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-> from bruce sterling's blog

This guy was, ya know, *the* president. For the first 8 years of my self-awareness, Ronald Reagan was known as the guy who was out to save the free world and protect me.

But was he nothing more than a slick character filling the position that is historically filled with secrecy and lies? My So Called Lesbian Life has some quotes...

-> blogs.salon.com

The Monolith Project @ SourceForge is an interesting idea... By taking a copyrighted work and some random file, you can do basic binary math in order to create a brand new file... free from copyright restrictions. You created it right? Make your own copyright.

It is not a derivitive work, either, since none of the orginal content is preserved. So, its not even fair use, because, again, the resultant file is nothing like the orginal. Trade that file, and maybe give someone a copy of that random file you found too, and people can reverse the logic, hence breaking the law once again.

The paradox here is if someone has the original file, and your new file, they could come up with that random file then...

Confused? Check out the site for utilities and a detailed explination about this very simple, and very pure, argument for the fact that no one can own an idea. So there.

-> monolith.sourceforge.net