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Submission + - Mexico Government will extra Tax communications (eluniversal.com.mx)

Submitted by movesguy on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @01:26PM

movesguy writes: While some contries had turn Internet a Constitucional Right http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/15/finland.internet.rights/index.html
Yesterday Mexican Congress approved the Income/Expenses Law for next year, which include a 3% extra tax (besides the 16% almost-universal tax to consume)
The tax will up the total tax to Cable TV, Land Telephony, Cellular Telephony (prepaid and postpaid) and Internet.
Mexican people and several other from other countries had take Twitter action under the #internetnecesario tag. http://twitter.com/#search?q=internetnecesario
Reuters had covered the issue previously (there's not news matter in English yet, but all major mexican newspaper had cover it) http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIntegratedTelecommunicationsServices/idUSN2045404920091020
(Source in Spanish)

Submission + - Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New St (dailygalaxy.com)

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movesguy

on Friday July 03, 2009 @01:22PM

movesguy writes: "Stephen Hawking said in his lecture: Life in the Universe that "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution" From the article: "At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information." "I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race," Hawking said. In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, "an external transmission phase," where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed significantly. "But the external record, in books, and other long lasting forms of storage," Hawking says, "has grown enormously. Some people would use the term, evolution, only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes." http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/stephen-hawking-the-planet-has-entered-a-new-phase-of-evolution.html"

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