Wikimedia Foundation projects are broken out by languages, not countries. French wikipedia http://fr.wikipedia.org/ is edited from every continent, because the language is spoken in so many different places. Norwegian is less-widely spoken, and has two different wikipedias due to two different spelling systems (Nynorsk http://nn.wikipedia.org/ and Bokmål http://no.wikipedia.org/).
So Wikipedia is available in more than 220 languages already (complete list of current languages/projects http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix. More than two dozen of those languages are spoken in Africa, and more languages are actively under development. It's not that Africa is treated as a monolithic whole; it's that some languages have more people online and interested in developing a 'pedia for themsleves than others.
Andrew Jackson is reported to have said this after the Supreme Court declared the illegality of forcibly removing native americans from lands they legally owned. He then set in motion the Trail of Tears, directly contravening the Supreme Court's decision.
President Bush knowingly shattered the US Constitution when he chose to invade Iraq after failing to gain a Security Council approval. That decision was illegal by international law, as we all knew at the time. But not many people chose to remember our Constitution states explicitly that ratified treaties such as the UN Charter are "the Law of the Land." In fact they rate higher than laws passed by Congress, second only to the Constitution itself.
When President Jackson said what he said, nobody challenged him. Our nation's honour was sullied, our democracy weakened.
What will we do if President Bush is ever called to heel by the Supreme Court, and refuses?
Crow pie. US officials tried to extradite him, and initially the Norwegian gov't was okay with this, but he fought it and won. (bad memory, and jumping to assumptions... made an ass of me.)
Amgine.
May I mention 2000 selection of GWBush, Iraq war w/o UN Security Council approval?
For that matter, Beta.
On the third hand, it is equally unlikely that security hacks will not become widely available and implemented, ala DVD encryption. Remember, there are two Norwegian citizens in US federal prison for initially hacking that, but DVD copying/burning software came with my current OS.
All the discussion so far leaves out the real reason for the colonies: financial/industrial pressures. The very few colonies in the new world which survived were almost all financial successes from the first. French colonies, for example, expanded from French fish processing encampments of nearly a century's use - they didn't just land in an unexplored/undeveloped location, but at a well-established industrial location and with financial backing.
Similarly, we have nearly a half-century of corporate investment in satelites and space-based telecommunications. An industry which is expected to mushroom in the coming century, and one which is very interested in infrastructure investments which don't periodically incandesce in the atmosphere. Piggy-backing on the industrial interests could achieve space colonization, at least in near-space.
Justifications for moon base:
technology/skill development for working with gravity wells.
Potential resources.
Justification for orbital base instead:
Cheaper, short and long-term.
Existing industrial support/interests.
What I need is something bigger than a pda, smaller than the tablets I've looked at, purpose is to be carried around by non-techies to fill out forms with vital statistics and brief jargon-laden notes which are then dumped to a processing script on a server.
The optimal solution must be light and physically robust, be very very easy to use. The users are absolutely uninterested in the technology/gee whiz factor; they're busy doing something else and charting/notes are the biggest time cost in their lives.
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Wikimedia Foundation projects are broken out by languages, not countries. French wikipedia http://fr.wikipedia.org/ is edited from every continent, because the language is spoken in so many different places. Norwegian is less-widely spoken, and has two different wikipedias due to two different spelling systems (Nynorsk http://nn.wikipedia.org/ and Bokmål http://no.wikipedia.org/).
So Wikipedia is available in more than 220 languages already (complete list of current languages/projects http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix. More than two dozen of those languages are spoken in Africa, and more languages are actively under development. It's not that Africa is treated as a monolithic whole; it's that some languages have more people online and interested in developing a 'pedia for themsleves than others.
Might be nice to link to http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/IBM_releases_freeware_ for_visualizing_document_histories the wikinews article from the 26th...
Wikinews has already created ,url:http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Unrest_in_Belize> original content which scooped all the major news wires by 12 hours.
Currently the Wikinews favorite quote/anthem is "The näiveté is stunning!" Works.
Andrew Jackson is reported to have said this after the Supreme Court declared the illegality of forcibly removing native americans from lands they legally owned. He then set in motion the Trail of Tears, directly contravening the Supreme Court's decision. President Bush knowingly shattered the US Constitution when he chose to invade Iraq after failing to gain a Security Council approval. That decision was illegal by international law, as we all knew at the time. But not many people chose to remember our Constitution states explicitly that ratified treaties such as the UN Charter are "the Law of the Land." In fact they rate higher than laws passed by Congress, second only to the Constitution itself. When President Jackson said what he said, nobody challenged him. Our nation's honour was sullied, our democracy weakened. What will we do if President Bush is ever called to heel by the Supreme Court, and refuses?
Crow pie. US officials tried to extradite him, and initially the Norwegian gov't was okay with this, but he fought it and won. (bad memory, and jumping to assumptions... made an ass of me.) Amgine.
May I mention 2000 selection of GWBush, Iraq war w/o UN Security Council approval? For that matter, Beta. On the third hand, it is equally unlikely that security hacks will not become widely available and implemented, ala DVD encryption. Remember, there are two Norwegian citizens in US federal prison for initially hacking that, but DVD copying/burning software came with my current OS.
where you're betting you're going to get hurt, and the insurance company is betting you won't.
Amgine
All the discussion so far leaves out the real reason for the colonies: financial/industrial pressures. The very few colonies in the new world which survived were almost all financial successes from the first. French colonies, for example, expanded from French fish processing encampments of nearly a century's use - they didn't just land in an unexplored/undeveloped location, but at a well-established industrial location and with financial backing. Similarly, we have nearly a half-century of corporate investment in satelites and space-based telecommunications. An industry which is expected to mushroom in the coming century, and one which is very interested in infrastructure investments which don't periodically incandesce in the atmosphere. Piggy-backing on the industrial interests could achieve space colonization, at least in near-space. Justifications for moon base: technology/skill development for working with gravity wells. Potential resources. Justification for orbital base instead: Cheaper, short and long-term. Existing industrial support/interests.
What I need is something bigger than a pda, smaller than the tablets I've looked at, purpose is to be carried around by non-techies to fill out forms with vital statistics and brief jargon-laden notes which are then dumped to a processing script on a server.
The optimal solution must be light and physically robust, be very very easy to use. The users are absolutely uninterested in the technology/gee whiz factor; they're busy doing something else and charting/notes are the biggest time cost in their lives.
Any suggestions?