April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. Scientific cooperation with the Soviet Union dates back to the very beginnings of space flight. The

Broadband Internet service truly is the most used form of Internet access because of its high access speeds; it is offered in four different forms, DSL (or Digital Subscriber Line), also fiber-optic, cable, and satellite. The old dial-up connection is the only non-broadband internet service available, and even though it is cheaper, most Internet users are moving towards the faster broadband Internet connection.

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The DSL (or Digital Subscriber Line) internet service makes its connection by utilizing unused telephone wires that cause no interruption to your telephone service. The speed you experience with a DSL connection varies with your distance from the switching station. Your speed will be slower the further away you are and faster the closer you are to the switching station and this may be a deciding factor when you attempt to select between a DSL line and a cable connection.

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The United States is not a democracy, but a republic -- and we must return to our roots.
Imagine for a moment we lived in a place and time where you could pull a magical lever, and almost any perceived problems would slowly begin to fade away.
Now, the beauty of this lever is that the less you work, the more leverage the lever has to take problems off your shoulders (instead burdening others in far-off lands). Without any immediate negative effects, your lever-pulling could provide food, shelter, healthcare and even education.
And the single requirement to take such life-altering action? Merely reaching an age when you are responsible enough to handle the lever's power.
What would be the result if we had the above here and now? Would we create a utopia?
The short answer is no. We know this because the "magic" of which I speak has already been created -- and it's destroying our nation.
It's called the ballot box, and it's the only place where anyone 18 or older can flip a switch and tax someone else for something he may or may not need, as long as the majority is convinced it's for the common good.
"That's just the way our country works," I'm too often told.
The fact of the matter, however, is that the United States did not begin that way. The historical reality is that our country was established to protect the individual from the far-reaching, powerful hand of the government (and the majority that enables that power).
And if we don't return to some semblance of our founding roots, our country is doomed.
Our course as a nation must be changed. We need a fundamental shift between the ears with a vast majority of our population. It also requires each of us to teach our children, and our neighbors, the truth about how our country was originally designed, and not the propaganda found in our schools or in the media.
If we are to win this battle, in which the very future of our nation is at stake, we must begin with us driving our government back to the founders' original, restricted plan.
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The United States Is NOT a Democracy

A good first step is to rediscover exactly what we are and, perhaps more importantly, what we are not! The United States is a republic, not a democracy. The distinction is of critical importance, especially since every time the U.S. makes an excursion abroad, sooner or later, "safe for democracy" is heralded throughout the press as the cause for which we should place our sons and daughters in mortal danger.
The chief characteristic of a democracy is that the majority rules completely. There is no specific protection of the individual man (or any minority) against the omnipotent rule of the majority.
On the other hand, the main purpose of a republic -- our republic! -- is to protect the minorities, and the individual's unalienable rights, from the tyranny of the majority. This is accomplished through the use of a written constitution, specifically limiting the power of the majority.
Our founding fathers knew this all too well, which is why Thomas Jefferson wrote:
What's more, John Quincy Adams anticipated what we are experiencing in the Middle East (and everywhere else the United States has decided to install a democracy) when he said:
As uncomplicated as this is, I've yet to hear of any media outlet emphasizing it. Nor have I heard the Tea Party give it anything other than a cursory once-over. Yet the protection of the minority, most importantly the individual, along with his private property, is the basis on which our system of government is built.
Unfortunately, a state run for the majority relies on war -- and the fully unleashed power of an out-of-control central government. We're currently occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, calling ourselves "liberating forces." We now are considering invading Libya, or, at the very least, creating a "no-fly zone." (To the Obama administration's credit, they have resisted every call to enter Libya. However, it's unlikely the U.S. can withstand the onslaught of the world's majority and stand by idle.)

War Is the Health of the State

And why, in this critical point in our history, would the U.S. consider another attack without provocation? Of course oil is part of the reason, but the core answer has more to do with the very nature of the democratic state itself. Randolph Bourne put it best when he said:
In other words, wars consolidate power in the hands of the government... and remove it from the individual and the minority. Exactly what the U.S. Constitution was designed to prevent.

Atlas Returns

The events of our world today were very accurately predicted in the works of Ayn Rand and, specifically, in her book Atlas Shrugged.
Tax day -- April 15, 2011 -- will mark the premiere of the motion picture Atlas Shrugged Part I. For those of you who have not read this 50-year old masterpiece, I strongly recommend it. I hope the movie can do justice to her epic novel. Obviously with "Part I" in the title, the conclusion will be months, if not years in the future.
While I will not ruin the ending for you, the book concludes with a message of hope. However, like in Rand's novel, it will require courage, from us as individuals, to stand against the ruinous rule of the majority.
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Wikimania 2011, the 7th annual international conference, is being held on August 4-7, 2011. The venue is in Haifa, Israel. The Wikimedia Foundation is offering a limited number of scholarships to offset the cost of select individuals' attendance at Wikimania.
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Microsoft's new smartphone platform is off to what could be considered a slower start than expected in North America. That's according to The Street, which has released a report saying that the company sold some 40,000 units on its first day on the market.
That number does not come from Microsoft, which has not yet released sales numbers and refused to comment to both The Street and ZDNet Asia's sister site, CNET, but rather a source in a market research firm.
Windows Phone 7, which is the follow-up to Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 platform, hit shelves in the United States and Canada last week. Before that, WP7 devices had come to stores in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in late October.
CNET hoofed it to two major carrier stores in San Francisco on launch day and came back with the