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Exactly. The effects of 'piracy' in the US are miniscule. Sure some people download crappy copies of movies off of PirateBay. Big deal. Most people pay to buy a movie they liked in the theater, or at least rent it from Blockbuster if their friend recommends it.

In China pirate dvd shops that operate on a massive scale and are operated by and taxed by the government sell pirate dvds for $2. That's the market that hollywood and others are concerned about. Overseas markets often produce three times what domestic markets do for movies. Right now you often can't even buy legit dvds in china, and many of the pirate ones are 'real' dvds, the same chinese factories that crank out legit dvds during the day to send to the us crank out pirate dvds at night to sell locally.

Of course none of this is hurting Hollywood's profits; this year's slight 'slump' only exists because there isn't an unexpected Passion of the Christ this year like last. They just want to be free to make huger profits in the future. Check this out: http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID= 11281&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html/
This was passed by Unesco basically to affirm the countries have the right to encourage their own film-making industries and not just consume all the Hollywood we want them to. The vote was 148-2. I don't know which other country voted against it with the US.

Artificial Intelligence - nothing is naturall that stupid.

Artificial Intelligence is a by product illusion of simply automating enough to cause a human to think they are interacting with another human,

Things like "shock Level 4" are easily defeated by the human characteristic of "denial" or what good is a knowledge or technology if nobody uses it?

An example of this is the fact that we today have the knowledge, natural resources, man power and eben the financial resources to make major improvement in the human living condition in the whole world.... but we are not using it for that.

http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_a/mod02 /www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml

Maybe what needs to be realized is that google is not just google..... they do get alot of the resources they then make available to us all, from others....

So where is AI when I do a google search for something and get everything but???

There are many many ways to think, computers will never be anything more than an extension of human, as that is calling them what they really are, an extension of those who created and use them.

At best, all of this computer advancement will apex such that we humans become better and have a more complete understanding of reality, both physical and abstract.

What is google? the process of information collection and sorting for presentation to the human searcher.

Control it by simply not producing it. the after effect of 9/11 showed the world that teh US military is guilty of having and selling anthrax while having stores of it outside of the country.

And it also showed how the US military can be abused by as little as one person with enough military athority to not have to deal with security protocals but to use it to help the Bush administration to terroriseand threaten the American media which inturn then helpped the bush administration to terrorise teh American public to support an erronious war on iraq. Which had nothing to do with 9/11.

It gets worse too. If you know the real reason for 9/11, then you will also know the US wrongful world stock market manipulation was in fact the motivation and excuse of fanitics born out of the oil industry to be able to convince enough to follow.

simply start with a google search on "trillion dollar bet" and then realize who teh big losers were (enron, worldcom, etc.) and who benefitted from investment firms needing to put the enormus gains somewhere and found the dot coms...)

Anthrax? Who really needs it, but to play unneeded war games by the idiots who simply don't know better how to spend tax payer money. Of the 6 billion plus people on this planet, what fractional percentage are responsible for the hardships of the rest of us?

http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_a/mod02 /www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml

Anthrax? To control it, get rid of the all the war mongers and power mongers responsible for creating it and worse..... we do know who they are! Just like indonesia knew it was the Americans who were draining their economy, but they just didn't know how (CNN did a story... so did ABC, but ABC removed their news link around teh time war on iraq started)

1.) Rather than hydrates being chemically altered by CO2, the implication
is that the process of trying to bury this CO2 could potentially disrupt
any already loose hydrates in that first 300 metres you mention. As you're
aware, the hydrates can then dissolve further in the water, the methane
turning to gas and rising as bubbles.

2.) Even the website for Mallik mentions that gas hydrates are also known
to cause seafloor instabilities. That fact alone should provoke a lot
of research in the feasibility of CO2 storage under the ocean floor.

3.) I don't dispute that hydrates are a possible alternative energy source. And
I certainly agree that the rate of consumption of fossil fuels is absurd. But Mallik
seems at a cursory glance a research project to determine production methods and
feasibility by drilling some permafrost cores. My primary concern would be how
invasive production techniques would be in order to mine the susbstance from
permafrost regions. As it is, the rate of loss of permafrost across the world.
Mt. Kilimanjaro seems to have "already lost some 82% of its permafrost
since 1912 - and 33% of this in the past two decades." Alaska could
potentially lose "as much as the top 30 to 35 feet (10 meters) of discontinuous
permafrost thawing by 2100." Granted, it's hard to play fortune teller, but the
rate of loss of permafrost globally has increased quite a bit over the last two
decades. Depending on the depth of the hydrates in the permafrost regions,
it would seem logical that these hydrates could thaw and further escape into the
atmosphere. If this is true, above-ground hydrate mining doesn't seem so feasible.

