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[1% world population x #eBooks] 64,978,989 x 18,717 x $.82 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.53 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 18,720 eBooks online as of February 22, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.53 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.64 when we had 15,530 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. At 18,720 eBooks in 34 Years and 07.75 Months We Averaged 540 Per Year 45.0 Per Month 1.48 Per Day At 578 eBooks Done In The 049 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 11.8 Per Day 82 Per Week 328 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. 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pt1a3.206 pt1b3.206 Weekly_February_22.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, February 22, 2006 PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** Please note, I am writing this draft of the Newsletter one hour early, so a few new books might come in and be added in next week. Sometime while I am gone the world population should pass 6.5 billion and the US population will approach 300 million. * New Type Of File In PrePrints!!! If you have or can find: formZ 3ds Max Autodesk VIZ Maya Sketch Up Rhinoceros Etc. then you should be able to see the latest file in PrePrints, a 3D rendering of the center of Champaign, Illinois. We are also including a Powerpoint presentation that will show this to some degree to those who cannot do 3D renderings. PT1A * Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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Including 534 Australian eBooks [+3] and 264 Project Gutenberg Europe [+1] And 141 From The New PrePrint Site [+1] [Correction, not 157 new last week, 140] We Are ~94% of the Way to 20,000!!! ***534 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971*** 15,658 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~254 eBooks per Month for ~61.75 Months We Have Produced 578 eBooks in 2006 1,280 to go to 20,000!!! ~32 New eBooks From Distributed Proofreaders ~8,072 total from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] [Currently over 36,000 DP volunteers] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005 [Including PG Australia] We Are Averaging ~329 eBooks Per Month This Year [Including PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints] [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] [Now including totals from Australia, Europe and PrePrints] [Apologies, it will take a while to integrate everything not all statistics may be totally equalized yet] [PGEu Statistics Are Counted Monthly Not Weekly] [Daily PGEu stats at http://dp.rastko.net/default.php] [Daily DP stats at http://www.pgdp.net] BTW, we just started a new "PrePrints" site at PG, so if you come across eBooks that aren't ready for primetime, but that should be saved for upgrading, we have a place to put them. http://preprints.pglaf.org/ old site http://preprints.readingroo.ms/ new site [Still integrating, sorry] All Four Sites Combined Are Averaging 82 eBooks Per Week In 2006 62 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2003 to 2006 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.00 years from Oct. 2003 to Nov. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,500 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. 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Now in its 7th year of operation. http://www.livinginternet.com/ TEXT TO SPEECH Dolphin Producer is a new software package which will convert a text document into a fully synchronized text and audio DTB at the push of a single button. The DTB can then be played back using Dolphin's EaseReader software player - which is included in Dolphin Producer. The DTB can also be played back on any other DAISY DTB software or hardware player, as well as any MP3 player - The choice is yours. http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk or http://www.dolphinusa.com *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] NEGROPONTE LEAVES MEDIA LAB Nicholas Negroponte will step down from the chairmanship of MIT's Media Lab, which he cofounded in 1985, to pursue his project of supplying $100 laptops to developing countries. The United Nations has endorsed the plan, which Negroponte says will be a boon to education and development in the world's poorest nations. Negroponte has set up a nonprofit called One Laptop Per Child to develop the laptop and work for its implementation. In addition to Negroponte's departure, Walter Bender, director of the Media Lab, will take a two-year leave of absence to participate in the One Laptop Per Child program as president for software and content development. Replacing Bender at the lab will be Frank Moss, an entrepreneur who founded Tivoli Systems and Bowstreet, which were bought by IBM. In a statement, MIT President Susan Hockfield expressed her support for Moss, saying that his experience and interests are a good match for the goals of the Media Lab. ZDNet, 15 February 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6039808.html GOOGLE TO PROVIDE E-MAIL TO COLLEGE [Will they still keep copies of all the email, and analyze them?] Google will provide e-mail service for students of San Jose City College under a new agreement just announced. The college, which is part of the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District, has about 10,000 students, some of whom remain students for years while others only stay for one semester, according to Michael John Renzi, director of finance and administration. "It's quite daunting to administer 10,000 accounts when they come and go," Renzi said. Under the new deal, Google will provide accounts and storage for students through its Gmail service, though the addresses for those accounts will use the school's domain, sjcc.edu. Faculty and staff will continue to use e-mail service provided by the institution. The arrangement is similar to those Microsoft has through its Hotmail University program. Google is soliciting other colleges and universities to participate in its e-mail offering. Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 February 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/02/2006021501t.htm To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 News From Other Sources Than The Usual: Syracuse PBS stantion WCNY "membership drives" are the major source of complaints from their audience these days, so they are looking into producing programs as a source of income, since they have alienated so many of their former membership to the point where they worry that they are entering a spiral of ever increasing pledge drives with ever decreasing results. [Reported about public television [PBS] by public radio [NPR]. * Dead Man In Car Receives Three Tickets And Tow Away Sticker "To Serve And Protect:" But who was there to help the man in the back seat of an illegally parked Mercedes in Peoria? Not too many details are available, but Decatur resident Michael Hudson, reported missing two weeks ago, was left to rot in his expensive coffin-on-wheels near the Peoria Methodist Medical Center long enough to have been cited three different times for the parking violation and then a fourth time with a tow-away sticker. Eventually someone just walking past the car notified the authorities that there was someone in the back seat with a foot up against the passenger window. The ticket writer[s] remained anonymous. [I guess there are worse places to be abandoned than in back seat of a black Mercedes-Benz in Peoria, Illinois.] *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.] Not going to get into details of what is now called: "The Great Firewall of China" [Google/Yahoo censorship] but you can find quite a bit at: www.resourceshelf.com/2006/02/prepared-statements-from-google-yahoo.html * Also not going to go into depth on Katrina but you can find quite a bit at: A Failure of Initiative: The Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina http://katrina.house.gov/ *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Los Angeles condemned a local furniture business via eminent domain and paid $6,000,000 and is now offering it to yet another furniture business for perhaps as low as $3,000,000, but certainly low enough that the city will lose a minumum of $1,000,000 up to $3,000,000. LA Public Safety Committee members are fighting about this option. The committee chair, Jack Weiss says, "It's a multimillion-dollar switcheroo for no reason at all. "The city could have saved millions of dollars and it wouldn't have condemned an existing business." Meanwhile, Councilman Parks, who has received contributions from the potential buyers, is pushing for the sale, basing arguements on the fact that the new owners will pay more in taxes than the once proposed animal shelter that was ostensibly the cause for the original eminent domain action. [You force a furniture company out of business for animal shelters? Really, who care about the location of an animal shelter. Of course there have been other examples of forcing perfectly healthy business and personal properties to be sold via eminent domain in Cleveland, New Haven, and other locations, just to create higher tax brackets for property taxes. "Sorry, you'll have to sell, so we can move in someone with so much more money that they will build expensively and then pay us more in property taxes."] *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK Can't quote exactly, but court documents were unsealed that report more about Scooter Libby's relationship to Vice President Cheney in terms of the leaking of classified information. Cheney appears to be claiming he and President Bush have the Executive Authority to "declassify" information at will, and thus can't be charged with leaking classified information about Valerie Plame and/or the manufacture of "classified" information to invade Iraq. [Sorry, I can't find direct quotes, but you can probably find some in later searches. Try "Coos Bay World" "Pittsburgh Post Gazette" Telegraph.co.uk, etc.] "Albuquerque Tribune" "International Herald Tribune" and The Associated Press. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Olympics Coverage Will Have To Change Given that NBC paid $3.5 Billion to cover the Olympics from the 2000 summer Olympics to the 2008 summer games, and not counting how much they spent on actual production, shows, or on broadcasting/narrowcasting, it is pretty obvious that things will have to change as ABC *stomped them flat* in a crucial ratings period with twice as many people watching Desperate Housewives and American Idol. By the way, CBS paid $50,000 to cover the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics, and spent and additional $450,000 on their shows and broadcasting, including Walter Cronkite as anchor. If you presume NBC is running at the same ratio of 10:1 for internal costs to how much paid to the Olympics, that means their total costs are $35 billion for those Olympics mentioned above. However, given their low ratings, at least for broadcast, they are going to have to either come up with some changes or let someone else outbid them next time around. [Personal note: I have seen similar competitions on TV in Europe and they showed every minute of every skater, from the worst to the best, and without nearly as many commercials or as much yadda-yadda-yadda.] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The largest currency bills in the United States were printed when there was no money during the Great Depression. $100,000 There were much larger bills printed in other countries that suffered hyperinflation, and you can buy German postage stamps from that era for hundreds of millions of marks, but inflation in the U.S. was very small, sometime even 0% or negative. 1940 2.3626% 1939 -1.5485% 1938 -1.5313% 1937 3.9665% 1936 0.0000% 1935 3.2815% 1934 8.9329% 1933 -2.6092% 1932 -11.5405% 1931 -8.4521% 1930 -2.7364% 1929 0.0000% [I wonder if this was due to requests from the extremely rich to make their money more portable if they left the country?] [A little research says that banks actually used them to send money to each other, with various discrepancies about dates that say they were only printed for a few weeks in 1934 to dates that run past World War II to 1946. Apparenty wars have some bearing on this also, as paper money was created in the U.S. during the Civil War, by both sides, in larger denominations than are available today, up to $10,000 [1865]. Different larger bills were introduced again in 1929. $500 William McKinley $5,000 James Madison $10,000 Salmon P. Chase $100,000 Woodrow Wilson Today large bills have been mostly taken out of circulation in an effort to make it more difficult for drug dealers and other criminals and ne'er-do-wells via executive order from President Richard Nixon in 1969, his first year in office-- he later took the U.S. off the $35 per ounce gold standard, which precipitated the inflationary spiral that followed to President Ronald Reagan. [article on inflation available] * The most recognizable smells in the U.S.? #1 Coffee #2 Peanut butter * The most common food in the world? Onions * 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. 