I respect Howard Rheingold as a technology writer, but can he at least give some props and credit to digital anarchists and hacktivists who have been writing about these ideas for years?
By the way, the next economic system will be the participatory economics of anarchism. Capitalism is unsustainable. Not only are its days are numbered, but billions around the world want something better and more fair.
Well, some of us stick with it for a variety of reasons. The most important one to me is Netscape Messenger, which has been a reliable email client for almost ten years. I have lots of email archives, deal with lots of email, and have only seen Netscape lose data on one or two occasions.
If one is using Messenger, than you might as well use the browser, which is pretty damn good. As somebody who started using Mosaic as soon as it was released for Macs by NCSA, I go with a reliable product line that isn't Microsoft!
This article is just ignorant. It neglects the history of open source and free software beign described as *anarchist* concepts and instead opts for an ignorant comparison to communism. It make the erroenous argument that communists (and anarchists) are in favor of "utopia." I don't know of any communists or anarchists who seek utopia. And the discussion here on Slashdot illustrates how impoverished discussions about these subject have become in this forum. Four years ago you would have found a more intelligent discussion with posters explaining how open source was an example of anarchism.
Open source is an example of anarchism in practice. Search the archives for any of the discussions that support this.
As an anarchist librarian, it's good to hear that my association is going to launch an aggressive campaign about fair use and the problems with copyrights. I've been advocating against copyrights and intellectual property laws for over ten years, so it's really exciting that more and more people are seeing through the stupidity of IP laws. This swing will continue as the greedy corporations continue to engage in stupid things against the public domain and idea sharing.
You do understand that the movie is a parody of the book, right? If you are looking for a movie version of the book, then of course it sucked. But if you have an open mind about movies, Starship Troopers the movie is a brilliant send up of the fascism in the book and military culture in general.
As one of those anarchist librarians mentioned yesterday, I'm not worried about this robot. As another librarian said on a list yesterday, "Calling a robot a librarian makes as much sense as calling a pill-dispensing robot a doctor."
Open Source may be turning programmers into street performers, but it is turning other programmers into bestselling authors and others into Pultizer prize winners. Open Source software eliminates the intelelctual property nonsense that has hobbled software development and creates an information commons like the one that artists have enjoyed for thousands of years. Open Source and Free Software returns software development back to the realm of just being a language. Sure, I can code PHP for free, or I can find a company to pay me to code in PHP. It's like I can write Slashdot comments for free, or I can get money to have my articles published in magazines.
The big priority right now is to get more pirate stations on the air. The NAB was given the chance to co-opt the pirate radio movement with the LPFM reforms and instead they shot themselves in the foot. Let's give them a taste of what a "free" airwaves would sound like!
Spasemunki writes: "Chumbawumba espouse anarchist philosophy, not of itself harmful but maybe not what six year olds are ready for."
Why not ban the website of the Young Democrats or Young Republicans? I'm sure that 6-year-olds aren't ready for a terrorist organization either.
It's a real shame that some of you ignorant geeks take filtering so casually. My website Infoshop.org has been filtered by numerous censorware products. You should see some of the e-mails I get from teens who had to figure out how to disable the censorware just to see my website. Seth's report also mentions that TAO Communications is blocked. This is a clear act of political censorship. TAO provides hundreds of activist lists and e-mail accounts. My main e-mail is provided by TAO.
You won't be snickering about Marilyn Manson and Chumbawamba when the religious right sticks you in a concentration camp for not listening to Christian metal.;-)
I have gigantic mixed feelings on DOIs, handle systems, and other metadata schemes. I come at this as an anarchist, a librarian, and as a person who has actually purchased a DOI prefix for my employer. I've even been to the DOI workshop that was held several months back at CNRI in Reston, VA.
First, the postive side of DOIs. As most of you know, there is alot of information on the Internet and it isn't organized logically or in a way that a library would organize it. Librarians have been trying to instil some order on the Internet for years, mostly via various metadata schemes. A metadata-based system, like the DOI file handle system, would get us away from identifying content based on location (URLs) and get back to identifying content based on classification (i.e. like Dewey or LC call numbers in your local library). So, if you've installed the proper DOI plugin into your browser and you click on a DOI-enabled link, you'll be given a choice of where you want to get the item. The article by Professor X on nanotechnology is identified by a number, not a URL. Youc an choose to get it from a variety of sources, some of which will give you free access, say if you are a student at a particular university.