You may know much more about this than I do so your thoughts are appreciated.

-Shawn

life itself... or is that fear itself?

Actually it has been proven that many things can assist terrorist.

From a car which anyone can use to kill another person or persons, etc..
To political propoganda used to gain public support for terrorism and its promotion. US government generated more terrorism in response to 9/11 than what 9/11 did.

And then there is the stock market to manipulate and drain whole regions (like the trillion dollar beat did to south east asia in the mid to late 1990's)....and how that motivated and created support for "terriorism" leading up to 9/11...

So if most anything can be used to generate terriorism, directly or indirectly... whats the exceptions?

How about http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_a/mod02 /www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml

Lets genuinely start fixing things and putting under the microscope that which opposes such a direction.

Google maps can help that direction too.

Choice...which is it?

An over-educated American Grammar Nazi.

Is that American English or English English?

Patterns of participation in upper secondary education.

Hmmm, just as I had expected. Australia, Canada, the UK, other parts of Europe and Japan, above the USA.

I don't even have to read the article to see the summary stating its for vaccines. However, there is your response, though unlike the many here jumping to conclusions in ignorance of the goal of vaccines, you response also contains error, perhaps more serious.

First off, if your first sentence was true, then why the hell did the US have and probably still does (regardless of the claims of having distroyed them) stock piles of anthrax not only in the US but abroad, if it wasn't intended for use in the field? Not to mention who manufactured it...

The reason we know Iraq once had Anthrax, was because we sold it to them, or was that just the now forgotten Afganistan (for use against the russian invasion attempts).

Now since the US News Media was threatened with Anthrax by the US governmnt, to get them to report in support of Bushs war drumming on Iraq (which not only had no connection to 9/11 but didn't have any weapons of mass destruction - only a jackass leader regrime and lots of oil and sanctions placed against).... Perhaps the US News Media should have their own Supply of the Vaccine..

The Truth of 9/11 even Ted Turner saw, and when he spoke out he was then threated with Anthrax, upon which he publicly appologized... so to remove that threat by the US governemnt. What he had said was that 9/11 was an act of desparation, and being the new media person he is, the question coms up... what was he refering to?

Searching produced "The Trillion dollar bet" ...Go ahead, enter it in google and read the trancript. 9/11 wasn't the first time the WTC was attacked, but by reading the transcript you will also know what fueled the dot com boom (easy come, easy go) and bust (What exactly was being sold in the dot come boom? nothing, so of course it wouldn't last). The transcript will also tell you who the losers of the bet were/are.... WorldCOM, Enron, etc...

That much money simple doesn't appear from nowhere or vanish into nowhere!!!!

Although I do not agree with the extreamist group(s) that preformed the 9/11 attack, I can understand how absolutely easy it was to take up the facts and use it to promote and grow their group(s), even to motivate suicidal acts.

Don't recall if its mentioned in the transcript, but online available CIA files indicate that Indonesia is 88% muslin... and I'm sure that help the extreamist group(s) grow, as that religion can fairly easy be distorted to support suicidal acts in battle.

It should also be understood that all three of the main religions speak against "usary - loans and interest rate" and when the world bank stepped in and offered to help, they also wanted to charge interest. Interest on what? Recovering from a major huge theift? Like a screw job on top of a screw job... absolutely NOT acceptable!

The moral of reality here is really very very simple:

You fuck others over, the amount of what you fuck'ed them over is in direct proportion of the level of retaliation you then, unavoidably, become concerned about.... even paranoid about. For even if those you screwed don't retaliate, the likelyhood someone else will take it up as an excuse for them to do wrong...increases.

Wrongful world economic manipulation (China didn't play stock markets then and as such was the only relative country not effected by this gamble/ignorance). WTC was certainly relative to the source of damage being done in the "bet" but why was the Pentagon hit and White Horse... uh House, a target? Politically controlled military defending the wrong and US Intelligence Hiding the truth from the Public, or at least not telling the public... as teh information is all available (minus at least one ABC news story on the financial damage the US was doing in indonesia - removed from internet access)...

So do we really need anthrax vacines?

Or do we really just need to stop fucking others over?!!!

BTW What the World Wa

....from the public is the real reason why 9/11 happened.

What is amazing is that there is plenty enough information publicly available that anyone with half a brain that comes across this information and most important, the ability to think for themselves.... Well it'll be obvious and undeniable.

And yes, the government has spent more to cover it up than what it'd cost to simply present the already public information in relative context via the major media.

For example, how much did it cost the Government to create the anthrax letter threat against the News Media while probably paying someone a good deal to do it in such a manner to assure disconnection from the government.... and of course it was determined to have come from a US based US military base....as there had to be just the right amount of connection to properly threaten the media..

