None of these is designed for long term tug at full speed though. Still, this stands a better chance than fitting 2proper" sails. Many sail designs were considered during the previous petrol crisis and none of them got anywhere because fitting a useable sail on a modern ship requires effectively redesigning it. Still, for new ships some of the 1970-es designs like the rotor sail (cannot find the actual English name, that is a bad translation) are likely to be considerably more cost effective.
This is normal for a post-industrialised service economy. You import more than you export and your primary growth is in the services industry.
The important words here are "post-industrialiased". US was an agricultural economy all the way up to WW2. It became an industrial power as a result of WW2 and it is now moving towards a services driven economy. Most of Europe is quite similar.
India is trying to become post-industrialiased society before going through the industrialisation stage. That does not work. Every single attempt to jump-start a civilisation across an "age" in human history has finished with a failure. Either a social revolt or a regression back into the old state once the "jump the age" financial drip feed is withdrawn.
This is one thing Chinese got right. They are going for an industrialiased society first. Many other reasons aside, industrialiased society is also much better at equalising the overall living standard across a country. Service oriented society is going in the absolutely opposite direction by creating new living standards drifts and divides. Just compare the living standard differences across England at the height of industrialiasation and now. Now they are actually much higher.
And I agree with many posters. India is heading for social trouble full steam ahead. There will be no USSR to supply "assistance" this time, but things like this happen sooner or later without external assistance. And a social revolt in a nuclear power is not a scenario I would like to think of. Plenty of other depressive things around.
That is a thought which is common not just to your Indian co-workers. I have seen that one in many other forms of co-worker especially the middle-management government sector PHB variety and American Company catbert variety. In a few other places as well.
If you look at the people who actually commanded the 1917 October Revolt in Russia all of them are upper middle class or higher (even the Lenin muppet who is erroneously attributed credit for this is still middle class). The people who led the rural 1848-1850 revolts in Western Europe were all not from poor rural background themselves.
So on so fourth going as far back as ancient Rome.
Alternatively you can "script" a sufficient number of those little slave hands instead of using them top make "Action Man" figures for Tesco.
In either case, there are not that many frames in a movie. Even if you use "slaves" it will take less than 500£ to recover all frames in Lord of the Rings this way somewhere in the middle of nowhere in China.
I host my website and mailservers at Memset which was one of the first to offer large scale UML hosting. They have now switched almost completely to Xen. I have seen the same happening elsewhere as well. UML is being forgotten despite being a better overall idea which is quite sad.
Dunno about the monopolistic laws, but their tiered seller scheme should be illegal under most of EU consumer legislation. So far they have been getting away with it and operating in countries where pyramidal marketing is banned like Austria or Belgium.
As far as their culture - they bought N. Zenstrom. If that is not a classic case of "similar dissolves in similar" dunno what is.
That is one manifestation. People with that syndrome also think different and quite often have creativity levels above the ordinary. Mozart is one example. There are a few others.
The scientific papers on the matter are not conclusive and the opinion is divided.
They have all undergone a reform around the turn of the last century which simplified spelling and grammar. As a result Russian grammar can be expressed in under 8 pages and the language has in total around 40 exemptions to these rules. Everything else is built out through some fairly simple grammar rules. Bulgarian and Serbian are quite similar to Russian to this extent, though their language reform did not go that far.
The results are quite interesting though most people prefer to "oversee" them, because expressing them is considered to be very politically incorrect.
First of all as a result of the reform, most English speaking humanity students find Russian staggeringly hard. Engineering students (the few that are interested in languages) cruise through it with ease. I am speaking from the experience of trying to teach students at an American University Russian and it was not fun. The humanity majors could not gear their brain into "rule operating mode" and that was it. Some of them knew 3-4 languages by that time, but Russian was beyond them.
