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There is many reference to misconduct. One it MIT tweaking of result that their editor (Mallove) have spotted. http://www.infinite-energy.com... http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw... One is Science not correcting errors in caltech paper http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/R... there is also the Oriani paper rejection for no serious reason (theory) there is also the rejection upfront of Report41 of Enea (Denino) showing He4/Heat corelation http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ra... (as 40+ other journals) There is a report by Pamela Mosier Boss, ex SU Navy Spawar, prolific author in Naturwissenshaften and Journal of Electroanalythical Chemistry who complained about emotional behavior in high impact journals http://www.iscmns.org/CMNS/JCM... (page6+ in that proceeding). there are many more to list from the old ape of cold fusion... depending if you search academic misconduct, journal misconduct, insults, horse manure in the mailbox, nasty jokes ruining experiments, sabotaging grants by donators, demoting a researcher to the stock, ... some consider it is normal academic behavior, and it is in a way true, so maybe it is normal. Currently there are many report of similar problem, some by few Nobel like Sheckman or Sidney Brenner, who can afford to moan without being blacklisted. Maybe we cannot change that, not really say it is monstrous, but we should be aware that things works that nasty way, and not be too naive. Sorry for previous coward postings , forgot to logon...

Minitel and videotext systems were cheaps terminals that used the phone lines to send and transmit data. Ceefax and teletext systems are data transmission on television signals. Teletext is compatible with digital television and almost all DVB decoders could either process the data stream internally and display it or add the codified data on the PAL or SECAM video signal to be displayed on a standard definition TV set. Other european nations mantained the Teletext system on DBV broadcasting,for instance Italy: http://www.televideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/pagina.jsp?p=101&idmenumain=1

http://www.rainews24.rai.it/it/video.php?id=23096

[this is a bit OT]

I don't know how familiar you are with the Italian TV, but trust me: the Mediaset channels are even worse than the already really bad RAI's. RAI4 doesn't exist, maybe you mean RAI3? Yes they are the exception that proves the rule: they often have decent programs, sometime even great ones. This last category is also the category that get canceled faster if they dare to disturb the Catholic Church, some politician or the mafia.

If you want something better you must search outside of the RAI/Mediaset duopoly; e.g. La7 is usally pretty good.

Sorry! correct link is this

babelfish this in the meantime, then. Inventors working my themselves discovering amazing things and getting basically fought. I had seen the related video on national tv this ain't an april fool.

Here is the link to the italian news service who revealed the use of chemicals weapons in Fallujah.

Italian, Englis, Arab version avalaible, unfortunately video is low quality but is worth watching anyway.

http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/body.a sp

Or this http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/ inchiesta_fallujah_ENG.ram

Milena Gabanelli's Report on Rai3 (one of those transmissions so good you wonder how much time before they get censored) once had 2 hours about SIAE.

Turned out, the tune getting the most money from SIAE in Italy is the background music of Onda Verde (traffic condition broadcast) on radio. If you never heard any music at all, that's because it's so low you cannot hear it. But you are paying for it, of course.

In Rome, there are some "musicians" who daily organise concerts where no one goes, only because they agree with SIAE that they are getting support for "cultural activities". It's basically your average white-collar mafia.

As a lot of things in Italy, thieves with the right contacts pull the strings and get rich doing nothing useful for society. This is the Italian development model after all. If you wondered, no, serious musicians don't get a penny. The 99 Posse said they never saw a penny coming from SIAE, even if they wrote a song,Curre curre guagliò, that is in the soundtrack of Gabriele Salvatores' Sud, that ran a few times on national TV. That might have to do with the fact that 99 are not exacly government-aligned.

If you don't like the way it works, pack up and leave. Serious, I did and never looked back—it's a panacea for your liver. But I'll take a trip to Stockholm to vote for Tonino anyway.

Milena Gabanelli's Report on Rai3 (one of those transmissions so good you wonder how much time before they get censored) once had 2 hours about SIAE.

Turned out, the tune getting the most money from SIAE in Italy is the background music of Onda Verde (traffic condition broadcast) on radio. If you never heard any music at all, that's because it's so low you cannot hear it. But you are paying for it, of course.

In Rome, there are some "musicians" who daily organise concerts where no one goes, only because they agree with SIAE that they are getting support for "cultural activities". It's basically your average white-collar mafia.

