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COPYRIGHT LAW UPDATE FAVORS COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
Despite pressure from a number of quarters to introduce restrictions on
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Congress appears to be headed the
other direction. Drafts of the Intellectual Property Protection Act of
2006 are circulating among lawmakers, and a spokesperson for the House
Judiciary Committee said the bill will likely be introduced soon. The
bill adds a number of new layers to copyright law, including increasing
fines for certain copyright crimes; criminalizing attempted copyright
violations, even if they fail; and allowing copyright owners to impound
"records documenting the manufacture, sale, or receipt of items
involved in" violations. Jason Schultz, staff attorney at the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, said of this last provision that the
recording industry has long wanted the ability to obtain server logs
that would indicate "every single person who's ever downloaded"
certain files. Keith Kupferschmid, vice president for intellectual
property and enforcement at the Software and Information Industry
Association, welcomed the bill, saying that it gives government
officials needed authority to prosecute intellectual property criminals.
CNET, 23 April 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6064016.html
COMPANY TO PAY $4.5 MILLION IN E-RATE FRAUD CASE
Houston-based NextiraOne has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle
charges that it defrauded the government and the Oglala Nation
Educational Coalition through the federal E-rate program. The work for
which NextiraOne was under investigation took place at the Pine Ridge
Reservation in South Dakota. According to a complaint by the Department
of Justice, NextiraOne billed the government for products and services
it did not deliver; submitted fraudulent invoices; and charged inflated
prices for other products. The E-rate program, designed to extend
Internet access to schools and libraries that could not otherwise
afford it, has come under fire for what some have described as rampant
fraud. Under the settlement, NextiraOne will pay a criminal fine of
$1.9 million and will return $2.6 million to the government.
ITWorld, 21 April 2006
http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/060421erate/
TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR CHARGED WITH E-RATE FRAUD
Federal charges have been brought against a technology director in
South Carolina for defrauding the E-rate program, a federal program to
fund technology improvements in disadvantaged schools. Cynthia K. Ayer
was indicted on 12 counts of mail and wire fraud for funneling
contracts worth $3.5 million to her company, Go Between Communications.
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Ayer's actions netted
her more than $450,000 of E-rate funds. Ayer faces fines of $250,000
and a lengthy prison term if convicted. The E-rate program has been
riddled with accounts of fraud and abuse, and Ayer's case is just the
latest in a string of prosecutions against 11 individuals and 10
companies. Thus far, settlements with some defendants have totaled $40
million in fines and restitution, and two individuals have been
sentenced to prison terms.
Internet News, 20 April 2006
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3600671
NATIONAL ARCHIVES GOES TRANSPARENT
The National Archives and Records Administration has made public the
details of a secret agreement made in 2001 with the CIA and said it
will adjust its procedures to function in a much more transparent
manner. The secret deal gave the CIA the authority to insist that
certain materials in the archives be removed, with no record of the
documents' having been in the archives or why they were removed. Allen
Weinstein, who currently heads the archives but did not when the deal
was made, said he just learned of it and has acted quickly to
invalidate it. "Classified agreements are the antithesis of our reason
for being," he said. A spokesperson from the archives noted that it
routinely archives classified materials and keeps them secret. Adding
another layer of secrecy is unnecessary and inappropriate, she said.
Steven Aftergood, director of a project at the Federation of American
Scientists that tracks government secrecy, applauded the announcement,
particularly Weinstein's role in it. "He did not attempt to deny the
existence of the problem," said Aftergood, "and he did not attempt to
evade responsibility for it."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 April 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/04/2006041901t.htm
SETTLEMENT REACHED IN ANTISPYWARE CASE
In a settlement announced by prosecutors in Washington State, Zhijian
Chen of Oregon will pay about $84,000 in fines, restitution, and
attorneys' fees following a scheme in which Chen sold consumers
fraudulent antispyware services. Chen was charged with sending e-mail
that led recipients to believe their computers were infected with
spyware and that a product called Spyware Cleaner, made by Secure
Computer, could clean their machines. Chen then collected a commission
when users bought the product. State Attorney General Rob McKenna said,
"We will not tolerate those who try to profit by preying on consumers'
fears of spyware and other malware." New York-based Secure Computer as
well as a number of officials from the company are also named in the
lawsuit against Chen.
Associated Press, 19 April 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060419/ap_on_hi_te/spam_lawsuit
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
Senate Inquiry:
New Hampshire "Denial of Service" Attack on Democrats' Phones
This past week saw some interesting revelations in the case of
similar "political dirty tricks" in recent elections as were
mentioned in the famous "All the Presidents Men" stories by
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post that
brought down President Nixon.
Revealed were dozens of phone calls to The White House
on the day before the mid-term 2002 elections, by the
man who was convicted, and the fact that National Republican
Party funds were used to pay over $2.5 million in legal bills,
and perhaps even super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff was involved.
James Tobin, head of the New England branch of the Republican
National Committee, later a director of President Bush's second
presidential campaign, was convicted re: jamming the phones of
of five locations of various Democratic efforts to get voters
out on election day. In addition, was a similar attack on a
local firefighter's effort to give transportation to polls.
www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=138550
*
Follow Up On "General's Revolt"
Apparently the Generals lined up by the the administrtion to counter
the "Revolt of the Generals" have been given a list of talking points
or script suggestions for their appearances in the media. Why it is
OK for the generals to support one side of the issue but not the other
seems to be the elephant in the middle of the room being ignored.
*
The War of Classified Materials, April 25, 2006
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart is being quoted as saying,
"When everything is classified, nothing is classified," in a recent
flap over the various levels of secrecy and governmenk leaks.
In a rather stunning double whammy from opposite directions, recent
coverage by Dana Priest, National Security Correspondent writing for
The Washington Post, won a Pulitzer Prize for her columns revealing
the wide ranging government wiretaps without court approval, while
her alleged source, Mary McCarthy, was being fired from the CIA.
