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Setting Up The Greenpeace Ship w/WiFi

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-comment-on-the-politics-involved dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you're on any wifi related mailing lists, you've probably heard of Nigel Ballard of joejava.com, Minister of Propaganda for the Personal Telco Project in Portland Oregon. The Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise came into Portland and wanted some an alternative to Inmarsat for their Internet access. Nigel set Greenpeace up with equipment and got VeriLAN to provide access."

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  1. Re:Ecoterrorism by ConsumedByTV · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hi.

    I work for Greenpeace.

    I was wondering if you care to support your outlandish claims that we support ecoterrorism?

    Greenpeace has a history of Non-Violent Direct Actions for more than 30 years.

    We do not and will not tolerate ecoterrorism.

    Granted I am not speaking for Greenpeace, I am speaking as a member of it who just so happens to be an active reader of Slashdot.

    You might not agree with protesting, but it's hardly any type of terrorism.

    Now onto what you asked, why did this make the front page? It's quite obvious that this made the front page because of the people involved and the challenges that those people overcame.

    Greenpeace is a very upright environmental organization.

    We have many worthwhile causes.

    I don't know of many other organizations that stand up for the thousands killed in Bophal, or the illegal logging in the Amazon, but Greenpeace does.

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  2. Re:Ecoterrorism by Doppler00 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We have many worthwhile causes.

    Which includes cripplying large portions of the U.S. economy?

    moratorium on commercial logging and road construction

    I've lived in logging communities. I know first hand what the environmental movement has done to cripple a legitimate part of our economy. Guess what? After logging companies cut down trees they plant new ones. Trees grow back (amazing!). They do not create wastelands of stumps countrary to popular belief.

    We are working internationally to stop nuclear power

    Great, and raise the price of electricity because of ignorance of a proven technology.

  3. Am I the only one... by kir · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...thinking this only gets accepted to slashdot because it contains the word Greenpeace? Wifi was set up on a DOCKED SHIP... in Portland... BIG DEAL!

    I'm guessing - just guessing mind you - that if this guy had wifi'd the Exxon Mediterranean, we wouldn't be seeing it on slashdot.

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