Setting Up The Greenpeace Ship w/WiFi

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."

Comments

Why doesn't Greanpeace practice what it preaches?

[DAldredge]

Why doesn't Greanpeace practive what it preaches?

I thought that greenpeace was against the use of fossil fuels(ship) and plastics(computers)?

Is this a case where it is OK for them to have it, just wrong when the 'lesser' people have it?

Re:Ecoterrorism

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

WHen you "protest" by sabotaging trees so that loggers will be killed when they try to cut.

WHen you intentionaly impede international shipping so that your "voice" will be heard, and in the doing cause a menace to navigation.

THat's terrorism. Your right to speak your mind ends where my right to not be endangered by it begins.

Your organization has done that. Repeatedly.

Fuck, when the FRENCH have had enough of you as a non-governmental group, you know there's a problem.

so, this ship must be friendly to environment???

[Anonymous Coward]

I suppose this ship is "human-powered" so it won't emit any toxic gas. and electricity will be generated with hand-cranked generator... right?

Re:Ecoterrorism

[plopez]

boy, this topic is really bringing out the trolls.

In my opinion the real ecco-terrorists are the corporate interests which are destroying the planet for short-term profits. The list of crimes commited or tacitly supported by these organizations is huge and include supporting death squads in Nigeria and S. America, use of slavery, aparthied, price fixing, lying to investors, illegal clear cutting of forests, poisoning water and air suppplies etc.

And these acts impact human beings, who die when they are poisoned by toxic wastse or have their livlihood destroyed when the enviroment they have relied upon for centuries are destroyed. The corporates go in, leave a mess and let someone else clean it up.

Remember one thing: without a healthy environment, we are all dead.
(ok, I'm done ranting).