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Yes, the Zoological Society of London and the World Wildlife Fund are a bunch of hardcore animal-loving animal enablers giving aid and comfort to our animal enemies. It's like, whose side are they on anyway?

There are no WWF wrestlers anymore, unless they're wrestling pandas or something. The organization you're thinking of changed its name to World Wrestling Entertainment.

But yeah, those stupid goddamn kids. Watching that video made me nauseated, and I don't know if it's from sympathetic pain or because I feel sick in the presence of all that stupid.

I would wager though, that the attraction of his new job must not necessarily be in financial benefits. Of course this is a pure out of my ass speculation and I'm sure he's sallaried hansomly.

Case in point: One of the top managers of SwissRe left her certainly extremely comfortable position to become chairwoman of the Swiss WWF office. I'm pretty sure that she didn't even make 25% of her old benefits there.

Motivation is not always measured in money.

"I know the first thought in *MY* mind is "Why don't you find a REAL cause instead of pretending you have a valid crusade with this free software business"?"

Let me ask you. To save the Pandas from extintion qualifies as a real cause ? Should I support WWF ideals?

However, Why should I worry about Pandas? They live in a remote and small region of the world and their extintion will not affect me nor most people. If they can not addapt to the changing environment they deserve to die. That's nature's rule after all.

But I can see there are lots of economic benefits for humanity from Free Software.

• Companys use software because it generates an economic benefit. With Free Software more people will be able to use software, hence more wealth for society (we all know that software is not a phisical object and can be duplicated costless, so any comparison with "free machines" or "free food" makes no sense)
• Free Software programmers can use or extend parts of other Free Software programs. If more programmers can use others people code, there will be more programs written with less effort. And as we said, more software means more wealth to society

So, when you are asked "How do you write Non-Free Software and sleep at night?" you say that you do it for the money and because you don't think Free-Software principles are important? This sounds to me the same answer a Panda hunter will give (not mention a slave trader).

Yes and no. In the US and Canada they're known as World Wildlife Fund, but in the rest of the world they've used the name "World Wide Fund for Nature" since 1986. The abbreviation and short name is WWF everywhere anyway and it's a registered trademark. It's still makes (some) sense as an abbreviation for "World Wide Fund for nature".

Look here for source. www.wwf.org is also in use, but is a fairly empty portal.

The WWF* is very much real. What do you have against them??


World Wildlife Fund for those who don't know.

Hey I happen to like the World Wildlife Federation.

Thank you very much ;)

Well, I think these guys can probably help.

I recommend getting two; lemur production doesn't work so well with only one lemur machine. Make sure they are compatible; there are two types and you need one of each.

By the way, it's quite likely that local laws will prevent you from owning a lemur-producing machine. Many types of lemur-producing machines are very rare and once they break, they can't be fixed, so if they all break that's it for lemur-machines. As a result many governments are quite protective of them.

Also, operation of the lemur machines in such a manner that they will actually produce lemurs and not just consume resources may be very, very tricky; I'm not certain but I do know a lot of other, similar machines often take many skilled experts to cause to produce.

Anyhow, they're not as user-friendly as you'd like and you can't just pick them up at Best Buy, but you can probably get some lemur machines if you really put your mind to it. Best part of all is there are billions of years behind their development, so they are pretty sophisticated.

The WWF.

Take that, lunkheads!

*cough*...

WWF is not that same (or at least was but, not now) as WWE..

Are the Buddahists are worried about the "SMACKDOWN" being laid down to a Panda bear..
Nah.. /. Editors just forget little things like big corporate lawsuits...

Please spare me the Wrestling jokes... The WWF mentioned is the World Wildlife Fund, a globally recognized environmental group that has done more for the welfare of the world than most anyone.

As unfortunate a statement as it may be about today's society, I believe that one the chief hindrances in this extremely worthy cause finding adequate funding is its poor public image.

Take for example the WWF (World Wildlife Fund). With their people-friendly, Panda Logo, they manage to secure millions of dollars of funding on an annual basis. Thanks in no small part to having this cute & cuddly, little monster as their mascot, the organization has been able to save numerous lesser-known and less adorable species from total extinction.

Alternatively, the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development's Gene Bank, lists the far less lovable Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat as a "key project"...

Should the fact that the northern hairy-nosed wombat does not closely resemble the fury little teddy bears we all grew up loving make it any less worthwhile in saving - of course not. Does it make it a more difficult sell to the public and subsequently corporations when attempting to secure research funding - what do you think...

As unfortunate a statement as it may be about today's society, I believe that one the chief hindrances in this extremely worthy cause finding adequate funding is its poor public image.

Take for example the WWF (World Wildlife Fund). With their people-friendly, Panda Logo, they manage to secure millions of dollars of funding on an annual basis. Thanks in no small part to having this cute & cuddly, little monster as their mascot, the organization has been able to save numerous lesser-known and less adorable species from total extinction.

Alternatively, the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development's Gene Bank, lists the far less lovable Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat as a "key project"...

Should the fact that the northern hairy-nosed wombat does not closely resemble the fury little teddy bears we all grew up loving make it any less worthwhile in saving - of course not. Does it make it a more difficult sell to the public and subsequently corporations when attempting to secure research funding - what do you think...

As most of you know, in any dispute over domains it's the money that wins.

Er...not always:

• Sting lost his bid to take over the gamer site, sting.com (WIPO ruling)
• The World Wrestling Federation recently lost a battle with the World Wildlife Fund over wwf.org (British court ruling)