As a lot of things in Italy, thieves with the right contacts pull the strings and get rich doing nothing useful for society. This is the Italian development model after all. If you wondered, no, serious musicians don't get a penny. The 99 Posse said they never saw a penny coming from SIAE, even if they wrote a song,Curre curre guagliò, that is in the soundtrack of Gabriele Salvatores' Sud, that ran a few times on national TV. That might have to do with the fact that 99 are not exacly government-aligned.

If you don't like the way it works, pack up and leave. Serious, I did and never looked back—it's a panacea for your liver. But I'll take a trip to Stockholm to vote for Tonino anyway.

Milena Gabanelli's Report on Rai3 (one of those transmissions so good you wonder how much time before they get censored) once had 2 hours about SIAE.

Turned out, the tune getting the most money from SIAE in Italy is the background music of Onda Verde (traffic condition broadcast) on radio. If you never heard any music at all, that's because it's so low you cannot hear it. But you are paying for it, of course.

In Rome, there are some "musicians" who daily organise concerts where no one goes, only because they agree with SIAE that they are getting support for "cultural activities". It's basically your average white-collar mafia.

As a lot of things in Italy, thieves with the right contacts pull the strings and get rich doing nothing useful for society. This is the Italian development model after all. If you wondered, no, serious musicians don't get a penny. The 99 Posse said they never saw a penny coming from SIAE, even if they wrote a song,Curre curre guagliò, that is in the soundtrack of Gabriele Salvatores' Sud, that ran a few times on national TV. That might have to do with the fact that 99 are not exacly government-aligned.

If you don't like the way it works, pack up and leave. Serious, I did and never looked back—it's a panacea for your liver. But I'll take a trip to Stockholm to vote for Tonino anyway.

Milena Gabanelli's Report on Rai3 (one of those transmissions so good you wonder how much time before they get censored) once had 2 hours about SIAE.

Turned out, the tune getting the most money from SIAE in Italy is the background music of Onda Verde (traffic condition broadcast) on radio. If you never heard any music at all, that's because it's so low you cannot hear it. But you are paying for it, of course.

In Rome, there are some "musicians" who daily organise concerts where no one goes, only because they agree with SIAE that they are getting support for "cultural activities". It's basically your average white-collar mafia.

As a lot of things in Italy, thieves with the right contacts pull the strings and get rich doing nothing useful for society. This is the Italian development model after all. If you wondered, no, serious musicians don't get a penny. The 99 Posse said they never saw a penny coming from SIAE, even if they wrote a song,Curre curre guagliò, that is in the soundtrack of Gabriele Salvatores' Sud, that ran a few times on national TV. That might have to do with the fact that 99 are not exacly government-aligned.

If you don't like the way it works, pack up and leave. Serious, I did and never looked back—it's a panacea for your liver. But I'll take a trip to Stockholm to vote for Tonino anyway.

It's wmv format, so it's not the best quailty, but it sure is nice to see multiple seasons worth of programming a click away for the user.

Italian RAI (BBC-like) still does this. I've never tried to download anything (you need a special adapter), nor know of anyone who has tried, but it's still on air.
An index page says "part 1 of the program will be broadcasted monday, from x to x pm..." guess that is way too twisty for anyone to try.
You can try it yourself here if you want.

A curiosity: some pages (see page 781 and subsequent) are stil used today to broadcast data (mostly old MS-DOS binaries, and textfiles from the italian branch of project Gutemberg) to PC equipped with a special decoding card.

BBC is not the only state owned, fee financed media company

Italian RAI is in the same situation and has an impressive archive as well

looking forward to re-installing my video editing software :)

In Italy a DVB-T service (link in Italian) has already been launched by the national TV service: it should remain experimental till the end of 2005.

I think you forgot one corollary to your statement.
'There aren't just rules, there are laws and morals and values...' : which are only effective when society as a whole upholds them. And even then it's not a given that 'in the long run' evil gets what's coming to it.

We all may hate SCO and Microsoft around here, and hope that they both get royally bumblasted by the courts, but there is no certainty that this will be the case. Moreover, the expectation that SCO will be flattened can only exist in a society that actively promotes those values as important. If your society doesn't value those ideals...
(For instance, where I am now, we have basically a crook in power and thinks there is nothing wrong with controlling both the public and most of the private media in the country...)