Sources from the Post, including McCarthy, have said that McCarthy
didn't even have access to the information she allegedly leaked.
Apparently the Bush administration has tightened up the classified
information business to the point where less and less information
is unclassified, thus relying more and more on leaks, unscheduled
on-the-spot declassification, etc., to provide information to the
public and the mass media.
As a result of this tightening of the informational purse strings,
more and more Washington sources are simply saying, "I can't talk
to you any more," and the reporters are learning not to keep notes
via any of the standard means that can be found to uncover sources.
Thus computers are OUT these days as a tool for working on articles
since the government routinely siezes all computers and files in an
ongoing investigation of these matters.
Apparently the number of classified documents doubled during Bush's
re-election campaign in 2004 and has continued to rise, according to
Lucy Dalglish, speaking on The News Hour.
*
Recently Revealed: Was Chicago Bulls Player Fired and Blacklisted
for Giving President Bush a Letter Concerning Iraq During a White
House Visit by the Team After Their First Repeat as NBA Champions?
Craig Hodges, a member of the first two Chicago Bulls Championship
NBA basketball teams, claims he was not only fired by the Bulls
for speaking out on political issues as an African-American, but
also blacklisted by the entire NBA as a result when he could not
even get a tryout with any one of the NBA franshices afterwards.
The court case Craig Hodges vs. the National Basketball Association
alleges "the owners and operators of the 29 NBA member franchises
have participated as co-conspirators" in "blackballing" him from
the entire National Basketball Association "because of his outspoken
political nature as an African-American man."
Hodges was a 10 year NBA veteran, the last four years with the Bulls,
and he played in the majority of the Bulls' games during their second
consecutive NBA Championship.
classdat.appstate.edu/AAS/Soc/rosenberge/MyFiles/NYTIMES/NYTSPRTB.IZ
*
Trying to look up "American Dreamz" ? only local media found:
The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Free preview planned
of `American Dreamz'
The American dream is alive and well. What could be more free than a
free movie?
The University of Oregon Cultural Forum and the Bijou Art Cinemas, 492
E. 13th Ave., will present a free showing of the Paul Weitz film
"American Dreamz" Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Vouchers are available at the Cultural Forum office in the Erb
Memorial Union, 1222 E. 13th Ave. If any are unclaimed, they will be
available at the door.
Weitz ("In Good Company," "About a Boy") wrote and directed the film
for Universal Studios. It will open nationally on April 21.
advertisement
The movie stars Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore, Marcia Gay
Harden, Chris Klein, Jennifer Coolidge and Willem Dafoe. In the film,
"American Dreamz" is a popular singing competition.
"Imagine a country where the president never reads the newspaper,
where the government goes to war for all the wrong reasons and where
more people vote for a pop idol than their next president."
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Around 6AM Sunday morning two widely separated estimates for
the cost of health care per person in the US on the radio.
NPR said $800 per month, $9,600 per year. WILL-AM
94.5 said $11 per month or $132 per year. WLRW-FM
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Congressman Chistopher Smith, R-New Jersey, re: Google.cn:
"China's search engine, is guaranteed to take you to the
virtual land of deceit, disinformation and the big lie."
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Replicators that can build copies of themselves will appear this year!
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
In 1960 people in the U.S. spent about 5% of their money on health care.
In 2005 people in the U.S. spent about 16% of their money on health care.
In the same period that health spending tripled per person,
spending on education failed to even double.
The U.S. has a universal education plan, but not universal health care,
so why is spending on universal education lagging behind?
The U.S. is regularly outclassed by one or two dozen other countries
in standardized educational testing.
The Common Sense Budget Act of 2006 cites the following:
(E) research conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics
shows that middle school students in the United States rank 18th in
science test scores and 19th in math test scores internationally,
behind students in such countries as the Republic of Korea, the Slovak
Republic, Singapore, the Russian Federation, and Malaysia. . . .
[Longer lists available on request]
Medical: The U.S. spends about $1.8 Trillion per year.
Schools: The U.S. spends about $0.5 Trillion per year.
Sources: The weekend news programs on NPR, CBS, ABC, NBC.
BTW, if the $1.8 Trillion medical figure is accurate,
along with the $9 Trillion GDP, then medical is 20%,
not the 16% cited.
3.6% on Education.
On the international math tests the U.S. ranked 24th and 28th
for recent tests among middle schools, 12th for grade schools.
In science the U.S. was 17th.
Down from 3rd for 4th graders.
[More data available on request]
*
Oldest Ice Core Dated At 1 Million Years, As of April 18, 2006
Japanese scientists are examining a 1 million year old chunk of ice
removed from a spot 3 kilometers under the Antarctic ice cap surface.
The previously oldest ice cores from about 650,000 years ago revealed
that we now have much higher levels of carbon dioxide and methane in
the atmosphere than any time previously measured in this manner.
www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/18/old.ice.reut/index.html
*
Exxon's CEO Lee Raymond Receives $1 Billion In Total Compensation
After a little over a decade at the wheel of the largest oil company,
it appears that Lee Raymond's total compensation for that period will
be approximately one billion dollars, with hearly half of that coming
in various forms of separation pay and bonuses.
In papers filed with with the Securities and Exchange Commission this
past month, it was revealed that Mr. Raymond will receive nearly $.5
billion in total retirement compensations along with his previous pay
bonuses over the years, this in addition to his yearly salaries from
the last 12 years or so. Nearly $.4 billion of this was revealed in
the recently filed SEC documents.
Raymond's final annual paycheck totaled over $50 million, or $140,000
per day, or nearly $6,000 per hour, waking or sleeping. . .four times
the pay of Chevron's CEO, Exxon's nearest competitor.
During Raymond's reign, Exxon stoct is reported to have gone up 500%,
but don't forget that most people forget that to go up 100% doubles,
so they usually miss by 100% in such reports.
