Didn't the US say they were going to try and get North Korea's internet access cut?

There is a very good reason why we have such a huge English language reading market: if we want to read good books, we have to read in English. Unless you are talking Sidney Sheldon, Agatha Christie, or the latest Hollywood-is-making-a-blockbuster-movie-adaptation novel, you won't find it here. I mean, c'mon, even a good number of Stephen King books aren't available. How lame it that.
Anyway, I rather read them in English anyway. Translations sometimes can destroy a book.

Ahh, thank you.
I live in Brazil, and most of my books are in English.
But I can understand your reasons for restricting the area. You, for once, have a good reason for it.
Thank you. Hope we can eventually get it here.

Cheers,

And of course it would have country limitations.
In the information era, this is almost insulting, it is were not to be expected.

So, why is that? Is it the publishers that are forcing this? If so, care to name names?

What stops crime is not the severity of the punishment, but how likely the person is to be punished for it.
Say the odds of being punished for a crime are 0.01%, people won't care if the punishment if a fine or 10 years in jail.
So firing the officers won't solve it. Punishing them won't solve it. What need to happen is more people filming, so the odds of them being punished for whatever they do increases drastically.

If a cop is doing something wrong (or even right, hey, lets give some positive feedback also), when he looks around he should see several people filming it.

You are kidding, right? DEVELOPS Windows? Are you trying to shift the question for any particular reason?
Do you even know what "ripping someone else's technology" mean?

The whole concept of Windows based interface was around with Apple, NEC, Xerox (which is also where the mouse comes from) and a couple others before Microsoft adopted it (and claimed they created it). Notice that Microsoft doesn't say they improved it, or "took it one step further". They claim to have created it.

Do your homework, please.

And again Microsoft is ripping someone else's technology and saying it is their own invention. Take your pick: dos, windows, mouse... the list goes on and on.

Are these guys serious? This sounds like the city of Rio de Janeiro requiring a license before you can show the state of christ the redeemer on any video piece (advertisement, movies etc), which is tried to do (not sure if they passed the law or not). It is insane.
These are public places. What's next, the FAA requiring a license before you can shoot a picture of the sky?

And how, pray tell me, should we be making our theories, if not to fit our observations (facts and evidence)?
The problem is when people try to distort (or ignore) facts to fit their theories. Or when people aren't willing to revise or discard their theories when presented with new facts.

Of course it does. More than that, that is the exact definition of a theory being correct: matching the facts.
It is the the theory doesn't match the observations (facts and evidence) that it is incorrect, and needs to be revised or even discarded altogether. There is even the process where a theory gets revised so many times and it loses all credibility, even if not disproven in its entirety ("God of the gaps theory"), where you simply reverse the burden of proof and discard any validity based on preexistence and, since there is nothing to corroborate the theory, it goes the way of Russell's Teapot.

:citation needed:

I'm extremely happy with my TL-WR1043ND running OpenWRT.
Gigabit, Wireless N, USB port.

The USB port is particularly useful, since I use 3G as a backup connection, when my ADSL goes down.

I do take it with skepticism. I can also do basic math.
Unless something changes, things tend to continue moving on the same direction. If the amount of paint residue on the oceans is increasing steadily, it will continue to increase (again, if nothing changes).
So yeah, there is cause for worry, maybe even alarm. Panic? No. Panic will be when we start seeing large scale effects of this.

I both agree and disagree with you.
On other hand, they are making the production company and NBC a ton of money.
On the other hand, the writers are getting much less than the actors, and I think that at least 60% of the money being made by the show is because of the actors.
The rationale, however, is that the writers are (in theory) easier to replace than the actor, because the public don't see them.

"People have so many choices on TV now, so no one's asking for you to marry us. You can enjoy our show without a weekly appointment."

And that, my friends, and part of the reason people keep turning on to watch it.

9.0.0.0/8 used to be allocated to IBM. They used it for internal routing like other companies use 10/8 addresses. Not sure how this A class network stands right now.

Doesn't castor beans also grow pretty much everywhere? As far as I know, it is even better than switchgrass.