Section 7 – Exploration of the City of Seattle as a Direct Broadband Provider - If broadband internet access service providers providing service to residents of the City of Seattle violate this ordinance in ways which evidence a pattern and practice on behalf of those providers to interfere with the rights secured by this ordinance, the City Council of the City of Seattle shall explore the potential for the City of Seattle to become a direct broadband internet access service provider to the residents of the City of Seattle.
The United Nations has proposed to make Internet access a human right. This push was made when it called for universal access to basic communication and information services at the UN Administrative Committee on Coordination. In 2003, during the World Summit on the Information Society, another claim for this was made. In some countries such as Estonia,[3] France,[4] Finland,[5], the United Kingdom Greece[6] and Spain,[7] Internet access has already been made a human right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access
Maybe but in Pennsylvania, drilling companies have backed away: "Major gas exploration companies such as Chesapeake and Cabot are reducing their drilling significantly — and others like Talisman Energy have shifted some of that drilling to places like Texas where taxes are close to nil and where there is little opposition to the drilling unlike western Pennsylvania where environmentalists have come out strongly against the drilling and the city of Pittsburgh has passed an all-out ban." http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/01/24/drilling-companies-reduce-investment-in-pennsylvania/
This came up in a thread with Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing, CELDF's Thomas Linzey replied "There are many things that currently prevent us from engaging in this new type of activism - one is preemption (both at the federal and state level); Dillon's Rule (the flip side of preemption which treats municipalities as children compared to the state "parent"), and corporate "rights" (that activism such as this violates corporate constitutionally embedded rights, including bill of rights and 14th amendment protections, as well as commerce clause "rights" under the constitution). Our organizing designs municipal laws to frontally challenge each of those impediments."
Ultimately it comes down to who should decide in communities? Should corporate lobbyists influencing congress set the law and should we abide by these laws? Or, should we challenge them?
This kind of ordinance makes sense once you realize how colonized by corporate lobbying our federal govt has become. If it weren't for legalized "corruption" inherent in Congress, we might not need more local law.
Under the Clean Water Act, you only have legal standing to file a suit if you own property along a river or water system that's been damaged. You can only sue to recover monies equivalent to your loss e.g. you can no longer eat fish from the river. Monies recovered go to the Federal government, not to your local ecosystem for cleanup. With Rights for Nature, anyone shall have the authority to sue with an action in equity brought in a court of appropriate jurisdiction. See section 5b of the net neutrality ordinance.
Since a lot of commenters on my blog misunderstand Wa. State Tax Law, I've posted text of the statue there under Notes for commenters at the bottom.
http://blog.reifman.org/2009/09/road-balanced-budget-leads-to-microsoft.html
* The law does not distinguish between license sales intrastate, interstate or international
* By transferring it's software to Reno for sale from Nevada, Microsoft is accomplishing a "sleight of hand" which probably would not pass muster in Washington State court.
I also addressed a lot of common arguments people make against Microsoft paying its taxes here - back in 2008:
Top Reader Excuses for Microsoft's Tax Avoidance (Idealog)
http://www.idealog.us/2008/02/top-reader-excu.html
Washington State Legislators (who are greatly funded by Microsoft employees and corporate donations) have refused to close this $528 billion tax loophole... yes Billion!
"It is going to forestall Facebook's ability to get everyone writing just for Facebook," said a person with knowledge of the plans who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak on behalf of the alliance. The group's platform, which is called OpenSocial, is "compatible across all the companies," that person said.
"Facebook got the jump by announcing the Facebook platform and getting the traction they got. This is an open alternative to that," the person also said.
via Om Malik's blog tonight
http://gigaom.com/2007/10/30/opensocial/
Google's (GOOG) much awaited answer to Facebook ecosystem is finally coming to light. The existence of this Google platform was first reported by TechCrunch and is going to become official tomorrow.
Google will announce its new social networking initiative, Open Social on Thursday. Joining Google and its Orkut social network are other partners such as XING, Friendster, hi5, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Newsgator and Ning.
OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for building social applications on the web. These common APIs mean that developers only have to learn once in order to start building social applications for multiple websites, and any website will be able to implement OpenSocial and host social applications.
So, is it FOSS?
If you click on the post, you'll see the update. Facebook deleted the group sometime today. Many other obscenity-laced group names remain against their ToS.
I agree with most of the commenters that Facebook doesn't care --- or they would take all the easily queryable "f**k" and "hate" groups down...but the advertisers TMobile, Verizon, Sprint, French's, etc. They won't like finding out that their brand is appearing on pages of groups with these obscenities. Remember, don't f**k with French's...
K changed my original post but I put a close up of the liveearth propeller image here. I agree the U.S. govt doesn't care about it at this point or MSFT would have blurred it.
Read the Alternet story here. Good to see the Netcraft info added in. "There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website -- which gave the world the presidential election results -- was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's firing of eight federal prosecutors." I think this will emerge to be a huge story.
Slashdot Mirror
Section 7 – Exploration of the City of Seattle as a Direct Broadband Provider - If broadband internet access service providers providing service to residents of the City of Seattle violate this ordinance in ways which evidence a pattern and practice on behalf of those providers to interfere with the rights secured by this ordinance, the City Council of the City of Seattle shall explore the potential for the City of Seattle to become a direct broadband internet access service provider to the residents of the City of Seattle.
