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The Sky Pilot, by Ralph Connor 3248
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Black Rock, by Ralph Connor 3245
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Glengarry Schooldays, by Ralph Connor 3243
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Corporal Cameron, by Ralph Connor 3241
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Cap'n Eri, by Joseph Crosby Lincoln 3240
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The Great Hunger, by Johan Bojer 2943
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Tales of the Argonauts, by Bret Harte 2886
[Contents]
[The Rose Of Tuolumne]
[A Passage In The Life Of Mr. John Oakhurst]
[Wan Lee, The Pagan]
[How Old Man Plunkett Went Home]
[The Fool Of Five Forks]
[Baby Sylvester]
[An Episode Of Fiddletown]
[A Jersey Centenarian]
[Updated edition of: etext01/argnt10.txt]
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A Sappho of Green Springs, by Bret Harte 2867
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[A Sappho Of Green Springs]
[The Chatelaine Of Burnt Ridge]
[Through The Santa Clara Wheat]
[A Maecenas Of The Pacific Slope]
[Updated edition of: etext01/asogs10.txt]
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A Little Dinner at Timmins's, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2859
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Cressy, by Bret Harte 2858
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The Fatal Boots, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2844
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Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2843
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The Fitz-Boodle Papers, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2823
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The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte 2798
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The Wolves and the Lamb, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2797
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Found At Blazing Star, by Bret Harte 2794
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Flip: A California Romance, by Bret Harte 2793
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Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2784
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[Colonel Starbottle's Client]
[The Postmistress Of Laurel Run]
[A Night At "Hays"]
[Johnson's "Old Woman"]
[The New Assistant At Pine Clearing School]
[In A Pioneer Restaurant]
[A Treasure Of The Galleon]
[Out Of A Pioneer's Trunk]
[The Ghosts Of Stukeley Castle]
[Updated edition of: etext01/strbt10.txt]
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[Contents:]
[Mrs. Perkins's Ball]
[Our Street]
[Dr. Birch And His Young Friends]
[The Kickleburys On The Rhine]
[The Rose And The Ring; Or,]
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A Phyllis of the Sierras, by Bret Harte 2711
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Sally Dows and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2705
[Contents:]
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[The Conspiracy Of Mrs. Bunker]
[The Transformation Of Buckeye Camp]
[Their Uncle From California]
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Jeff Briggs's Love Story, by Bret Harte 2695
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A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2692
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[A Protegee Of Jack Hamlin's]
[An Ingenue Of The Sierras]
[The Reformation Of James Reddy]
[The Heir Of The Mchulishes]
[An Episode Of West Woodlands]
[The Home-Coming Of Jim Wilkes]
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[The Sheriff Of Siskyou]
[A Rose Of Glenbogie]
[The Mystery Of The Hacienda]
[Chu Chu]
[My First Book]
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Piru, by Juho Kujala 18474
[Subtitle: Historiallinen katsaus pirun alkupern, elmn ja toimintaan]
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Prosper Merimee, by Kasimir Leino 18473
[Subtitle: Elamakerta ja teokset kirjallisuushistorialliselta kannalta]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/7/18473 ]
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The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans, by Crebillon 18472
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Ueber die schrecklichen Wirkungen des Aufsturzes... , by Gelpke 18471
[Title: Ueber die schrecklichen Wirkungen des Aufsturzes eines Kometen
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[Subtitle: und uber die vor funftausend Jahren gehabte Erscheinung
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[Author: August Heinrich Christian Gelpke]
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The Second Latchkey, by Williamson 18470
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Captain Scraggs, by Peter B. Kyne 18469
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The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, by D. D. Ogilvie 18468
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People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English, by R. V. Pearce 18467
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The Aeneid of Virgil, by Virgil 18466
[Subtitle: Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor]
[Editor: Ernest Rhys]
[Intro.: J.P. Maine]
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The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.), by Various 18465
[Editor: Marshall P. Wilder]
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The Wit and Humor of America, Vol. I (of X), ed. by Marshall P. Wilder 18464
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Romanzen vom Rosenkranz, by Clemens Brentano 18463
[Language: German]
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Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches,David Starr Jordan 18462
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Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's, by Laura Lee Hope 18461