So in regard to a trillion dollars... that's clearly enough money for anyone to notice that money like that doesn't just appear from nowhere and then vanish back into nowhere...

The players... Minimum investment... 1 billion... enron, worldcome, etc... were the obvious losers. The winners... easy come easy go.... the dot com boom and bust was on the winners side.... needing a place to invest the winfall....

World Trade Center (not the first attempt to bring it down!!!) ... the Pentagon and .... The white Horse... uh house...

Politically controlled military to back a wrongful world stock market manipulation.

Don't believe me?

Do a google Search on "Trillion dollar bet" and read the transcript.

Screw others and you will fear and suffer revenge...and in the process perhaps get overly aggressive in your paranoia ....just where are the WMD iraq was supposed to have? What about the weapons of mass destruction of wrongful world economic manipulation?

China wasn't effected because they don't play the stock market....

There is more!!!

What the World Wants is not obscene war spendings...but real solutions to real world problems And we do have the knowledge, manpower and natural resources to do it.

So why is it not happening?

Ben Franklin "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

And FDR used it in his "four freedoms" speech..

Of course it cost more to keep up with your lies, because telling the truth is just plain without the need for spending extra energy in keeping the lies in order..

lies and deception contribute to shorter life spans.
those contributing to such are of course war mongers, as the machinery of war is itself anti-life in its inherent nature. Of course we have other anti-life machinery as well, such as many religions which promote disconnection with this world, and other excuses to say lies, deception and such are ok so long as you ask for forgiveness.

The human mind is a rather powerful device, as what you think and believe has alot to do with how you interact with hard reality. And it is hard reality of which the body lives.

The general lifespan of the population, the better it is intouch with reality, the greater its ability to work in accord with it.

So many deceptions upon deceptions, is it really any wonder how something simple like the statement "time is at hand" can be so distorted away from what was ment? Where what was ment was simply "time is in our hands". The beings we are, we have the capability of extending our lives and a great deal more.

How real is the damage you cannot see, because you don't have better to compair it to? By keeping others blind to what could be, you can always say "how do you know it could be better? there is no proof"

Try this:
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_a/mod02 /www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml

To truely understand the impact of the dated information (our capabilities of making this happen have only improved) is to understand "terrorism" is a phanton, a fabrication made real by war mongers and many other deceivers.

This is only an example of what we are capable of.

Life extension? Geee, if we weren't spending so fucking much on anti-life machinery.....

My doctor told me that by the time the colesterol meds he has me on become not good for me anymore, they will have come up with something else...

Working in accord with reality might just be in part, stepping stones from one thing to another.

Some of The big softdrink companies have willinginly chosen to remove all high frutose corn suryp softdrink from schools and replace them with real fruit juice drinks.... in effort to reduce child obesity (high frutose corn suryp hase been found to increase triglicerides by 1/3...)

Something simple like this helps to extend life...

Don't drink the sugarwater... cause its not really a drink that works in accord with the human body/

This anti-life sweetner A much smaller example....

Life extension is not going to be found in some majic manipulation of a gene, of fountain of youth ... but instead found in doing the things that make your body say "hey, life is good" as it naturally turns the right genes on and off to support longer life.

I recall some article of research that stated that ther more you genuinely enjoy sex with your partner, the more your body tries to keep you young. Pro life acts contributing to longer life?

Who'd thunk dat?

Not war mongers and other deceivers.... who spend fucking obscene amounts of money being anti-life.

Whats the percentage of these people, in comparison to the 6+ billion people on this planet?

Who "really" wants to live in a world of war?

As in "starship troopers" do you really want to live forever?

... but only maybe how to market things...

Given the US came about software patents thru small squablings in court rooms and not public awareness and feedback and is now considering changing patent law to allow first to file to get patents on the works of slower to apply or those not wanting to patent their work...

From a British point of view, maybe this is a good thing, just make Science and Technology rewards attractive in the EU to get the talent to move there.

Isn't that similiar to Einstiens move away from his homeland, the motherland? And what was then accomplished to end a war amd establishing the winners...

Bush in many ways is a little hitler...
He doesn't seem to understand the words of Benjamin Franklin or FDR, which was to the effect - a country willing to sacrifice freedom in exchange for security neither deserves either nor will it have either...

Science understands the concept of not being able to prove a negitive..... So Bush wanted Iraq to prove it had no weapons of mass destruction....

Science and Bush just don't mix.

Technology??? Bill Gates and anti-trust.... A first and formost marketing company named Microsoft, second focus being law and something like playing chess in business, willing to sacrifice its own, take a smaller hit if it brings a bigger return. Not even is innovation a third priority of Microsoft, but rather buying it from others and calling it their genius..

