If you are in the Amazon cloud, my recommendation is to get a clue and withdraw from it.

Regards,
proclus
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The latest ACTA text is out. Activists may wish to go straight to Section 5, which deals with digital enforcement and explicitly stipulates that the provisions preserve fundamental principles, such as free speech rights. A caveat would be that these stipulations are not present in the first part of the document, which deals primarily with non-digital property. Section 5 is about the restriction of access to knowledge.

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Who are the REAL pirates? Those rallying behind the 'Bill To Combat
Online Infringement' seem too quick to label internet users as
pirates, an archaic term which refers to terrible crimes on the high
seas. Exploiters...

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The article raises concerns that the proposed bill violates the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA, forcing ISPs to police their users and the network, and holding them accountable what their users are doing. There are also concerns about inflating copyright violations into an act of piracy, which is a grave crime of the high seas. If I make a copy of something, is it such a grave crime as that?

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Opponents of Park51 in New York like to maintain the pretense that their anti-Muslim animus is related directly to 9/11. Itâ(TM)s not the community center theyâ(TM)re worried about, the argument goes, but rather the proximity to the site of the fallen Twin Towers.

That is, of course, nonsense, as is evident when we see fierce opposition to Muslim Americans elsewhere.

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Some of our best minds have indicated that global warming
from carbon pollution will present humanity with a species-
level threat. We must do whatever is necessary to avoid
that eventuality.

note: What follows is a bit of rambling intended as rough, quick, ad hoc
contribution to solving this emergent problem. Comments
and suggested edits are welcome, so that we can address
the problem together.

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I am so surprised by how eager some people are to use a nuclear weapon the oil spill. Perhaps they would like us to become accustomed to the idea of using nuclear weapons, and perhaps they have another target in mind after they are done with the whales in the gulf.

Healthy pomegranate nut fudge with blueberries is the latest variation on the weekend fudge indulgence, but it is also a wonderful component of a good diet. Cocoa lovers can add a serving of peanut butter to the fudge, and the portion is expanded to 4...

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The drilling infrastructure is likely designed to be stable. Several factors
contribute to this stability. As oil seepage and erosion occurs, the
infrastructure is stabilized by settling from the seafloor above. This
is the case of normal well operation, but in the gulf, we are now far
away from the norm, and seepage may be a much greater problem.

What if there is a large seepage amounting to a steady eroding flow?

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The GNU-Darwin Distribution has joined the BP Boycott and blackened their web site. It is black, like the poor birds and fishes, who have been colored by BP and their oil spill. This environmental catastropie is already causing tremendous problems in the health and public welfare...

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Do we really want another oil spill disaster like the one in the Gulf of Mexico? Please join me in saying no to off-shore oil drilling. Exxon showed us that terrible oil spills can happen in the North too. Letâ(TM)s put a stop to the nonsense.

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How long until we realize that the spill is a global scale problem, that requires a global response? How long until we realize that we need to stop what we are doing and address the problem now. Recommendations to the activist community:

http://posterous.com http://ping.fm

Use them to spread the word, petition links, etc. I use ping, posterous, livejournal, and stumbleupon together. It works OK most times. Hellotxt.com is also sometimes useful ;-}.

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Boycott BP Petition - StumbleUpon - I clicked twice. How about you? http://xi.nu/gd239 #boycottbp #oilspill #BP Are they counting our votes?

gnudarwin: US out of Afghanistan now! Obama, more like Bush every day. http://ping.fm/wGNhp