High-School girls coming from civilized families are usually really caring indeed.
I know the bitches you're referring too, but that's not the natural breed.

I thought that even if the Metis wars were harsh, Native repression never amounted to genocide in Canada?
Doesn't this make a big difference in the resulting culture, both popular and governmental?
Especially if you take into account Girard's work about the anthropological implications of murder...

I can't be sure since I don't know Sweden that much, but if the Swede protestant mentality is any close to Swiss protestant mentality, the core of judicial anger against him is probably simply that Warg refused to submit to their authority, and this is something said authorities can't understand and consider needs to be punished.

In Swiss they kept a petty thief (from a warmer country, so with different sociological principles) for decades (until they let him burn in a fire in his cell) basically because he kept asking to be released when his term had ended.

Screw the children and the terrorists, but you'll be surprised by what extent I would go to find my keys...

The correspondance boom you're referring to may have faded, but correspondance courses are still around and very useful for who has time (and the right skills) to devote to them.
MOOCs are not a magic ticket to universal academic success, but they are at least highly improved correspondance courses.

They claim to have killed an unarmed Bin Laden at point blank range.
Ever saw the movie The Siege? Which, by the way, was shot a few years before 9/11...

Actually, no.
Karl Marx was a philosophe, and considered that he needed to understand economy to further his philosophical goals of emancipation.
Anyway, the communist manifesto is highly dated; The Capital is obviously a book of his time, but being observational and analytical rather than programmatic, it is an excellent description of the industrial revolution.

I would highly recommend reading Roger Gentis's work, especially maybe "Les murs de l'asile".
It's quite old indeed, but still very interesting.

This is what I came for when I've read low-speed...
I have a better bandwith here than your 56k modem, but not that much (usually around 20 ko/s).

The technical solutions on your link are interesting, but a bit more extreme that what I would need.
Actually, I'm particularly interested in understanding what's non-optimal in bandwith allowance and usage (both from the tower to my computer, and inside my computer, between applications).
There are some behaviours (pages refusing to load at random times) that show that the problem is not only poor bandwith, but bad usage of it too.

Asimow was a jew.
Jewish intellectuals have a sense of community and an ethic of responsability*, and so loyalty towards humanity and the general good trumps loyalty to the state or the corporation.
So Asimov imagined a future where engineers would have an ethic of responsability and some sort of loyalty towards humanity.
That's the reason for the Three Laws being unrelevant to the actual world.


(*) Non-zionist ones at least.

What seems to be the situation is that for ten years, the Brazil government did not want to buy american jets, but had not enough power to say a definitive "no" to such a "caring friend" as the American government.
Now the Snowden scandal gives Rousseff a good reason to go for the better plane without risking too much of political backlash from both US governement and Boing and US Army friends in Brazil.

It seems that the real problem is that allowing people to share creation freely would end in people actually choosing what they want to watch and read.
Which would mean that Big Entertainment would not anymore being able to force-feed product-placement crap through false choice like "Ow my balls!" on Channel 1 and "Ouch my thingies!" on Channel 2.
Which would be not only the end of Big Entertainement, but the end too of consumer-driven capitalism, which works well towards an idiocracy-like utopia only because the consumers are advertisement-driven.

If you don't control anymore what the people watch and read, you lose control both of what people think and of what they buy (they might even think before buying - oh the humanity!), so it's the end of civilisation as we know it.

And some people consider that the content-owners should die a painful death and let the content-makers and content-users find together a honest way to keep creation flowing...

There's an interesting explanation at the end of Dennis Lehane's "Sacred": basically, because you could not live on what you actually produce, so you have to steal your income from other people and other countries.
Stealing from poor people on a long-term basis cannot be established without submitting them to a reign of terror, so you end living in fear of them retaliating somehow.

Getting the measles is a vaccine, so what's wrong with that?