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Taking Down Telecommunications

By: Major Gerald R. Hust, USAF

...Information is one of the most, if not the most, essential elements of combat capability. Because telecommunications affects every aspect of a society, and is probably the most important medium which military information is exchanged, this thes...

...1 INTRODUCTION . . . 1 Notes . . . 3 2 TELECOMMUNICATIONS . . . . . 5 The Modern Communications System . . . . . 6 Vulnerability Analysis . . . . . . 17 Targeting . . . . 23 Quantification . . . . . 29 Conclusion . . . 32 Notes . . . 35 3 DISABLING WEAPONS ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ... heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning ... ...s Systems. http://www.roserpark.net/greenwood/strowger.html http://www.strowger.com/history.html http://www.agcs.com B Barbie Barbie was invented ... ... Berliner". http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa021700a.htm http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not... ...fortlessly, making use of the latest advances in mass media, public transportation, telecommunications, and computer networks. The police - there ar...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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A History of U. S. Communications Security (Volumes I and Ii);1973

By: David G. Boak

... Description of document: A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I a... ... Description of document: A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II); ... ...: 23-December-2007 Released date: 10-December-2008 Posted date: 24-December-2008 Source of document: National Security Agency Attn: FOIA/PA ... ...Ft. George G. Meade, MD 20755-6248 Phone: (301)-688-6527 Fax: (443)-479-3612 Note: The meat of the material left after redaction starts at (PDF) ... ...0 Serial: MDR-54498 10 December 2008 This responds to your request of 23 December 2007 to have A History of U.S. Communications Security (2 volumes) b... ...printers were much quieterin the first place? Behind these events and questions lies a very long history beginning with the discovery of a pouible thr... ...yers became ourselves, tbe telepbone companies, tbe Wbite House', OOA, the now defunct Office of Telecommunications Policy in OMB, FCC and, ultimately... ...c realignment of roles aod missions in Government for COMSEC and for something different called "Telecommunications Proteetioll." ~e Secretary of Defe... ... to nalional security. A new Executive Alent, the SecretarY of Commen:e, became responsible for "Telecommunications Protection," defined to encompass ...

...This publication consists of a series of lectures prepared and given to interns and other employees by Mr. David G. Boak in 1966. Mr. Boak is uniquely qualified to discuss the history of the US COM_SEC because he has participated significantly in most...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...40-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 ... ...rface runways; 9 with run- ways 2,440-3,659 m, 15 with runways 1,220-2,439 m Telecommunications: limited telephone, telegraph, and radiobroadcast serv... ... minor Civil air: none Airfields: 10 total; 6 with runways 2,500 m or longer Telecommunications: 14 AM, 4 FM, 9 TV stations; 50,000 TV sets; 210,000 r... ...urface runways; 28 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 74 with runways 1,220-2,439 m Telecommunications: 17 AM, FM, and 1 TV stations; 1,445,000 TV sets; 3,50... ..., 1 seat Communists: no known Communist orga- nization; Koma of BNF has long history of Communist contacts Member of: AfDB, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, G...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ... AUTHOR BIO: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the... ... and Fall of p-Zines XIII. The Internet and the Library XIV. A Brief History of the Book XV. The Affair of the Vanishing Content XVI. Revo... ...cally updated content, ,multimedia capabilities, database, Favourites and History Maintenance (records of reading habits, shopping habits, interactio... ...ically updated content, ,multimedia capabilities, database, Favourites and History Maintenance (records of reading habits, shopping habits, interacti... ...sold. But Fujitsu and the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom) - including Microsoft, IBM, Alca... ...ww.TheHarrowGroup.com. He also co-authored the book "The Disappearance of Telecommunications". For more than seventeen years, beginning with “The Ra... ...omputing powers. The Internet will be just another tool available through telecommunications, rather than through the ownership of hard copies of so...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV.... ... of Stock Trends": "The science of recording, usually in graphic form, the actual history of trading (price changes, volume of transactions, etc.)... ... etc.) in a certain stock or in 'the averages' and then deducing from that pictured history the probable future trend." Fundamental analysis is abo... ...lation and asset bubbles is unclear. On the one hand, some of the greatest fizz in history occurred during periods of disinflation. One is reminded... ...ccessful) $5.9 billion bid for (another) TRW ... In 1996, when Congress deregulated telecommunications, there were eight Baby Bells. Today there are... ...s manufacturing to the knowledge society. Many industries, both emerging ones, like telecommunications, or information technology - and mature ones,... ...hey do this by trading or assuming risks, by providing physical transportation and telecommunications, and by maintaining an appropriately educated...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ...t party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal theme" in American history and a "main line" running through its foreign policy. ... ...agnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade wi... ...hod of Crusades." This is a patently non-Orthodox, non-Marxist interpretation of history and of the role of the United States - the prime specime... ...elerates, processes which used to unfold over centuries, now consume mere decades. Telecommunications, global transports and information networks, ... ...xport items to Turkey are chemical products, plastics, computers and irrigation and telecommunications systems technologies." A sizable portion of ... ...ent and to aggressively privatize state holdings in companies such as El Al, Bezeq Telecommunications, Oil Refineries and Israel Electric Company. ...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability and Statistics