In other words, DOIs would greatly help people find information on the Internet.
Now for the flip side. If you read the MSNBC article carefully, you notice a few scary things mentioned, like "[it] is using it to build the Defense Virtual Library" and "another problem is with copyrights and other protections of intellectual property." If you care about the free flow of information on the Internet, which tech like Napster has enabled, DOI and handle schemes should throw up lots of red flags. The music industry is salivating over the DOI project. They are involved in it, the extent to which is unknown to the public. I suspect that the DOI system will be sold as a cool way to find Internet content and that its use to police the Internet for intellectual property owners will be downplayed. If Microsoft and the AAP are involved, you can bet that they don't have the interests of Internet freedom in mind. They simply want to protect the profits they make from the intellectual work of other people.
This is another example of why technology is never neutral. There are always socio-political ramifications from every new tech. Is this new system, which allows you to find content easier, worth the tradeoff in how it makes intellectual property fascism easier?
Activists have a right to block an intersection. After all, driving is a privilege and free speech is theoretically a protected right according the Bill of Rights.
Silly me, I missed this. The 45th amendment says "Thou shalt have the right to drive across Center City as fast and quickly as possible."
Your brief history of MOVE neglects to mention the fact that the police had imprisoned MOVE activists several years prior to the MOVE bombing. The bombing itself killed several MOVE members,including a few children.
Racism did play a part in the bombing. MOVE was persecuted because they were black *political* radicals, with a message that the establishment in Philly didn't want to hear.
Last time I checked, the police don't usually drop bombs on people who have load parties and happen to own a few guns. The bombing of MOVE was a political act of state terrorism which could be called the Black WACO.
If you are unfamiliar with MOVE or the City of Philadelphia's terrorism against the organization, I strongly suggest that you do some research. XLawyer's account of what happened echos the official version of what happened.
This is relevant to Slashdot readers for several reasons. The first being that Shapeshifter, who helps with 2600, was arrested and charged with FELONIES for simply being on the street with a cell phone. Another good reason is that some of us who were involved in the Philadelphia protests are regular Slashdot readers. The police affidavit that was used to justify the police raid on the puppet warehouse cited two geek media sources: IndyMedia and my site, Mid-Atlantic Infoshop. No surprise, the cops are using alternative media website to glean information about activists.
Finally, and most importantly, everybody who visits this site should be concerned with how the Philly cops took their anti-activist intimidation and violence to a new level. If you aren't mad about the cops holding activists on million dollar bails because they were talking on a cell phone, you should be outraged that they raided a PUPPET-MAKING WAREHOUSE and arrested everybody inside for "blocking a highway." Most of the arrests in Philadelphia weren't for ACTUAL LAWBREAKING, they were pre-emptive arrests deisgned to strike fear into activists and anybody who might be thinking of joining them.
On a lighter note, the police affidavit also said that we were getting money from the Soviet Union. I'd say that the Philly cops need to buy a wall map that was made in the 1990s.
I just think this is another argument for why we need an alternative domain system. Regardless of what trademark law says, this is an infringement of the guy's free speech rights, which trumpt the legal rights of Guiness. The Guiness company is not a person, so it doesn't really have any rights.
Folks may think that WIPO has some kind of legal standing, but the fact is that nobody had any input on the creation of this international treaty. Did you see anything about it on the most recent ballot you cast? If you didn't have a say on it, then you dont' have to obey it.
You are supposed to tell me to go live in the Soviet Union if I don't like how "our" government works.
It's funny how weak this old flame is these days, since U.S. government agencies practice everything that "we" supposedly hated the Soviet Union for.
On a related note: The affidavit that was used by the Penn. cops to justify their raid of the puppet warehouse included some amusing stuff about how we were funded by the Soviet Union, nevermind the fact that the ole USSR hasn't existed for 10 YEARS!
I got a personal chuckle out of the affidavit when I finally read it because it mentioned my website.
The piano wire thing was bogus disinformation from a police department that also treated the press to stories about our convergence space having bomb-making materials. Our pepper-spray preparations turned out to be some seized peppers from the kitchen and molotov cocktail was a plastic bottle with a rag in it. As any retard knows, molotov cocktails require *glass* bottles, but this was lost on the press.