There is a shareholder revolt of sorts going on to pass resolutions
condemning such exorbitant pay practices, which Exxon encourages the
shareholdes to vote against.
abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1841989
*
Kate Moss returned to her career as a supermodel this week
with a reported $2.5 million shoot for Nikon.
*
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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Lucy Raymond, by Agnes Maule Machar 18248
[Subtitle: Or, The Children's Watchword]
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The Last Man, by Mary Shelley 18247
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Kuninkaan-alut, by Henrik Ibsen 18246
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Contes merveilleux, Tome II, by Hans Christian Andersen 18245
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Bezoek aan den berg Athos, by Anonymous 18243
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1873]
[Language: Dutch]
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Behind the Arras, by Bliss Carman 18242
[Subtitle: A Book of the Unseen]
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Tea-Cup Reading, by 'A Highland Seer' 18241
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Roumania Past and Present, by James Samuelson 18240
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The Road to Mandalay, by B. M. Croker 18239
[Author AKA: Bithia Mary Croker (1849-1920)]
[Subtitle: A Tale of Burma]
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In de Amsterdamsche Jodenbuurt, by Jan Feith 18236
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[Language: Dutch]
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Het Geuldal, by L. H. J. Lamberts Hurrelbrinck 18235
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1907]
[Language: Dutch]
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A Girl's Student Days and After, by Jeannette Marks 18234
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Animal Ghosts, by Elliott O'Donnell 18233
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Gedenkrede auf Wolfgang Amade Mozart, by Richard Beer-Hofmann 18232
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How to Write a Play, by Various 18230
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Transactions of the ASCE, Paper 1150, by Charles W. Raymond 18229
[Full title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers,]
[Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910]
[Subtitle: The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad.]
[Paper No. 1150]
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The Essence of Buddhism, by Various 18223
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The Trumpeter Swan, by Temple Bailey 18219
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Chambers's Elementary Science Readers, Book I, by Various 18217
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Pathfinders of the West, by A. C. Laut 18216
[Subtitle: Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who
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Le marquis de Loc-Ronan, by Ernest Capendu 18215
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Our Friend the Dog, by Maurice Maeterlinck 18214
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[Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos]
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The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12), by Miller 18213
[Editor: Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan]
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English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century, by James Anthony Froude 18209
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the first of the generals to speak out in a public forum that
the Iraq War was undermanned and underplanned and the highest
ranking officer in the entire United States Army.
These are command generals, all with more than one star,
more experience, more stars than the average general out there.
The rest are all desk officers, without the experience to see
what is really happening at the troop level, consequently the
actions and reactions you see here between real commanders on
the battlefield and those who only know how to fly a desk.
1 Star = Brigadier General Zero on this list, common in the military
2 Stars = Major General Three on this list, not nearly as common
3 Stars = Lieutenant General Two on this list, not very common at all
4 Stars = General Two on this list, the least common of all
Here is the list, by rank:
Gen. Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, Army, highest possible rank.
Gen. Anthony Zinni, also diplomatic corps "roving ambassador" Marines
Central Command Chief of Staff, Middle East, "Winning the Peace" author.
The top general in charge of the Iraq War.
Lt. Gen. John Riggs, Distinguished Flying Cross, Viet Nam,
Military Assistant to Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee,
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans,
Commanding General, 7th Infantry Division, most recently
Commanding General of the First U.S. Army,
lost a star when he retired in protest, reasons not on record,
made through questionable charges AFTER he criticized the war.
Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, Director for Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff
"The consequence of the military's quiescence was that a
fundamentally flawed plan was executed for an invented war."
Maj. Gen. John Batiste, Commander, 1st Infantry Division ["Big Red 1"]
Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, "Father of the Iraqi Army"
Commanding General, Office of Security Transition, West Point graduate
Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack, Commander, 82nd Airborne Division
There are NOT thousands of generals with multiple stars
and field command experience at such high levels in the
entire US Army, much less directly in command of Iraq,
perhaps a dozen, at the most.
"On June 22, 1999, Four Star General Eric Shinseki was appointed by
President Clinton To be the 34th Chief of Staff, United States Army."
He was the one who first told Congress of the mismanagement, and he
was forced to resign by Rumsfeld, who did not attend the retirement,
not that there was much of a retirement to attend.
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
*
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.
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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Strange News in Globalization
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/11fast.html?hp&ex=1144814400&en
=ad12af5ee011af1e&ei=5094&partner=homepage
The Long-Distance Journey of a Fast-Food Order
By MATT RICHTEL
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Like many American teenagers, Julissa Vargas, 17, has
a minimum-wage job in the fast-food industry - but hers has an unusual
geographic reach.
...
What made the $12.08 transaction remarkable was that the customer was not
just outside Ms. Vargas's workplace here on California's central coast. She
was at a McDonald's in Honolulu. And within a two-minute span Ms. Vargas
had also taken orders from drive-through windows in Gulfport, Miss., and
Gillette, Wyo.
A man who wants a Big N' Tasty in Wyoming and a woman who wants an Egg
McMuffin in Honolulu may be placing their orders with the same teenager in
California. Several customers, told of the fact, seemed taken aback.
And yet where is the surprise? There you sit, perhaps miles from home,
idling in a car that was manufactured almost anywhere, burning gasoline
refined from a substance pumped out of the ground who knows where and
shipped, in all likelihood, across the ocean to be trucked to the station
where you last filled up. Meanwhile you're talking to your best friend on
your cellphone - and who knows how that works or where those signals go? -
or listening to satellite radio beamed down from space. Yet what's really on
your mind is the food they're getting together for you inside that
McDonald's, made from cattle that once lived anywhere and potatoes that grew
someplace else, all of it relayed from some way station in the McDonald's
supply chain.
Yes, a long-distance call center for a drive-through window is something to
marvel at. The real wonder is that the call center isn't in Bangalore.
