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H. 17652 [Editor: Henry B. Wheatley] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/5/17652 ] [Files: 17652.txt; 17652-8.txt; 17652-h.htm] Helgelannin sankarit, by Henrik Ibsen 17651 [Subtitle: Nytelm neljss nytksess] [Translator: C. Edv. Trmnen] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/5/17651 ] [Files: 17651-8.txt] The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch, by Petrarch 17650 [Editor: Thomas Campbell] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/5/17650 ] [Files: 17650.txt; 17650-8.txt; 17650-h.htm] The Germ, by Various 17649 [Subtitle: Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art] [Commentator: William Michael Rossetti] [Editor: Dante Gabriel Rossetti] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17649 ] [Files: 17649.txt; 17649-8.txt; 17649-h.htm] The Land of Contrasts, by James Fullarton Muirhead 17648 [Subtitle: A Briton's View of His American Kin] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17648 ] [Files: 17648.txt; 17648-8.txt; 17648-h.htm] The Strange Case of Cavendish, by Randall Parrish 17647 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17647 ] [Files: 17647.txt; 17647-8.txt; ] Sixtine, by Remy de Gourmont 17646 [Subtitle: roman de la vie crbrale] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17646 ] [Files: 17646-8.txt; 17646-0.txt] Arbor Day Leaves, by N.H. Egleston 17645 [Subtitle: A Complete Programme For Arbor Day Observance, Including Readings, Recitations, Music, and General Information] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17645 ] [Files: 17645.txt; 17645-8.txt; 17645-h.htm] Een abel spel van Esmoreit, by Various 17644 [Subtitle: Sconics sone van Cecilien] [Editor: R. J. Spitz] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17644 ] [Files: 17644-8.txt; 17644-h.htm] La confession d'un abb, by Louis Ulbach 17643 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17643 ] [Files: 17643-8.txt; 17643-0.txt] Romance, by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer 17642 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17642 ] [Files: 17642.txt; 17642-8.txt; 17642-h.htm] La monadologie (1909), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 17641 [Subtitle: avec tude et notes de Clodius Piat] [Annotator: Clodius Piat] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17641 ] [Files: 17641-8.txt; 17641-0.txt] Les Voyages de Gulliver, by Jonathan Swift 17640 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/4/17640 ] [Files: 17640-8.txt; 17640-r.rtf] A Alma Nova, by Guilherme d'Azevedo 17639 [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17639 ] [Files: 17639-8.txt] Hattu, by Alfhild Agrell 17638 [Subtitle: Yksinytksinen huvinytelm] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17638 ] [Files: 17638-8.txt] De Muis, by Wilhelm Busch 17637 [Subtitle: of de gestoorde nachtrust] [Illustrator: P van Geldrop] [Translator: Braga Jr.] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17637 ] [Files: 17637-8.txt; 17637-h.htm] The Mystery at Putnam Hall, by Arthur M. Winfield 17636 [Subtitle: The School Chums' Strange Discovery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17636 ] [Files: 17636.txt; 17636-8.txt; 17636-h.htm] Repertory The Comedie Humaine, A -- Z, by Cerfberr and Christophe 17635 [Title: Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z] [Author: Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe] [Translator: Joseph Walker McSpadden] (See also: #2468 & #2469) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17635 ] [Files: 17635.txt; 17635-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 152, May 30, 1917, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 17634 [Editor: Owen Seaman] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17634 ] [Files: 17634.txt; 17634-8.txt; 17634-h.htm] Saratoga and How to See It, by R. F. Dearborn 17633 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17633 ] [Files: 17633.txt; 17633-8.txt; 17633-h.htm] Compte de L'Oeuvre, by M. L. Merlet 17632 [Title: Compte de L'Oeuvre de la Cathdrale de Chartres en 1415-1416] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17632 ] [Files: 17632-8.txt] Histoire d'un baiser, by Albert Cim 17631 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17631 ] [Files: 17631-8.txt] Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse, by Eugene Field 17630 [Illustrator: Florence Storer] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/3/17630 ] [Files: 17630.txt; 17630-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 152, June 20, 1917, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 17629 [Editor: Owen Seaman] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17629 ] [Files: 17629.txt; 17629-8.txt; 17629-h.htm] Genoveeva Brabantin kreivitr, by Johann Christoph von Schmid 17628 [Subtitle: Hurskas kertomus suurista krsimyksist ja viattomuuden lopullisesta voitosta] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17628 ] [Files: 17628-8.txt] None Other Gods, by Robert Hugh Benson 17627 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17627 ] [Files: 17627.txt; 17627-8.txt; 17627-h.htm] The Lost Gospel and Its Contents, by Michael F. Sadler 17626 [Subtitle: Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17626 ] [Files: 17626.txt; 17626-8.txt] Artificial Light, by M. Luckiesh 17625 [Subtitle: Its Influence upon Civilization] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17625 ] [Files: 17625.txt; 17625-8.txt; 17625-h.htm] A Tour in France and Germany, Vol. 3, by Thomas Frognall Dibdin 17624 [Title: A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17624 ] [Files: 17624.txt; 17624-8.txt; 17624-h.htm] Le secret de l'chaufaud (1888), by Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam 17623 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17623 ] [Files: 17623-8.txt; 17623-0.txt; 17623-h.htm] Knulp, by Hermann Hesse 17622 [Subtitle: Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17622 ] [Files: 17622-8.txt; 17622-0.txt; 17622-h.htm] One Day More, by Joseph Conrad 17621 [Subtitle: A Play In One Act] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17621 ] [Files: 17621.txt; 17621-h.htm] The Point Of Honor, by Joseph Conrad 17620 [Subtitle: A Military Tale] [Illustrator: Dan Sayre Groesbeck] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/2/17620 ] [Files: 17620.txt; 17620-8.txt; 17620-h.htm] A Jongleur Strayed, by Richard Le Gallienne 17619 [Subtitle: Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17619 ] [Files: 17619.txt; 17619-8.txt; ] Jethou, by E. R. Suffling 17618 [Subtitle: or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17618 ] [Files: 17618.txt; 17618-8.txt; 17618-h.htm; ] David Harum, by Edward Noyes Westcott 17617 [Subtitle: A Story of American Life] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17617 ] [Files: 17617.txt; 17617-8.txt; 17617-h.htm; ] Little Sky-High, by Hezekiah Butterworth 17616 [Subtitle: The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17616 ] [Files: 17616.txt; 17616-8.txt; 17616-h.htm; ] In Search of the Okapi, by Ernest Glanville 17615 [Subtitle: A Story of Adventure in Central Africa] [Ernest Glanville (1855-1925)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17615 ] [Files: 17615.txt; ] Bob Hampton of Placer, by Randall Parrish 17614 [Illus.: Arthur I. Keller] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17614 ] [Files: 17614.txt; 17614-8.txt; 17614-h.htm; ] The Land of the Black Mountain, by Reginald Wyon and Gerald Prance 17613 [Subtitle: The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17613 ] [Files: 17613.txt; 17613-8.txt; 17613-0.txt; 17613-h.htm] Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway, by J. Randall 17612 [Subtitle: Illustrative and Descriptive of Places along the Line from Worcester to Shrewsbury] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17612 ] [Files: 17612.txt; 17612-h.htm] Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars), by Thomas Aquinas 17611 [Subtitle: From the Complete American Edition] [Translator: Fathers of the English Dominican Province] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17611 ] [Files: 17611.txt] Livro de Mguas, by Florbela Espanca 17610 [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/1/17610 ] [Files: 17610-8.txt] Our Deportment, by John H. 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If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,495,044,128 that would be 18,381 x 64,950,441 = ~1.19 Trillion !!! With 18,381 eBooks online as of February 01, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.84 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 64,950,441 x 18,381 x $.84 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.54 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 18,381 eBooks online as of February 01, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.54 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.66 when we had 15,248 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. 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Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart@xxxxxxxxx and gbnewby@xxxxxxxxx if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] MIT PLANS WIRELESS NETWORK IN CAMBRIDGE MIT has announced plans to deploy a wireless network covering Cambridge, Mass., where the university is located. Working with Harvard University and Boston's Museum of Science, MIT will set up the network using mesh technology, which, although not as fast as commercial service, is significantly less expensive. With a traditional wireless network, wireless access points are installed to cover the desired area, and every access point is hardwired to the network. Mesh technology eliminates much of the wiring by relying on a small number of wired antennae and many other antennae that relay signals to the wired ones. Jerrold M. Grochow, vice president for information services and technology at MIT, described it as "hopping from antenna to antenna to antenna." Mary P. Hart, CIO for Cambridge, commented that the proposed network will allow the city to determine the demand for wireless access. Other cities have spent large sums developing wireless coverage without knowing if residents want it, she said. Grochow noted that unlike the situation in other municipalities, MIT's project has not run into opposition from commercial Internet providers. Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 February 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/02/2006020601t.htm AOL AND YAHOO EXPERIMENT WITH E-MAIL POSTAGE In an effort to limit unwanted and fraudulent e-mail, AOL and Yahoo have announced plans to begin charging "postage" for delivering some e-mail to their customers. Under the system, companies that pay to have their e-mail delivered--between 1/4 and 1 cent per message--will receive preferential service. A third party, Goodmail, will collect the fees and verify the source of messages. E-mail from nonpaying senders will still be delivered, but it will be routed through spam filters and other mechanisms, which could prevent it from reaching its target. The hope is that the fees will discourage spammers from sending billions of unsolicited messages every day. A spokesperson from AOL compared the plan to the current functioning of the postal system. Certified mail, for example, is guaranteed to be delivered "in a way that is different from other mail," he said. Some analysts said e-mail postage will only lead to disagreements between senders and ISPs. Many e-mail marketers also rejected the idea, saying that there are already mechanisms in place, such as a service called Bonded Sender, that verify the legitimacy of e-mail and that cost significantly less than the proposed charges. New York Times, 5 February 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html PUBLISHER LAUNCHES AD-SUPPORTED ONLINE TEXT HarperCollins has announced a new program that will make book content available free online, supported by advertiser links that share the page with the text. Officials from the publisher said the Harper program will focus on nonfiction and reference books, noting that advertisers are likely not as interested in paying to support literary fiction. The first book offered in the program, "Go It Alone! The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own" by Bruce Judson, was published in 2004 and later released in paperback. One test of the program will be whether ad sales offset lost sales, according to Murray, group president of HarperCollins. Despite the ongoing squabbles over online access to books, supporters of the idea still believe it has potential. Author M.J. Rose said that no one wants to read an entire book online but that if they have easy access to a text on the Web and they like it, they will be encouraged to buy a copy. Associated Press, 6 February 2006 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060206/ap_en_bu/publishing_free_text ["One test of the program will be whether ad sales offset lost sales" Of course this assumption flies in the face of all the studies, each of which indicated that free eBook editions caused increased sales rather than "lost sales."] CELL PHONES AS TRACKING TOOLS Companies that use cell phones to track people have seen significant increases in business in the past few years. In Britain, firms such as Followus and Verilocation frequently work with employers who want to keep tabs on staff, despite concerns that the service infringes on individuals' civil rights. Kevin Brown of Followus noted that his company's service requires the consent of those being tracked. Users must agree to having their cell phones tracked, and periodic messages are sent randomly to users reminding them that their movements are being followed. Officials at Verilocation pointed to such events as the bombings in London last summer as times when being able to locate all of your employees is highly valuable. Experts on business processes said being able to track employees can allow companies to provide better service to customers by, for example, letting them know exactly where a technician is and when he will arrive at a customer's home. Officials from Liberty, a civil rights group, were unconvinced, saying that employees' rights in the workplace have been eroded and that there is a significant risk that businesses will misuse tracking data. CNET, 5 February 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6035317.html EFF SUES AT&T OVER COOPERATION WITH NSA The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed suit against AT&T for allegedly cooperating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in eavesdropping on individuals without a warrant. President Bush ordered the wiretaps following the terrorist attacks of 2001 and has vigorously defended them, saying the Constitution and Congressional resolutions allow them. Civil liberties groups and others reject that, saying that the wiretaps violate existing