Oddly enough, I heard the "piano wire" report on the police scanner while I was heading downtown to rendezvous with the black bloc. I have to wonder if this story got distributed based on a misunderstanding within the police comms network. Activists engaged in lockdowns WERE stringing up YARN to block intersections, which could have been mistaken for piano wire from a distance, but close up it was easy to see.
The Clinton administration has granted more secret Federal warrants (for wiretapping) than any other administration in U.S. history. In fact, the courts usually grant every secret warrant that is asked for. I haven't checked the stats lately, but I think the approval rate is around 100%.
The first thing to keep in mind when the FBI knocks on your door is that you shouldn't talk with them. Don't try and crack jokes or explain what might be going on. Don't answer their questions. Don't say anything other than you want to see a lawyer.
These guys are trained professional terrorists. They have all kinds of behavioral science training and they have experience with PsyOps, which you all should read up on.
I'm glad that this brave hacker has the balls to relate his experience. The FBI wants us to fear them. They are the bad guys, but don't think you are ever in this alone. There are many people out there who don't like the FBI.
It's also important to realize that those of us who are Americans aren't living in some enlightened democracy where the cops are just our good friends because they keep the streets "clean." No, the United States has more cops than any other country and it just completed an expensive effort to militarize the police. If any of you have paid attention to the recent anti-capitalist protests, you can see that they've taken the gloves off. I had friends who were planning for the anti-World Bank demo in Washington, DC last April. The Secret Service broke into their apartment and stole research materials.
In Philadelphia, during the anti-Republican Convention protests, the police sent undercover cops into the organizing spaces being used by activists. Some cops even helped some friends of mine build a float.
So the watchword is: be careful, but don't be afraid.
I'm an anti-capitalist organizer, so I'm interested in seeing people cooperate economically. I'm interested in freeing the planet of capitalism, so one of the first steps for some people will be to break free of the mindset that money has to exchange hands everytime you do something creative. There are many of us who do creative stuff, give it away, and don't expect money or bartered goods to exchange hands.
The gift economy.
Nothing will really change until people start breaking the DMCA on a mass scale. Real change takes place outside of the parameters of sanctioend protest. Writing your legislator is a waste of time. Obviously none of them listened to those of you who bothered to write them when this stuff was being ratified, so why do you think they'll bother to listen now?
There is one thing the corporation hate and that's when people refuse to play their game. We saw last year how mad they got when a few anarchists refused to write letters to their congressmen and smashed windows instead. We see how worried the recording industry got once some bright programmers wrote really cool p2p programs that millions of people now use.
Capitalism? No thanks, we'll burn your fucking code.
As an anarchist, a librarian, and a long-time webmaster, I have to say that in a strange way I'm thankful for the DMCA. I couldn't have asked for a more extreme measure that would effectively radicalize thousands of people about the stupidity of intellectual property. If the corporations want to nuke the barn to get rid of a few file-sharing horseflies, let them do it.
There are some options here. You can fight them by making more of their content available for free on the Internet. Napsterize all the copyrighted information you can get your grubby paws on. You can help efforts to crack schemes. Finally, and more importantly, you should support authors, artists, and programmers who do stuff outside of the corporate system. Instead of listening to Metallica, check out some indie heavy metal band. Use freeware instead of pirated Microsoft and other major vendor products.
After all, the corporations make billions off the cultural interest in their products that piracy creates. So do some radical, stop consuming pirated culture and support folks who are doing their own thing free of the capitalist system.
While it's nice to see responses from Browne and McReynolds to these questions, why hasn't Slashdot asked some anarchists who aren't running for office what they would say in response to these questions? After all, since most people don't vote, it would be nice to hear from people who advocate not voting.;-)
The questions almost cry out for an anarchist response. Anarchists have been involved in all of the anti-globalization protests this past year. We have a radical viewpoint on intellectual property which is just now being illustrated by P2P technology, Napster, Gnutella, and the like.
What do anarchists think about asteroid defense?
We'll tell the Eugene anarchists that there is a new McDonalds on the threatening asteroid and they'll throw rocks at it until it crumbles to pieces.
Slashdot Mirror
I respect Howard Rheingold as a technology writer, but can he at least give some props and credit to digital anarchists and hacktivists who have been writing about these ideas for years?
By the way, the next economic system will be the participatory economics of anarchism. Capitalism is unsustainable. Not only are its days are numbered, but billions around the world want something better and more fair.