The Magazine Reader
Wild Generalization X
In Details, a Hilarious Screed on Turning 40 and Not Loving It
By Peter Carlson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 11, 2006; Page C02
The folks known as Generation X are on the verge of turning 40, and
apparently they're getting cranky about it.
The thirty-something generation is irked, irritated and downright
peeved, writes Gen Xer Jeff Gordinier in "Has Generation X Already
Peaked?," a bitterly hilarious screed in the April issue of Details, a
magazine for young men. They're irked at their elders, the obnoxiously
self-mythologizing Baby Boomers. They're irritated at the younger
generation whom they consider airheads -- Generation Y or the
"millennials," who came of age around 2000. And they're peeved that
the media have failed to get sufficiently excited that Generation X is
turning 40.
"While the boomers and the millennials have been out gulping up all of
that mass-media oxygen, somebody seems to have forgotten to put
together the Newsweek cover story about Generation X on the brink of
turning 40," Gordinier grumbles. "Could it be that the age group that
popularized the phrase jumped the shark has done just that? . . . Is
Generation X already obsolete?"
Gordinier doesn't actually answer those questions, which are absurd
and unanswerable anyway, but he does have a good time ranting and
venting in delightfully comic fashion.
Here's what he says about the recent glut of media hype about Baby
Boomers turning 60:
"You see this stuff everywhere, and you just know what's coming. David
Crosby's face transplant. The James Taylor-Carly Simon remake of On
Golden Pond . Woodstock IV: Return to the Garden, cosponsored by Nike,
Botox and Ben & Jerry's. The Brown Acid line of tie-dyed Depends.
It's only a matter of time. Those insufferable boomers are tucking
into another gluttonous, cheek-smeared smorgasbord of self-importance.
Don't even try to escape."
And here's what he says about the twenty-somethings of Gen Y: "The
boomers bred and their solipsistic progeny have arrived . . . They
just love stuff. They love celebrities. They love technology. They
love brand names. . . . They're happy to do whatever advertising tells
them to do. So what if they can't manage to read anything longer than
an instant message?"
Gordinier tries to defend Gen X, but without much enthusiasm.
"Generation X is still defined more by lasts than firsts. We're the
last generation to produce and hold on to albums on vinyl, the last
generation to read newspapers . . . the last generation to express any
sort of resistance to corporate servitude, the last generation to
produce old-fashioned movie stars (Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt) as
opposed to manufactured aristocretins and reality-TV clowns."
Aristocretins! I love that. Finally, the perfect word for Paris Hilton.
Like all good rants, this one builds up a nice head of steam. It's big
fun. But of course it's all baloney. The media's insatiable need to
pigeonhole disparate humans into a "generation" with a single unifying
personality is almost as idiotic as stereotyping people by the hue of
their epidermis.
I refuse to get involved in this silliness. I'm a Baby Boomer but I
love my little brothers and sisters of Gen X and Gen Y. And in the
spirit of that love, I offer this sage advice to my young friends:
Work hard, kids. My generation has run up a huge deficit and you guys
are gonna have to pay it off. And remember to pay your Social Security
taxes. I'm looking forward to a long, happy retirement, and I'll need
plenty of Brown Acid Depends.
***
Cargo, Unloaded
****************************************************************_
For a week, people have been dropping by the palatial offices of The
Magazine Reader to congratulate us for killing Cargo magazine. We'd
love to take credit, but the death of Cargo is really a triumph for
all the men of America -- except for the 373,727 wimps and weenies who
actually subscribed to Cargo.
For those of you blissfully unaware of Cargo, it was a shopping
magazine for men, a mag filled with caption-sized "articles" about
stuff you can buy -- stuff ranging from shoes to cars to men's makeup
and, believe it or not, men's bikini waxes. Cargo was created in March
2004 by the Conde Nast magazine empire and was killed a couple of
weeks ago, put out of its misery like a lame horse.
Last week, the New York Times interviewed Ariel Foxman, Cargo's
erstwhile editor, who whined that the media had said nasty things
about his magazine. One of those nasty things -- "the most hurtful,"
the Times reported -- was printed in The Magazine Reader when Cargo
debuted.
Hurtful? What, pray tell, could he be talking about?
Maybe it was our observation that Cargo "might be the worst idea for a
magazine in human history." Or maybe it was our call for men to
boycott Cargo in order to "strike a blow against foppery, frippery,
metrosexuality, the commercialization of everything and the
wimpification of America."
Gee, we didn't want to hurt the feelings of Cargo editors, who are
obviously very sensitive souls. But we're thrilled that American men
showed their innate good sense by avoiding Cargo. Frankly, we're
amazed that the magazine managed to find 373,727 guys dunderheaded
enough to subscribe.
Heeding our own call to boycott Cargo, we hadn't seen an issue since
that wretched debut. But when we heard about the magazine's death, we
bought the May issue, just to see if it was still pathetic.
It was.
It contains a tiny story about various kinds of goop you can rub on
your skin so you'll look tan. And a piece touting a men's fragrance
that's designed to smell like marijuana and "male sweat." And a blurb
about chairs that look like they're held together with duct tape,
except that the duct tape is really leather and the chairs, which cost
$4,800 each, are part of a designer furniture line called "Ersatz Heirlooms."
Come on, guys. If you want to look tan, go outside and lie in the sun.
And if you want to sit on duct-taped chairs, smelling like weed and
sweat, do you really need a men's shopping mag?
Goodbye, Cargo. We can't say we'll miss you, but we'll remember you
fondly next time we're duct-taping the furniture.
**
Subject: FOR IP: Oklahoma bill to open your computer to companies...
(Note - this is an Oklahoma House bill, not a US Congress.
