Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

Pete Seeger

Local Australian officials report that rain and sightseers are hampering cyclone relief.

Forget looters, sightseers should be shot on sight. They aren’t helping; they are clogging up the roads; they are using things that are needed; and nobody needs strangers showing up to gawk – that’s the media’s job.

Ergon Energy is the local power company and they are amazing. They have delivered generators to supermarkets to get them back up, while they go about repairing the grid. That is an obvious move, but I don’t know of a single utility on the Gulf Coast that has ever suggested doing it.

Warren “Sharkchow” Richey won the 1,200 mile Around the coast in 30 days paddling in a kayak. The Christian Science Monitor reporter finished at 1:48pm on Thursday, March 23, with a time of 19 days, 6 hours, and 48 minutes. He finished the race by paddling for 30 hours straight.

The Christian Science Monitor wants to know: Whose Internet is it, anyway?

“Net neutrality” simply means that data – a phone call, an e-mail, a video – can travel freely over the Internet without the interference of those who own parts of the pipeline. Those transmitting it shouldn’t discriminate as long as the content is legal and doesn’t damage the system.

The phone companies argue that competition between carriers will prevent abuses. If customers feel unfairly treated by one provider, they can switch to another.

But no such competition exists. A handful of cable TV and phone companies control the lion’s share of US broadband Internet access. Many consumers have no choice among broadband providers. The acquisition of Bell South by AT&T, now under way, shows that competition is shrinking, not expanding.

The so-called competition in my area is between Sprint and Cox Cable. No one should be surprised that both market TV, telephone & Internet packages with a total price difference wouldn’t buy a pack of gum.

The Federal Elections Commission has the new Internet rules on the agenda for its meeting on Monday.

CNet is reporting that the Election commission takes light touch with Net regs. It doesn’t look that onerous, but there really hasn’t been an explanation for the need.

The ‘Net is generally self-regulating. If you do something that a consensus feels is beyond the pale, you will receive punishment as soon as you are found out. No one has forgiven the “hired bloggers” that Thune used, and he will be punished for that. The “hive memory” is never wiped and anyone can find the relevant information with a search engine.