Chuck0
http://www.infoshop.org
Well, some of us stick with it for a variety of reasons. The most important one to me is Netscape Messenger, which has been a reliable email client for almost ten years. I have lots of email archives, deal with lots of email, and have only seen Netscape lose data on one or two occasions.
If one is using Messenger, than you might as well use the browser, which is pretty damn good. As somebody who started using Mosaic as soon as it was released for Macs by NCSA, I go with a reliable product line that isn't Microsoft!
This article is just ignorant. It neglects the history of open source and free software beign described as *anarchist* concepts and instead opts for an ignorant comparison to communism. It make the erroenous argument that communists (and anarchists) are in favor of "utopia." I don't know of any communists or anarchists who seek utopia. And the discussion here on Slashdot illustrates how impoverished discussions about these subject have become in this forum. Four years ago you would have found a more intelligent discussion with posters explaining how open source was an example of anarchism.
Open source is an example of anarchism in practice. Search the archives for any of the discussions that support this.
As an anarchist librarian, it's good to hear that my association is going to launch an aggressive campaign about fair use and the problems with copyrights. I've been advocating against copyrights and intellectual property laws for over ten years, so it's really exciting that more and more people are seeing through the stupidity of IP laws. This swing will continue as the greedy corporations continue to engage in stupid things against the public domain and idea sharing.
Hey Disney, you didn't invent Sleeping Beauty!
You do understand that the movie is a parody of the book, right? If you are looking for a movie version of the book, then of course it sucked. But if you have an open mind about movies, Starship Troopers the movie is a brilliant send up of the fascism in the book and military culture in general.
This movie is so bad that it isn't even entertaining as a B movie. Walked out of this one when it was showing at some art house theater.
Grand Canyon by Lawrence Kasdan is another huge turkey. Insufferable movie about yuppies with plot twists that can be seen from a mile away.
Yeah right! I run a large web registration system in my parent's basement for a large newspaper. Most of that registration data is bogus.
As one of those anarchist librarians mentioned yesterday, I'm not worried about this robot. As another librarian said on a list yesterday, "Calling a robot a librarian makes as much sense as calling a pill-dispensing robot a doctor."
Open Source may be turning programmers into street performers, but it is turning other programmers into bestselling authors and others into Pultizer prize winners. Open Source software eliminates the intelelctual property nonsense that has hobbled software development and creates an information commons like the one that artists have enjoyed for thousands of years. Open Source and Free Software returns software development back to the realm of just being a language. Sure, I can code PHP for free, or I can find a company to pay me to code in PHP. It's like I can write Slashdot comments for free, or I can get money to have my articles published in magazines.
If you are interested in the background history of the micropower radio movement, you all are invited to check out the web edition of Seizing the Airwaves, which I'm in the process of posting online.
The big priority right now is to get more pirate stations on the air. The NAB was given the chance to co-opt the pirate radio movement with the LPFM reforms and instead they shot themselves in the foot. Let's give them a taste of what a "free" airwaves would sound like!
Spasemunki writes: "Chumbawumba espouse anarchist philosophy, not of itself harmful but maybe not what six year olds are ready for."
Why not ban the website of the Young Democrats or Young Republicans? I'm sure that 6-year-olds aren't ready for a terrorist organization either.
It's a real shame that some of you ignorant geeks take filtering so casually. My website Infoshop.org has been filtered by numerous censorware products. You should see some of the e-mails I get from teens who had to figure out how to disable the censorware just to see my website. Seth's report also mentions that TAO Communications is blocked. This is a clear act of political censorship. TAO provides hundreds of activist lists and e-mail accounts. My main e-mail is provided by TAO.
You won't be snickering about Marilyn Manson and Chumbawamba when the religious right sticks you in a concentration camp for not listening to Christian metal. ;-)
I have gigantic mixed feelings on DOIs, handle systems, and other metadata schemes. I come at this as an anarchist, a librarian, and as a person who has actually purchased a DOI prefix for my employer. I've even been to the DOI workshop that was held several months back at CNRI in Reston, VA.
First, the postive side of DOIs. As most of you know, there is alot of information on the Internet and it isn't organized logically or in a way that a library would organize it. Librarians have been trying to instil some order on the Internet for years, mostly via various metadata schemes. A metadata-based system, like the DOI file handle system, would get us away from identifying content based on location (URLs) and get back to identifying content based on classification (i.e. like Dewey or LC call numbers in your local library). So, if you've installed the proper DOI plugin into your browser and you click on a DOI-enabled link, you'll be given a choice of where you want to get the item. The article by Professor X on nanotechnology is identified by a number, not a URL. Youc an choose to get it from a variety of sources, some of which will give you free access, say if you are a student at a particular university.
