Dear Reader: "If you are reading this column in the newspaper, but did not read every article and look at every advertisement in previous sections, stop now. You must go back and look at all of that material before continuing with this column."  [Scripting News]

So it comes as no shock that the owners of information and entertainment are trying to protect their own potentially untenable business models. They've persuaded their legislative pets in Congress to pass ill-considered laws. They're busy erecting technological barriers to their customer's choice and well-being. Law and technology are combining to carve away your rights in favor of the owners' control.

While this is happening in the US, in Asia and certain third world countries you can buy DVDs of currently playing movies for $1.8, watches by that look like the original Patek Philippe, IWC, or whatever, but have Seiko movement inside, or a CD crammed with first rate software,compressed, for $20. But the internet is the problem? Yeah, yeah.
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Public Colleges, Broken Promises. Spiraling tuition and declining support for poor and working-class students have combined to roll back one of the more farsighted policies of the 20th century. [New York Times: Opinion]

This is a sad tendency in the states and combined with the decline in students interest in science, we may be witnessing the decay of the US might and technical feats.Sad

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