And please notice that your site is not the original source material for any of the old history; like us, you are largely summarizing others’ historical accounts. We didn’t use any of your text directly, we wrote the story our own way after reading books, contemporary newspaper reports, and yes, your website (among many others). We didn’t even follow the same chronology as you in the telling. You are airing imagined grievances.

It is strange reading your linked page about copyright and people stealing content on the net. I’m as annoyed as you are about the problem, of course. But feeling as you do, how is it that every illustration here was nicked from my pages on the subject, and the great majority of the text is summarized from my work? And no credit at all, except a link by someone in the comments? It’s not right, is it?

Please note that the image from wikipedia is protected by copyright, but it can be used with the credit requested by the photographer, which I supplied but you did not.

farmer-dave said: “”Ultimately, however, trucks proved more efficient at information-moving than the series of tubes. ”

But according to Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) the Internet is “a series of tubes”.
Surely the Internet is more efficient at moving information than trucks?”

Not on a large scale.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

Laying aside for a moment ethical issues I’d like to examine the demographic economic paradox. Or rather recast it as a demographic/intelligence analysis.

Is there any data on the Internet showing the relationship between fertility and intelligence? My guess would be that the truly feebleminded, those most likely to be sterilized, would have a low fertility rate. If this is so then such sterilization programs would be of little value.

Looking for data,
Humbaba