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Governments still dominate the political equation, of course. But online activists are chipping away at their grip on power, adding a new voice to debates that often can't be ignored. In foreign policy, unsanctioned cyberwars like the U.S.-China dustup are increasingly common during times of international tension. In 1999, hackers in China and Taiwan exchanged cyberfire over then President Lee Teng-hui's claim of statehood, as did Indonesian nationalists and supporters of independence for East Timor. During the Kosovo campaign that year, Chinese, Yugoslav and Russian hackers joined forces against NATO. Independent American hackers brought down...
...possibility of a commercial dustup with Germany comes just as some in the Bush administration would like to weaken sanctions against Libya, Iran and other rogue states as a way of increasing American access...
...radiates a warning not to mess with him. The guy is calm, but it's the calm of a coiled spring. For him, violence and comedy both hinge on unpredictability. That explains Beat's punching out a publisher whose magazine had been tailing his girlfriend. For that 1986 dustup Beat was handed a two-year suspended sentence for assault. "Violence is necessary and unexpected," he says, rubbing his right cheek as though checking an old bruise. "There is nothing more violent than a gunshot entering an unsuspecting family and killing the father." Comedy, too, he says, is violent. "The essence...
...come at a cost: the occasional p.r. black eye it sustains when cases of fraud or sales of offensive items hit the news. Last month a California man was charged with selling $110,000 in computers and consumer electronics on eBay but not delivering. And there was a minor dustup last fall when convicted serial killer Angel Resendez-Ramirez boasted in a television interview that his hair and shavings from calluses on his feet had been sold on eBay...
...firms it covers. When employees at the Internet-business-strategies firm Agency.com complained about management last summer, its co-founder responded personally. He assured the online posters that Agency.com takes "the messages posted on these boards very seriously" and that it was committed to employee satisfaction. After the dustup, Agency.com created a new position of "chief people officer." (It says the step was unrelated to the Vault postings...