Word: contently
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...company agreed to participate in the trial only to demonstrate that the policy was "fundamentally flawed, a waste of taxpayers' money and would not work." Critics of mandatory Internet filtering point out that in some countries, including China and Thailand, it's used to block not only morally objectionable content but also those that are critical of the government. More to the point, many Internet providers say blacklists don't work anyway: most illegal activity online happens via peer-to-peer networking, which Web filters can't block. "It's almost trivial to get around the filters," says Wheeler...
...software. "Does the [leaked list] mean we are going to stop blocking access to the sites? No. People can continue to put up the lists if they are proud to do that," he told a press conference in Sydney. "It is completely untrue that the leaked blacklist contains political content. This is a list which contains sites that promote incest, rape, child pornography and child abuse...
...last 20 years worrying about the costs of organized labor, the price of printing paper, and postal rates. It clearly did not occur to them that the early internet successes like Lycos, Excite, and Altavisa were in the information gathering, sorting, and creating businesses. Their indexing and presentation of content looked clumsy in 1997 and 1998. It is incredible to remember that Yahoo! (YHOO) had its first day of 100,000 unique visitors in 1994. The company went public in early 1996. Google (GOOG) raised $25 million in 1999. In 2000, it was offering search results in ten languages...
...seems obvious to most average people now that the control, and to some extent the creation of content, began moving rapidly to the Internet as long as eleven or twelve years ago. Not a single large print media company chief saw that at the time. The role of the content CEO as visionary did not work. Looking ahead in 1998, he saw the U.S. Postal System and his unionized workers as his greatest enemies. Now newspaper unions have almost no bargaining power to save their member's jobs because the entire industry is going under...
Before 1970, banks were content to make loans to consumers and business which remained on their books, collecting interest until the principal on the loan was satisfied. This approach made for a relatively illiquid market for the buying and selling of loans. Accordingly, this system insured that lenders were unable to sell their loan portfolios easily. Market illiquidity exposed the lender to the risk that individual loans would default or that rising interest rates would force the lender's interest cost higher than its income on the individual loan...