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Knowledge must be free (or gratis, if telling "free beer" apart from "free speech"). It does'nt mean one has to disclose billion-worth blueprints of a complicated electronic device, but nothing should prevent anybody from learning how to develop such a thing and to get one's own set of such blueprints - for free.

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  A comment on Conversation: Where is the investigative journalism of the past? What happened to the free press which challenges PR and special interests to bring truth?

  Sep 12 2011: That's why credible media use fact checking and refer to experts for comments.
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  A comment on Conversation: What is your definition of love?

  Sep 10 2011: having one's interests equal in importance to your own.

• A comment on Conversation: Where is the investigative journalism of the past? What happened to the free press which challenges PR and special interests to bring truth?

  Sep 10 2011: It's because you can find a lot of formerly concealed information online, without any serious investigation. Investigative journalism has now been replaced by gonzo media and web leaks.
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  A comment on Conversation: What is the difference between having emotions and expressing them?

  Sep 10 2011: Nice question.
  
  I'd say, there is just a slight difference between the emotions kept and expressed. The ones you hide usually sustain themselves for a longer time, since you can't just leave them out. Expressing emotions, otherwise, may amplify their intensity but cut down their duration.
  
  And i would be very grateful to read your own opinion - as far is i know, in many Asian cultures emotions are regarded as a thing not worth expressing. Is that true? Is there any difference between how men and women do express them?

• A reply on Conversation: Do young people have a valid role to play in national and international politics?

  Sep 10 2011: In this case, i'd say "no". The youth parliament and its analogs worldwide are made up for learning purposes primarily - to bring up the next generation of politics being into the gears and guts of policitcal system for as long as possible.
  
  On the other hand, you and those you represent are going to play a big part in politics in 10-12 years.

• A comment on Conversation: Does the association of "Sustainability" as an environmentalistic belief segregate it from other beliefs (eg. Humansim and Idealism)?

  Sep 10 2011: Yes, it can be such a platform, though an idealistic one.
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  A comment on Conversation: Do young people have a valid role to play in national and international politics?

  Sep 10 2011: Young people don't play a role in the big game, but they do have a chance to do that later. Politics is always about experience you won't get through learning and often - about personal connections you acquire all your life long.
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  A comment on Conversation: If you could study a subject that you have never had the opportunity to study, what would you choose and why?

  Sep 10 2011: I always wanted to become a neural surgeon, though it's not a profitable job in any CIS country. For me neural surgeony is like computer science, but applied to a far more complicated system inside the human body.
  
  P.S. By now, I can't say the chance to study that is completely missed, but...

• A reply on Conversation: Will cloud computing ever make the computer just a network terminal?

  Sep 10 2011: Thanks for your opinion!
  
  However, improving connectivity may be more cost efficient than developing more and more productive consumer hardware. It can also be lead by minor companies, since cable laying is always cheaper than any R&D.
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  A comment on Conversation: For the TED Community, "tolerance" is Insufficient: I propose "respect."

  Sep 10 2011: Thank you for the translation - it was not necessary, 'cause I'm quite OK in English, but can't deny that was very kind of you.
  
  Your theses are unarguable. Building a multicultural society should be based on repect of privacy, and those seven goals you told about. Applied to the concept of US being a place to leave to for all the refugees and prosecuted people, it gives us a statement like "There's no better price to buy the freedom, than giving others a chance to be free, too".