Former Communist Nations Mark EU Entry (AP)

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U.S. GIs Mark July 4th in Mideast
Nations (AP)

U.S. GIs Mark July 4th in Mideast
Nations (AP) 07/04/2004 12:25 PM
AP - Inside the guarded fortresses of U.S. bases, American military personnel celebrated Independence Day with barbecues and games, but terrorism fears deflated the party in some Arab countries where Americans said they preferred to keep a low profile.

Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark

Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark 09/21/2004 04:44 AM

The United States, Backed By The
European Union, Japan And Canada, Has
Turned Back A Bid By Developing Nations
To Place The Internet Under The Control
Of The United Nations Or Its Member
Governments

The United States, Backed By The
European Union, Japan And Canada, Has
Turned Back A Bid By Developing Nations
To Place The Internet Under The Control
Of The United Nations Or Its Member
Governments 12/09/2003 03:48 AM
Washington Times .. second paragraph

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Communist era Czech TV commercials

Communist era Czech TV commercials 05/06/2004 04:12 PM
Let's have fun laughing at the poor production quality of these pathetic commie-era TV ads. It's no surprise the suicide rate was so high over there. I was ready to open a vein just watching these clips. Or maybe it was the fact that they're in Windows Media format, the only format even more hideous than Real Player. I guess it's the perfect media player to showcase these TV spots -- Windows Media feels like it was invented by eastern european scientists who had KGB agents holding guns to their heads. Link (Thanks, John!)

Russia scraps Communist holiday

Russia scraps Communist holiday 12/24/2004 12:23 PM
Russia abolishes a number of key public holidays including the Soviet holiday marking the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.

Communist China threatened by Internet
cafes

Communist China threatened by Internet
cafes 06/02/2004 03:56 AM
Hindustan Times Jun 2 2004 8:10AM GMT

Communist hymn is in copyright -
filmmaker fined

Communist hymn is in copyright -
filmmaker fined 04/09/2005 05:56 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Internationale is the hymn of the Fourth International Communist Party. My parents, being good reds, used to sing it every New Year's Eve at the stroke of midnight, with all the comrades at the socialist New Year's gathered round the record player to sing along with the soundtrack from Reds. It is quite a stirring anthem, and has been translated into dozens of languages, and is sung the world 'round.

Weirdly, this 19th century song is still in copyright in France, and a French filmmaker has just been fined about $1300 for letting a character in one of his films whistle the tune (you can hear a very modern synth-pop take on the tune courtesy of Maxx Klaxon here).

The irony factor here is much deeper than, say, the irony surrounded JibJab's appropriation of Woody Guthrie's This Land. Guthrie was a socialist, sure, but the Internationale is a call to arms to abolish private property, eliminate international borders, and throw off your chains and rise up to smash the state. Hard to imagine that the long-dead creator of that song is having his wishes honored by French collecting societies shaking down people who make use of it for cash.

The 19th-century revolutionary hymn was written by Eugene Pottier in 1871 and set to music by another Frenchman, Pierre Degeyter, in 1888...

Under French law, "The Internationale" won't fall into the public domain until 2014 — 70 years of post-mortem protection plus extra time to cover the world war. Degeyter died in 1932....

[The film] hardly paid its own way, opening briefly in a single Paris theater and selling just 203 tickets, Le Monde reported.

Link (Thanks, Maximus!)

List of Polish communist snitches
available online

List of Polish communist snitches
available online 02/05/2005 09:25 PM
Cory Doctorow: Marek sez, "In recent days, people in Poland have flooded the internet in search of the Wildstein's List, a list of 240,000 names of communist-era spys, informers and secret service agents that was secretly copied from The National Rememberance Institute (IPN) by a conservative journalist, Bronislaw Wildstein.

"The list instantly cropped up on many web sites, p2p networks, became available via BitTorrent, while the the term 'lista Wildsteina' (Wildstein's list) became a super-popular query at all Polish search engines. At one (onet.pl, the second most popular after google), people searched for it around 300,000 times a day comparing to just only 9,000 searches for 'sex', the former top query." Link (Thanks, Marek!)