By: Florentin Smarandache

... Florentin Smarandache editor Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic L... ...phic Probability and Statistics University of New Mexico - Gallup 1-3 December 2001 (sec... ... (second printed edition) FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE editor PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC ... ...ll win tomorrow versus Cowboys is 60% true (according to their confrontation's history giving Yankees' satisfaction), 30-32% false (supposing Cowboys... ...(also reprinted in Biometrika, Vol. 45, pp. 293 315, 1958 and in Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability, Pearson and Kendalls eds., Hafn... ...74. [9] Cover T., Thomas J.A. “Elements of Information Theory”, Wiley Series in Telecommunications, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1991. [10] Dedekind R.,... ...s noted that xt= - β o +β 1xt+1 +β 2xt+1. The generalized formula of the past history and future expectations given in his paper will only consider... ...Conferences on Info-tech and Info-net Proceedings, IEEE Press, People’s Post & Telecommunications Publishing House China, 2001, pp. 241-245 [4] F. ... ...Conferences on Info-tech and Info-net Proceedings, IEEE Press, People’s Post & Telecommunications Publishing House China, pp. 241-245 [8] F. Liu, ...

...As an alternative to the existing logics we propose the Neutrosophic Logic to represent a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined, unknown, incompleteness, inconsistency, redundancy, contradiction. It is a non-classical logic. Eksioglu (1999) explains some of them: “Imprecision of the human sy...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...trations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), ... ... much of what we love about today’s information ecosystem. Understanding its history sheds light on different possible futures and helps us to recogniz... ... debates about Internet policy. Yet increasingly the box has come to matter. History shows that the box had competitors—and today they are back. The e... ...ernment research funding and other support to lease some of the original raw telecommunications facili- ties that would form the backbone of the new n... ...omputer science depart- ments, U.S. government research units, 30 and select telecommunications com- panies with an interest in cutting-edge network r... ... that would not have been produced in a firm-mediated market model. The brief history of the Internet and PC illustrates how often the large and After ... ...e to register mcdonalds.com before it occurred to the company to do so; even telecommunications giant MCI failed to notice the burgeoning consumer Int...

...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...perty are secondary asymmetries, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. T... ...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa... ...ed to the needs of traders and speculators, businessmen and middlemen. Advances in telecommunications and transportation followed inexorably. The c... ...human race has opted for increasing isolation to be fostered by TELE-communication. Telecommunications gives the illusion of on-going communication ... ... human contact, replete with smells, noises, body language and facial expressions. Telecommunications reduces communication to the exchange of verb...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...perty are secondary asymmetries, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. T... ...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa... ...ed to the needs of traders and speculators, businessmen and middlemen. Advances in telecommunications and transportation followed inexorably. The c... ...human race has opted for increasing isolation to be fostered by TELE-communication. Telecommunications gives the illusion of on-going communication ... ... human contact, replete with smells, noises, body language and facial expressions. Telecommunications reduces communication to the exchange of verb...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... ...t work by Susie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-6-3 Table of Contents Arriving in Indus ............................................... ...e look at a few aspects of our similarities and differences. India‘s long history, particularly with its caste system, has resulted in a number of hi... ...es, but China now seems to be winning the diploma derby. But India‘s long history with English as a primary language has made its graduates in medic... ...nic experts leave India for the West, many stay as the major computer and telecommunications companies have set up shop in India to make use of this ... ...ater. ―The lord knows that we in this part of the world have a long history of recognizing the problems, we just have not followed our rhetori...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...9 2 Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ........................................ ... factor in the minds of the Oriental leaders whose multi- 9 millennial history is not based on the pragmatism of profit found in the West. But, as... ...photovoltaic solar power and fresh water nanotechnology. We are still into telecommunications and computers, but we are among the world‟s leaders in ... ...ians, particularly to Chinese and Indians. It has been obvious throughout history that we all want our families and our societies to be as similarly... ...rn the languages. They are also tested on their knowledge of our customs, history and philosophy. Then they have to be ready to immerse themselves i...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...om: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value ... ...T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value of Stocks of a Company III. The Process of Due Diligence IV. Financial Investor, Strategic Investor V. ... ...objectively quantify or formulate this process of analysis and decision making. In telecommunications, the range of numbers used for valuing stocks... ...ing, Controls. The Marketing Plan Must include the following elements: • A brief history of the business (to show its track performance and growt... ...rnal audits (frequency and procedures); • The banks that the firm is working with: history, references, balances. Technical Plan • Description o... ... of Stock Trends": "The science of recording, usually in graphic form, the actual history of trading (price changes, volume of transactions, etc.)... ...ed to the needs of traders and speculators, businessmen and middlemen. Advances in telecommunications and transportation followed inexorably. The c...

