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**-5 "interesting" facts about Massachusetts :**

 * ====Boston built the first subway system in the US in 1897. ====
 * ====In Rockport, there is a house made out of old newspapers. ====
 * ====The Fig Newton dessert was named after the city of Newton, MA. ====
 * ====The official polka of Commonwealth is called "Say Hello To Someone From Massachusetts". ====
 * ====The first basketball game in 1891 was played in Springfield. ====

What standards should rule the internet?

 * ====In Saudi Arabia/China, people can censor certain sites ====
 * ====Internet opens up a new form of research ====
 * ====The US has been trying different internet regulation bills for years ====
 * ====Many parents like to censor websites inappropriate for children ====
 * ====Is internet browsing really a right? ====
 * ====Is it "right" to block internet websites? ====
 * ====Would this go against freedom of speech? ====
 * ====What is considered to be "bad content"? ====
 * ====Should it be optional? If so, would you pay for it? ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 20px;">I think it should be optional and sold as a program for a computer ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 20px;">You would need to pay for it ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">You should be able to block websites easily ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Equality in the workplace

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Japan blamed bad economy in ninties on their inequal workplaces ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Since the 1960's, we have been trying to acheive a truly equal workplace ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Many nations strive for equality ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">France had a short lived law that made it easer to hire someone under 26 - abandoned because it made youth a disposable workforce ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Women usually get 75% of men's pay ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Blacks get about 78% of white man's pay ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Latinos get 68% white man's pay ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Unemployment rates among blacks are twice that of white men ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I think workplaces should be equal ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Pay, treatment, everything should stay the same no matter what race or gender ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Spam regulations

 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Definition - " <span style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">disruptive messages, especially commercialmessages posted on a  __ [|computer] __<span style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;"> network or sent as e-mail."   ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">Most commonly via email ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">Spammers use web crawlers to collect addresses and names ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">Bush passed CAN-SPAM act in 2003 - attempted to regulate email ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">CAN-SPAM prohibited email advertisers from resorting to fraud to promote their products ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">CAN-SPAM did almost nothing to stop spam, and is very poorly enforced ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">I think that spam should be abolished by the government once and for all ====

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">-5 Facts that relate to important issues to me: **

 * 1) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The first long distance connection between two computers was from a computer in Massachusetts to another in California. ====
 * 2) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Many other nations censor websites as they wish. ====
 * 3) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Since the 60s, the US has been trying to create equal opportunity. ====
 * 4) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Japan blamed their previously bad economy on their inequality. ====
 * 5) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Spammers use "web-crawlers" to search the web for possible email addresses. ====

** Explanation and process : **

 * ==== We will first set up offices and buildings. ====
 * ==== Then, we will create an online anti-spam website where people can sign up for an anti-spam list (Like the existing do-not-call list) for $1. ====
 * ==== People who have signed up will then report any spam that reaches their inbox see to the government. ====
 * ==== We will charge the top spammers a lot of money for any spam they have sent. ====
 * ==== We collect a lot of money from spammers and those who sign up to help pay off costs. ====
 * ==== People should support this to keep their own email clean and efficient. ====
 * ==== It can help increase productivity and organization in a business. ====
 * ==== It requires little cost to save time and money. ====

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Ten resources used : **

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