What did the US government get in exchange for letting MS off the anti-trust hook, with only a public slapping of the wrist?

It should be obvious. The knowledge of how to well mislead the public at large, for what ever purpose it might... Anthrax used to get the Media VOICE inline???? Probably! Though Richard Jewell was blamed for the Olympic Park Bombing in Atlanta, they did eventually find the real guilt party..... But the Real party guilty of the Anthrax letters to the press..... Seems to have dropped out of public sight...

The most terrorism I have seen has come from the Bush Administration. How terrorising is it to see such power out of control, abusive?

The only science Bush seems to know is the science of marketing his will..

Do a google search on "Trillion dollar bet" to see the probably excuse for the WTC...

When is it not about money?

Do another party wrong, expect revenge?

The real solution to world problems is found @
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_a/mod02 /www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml
Remove the excuses....

Which only leaves one question:

Why are genuine solutions NOT happening?

Science knows how to do it. Politicians Don't!

Ben Franklin and another former president (in a war time), FDR or Esinhower, both said in there own words something to the effect of "A country willing to sacrifice freedom in exchnge for security, will neither have either nor diserve either."

Do we really need to learn that lesson again?

Or is it that the Bush adminastration has something to hide from the public?

When you do others wrong, wouldn't you become fearful of their possible revenge?

9/11 happened because of the apparent politically controlled military force defending the trillion dollar bet

Even if those you do wrong don't take revenge, it doesn't mean another won't use it as an excuse to do so.

By removing such wrongs against others and working the genuine goal or honestly solving real world problems, it'll be damn hard for any real effort to build a terrorist following, group or army. Simply because they won't have any verifiable excuse to promote themselves. and though religion typically isn't verifiable, common principles found expressed in religion are. Thou shall not kill (Do you hear that Mr. Bush? or are you just another psuedo christian?)

Such a real world problem solving direction has already been researched, explored, put into education.... and the cost of implimenting such solutions is a fraction of current military spending.

So why is this NOT happening?

There are those who have things to hide from the public and the way they assure themselves is to compromise your freedoms so they can spy on you and try and plug any leaks of their dishoneties to the public.

Either that of Ben Franlin of a former war time president didn't know what the fuck they were talking about.

No matter, sees technology and corrupt government are going to run the test that will prove Ben and that former president are correct.

But what good is history, if you are a government and people with alzhimers excuses?

haha, anon poster word to prove I'm not a script "dopers"

Ok, so its not forgetfullness, but some sort of power trippin drugs.... wrongful world stock manipulation, oil and increased prices for gas...?? Or somethng simpler "power over others for which you can only verify by doing something against them".....

But are we paying the war on iraq via increases in gas prices???

Shouldn't freeing a country rich in oil increase availability of oil and a better market competition?

Somebodies is lying, that's pervasively obvious!!!

Who is this group of people that seem to think they can just change things that affect our freedom and security from within that freedom?

Who gave them such power?

Did you miss the part where I said "including being colonized"?

I don't doubt the Sami are people, but are they a distinct nation?

The Sami, in some places spelled "sammi" though with other variations of spelling, I wouldn't say are so much a distict nation as much as they are part of a group of interrelated peoples. They are related to the Lapps which is a derogitory term, Lapps call themselves Samek or Sambe, and range from northwestern Russia to Norway and Sweden. Also related are the Inuit of Iceland and northern Canada and Alaska. Because these people are spread over a broad area they have formed their own dialects and customs. Here's a link to a pdf on Artic languages from UNESCO, Artic Languages: An Awakening. It's quite large at 446 pages and more than 2MB. Here are more links:

• An introduction to the Sami people
• The Sami in Finland
• The Sami and Lapland
• The Kola Sami in Russia
• INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR CONFERENCE
• Eskimo (Yupik/Inupiat/Inuit)

On topic, I agree with the point you made. Each & every religion & civilisations had their own theories about the universe's existence and more or less, some of them may be premonitory and some exaggerated, so its quite stupid to claim the Bible/Quran/Rig Veda/etc is the sole truth.

Font licensing is a very complex issue.

These recent research reports on Writing Systems Implementation provide very good information and links on the subject

Font Licensing and Protection Details and Intellectual Property Concerns in the Development of Complex Script and Language Resources

This is part of UNESCO's Initiative Babel

In 200 years, no one will be able to make since of a jpg or png, and these are well known and well understood formats.

You won't be able to read ANY cd that is 20 years old

Maybe there are better ways to measure things than a direct competition.... http://www.unesco.org/courier/1999_05/uk/dossier/t xt21.htm

Well said!

