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Sumana (back from St. Petersburg) visited. Yay!
Attributed by her to Leonard Richardson:
We should be careful if we visit Dmitry Sklyarov. They might think we're planning to bake him a cake with an encrypted file inside.
Sumana and to some extent Vadim and Alex are apparently teaching me to read Cyrillic phonetically. If that happens, I'll know four alphabets.
At Eric's wedding, Vanessa (the bridesmaid with whom I was paired) told me that her brother was once asked to "write out his name phonetically" for some event like a graduation where it would be read aloud. Of course, being a linguist, he wrote it in IPA...
It's much, much, much faster to mount a large ext2fs read-only than read-write. Wow. That could be useful sometimes.
I seem to remember that some other filesystems, like reiserfs, are easier to mount read-write quickly than is ext2fs. I'll have to try some of them some day soon.
The traffic on free-sklyarov has fallen off precipitously (I think it's below 10% of what it used to be). The good part is that maybe fewer people will unsubscribe now. Also, we hope that a lot of activity has shifted over to the regional Free Dmitry groups.
The U.S. Trade Representative demonstrates what's wrong with, um, all kinds of things.
Matters actionable under section 301(b) include acts, policies, or practices of a foreign government that are ``unreasonable'' and burden or restrict U.S. commerce. Under section 301(d)(3)(B)(i)(II),
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The United States has consulted repeatedly with the Government of Ukraine regarding the matters under investigation. The Government of Ukraine has made very little progress in addressing two key issues: (1) the use of existing law enforcement tools to stop the current piracy, and (2) the introduction of an optical media licensing regime (which has become the international norm) to prevent a subsequent resurgence of pirate activity. Accordingly, on the basis of the investigation initiated under section 302 of the Trade Act, the comments received, and the consultations, the Trade Representative has determined pursuant to sections 301(b) and 304(a)(1)(A) of the Trade Act that the acts, policies and practices of Ukraine with respect to the protection of intellectual policy rights are unreasonable and burden or restrict U.S. commerce, and are thus actionable under section 301(b).
It's amazing that such an abstract and arcane issue makes me so angry. I mean, other people have their own political issues, which are not necessarily related to punishing the Ukraine for resisting "the introduction of an optical media licensing regime".
I'm mostly angry because I was tricked into believing -- for years and years -- that the U.S. government and trade treaty organizations actually wanted to promote free trade.
It's not true. They want to promote harmonization of national laws.
It doesn't mean that they want to get rid of borders. It doesn't mean that they want to get rid of regulation or legislation in general. It doesn't mean that they want to allow the free movement of goods (or people!). It's still about political power!
I am very angry.
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