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Comment Text lifted from Wikipedia? (Score 1) 136

by allan on Tuesday February 05, 2008 @04:27PM (#22311728) Attached to: Three Parents Contribute to Experimental Human Embryo

It looks like this bit of the article

They are sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because they generate most of the cell's energy.

was taken directly from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion/

Mitochondria are sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because they generate most of the cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), used as a source of chemical energy.

Seems to me like the author couldn't be bothered coming up with his or her own words.

Moglen on Social Justice and OSS 336

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 10, 2006 @12:22PM from the something-weighty-with-your-sunday-morning dept.

NewsCloud writes "What does Firefox have to do with social justice? How will the one laptop per child project discourage genocide? How soon will Microsoft collapse? Watch Eben Moglen's inspiring keynote from the 2006 Plone Conference (Archive.org: mp3 or qt; or YouTube). The video presentation is ordinary, so the mp3 is an equally good format. 'If we know that what we are trying to accomplish is the spread of justice and social equality through the universalization of access to knowledge; If we know that what we are trying to do is build an economy of sharing which will rival the economies of ownership at every point where they directly compete; If we know that we are doing this as an alternative to coercive redistribution, that we have a third way in our hands for dealing with long and deep problems of human injustice; If we are conscious of what we have and know what we are trying to accomplish, when this is the moment for the first time in lifetimes, we can get it done.'"

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