Second, Russians and attention to detail do not mix. I am half Russian and I have lived there for 10+ years so I am speaking this out of experience. Their brain functions from the perspective that things are built according to rules and most of them are not good at memorising exemptions and minute details. At the same time they will swipe the ground with you on math, ability to draw general conclusions and cold cynical logic. Sometimes you think that their entire bloody nation got a Turette syndrome.
Third, they even learn to read in a completely different manner. They learn to assemble things in blocks to get a meaning. That is simply impossible with English. An average toddler will outright get lost trying to get through all the intricacies of bought vs buy and caught vs catch and so on, so they learn to recognise words a whole, not to try to assemble them. This once again changes the way people think.
So on so forth. And by the way we can continue along these lines looking at Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and especially Chinese. Each of these shapes the brain in a specific pattern and some thoughts which are OK for them will be immensely foreign to an English speaker. And vice versa of course.
Overall, "the language shapes the thought". There are some very good observations by David Brin in the Uplift series to that regard that a language by design may prohibit certain type of thinking. So someone with a different language may come to a thought which will never otherwise occur.
A language reform will change the way English think. It is not just a problem of word meaning and context. It will fundamentally change education, culture, way of thinking, etc.
No. We do not all get it. And the article title is complete bullshit. It is simply untrue.
The distribution of SPAM content is different across SPAMming methods.
Porn and viagra are transmitted are transmitted in 99.999% of the cases by zombie networks. Once you have rolled out greylisting and XBL they drop to nearly 0%.
Compared to that, Nigerian and Lottery fraud are transmitted via clients sitting behind legitimate relays or using "live" zombies which sit and type into webmail. You still get these even if you have rolled out a good blacklist and a greylist. The only way of dealing with these is content filtering.
Share scams are in the middle. Some of them transmit via zombies, some via relays which have been broken into or via clients which use their ISP relays.
So as far as PORN is concerned it has completely lost the SPAM battle. Anyone whose mail server admin has an a clue should not be getting it nowdays.
If the telcos are not regulated they either coalesce into a Ma Bell or cartel the market. The bigger they are, the higher the barrier to entry for any newcomer to the point where there are no newcomers. The US internet is already 90% of the way in this direction through the Tier 1 ISP peering arrangements which are very effective cartel (as anyone working in an ISP can testify).
This has not happen to such an extent Europe due to the prevalence of public peering which provides a very effective countermeasure to such tendencies.
If Google has any objections to the way the US Internet is going, it should go after the peering. He who controls the peering controls the Internet.
Google has the economical resources to perform an intervention and it should stop moaning and put its money where its mouth is. It should either initiate "Google Peering" or provide financial seeding for a foundation that will run a distributed equivalent of the Linx (or Amsix) across multiple locations in the US.
Once a large enough proportion of the traffic is off the Tier 1 private peering links and transit connections to them they no longer have a weapon to hold the rest of the Internet hostage.
The fact that nobody knows that it has happened. This is the reality of using third party lists for redirect and trusting them.
As a comparison doing a similar internal change in a correctly designed ISP network should raise at least several alarm traps. From there on it depends on how the network, monitoring, change control systems and change control processes operate. In a well designed system an unauthorised change like that should be picked up right away (been there, written that in the past). Granted, it may be slipped all the way through normal change control and hidden from configuration auditing software, but it will be considerably harder compared to subverting a centralised list which all equipment takes as an authoritative source and which has no mechanisms for independent third party verification.
In addition to that, subverting a centralised list gives much bigger penetration for a strike like this.
The govt record aside, what exactly prevents two enforcers from the Russian mafia walking into the house of the technical staff responsible for Clean Feed in the middle of the night with a gun?
Currently nothing.
Phishing is netting them less and less people and most of the ones they catch nowdays in English speaking countries are sore losers with nearly empty bank accounts in "fringe" banks and building societies. Compare that to the number of account details they will catch just in one evening by redirecting all traffic to Barclays via a man-in-the middle. All they need is to simulate some "service problems" and repeat the login page 2-3 times to capture all numbers in the pin. After that...
