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...limits and tollgates that make traveling the Infobahn a costly and often frustrating experience. High long-distance fees and connection surcharges levied by monopolistic government communications ministries can make the use of the Internet and such services as CompuServe and America Online unduly expensive for ordinary users. Some countries outlaw communications equipment without an official government imprimatur, which can double or even quadruple the prices of such items as modems and two-way telephone jacks...
...second generation invented and manufactured the personal computer. These nonacademic hackers were hard-core counterculture types -- like Steve Jobs, a Beatle- haired hippie who had dropped out of Reed College, and Steve Wozniak, a Hewlett-Packard engineer. Before their success with Apple, both Steves developed and sold ``blue boxes,'' outlaw devices for making free telephone calls. Their contemporary and early collaborator, Lee Felsenstein, who designed the first portable computer, known as the Osborne 1, was a New Left radical who wrote for the renowned underground paper the Berkeley Barb...
...takes in. The Amendment does not, however, say what steps should be taken to get to that point. In this respect it calls to mind the failed Kellogg-Briand Pact. As the 1920s drew to a close, the major nations of the world signed the pact, which would forever "outlaw" the scourge of war from the world. As the outbreak of World War II a decade later showed, it obviously was not terribly effective...
This is a tender book. The outlaw Elvis, the performer one fan called "a great big beautiful hunk of forbidden fruit," the savvy, surly dreamer who once remarked to a reporter, "You can't be a rebel if you grin," is set forth here as a kind of perpetual lost boy who clung to the sure anchorage of his family and friends. But as the book closes, friends become salaried employees, and the hometown girls are outnumbered by stars flying in from Hollywood. Natalie Wood came to Memphis and lasted four days, stunned by the celebrity madness surrounding Elvis...
Indeed, the most serious objection we see to the proposal to outlaw rent control schemes comes not from defenders of Cambridge's policy--on that count, there is little to defend. Rather, the objection comes at a deeper level--whether the state should be able to dictate city policies, a reasonable question in many cases. But not in this...