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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (67050)	10/9/2010 8:59:10 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218008

The power of network effect is a biggie: <If they don't like the way it is, they're perfectly welcome to develop their own network and control it themselves > The USA with free speech laws and to some extent capitalist ideology regarding private property and self-determination [though that's hardly honoured these days] is far more likely to maintain the network effect of Cyberspace than China is to set up a competing system, even though they have chinese as a lingua franca to base it on. The British Empire brought us a lingua franca with more users by far than any other language and it's a better designed language too, though it could do with some rationalisation, which the USA has done to some extent, but at the cost of some linguistic precision. Color vs colour, humor vs humour, meter vs metre and meter and some funny linquistic changes such as viola instead of voila, tow the line instead of toe the line, could care less instead of couldn't care less, and many others. Mqurice

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (67050)	10/9/2010 9:58:34 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218008

to dream that internet can be 'controlled' - funny at least your stand on the internet is in alignment with your stance on gold, and for your ignorant stand, you shall lose twice here we see the difference of freedom hong kong and rule-by-making-up-rules homeland pretending to be 'free'

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (67050)	10/10/2010 2:21:43 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218008

we are talking about money here. Tiny field the US makes money on its advantage and someone would tamper with it? Very unlikely. The defense establishment is out of step with the times. Mobile advertising records double digit growth in emerging markets Mobile advertising rates surged globally for a third straight quarter in 2010, according to global mobile media company Buzzcity. These results were attributed to the falling costs of access and deeper internet penetration. memeburn.com That means more penetration more access and more falling costs is good. The opposite of all that is bad for the economy.