Once you have deliberately built a provision to redirect all traffic in your network this can be used for all kinds of interesting purposes. It is only a matter of time until it is used for a heist of the scale seen in armed bank robberies.
After 7/7/2005 el presidente Antonio's Bliar government's cronies have visited nearly all ISPs and most of them now implement it.
If we do not do it for the children we always do it for the other "obvious" reason.
By the way, I do not have an objection to its existence. I have an objection to the fact that:
The list declared function already differs from the actual.
The list is not under the control of an independent authority, has no judicial oversight and can be manipulated.
There has been no audit of the list effectiveness and no audit of the entries in it. Every time BT is asked for a detailed statistics break down they wiggle out and keep showing bulk aggregated ones.
The propagation of the list to other ISPs outside BT have been done in an silent and outright clandestine manner. If the list is right its enforcement does not need visits from El partida Bliarista enforces to senior management.
So on, so fourth. It is the Great Firewall of Britain and its functionality is not entirely dissimilar. If it was not it would have been put under the control of an independent agency long ago.
The primary problem is that the list is not under direct public control of an independent and accountable body.
From there on it can be used for blocking any content El Presidente Antonio Bliar can deem undesirable. Further to that, one of the functions of Clean Feed is a transparent redirect which will redirect your traffic to a site different from the one you are requesting.
Considering the record of this government on telling the truth that is a very dangerous weapon to give to them. WMD, accidentally suicided government experts (what a violent suicide), you name them.
This will make the Chinese government mandates antispoofing by all ISPs. Which actually will be quite a good thing. As a result at least one country in the world will mostly drop off the D.O.S. map. Good thing all around actually.
Now an interesting Cambridge related question is how it relates to the Great Firewall of Britain, aka Clean Feed (TM) which the dictatorship of el presidente de partida Laborista Antonio Bliar has forced most ISPs to implement (in the name of the children and terrorism of course). Cambridge did some very good research in the failings of that system as well. It will be interesting to see if the same D.O.S. can be applied there. If that is the case there will be loads of fun all around in the days to come and some very Chinese measures being implemented by the Wall Street mandarins.
Amway, Herbalife, Rainbow Vacuum cleaners, the list is endless.
What is interesting is that some of these "bronse/silver/gold recruit a marketeer" schemes are banned in large parts of the world. While I am not familiar with the actual variety used by eBay it will be interesting if it will stand to the scrutiny of European consumer law. It is quite vicious on the subject in some of the member states.
The Russians did this to the German destroyer fleet on 10/11th of Novermber 1916. The Germans were given a fake map with the corridors through the minefield defending the Finnish bay. They sent in a single destroyer to investigate which safely came back. After that they sent in a whole detachment which went in and the russians mined the exit behind them. By that time the end of the channel was also mined.
As a result the Germans lost 7 capital ships and had twice more heavily damaged which is one of their 3 biggest naval losses comparable only to Jutland and Falklands. An impressive testament to what "moving" mine field can do.
Russians have a similar system which attaches to most of their tanks and BMPs.
The problem with these is that they are slow and hideously expensive to run (fuel, maintenance, etc) and works reasonably well only against antipersonnel mines. Even in that case it requires repairs and overhaul after it has detonated a few tens of that. If the mines are of the antitank variety it lasts even less before overhauls. In addition to that some of the antitank mines are now equipped with delayed fuses which detonate later or detonate after n senses (same as the German antiship mines of WW2). It is enough to sprinkle 1 or 2 of these per every few 1000 antipersonnel ones and you can no longer use equipment like this.
If al Qaeda did not exits he would have invented it.
Any similarities to NKVD recruiting blanket all operators in some telephone exchanges in the 30-es and having a call record copy of all calls are mere coincidence, nothing to see, move along.
