2006 27
Corporate Fidelity, Europe vs America
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Building companies and living on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, I have learned that there are many things that distinguish Europe and America at all levels. Here´s a random list:
-America has more murders, Europe has more suicides.
-Americans mostly love guns, Europeans mostly hate and regulate guns.
-Americans are mostly religious, Europeans are mostly non religious.
-Americans believe in equal opportunity, Europeans believe in equal outcomes.
-Europeans believe in the rule of law, Americans believe in the rule of lawyers.
-Americans believe in the individual, Europeans believe in the collective.
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2006 27
FONeros Maps
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The map shown in the first image is of a district in the center of Madrid scattered with FON access points (green), as well as FONeros who have already registered and will become active in the near future (orange). The stars represent FON access points that have been personalized by their users.
Martin Varsavsky wrote:
> The idea is this, let´s say you are my son Tom, playing with the PSP
> and u go to the kitchen where there is one fonspot from your bedroom
> where there´s another one, and u r playing a wifi multiplayer game…. how
> can u disconnect from the bedroom fonspot and enter the kitchen
> fonspot without interrupting the game?
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2006 25
FON in Sweden and Denmark
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After launching the FONero Promise in Sweden and Denmark, FONspot orders exploded. In the 10 months previous to this week we had had 1500 FONspot in Sweden, but in the last 2 days we received 2900 orders of Swedes excited about getting their Foneras for free and without even have to give credit card information.
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2006 25
If You Speak French
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Here´s a good TV show on FON.
2006 24
News on FON from Sweden (in Swedish)
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2006 24
Brett Brune: Educ.ar Update in The Houston Chronicle
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Today I saw this very well written article on Educ.ar, the Argentine project to provide educational materials and connect schools to the internet that I started in 2000, and was very happy to see that my efforts of 2002 to save Educ.ar from the collapse of the country had been successful. I am very glad that I did all I could to save the project including donating more funds because, even though I understand that food comes before education with the use of the internet, I strongly believe that if Argentina had continue educating the current generation without the internet there would have been no food for many years to come.
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2006 24
Beata Interviews Swede Teens On Internet Habits
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2006 23
Richard Falkvinge, Leader Of The Pirate Party In Sweden
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The interview with Richard Falkvinge, of the Pirate Party, was done at a loud party with only candlelight. I hope you can hear something!