Word: patterns
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...read that right, needlepoint patterns. The Los Angeles Times ran a piece last month about the "Napster-like" swapping of patterns online. Evidently, needlepoint enthusiasts scan their paper patterns into their computer and save the file to a common spot on the web. Fellow stitchers print out the file, a copyrighted pattern they normally would have bought in a store...
...just like the music execs who fume and rant about "those damn hackers stealing artists' music," the L.A. Times story quoted an executive at a pattern making company who called the several hundred online pattern swappers (mostly middle aged housewives) "the scourge of all that is decent and right." Please...
...There's certainly a pattern here: The last time Vajpayee traveled to Pakistan for talks, in February 1999, there were massacres in Kashmir on the eve of his departure, also blamed on Pakistani hard-liners opposed to the rapprochement. Indeed, the muted response to the recent killings in India suggests they weren't entirely unexpected. India's leaders are keeping their eyes on the prize, starting the peace talks, despite the killings - after all, stopping the talks may well have been the killers' objective...
...accused of since 1908, when it went to the Supreme Court to argue, unsuccessfully, that its copyrights were being violated by player-piano rolls. More recently, in 1984, the movie studios went to the high court in an unsuccessful attempt to block Sony from selling VCRs. There's a pattern here, Napster's defenders say: copyright holders have always resisted new technology and then--as with the movie studios and videotapes--they end up making even more money as a result...
...More immediately, of course, any unilateral declaration of a state would immediately plunge Israelis and Palestinians into a bruising battle for land. Arafat right now controls a Rorschach pattern of enclaves comprising most of Gaza and some 40 percent of the West Bank, intermingled with Israeli settlements and military facilities. The failure at Camp David makes it unlikely that Israel will move any time soon to complete the third withdrawal required by the Oslo Accords, much less give up the further 45 percent of the West Bank Arafat has demanded. And that means potentially violent confrontations throughout the territory...