Any similarities to another character that used to say "Who is not with us is against us" with a thick southern accent are mere coincidence, nothing to see, move along (before modding that as a flamebait, ask any Russian speaker for an English translation of Koba perls of wisdom. And fear the result).
Any similarities between the Guantanamo military tribunal formula and the military tribunals under chapter 58 of the USSR criminal codex are mere coincidence, nothing to see, move along (before modding that as a flamebait, read the relevant article and compare the required standards of evidence, right of attorney and defence and number of criteria for magistrate selection in both)
Any similarities between al Qaeda and the fictional enemy of the state all encompassing organisation The Trust are mere coincidence, nothing to see, move along.
Any similarities between the names of Gulag, Gulagantanamo and Guantanamo are mere coincidence, nothing to see, move along.
Any similarities...
As one great American thinker of the beginning of this century used to say:Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.b>
You are mistaken with regard to broadband economics in the EU.
The base package will still sell with all P2P 100% prohibited on it as it is the cheapest way to access web, email and have general connectivity nowdays.
It is no longer the enthusiast teenager ground and it is becoming a must-to-have utility in the house. Mums doing shopping, grannies sending mails to other grannies and screaming at the city council and the like.
There may be a junior running eDonkey from his own room, but it is not him who is footing the bill and his parents will not give a flying f*** about his eDonkey getting turned off. In fact his dad may end up being happier about this as his porn download speeds improve.
It is the add-ons and the high bandwidth packages that are bought by people who are into file sharing, not the base. DSL2, 8meg packages where applicable, etc.
So once again, if all P2P is turned off Telefonica's profit margin will improve and it will not lose a single customer in the process as long as all ISPs are forced to enforce it to the same extent.
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Latitude, longitude, altitude.
None of these is designed for long term tug at full speed though. Still, this stands a better chance than fitting 2proper" sails. Many sail designs were considered during the previous petrol crisis and none of them got anywhere because fitting a useable sail on a modern ship requires effectively redesigning it. Still, for new ships some of the 1970-es designs like the rotor sail (cannot find the actual English name, that is a bad translation) are likely to be considerably more cost effective.
Correct.
This is normal for a post-industrialised service economy. You import more than you export and your primary growth is in the services industry.
The important words here are "post-industrialiased". US was an agricultural economy all the way up to WW2. It became an industrial power as a result of WW2 and it is now moving towards a services driven economy. Most of Europe is quite similar.
India is trying to become post-industrialiased society before going through the industrialisation stage. That does not work. Every single attempt to jump-start a civilisation across an "age" in human history has finished with a failure. Either a social revolt or a regression back into the old state once the "jump the age" financial drip feed is withdrawn.
This is one thing Chinese got right. They are going for an industrialiased society first. Many other reasons aside, industrialiased society is also much better at equalising the overall living standard across a country. Service oriented society is going in the absolutely opposite direction by creating new living standards drifts and divides. Just compare the living standard differences across England at the height of industrialiasation and now. Now they are actually much higher.
And I agree with many posters. India is heading for social trouble full steam ahead. There will be no USSR to supply "assistance" this time, but things like this happen sooner or later without external assistance. And a social revolt in a nuclear power is not a scenario I would like to think of. Plenty of other depressive things around.
That is a thought which is common not just to your Indian co-workers. I have seen that one in many other forms of co-worker especially the middle-management government sector PHB variety and American Company catbert variety. In a few other places as well.
Ahem.
If you look at the people who actually commanded the 1917 October Revolt in Russia all of them are upper middle class or higher (even the Lenin muppet who is erroneously attributed credit for this is still middle class). The people who led the rural 1848-1850 revolts in Western Europe were all not from poor rural background themselves.
So on so fourth going as far back as ancient Rome.
Not if you script it.
Alternatively you can "script" a sufficient number of those little slave hands instead of using them top make "Action Man" figures for Tesco.
In either case, there are not that many frames in a movie. Even if you use "slaves" it will take less than 500£ to recover all frames in Lord of the Rings this way somewhere in the middle of nowhere in China.
