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ESCHEW OBFUSCATION

 Longest words?

The word in the link is the chemical name for tryptophan synthetase A protein. It appears
in Mrs Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words:

Actually this is: floccinaucinihilipilification
Pron: (flok"su-nô"su-nI"hil-u-pil"u-fi-kA'shun)—n. Rare.the estimation of something as valueless.

Usually encountered as an example of one of the longest English words. As opposed to words such as the monster above, and others, such as antidisestablishmentarianism, this word has a practical and useful meaning and is thus considered  the longest "real" word in the English language. John

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Science: Social Sciences: Psychology: Tests and Testing  (96)

ACE Intelligence Website - Free IQ tests, including an official test and weekly changing tests.

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Business and Employee I.Q. Tests - Free test for employees and businesses. For more accurate results, an official test is obtainable.

Cognitive Reasoning Register - Measurement of ability to learn, solve problems, and intellectual acuity. Often used pre-hire for management and IT professional assessment.

Daily IQ Test - Daily changing IQ-style questions of diverse nature for fun and learning purposes.

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Difficult IQ tests - Comprehensive list of IQ tests and IQ societies.

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European IQ Test - Free online IQ test.

Fast Comprehensive IQ Test - Short online IQ test.

Foritensum - A very difficult culture-fair test.

2 Free Online IQ Tests - Answer 40 questions in 30 minutes and receive an analysis with your IQ.

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Today I got this:

Hi,

I see that you have a large number of SF stories on your site, http://jar2.com/2/Students/Books/ .

I'm Andrew Burt, from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, and chair of the Electronic Piracy Committee. While I appreciate that you have only put these works up because you enjoy them and want to share them, unfortunately it's a copyright violation to post them without the authors' permission. Besides being illegal, it in fact hurts the very authors that you like, and their families, and the SF field as a whole. (See http://www.sfwa.org/epiracy/faq.htm for details on how e-piracy hurts authors.)

Thus I have to ask that you remove the texts of the actual works immediately. I might suggest instead providing links to e.g. Amazon as authoritative and legitimate sources, or even half.com for that matter. I'd rather have you take them down yourself than have your ISP or a DNS provider disable your entire site as we have to do for hardcore pirates, and we try to take a gentler approach than e.g. the RIAA (suing 12 year old girls on welfare), but the work still has to come down, hence this letter.

Anyway, please notify me that you've removed these works entirely from your site. (Remove the files themselves, else Google can still keep them cached.) Thanks.

Thanks,

--

Dr. Andrew Burt
Chair, ePiracy Committee, SFWA
www.sfwa.org/epiracy

So I removed everything.

Hi, John, thanks for removing the material.  Even if you only intended it for your students, Google found it and made it available to the entire world.

As for obtaining print books in English, I know that Amazon ships internationally, including to Russia.  Amazon.com does, and possibly you might get even better shipping rates from one of the European based Amazon sites, like Amazon.uk.

Another idea would be to find someone in the US who could purchase the materials then ship them to you in bulk; I imagine that would be cheaper than Amazon's shipping rate since Amazon covers more costs than simply the postal cost.

I deal with the folks at Amazon, so I'll bounce the idea off them of having a special shipping rate for educational materials.

Fortunately this shipping problem is headed out the door; in 10-20 years books will simply be digital (e.g. digital paper, digital ink), so there won't be any shipping.  As that day approaches, more and more will be available in "ordinary" e-book form; keep an eye on Amazon for that, as well as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.

Another step on that path is http://www.openlibrary.org .  The number of titles at these places will be growing by leaps and bounds.  One of my efforts is to find ways to make many titles available there.  Also try http://www.baen.com/library , the Baen Free Library, which is mostly science fiction.

Andrew

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Dr. Andrew Burt 

           Comp.Sci. Dept, University of Denver                                              aburt@aburt.com
          Co-Director, Institute for Digital Security
                   Chair, ePiracy Committee

                      www.sfwa.org/epiracy
 SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.)

It seemed hypocritical that someone fighting piracy would promote the very thing he is fighting against. So I uploaded the books below, in white, back onto the server. I guess we will have to wait and see what happens next. Since the work here in question can not be categorized as Science Fiction it should not be a problem. Dr. Burt was very polite and I do not have anything against him I just do not like being told what to host and what not to host by someone who is trying to host the same things I host, you follow that?
 