Add to the list WHO, UNICEF, UNESCO.

As a matter of learning tolerance we all should realize that not only does knowledge beget knowledge, but specific knowledge begets its own kind. If you focus on warfare and waring tactics (even under the illusion that its for peace) you will beget better waring tactics, not peace. Likewise, if you focus on the tasks certainly and consistantly contributing towards actual peace then you are going to improve upon it.

Its the way the human mind works to find solutions, be they solutions to better warfare or better peace.

However, there is also the matter of needing to see things for what they really are. This is where statistics comes into the picture. For example: research done in the US regarding crime rates and its relationsip to race shows that the black community has a much higher rate of crime. And then there is South Africa, where you find the highest rate of AIDS infecion in the world.

I used to think I was the most prejudice person in the world, prejudice against those who are prejudice, then I move to Atlanta and begain to understand, not so much prejudism, but statistics, FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE over a period of time.

I now guestion the prejudism arguement, seeing how its been distored and used as an excuse to do other unfairly.

Maybe the hate mongers need to also get in touch with reality and deal with things on a matter of statistics.... addressing the real issues in a non prejudice manner. For certainly it is in recognizing the real issues where solutions will actually be found, rather than snow balling hateful illusions.

I do not think Buddhism is a religion so much as a philosiphy on the path to enlightenment or nirvana. Hinduism does contain creationism. I know of no gods in buddhism (the buddha was a man, not a god).

About 1000 different ones according to this http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_05/uk/doss24.ht m Oh, and please note that there is a huge difference between the two and that they should not be linked together.

Can't say much on the protestants.

Let me post this and see what people say. Lets say Creationism is the idea that a supreme being created the universe, the earth and everything here. Now lets assume that it either has a plan and starting things a long and just keeps adjusting minor things as we go (inteligent design). Or just watches us as a "lab experiment" to see what happens. Does any of this mean that creationism is incompatible with either of the other two? After all, Live, the Universe and Everything had to have come from somewhere.

Well, in theory, anyone can see what a camera, private or governmental holds about them by issuing a Data Protection request. Mark Thomas, a political commedian did a 1 hour show on this, dancing in front of various cameras, making the requests and stringing them together. He had pretty good results.

perhaps we need an X prise for it to bring the price down and get it done now???

I'm a tax payer..... I don't approve of such a spending of money, expeciall considering such money and effort could be better spent on What the World Really Wants and as such reduce the need for anti-terrorism terrorism.....

People do things for reasons, even if they have to borrow or take the reason from others like this one for 9/11"... so lets instead simply remove the reasons and excuses that only support such terrorism groups to grow...

So yeah, 20 years and hundreds of billions of taxpayers dollars can most certainly be better spent...than building a government owned and controlled private internet payed for by those not allowed to use it...

You'd think you could google.

NATO document affect on local climate human impact reference ref ref ref ref ref ref ref

However,

You can't imagine the UN would take such a controversial stance would you?

Furthermore, they (I think it was the UNESCO, couldn't find the link), issued a very critical report on DRM, exposing it for the pending cultural disaster it is.

Unfortunately, this understanding doesn't penetrate throughout the UN. On the other extreme, you have WIPO, which is completely dominated by a *cough*superpower*cough*, takes their orders from entities like USPTO, is not open to debate and works tirelessly to strip away the rights you thought you had to participate in the cultural and scientific advancements of society.

Yes, it probably is... UNESCO

Let's take another case. Jeffrey Dahmer (sp?) stated in an interview on TV, that his problems started with an obsession with pornography.

Following a well-publicized trial, in 1979 he was sentenced to death for the murder of two college students; the following year he was sentenced to death, for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl. Ted Bundy gave his only death row interview to founder of Focus on the Family, a California-based ministry that later moved to Colorado Springs. He was put to death in Florida's electric chair on Jan. 24, 1989, for the sex slaying of Kimberly Leach, 12, hours after he told Dr. James Dobson, that unless society deals with pornography that depicts violence "lots of kids . . . are going to be dead tomorrow." --excerpt from http://www.karisable.com/skazbund.htm

Its domestic law that counts as it sets the obligations of the people in that country. As far as I can see (IANAL) they have fairly standard copyright laws except that the time period is shorter than e.g. US or EU copyright law.

Unesco copyright summary for Iran

Obviously certain corporates would have an issue with the lack of extended copyright as the US has but the intent of copyright was always to help the authors in their own lifetime not maintaining the monopoly of corporate copyright holders. I'll probably be modded down as flamebait by some paid-for corporate astroturfer now !

It's working on its own problems right now.

What do you know?!

Those dictators put only 2% of the GNP in education, (you can compare the number with Canada or even India), and hundreds of millions people are starved there, and they can not even commit suicide, because that is illegal!