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Flight From Tomorrow, by Henry Beam Piper 18460
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/6/18460 ]
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Hypnerotomachia, by Francesco Colonna 18459
[Subtitle: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame]
[Translator: Robert Dallington]
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Star Born, by Andre Norton 18458
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Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore, by Luigi Pirandello 18457
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Enrico IV, by Luigi Pirandello 18456
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Vie de Franklin, ecrite par lui-meme - Tome I, by Benjamin Franklin 18455
[Subtitle: Suivie de ses oeuvres morales, politiques et litteraires]
[Translator: Jean Henri Castera]
[Language: French]
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L'ile de sable, by Emile Chevalier 18454
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The Continental Monthly, Volume V. Issue I, by Various 18453
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Among the Mushrooms, by Ellen M. Dallas and Caroline A. Burgin 18452
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Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education, by Ontario Min./Ed. 18451
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Hawaiian Folk Tales, by Various 18450
[Subtitle: A Collection of Native Legends]
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The Treasure of Heaven, by Marie Corelli 18449
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Transactions of the ASCE, Paper No. 1171, by Herbert M. Wilson 18448
[Title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
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[Subtitle: Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural
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[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18448 ]
[Files: 18448-8.txt; 18448-0.txt; 18448-h.htm]
Bland odebygder och skar, by Daniel Sten 18447
[Subtitle: Berttelser frn Finland]
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18447 ]
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Scenes de la vie de boheme, by Henry Murger 18446
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18446 ]
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Bohemians of the Latin Quarter, by Henry Murger 18445
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CAMPUS LANDLINES GIVING WAY TO CELL PHONES
[All this while other colleges ban cell phones as cheating aids]
A growing number of colleges and universities are questioning their
ongoing investments in providing landline phone services to students.
Indeed, some institutions have decided to discontinue landlines
altogether. Morrisville State College, for example, no longer offers
landline service in dorms. While some universities rely on students to
provide their own cell phones, the University of Cincinnati is working
with a local phone company to provide free cell phones to all students.
Frederick Siff, vice president and CIO at the university, noted that
cell-phone technology makes them more attractive for a range of tasks
than laptops. "Students don't carry laptops around constantly," he
said, "but they always have their cell phones." Officials at other
schools expressed concerns about eliminating landline service or
limiting it to a few house phones in dorms. Although money spent on
landlines could be reinvested elsewhere, some said that safety issues
make a strong case for keeping wired phone service.
CBS News, 24 May 2006
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/24/tech/main1653702.shtml
LECTURER DROPS LECTURES FOR PODCASTS
[I wonder if anyone remembers when the same thing was tried with tape.
Both audio tapes and video tapes were tried for various lectures, but
were cancelled when it turned out that the classes sent only 1 or 2,
and those hande out their notes to rest of them. Will the same thing
happen with these podcasts?]
A lecturer in microbiology at Bradford University in the United Kingdom
has said he will eliminate traditional lectures from his biochemistry
course and replace them with podcasts. Students in Bill Ashraf's class
will review the podcasts on their own time. They will submit questions
to Ashraf through text messages, and he will respond to those inquiries
on his blog. In addition, students needing to meet with Ashraf will be
able to check his schedule online and make appointments with the
professor through the Web. "Some lecture classes have 250 students,"
said Ashraf, "so I question the effectiveness of a didactic lecture for
an hour." He said the new format will be especially beneficial for
distance and part-time students and those with less flexible schedules.
BBC, 26 May 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/5013194.stm
[and in a related story]
REPORT WARNS OF RISING PHONE, INTERNET COSTS
A group called Keep USF Fair Coalition released a report that warns of
possibly rising costs for colleges and universities to provide
telephone and Internet services on their campuses. The Universal
Service Fund (USF) is a tax on phone lines, currently based on the
number of long-distance calls made. Under a proposal by the Federal
Communications Commission, USF fees would become $1 or $1.50 for every
phone line or Internet access point. A recent study by the American
Council on Education estimated that such a change would cause most
institutions' USF fees to rise by nearly 900 percent. Wake Forest
University, for example, said its phone bill would increase from about
$400 a month to about $7,000. The coalition's report argues that if
the change is made, colleges and universities will likely either cut
back services or pass the costs along to students. Martin Ringle, chief
technology officer at Reed College, agreed, saying that in the event
that the fee is changed, Reed might consider ending phone services to
dorms, given the growing numbers of students who have cell phones.