 These topics have been of interest

Off-Site:

Short Stories

The Assignation
Berenice
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
A Descent into the Maelstrom
The Devil in the Belfry
The Domain of Arnheim
Eleonora
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold-Bug
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
Landor's Cottage
The Masque of the Red Death
Mesmeric Revelation
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Oblong Box
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
Silence -- a Fable
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
Von Kempelen and his Discovery
William Wilson

Poetry

Alone
Annabel Lee
Eldorado
Lenore
Sonnet: To Science
The Bells
The Raven
To Helen
Ulalume
 

Tragedies

Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus

Histories

King Henry IV Part 1
King Henry IV Part 2
King Henry V
King Henry VI Part 1
King Henry VI Part 2
King Henry VI Part 3
King Henry VIII
King John
Richard II
Richard III

Comedies

All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale

Poetry

A Lover's Complaint
Sonnets 1-30
Sonnets 121-154
Sonnets 31-60
Sonnets 61-90
Sonnets 91-120
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and the Turtle
The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
 

A lot of the books on this site come from TEXTZ.com so please support them. Tell your friends, share the links and share the knowledge. If a guy has the sheer patience to type out entire books so that we can all read them he must be lauded. John

Copy Adorno, Go To Jail? Textz.com Doesn't Think So

The Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Culture, presided by Jan Philipp Reemtsma, has just advanced science and culture to a whole new level: Sebastian Luetgert, the founder of textz.com, is facing a warrant of arrest and may go to jail if he fails to pay more than 2,300 euros in damages for the alleged copying of two essays by Theodor W. Adorno that the foundation claims as their "intellectual property". Reemtsma was kindly asked to settle, but refused.

The case dates back to August 2002, when the foundation filed for a preliminary injunction against Luetgert at the Hamburg State Court, referring to the alleged distibution of two works by Theodor W. Adorno, "Jargon der Eigentlichkeit" and "Fascism and Anti-Semitic Propaganda". Since not a single e-mail was sent to notify textz.com of the matter, and since written notification failed to reach the defendant, textz.com only learned about the issue after a few days. The works in question were immediately removed from the site to avoid any further legal hassles.

In December 2003, Luetgert found himself confronted with a warrant of arrest, obtained against him by the Hamburg Foundation, citing unpaid claims related to the unauthorized copying of said works. In January 2004, Luetgert addressed the issue in a letter to Reemtsma and asked for a scholarship so he could pay this debt and avoid jail time. Reemtsma did not reply, but handed the letter over tohis foundation's lawyers - Senfft, Kersten, Voss-Andreae & Schwenn - who insist on the payment of 2,331.32 Euros for alleged damages and legal fees.

Textz.com believes that an "intellectual proprietor" of Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin who claims to advance science and culture by sending people to jail for taking Adorno and Benjamin serious is seriously wrong on a whole number of points. The Hamburg Foundation undererstimates the resistance of their possessions against their legal protection just as much as their lawyers underestimate the ability of the Internet to route around damage. In the end, they may even be wrong in thinking that they will ever get their property back.

Today, in an open letter (http://textz.com/adorno/open_letter.txt), Reemtsma has been notified that his foundation's "intellectual property" has been returned to the public domain. This first-of-its-kind protest signals a refusal to let copyright holders and lawyers censor the very works they pretend to protect and control what the public can archive or read. There is a universal right to copy that will never cease to apply, and there is copyright legislation that will.
We're just at the beginning.

Textz.com
February 24, 2004

http://textz.com
mailto:textz@textz.org

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How you can support textz.com:

- Spread the word. Tell your friends, tell a journalist, write about it, put it
  on a website, post it to a mailing list, etc. Textz.com is also available for
  interviews, just mail to press@textz.org.

- Sign our petition at http://textz.com/adorno/petition.html.

- Write a letter to Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement
  of Science and Culture, Mittelweg 36, 20148 Hamburg, Germany. If you like,
  send a copy of your letter to textz@textz.org.

- Donate to textz.com via http://textz.com/adorno/donate.html.

- Buy a copy of Robert Luxemburg's "The Conceptual Crisis of Private Property as
  a Crisis in Practice" (http://textz.com/crisis). All proceedings will go to
  textz.com's fund for legal expenses.

- Put our "Free Adorno" banner () on your
  website, and/or link to http://textz.com/adorno.

- Meet textz.com at Neuro Festival, February 26-29, Munich, Germany (check
  http://neuro.kein.org for details) and join our discussion about further
  strategies in this case.

- Select all, copy, paste, save, upload, share. Reappropriate. (And remember:
  there is no need to break what you can circumvent. Don't innovate, imitate.)

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Related links:

Documentation of our correnspondence:
http://textz.com/adorno/documentation.de.txt
http://textz.com/adorno/documentation.en-babelfish.txt

Press coverage:
http://textz.com/adorno/press.de.txt