Let me tell you something: China's own problem is the Evil CCP. The whole moon thing is, like Slave Society's Great Pyramid: build on others' death -- those you don't fscking know, and you don't fscking care.

It's working on its own problems right now.

What do you know?!

Those dictators put only 2% of the GNP in education, (you can compare the number with Canada or even India), and hundreds of millions people are starved there, and they can not even commit suicide, because that is illegal!

Let me tell you something: China's own problem is the Evil CCP. The whole moon thing is, like Slave Society's Great Pyramid: build on others' death -- those you don't fscking know, and you don't fscking care.

It's working on its own problems right now.

What do you know?!

Those dictators put only 2% of the GNP in education, (you can compare the number with Canada or even India), and hundreds of millions people are starved there, and they can not even commit suicide, because that is illegal!

Let me tell you something: China's own problem is the Evil CCP. The whole moon thing is, like Slave Society's Great Pyramid: build on others' death -- those you don't fscking know, and you don't fscking care.

Having never read the GPL license stuff

Well, why remain ignorant? Read it, dammit.

but if I have a closed source software, and use some open source "bits" that have been distributed under GPL, can't I just encapsulated the GPL stuff in a library and give the source to the library, and not the complete source to the software.

The legal question is, is your program a derived work? This is a tricky question in any copyright consideration.

The FSF's opinion is that "because the program as it is actually run includes the library", linking with a GPLed library makes your work a derivative, and requires that your program be GPLed.

(Note however that the GPL does not affect your "fair use" rights.)

I find it difficult to understand how a person can earn money by releasing the source to the software.

There are companies that are doing it...your difficulty doesn't seem to affect them. There are other ways to get paid besides a "pay-per-copy" scheme - like custom development and support contracts. Indeed, given the ease of making unauthorized copies of proprietary software, most people who actually purchase it do so in order to get support. (If you think they do so to comply with the law, you obviously haven't checked out the popularity of file sharing. (Although many if not most of the RIAA's copyright claims are constitutionally bogus, since copyright can only be legitimately held by creators...but that's a digression so far off course it's nested in two levels of parenthesis.))

(Now if it is ok by the GPL to pay for the exe and the code, then that would a different story)

It is quite legitimate to sell binaries under the GPL, and only make source available to those who bought binaries. However, you have to give those purchasers the same right - they can modify and redistribute the software, but have to provide source to anyone to whom them give binaries.

In fact, I've made my living writing software for over a decade, and most of it could have been GPLed without much affect on my employer's bottom line.

The UNESCO World Heritage site doesn't mention your grove, only the Australian one.

For more info on the Wollemi pine, visit here.

It's time that the rest of the world took control of the DNS away from the corrupt outfit that has highjacked it and the Government which allowed that to happen.

Perhaps UNESCO should run the DNS?
That's the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation.

The UN is supporting Free/Open Source Software (not just Linux) through a variety of ways. Someone has already posted Netaid's site as a reply. Two others off the top of my head:

1) UNESCO's support of the Free Software portal. You can find it at:
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/

2) The UNDP's International Open Source Network found at:
http://www.iosn.net. This portal focuses on promoting Free/Open Source software to policy makers, government officials, etc. I believe there are other regional centers coming up as well.

There's a surprising amount of focus on Free/Open Source software in the UN, though most of it is only in the early stages.

copyright in cuba
copyright protection = state protection of burgeois interest = capitalism.
protecting the right of people against capitalist interest = no copyright protection = communism.

Here's a very interesting paper on multiculturalism with an excellent bibliography should you want to look into it further.

You want stats about ethnic diversity? Compare China (.118), Japan(.01), and Korea (.004) to Canada (.75) and the USA (.50) (a higher number indicates greater diversity: it's the chance of two random people being of different ethnicity).

The point is that Canada and the US are very diverse because they're centres of ongoing immigration, even though they deal with it differently (mosaic VS melting pot: see the previous link on multiculturalism).

The Summer Institute in Linguistics has a much more comprehensive list of languages in their compendium entitled the Ethnologue (Available for perusing online.

UNESCO, an agency of the United Nations has compiled The Redbook of Endangered Languages listing many endangered languages around the world.

Another source for those interested in endangered languages is The Foundation For Endangered Languages.

For those more interested in creating languages of their own, or "conlangs" like Tolkien created, might I suggest Langmaker, Mark Rosenfelder's excellent Virtual Verduria (including his Language Construction Kit), and for those interested in Tolkiens' tongues (such as Quenya, almost unanimously considered the most beautiful conlang created) there is the very informational Ardalambion.

Hope those links will help people interested in the topics of endangered and model languages.

