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...would think corporations would be falling all over themselves to make money off this new resource: a cheap R&D lab the approximate size of the earth's online population. In fact, they have been slow to embrace it. Admittedly, it's counterintuitive: until now the value of a piece of intellectual property has been defined by how few people possess it. In the future the value will be defined by how many people possess it. You could even imagine a future in which companies scrapped their R&D departments entirely and simply proposed questions for the global collective intelligence...
...Bosnia have begun put their own war criminals on trial; these courts will continue to work long after the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) shuts down its proceedings in The Hague, where Milosevic died under detention and undergoing trial. His death will not affect this slow, difficult journey towards normalcy. He had already played his part: the opening act of hateful bravura, unburdened by conscience, in what will be an extended expatiation of all guilt. Milosevic will be buried. It is now up to the survivors to ensure that the spirit of Milosevic is buried...
...ruled (by the “stability and growth pact” and the European Central Bank (ECB)) like a collection of competing small economies, open to trade and investments but closed to macroeconomic stabilization and increasingly resorting to tax and social competition. The result has not only been slow regional growth and persistent unemployment but also growing divergence among member states and rising political tensions. The ECB, the most unaccountable central bank in the world, is bound to raise interest rates further in the coming months for fear of imaginary inflation (nowhere to be found in the data...
...will really matter. The agreement will have to pass muster in the House of Representatives, which has been much less enthusiastic about the reforms - somewhat surprisingly, since the members of Congress closest to Abramoff were mainly House Republicans. New House Majority Leader John Boehner has pushed for a go-slow approach on the reforms, although he says the House will take them up over the next month. Boehner and House Speaker Dennis Hastert had publicly disagreed about a proposed ban on private travel, although Boehner has now suggested he could support a temporary ban until Congress created a system...
...corruption in the nation's capital may not be a partisan issue at all, at least as far as the voters see it, and that fact alone may help slow down any momentum for far-reaching reforms. Polls show voters so far don't think there is much difference between the two parties when it comes to ethics; they simply assume both parties are equally close to lobbyists and interests groups. And while Democrats in the Senate did offer a more far-reaching reform bill that Republicans rejected this week, the two parties' approaches to fixing the lobbyist problems have...