Constitution lulled away
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Random rants about our rights:
1) Its becoming increasingly clear to me that the Constitution's achilles heel is the computer. The problem lies in both the politician and the masses in general. Although a lot of adults use the computer, only a handful are aware of its true deficiencies and in particular, its security hazzards. We happily email and word process on the surface, while lucrative corporations and the organizations to protect them lurk below to create the illusion of a serene computing surface while quietly assigning us a serial number and a monitoring thread to deal with us when we get out of line.
2) Organizations such as the RIAA are particularly dangerous; an organization of small entities results in a powerful group; an organization of already powerful financial giants, however, results in a political juggernaut that cannot and will not be stopped.
3) Companies and organizations are able to do in the virtual(computing) world, what they wouldn't dream of doing in the real world. Every act or intention of monitoring net traffic is synonymous with wire tapping: someone is monitoring the passage of information from one person or persons to another. I find it utterly ridiculous that the profits of corporations has somehow twisted its way into undermining the Constitution.
4) While I'm against software piracy, I detest anti piracy organizations. Why? Because anti-piracy advocates pretend to think that software piracy is worst crime against humanity possible, when in reality...lets think about it, its really about making more money. I'm a programmer at a large company. I will simply say...we are NOT hurting for money. What about the small software company? Piracy isn't whats hurting them. Every small company struggling to reach and surpass that critical mass point to become a large company has to deal with a myriad of issues that have nothing to with piracy. Marketing, established larger competition, competent management, etc...these are the issues plaguing the small software company. Anti-piracy organizations would raid your homes, your computers, monitor your bank accounts and transactions, every web site and ftp site you connect to and prosecute you further than the full extent of the law...and all for what, to make more money??? Damn it, I wouldn't sacrifice that much wholesale constitutional rights to fight all the drug lords in China...err Columbia, much less to fill the pockets of more companies!
5) I read a political cartoon in the newspaper recently regarding Microsoft. It was about a father explaining to his son how he(the son, like Gates) could one day work hard and sacrifice to be rich and successful...only to be crushed by the government. What a pathetically uninformed cartoonist. No one questions a person's right to work hard and be successful. Its HOW Bill led his company to that success. Yes, he did some things right, like cater to the masses with brainnumbingly simple GUIs. But he also did a lot of bad things to other hard working companies to get to that success. He coerced, cajoled and often killed off any who would not cooperate. I'm not *even* going to get into the built in software "incompatibilities"...
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Random rants about our rights:
1) Its becoming increasingly clear to me that the Constitution's achilles heel is the computer. The problem lies in both the politician and the masses in general. Although a lot of adults use the computer, only a handful are aware of its true deficiencies and in particular, its security hazzards. We happily email and word process on the surface, while lucrative corporations and the organizations to protect them lurk below to create the illusion of a serene computing surface while quietly assigning us a serial number and a monitoring thread to deal with us when we get out of line.
2) Organizations such as the RIAA are particularly dangerous; an organization of small entities results in a powerful group; an organization of already powerful financial giants, however, results in a political juggernaut that cannot and will not be stopped.
3) Companies and organizations are able to do in the virtual(computing) world, what they wouldn't dream of doing in the real world. Every act or intention of monitoring net traffic is synonymous with wire tapping: someone is monitoring the passage of information from one person or persons to another. I find it utterly ridiculous that the profits of corporations has somehow twisted its way into undermining the Constitution.
4) While I'm against software piracy, I detest anti piracy organizations. Why? Because anti-piracy advocates pretend to think that software piracy is worst crime against humanity possible, when in reality...lets think about it, its really about making more money. I'm a programmer at a large company. I will simply say...we are NOT hurting for money. What about the small software company? Piracy isn't whats hurting them. Every small company struggling to reach and surpass that critical mass point to become a large company has to deal with a myriad of issues that have nothing to with piracy. Marketing, established larger competition, competent management, etc...these are the issues plaguing the small software company. Anti-piracy organizations would raid your homes, your computers, monitor your bank accounts and transactions, every web site and ftp site you connect to and prosecute you further than the full extent of the law...and all for what, to make more money??? Damn it, I wouldn't sacrifice that much wholesale constitutional rights to fight all the drug lords in China...err Columbia, much less to fill the pockets of more companies!
5) I read a political cartoon in the newspaper recently regarding Microsoft. It was about a father explaining to his son how he(the son, like Gates) could one day work hard and sacrifice to be rich and successful...only to be crushed by the government. What a pathetically uninformed cartoonist. No one questions a person's right to work hard and be successful. Its HOW Bill led his company to that success. Yes, he did some things right, like cater to the masses with brainnumbingly simple GUIs. But he also did a lot of bad things to other hard working companies to get to that success. He coerced, cajoled and often killed off any who would not cooperate. I'm not *even* going to get into the built in software "incompatibilities"...