In other words, DOIs would greatly help people find information on the Internet.
Now for the flip side. If you read the MSNBC article carefully, you notice a few scary things mentioned, like "[it] is using it to build the Defense Virtual Library" and "another problem is with copyrights and other protections of intellectual property." If you care about the free flow of information on the Internet, which tech like Napster has enabled, DOI and handle schemes should throw up lots of red flags. The music industry is salivating over the DOI project. They are involved in it, the extent to which is unknown to the public. I suspect that the DOI system will be sold as a cool way to find Internet content and that its use to police the Internet for intellectual property owners will be downplayed. If Microsoft and the AAP are involved, you can bet that they don't have the interests of Internet freedom in mind. They simply want to protect the profits they make from the intellectual work of other people.
This is another example of why technology is never neutral. There are always socio-political ramifications from every new tech. Is this new system, which allows you to find content easier, worth the tradeoff in how it makes intellectual property fascism easier?
Activists have a right to block an intersection. After all, driving is a privilege and free speech is theoretically a protected right according the Bill of Rights.
Silly me, I missed this. The 45th amendment says "Thou shalt have the right to drive across Center City as fast and quickly as possible."
Your brief history of MOVE neglects to mention the fact that the police had imprisoned MOVE activists several years prior to the MOVE bombing. The bombing itself killed several MOVE members,including a few children.
Racism did play a part in the bombing. MOVE was persecuted because they were black *political* radicals, with a message that the establishment in Philly didn't want to hear.
Last time I checked, the police don't usually drop bombs on people who have load parties and happen to own a few guns. The bombing of MOVE was a political act of state terrorism which could be called the Black WACO.
If you are unfamiliar with MOVE or the City of Philadelphia's terrorism against the organization, I strongly suggest that you do some research. XLawyer's account of what happened echos the official version of what happened.
Find out the rest of the story!
This is relevant to Slashdot readers for several reasons. The first being that Shapeshifter, who helps with 2600, was arrested and charged with FELONIES for simply being on the street with a cell phone. Another good reason is that some of us who were involved in the Philadelphia protests are regular Slashdot readers. The police affidavit that was used to justify the police raid on the puppet warehouse cited two geek media sources: IndyMedia and my site, Mid-Atlantic Infoshop. No surprise, the cops are using alternative media website to glean information about activists.
Finally, and most importantly, everybody who visits this site should be concerned with how the Philly cops took their anti-activist intimidation and violence to a new level. If you aren't mad about the cops holding activists on million dollar bails because they were talking on a cell phone, you should be outraged that they raided a PUPPET-MAKING WAREHOUSE and arrested everybody inside for "blocking a highway." Most of the arrests in Philadelphia weren't for ACTUAL LAWBREAKING, they were pre-emptive arrests deisgned to strike fear into activists and anybody who might be thinking of joining them.
On a lighter note, the police affidavit also said that we were getting money from the Soviet Union. I'd say that the Philly cops need to buy a wall map that was made in the 1990s.
Try
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I hope you apply the same level of skepticism towards all media stories.
I just think this is another argument for why we need an alternative domain system. Regardless of what trademark law says, this is an infringement of the guy's free speech rights, which trumpt the legal rights of Guiness. The Guiness company is not a person, so it doesn't really have any rights.
Folks may think that WIPO has some kind of legal standing, but the fact is that nobody had any input on the creation of this international treaty. Did you see anything about it on the most recent ballot you cast? If you didn't have a say on it, then you dont' have to obey it.
The intellectual property emperor has no clothes!
You are supposed to tell me to go live in the Soviet Union if I don't like how "our" government works.
It's funny how weak this old flame is these days, since U.S. government agencies practice everything that "we" supposedly hated the Soviet Union for.
On a related note: The affidavit that was used by the Penn. cops to justify their raid of the puppet warehouse included some amusing stuff about how we were funded by the Soviet Union, nevermind the fact that the ole USSR hasn't existed for 10 YEARS!
I got a personal chuckle out of the affidavit when I finally read it because it mentioned my website.