laws on surveillance. The EFF said it identified AT&T as one company involved in the activities and has filed suit "to stop this invasion of privacy, prevent it from occurring again, and make sure AT&T and all the other carriers understand there are going to be legal and economic consequences when they fail to follow the law." The EFF alleges that AT&T provided the NSA with access to its network, which carries both voice and data, and to its vast databases that store information on phone calls and Internet activity. AT&T refused to comment on the litigation. Yahoo, 31 January 2006 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_hi_te/domestic_spying_lawsuit CONGRESS HOLDS HEARINGS ON CELL-PHONE CUSTOMER PRIVACY A Congressional hearing this week will address cell phone companies' efforts to protect the privacy of their customers. The hearing comes after recent revelations that a number of data brokers have been able to con cell phone companies into disclosing data about customers and their calling habits, which was then sold to third parties. The premise is that certain individuals, such as attorneys, might want details of cell phone calls, and data brokers supply that data. Cell phone companies and some members of Congress, however, object to the methods that data brokers use to obtain that information, including posing as people they are not and using information such as Social Security numbers without authorization. Some critics have pointed to weak policies and practices among cell phone companies for protecting such data as the root of the problem. Rep. Joe L. Barton (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a statement that he intends to make the practice of fraudulently obtaining such data "very illegal." ZDNet, 1 February 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6033688.html To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] [Reply from one of our readers follows this reprint.] Bill Gates Says It Will Take 10 Years To Stop Piracy In China/India "In India and China it will be a decade before we get that level," meaning the current protection level achieved in the United States, as is currently in progress in Taiwan and South Korea. Mr. Gates was addressing the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. [However, what I think he really means is that it will take 10 years or so, for China and India to grow economically to the point where a person of their average means can really afford MicroSoft programs.] [By the way, I got the first clues to this story from the BBC, but a recent search shows the story is already missing after a short time, so the follow up was through The Express, of India.] [In my own personal experiences outside the Asia major urbana center locations, there is no place you can find legal copies of anything-- the manufacturers are just not interested in making them available.] If the product is not made available, how can we buy The Real Thing? Source: BBC Express India Reply from Martin Ward <martin@xxxxxxxxxx> Turning a blind eye to piracy in the developing world is Microsoft's policy: few people can afford to buy their products (at the moment), so enforcing copyright would just push customers into using Linux. Instead, allow rampant piracy, until everyone uses MS products, and becomes locked into MS products, *then* start enforcing copyright, when it becomes harder to switch. As the drug pushers say "The first one is always free". Martin martin@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/ Erdos number: 4 G.K.Chesterton web site: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/ * *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK [See below] *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The Valerie Plame scandal will be swept under the carpet until after the November US elections, as will most of a host of related WMD issues, etc., mentioned below. *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK and *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK [combined this week] [Continued from last week's report from the previews] "I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United Nations Security Council." Sec. State Powell's Former Chief of Staff Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson concerning the famous speech to the United Nations on "Weapons of Mass Destruction," two years ago this very week, to which he was a major contributor. "I recall vividly the Secretary of State walking into my office, and saying `I wonder what will happen if we put half a million troops on the ground in Iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and don't find a single weapon of mass destruction?'" Wilkerson says that CIA Director George Tenent and others reported no reliability or validity problems with the intelligence reported, even though the majority of sources were suspect or compromised, a charge that was extended to the DIA reports of Sheik Al Libbi. He stated that Vice President Cheney's multiple CIA visits at the