Wow. It is truly amazing how strongly people feel about Esperanto. My last few posts got an incredible response. Some was positive, and some negative, but very extremely polarized.

Those with a Windows box, try this experiment: Open the calculator and switch to scientific. Switch the mode to binary. Now try to subtract, lets say, 111111 from 11101011. You should get -01010100, or in place of the negative sign a series of 1's indicating the sign. Yet, for some reason, you don't. What kind of screwed up piece of dried-up dog crap is that? How did Bill's team manage to take a computer, something which natively speaks binary, and get it to forget how? Just to spell it out: if

How can downloading music be a crime? For a crime to have occurred, there must be a victim. Unless RIAA can prove that I would have bought the CD (I would not have!), then there are no damages from the action. No victim. No crime.

I can hear the voices crying, "Copyright!" but somewhere along the way we lost sight of what copyrights and patents were intended for, and how publishing is supposed to work, and work for the people. Let me explain.