Bill Gates Dusts Off The Communist
Argument For Those Who Don't Charge

Bill Gates Dusts Off The Communist
Argument For Those Who Don't Charge 01/06/2005 06:52 AM
When Bill Gates first realized Netscape was a threat to the company -- and that people were getting it for free, he told a group of people that Netscape was obviously being run by "communists," because capitalists would never give out anything for free. Of course, he eventually forgot this when he decided to bundle (read: give away for free) Microsoft IE into Windows, but apparently the concept stayed in the back of his head. Near the end of a mostly un-newsworthy interview Gates gave News.com, he claims that those people who are trying to change intellectual property laws are modern day communists. Of course, we just went through this basic argument, but let's try to simplify it one more time. Intellectual property laws are often artificial barriers in the marketplace to forcefully limit supply and increase the price of something over what the market values it at. That sounds a lot more like the centrally planned economies that are usually called "communist." Those who are looking to free up the content are simply saying let's see what the market can do when these products are freed from those government mandated barriers. History has shown that the increased efficiency usually broadens the market and offers new opportunities to make money (for example, by bundling...). So, while I certainly don't think that those who believe high intellectual property barriers are necessary are "communist," I do think they're being quite shortsighted in their economic analysis. And, while Bill Gates is obviously much richer than I'll ever be, much of that success came from the benefits Microsoft received from their use of "free" products (whether authorized or unauthorized) that helped build lock-in and establish Microsoft as the dominant platform in the market. To turn around and call that same behavior in others "communist" is simply wrong.

Russian Communist Chief Says Poll
'Shameful Farce'

Russian Communist Chief Says Poll
'Shameful Farce' 12/07/2003 04:05 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 7 2003 3:42PM ET

Rise of Nations Demo AvailableMicrosoft
has announced the availability of a demo
version of Rise of Nations: T

Rise of Nations Demo AvailableMicrosoft
has announced the availability of a demo
version of Rise of Nations: T 04/23/2004 09:52 PM
Gigex Apr 24 2004 1:41AM GMT

Kerry has secured the vaunted
endorsement of North Korea's Communist
Party

Kerry has secured the vaunted
endorsement of North Korea's Communist
Party 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Pyongyang Broadcasts Kerry’s Speeches .. You just knew this was coming .. this particular endorsement .. notable support .. this: .. Ouch

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Davids Medienkritik: Neo-Nazi, Communist
Extremists Make Big Gains in German
State Elections

Davids Medienkritik: Neo-Nazi, Communist
Extremists Make Big Gains in German
State Elections 09/20/2004 03:16 AM
bad news in general, .. Davids Medienkritik .. (Link)

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German Buys Rights to Communist East
German Emblem (Reuters)

German Buys Rights to Communist East
German Emblem (Reuters) 04/21/2004 10:02 AM
Reuters - A western German businessman who bought the rights to the official emblem of communist East Germany defended his move Tuesday, saying critics were jealous they hadn't thought of it before he did.

Boing Boing: Communist hymn is in
copyright - filmmaker fined

Boing Boing: Communist hymn is in
copyright - filmmaker fined 04/11/2005 03:50 AM
French filmmaker has just been fined for letting a character in one of his films whistle the tune .. Communist hymn is in copyright - filmmaker fined .. BoingBoing

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Other nations want in on the act

Other nations want in on the act 06/08/2004 01:23 AM
Usatoday.com - Mon Jun 7, 08:45 am GMT

"be sure to see her entry "

"be sure to see her entry " 05/06/2004 04:21 AM

First entry

First entry 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
My first entry, late but good, right? If my style-sheet could work as well, everything would be perfect. Then, and...

Entry #2,500

Entry #2,500 06/17/2004 05:49 PM

Last September, we celebrated numbe r 1,000. About two months later, we got to 1,500. Apparently we were too busy to celebrate number 2,000, because that one slipped by before we noticed.

