A distenction must be made: I don't know who defined it, but the views of a lot of people opposed to elite capitalist domination of the world (i.e. wto/imf/usa style) have been called "anti-globalization". This is, in my experiance, an incorrect labeling. These people are "counter-globalization". It's not about being against people from other countries (read: nationalism), it's about internationalism, working with, communicating with, and living with all peoples of all lands.
Counter globalization is about creating a world economy, and a world wide political structure to insure that everybody is treated with equality, justice, and respect. The only question is who is going to create and control this world? Corporate fat cats and their puppets in office- or the other 90 percent of the world's population? The answer to that last question is our generations' inheritence. These are very exciting times, ladies and gentlemen.
There are two schools of Anti-Globalization. The 50-60,000 in the streets of quebec, for the most part, favor the promotion of jobs around the world, and the ending of xenophobia. There is a great feeling of solidarity between the kids and union members in the streets and the repressed in the third world. The IMF/WTO/WB/FTAA school of "globalization" favors the lowering of labor standards, enviormental regulations, and is frighteningly anti-democratic. Globalization is a term synonomous with exploitation among the contemporary left.
The buchannan-ites' opposition to "globalization" has roots in racism and extreme nationalism, and buchannan gives us no reason to believe any of his positions have the welfare of the majority of the world's population in mind.
Contrary to how the pundits on tv would have us think, the overwhelming majority of anti-globaization activists are not just afraid of losing US jobs, but are fighting for jobs with justice and dignity for the third world. Maybe "anti-globalization" isn't the best word to use, but it's easier and farther reaching to use than "anti-neo-liberalism" and less alienating than "anti-total-corporate-destruction-of-the-world-ya- basta!-ism". I think that reactionaries are trying to lump the two together, which is visible in the mainstream media's failure to report upon 50,000 marching for fair jobs in Quebec City, and the bulk of their reporting being on the 1,000 black-clad anarchists (and disguised police adjitators) who were throwing stuff at the riot cops. Thus, the importance of independant media (like IMC) in the movement is paramount.
A few months ago, indymedia tried a moderation system out, but shortly got rid of it, because it was making the site run too slow. Indymedia has only been around for about a year and a half, but I believe that in time it will grow and gain the resources to implement more advanced moderation devices. Sites grow and evolve, for example, check out/.'s turbulent history of moderation systems. There's some brillant people working IMC and I am sure that it is just a matter of time before an awsome moderation system exists.
Corporations have an innocent and noble aim, to make money.
A lot of Nigerians would beg to differ... Shell ain't all that innocent... The one million dead iraquis who have died due to US bombing of their water treatment facilites and scantions which deny food and medical equipment, for the sake of western oil profits, might say something about that too. Bush 1 was an oil man, and our puppet Saddam was getting too big for his britches. While we're on the topic of Iraq- I'm pretty sure it was a corporation, not a commune, that made the nerve gas and guns we sold Iraq for its war with Iran back in the 80's.
They have no interest in advancing political agendas
Hmm... I wonder how GUSH-BORE got all its money for its campaigns the past years? And I guess all those corporate lobbyists who bribe our leaders each day are just doing it for fun.
Secodndly, the government is completely different from this. It exists to advance a political agenda and control every detail of our lives.
Yea! Thank goodness we have the freedom to sit in gridlock for sevreal hours each day in the PRIVACY of our own cars... unlike those god-dammed commies in eurpoe who have gov't controlled trolleys and trains that get people where they need to go on time!... I for one wouldn't mind political agendas that would improve our lives...
If the functions that government presently executes, such as defense of the realm and policing the streets, were carried out by private corporations at the behest of out citizens, everything would be much fairer
Yea, I'm sure a corporate police force would REALLY respect the human right to protest that all those progressives in the street who yell things like, "People over profit... Human need not corporate greed!" are exercising.