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Neutrosophic Dialogues

By: Florentin Smarandache

...m: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...oks-otherformats.htm Peer Reviewers: Dr. M. Khoshnevisan, School of Accounting and Finance, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 972... ... Coast, Queensland 9726, Australia. Prof. Drago Õ Constantinescu, College of Arts and Letters, Rm. V >lcea, Romania. Dr. Jean Dezert, Office Nationa... ...). Do we have enough courage to change our opinions? Although rare in the history, there are plenty, who successfully escaped our maze of illusions ... ...the Chinese are blind, due to the abandon of such education in our modern history. It is true that he did fail to catch the oriental cultures such as... ...d the openness of science? The fatal constraint of science development in history includes: 1. Over-blindness in the following instead of self negat... ...erences on Info-tech and Info-net Proceedings, IEEE Press, People’s Post & Telecommunications Publishing House China, 2001, pp. 241-245. F. Liu: “Na...

...Thanks to Dr. Smarandache for his interest in Chinese culture. I cannot decline his warm request to write the preface, even with my fragments of knowledge – no insight nor wisdom, and therefore can be misleading. I have been extremely regretful for my ideological errors and mistakes in previous publications, especially those concerning Buddhism. As I mentioned in t...

...On the Cultural Contrast: East-West, preface by F. Liu. 4 -- Abstract by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 12 -- Preface by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 13 -- Biography of the Translator. 18 -- Publication Review by F. Liu. 22 -- Annotation in the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophic...

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Fixing Global Finance

By: Kavaljit Singh

...oduce it provided the source is acknowledged. We will appreciate if a copy of reproduced materials is sent to us. 4 Fixing Global Finance Contents Ac... ... Fixing Global Finance Contents Acronyms 6-7 Data Notes 8 1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 9 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing ... ...nds in International Finance and Developmental Implications 30 4. The Rise of New Global Players 36 5. Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of ... ...rket-rate (or prime rate) loans because of their low income or poor credit history. Lenders relaxed their lending criteria for borrowers: loans were s... ... sheets, mortgage lenders had little incentive to verify borrowers’ credit history. Securitization also helped lenders free up capital for more lendin... ...uffered the worst financial crisis in its 24 Fixing Global Finance modern history. Its GDP contracted by 18 percent and unemployment reached 20 perce... ...h as Siemens or Vodafone might do by investing in a manufacturing plant or telecommunications network), but in order to sell them on at a profit as so...

...The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developing countries and the rest of the world. The turbulence in financial systems was followed by a significant reduction in real economic a...

...1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries 3. Recent Trends in International Finance and Developmental Implications 4. The Rise of New Global Players 5. ...

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Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in Apec Economies

By: Apec Finance Minister Process

...nancial Markets Stability in APEC Economies iii Acknowledgements The completion of the Report is attributed to the support of the officials of ... ...t is attributed to the support of the officials of the Fiscal Policy Office, Ministry of Finance, and Republic of Indonesia, led by Dr. Andin Hadiyan... ...d Republic of Indonesia, led by Dr. Andin Hadiyanto, who is also the Project Overseer of FMP 02/2009. Our gratitude also goes to Mr. Yoopi Abimanyu, ... ...while, the US is still the major source of technological innovations in computing and telecommunications for the APEC region. Generally, APEC member... ...and regional trading arrangements, and facilitating integration of transportation, telecommunications, mining and energy, increasing economic effi... ...reached IDR 3,247.10 trillion. The 10 biggest market capitalizations are dominated by telecommunications companies (Telekomunikasi Indonesia), mining... ...ical innovation provided a secure foundation for Australian economic growth (Economic History Services 2010). Table 3.25: Australia: Selected Econ... ...nge in the Australian financial system. It has been one of the unusual changes in the history of Australia’s financial system. Financial system struc... ...averages.com/?view=industrial&page=reports&show=performance&symbol= DJI). Economic History Service 2010, The Economic History of Australia from 17...

...The purpose of this project is to contribute to ongoing efforts tailored toward promoting greater financial markets stability and integration in APEC economies, achieved by: 1) undertaking research to determine the conditions that foster...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

... palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/au... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ...pod.com/internet.html http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Table of Contents I. Battling Unemployment II. The Labour Divide - I. Emp... ...f job insecurity is high, even after the most prosperous decade in recent history. Witness the sparse movement of labour among members of the EU, de... ...d." A recent tome by Kevin Phillips - "Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich" - claims: "The top 1 percent pocketed 42 p... ...omies are comprised 70% of services and are sustained by vast networks of telecommunications and transport. Advances in computing allow to incorpora... ...sy to point at immigration-free periods of unparalleled prosperity in the history of nations - or, conversely, at recessionary times coupled with a ... ... efforts among competing unions. Fields like Information Technology (IT), telecommunications, pharmaceutics, and biotechnology blur the lines betwee...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ...ny Kelley, a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing t... ...spired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am describing here is—as t... ... rules that define prop- erty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try to sketch out in the pages a... ... a certain prejudice on that point. And some of them, like the design of our telecommunications networks, or the patenting of human genes, or the rela...

...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...eptember 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suf- fering in the history of the United States.The nation was unprepared. How did this happen... ...s report as a foundation for a better under- standing of a landmark in the history of our nation. We have listened to scores of overwhelming personal ... ...thousands of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and s... ...y could buy off the shelf and harvest the products of a $3 trillion a year telecommunications industry .They could acquire without great expense commu...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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