Like these folks, I don't believe the "settled science" or "scientific consensus" claimed to exist actually does.

http://www.cato.org/special/climatechange/cato_climate.pdf

This is a great example of sensationalized cherry-picked anecdotal evidence...which in reality means nothing. The picture showing ice was taken during an abnormal year. The ice melts away every year, usually in July. It took longer to melt in 2006 thanks in part to their being more than normal amounts of "multi-year" ice shoved down from the arctic that year.

Article (from AP): http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/372343/arctic_ocean_ice_crashes_on_alaska_shores/
Video (from NASA): http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~10~10~71195~176482:Ice-Surge-in-Barrow,-Alaska

On some levels agree...but I think it is important to point out that you've got the demographics of Ahmadinejad's base a bit backward. From the news reports I've read... If you use the 2005 election results as a guide (seen as more accurate than results from the current election, for obvious reasons) his support is disproportionally urban. Part of what makes this election look rigged is that he did so well in these rural areas - it is unreasonable to think so many people changed their minds so completely. So I'm not sure enabling the city folks is a means to the result you're looking for.

Personally I don't think our government (the US Government) should be intervene...so for me it is kind of a mute point...but if you're going to argue for isolationism via interventionism, don't make bad assumptions.

On a side note, about 68% of the population of Iran lives in cities...much like here.

Bingo. I am not part of the crowd that downloads music/books I haven't paid for (unless offered by their creator for free), yet I understand that business models in this realm must take human nature into account when setting pricing. You have displayed an understanding of applicable human nature.

Simply put, you need to find a balance where people who value your book enough to pay for it can find it at a price they find reasonable. If you price the book too high, you will lose sales/income to piracy. On the other end if you price it at the cost of publication very few people will pirate, but you'll make nothing. The aim, therefore, is to set pricing where the product of volume times gross margin is highest.

Also, don't be fooled into thinking that intellectual value or degree/amount of effort translates directly into economic value of the work (as individual copies or when multiplying price times volume). Because your book is great doesn't mean it is worth 5x the price of a novel. That your market is smaller doesn't make it worth more per copy either. Economic value is literally that - what people are willing to pay. I find it absurd that autobiographies by former presidents have higher economic value than books like yours, but that is, well, the ugly truth.

Lastly, on suing people. Even on Slashdot I think you'll find most people would be supportive of suing businesses or individuals who are making money by selling illegitimate copies. Such a commercial benefit puts them squarely in the wrong legally and morally. To sue them or not depends on to what degree you're willing to sue them out of principle (to deter this practice) and how much return you might get from such.

On the other hand, suing your "customers" is a very bad idea. Even if you can extort some $$ from them, I would avoid suing people who are interested in your work but have obtained it via other means because, to them, they found it more reasonable to do something which is likely immoral and may have taken more effort, than pay the price you set.

I agree this is a DNS setting issue. Once the tunnel is nailed up the host's DNS settings should be changed to use internal DNS servers (only, or at least first). With most of the VPN products I've seen there are config options to control this behavior (client DNS) in this type of a scenario (when host is allowed to send network traffic via local network while connected).

(I used to be the technical lead for remote access for a Fortune 100 company. Our VPNs were used by over 100k employees/contractors.)