Russian Communist Chief Says Poll 'Shameful Farce'

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'Shameful waste' on e-university

'Shameful waste' on e-university 06/09/2004 10:57 AM
A Labour MP condemns what he calls the "shameful waste of tens of millions of pounds" on a failed online degree scheme.

UMTS Forum and Russian 3G Association to
jointly promote 3G in Russian Federation

UMTS Forum and Russian 3G Association to
jointly promote 3G in Russian Federation 06/10/2004 08:04 AM
DMeurope.com Jun 10 2004 12:11PM GMT

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!)

Former Communist Nations Mark EU Entry
(AP)

Former Communist Nations Mark EU Entry
(AP) 05/01/2004 09:30 PM
AP - Revelers across ex-communist eastern Europe celebrated their historic entry to the European Union on Saturday amid scattered protests by demonstrators decrying a loss of national sovereignty.

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.

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!)

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!)

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.

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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Neowin Poll updated, Results for Doom 3
& HL2 Poll

Neowin Poll updated, Results for Doom 3
& HL2 Poll 01/18/2004 08:11 AM

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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Chief executive, commander-in-chief,
talk-show host

Chief executive, commander-in-chief,
talk-show host 08/10/2004 07:16 PM

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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Russian Gas

Russian Gas 12/08/2003 09:21 AM
marcus evans Dec 8 2003 8:40AM ET

Russian Vim

Russian Vim 06/15/2004 09:18 PM
RuVim 0.5 (Russian Vim) released

Russian Roulette on DVD?

Russian Roulette on DVD? 04/16/2004 04:59 PM
Two HIV Cases Put a Scare Into P9rn (LATimes) Several major adult movie companies — including the industry's largest, Vivid — have decided to stop filming for 60 days after two stars tested positive for HIV. But other companies dismissed the plea for a moratorium, calling it &quot;paranoid&quot; and &quot;knee-jerk,&quot; and vowed to keep their cameras rolling. The industry, they said, was perfectly safe.&quot;I'm against any stop in production,&quot; said a producer &quot;It will put a lot of people out of business. You'll have people who will start losing their apartments. It's just not fair.&quot; When do adult movies (a< /a> hugely profitable busi ness where unprotected sex is often performed) end being sexy and start being &quot;Russian Roulette on dvd&quot; scary? The two actors who have tested positive for the HIV virus are identified as Darren James and Lara Roxx. Roxx (who's 18 or 19) had only been in the adult industry for three months. 45 actors and actresses who subsequently either worked with James or the women he had sex with after contracting the virus, which is believed to have occurred in Brazil (where, incidentally, star and director John Stagliano -- not completely work-safe link -- says he caught AIDS in 1997), have been identified, too. warning: except the Stagliano link, all the others are work-safe. (more inside)

Russian tycoon's new UK name

Russian tycoon's new UK name 01/22/2004 11:01 PM
Exiled Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky has been granted a new identity, the UK Government confirms.

Russian Mafia 0.993

Russian Mafia 0.993 02/19/2004 06:17 PM
A multiplayer IRC game implementation of Russian Mafia.

On Russian TV, What Putin Wants, He Gets

On Russian TV, What Putin Wants, He Gets 02/16/2004 11:55 PM
What Russians see, especially on the news, remains subject to the only rating system that counts: the Kremlin's.

Russian duo bid for glory

Russian duo bid for glory 06/05/2004 04:24 AM
Anastasia Myskina takes on compatriot Elena Dementieva in the French Open final.

Other News: Russian for Mac OS X

Other News: Russian for Mac OS X 07/21/2004 11:08 AM
A Russian users group thinks Apple should offer Russian localization in Mac OS X, given the size of the Russian population and Apple's localizations for more obscure languages.

Russian Hackers Best in the World?

Russian Hackers Best in the World? 04/06/2005 02:40 PM

I came across an article on ZDNet’s website talking about Russian hackers.
This subject has always interested me. I have always believed that with the weak economy in former eastern block countries that technical knowledge would be used for black hat hacking. I do question the representative from Department K comment about Russia having the best programmers though.

Here is a link the art icle.

Russian Market in Gulag

Russian Market in Gulag 07/12/2004 10:57 AM
Investors are punishing all Russian companies for YUKOS' mistake.

Russian ship reaches ISS

Russian ship reaches ISS 06/22/2005 02:17 AM
Usatoday.com - Mon Jun 20, 08:50 pm GMT

A Mobile Russian Bear

A Mobile Russian Bear 08/27/2004 01:40 PM
Russia's No. 2 cell phone provider slows down, but just a bit.

Russian 5c MP3 site 'unlicensed'

Russian 5c MP3 site 'unlicensed' 05/05/2004 05:25 AM
Analysis But protected by legal loopholes

Russian candidate 'kidnapped'

Russian candidate 'kidnapped' 02/13/2004 09:26 AM
Ivan Rybkin, who mysteriously disappeared last week, says he will not return to Russia until after the presidential poll.

Explosives 'in both Russian jets'

Explosives 'in both Russian jets' 08/28/2004 08:20 AM
Traces of explosive are found in the wreckage of a second crashed airliner, say Russian officials.

Russian miners die in pit blast

Russian miners die in pit blast 01/10/2004 10:13 PM
Four men are killed and another is missing following a methane gas explosion at a mine in Siberia.

Russian Rovers on the Moon

Russian Rovers on the Moon 02/10/2004 06:48 PM

Russian tycoon to appear in court

Russian tycoon to appear in court 05/28/2004 01:54 AM
Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, prepares to attend legal hearings ahead of a trial for fraud.

Russian Mob Runs 500 Key Businesses

Russian Mob Runs 500 Key Businesses 03/24/2005 08:30 PM
Free Internet Press Mar 25 2005 12:58AM GMT

Russian Rocket Blasts Off

Russian Rocket Blasts Off 04/17/2005 06:40 AM
Sci-Tech Today Apr 17 2005 10:44AM GMT

"this Russian defense analyst"

"this Russian defense analyst" 04/13/2004 10:28 PM

Why Google Is Not a Russian Company

Why Google Is Not a Russian Company 08/22/2004 05:37 PM
Moscow Times Aug 22 2004 8:31PM GMT

Russian animations and flash art

Russian animations and flash art 12/28/2003 12:33 PM
Russian animations - from the simple, short, sassy, sad, and silly to the sophisticated, seamy, scary, sinister and surreal. - more -

Russian press review

Russian press review 09/04/2004 08:25 AM
Saturday's Russian press is dominated by the bloody hostage drama in North Ossetia .


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