The piano wire thing was bogus disinformation from a police department that also treated the press to stories about our convergence space having bomb-making materials. Our pepper-spray preparations turned out to be some seized peppers from the kitchen and molotov cocktail was a plastic bottle with a rag in it. As any retard knows, molotov cocktails require *glass* bottles, but this was lost on the press.
Oddly enough, I heard the "piano wire" report on the police scanner while I was heading downtown to rendezvous with the black bloc. I have to wonder if this story got distributed based on a misunderstanding within the police comms network. Activists engaged in lockdowns WERE stringing up YARN to block intersections, which could have been mistaken for piano wire from a distance, but close up it was easy to see.
The Clinton administration has granted more secret Federal warrants (for wiretapping) than any other administration in U.S. history. In fact, the courts usually grant every secret warrant that is asked for. I haven't checked the stats lately, but I think the approval rate is around 100%.
If An Agent Knocks
The first thing to keep in mind when the FBI knocks on your door is that you shouldn't talk with them. Don't try and crack jokes or explain what might be going on. Don't answer their questions. Don't say anything other than you want to see a lawyer.
These guys are trained professional terrorists. They have all kinds of behavioral science training and they have experience with PsyOps, which you all should read up on.
I'm glad that this brave hacker has the balls to relate his experience. The FBI wants us to fear them. They are the bad guys, but don't think you are ever in this alone. There are many people out there who don't like the FBI.
It's also important to realize that those of us who are Americans aren't living in some enlightened democracy where the cops are just our good friends because they keep the streets "clean." No, the United States has more cops than any other country and it just completed an expensive effort to militarize the police. If any of you have paid attention to the recent anti-capitalist protests, you can see that they've taken the gloves off. I had friends who were planning for the anti-World Bank demo in Washington, DC last April. The Secret Service broke into their apartment and stole research materials.
In Philadelphia, during the anti-Republican Convention protests, the police sent undercover cops into the organizing spaces being used by activists. Some cops even helped some friends of mine build a float.
So the watchword is: be careful, but don't be afraid.
Someday we'll defeat these guys.
I'm an anti-capitalist organizer, so I'm interested in seeing people cooperate economically. I'm interested in freeing the planet of capitalism, so one of the first steps for some people will be to break free of the mindset that money has to exchange hands everytime you do something creative. There are many of us who do creative stuff, give it away, and don't expect money or bartered goods to exchange hands.
The gift economy.
Nothing will really change until people start breaking the DMCA on a mass scale. Real change takes place outside of the parameters of sanctioend protest. Writing your legislator is a waste of time. Obviously none of them listened to those of you who bothered to write them when this stuff was being ratified, so why do you think they'll bother to listen now?
There is one thing the corporation hate and that's when people refuse to play their game. We saw last year how mad they got when a few anarchists refused to write letters to their congressmen and smashed windows instead. We see how worried the recording industry got once some bright programmers wrote really cool p2p programs that millions of people now use.
Capitalism? No thanks, we'll burn your fucking code.
As an anarchist, a librarian, and a long-time webmaster, I have to say that in a strange way I'm thankful for the DMCA. I couldn't have asked for a more extreme measure that would effectively radicalize thousands of people about the stupidity of intellectual property. If the corporations want to nuke the barn to get rid of a few file-sharing horseflies, let them do it.
There are some options here. You can fight them by making more of their content available for free on the Internet. Napsterize all the copyrighted information you can get your grubby paws on. You can help efforts to crack schemes. Finally, and more importantly, you should support authors, artists, and programmers who do stuff outside of the corporate system. Instead of listening to Metallica, check out some indie heavy metal band. Use freeware instead of pirated Microsoft and other major vendor products.
After all, the corporations make billions off the cultural interest in their products that piracy creates. So do some radical, stop consuming pirated culture and support folks who are doing their own thing free of the capitalist system.
My post is Anti-Copyright 2000
While it's nice to see responses from Browne and McReynolds to these questions, why hasn't Slashdot asked some anarchists who aren't running for office what they would say in response to these questions? After all, since most people don't vote, it would be nice to hear from people who advocate not voting. ;-)
The questions almost cry out for an anarchist response. Anarchists have been involved in all of the anti-globalization protests this past year. We have a radical viewpoint on intellectual property which is just now being illustrated by P2P technology, Napster, Gnutella, and the like.
What do anarchists think about asteroid defense?
We'll tell the Eugene anarchists that there is a new McDonalds on the threatening asteroid and they'll throw rocks at it until it crumbles to pieces.