multibyte characters. Instead of one unified 24-bit character I see three octets all interpreted as individual 8-bit characters.

Probably not. I wonder a lot about google, because they offer a widely-used free product, don't run ads (actually, they run a few de-emphasized text-based ads), and are hiring like crazy during the middle of a recession which has seen hundreds of thousands of layoffs nationwide. My guess--based on their profitless existence and the fact they cache/index everything on the Internet--is that they are a front for either the CIA or NSA/NRO. Careful what you say, they have 16,000 60GB hard drives.

The baseball player Moe Berg, was sent to Europe as part of the OSS during the war to attend lectures and try to glean how close the Germans were to making the bomb.

The book The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg is a really interesting read if you get a chance.

> Even for a land locked country such as Germany

Not to mention the thousands and thousands of people fleeing to the north and drowning in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea because someone lead them to believe Germany is landlocked ;)

Funny stuff!

Germany: Prime Minister from Social Democratic Party or SPD [Gerhard SCHROEDER, chairman]
UK: Labor Party [Anthony (Tony) Blair]
Finland: Tarja HALONEN elected president (Social Democratic Party), Prime Minister Paavo LIPPONEN prime minister (Social Democratic Party)

Germany: Prime Minister from Social Democratic Party or SPD [Gerhard SCHROEDER, chairman]
UK: Labor Party [Anthony (Tony) Blair]
Finland: Tarja HALONEN elected president (Social Democratic Party), Prime Minister Paavo LIPPONEN prime minister (Social Democratic Party)

Germany: Prime Minister from Social Democratic Party or SPD [Gerhard SCHROEDER, chairman]
UK: Labor Party [Anthony (Tony) Blair]
Finland: Tarja HALONEN elected president (Social Democratic Party), Prime Minister Paavo LIPPONEN prime minister (Social Democratic Party)

I notice a major problem with this operation. What about webmail? Hotmail.com although started by an Indian is located in the USA. Are they also going to monitor all HTTP traffic? Infact 100 to 1 I'd bet that a terrorist wouldn't be using POP3. I mean you'd rather lug an AK47 than a laptop. Plus he can walk into any browsing center and log into his account. What about those super secure webmails that have 128 bit encrypted java applets which act as you MUAs? Heck I can get a web mail account from Russia if I wanted.

BTW, a lot of incorrect facts about India have been bandied about, and being in the heart of it all, (I live and hack in India) I'd like to set facts straight.

a)
Myth: There is only one ISP in India
Fact: There are hundreds of ISPs in India. VSNL was the sole ISP only till 1998. Even the CIA world fact book gets the major ISPs right. There are 48 major ISPs! (read Class A).
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ in.html

I get cable at home in Madras from a gateway in Singapore (singnet). It travels via a dedicated undersea line that is not government controlled. Heck even my DNS lookup goes to Singapore (3000 odd kms.) Mine is a Class B ISP that the CIA page does not even recognise. There are Classes A through E! So, no there isn't one major check point like China.

b)
Myth: Internet penetration in India is low.
Fact:There are millions (literally) of cybercafes in India. Satyam iWay , one of the medium sized chains has some 400 iWays with global profile and roaming facility and they say they have 12.5 million users. And these are only located in the major cities, what about the rest of India. Nin-urban population comprises 85% of India. You are looking at a staggering number of people in the billions.

c)
Myth: Hindi & English are the only languages that are important.
Fact: Hindi & English yes, but India has 2000+ languages, and only 15 official ones. Try any Indian email service even the web based ones like rediff.com and you'll find more than 10 languages in which you can send an email.

d)
Myth: Encryption is not avaialble easily
Fact: Encryption is freely available. Heck ever heard of GPG anyone? or PGP? It's only 5 minutes to download... even in India. Besides we have the largest number of software professionals in the world. Wanna reconsider?

e)
Myth: The government doesn't have mammoth computing resources
Fact: Yes, super computers like the Cray were not allowed into India until recently. So we had to build our own (Param). We built the Like all governments in the world they are still coming to terms with the technology, but they do have tons of cash, so don't put it past them to be on top of things given a while.

Most of the population already do know pinyin. It's the phonetic transcription system used in Chinese schools to teach little Chinese kids how to read and write. The literacy rate (hard to judge accurately in a police state) is listed by the CIA World Factbook as 81%.

BTW, they have nowhere NEAR a million symbols in Chinese. Some estimates range as high as 80,000 but the average college grad only knows about 6~8 thousand. Basic literacy is considered to be 3,000 or so...

That said, I agree with the general attitude that the article is way off-base. It's going to be a LONG time before Chinese "takes over" the 'net!

--jrd

The Intelligence Community is guided by the definition of terrorism contained in Title 22 of the US Code, Section 2656(d):

-The term "terrorism" means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.

Hey, that sounds like the CIA!

On the other hand, in the past there were fewer births per minute, and thus there were proportionally more fools. This improves the spammer's hit rate.

So, to answer your question, you get about 1 in 250 'hits' for spam.

gus

...in which the hirsute denizens of Walden Pond were contemplating possible Republican strategies for reducing teen pregnancies. My favorite: Mike's suggestion of a fleet of megaphone-equipped vans roaming suburban streets during the evening hours, blaring "CUT THAT OUT!" every few seconds.

On a decidedly on-topic note, though, imaging all 9,629,091 sq km (according to the CIA World Factbook 2001) of the USA at 61-cm resolution in 24-bit color would result in 77.6 terabytes of data. That's for one frame; at a rate 1 frame per second, that would be 6.7 exabytes per day. Ask the Almighty to provide you with a 10,000-to-one compression algorithm, and you could get a day's worth of data down under a petabyte.

Let's see Jon Voight find Will Smith in that.

Could that have anything to do with the fact that most of the people in this country are white and only a small percentage (.8%) are Native Americans? Think before posting, liberal scum!

Whoa! Dont go spreading your radical anti-materialism ideas here. Acording to the CIA, anti-materialism is a major threat to NATO countries. (Wildcards - Radical Ideologies).

What I'd like most this christmas is IT (codename: Ginger).

Perhaps I'm being nit-picky, but I hope you are referring to the console-buying population or some other population

-Ted

Fine.

Holy See (Vatican City)