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Flushing the Net Down the Tubes
netcetra writes "From a post by on CircleID by Phillip J. Windley: 'Doc Searls has written a brilliant piece framing the battle for the Net at Linux Journal. ... if you take the time to read just one essay on the Net and the politics surround it this year, read this one.' Quote from Doc himself: 'This is a long essay. There is, however, no limit to how long I could have made it. The subjects covered here are no less enormous than the Net and its future. Even optimists agree that the Net's future as a free and open environment for business and culture is facing many threats. We can't begin to cover them all or cover all the ways we can fight them. I believe, however, that there is one sure way to fight all of these threats at once, and without doing it the bad guys will win. That's what this essay is about.' Also see additional background on the piece on Doc Searls blog."
as if millions of bytes of ram screamed in agony, and were suddenly silenced. /.ed before any comments isn't a good sign.
Your sig(k) has been stolen. There is a puff of smoke!
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Nothing to see here. Move along.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
The other option to clean up the internet is teaching people the correct use of THEIR, THERE and THEY'RE.
Not to mention TWO, TOO and TO.
Don't forget about YOU'RE, YOUR and YORE.
Oops, almost forgot ITS and IT'S.
signatures are for fools with hands
"And make no mistake, we are in what future scholars will call the dark ages."
And those scholars will be in what future scholars will call the mauve ages.
Of course we can delete the internet. Kris Kristofferson could do it. There's that device to delete the internet inside the president's desk.
I want to visit that link but its blocked by Websense as an "advocacy website", how is it advocacy if its the creator of the web?...
I mean, he loses credibility in the first sentence.. "This is a long essay. There is, however, no limit to how long I could have made it.". Of course there is a limit!
We all know that the number of computer bits that man could ever possibly compute is 1.35x(10^20), so his essay could *never* be more than that long, or else it would neve rbe completed.
Foolish!
So married people are less likely to commit copyright violations? :-)
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