... legally provide it through their own lucrative avenues. In doing so, they are essentially artificially creating an outsized demand for the content online that, in the absence of an official source, encourages illegal file sharing. According to technology analyst Nick Bilton, companies purposely do not ... The study sources this dramatic claim to a newspaper article, which quotes the CEO of Wal-Mart asserting (on the basis of private data you can't see) that shoplifting kills hundreds of orphans annually. And as a footnote explains, it seemed prudent to round up to a million. I wish this w...

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... -dotted line? Is there any lasting benefit to having these islands? Is this just a show of force or planned takeover? Eric Wertheim, an article writer for the magazine Proceedings, explains China's growing interest in the Pacific: The organization [China's marine-surveillance organization] intends to increase its strength from 9000 to 15000 personnel by 2020, at which time it hopes to have 520 vessels ... ) I could always expect one person to say something about how this cheap Chinese crap was no good or would make a joke about the sweatshops. I don't hear that much anymore, partly becaus...

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... her. Andrew rescued an American pit bull terrier. The American pit bull terrier has been the subject of canine controversy for a long time. The history of the pit bull and their current popularity has caused a lot of people to have very different opinions towards the banning of pit bulls. The thought of banning an entire breed is a complete joke. The American pit bull terrier is just one breed ... of canine. Cesar Milan from the website Cesarsway says one origin of the pit bull dates way back ... to the Greek and Roman times. Back then they did not look like ... ...

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... them. A lower court dismissed her sex discrimination case. GLAD intervened, yet again, and a Federal court ruled that there was "no categorical exclusion of transgendered people under the federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act." (GLAD Transgender Rights) This case has since been a keynote in court proceedings protecting transgendered people from discrimination. Another first for GLAD occurred ... that year in the case Doe v. Yunits. This case focused on Katrina Harrington, a seventh grade student, and is this first time a case had been tried on behalf of a transgendered student ... with sp...

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... of American States meeting. Another breakdown in security was at the training base in Florida, . . . Local residents near Homestead [air force base] had seen Cubans drilling and heard their loudspeakers at a farm. As a joke some firecrackers were thrown into the compound . . . . The ensuing incident saw the Cubans firing their guns and the federal authorities having to convince the local authorities not to press charges. Operation Pluto was ... beginning to get blown wide open, the advantage of surprise was lost even this early in the game. After the initial bombing raid of April 15th, ...

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... wanted more money to identify what everybody in America should have, in terms of food rations, batteries, and water. Also, Kennedy wanted the air-raid systems and fallout detection systems upgraded along with fall-out shelters. In response to Soviet moves to cut off allied access to Berlin ... (hypothetically). President Kennedy supported a full military withdrawal from Vietnam, but he said that if he announced a withdrawal from Vietnam of American troops before the 1964 election, that there would be a wild frenzy against him. Kennedy wanted to win a second term and he knew that if he a...

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... who is harassing who. Men harass women, women harass men, women harass women, and men sexually harass other men at work. "Nearly as many men as women are harassed on the job, but few of them are willing or able to speak up about it - as if that an extra chromosome reared up and got caught in their collective throats(Nolo ... a sexual harassment case, they look at the whole record. What this includes is the particular circumstances, such as the nature of the sexual advances whether they be verbal or physical, and also the context in which the alleged incidents occurred. The facts are sepa...

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... succeeded in overrunning and destroying the ARVN forces. The end of the war came with the pseudo peace treaty known as the Paris accords. These accords were a joke and in the end were voided out when North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam and removed Thieu's government and united the entire country under the mantle of communism. The conflict in Vietnam paralleled another conflict in the United States. The antiwar movement against Vietnam in ... the US from 1965-1971 was the most ... ...

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... of American States meeting. Another breakdown in security was at the training base in Florida. Local residents near Homestead Air Force Base had seen Cubans drilling and heard their loudspeakers at a farm. As a joke, some firecrackers were thrown into the compound. The ensuing incident saw the Cubans firing their guns and the federal authorities having to convince the local authorities not to press charges. Operation Pluto was ... beginning to be blown wide open, the advantage of surprise was lost even this early in the game. After the initial bombing raid of April fifteenth, and ... ...

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... of American counter-culture - Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Joseph Heller - used their art form as a weapon against society and the force that governed it. The trio's distinctly different approaches all pointed to the same targets - the heart of the American dream, and the jugular of US society. All of these writers live in a time where avarice, racism and corruption are rife in society and ... come to blows after Dwayne is driven to a crazed state by Kilgore Trout's stories "Dwayne went on calling for Niggers to come talk to him. He smiled. He thought that the Creator of th...

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... system of soldier payment. He knew that Thieu was very capable of these suggestions, but got little response from him. Extremely large quantities of weaponry were turned over to the ARVN directly from the United States. These types of weaponry consisted of, one million rifles, twelve thousand machine guns, forty thousand grenade launchers, two thousand heavy mortars, and hundreds of planes, ... at all. The public reacted with lots of anti-war demonstrations. In America, Nixon was heavily criticized of prolonging the war even after ruling out a military victory. The American public was ve...

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