This reminds me of the "freedom rights of the air," an the agreement made in 1919 about sovereignty rights in the air space above each nation.
1. The right to overfly one country en-route to another.
2. The right to land in an other country for a technical stop.
3. The right to carry traffic to a foreign state.
4. The right to carry traffic from a foreign state to the home state.
5. The right to carry traffic to/from third countries en route.
6. The right to carry traffic between two foreign states via the state in which the airline is registered.
7. The right to carry traffic between two foreign states entirely outside the territory of its home state.
8. The right to carry traffic between two points within the territory of a foreign state on a route with origin/destination in its home country.
9. The right to carry traffic within a country by an airline of another country.
It's good that the US is thinking about this issue. I only hope that the regulations will go far enough. A beautiful "ad lit sky" just doesn't sound right and somehow removes the appeal of an evening walk. Not only astronomers will be bothered by ads in space. Talk about light pollution!
Relatedly, at the recent GP convention in Milwaukee, we used free software to record and display the delegates votes. We used Debian, with Apache and MySQL and the scripts were written in Perl and GPL'd, not so much that they were very interesting, but on the principle that voting systems should be open. We used Debian as it reflects our values, and we wanted something stable.
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This reminds me of the "freedom rights of the air," an the agreement made in 1919 about sovereignty rights in the air space above each nation.
1. The right to overfly one country en-route to another.
2. The right to land in an other country for a technical stop.
3. The right to carry traffic to a foreign state.
4. The right to carry traffic from a foreign state to the home state.
5. The right to carry traffic to/from third countries en route.
6. The right to carry traffic between two foreign states via the state in which the airline is registered.
7. The right to carry traffic between two foreign states entirely outside the territory of its home state.
8. The right to carry traffic between two points within the territory of a foreign state on a route with origin/destination in its home country.
9. The right to carry traffic within a country by an airline of another country.
It's good that the US is thinking about this issue. I only hope that the regulations will go far enough. A beautiful "ad lit sky" just doesn't sound right and somehow removes the appeal of an evening walk. Not only astronomers will be bothered by ads in space. Talk about light pollution!
Relatedly, at the recent GP convention in Milwaukee, we used free software to record and display the delegates votes. We used Debian, with Apache and MySQL and the scripts were written in Perl and GPL'd, not so much that they were very interesting, but on the principle that voting systems should be open. We used Debian as it reflects our values, and we wanted something stable.
-Susan
http://greens.org/~sdridi