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Walker 17754 [Subtitle: And Other Poems] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/5/17754 ] [Files: 17754.txt; 17754-8.txt; 17754-0.txt; 17754-h.htm] On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art, by James Mactear 17753 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/5/17753 ] [Files: 17753.txt; 17753-8.txt; 17753-0.txt; 17753-h.htm] La deux fois morte, by Jules Lermina 17752 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/5/17752 ] [Files: 17752-8.txt] Direct Legislation by the Citizenship, by James W. Sullivan 17751 [Full title: Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative] [and Referendum] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/5/17751 ] [Files: 17751.txt; 17751-8.txt; 17751-h.htm] Laugh and Play, by Various 17750 [Subtitle: A Collection of Original stories] [Illustrator: E. 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Wells [Herbert George #5] [anverxxx.xxx] 524 May 1996 Court Life in China, by Isaac Taylor Headland [#2][clchixxx.xxx] 523 May 1996 The Chinese Boy and Girl, by Isaac Taylor Headland[chnbgxxx.xxx] 522 May 1996 Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe [Defoe #3] [rbcruxxx.xxx] 521 May 1996 Life/Adventures of Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum[#11][lfstaxxx.xxx] 520 May 1996 A Kidnapped Santa Claus, by L. Frank Baum[Baum#10][kdstaxxx.xxx] 519 May 1996 The Enchanted Island of Yew, by L. Frank Baum [#9][enyewxxx.xxx] 518 May 1996 The Emerald City of Oz, L. Frank Baum[Oz#7/Baum#8][emctyxxx.xxx] 517 May 1996 The Silverado Squatters/Robert Louis Stevenson #23[silvsxxx.xxx] 516 May 1996 A Story of To-day, by Margret Howth [mhdayxxx.xxx] 515 May 1996 Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #2] [lwmenxxx.xxx] 514 May 1996 From The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#5] [snowixxx.xxx] 513 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,497,898,891 that would be 18,673 x 64,978,989 = ~1.21 Trillion !!! With 18,673 eBooks online as of February 15, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.82 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 64,978,989 x 18,673 x $.82 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.53 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 18,673 eBooks online as of February 15, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.53 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.64 when we had 15,454 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. At 18,673 eBooks in 34 Years and 07.50 Months We Averaged 539 Per Year 44.9 Per Month 1.48 Per Day At 531 eBooks Done In The 042 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 12.6 Per Day 89 Per Week 354 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, 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. 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pt1a2.206 pt1b2.206 Weekly_February_15.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, February 15, 2006 PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A * Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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Including 531 Australian eBooks [+1] and 261 Project Gutenberg Europe [+11] And 157 From The New PrePrint Site[+157] We Are ~93% of the Way to 20,000!!! ***531 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971*** 15,613 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~254 eBooks per Month for ~61.5 Months We Have Produced 533 eBooks in 2006 1,325 to go to 20,000!!! 40 New eBooks From Distributed Proofreaders 8,040 total from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] [Currently over 36,000 DP volunteers] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005 [Including PG Australia] We Are Averaging ~255 eBooks Per Month This Year [Including PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints] [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] [Now including totals from Australia, Europe and PrePrints] [Apologies, it will take a while to integrate everything not all statistics may be totally equalized yet] [PGEu Statistics Are Counted Monthly Not Weekly] [Daily PGEu stats at http://dp.rastko.net/default.php] [Daily DP stats at http://www.pgdp.net] BTW, we just started a new "PrePrints" site at PG, so if you come across eBooks that aren't ready for primetime, but that should be saved for upgrading, we have a place to put them. http://preprints.pglaf.org/ old site http://preprints.readingroo.ms/ new site [Still integrating, sorry] All Four Sites Combined Are Averaging 89 eBooks Per Week In 2006 225 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2003 to 2006 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.00 years from Oct. 2003 to Nov. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,500 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter FREE INTERNET REFERENCE SITE LivingInternet.com provides a 700-odd page reference about the Internet "to provide living context and perspective to this most technological of human inventions", and has received input from many people that helped build the Internet. It currently receives about 3 thousand visitors a day, many from educational institutions. Now in its 7th year of operation. http://www.livinginternet.com/ TEXT TO SPEECH Dolphin Producer is a new software package which will convert a text document into a fully synchronized text and audio DTB at the push of a single button. The DTB can then be played back using Dolphin's EaseReader software player - which is included in Dolphin Producer. The DTB can also be played back on any other DAISY DTB software or hardware player, as well as any MP3 player - The choice is yours. http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk or http://www.dolphinusa.com *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] MICHIGAN PRESIDENT DEFENDS GOOGLE'S BOOK SCANNING Speaking at the annual conference of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers, the president of the University of Michigan defended her institution's participation in Google's Book Search program. The program has upset many publishers and other copyright owners, who contend that the project violates their intellectual property rights. Mary Sue Coleman told conference attendees that the program "is about the social good of promoting and sharing knowledge" and argued that Thomas Jefferson would have loved it. Insisting that vast numbers of cultural artifacts are at risk of being lost due to insufficient efforts at conservation, particularly among libraries, Coleman characterized Google's project as one of preservation and her institution's participation as central to the university's mission. She noted that the University of Michigan had been "digitizing books long before Google knocked on our door, and we will continue our preservation efforts long after our contract with Google ends." Coleman's comment also included a clear defense of the rights of copyright holders. Her institution would not "ignore the law and distribute [protected material] to people to use in ways not authorized by copyright." CNET, 6 February 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6035858.html EFF RAISES CONCERNS OVER GOOGLE DESKTOP The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is warning users about what it says are privacy concerns with Google's new Desktop Search application. The tool indexes files from a computer, allowing users to search that content from other machines. According to the EFF, this process poses significant risks to personal privacy, particularly in light of recent government demands for access to usage logs from Google and other companies. EFF staff attorney Kevin Bankston said, "Unless you configure Google Desktop very carefully, and few people will, Google will have copies of...whatever...text-based documents the desktop software can index." If federal authorities obtain Google's records, he said, they would have access to all of those files. Officials from Google conceded that the new tool does represent a trade-off of some measure of privacy, but said such a compromise is one that many users will be willing to make. The company also said it would encrypt those files, would place strong limits on who can access the information, and would not store it for more than 30 days. BBC, 10 February 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4700002.stm TSA CALLS FOR AUDIT OF SECURE FLIGHT PROGRAM The federal government's Secure Flight program has suffered another setback, this time from Kip Hawley, head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Hawley told Congress that he has ordered a "comprehensive audit" of the program, though he did not say what prompted his decision. The program is intended to increase airline security by checking the names of all passengers against watch lists, a task currently carried out by airlines. Under the Secure Flight program, the federal government would assume that responsibility. Critics of the program point to its cost--$200 million over four years--noting that even last month Hawley said the TSA still was not entirely sure how it would work. They also have complained about privacy concerns of the program and routine mistakes that airlines reportedly make in checking passenger names against watch lists. Wired News, 9 February 2006 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70198-0.html GROUP SAYS YAHOO AIDED CHINESE AUTHORITIES For the second time recently, Yahoo has been accused of helping the Chinese government identify and prosecute individuals accused of political crimes. In 2005, Yahoo was criticized for providing information that helped Chinese authorities prosecute journalist Shi Tao, who was convicted of revealing state secrets. Reporters Without Borders said that another case has surfaced in which the ISP provided information to the Chinese government that led to the conviction of Li Zhi. According to the group, Li was found guilty of "inciting subversion" after he posted comments online critical of local officials and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Mary Osaka, a spokesperson from Yahoo, said that at the time the company was unaware of the nature of the investigation. In addition, she reiterated the company's position that it is better for Yahoo to have a presence in the country, "providing services we know benefit China's citizens," even if that requires compliance with local laws that run counter to U.S. beliefs and values. Internet News, 9 February 2006 http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3584191 BILL WOULD FORBID UNNECESSARY STORING OF DATA A bill introduced by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) would require operators of Web sites to delete information about the site's users unless the site had a "legitimate" need to preserve that data. Information covered by the bill includes names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other data, and all Web sites would be subject to the legislation, including those operated by individuals and nonprofits. According to Markey, the Eliminate Warehousing of Consumer Internet Data Act of 2006 is intended to address two issues: identity theft and government subpoenas of Internet data from Web sites including Google and Yahoo. Markey said personal information about Internet users "should not be needlessly stored to await compromise by data thieves or fraudsters, or disclosure through judicial fishing expeditions." ZDNet, 8 February 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6036951.html THAILAND BLOCKS YALE PRESS WEB SITE Internet users in Thailand will not be able to access the Yale University Press Web site following the government's response to a biography that presents an unflattering image of the country's king, Bhumibol Adulyadej. Thai officials in the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology frequently block access to online materials that include adult or violent content, criticism of the Thai royal family, information about the country's national security, or allegedly false advertising. The book, written by journalist Paul M. Handley, who reported from Thailand for 13 years, will be released by the Yale University Press in July. It is also expected to be banned in the country. Although Handley refused to comment specifically on the government's decision to censor the press's Web site, saying that the book will speak for itself, Yale issued a statement defending the book and the author. Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 February 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/02/2006020801t.htm To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *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.] Not even going to really include much about VP Cheney shooting of Harry Whittington other than to mention that his name wasn't included in many reports, nor was Cheney's name, and apparently not even White House Press Secretary McClellan was notified at the time. However, local authorities, who said their report is already completed, would open an investigation which would include a grand jury if Whittington dies. Detail: Cheney didn't have the proper hunting license. Detail: Whittington apparently still has birdshot in him, and not only the one that worked its way into his heart causing a heart attack. Question: What if Whittington had shot Cheney? *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK [All combined this week.] [From last week] The Valerie Plame scandal will be swept under the carpet until after the November US elections, as will most of a host of related WMD issues, etc., mentioned below. [OK, I was quite wrong about this one, details below. My guess is that this information came out resulting from the efforts to remove this as an election issue by moving Libby's trial to after the election. I am as surprised as anyone.] Reports surfaced this week from various sources in the CIA, State Dept., NSA and Scooter Libby's testimonies, all concerning the dis-information campaign concerning the rumored Iraq-Niger uranium sale that was publicly, and privately, denied by Ambassador Joe Wilson, but it still managed to get into the President's State of the Union Message, 2003. These reports from various senior officials indicate a campaign began in March, 2003, to discredit Ambassador Wilson and to deter any other future whisteblowers and that the campaign was started in conferences called by Vice President Cheney in his office, immediately after Wilson's appearances in CNN interviews in which Wilson said that there was no such Iraq-Niger uranium deal to the public, views shared by State Department's reports on the subject, the IEAE Chief, and weapons' inspector Albright, as reported below. Here is the timeline: March 7 International Atomic Energy Association chief Mohammed El Baradei addressed the U.N. Security Council, saying the documents indicating the yellowcake deal were just forgeries, and provided no evidence against Iraq. March 8 CNN, Ambassador Joe Wilson appears supporting the word of the IAEA Chief through his personal experience, but the details can't be told, they were classified. This is supported on CNN by U.N weapons' inspector Albright in his own comments. [See Wilson's conversation with the New York Times' Kristoff in May, 2003] March 9 Vice President Cheney calls a meeting in his office to discredit Ambassador Wilson, attended by Scooter Libby who was his Chief of Staff along with Karl Rove, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Hadley, and Deputy National Security Adviser John Hannah. [This meeting was reported by senior officals, at both the CIA and State Department who attended, who gave an anonymous report to public sources. At first they had no comment, claiming fear of losing their jobs, having family members endangered as with Joe Wilson's wife on the occasion she was "outed" as a covert CIA agent and other fears not named. However, as more and more came to light about the situation, they decided they had to speak out about the campaign of disinformation. These reports have lots more to offer, possibly reference to the above mentioned "outing" of Valerie Plame Wilson.] March 18 Invasion of Iraq The basic disinformation, Weapons of Mass Destruction, supposedly indicated by documents pointing to an Iraq- Niger deal for now infamous "yellowcake uranium," then already refuted by Ambassador Wilson internally by his 2002 mission to Niger at the request of Vice President Cheney through the CIA. The IAEA Chief, Ambassador Wilson, a weapons inspector named Albright, who also appeared with Wilson on a CNN interview, all said these documents were forgeries. Additional information, previous released, was also in serious doubt, having been challenged by our experts-- such as information obtained through "aggressive means of interrogation." There are way too many details to go into here, but it should be noted that many of these challenges had been made officially before The State of the Union Message, in which President Bush included "yellowcake uranium." [As mentioned immediately after the most recent of The State of the Union Messages, it's hard to believe that President Bush is still referring to a Weapons of Mass Destruction scenario. Not to mention an Al Quada link to Iraq.] These reports also indicate that Vice President Cheney and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Hadley visited a CIA headquarters location immediately after Wilson did the CNN interview, and other reports indicate the repeated visits by Vice President Cheney. This reported by CIA official[s]. [Now former] Excerpts from Wilson's CNN comments of March 8: "Well, this particular case is outrageous. We know a lot about the uranium business in Niger, and for something like this to go unchallenged by us, the US government, is just simply stupid. It would have taken a couple of phone calls. We have had an embassy there since the early '60s. All this stuff is open. It's a restricted market of buyers and sellers. For this to have gotten to the IAEA is on the face of it dumb, but more to the point, it taints the whole rest of the case that the government is trying to build against Iraq." Excerpts from Wilson's CNN comments of March 2: "The underlying objective, as I see it, the more I look at this, is less and less disarmament, and it really has little to do with terrorism, because everybody knows that a war to invade and conquer and occupy Iraq is going to spawn a new generation of terrorists," [This is getting way too much to follow here, so I am going to end by pointing out an 02.16.03 article Stephen Hadley, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, had written for the Chicago Tribune, that was reused en masse by the State Department in re-release to major media on March 10: "Two Potent Iraqi Weapons: Denial and Deception" This publication continued the Bush administration position still relying on the "yellowcake uranium" deal that had now been discredited multiple times.] [I'm just suprised at how much of this has been kept out of the press for three years now. I have gone out of my way not to include personality clashes, name calling, expletives, etc.] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK After the multiple fatal coal mine accidents recently, the feds are going after millions of dollars in unpaid fines from coal mines, but they say is has nothing to do with recent events, citing plans they made last year to make collection efforts. * 96% of all clothing sold in the US is made in other countries. * 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. "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. 