In some segments of the socio- and anthropological fields this is accepted. Note that some segments of the socio- and anthropological fields are also noted for "not being real science."

To take literacy rates as an example, third-world countries are characterized by literacy rates in the neighborhood of 50-70%, with rates for women being significantly lower than those for men. The average literacy rate for Africa is around 50%, with that for Arab and Asian countries being around 45% (source: UNESCO). Even "advanced" and "educated" third-world countries tend to have literacy rates around 70-85% (Libya, China, Kenya, etc.). The United States, by countrast, has a literacy rate of 97% (source for the past two sentences is the CIA World Factbook, and corroborated by a random perusal of some Google search results). This is firmly within the "first-world" range, which ranges from Greece and Israel at 95% to Luxembourg, Denmark, and Norway at 100%.

You lost to the friggen Haitians! Were saved twice from Germany by in no small part the US (btw the second time we saved France we were also fighting a war against Japan). Yes we lost Vietnam (formerly know as French indo-china (with Kampuchea and Laos) who also booted out the French. You lost Quebec to the English, you won the 100 years war but burned alive the woman who led you to victory. Hmm Napoleon won a few but he was Corsican.

The US defeated England in our revolution (I will grant the French were there but we did most of the fighting) and the war of 1812, we defeated Mexico (another nation that kicked the crap out of France), Beat Spain in the late 1800's, helped save you in WW1, then again in WW2 (while fighting at the same time two very powerful nations), we fought to a stalemate soviet plans and Chinese troops in Korea, lost Vietnam because we did not play to win, then won a few minor wars with Panama, and Iraq (again France cant beat Haiti so it relevant), and most recently helped the NA removed the Taliban from Afghanistan (umm Karzai is still president of that nation and the taliban is shrinking more and more every day).

Now on to what you are not trying to hide from is France Socially superior to the US??

Literacy: both France and the US have over 90% literacy
Here . The french are a whopping 2% higher than the us here . When you take into account that nearly 4% of the US population are illegal immigrants (people who want to come to this land of misery as you call it)
here and documented imigrants are around 10% of our population
here we have a much harder task in front of us than the French. There are schools in our cities with kids who speak more than 30 languages doubt France has to deal with that.

Now onto "misery, insecurity and unhappiness are more present in the USA than in France." I would like to see how you quantified that? As it's not something you can measure but Ill give it a try.

Lets start with lenght of life
People in France live one year longer than Americansas a % that is 1.3% longer (that can probably be written off to a large immigrant population who may come from a nation with a poor health care system, but even if not that's statistically insignificant as the US and Germany are tied so they must be miserable too.

Now lets look at standard of living the US GDP per capita is nearly 30% higher in the US, same source as above and also here

The US has a higher quality of life according to UN data here .

We are also a Cleaner Nation here

Now while none of this prooves the US is a more happy, and secure place than the zoo between Germany and Spain it goes allot further than your post. If you care to get into a war of wits (again be careful about being French and in a war) at least come armed next time.

Finally about most of our genius coming from abroad if you speaking to our roots as a nation (being we are 70% of European decent) than I would put it to you that you have no point as they are educated and nurtured in America. If you are referring to the # of foreign students in our universities I would ask you why are they coming here rather than going to France? I would also put it to you that your culture was started when you lost a War to the Romans and had their culture put on you, Western Culture owes more to the Italians and Greeks than the French, English, and Americans put together. There is nothing to argue we are not perfect but we are better in most ways than the French.

Note: I consider an Immigrant who comes to this nation and becomes a citizen to be the most loyal and important kind of American one who made the choice

One of the best reasources if you're just looking to go somewhere that will impress you in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. I've been ot a fair number of the places on the list (one of my goals in life is to see them all), an not one has failed to impress me. The awe-inspiring beauty of many of the natural ones, and the engineering feats of many of the historic civilizations.

Another thing always woth checking out is practically anyting by everyone's favourite engineer-who-wants-to-be-an-architect Santiago Calatrava. Personally, I love his bridges, but pretty much everything that he builds is beautiful in appeareance, design, and functionality.

Or just go to Japan, get a JR-Rail Pass, and try to go on every type of Shinkansen in the system. And then spend you last day at an indoor ski hill.

Unfortunately, these aren't highly technical places, but they are unique and fascinating.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) has a list of 730 sites around the world that they qualify as "World Heritage Sites" - sites that are one of a kind culturally significant locations. Things ranging from The Statue of Liberty to Ancient Thebes, and lots of others. I'm sure many of the items listed in this slashdot discussion will also show up on the list. (The Great Wall of China is there too)

I try to visit at least one UNESCO World Heritage site on every trip I take. Many of the sites are fascinating for their architecture as well as their cultural significance.

