Karakul (Tajikistan) Karakul or Qarokul (Tajik: Қарoкул, "Black Lake"), is a 25 km (16 mi) diameter lake [1] in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan.
It lies within the Tajik National Park. It was known as Lake Victoria in the 19th and early 20th centuries: It was named after Queen Victoria of Britain who was the grand mother to the last Czar of Russia as well. (To avoid confusion with the much larger Lake Victoria in Africa, this one was known as the “Lake Victoria in the Pamirs”.) The name was changed with the advent of the Soviet system in the 1920s. The lake lies at an altitude of 3,900 m (12,800 ft) above mean sea level. Boardwalk by the lakeshore. Although the lake lies within a national park, much of the surrounds are used as pasture. Karakul lies within a circular depression interpreted as a meteorite impact crater with a rim diameter of 52 km (32 mi). If SOPA's Main Target Is The Pirate Bay, It's Worth Pointing Out That ThePirateBay.org Is Immune From SOPA. In looking over Eric Goldman's excellent "linkwrap" of a bunch of recent SOPA/PIPA stories, it pointed me to a News.com article from last month, about how SOPA was really about going after one single site: The Pirate Bay.
I've actually heard this repeatedly -- and from folks heavily involved with the bill itself. The whole point of the bill is to try to take down The Pirate Bay. Now, we can argue back and forth about how pointless that is... but there's something else that seems important: As written, nothing in SOPA can touch ThePirateBay's main website, ThePirateBay.org That's because the current version of the bill excludes any .com or .org. from being a target (though, they can be required to take action against other sites). That means that thepiratebay.org -- the main website for The Pirate Bay... is actually immune from the two key parts of SOPA (sections 102 and 103, since both clearly state that they only cover "U.S. So, based on the law as written... Cl 102(a)(2) I'm sure you've heard by now that SOPA is bad and would ruin the Internet, but have you actually read the bill?
If not, it's worth reading, for two reasons. First, if you are going to oppose a bill, you should know exactly what you're opposing, not just the vague principle behind it. Second, it'll provide you with a valuable insight: that these bills are written in an attempt to obscure the truth. First off, I'm going to qualify that I'm not a lawyer. However, I am a programmer, and that's made me pretty good at unraveling spaghetti code. Here is the full text of the bill, as of Jan. 15, 2012. The Scalpel Section 102(a)(2) permits the attorney general to take action against foreign sites (i.e., sites that do not fall under U.S. jurisdiction) if "the owner or operator of such Internet site is facilitating the commission of [copyright infringement]. " This isn't quite as bad as the rest of the bill because the power lies with the attorney general, rather than the copyright holder.
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