I host my website and mailservers at Memset which was one of the first to offer large scale UML hosting. They have now switched almost completely to Xen. I have seen the same happening elsewhere as well. UML is being forgotten despite being a better overall idea which is quite sad.
Dunno about the monopolistic laws, but their tiered seller scheme should be illegal under most of EU consumer legislation. So far they have been getting away with it and operating in countries where pyramidal marketing is banned like Austria or Belgium.
As far as their culture - they bought N. Zenstrom. If that is not a classic case of "similar dissolves in similar" dunno what is.
That is one manifestation. People with that syndrome also think different and quite often have creativity levels above the ordinary. Mozart is one example. There are a few others.
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The scientific papers on the matter are not conclusive and the opinion is divided.
As far as the not-so-scientific opinion I suggest you look at Slant by Greg Bear http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1857236114/202
Oh, and you have obviously not heard Russians swear. Mat' tvoyu... and so on...
Well... There are examples to that.
Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, a few others.
They have all undergone a reform around the turn of the last century which simplified spelling and grammar. As a result Russian grammar can be expressed in under 8 pages and the language has in total around 40 exemptions to these rules. Everything else is built out through some fairly simple grammar rules. Bulgarian and Serbian are quite similar to Russian to this extent, though their language reform did not go that far.
The results are quite interesting though most people prefer to "oversee" them, because expressing them is considered to be very politically incorrect.
First of all as a result of the reform, most English speaking humanity students find Russian staggeringly hard. Engineering students (the few that are interested in languages) cruise through it with ease. I am speaking from the experience of trying to teach students at an American University Russian and it was not fun. The humanity majors could not gear their brain into "rule operating mode" and that was it. Some of them knew 3-4 languages by that time, but Russian was beyond them.
Second, Russians and attention to detail do not mix. I am half Russian and I have lived there for 10+ years so I am speaking this out of experience. Their brain functions from the perspective that things are built according to rules and most of them are not good at memorising exemptions and minute details. At the same time they will swipe the ground with you on math, ability to draw general conclusions and cold cynical logic. Sometimes you think that their entire bloody nation got a Turette syndrome.
Third, they even learn to read in a completely different manner. They learn to assemble things in blocks to get a meaning. That is simply impossible with English. An average toddler will outright get lost trying to get through all the intricacies of bought vs buy and caught vs catch and so on, so they learn to recognise words a whole, not to try to assemble them. This once again changes the way people think.
So on so forth. And by the way we can continue along these lines looking at Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and especially Chinese. Each of these shapes the brain in a specific pattern and some thoughts which are OK for them will be immensely foreign to an English speaker. And vice versa of course.
Overall, "the language shapes the thought". There are some very good observations by David Brin in the Uplift series to that regard that a language by design may prohibit certain type of thinking. So someone with a different language may come to a thought which will never otherwise occur.
A language reform will change the way English think. It is not just a problem of word meaning and context. It will fundamentally change education, culture, way of thinking, etc.
You are right, I do not believe it will happen.
No. We do not all get it. And the article title is complete bullshit. It is simply untrue.
The distribution of SPAM content is different across SPAMming methods.
Porn and viagra are transmitted are transmitted in 99.999% of the cases by zombie networks. Once you have rolled out greylisting and XBL they drop to nearly 0%.
Compared to that, Nigerian and Lottery fraud are transmitted via clients sitting behind legitimate relays or using "live" zombies which sit and type into webmail. You still get these even if you have rolled out a good blacklist and a greylist. The only way of dealing with these is content filtering.
Share scams are in the middle. Some of them transmit via zombies, some via relays which have been broken into or via clients which use their ISP relays.
So as far as PORN is concerned it has completely lost the SPAM battle. Anyone whose mail server admin has an a clue should not be getting it nowdays.
Err...
Do you mean the entire show? We are speaking about "Big Cretin" here after all.
