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[from amaah] Blacker-than-black Market
Still life about the black market in the tri-border region, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina where everything that can be sold is indeed sold. Smuggler's haven as in the novels of Graham Greene where grifters proliferate
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[from amaah] Are Your Jeans Sagging? Go Directly to Jail.
Sagging began in prison, where oversized uniforms were issued without belts to prevent suicide and their use as weapons. The style spread through rappers and music videos, from the ghetto to the suburbs and around the world. Efforts to outlaw sagging in V
[from amaah] In India, Will Corruption Slow Growth or Will Growth Slow Corruption?
The good news in India, compared to China, may be that at least the most egregious forms of corruption are exposed by social activists or the media. One big difference is in the legal system. In India, a firm can sue the government and win, which may not
[from amaah] Proposal would ban underwear-exposing pants
The target is young men who wear their pants low off their hips to show off the two pairs of boxers they wear beneath their saggy pants. Saggy pants are an "epidemic" that are becoming a "major concern" in cities and states around the country, the ordinan
[from amaah] The Structure, Role and Functions of the UN System. - Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
<sep/>Saab, Hans Blix, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Asbjörn Eide, Iain MacGibbon, George Ofosu-Amaah, and Torkel Opsahl. delivered at the 1968 Dag Hammarskjöld Seminar on the UN<sep/>
Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright | QuestionCopyright.org
Attribution and copying are not the same thing: those who download songs illegally from the Internet do not typically replace the artist's name with their own, after all, and yet the RIAA is still filing lawsuits. So attribution is not really the issue he
Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage
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Did You Say “Intellectual Property”?
By Richard M. Stallman
article examining the use of the term "intellectual property" and the implications
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