Doesn't make it any more right...)
http://www.okgazette.com/news/templates/cover.asp?articleid=423&zoneid=7
Get ready for Microsoft, cable and phone companies, and quite a
few other people to know a lot more about what you do on your
computer, thanks to House Bill 2083.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Ben Fenwick
It's supposed to protect you from predators spying on your
computer habits, but a bill Microsoft Corp. helped write for
Oklahoma will open your personal information to warrantless
searches, according to a computer privacy expert and a state
representative.
Called the "Computer Spyware Protection Act", House Bill 2083
would create fines of up to a million dollars for anyone using
viruses or surreptitious computer techniques to break on to
someone's computer without that person's knowledge and
acceptance, according to the bill's state Senate author, Clark
Jolley.
"The bill has a clear prohibition on anything going in without
your permission. You have to grant permission", said Jolley,
R-Edmond. "You can look at your license agreement. It will say
whether they have the ability to take that information or not".
But therein lies the catch.
If you click that "accept" button on the routine user's
agreement, the proposed law would allow any company from whom you
bought upgradable software the freedom to come onto your computer
for "detection or prevention of the unauthorized use of or
fraudulent or other illegal activities in connection with a
network, service, or computer software, including scanning for
and removing computer software prescribed under this act".
That means that Microsoft (or another company with such software)
can erase spyware or viruses. But if you have, say, a pirated
copy of Excel - Microsoft (or companies with similar software)
can erase it, or anything else they want to erase, and not be
held liable for it. Additionally, that phrase "fraudulent or
other illegal activities" means they can:
- Let the local district attorney know that you wrote a hot
check last month.
- Let the attorney general know that you play online poker.
- Let the tax commission know you bought cartons of cigarettes
and didn't pay the state tax on them.
- Read anything on your hard drive, such as your name, home
address, personal identification code, passwords, Social Security
number ... etc., etc., etc.
"I think in broad terms that is still a form of spying", said
Marc Rotenberg, attorney and executive director of the Electronic
Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. "Some people say,
'Well, it's justified'. I'm not so clear that should be the case.
Particularly if the reason you are passing legislation is to
cover that activity".
The bill is scheduled to go back before the House."
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The Mysteries of Free Masonry, by William Morgan 18136
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William Dunbar
A Lark's Flight
Christmas
Men of Letters
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A Shelf in My Bookcase
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons,by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot 18134
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A Canadian Heroine, Vol. 3, by Mrs. Harry Coghill 18132
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The Rescue of the Princess Winsome, by Fellows-Johnston and Bacon 18131
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Tocht naar de dalen van den kinaboom (Peru), by Paul Marcoy 18128
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A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2, by Mrs. Harry Coghill 18122
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L'illustre Olympie, ou Le St Alexis, by Nicolas Mary 18121
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4164 New eBooks in 2003
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In the 14 weeks of this year, we have produced ~955 new eBooks.
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That's 14 WEEKS as Compared to ~26 YEARS!!!
FLASHBACK!
Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #955
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
[Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format]
Jul 1997 American Notes, by Rudyard Kipling [Kipling #5] [amrntxxx.xxx] 977
Jul 1997 Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [NH #6] [tnglwxxx.xxx] 976
Jul 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 5 [#5] [5spnexxx.xxx] 975
The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad 974
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, by Howard Pyle 973
Jul 1997 The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce[Bierce3][dvldcxxx.xxx] 972
Jul 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 4 [#4] [4spnexxx.xxx] 971
Jul 1997 Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories, by Cal Stewart[ncjshxxx.xxx] 970
Jul 1997 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte [B#4] [wldflxxx.xxx] 969
.(Note: the filename wldflxxx.xxx is also used for eBook, #3003 in etext02)
Jul 1997 Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens[Dickens #32][chuzzxxx.xxx] 968
Jul 1997 Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens[Dickens #31][ncklbxxx.xxx] 967
Jul 1997 Maid Marian, by Thomas Love Peacock [maidmxxx.xxx] 966
Jul 1997 The Black Tulip, by Alexandre Dumas[Pere][Dumas#1][tbtlpxxx.xxx] 965
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle 964
Jul 1997 Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #30] [ldortxxx.xxx] 963
Jul 1997 The Poems of Henry Kendall, by Henry Kendall [phkndxxx.xxx] 962
Jul 1997 Glinda of Oz, by L. Frank Baum [LFB#17][Oz#14][14wozxxx.xxx] 961
Jun 1997 The Tin Woodman of Oz, by Baum [LFB#16][Oz#12][12wozxxx.xxx] 960
Jun 1997 The Lost Princess of Oz, by Baum [LFB#15][Oz#11][11wozxxx.xxx] 959
Jun 1997 Rinkitink In Oz, by L. Frank Baum [LFB#14][Oz#10][10wozxxx.xxx] 958
Jun 1997 The Scarecrow of Oz, by L. Frank Baum[FB#13][Oz#9][09wozxxx.xxx] 957
Jun 1997 Tik-Tok of Oz, by L. Frank Baum [Baum #12][Oz #8][08wozxxx.xxx] 956
Jun 1997 The Patchwork Girl of Oz, by L. Frank Baum[Baum12][07wozxxx.xxx] 955
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his War Tank, by Victor Appleton [21tomxxx.xxx] 954
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Big Tunnel, by Victor Appleton [19tomxxx.xxx] 953
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Air Glider, by Victor Appleton [12tomxxx.xxx] 952
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Sky Racer, by Victor Appleton [09tomxxx.xxx] 951
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Electric Runabout, by V. Appleton [05tomxxx.xxx] 950
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Submarine Boat, by Victor Appleton[04tomxxx.xxx] 949
Jun 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 3 [#3] [3spnexxx.xxx] 948
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Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet?
If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
6,509,300,252 that would be 19,097 x 65,093,003 = ~1.24 Trillion !!!
6,509,300,252
65,093,003
With 19,097 eBooks online as of April 12, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.80 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,093,003 x 19,097 x $.80 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
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A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.53 Value Per Book To 100 Million
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of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.52 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.63 when we had 15,996 eBooks a year ago.
Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.
At 19,097 eBooks in 34 Years and 09.25 Months We Averaged
549 Per Year
45.8 Per Month
1.50 Per Day
At 955 eBooks Done In The 097 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
9.8 Per Day
69 Per Week
294 Per Month
If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
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are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.
However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a
300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M,
just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so
it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
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19,097 eBooks As Of Today!!!
18,668 at www.gutenberg.org[+xx]
556 Australian eBooks [+1] [Included in above line]
288 Gutenberg Europe [+2]
141 PG PrePrint Site [+0]
19,097 Grand Total of all four sites
40 New eBooks This Week
~95.5% of the Way to 20,000
***531 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971***
15,996 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001
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We Have Produced 955 eBooks in 2006
903 to go to 20,000!!!
21 New eBooks From Distributed Proofreaders
8,286 total from Distributed Proofreaders
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We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005
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We Are Averaging ~294 eBooks Per Month This Year
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All Four Sites Combined Are Averaging 68 eBooks Per Week In 2006
40 This Week
It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks
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It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100
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CABLE COMPANIES ROUND OUT OFFERINGS
[Around here SBC/AT&T is offering deal for unlimited long distance,
DSL and satellite TV for about $90. Has anyone tried such offers?]
A set of new deals signals even tighter competition among communication
services providers, as cable companies work to expand their offerings
to align more directly with those of phone companies. The goal for
cable companies is to be able to offer TV, telephone, computer, and
wireless services, all from the same provider. Most notably, Comcast,
Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, and Bright House Networks have
announced a deal with Sprint Nextel that will allow cable customers
access for wireless devices. Although some of the details remain to be
decided, under the arrangement, consumers will be able to access TV
programming over cellular networks and possibly to use handsets that
use cellular networks outdoors and Wi-Fi networks indoors. Analyst
Aryeh Bourkoff noted that cable companies already have an advantage
over phone companies, such as Verizon and AT&T, in that phone companies
have an uphill path to being able to enter the TV market. "The phone
companies have the advantage of wireless today," Bourkoff said, "but
they have to build video, and that's going to be very expensive."
New York Times, 9 April 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/10/technology/10cable.html
EFF CALLS FOR PATENT TO BE INVALIDATED
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has called on the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office (USPTO) to invalidate a patent that broadly covers
technologies that allow tests to be posted and taken online. In 2003,
the USPTO granted the patent to Test.com, which has since contacted a
number of colleges and universities, as well as businesses, that
conduct online testing, saying those services violate the patent. Many
of those approached by Test.com believe that the idea of putting tests
on the Web is too obvious to warrant a patent. Now, the EFF says it has
evidence that, even if the idea justifies a patent, Test.com was not
the first to develop the technology to make it happen. According to the
EFF, the IntraLearn Software Corporation began selling products with
online testing capabilities in 1997, two years before Test.com applied
for its patent. Jason Schultz, staff lawyer for the EFF, said that the
USPTO would address the validity of the patent, which could take as
long as a year or more. If the office determines that a patent is
appropriate, said Schultz, it will "a tiny insignificant patent" rather
than the very broad patent granted to Test.com.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 April 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/04/2006040601t.htm
GOOGLE, EARTHLINK TO TAKE SAN FRANCISCO WIRELESS
San Francisco has chosen Google and EarthLink to build a wireless
network that will cover the city. The companies submitted a joint bid,
which was selected over five other bids by the San Francisco
TechConnect committee. Under the terms of the bid, Google will provide
free service at 300 Kbps, while EarthLink will manage a paid service
that will cost at most $20 per month and will operate at 1 Mbps. A
report recently released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the
Electronic Privacy Information Center argued that the Google-EarthLink
proposal was the worst of the bids in terms of protecting user privacy.
Others had questioned whether the Google-EarthLink network would
sufficiently penetrate buildings to reasonably provide full coverage.
Chris Vein, executive director of the Department of Telecommunications
and Information Services for San Francisco, said that he had not read
the report on privacy and that the city would negotiate with the companies
to provide as much access as possible. The deal must be approved by the
city of San Francisco and reviewed by the Board of Supervisors.
CNET, 6 April 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-6058432.html
MIT RESEARCHERS BUILD MICRO BATTERIES
A team of researchers led by a group at MIT have put viruses--the
biological kind--to work in the manufacture of nanowires, which the
researchers said can be used to make extremely small batteries.
The project involved modifying the genes of the virus such that its outer
surface would bind to certain metal ions. Researchers then bred the
virus in a cobalt chloride solution, which resulted in the production
of cobalt nanowires just 6 nanometers wide by 880 nanometers long.
The wires, which also included small amounts of gold so they could
adequately transmit electricity, were then used as positive electrodes
for batteries. The researchers hope that with this technology they can
create batteries as small as a grain of rice.
ZDNet, 6 April 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6058703.html
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[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.]
*
MISUSE OF EMINENT DOMAIN TAKEN UP BY MINNESOTA'S CONGRESS
Remember those news reports from Ohio, Connecticut, etc.,
in which homes and businesses were being eminent domained
just so richer people and/or businesses could move in?
The ostensible reasons for this was to the advantages tax
collectors would have by having a richer tax base. i.e.,
if you force out the middle class and replace them with a
whole new upper class population, you have a better town.
Of course, there IS a certain kind of logic to this and a
rash of copycat locations have been trying to do the same
sorts of things around the country; classifying perfectly
good homes and businesses below community standards so an
eminent domain takeover can be accomplished, with results
being that the properties are then sold to similar people
and businesses with more money. The expected results are
that the rich will then renovate the neighborhoods with a
much higher taxable assessment level and the tax man will
get more money to give to the local governments.
Today Minnesota's State House is working on a legislation
package to prevent such uses of eminent domain as the new
eminent domain takeovers should be ruled as benefits to a
government, but not to the public.