However, "students without cell phones," he pointed out, "would quickly
become a disadvantaged class."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 May 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i38/38a03702.htm
NEW ORLEANS TO GET NEW WIRELESS NETWORK
The city of New Orleans has announced a deal under which EarthLink will
build a wireless network for the city, addressing complaints about
wireless service previously offered by the city in violation of a state
law. The law, intended to create a level playing field for commercial
vendors, forbids municipalities from offering wireless Internet service
at speeds faster than 128 Kbps. New Orleans had been offering service
at 512 Kbps. In the new deal, EarthLink will build a 15-square-mile
network that will provide free Internet access at speeds of 300 Kbps.
The free service will be supported by advertising; residents will also
have the option of paying for faster service without ads. EarthLink
will bear the cost of building and maintaining the network.
Wi-Fi Planet, 26 May 2006
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3609401
ADMISSIONS SITES GROWING IN IMPORTANCE
New data reveal that college and university Web sites are the second
most important component of recruiting efforts, behind campus visits by
prospective students. Specifically, online tools such as blogs are
attracting growing numbers of high school students to help them decide
what institution to attend. Other institutions offer different kinds of
online resources. North Dakota State University, for example, lets
students find others with similar interests and exchange e-mail.
Reflecting the inclinations of today's college-bound students,
unedited online resources have become important offerings, despite
grammatical and spelling mistakes, according to several higher
education consultants. Steve Kappler, an executive director at
consulting firm Stamats, said that the informality of such tools is
appealing to students. He encouraged colleges and universities to let
all but "egregious" content be posted in such venues. Many see the
emergence of Internet resources as a way to give prospective students
the opportunity to talk to current students, bypassing what they might
see as the sales pitch of admissions officers.
ABC News, 22 May 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1990599
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US Supreme Court Justice Alito Casts Deciding Vote
As He Joins With New Chief Justice In Major Decision
"Workers' Complaints Muffled" Cape Cod Times
"Whistleblowers Lose In Ruling" Whittier Daily News
Employees' Speech Not Protected" Fort Worth Star Telegram
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Several News Sources Report US Airline Information "Bullying"
Computerworld and the BBC both labeled the US efforts to force
passenger lists from EU airlines as "transAtlantic bullying."
If you flew one of these airlines you might have found that 35
pieces of information about you were sent to US Intelligence,
originally even including what mean you chose to eat, if any.
Your credit card information would have been just one of these.
Meal choice has since been dropped, so the total is 34. However,
the EU has decided no one had the authority to grant the requests,
throwing this intelligence gathering net into a tizzy.
*
Lance Armstrong Exonerated, Officials Now Under Investigation
Not only was Lance Armstrong just cleared of doping accusations
concerning the 1999 Tour de France, but the table are now turned
and those who were accusing him are now under investigation for
impropriety in their pursuit of Mr. Armstrong.
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Depending on which US government officials you listened to this week,
the number of US troops in Iraq is either going up or down.
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
You are "making business as usual a crime." Kenneth Lay, NBC, 5/25
US government sources finally admitted Iraq insurgency is on the rise,
exactly 1 year after Vice President Cheney's famous speech stating the
opposite was in fact the case and light at the end of the tunnnel.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
"Product Integration" versus "Product Placement"
Have you noticed that the products sponsoring the TV shows
you are watching have begun to show up in the plot line?
Are your favorite characters buyin more Oreos or Oil of Olay,
just to sample a small portion of the advertising alphabet.
Of course it won't be something such as a CSI investigator
reporting that the victim choked to death on Oreos [TM],
because that wouldn't enhance Oreos' [TM] image, but that
is the general idea being forced down the throats of the
writers who now have to work these into the plot lines.
And by their own admission, the WRITERS are choking on it,
according to representatives from Desperate Housewives and
ER on the one hand, and Law and Order and The West Wing,
on the other.
Recent episodes confirmed this trend when the family of
CBS's new show How I Met Your Mother somehow stopped a
literal family feud that was the central plot line just
because of Red Lobster, which was not only shown in the
show, but a carefully placed ad for Red Lobster was the
most cunning editorial achievement of the night. Weeks
earlier, 7th Heaven's WB family of note had discussions
cunningly worked into the show about their favorite way
to eat Oreos, a plot line that has now worked its way a
ways across the great divide to radio. Also on the WB,
Pepper Dennis's writers managed to work the promotional
box of Crest Whitening Strips that you get in the mail,
right in front of the camera, not totally unlike Jackie
Chan's thing with the Pepsi Can. Sheesh. It is not as
if the story stops here, you might be hard pressed with
effort worthy of an academic researcher to find just an
example week on an example network during "May Sweeps,"
where this kind of thing wasn't part of the fare: fair
or otherwise, that is the fare being paid by networks--
then foisted by them on to their writers--and then from
them on to the actors--and then on to the viewers.
