"In the simplest terms possible," Clarke says, "Freenet attempts to permit true freedom of speech. Copyright law attempts to prevent communication in some circumstances. And therefore, in order for Freenet to do its job successfully, it must prevent enforcement of copyright law."
Freenet: Will It Smash Copyright Law? - BizReport.com
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DRESSED in a ragged T-shirt with a cigarette in the corner of his mouth, a 42-year-old German fulfils his duties at a Hainan chicken rice stall in Bangkok's Chinatown.
Roland Rapp, now called "Vora", once led a successful life in Mannheim, Germany. Two years ago he decided to visit Thailand and fell in love with a woman who approached him when he was looking around the city of angels.
He thought he would spend the rest of his life with this woman, but unfortunately things did not work out that way. One day he woke up to find his girlfriend gone with all his money and travel documents.
That's when his life as a homeless waiter began.
"I used to see him around. He would come and drink water from a public tank. His face was dirty, he wore rags and his bare feet were full of wounds. He always watched us from afar. Sometimes he would come up and help us carry big pots," Suthorn Komolrattanamongkol, the stall owner, said.
"I felt so sorry for him. I've never seen a foreigner so down on his luck, so I decided to hire him for Bt20 a day. I also give him free beer and cigarettes."
Vora can speak neither English nor Thai, but can understand bits of both languages as well as Chinese. His duties are to wash dishes, open the stall at 5am every morning and serve customers.
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The scandal broke on Tuesday when Internet news service a href="http://www.tehelka.com">tehelka.com screened a secretly filmed documentary showing public officials, army officers and bureaucrats apparently taking money from journalists posing as arms dealers.
India Scandal Boosts Web News
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Deep Blue defeated then world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a high-profile battle pitting man against machine in 1997.
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The last post of Huang Qi, the founder of www.6-4tianwang.com, China's first human-rights web site:
" There is a long way in front of us. Thank you all, thanks to everybody devoted to democracy of China. They are here now (the policemen), so long."China and the Internet 2001
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the United Nations expressed the importance of this ability in the Universal Declarations of Human Rights, Article 19. "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any means regardless of frontiers."
EFF: Preserving Free Expression
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the average rental rate for a grade-A office in the central business district (CBD) stood at Bt390 per square metre per month, reflecting a slight increase from Bt376 the year before
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Nation: It is forecast that the number of mobile phones in use worldwide will reach one billion units by 2003. Of that figure, over 4 million people are expected to use the devices to access the Net. .
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RDX (Cyclonite) and PETN (Pentaerythrite Tetranitrate), both powerful explosives in their own right, are the two main components of Semtex.
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An amphetamine tablet costs less than 50 satang to produce. Its wholesale price at factories in Burma is between 8 and 12 baht. At the Thai-Burmese border, the price is between 13 and 15 baht.
Inside Thailand, police say, the tablets sell wholesale for from 30 to 60 baht, and retail for as much as 100 baht and sometimes more.
"In some areas like Bangkok, one tablet can sell for up to 200 baht," the police source says.
With profit margins like that, no wonder more drug makers seem to be entering the business every day. Names such as Chang Chi Fu, Chang Ping Yan, Yang Wan Hsuan, Lio Szo Po, Yang Kuo Po and Pu Kung are already well-known. But the list is destined to get much longer.
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I would like to nominate Taliban Information and Culture Minister Mullah Qudratullah Jamal and Mullah Mohammad Omar to the list "Biggest Idoits of All Time"
Taliban Smash Afghan Statues, Spark World Outrage
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