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Van Lennep 17706 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17706 ] [Files: 17706.txt; 17706-8.txt; 17706-h.htm] Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. V. (of V.), by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17705 [Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker] [Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text] [Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17705 ] [Files: 17705.txt; 17705-8.txt; 17705-h.htm] Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.),by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17704 [Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker] [Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text] [Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17704 ] [Files: 17704.txt; 17704-8.txt; 17704-h.htm] Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.), Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17703 [Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker] [Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text] [Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17703 ] [Files: 17703.txt; 17703-8.txt; 17703-h.htm] Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.),by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17702 [Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker] [Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text] [Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17702 ] [Files: 17702.txt; 17702-8.txt; 17702-h.htm] Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.), by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17701 [Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker] [Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text] [Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17701 ] [Files: 17701.txt; 17701-8.txt; 17701-h.htm] Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the US, by W. E. B. 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(of VI.), by Thomas Moore 17684 [Subtitle: With his Letters and Journals.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/8/17684 ] [Files: 17684.txt; 17684-8.txt; 17684-0.txt; 17684-h.htm] The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884, by Various 17683 [Subtitle: A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/8/17683 ] [Files: 17683.txt; 17683-8.txt; 17683-h.htm] The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28, ed. by Charles William Daniel 17682 [Subtitle: The Independent Health Magazine] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/8/17682 ] [Files: 17682.txt; 17682-8.txt; 17682-h.htm] Lippa, by Beatrice Egerton 17681 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/8/17681 ] [Files: 17681.txt; 17681-8.txt; 17681-h.htm] The Title Market, by Emily Post 17680 [Illustrator: J. H. Gardner Soper] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/8/17680 ] [Files: 17680.txt; 17680-8.txt; 17680-h.htm] The Story of a Nodding Donkey, by Laura Lee Hope 17679 [Illustrator: Harry L. 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by Michael Hart 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Next Wednesday is the last Wednesday before I leave to give a presentation in Alaska followed by a month's working vacation. I can usually help quite a bit while I am on the road, but it is harder when I don't have the usual tools at hand, and I am unable to do all kinds of cutting and pasting as usual. A few alternatives: We could only do the PT2 automated Newsletter. We could do a very short weekly Newsletter for that month. We could try to do something as long as usual, with help. Any suggestions or volunteers? Thanks!!! Give the world eBooks in 2006!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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PT1b Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

pt1b1.206 Weekly_February_08.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, February 08, 2006 PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** Newsletter editors needed! Please email hart(a)pobox.com or gbnewby(a)pglaf.org Anyone who would care to get advance editions: please email hart(a)pobox.com ***Continuing Requests New Sites and Announcements General Catalog of Old Books and Authors http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm which now indexes 24,000 books available free online, including all PG(US) & PG(Aus)'s books, along with some basic date information about them and their authors where you can find more. 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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

pt1a1.206 Weekly_February_08.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, February 08, 2006 PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** !!! I will be on the road next month, Newsletter Editor Needed !!! Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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[Exactly, as of this very moment] 18,450 eBooks As Of Today!!! Including 530 Australian eBooks [+3] and 250 Project Gutenberg Europe [+6] And 1 From The New PrePrint Site [+0] [We do have 150 in the pipeline] We Are ~92% of the Way to 20,000!!! ***531 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971*** 15,388 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~255 eBooks per Month for ~61 Months We Have Produced 308 eBooks in 2006 1,550 to go to 20,000!!! 20 New eBooks From Distributed Proofreaders 8,000 total from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] [Currently over 36,000 DP volunteers] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005 [Including PG Australia] We Are Averaging ~246 eBooks Per Month This Year [Including PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints] [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] [Now including totals from both Australia and Europe and PrePrints] [Apologies, it will take a while to integrate everything not all statistics may be totally equalized yet] [PGEu Statistics Are Counted Monthly Not Weekly] All Four Sites Combined Are Averaging 62 eBooks Per Week In 2006 69 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2003 to 2006 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.00 years from Oct. 2003 to Nov. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,500 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] MIT PLANS WIRELESS NETWORK IN CAMBRIDGE MIT has announced plans to deploy a wireless network covering Cambridge, Mass., where the university is located. Working with Harvard University and Boston's Museum of Science, MIT will set up the network using mesh technology, which, although not as fast as commercial service, is significantly less expensive. With a traditional wireless network, wireless access points are installed to cover the desired area, and every access point is hardwired to the network. Mesh technology eliminates much of the wiring by relying on a small number of wired antennae and many other antennae that relay signals to the wired ones. Jerrold M. Grochow, vice president for information services and technology at MIT, described it as "hopping from antenna to antenna to antenna." Mary P. Hart, CIO for Cambridge, commented that the proposed network will allow the city to determine the demand for wireless access. Other cities have spent large sums developing wireless coverage without knowing if residents want it, she said. Grochow noted that unlike the situation in other municipalities, MIT's project has not run into opposition from commercial Internet providers. Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 February 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/02/2006020601t.htm AOL AND YAHOO EXPERIMENT WITH E-MAIL POSTAGE In an effort to limit unwanted and fraudulent e-mail, AOL and Yahoo have announced plans to begin charging "postage" for delivering some e-mail to their customers. Under the system, companies that pay to have their e-mail delivered--between 1/4 and 1 cent per message--will receive preferential service. A third party, Goodmail, will collect the fees and verify the source of messages. E-mail from nonpaying senders will still be delivered, but it will be routed through spam filters and other mechanisms, which could prevent it from reaching its target. The hope is that the fees will discourage spammers from sending billions of unsolicited messages every day. A spokesperson from AOL compared the plan to the current functioning of the postal system. Certified mail, for example, is guaranteed to be delivered "in a way that is different from other mail," he said. Some analysts said e-mail postage will only lead to disagreements between senders and ISPs. Many e-mail marketers also rejected the idea, saying that there are already mechanisms in place, such as a service called Bonded Sender, that verify the legitimacy of e-mail and that cost significantly less than the proposed charges. New York Times, 5 February 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html PUBLISHER LAUNCHES AD-SUPPORTED ONLINE TEXT HarperCollins has announced a new program that will make book content available free online, supported by advertiser links that share the page with the text. Officials from the publisher said the Harper program will focus on nonfiction and reference books, noting that advertisers are likely not as interested in paying to support literary fiction. The first book offered in the program, "Go It Alone! The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own" by Bruce Judson, was published in 2004 and later released in paperback. One test of the program will be whether ad sales offset lost sales, according to Murray, group president of HarperCollins. Despite the ongoing squabbles over online access to books, supporters of the idea still believe it has potential. Author M.J. Rose said that no one wants to read an entire book online but that if they have easy access to a text on the Web and they like it, they will be encouraged to buy a copy. Associated Press, 6 February 2006 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060206/ap_en_bu/publishing_free_text ["One test of the program will be whether ad sales offset lost sales" Of course this assumption flies in the face of all the studies, each of which indicated that free eBook editions caused increased sales rather than "lost sales."] CELL PHONES AS TRACKING TOOLS Companies that use cell phones to track people have seen significant increases in business in the past few years. In Britain, firms such as Followus and Verilocation frequently work with employers who want to keep tabs on staff, despite concerns that the service infringes on individuals' civil rights. Kevin Brown of Followus noted that his company's service requires the consent of those being tracked. Users must agree to having their cell phones tracked, and periodic messages are sent randomly to users reminding them that their movements are being followed. Officials at Verilocation pointed to such events as the bombings in London last summer as times when being able to locate all of your employees is highly valuable. Experts on business processes said being able to track employees can allow companies to provide better service to customers by, for example, letting them know exactly where a technician is and when he will arrive at a customer's home. Officials from Liberty, a civil rights group, were unconvinced, saying that employees' rights in the workplace have been eroded and that there is a significant risk that businesses will misuse tracking data. CNET, 5 February 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6035317.html EFF SUES AT&T OVER COOPERATION WITH NSA The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed suit against AT&T for allegedly cooperating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in eavesdropping on individuals without a warrant. President Bush ordered the wiretaps following the terrorist attacks of 2001 and has vigorously defended them, saying the Constitution and Congressional resolutions allow them. Civil liberties groups and others reject that, saying that the wiretaps violate existing laws on surveillance. The EFF said it identified AT&T as one company involved in the activities and has filed suit "to stop this invasion of privacy, prevent it from occurring again, and make sure AT&T and all the other carriers understand there are going to be legal and economic consequences when they fail to follow the law." The EFF alleges that AT&T provided the NSA with access to its network, which carries both voice and data, and to its vast databases that store information on phone calls and Internet activity. AT&T refused to comment on the litigation. Yahoo, 31 January 2006 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_hi_te/domestic_spying_lawsuit CONGRESS HOLDS HEARINGS ON CELL-PHONE CUSTOMER PRIVACY A Congressional hearing this week will address cell phone companies' efforts to protect the privacy of their customers. The hearing comes after recent revelations that a number of data brokers have been able to con cell phone companies into disclosing data about customers and their calling habits, which was then sold to third parties. The premise is that certain individuals, such as attorneys, might want details of cell phone calls, and data brokers supply that data. Cell phone companies and some members of Congress, however, object to the methods that data brokers use to obtain that information, including posing as people they are not and using information such as Social Security numbers without authorization. Some critics have pointed to weak policies and practices among cell phone companies for protecting such data as the root of the problem. Rep. Joe L. Barton (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a statement