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Hopefully a positive step in the right direction, but I am reticent to believe that the Re-Education camps will actually be abolished.

I'll believe that when all current prisoners in the labor camps are released.

This treaty has been in secret negotiations for years and only the large content companies have been able to be part of the negotiations.

Information about the treaty has been shared with negotiators for the member states and large content companies, but no one who represents the 'normal' person. No legislators and no organizations like EFF, Wikipedia or Creative Commons have been allowed to advocate on behalf of ideas like fair use or limits to powers of content companies.

The text of the treaty was recently leaked by WikiLeaks and is contradictory to what politicians have promised it would represent. It represents a huge step back on the rights of users and extends copyright yet again.

See the full text at wikileaks: https://wikileaks.org/tpp/

I was encouraged by the headline, until I read why McCain wants him fired. Not for ignoring the 4th amendment; not for repeatedly, knowing lying to congress —a felony— and destroying their ability to provide any oversight; not for his tact...See More

The distinction is that the cleaning fee is per stay; I'd agree that it would be smarmy if the fee was per night.

So if you stay one night you pay $35 and if you stay seven nights you still pay $35. Raising the per night rental fee would mean penalize people who stay longer than the average stay.

>> Tech site CNET has speculated that it might be a floating data center, while the local CBS TV affiliate points to a floating store for Google's wearable Glass computer. <<

A giant floating store to sell Glass, that is made out of metal shipping containers? CBS has gone off the deep-end.