It's class warfare all right, with the first shots fired.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
*
Department of Homeland Security Caught With Online Sex
NBC's Dateline reported on April 9 that two Department of
Homeland Security people were trapped in their online sex
sting operation when they tried to get together with fake
young girls at the sting locations.
*
"The ones who know, don't care any more,
and the ones who care, don't know."
Nicholas Cage, "The Lord of War"
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Congress is passing "Ironclad Ceilings On Spending"
with great public fanfare and media coverage as the
National Debt approaches $10 Trillion dollars: but
at the same time they have passed two amendments to
virtually unpass these "Ironclad Ceiling" bills.
One of these bills exempts Congress from the limit,
which is about half of national spending, such as a
continuing payment for the Iraq war, etc., with the
second bill exempting entitlement programs which is
the other half.
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
This is actually about quotes you did not hear. . . .
re: Katie Couric becoming the next Dan Rather, Walter Cronkike
or Edward R. Murrow at $13 million per year guaranteed over the
next 5 years or so:
As many of you probably know, Ms. Couric does the "Thanksgiving
Day Macy's Parade every year with Al Roker and Matt Lauer: but
last year might have been her last one for several reasons.
Apparently there was a big cover up of the fact that people had
been injured by the crash of the M&M's balloon into a lamppost,
which then crashed to the ground injuring some wheelchair bound
women who could not escape in time and her sister who stayed to
take care of her.
This was not just the mild kind of cover up when bad news isn't
mentioned at all, but a more active kind of cover up in which a
clip from last year's parade was substituted for live coverage,
so the audience could see the [now fake] M&Ms in good health.
It is presumed that the M&Ms will be patched up and ready to go
for the next parade, but no comment has been heard about others
such as the injured parties or Ms. Couric's attendance.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
>From a reply to the announcement of specific brands of terabyte boxes at
Fry's this past week for $649. Other places have the same products from
the same brand[s] at $699.
Of course, if you are willing to simply buy 4 @ 250G drives for $99 each,
and put them in a less sophisticated box than previously mentioned, these
new terebytes can be added for ~$450 rather than the $649-$699 mentioned.
Add another $50 each time you want to add a serious feature.
However you want to count it, though, if you have been considering buying
a terabyte, the time is obviously coming when there will quite many wider
and wider ranges of selections, and you will likely see terabytes sold at
Best Buy, Circuit City, etc., for under $500 by next year's holidays.
If you want a top of the line terabyte box you can get one at about $1500
that includes rows of SCSI and GigE connectors, dual power supplies, etc.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
This week's statistics come to you courtesy of the big flap
in the United States Congress in response to President Bush
making a felony issue out of being an illegal alien.
As previously mentioned in reference to the U.S. population
reaching 300 million shortly, the actual population is very
undercounted, as witnessed by the 5% push by Congresspeople
to get more representation based on such undercounts.
In addition, Congress is now citing numbers over 11 million
for undocumented workers in the U.S., including who knows a
total of how many children they have had while in the U.S.,
which makes those children legal citizens, under previously
enforces U.S. citizenship laws.
This is also bringing attention to labor unions.
Today unions represent under 1/12 of United States workers,
but rates approaching 1/2 exist in certain jobs, such as an
assortment of local government workers. Where do you think
AFSME gets all that money to advertize with?
AFSME = Association of Federal, State and Municipal Employees
The highest union rates across jobs are among men with less
than 9th grade educations.
It's not always the United States, the same cycle happens
with Canadian workers, as below.
In 1998 the average full time union worker received $19/hr,
as compared to $15.64 for full time non-union workers.
This is just over a 20% advantange for union workers.
However, the different among part time workers is greater--
$16.55/hr for unions, $9.71 for non-union workers. 70%+
In addition, unionized workers usually get more hours/week,
receiving weekly paychecks of $325.64 versus $161.92, which
is just over DOUBLE the paychecks of non-union workers.
*
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.
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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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
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Jun 1997 Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe [#1][usherxxx.xxx] 932
Jun 1997 The Bab Ballads, by W. S. Gilbert [Gilbert #3] [2babbxxx.xxx] 931
Jun 1997 The Cook's Decameron, by Mrs. W. G. Water [ckdecxxx.xxx] 930
Jun 1997 The Cyberpunk Fakebook, by St. Jude & R.U. Sirius [fakebxxx.xxx] 929C
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May 1997 The Lamplighter, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #29] [lmpltxxx.xxx] 927
May 1997 10,000 Dreams Interpreted, Gustavus Hindman Miller[drmntxxx.xxx] 926
May 1997 United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches [uspisxxx.xxx] 925
May 1997 To Be Read At Dusk, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#28][rddskxxx.xxx] 924
May 1997 Life of Francis Marion #3, by William Dobein James[jjmarxxx.xxx] 923
May 1997 Sunday Under Three Heads by Charles Dickens[CD#27][suthsxxx.xxx] 922
May 1997 De Profundis, by Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #13] [dprofxxx.xxx] 921
May 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 2 [#2] [2spnexxx.xxx] 920
May 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 1 [#1] [1spnexxx.xxx] 919
May 1997 Sketches of Young Gentlemen, by Dickens [CD #26] [skygmxxx.xxx] 918
May 1997 Barnaby Rudge, 80's Riots, by Charles Dickens[#25][rudgexxx.xxx] 917
May 1997 Sketches of Young Couples, by Charles Dickens[#24][yngcpxxx.xxx] 916
May 1997 Library Work with Children, by Alice I. Hazeltine [lwwchxxx.xxx] 915
May 1997 The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens[#23][unctrxxx.xxx] 914
May 1997 A Hero of Our Time, by M. Y. Lermontov [aheroxxx.xxx] 913
May 1997 Mudfog and Other Sketches, by Charles Dickens[#22][mdfogxxx.xxx] 912
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White Fang, by Jack London 910
The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, by John Filson 909
A Treatise on Parents and Children, by George Bernard Shaw 908
May 1997 Flying Machine, by W.J. Jackman & Thos. H. Russell[flymcxxx.xxx] 907
May 1997 Abraham Lincoln, by James Russell Lowell[Lowell#2][1lncnxxx.xxx] 906
May 1997 Within the Law, by Marvin Dana from Bayard Veiller[wnlawxxx.xxx] 905
May 1997 Her Father's Daughter, by Gene Stratton-Porter[#7][hfdtrxxx.xxx] 904
May 1997 The White Company, by Arthur Conan Doyle[Doyle#12][whtcoxxx.xxx] 903
May 1997 The Happy Prince & Other Tales by Oscar Wilde[#12][hpaotxxx.xxx] 902
May 1997 The Jew of Malta, by Christopher Marlowe [CM #3] [jmltaxxx.xxx] 901
May 1997 Decline/Fall Of The Roman Empire, by Gibbon, Folio[dfre310f.xxx] 900
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6,507,879,958
65,078,800
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1.50 Per Day
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10.0 Per Day
69 Per Week
300 Per Month
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Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
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of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population.
