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Declan McCullagh On Geek Activism
die_jack_die writes "Declan McCullagh, formerly of Wired News, lately at News.com, has written an insightful piece about the realities of geek activism. Short version: spend your time coding, not lobbying.
(You might also want to check out Politech , his mailing list for this sort of stuff.)" This in contrast to Lessigs call for more lobbying.
holy fucking SHIT, let's everyone mod this dicklicker up * * * IT's JAMIE* * *
This story was posted here and here already.
Amazing magic tricks
The only geek who ever came up with a viable means
of effecting positive change in the current U.S.
political system was promptly sent to prison.
His name is Jim Bell, and he's a loon, but his
Assassination Politics may well save the U.S. from
totalitarianism and genocide, and I can hardly wait
to see it implemented.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
Especially since he was telling the truth. Gore was one of the people who helped create the Internet as we know it today, albeit from the legislative side, rather then the technical side. Here's a quote from Vint Cerf, the person who invented the IP protocol:
Vinton Cerf: Good evening, or whatever time zone you are in, hi!! While we're waiting for questions, I'd like to clear up one little item - about the Vice President
Congress to realize how powerful the information revolution would be and both as Senator and Vice President he has been enormously helpful in supporting legislation and programs to help further develop the Internet - for example the Next Generation Internet program. I get to see a lot of this stuff because I am a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and we regularly review the R&D programs of the US Government and many have relevance to the evolving Internet.
More information can be found here. Just because "Al Gore deluded himself into thinking he invented the Internet" makes for a good one-liner, doesn't mean it's so.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Blaming someone for voting in a certain way is difficult, there's always extra circumstances. It's also easy to manipulate -- if you know a vote is going a certain way (no matter your personal vote), you can vote as your constituents want even if you would vote differently if your vote did matter.
But you can be honest in ads -- and more than just truthful, but truly honest -- and still have very negative things to say. It would be easier to do this if all procedings of congress were public, so you can see what people say and do, not just what they vote. You could see who got those riders put in, for instance. But even without that, there's a lot more to say than you read in the papers or hear in the debates.
You wrote:
/. is pissing me off more and more every day. Crooked people like you who call themselves "Advocates of Free-Speech" or whatever should be fined and thrown in jail for a little while. Buy software once in awhile or move to Indonesia. Sure you'll get ALL the free software you want there, but you might find out what makes the US so great. If you don't know already, then get the fuck out of America.
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He doesn't understand the point of backing up software, and doesn't reinstall his operating system or upgrade his machine (if he even owns one) frequently, so antipiracy codes like the one in WinXP doesn't make any difference to him.
I've copied my WinXPHome, reinstalled WinXP off the backup, upgraded, reformattted and reinstalled off the backup, activating WinXP WAY more than once. And wow, I never had a problem. have you ever used WinXP or what?
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