So, here's 2,500, which is cool for the sole reason that my goal for the site has always been 5,000 posts. For a long while, I managed to keep up 10 posts per day, but then my job got the better of me and I slacked off a bit. For the last 30 days, we've been averaging 3.33 posts per day, which seems really low to me. If you take out weekends, we get up to about 4.

At this rate we'll hit 5,000 somewhere in February 2006. I'll still be here. I hope you will too.

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Tunisia win Cup of Nations

Tunisia win Cup of Nations 02/14/2004 05:19 PM
Tunisia beat Morocco 2-1 to win their first-ever African Cup of Nations.

He Will Gore the Nations

He Will Gore the Nations 03/06/2004 02:03 AM
Vutant.Com: "Gore fans, don't let the fact that this film is about Jesus put you off. There is almost no religious content at all. Jesus is too busy getting stabbed, scouraged and beaten to do much preaching." (02-28)

Worthy of an entry

Worthy of an entry 04/14/2004 09:20 PM
So the Rocky and Bullwinkle machine was brought into the house today. It is the coooooolest thing ever. It is...

Entry 1000

Entry 1000 12/24/2003 09:58 AM
Wow...1000 entries. That's pretty spiffy if you ask me. I can't believe it's been so long. My brother and I...

"Link to this entry"

"Link to this entry" 06/17/2004 10:44 PM

Invisible Entry

Invisible Entry 05/16/2004 09:35 AM
Some how this thing was posted without me knowing it. So here is a picture of a fat cat:

"Entry Link"

"Entry Link" 01/03/2004 07:07 PM

Entry 1,000 Revisited

Entry 1,000 Revisited 09/09/2004 09:02 AM

Entry Number 1,000: One year ago today we hit 1,000 entries. How quaint.

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"Mena による久し振りの長文
Entry"

"Mena による久し振りの長文
Entry" 07/14/2004 10:18 PM

Four nations launch UN seat bid

Four nations launch UN seat bid 09/22/2004 02:31 AM
Brazil, Germany, Japan and India launch a joint bid for permanent seats on the UN Security Council.

Three more nations cast EU vote

Three more nations cast EU vote 06/12/2004 11:14 AM
Latvia, Malta and Italy go to the polls in the third day of elections to the European Union's parliament.

United Nations take over the Internet

United Nations take over the Internet 12/06/2003 05:05 AM
U.N. Summit To Focus On Internet .. Please no .. response: .. defending

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Nations wrestle with internet age

Nations wrestle with internet age 12/15/2003 05:59 AM
BBC Dec 15 2003 5:38AM ET

EU Expands From 15 to 25 Member Nations
(AP)

EU Expands From 15 to 25 Member Nations
(AP) 04/30/2004 08:27 PM
AP - The European Union expanded at midnight Friday to take in 10 nations isolated during the Cold War, creating a economic giant with the potential to rival the United States. Church bells rang and fireworks exploded over eastern Europe as hundreds of thousands jammed city squares in celebration.

Exploring nations asked for help

Exploring nations asked for help 07/29/2004 11:34 AM
The New Zealand government has urged Britain and Norway to help fund the restoration of huts used by Antarctica's early explorers.

Three more nations join EU poll

Three more nations join EU poll 06/12/2004 01:28 AM
Latvia, Malta and Italy are due to vote in the third day of elections to the European Union's parliament.

More nations want in on biotech action

More nations want in on biotech action 06/06/2004 11:34 PM
USA Today Jun 7 2004 3:13AM GMT

Review: Rise of Nations

Review: Rise of Nations 04/15/2005 03:58 PM
With Rise of Nations, MacSoft combines everything that’s cool about turn-based games with what’s great about real-time strategy games.

Key UN Nations Want Changes in New Iraq
Resolution

Key UN Nations Want Changes in New Iraq
Resolution 06/03/2004 05:06 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 3 2004 9:37AM GMT

Digital tax to aid poor nations

Digital tax to aid poor nations 03/17/2005 03:39 AM
A fund to provide hi-tech tools to African nations has been officially launched in Geneva.
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