Prior to Brown v. Board of Education, segregation was the law of the land. It took the Supreme Court along time to catch up ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
The United Nations has proposed to make Internet access a human right. This push was made when it called for universal access to basic communication and information services at the UN Administrative Committee on Coordination. In 2003, during the World Summit on the Information Society, another claim for this was made. In some countries such as Estonia,[3] France,[4] Finland,[5], the United Kingdom Greece[6] and Spain,[7] Internet access has already been made a human right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access
Maybe but in Pennsylvania, drilling companies have backed away: "Major gas exploration companies such as Chesapeake and Cabot are reducing their drilling significantly — and others like Talisman Energy have shifted some of that drilling to places like Texas where taxes are close to nil and where there is little opposition to the drilling unlike western Pennsylvania where environmentalists have come out strongly against the drilling and the city of Pittsburgh has passed an all-out ban." http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/01/24/drilling-companies-reduce-investment-in-pennsylvania/
This came up in a thread with Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing, CELDF's Thomas Linzey replied "There are many things that currently prevent us from engaging in this new type of activism - one is preemption (both at the federal and state level); Dillon's Rule (the flip side of preemption which treats municipalities as children compared to the state "parent"), and corporate "rights" (that activism such as this violates corporate constitutionally embedded rights, including bill of rights and 14th amendment protections, as well as commerce clause "rights" under the constitution). Our organizing designs municipal laws to frontally challenge each of those impediments." Ultimately it comes down to who should decide in communities? Should corporate lobbyists influencing congress set the law and should we abide by these laws? Or, should we challenge them?
This kind of ordinance makes sense once you realize how colonized by corporate lobbying our federal govt has become. If it weren't for legalized "corruption" inherent in Congress, we might not need more local law.
Under the Clean Water Act, you only have legal standing to file a suit if you own property along a river or water system that's been damaged. You can only sue to recover monies equivalent to your loss e.g. you can no longer eat fish from the river. Monies recovered go to the Federal government, not to your local ecosystem for cleanup. With Rights for Nature, anyone shall have the authority to sue with an action in equity brought in a court of appropriate jurisdiction. See section 5b of the net neutrality ordinance.
Since a lot of commenters on my blog misunderstand Wa. State Tax Law, I've posted text of the statue there under Notes for commenters at the bottom. http://blog.reifman.org/2009/09/road-balanced-budget-leads-to-microsoft.html * The law does not distinguish between license sales intrastate, interstate or international * By transferring it's software to Reno for sale from Nevada, Microsoft is accomplishing a "sleight of hand" which probably would not pass muster in Washington State court. I also addressed a lot of common arguments people make against Microsoft paying its taxes here - back in 2008: Top Reader Excuses for Microsoft's Tax Avoidance (Idealog) http://www.idealog.us/2008/02/top-reader-excu.html
Oooops - you are totally right! $528 million $528 million $528 million $528 million $528 million
Washington State Legislators (who are greatly funded by Microsoft employees and corporate donations) have refused to close this $528 billion tax loophole ... yes Billion!
Fears raised collider would create black holes that could swallow planet
Will Success, or That Google Money, Spoil Firefox?
via Om Malik's blog tonight http://gigaom.com/2007/10/30/opensocial/ Google's (GOOG) much awaited answer to Facebook ecosystem is finally coming to light. The existence of this Google platform was first reported by TechCrunch and is going to become official tomorrow. Google will announce its new social networking initiative, Open Social on Thursday. Joining Google and its Orkut social network are other partners such as XING, Friendster, hi5, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Newsgator and Ning. OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for building social applications on the web. These common APIs mean that developers only have to learn once in order to start building social applications for multiple websites, and any website will be able to implement OpenSocial and host social applications. So, is it FOSS?
I've never had any problem with ad revenue and payments. Just my experience...
the price would be $249 ($399 if you want to be able to recharge it) and the thing would be 1" square.
Why just complain about my Facebook posts? You don't seem to have a problem with: Looking Into Mozilla's Financial Success, Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio and Moglen on Social Justice and OSS. It's not like the NewsCloud logo is all stealth on my blog :)
Just fyi - today, Facebook reactivated the "Fuck Islam" group. The day this appeared on Slashdot, they had taken it down. It also turns out that Microsoft is the digital advertising provider for Facebook serving ads from Sprint, TMobile, Coca Cola et al. into the Fuck Islam group.
If you click on the post, you'll see the update. Facebook deleted the group sometime today. Many other obscenity-laced group names remain against their ToS.
I agree with most of the commenters that Facebook doesn't care --- or they would take all the easily queryable "f**k" and "hate" groups down...but the advertisers TMobile, Verizon, Sprint, French's, etc. They won't like finding out that their brand is appearing on pages of groups with these obscenities. Remember, don't f**k with French's...
Sorry, it is just a thumbnail crop ...
K changed my original post but I put a close up of the liveearth propeller image here. I agree the U.S. govt doesn't care about it at this point or MSFT would have blurred it.
Not sure if it had anything to do with the Slashdot post - but the NewsCloud application is now approved and listed in the Facebook Directory.
I wrote this Billionaire's Guide to Stopping Online Theft of Newspaper Content which details the ways in which newspapers can opt out from Google and other content sharing/"thieving" technologies.
Read the Alternet story here. Good to see the Netcraft info added in. "There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website -- which gave the world the presidential election results -- was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's firing of eight federal prosecutors." I think this will emerge to be a huge story.