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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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Stories by English Authors: Scotland, by Various 2588
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The Courting of T'nowhead's Bell, by J. M. Barrie
"The Heather Lintie", by S. R. Crockett
A Doctor of the Old School, by Ian Maclaren
Wandering Willie's Tale, by Sir Walter Scott
The Glenmutchkin Railway, by Professor Aytoun
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History Of Florence And Of The Affairs Of Italy, by Niccolo Machiavelli 2464
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Stories By English Authors: Italy, by Various 2457
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Little Journeys, Volume 4, by Elbert Hubbard 18118
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Georges Guynemer, by Henry Bordeaux 18117
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History of the Expedition to Russia, by Count Philip de Segur 18113
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Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe 18112
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[Language: French]
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Scenes de mer, Tome I, by Edouard Corbiere 18111
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The Bridal March; One Day, by Bjornstjerne Bjornson 18110
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Graveyard of Dreams, by Henry Beam Piper 18109
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Jean-nu-pieds, Vol. 2, by Albert Delpit 18108
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American Lutheranism Vindicated, by Samuel Simon Schmucker 18107
[Title: American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the
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[Subtitle: Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann]
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Lettres de Marie Bashkirtseff, by Marie Bashkirtseff 18106
[Subtitle: Preface de Francois Coppee]
[Commentator: Francois Coppee]
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Genesis, by H. Beam Piper 18105
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Among Famous Books, by John Kelman 18104
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"Contemptible", by "Casualty" 18103
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 24, Ed. by Blair & Robertson 18102
[Subtitle: Volume XXIV, 1630-1634]
[Ed.: Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson]
[Intro. and Notes: Edward Gaylord Bourne]
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The Life of Friedrich Schiller, by Goethe and Carlyle 18101
[Subtitle: Introduction to German Translation]
[Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Carlyle]
[Language: German]
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Roads from Rome, by Anne C. E. Allinson 18100
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Donatello, by David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford 18099
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Schetsen uit de Indische Vorstenlanden, by Louis Rousselet 18098
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, 1873]
[Language: Dutch]
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Public School Domestic Science, by Mrs. J. Hoodless 18097
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The Social History of Smoking, by G. L. Apperson 18096
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Successful Methods of Public Speaking, by Grenville Kleiser 18095
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History of the Girondists, Volume I, by Alphonse de Lamartine 18094
[Subtitle: Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution]
[Translator: H. T. Ryde]
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>From the Valley of the Missing, by Grace Miller White 18093
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Germaine, by Edmond About 18092
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Samantha at the World's Fair, by Marietta Holley 18091
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Jean qui grogne et Jean qui rit, by Comtesse de Segur 18090
[Illustrator: H. Castelli]
[Language: French]
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Infernaliana, by Ch. Nodier 18089
[Subtitle: Anecdotes, petits romans, nouvelles et contes sur les
revenans, les spectres, les demons et les vampires]
[Language: French]
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Libro bizzarro, by Antonio Ghislanzoni 18088
[Language: Italian]
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Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte, by Richard Whately 18087
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A Dozen Ways Of Love, by Lily Dougall 18086
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J.-K. Huysmans et le satanisme, by Joanny Bricaud 18085
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[Language: French]
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Rapport au Ministre des Finances, by Ed. Vandal 18084
[Title: Rapport au Ministre des Finances sur l'Administration des Postes]
[Subtitle: Extrait de L'Annuaire des Postes de 1865]
[Language: French]
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Smarra ou les demons de la nuit, by Charles Nodier 18083
[Subtitle: Songes romantiques]
[Language: French]
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Marilia de Dirceo, by Tomas Antonio Gonzaga 18082
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Nouveaux souvenirs entomologiques - Livre II, by Jean-Henri Fabre 18081
[Subtitle: Etude sur l'instinct et les moeurs des insectes]
[Language: French]
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Normandy Picturesque, by Henry Blackburn 18080
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Autumn, by Robert Nathan 18079
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Soldier Silhouettes on our Front, by William L. Stidger 18078
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We and the World, Part I, by Juliana Horatia Ewing 18077
[Subtitle: A Book for Boys]
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The Boy Trapper, by Harry Castlemon 18076
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Mademoiselle La Quintinie, by George Sand 18075
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Le cycle patibulaire, by Georges Eekhoud 18074
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Marchand de Poison, by Georges Ohnet 18073
[Subtitle: Les Batailles de la Vie]
[Language: French]
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Dierenleven in de wildernis, by William J. Long 18072
[Subtitle: Schetsen uit het leven der dieren hun natuurlijke aanleg
en wat zij leeren moeten]
[Illustrator: Charles Copeland]
[Translator: Cilia Stoffel]
[Language: Dutch]
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