"The Trickle Down Theory of Economics" in action, right
in front of millions and millions of viewers.
This can work in the opposite direction, apparently the
writers of Desperate Housewives were pressured from the
makers of a certain hot car NOT to have specific driver
seen in the car. . .which apparently led to one parting
of the ways. . .at least on that particular scene.
Sometimes the plot thickens over time, and a 7th Heaven
episode also feature Oreos again, with engagement ring,
yes you heard it right, an engagement ring somehow made
into an Oreo.
_I_ didn't even think they MADE enagement rings in such
tiny sizes this would require, even with Double Stuff--
talk about pushing a point!
Sources:
The Writers' Guild of America
Mediapost, May 18
New York Times, May 18
*STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
"The American Booksellers Association
has crumbled from 5,200 bookstores
in 1991 to 1,702 stores in 2005."
The Village Voice, May 22
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It has now been one year since Bush's big tax cut.
Workers earning under $15,000 got a $0 difference.
Persons earning $1-2 million got $82,000.
*
On May 12 the US Senate Approved Bush Tax Cut Extensions
Voting was 54-44, with three from each party switching sides.
The house voted 244-185 a little earlier.
"This is a defining day," according to John W. Snow, Treasury Secretary,
"The vote today will show the American people who supports lower taxes
and who doesn't," as he and Senate Repulicans lined up support for the
soon to come elections.
[Of course the future of the Treasury Department changed a lot since.]
Source: The Washington Times
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I didn't get this quote exactly, sorry, but someone on Fox News Sunday
mentioned requests made to drop charges re: warrantless wiretaps. 5/28
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400Gb drives on sale for $119
500Gb drives on sale for $190
750Gb drives are now $438
Thus you can now add a terabyte in two drives for $380,
or 1.2Tb in 3 drives for $357.
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The average American woman now has her first child at 25,
up from 21.4 in 1970 to 25.1 as of 2002. Switzerland had
the highest age, already up to 29 as of the year 2000.
In the UK the average age is 27, and single parent births
are up from 15% in 1980 to 40% today.
Source: CDC and BBC
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80% of US workers report they feel their job will last at
least one more year, and 50% expect a promotion in that year.
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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PROGRAM AIMS TO LOWER COSTS FOR PCS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
[Do you pay half the price to start, and then 50-75 cents an hour?
Are there any interest charges, etc? What operating system?]
A new program supported by Microsoft aims to provide developing
countries with low-cost access to computer technology through a
subscription service. Under the FlexGo program, consumers pay a reduced
price for a PC and then pay for usage of the computer until it is paid off.
After buying a computer for about half of its retail value,
customers would buy time on the machine for 50 to 75 cents per hour.
When the full cost of the computer is paid, the user would then own the
machine and would not incur any more charges. Microsoft, which has
criticized Nicholas Negroponte's plan to offer $100 laptops to
developing nations, said this plan will provide users with
full-featured computers. According to Mike Wickstrand, director of
product management in the market expansion group at Microsoft,
the FlexGo program lets consumers buy "a PC that they want and
not a PC that they had to settle for." Wickstrand said the FlexGo
model accommodates the irregular incomes that many people in developing
countries have, allowing them to pay for their computer when they are able.
Silicon.com, 22 May 2006
http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39159025,00.htm
FEDS NERVOUS ABOUT LENOVO DEAL
The U.S. State Department will reportedly not use any of the computers
it recently purchased from Lenovo for classified information due to
concerns over the company's connection with the Chinese government.
Last year, Chinese computer maker Lenovo bought IBM's PC business, and
in March of this year, the State Department ordered 16,000 Lenovo
computers valued at $13 million through standard purchasing rules. When
the deal was announced, Michael Wessel, a member of the congressionally
created U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, argued that
use of the computers should be monitored in case they included code
that could be activated remotely. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), chair of a
House committee with responsibility for State Department funding,
picked up those concerns, and an aide to his office confirmed that the
Lenovo machines will be restricted to non-classified uses. Officials
with Lenovo offered no immediate comment, saying they were reviewing
the decision.