time should be characterized as "undue influence" and also should be compared the undue influence Cheney pressed on Congress during the various recent dissussions of the "torture issue." Wilkerson has repeatedly characterized the creation of a cartel of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney to override U.S. allegiance to the Geneva Convention and "inept and incompetent" operations in Iraq. "I'm worried, and I would rather have the discussion and debate in the process we've designed, than I would a dictat from a dumb strongman. I'd prefer to see the squabble of democracy to the efficiency of dictators." There's way too much more to include here, but you can find the entire report via: "Powell's Former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson Calls Pre-War Intelligence a 'Hoax on the American People'" Mathaba.Net, UK - Feb 6, 2006 * "The politicians have hijacked our democracy by redistricting." Boston Legal, 02/07/06 *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK "The British Library spends #2m of its #16m annual acquisitions budget on digital material, mainly reference books and journals." Already 1/8 of their money is being spent on digitial materials, and presuming those digital materials are less expensive than a paper counterpart, we should possibly consider that 1/4 of their acquisitions are digital. "By 2020, 90% of newly published work will be available digitally," "according to British Library predictions published last year." Source: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4675280.stm * The Nazis used the guillotine to behead far more people than the French. * Windfall Gasoline Profits in 2005 $36.1B Exxon +43% to +46% [various sources] [on $371B gross, +20%] $25.3B Shell +26% to 30% [^more than the $340B GDP of Saudi Arabia^] $22.34B BP $14.1B Chevron [Chevron does more business overseas, hard to get figures] [ChevronTexaco] $13.53B ConocoPhillips $111.37 Billion Total Profit For Those Five Companies in 2005 By comparison, the rumored merger of Mittal Steel and Arcelor in Europe would have done $69B in 2005, run by Lakshmi Mittal, listed by Forbes as the #3 richest person in the world. The basic claims are that merger-mania MUST continue or else they can't compete with those who have already done mergers. And most of them are still complaining they didn't make enough. Example: BP still complained that they lost money in the 4th quarter compared to last year, even though profits were up 26%. [BBC] Home heating oil jas nearly doubled from the $1.16 of winter 2001-2002. First column figures from articles: "Resource Investor - Energy - Canada's Top Integrated Oil Firm" "Hurricane Damage Limits Chevron's Profit" "`conocophillips profits" - Google News'" Also see Charlie Rose, 02/07/06 * By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population. Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. 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Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17703 ] [Files: 17703.txt; 17703-8.txt; 17703-h.htm] Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.),by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17702 [Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker] [Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text] [Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17702 ] [Files: 17702.txt; 17702-8.txt; 17702-h.htm] Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.), by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre 17701 [Illustrator: Freudenberg and Dunker] [Translator: George Saintsbury: From The Authentic Text] [Of M. Le Roux De Lincy With An Essay Upon The Heptameron by the Translator] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/7/0/17701 ] [Files: 17701.txt; 17701-8.txt; 17701-h.htm] Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the US, by W. E. B. 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(of VI.), by Thomas Moore 17684 [Subtitle: With his Letters and Journals.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/8/17684 ] [Files: 17684.txt; 17684-8.txt; 17684-0.txt; 17684-h.htm] The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884, by Various 17683 [Subtitle: A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/8/17683 ] [Files: 17683.txt; 17683-8.txt; 17683-h.htm] The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28, ed. by Charles William Daniel 17682 [Subtitle: The Independent Health Magazine] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/8/17682 ] [Files: 17682.txt; 17682-8.txt; 17682-h.htm] Lippa, by Beatrice Egerton 17681 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/8/17681 ] [Files: 17681.txt; 17681-8.txt; 17681-h.htm] The Title Market, by Emily Post 17680 [Illustrator: J. H. Gardner Soper] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/8/17680 ] [Files: 17680.txt; 17680-8.txt; 17680-h.htm] The Story of a Nodding Donkey, by Laura Lee Hope 17679 [Illustrator: Harry L. 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