No normal person in his sane mind will watch that tripe.
If the telcos are not regulated they either coalesce into a Ma Bell or cartel the market. The bigger they are, the higher the barrier to entry for any newcomer to the point where there are no newcomers. The US internet is already 90% of the way in this direction through the Tier 1 ISP peering arrangements which are very effective cartel (as anyone working in an ISP can testify).
This has not happen to such an extent Europe due to the prevalence of public peering which provides a very effective countermeasure to such tendencies.
If Google has any objections to the way the US Internet is going, it should go after the peering. He who controls the peering controls the Internet.
Google has the economical resources to perform an intervention and it should stop moaning and put its money where its mouth is. It should either initiate "Google Peering" or provide financial seeding for a foundation that will run a distributed equivalent of the Linx (or Amsix) across multiple locations in the US.
Once a large enough proportion of the traffic is off the Tier 1 private peering links and transit connections to them they no longer have a weapon to hold the rest of the Internet hostage.
That is not a joke unfortunately.
That is exemplary telco thinking
The fact that nobody knows that it has happened. This is the reality of using third party lists for redirect and trusting them.
As a comparison doing a similar internal change in a correctly designed ISP network should raise at least several alarm traps. From there on it depends on how the network, monitoring, change control systems and change control processes operate. In a well designed system an unauthorised change like that should be picked up right away (been there, written that in the past). Granted, it may be slipped all the way through normal change control and hidden from configuration auditing software, but it will be considerably harder compared to subverting a centralised list which all equipment takes as an authoritative source and which has no mechanisms for independent third party verification.
In addition to that, subverting a centralised list gives much bigger penetration for a strike like this.
Another thought.
The govt record aside, what exactly prevents two enforcers from the Russian mafia walking into the house of the technical staff responsible for Clean Feed in the middle of the night with a gun?
Currently nothing.
Phishing is netting them less and less people and most of the ones they catch nowdays in English speaking countries are sore losers with nearly empty bank accounts in "fringe" banks and building societies. Compare that to the number of account details they will catch just in one evening by redirecting all traffic to Barclays via a man-in-the middle. All they need is to simulate some "service problems" and repeat the login page 2-3 times to capture all numbers in the pin. After that...
Once you have deliberately built a provision to redirect all traffic in your network this can be used for all kinds of interesting purposes. It is only a matter of time until it is used for a heist of the scale seen in armed bank robberies.
Here you are deeply mistaken.
After 7/7/2005 el presidente Antonio's Bliar government's cronies have visited nearly all ISPs and most of them now implement it.
If we do not do it for the children we always do it for the other "obvious" reason.
By the way, I do not have an objection to its existence. I have an objection to the fact that:
- The list declared function already differs from the actual.
- The list is not under the control of an independent authority, has no judicial oversight and can be manipulated.
- There has been no audit of the list effectiveness and no audit of the entries in it. Every time BT is asked for a detailed statistics break down they wiggle out and keep showing bulk aggregated ones.
- The propagation of the list to other ISPs outside BT have been done in an silent and outright clandestine manner. If the list is right its enforcement does not need visits from El partida Bliarista enforces to senior management.
So on, so fourth. It is the Great Firewall of Britain and its functionality is not entirely dissimilar. If it was not it would have been put under the control of an independent agency long ago.Several problems with it:
The primary problem is that the list is not under direct public control of an independent and accountable body.
From there on it can be used for blocking any content El Presidente Antonio Bliar can deem undesirable. Further to that, one of the functions of Clean Feed is a transparent redirect which will redirect your traffic to a site different from the one you are requesting.
Considering the record of this government on telling the truth that is a very dangerous weapon to give to them. WMD, accidentally suicided government experts (what a violent suicide), you name them.
This will make the Chinese government mandates antispoofing by all ISPs. Which actually will be quite a good thing. As a result at least one country in the world will mostly drop off the D.O.S. map. Good thing all around actually.
