The Ellesmere Island ice shelves, which covered 8,900 square kilometers a century ago and shrunk to 1,043 square kilometers in 2005, now cover just 563 square kilometers. ... The shelves have been around thousands of years and are typically more than 125 feet thick. The scientists say that about 3 billion tons of ice have been lost.
Rastani is small potatoes, but he's a real trader. And he said nothing that would suggest otherwise; he simply described what he does, more honestly than a true insider would ... "Every night I dream of another recession," Rastani said, and explained that it's possible to make huge money from a big crisis even when millions of others lose their life savings, and worse.
these policies aren’t about ensuring consistency of message (unless you count silence as a message) and efficiency. They were about censorship.
The government should be required to go to a judge and get a warrant before it can read our email, access private photographs and documents we store online, or track our location using our mobile phones. ...
The United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on Saturday, an accord targeting intellectual property piracy. The European Union, Mexico and Switzerland-the only other governments participating in the accord's creation-did not sign the deal at a ceremony in Japan but "confirmed their continuing strong support for and preparations to sign the agreement as soon as practical," the parties said in a joint statement. The United States applauded the deal.
The US is mostly responsible for this nasty and anti-democratic treaty that was hammered out in two years of secret negotiations CableGate exposure and increased protests have made the conspirators rush to complete sign - the treaty grants power to censor Wikileaks and the rest of the internet which was embarrassing them on this very point. Background and other ACTA news follows. See also EFF ACTA resources. 99.999 percenters should add this to their protests because it will cut them off completely.
Statutory damages are required, which globalizes the kind of crazy fines ordinary file sharing seen in US cases. Seizures and forfeit of counterfeit goods goes beyond the counterfiet goods themselves to the statutory value of the goods, a license to loot everything found. Even worse treaties are on the way.
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Needs Sunlight
2011-10-05 06:39:30