Unfortunately, these aren't highly technical places, but they are unique and fascinating.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) has a list of 730 sites around the world that they qualify as "World Heritage Sites" - sites that are one of a kind culturally significant locations. Things ranging from The Statue of Liberty to Ancient Thebes, and lots of others. I'm sure many of the items listed in this slashdot discussion will also show up on the list. (The Great Wall of China is there too)

I try to visit at least one UNESCO World Heritage site on every trip I take. Many of the sites are fascinating for their architecture as well as their cultural significance.

Unfortunately, these aren't highly technical places, but they are unique and fascinating.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) has a list of 730 sites around the world that they qualify as "World Heritage Sites" - sites that are one of a kind culturally significant locations. Things ranging from The Statue of Liberty to Ancient Thebes, and lots of others. I'm sure many of the items listed in this slashdot discussion will also show up on the list. (The Great Wall of China is there too)

I try to visit at least one UNESCO World Heritage site on every trip I take. Many of the sites are fascinating for their architecture as well as their cultural significance.

Unfortunately, these aren't highly technical places, but they are unique and fascinating.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) has a list of 730 sites around the world that they qualify as "World Heritage Sites" - sites that are one of a kind culturally significant locations. Things ranging from The Statue of Liberty to Ancient Thebes, and lots of others. I'm sure many of the items listed in this slashdot discussion will also show up on the list. (The Great Wall of China is there too)

I try to visit at least one UNESCO World Heritage site on every trip I take. Many of the sites are fascinating for their architecture as well as their cultural significance.

Unfortunately, these aren't highly technical places, but they are unique and fascinating.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) has a list of 730 sites around the world that they qualify as "World Heritage Sites" - sites that are one of a kind culturally significant locations. Things ranging from The Statue of Liberty to Ancient Thebes, and lots of others. I'm sure many of the items listed in this slashdot discussion will also show up on the list. (The Great Wall of China is there too)

I try to visit at least one UNESCO World Heritage site on every trip I take. Many of the sites are fascinating for their architecture as well as their cultural significance.

The only way to protect information for the long haul is some form of printed format for the REALLY important stuff. Beyond that, the best you can do is faithfully keep copying data/information from a dying "standard" to the latest, greatest new "standard" which will be OK for a decade or so, then transfer again ad infinitum.

Tell that to all the books lost in library fires. The advantages of digital are that it's cheap and easy to replicate, and hence to protect through redundancy.

In war, it is said, the first casualty is truth. The article linked to above by Caleb Carr draws a comparison between the War of 1812 and the terrorist attack on American symbols:

In short, the British gratuitously destroyed important structures in Washington (and killed many innocent people) because those buildings were obnoxious symbols of American values whose spread and propagation the London government feared would spell the disempowerment of their own.

I hesitate to disagree with so imminent an historian, but he cites none of the usual evidence for this assertion, like orders, documents, speeches. In their absence, one does not need to know much history of the period to doubt his thesis.

England was itself a democracy and the model for America's institutions. England's parliament was at the time as potent a symbol as any they might destroy 3,000 miles across the ocean.

The causes of the war had nothing to with such concerns. They involved England's control of the seas during its war with France and impressment of sailors on American ships.

America invaded Canada during the war with some of the same ravages as Carr describes in the British counterattack. In that context, the British actions can be seen more as conventional reprisals.

After the war, American relations with England were fairly cozy, including England's failure to support the South in the Civil War despite some strong economic reasons to do so.

One would hate to think that Carr was deliberately distorting history to bolster America's policies today, but if he did, he wouldn't be the first.

Starting with UNESCO, which for many years has distributed a free library package called CDS/ISIS, the United Nations is actively promoting the use of free software, especially its free software portal.

Starting with UNESCO, which for many years has distributed a free library package called CDS/ISIS, the United Nations is actively promoting the use of free software, especially its free software portal.

If it weren't for the regulation of society through the mechanism of slavery, and hence the suppression of the free market, we could have had the industrial revolution 2000 years ago.

200 BC: Alexandria, Egypt: A cultured city with a population of 500,000, the world's first lighthouse, university, library with 500,000 manuscripts/books, multi-decked shipping, theatres, temples with automatic sliding doors, and engineers working with a simple steam engine. From: Peter James and Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions.

In which case we would be about where we are now in high-tech back in AD 200. By AD

230 Billus Gaticus and Laurence of Ellisonius would be multi-trillionaires, clone many offspring, build a sanctuary in space, and then des troy the planet, so they can make version 3.1 the way it was supposed to be, and then encode their plan in DNA, enslave their new creations, and create a secret society so the information isn't lost.

Who needs money when you can have a planet of slaves?