Now an interesting Cambridge related question is how it relates to the Great Firewall of Britain, aka Clean Feed (TM) which the dictatorship of el presidente de partida Laborista Antonio Bliar has forced most ISPs to implement (in the name of the children and terrorism of course). Cambridge did some very good research in the failings of that system as well. It will be interesting to see if the same D.O.S. can be applied there. If that is the case there will be loads of fun all around in the days to come and some very Chinese measures being implemented by the Wall Street mandarins.
Amway, Herbalife, Rainbow Vacuum cleaners, the list is endless. What is interesting is that some of these "bronse/silver/gold recruit a marketeer" schemes are banned in large parts of the world. While I am not familiar with the actual variety used by eBay it will be interesting if it will stand to the scrutiny of European consumer law. It is quite vicious on the subject in some of the member states.
True.
In fact historically true.
The Russians did this to the German destroyer fleet on 10/11th of Novermber 1916. The Germans were given a fake map with the corridors through the minefield defending the Finnish bay. They sent in a single destroyer to investigate which safely came back. After that they sent in a whole detachment which went in and the russians mined the exit behind them. By that time the end of the channel was also mined.
As a result the Germans lost 7 capital ships and had twice more heavily damaged which is one of their 3 biggest naval losses comparable only to Jutland and Falklands. An impressive testament to what "moving" mine field can do.
Russians have a similar system which attaches to most of their tanks and BMPs.
The problem with these is that they are slow and hideously expensive to run (fuel, maintenance, etc) and works reasonably well only against antipersonnel mines. Even in that case it requires repairs and overhaul after it has detonated a few tens of that. If the mines are of the antitank variety it lasts even less before overhauls. In addition to that some of the antitank mines are now equipped with delayed fuses which detonate later or detonate after n senses (same as the German antiship mines of WW2). It is enough to sprinkle 1 or 2 of these per every few 1000 antipersonnel ones and you can no longer use equipment like this.
- Any similarities to NKVD recruiting blanket all operators in some telephone exchanges in the 30-es and having a call record copy of all calls are mere coincidence, nothing to see, move along.
- Any similarities to another character that used to say "Who is not with us is against us" with a thick southern accent are mere coincidence, nothing to see, move along (before modding that as a flamebait, ask any Russian speaker for an English translation of Koba perls of wisdom. And fear the result).
- Any similarities between the Guantanamo military tribunal formula and the military tribunals under chapter 58 of the USSR criminal codex are mere coincidence, nothing to see, move along (before modding that as a flamebait, read the relevant article and compare the required standards of evidence, right of attorney and defence and number of criteria for magistrate selection in both)
- Any similarities between al Qaeda and the fictional enemy of the state all encompassing organisation The Trust are mere coincidence, nothing to see, move along.
- Any similarities between the names of Gulag, Gulagantanamo and Guantanamo are mere coincidence, nothing to see, move along.
- Any similarities...
As one great American thinker of the beginning of this century used to say: Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.b>The universal standard as far as politicians are concerned seems to be: All animals are equal. Some are more equal than the others.
You are mistaken with regard to broadband economics in the EU.
The base package will still sell with all P2P 100% prohibited on it as it is the cheapest way to access web, email and have general connectivity nowdays.
It is no longer the enthusiast teenager ground and it is becoming a must-to-have utility in the house. Mums doing shopping, grannies sending mails to other grannies and screaming at the city council and the like.
There may be a junior running eDonkey from his own room, but it is not him who is footing the bill and his parents will not give a flying f*** about his eDonkey getting turned off. In fact his dad may end up being happier about this as his porn download speeds improve.
It is the add-ons and the high bandwidth packages that are bought by people who are into file sharing, not the base. DSL2, 8meg packages where applicable, etc.
So once again, if all P2P is turned off Telefonica's profit margin will improve and it will not lose a single customer in the process as long as all ISPs are forced to enforce it to the same extent.