CNET, 19 May 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-7350_3-6074207.html
USPTO TO REEXAMINE ONLINE TESTING PATENT
Based on concerns raised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
about "prior art," the United States Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) has announced it will conduct a reevaluation of a patent
granted in 2003 for online testing. The notion of prior art covers
whether the subject of a patent is indeed original--and patentable--or
whether another party had previously developed the item or technology
in question. The patent at issue was granted to Test.com for
technologies broadly related to offering tests online. If valid, the
patent would allow the company to claim patent authority over a wide
range of online testing tools deployed at colleges and universities,
and the company has already approached some institutions about
licensing the patent. According to the EFF, however, another company
offered such tools for sale at least one year before the Test.com
patent was issued. The review process is expected to take at least two
months. James J. Posch, chief executive of Test.com, noted that their
patent claim has passed muster once already. "I'll be surprised if it
doesn't survive a second time," he said. Jason Schultz, staff lawyer
at the EFF, had a different outlook, saying that he is confident the
patent will be invalidated unless Test.com discloses some secret evidence.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 May 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/05/2006051901t.htm
ANTISPAM OUTFIT CRUSHED BY SPAMMER RETALIATION
An antispam start-up based in Israel has shut its doors after a barrage
of retaliatory action from spammers. In July 2005, Blue Security
launched the Blue Frog service to fight spam. Users who signed up with
the service would submit spam they received, which Blue Security would
then use to flood the servers of spammers and the merchants whose
products were advertised in those spam messages. If a spammer had a Web
site that allowed users to opt out of receiving more messages, Blue
Security would swamp those sites with opt-out requests. Officials from
Blue Security said their tactic decreased the amount of spam many of
its customers received, but it also prompted spammers to respond.
Starting in May, Blue Security was the target of a denial-of-service
attack, and Blue Security customers began receiving threats from
spammers. The prospect of further attacks from spammers, many of whom
have deep resources at their disposal, led Blue Security to end
operations. "We cannot take the responsibility for an ever-escalating
cyber war through our continued operations" said a statement on the
company's site. "We believe this is the responsible thing to do."
BBC, 17 May 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4990622.stm
RIAA SUES XM RECORDING DEVICE
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a
federal lawsuit against XM Radio, broadcaster of digital radio,
alleging that the company's new Inno recording device will allow
"massive wholesale infringement" of copyrights. XM, which introduced
the Inno this month, had been in talks with the RIAA over royalties for
songs saved on the portable device, but those talks reportedly broke
down. In its complaint, the RIAA argued that the new device will allow
users to record any of the vast amount of content that XM broadcasts,
leaving users with "little need ever again to buy legitimate copies of
plaintiffs' sound recordings." The suit asks for $150,000 in damages
for every song recorded by XM customers. Officials from XM pointed out
that digital radio is not an on-demand service, meaning listeners can
only record what the station happens to play, unlike an online music
service such as Apple's iTunes. XM said the new device allows consumers
to record radio broadcasts, an action that has legal protection.
CNET, 17 May 2006
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.
Remember, the subject is not the article's subject,
the subject is the manipulation of the world news.]
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"Equal justice under the law."
*QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, soon you
are talking about real money." [see *Statistics]
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
White collar crime will continue this growth trend.
*STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
A $10+ billion dollar accounting scheme to "cook the books"
at Fannie Mae, over the last 6 years, corrupting mortgages,
and a total of perhaps $1 trillion has passed in Fannie Mae
accounts in that that time, so detractors say it was only a
1% fudge factor. 1% of a trillion is $10 billion.
The basis for cooking the books at Fannie Mae, holder of 20
percent of all U.S. mortgages, was to generate "bonuses" of
50+ million dollars just for CEO Franklin Raines alone, but
others also had their compensation linked to performance.
Now that this performance has been determined fraudulent it
may be up to the SEC and other governmental agencis to make
the case to strip these high level executives in court.
Then Raines, Ex-CFO J. Timothy Howard and others might be a
target to be retroactively fired, and have to repay salary.
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At the same time the CEO and FIO of the world's 3rd largest
retailer, Royal Ahold, were convicted of fraud and fined at
most $300,000 each, along with a suspended sentence.
Ex-CEO Cees van der Hoeven and Ex-CFO Michiel Meurs got the
news yesterday.
Fining a person who makes millions per year $300,000 is the
same as fining a person who makes thousands per year $300.
Source: The Kansas City Star
[Somewhere there is a big difference between justice for an
assortment of embezzlers, fraudsters, and other executively
endowed money makers and the blue collar people who do work
that send those millions and billions of the ladder.]
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By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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