Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love...
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