that he intends to make the practice of fraudulently obtaining such data "very illegal." ZDNet, 1 February 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6033688.html To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *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.] [Reply from one of our readers follows this reprint.] Bill Gates Says It Will Take 10 Years To Stop Piracy In China/India "In India and China it will be a decade before we get that level," meaning the current protection level achieved in the United States, as is currently in progress in Taiwan and South Korea. Mr. Gates was addressing the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. [However, what I think he really means is that it will take 10 years or so, for China and India to grow economically to the point where a person of their average means can really afford MicroSoft programs.] [By the way, I got the first clues to this story from the BBC, but a recent search shows the story is already missing after a short time, so the follow up was through The Express, of India.] [In my own personal experiences outside the Asia major urbana center locations, there is no place you can find legal copies of anything-- the manufacturers are just not interested in making them available.] If the product is not made available, how can we buy The Real Thing? Source: BBC Express India Reply from Martin Ward <martin(a)gkc.org.uk> Turning a blind eye to piracy in the developing world is Microsoft's policy: few people can afford to buy their products (at the moment), so enforcing copyright would just push customers into using Linux. Instead, allow rampant piracy, until everyone uses MS products, and becomes locked into MS products, *then* start enforcing copyright, when it becomes harder to switch. As the drug pushers say "The first one is always free". Martin martin(a)gkc.org.uk http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/ Erdos number: 4 G.K.Chesterton web site: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/ * *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK [See below] *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The Valerie Plame scandal will be swept under the carpet until after the November US elections, as will most of a host of related WMD issues, etc., mentioned below. *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK and *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK [combined this week] [Continued from last week's report from the previews] "I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United Nations Security Council." Sec. State Powell's Former Chief of Staff Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson concerning the famous speech to the United Nations on "Weapons of Mass Destruction," two years ago this very week, to which he was a major contributor. "I recall vividly the Secretary of State walking into my office, and saying `I wonder what will happen if we put half a million troops on the ground in Iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and don't find a single weapon of mass destruction?'" Wilkerson says that CIA Director George Tenent and others reported no reliability or validity problems with the intelligence reported, even though the majority of sources were suspect or compromised, a charge that was extended to the DIA reports of Sheik Al Libbi. He stated that Vice President Cheney's multiple CIA visits at the time should be characterized as "undue influence" and also should be compared the undue influence Cheney pressed on Congress during the various recent dissussions of the "torture issue." Wilkerson has repeatedly characterized the creation of a cartel of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney to override U.S. allegiance to the Geneva Convention and "inept and incompetent" operations in Iraq. "I'm worried, and I would rather have the discussion and debate in the process we've designed, than I would a dictat from a dumb strongman. I'd prefer to see the squabble of democracy to the efficiency of dictators." There's way too much more to include here, but you can find the entire report via: "Powell's Former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson Calls Pre-War Intelligence a 'Hoax on the American People'" Mathaba.Net, UK - Feb 6, 2006 * "The politicians have hijacked our democracy by redistricting." Boston Legal, 02/07/06 *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK "The British Library spends #2m of its #16m annual acquisitions budget on digital material, mainly reference books and journals." Already 1/8 of their money is being spent on digitial materials, and presuming those digital materials are less expensive than a paper counterpart, we should possibly consider that 1/4 of their acquisitions are digital. "By 2020, 90% of newly published work will be available digitally," "according to British Library predictions published last year." Source: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4675280.stm * The Nazis used the guillotine to behead far more people than the French. * Windfall Gasoline Profits in 2005 $36.1B Exxon +43% to +46% [various sources] [on $371B gross, +20%] $25.3B Shell +26% to 30% [^more than the $340B GDP of Saudi Arabia^] $22.34B BP $14.1B Chevron [Chevron does more business overseas, hard to get figures] [ChevronTexaco] $13.53B ConocoPhillips $111.37 Billion Total Profit For Those Five Companies in 2005 By comparison, the rumored merger of Mittal Steel and Arcelor in Europe would have done $69B in 2005, run by Lakshmi Mittal, listed by Forbes as the #3 richest person in the world. The basic claims are that merger-mania MUST continue or else they can't compete with those who have already done mergers. And most of them are still complaining they didn't make enough. Example: BP still complained that they lost money in the 4th quarter compared to last year, even though profits were up 26%. [BBC] Home heating oil jas nearly doubled from the $1.16 of winter 2001-2002. First column figures from articles: "Resource Investor - Energy - Canada's Top Integrated Oil Firm" "Hurricane Damage Limits Chevron's Profit" "`conocophillips profits" - Google News'" Also see Charlie Rose, 02/07/06 * 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. "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. * *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. To subscribe to any (or to unsubscribe or adjust your subscription preferences), visit the Project Gutenberg mailing list server: http://lists.pglaf.org If you are having trouble with your subscription, please email the list's human administrators at: help(a)pglaf.org

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