Corporations have a record of non-abuse, and are owned by the people
Yea... like the corporation that sued the Mexican gov't for preventing it to place a toxic waste dump in Mexico really gave a shit about the people who lived there... It's hard to get stock in a company and get listened to when you are Poor
Wipe the dust off your high school history textbook and flip back to the early 1900's... when kids worked 14 hour days in dangerous factories for next to nothing while their mothers were abused by sweatshop owners and their fathers were killed in steel plants. When coprorations were not regualated we saw much greater problems for the majority of the population than we do today. Not to say that our gov't now is worker friendly- but the point is, that even today, corporations have been consistant in their prioritizing of profits for the few over the protection of the enviorment and the health of the people.
Ending world hunger, getting rid of nukes, ending global warming, healing us for free when we are dying, and getting us efficently where we need to go ARE NOT PROFITABLE. They are, however, things that we need to work for or else we might not be around much longer. A world where compassion is more more imporant than greed would mean that less people would die, and more people would be happy. I find that helping people gives me a greater joy than drowing their screams to the trendy beat of top 40 hits. We can get more done if we work together, for each other, than if we work against ourselves at our own expense.
If they find one valuable clue in this that someone is doing something illegal, then I feel it was money well spent.
If we had the power to enfore every little law stuck on the books by fundie wackos that the majority of the people disagree with and ignore on a daily basis (curfews, sodomy, and happy smoke comes to mind), the world would be A LOT worse than most of us can imagine. Imagine if this kind of technology was availible way back when! Just think of all the stupid laws we've had in the past... legal segregation, jim crow, prohibition, being drafted b4 you can vote, science = herecy, etc....
For a law to be enforced... it requires the consent of the majority, not the attack dogs of the few in power.
IANAL, but I was wondering- would the DMCA make it illegal for the NSA to circumvent my personal use of encryption? What if I copyrighted every one of my emails that I sent, and said that PGP was copy protection? Or if I was a ceo in canada and I said that my encrypted emails were vital to my us-canadien buisness and that if the goverment of either nation was decryting my email- it would cost me millions and therefore i could sue/extort that much money from the canadian/us goverments under the conditions of NAFTA. What do you know, america?:)
Microsoft AND starbucks, oh my! Hanging out at starbux using the net is where geek ends and yuppiedom takes over. Via Geek- creative, alternative, inginuity and fun! Evil Greedy trendy ass yuppies suck (methinks). Is/. losing it's geek roots?
Ok, jumping from star to star and exploring the vast unknown is all very well, but even in our own country, so many people live in horrible poverty without medicine or food or freedom from death, and I think we should try to up the standards of living on earth before we go muck up other planets' socioties. Sure starships are neat, but are they really more important than human life? Despite his wishy washy campaign promises, the clinton administration has really destroyed a lot of people's lives. That's why we had so many people hollering for the green party in the last election.
Think about all the good we could do with the money we spend on NASA (Which itself was only created in a frenzy of cold war paranoia and retaliation for sputnik) here at home.
NO MORE GENERALIZATIONS. I've been going to the International Socialist Organization meetings in my town for a while(a lot of socialists like nader more than the socialist party candidate), and a lot of minorites and the repressed do support Nader, not just 'rich white college kids'. He's the candidate for everyone opposed to globalization and coporate control of every aspect of our daily lives. And if you think that rich white college kids are the only ones opposed to globalization then you've been reading the corporate press too much!
Actually, most scientists agree that "space" starts at 50 miles above the earth. Although it is very thin, there is still some helium/hydrogen and other trace gases up there.
At my school, the admins have given up on floppies, and encourage students to either email themselves what they are working on, put it on some sort of online data hosting thing, or just upload it onto a website if they have one. I think the net is so widespread that we don't really need floppies anymore. This year we got a new fleet of computers, which are the spiffy new imacs that don't have any floppy disk drives. The only problem is that sometimes it takes explaining to get people to actually email themselves their work instead of using disks.
In my youth, I was a victim of several just say no type programs at my school... they had the cop come and tell us not to do drugs and all that stuff. But regardless of what they say, what it comes down to is me making the choice to do that stuff. I personaly don't drink or do much drugs because I think it's a waste of money and kind of pathetic. However lots of my friends do all that stuff.... one of them has a D.A.R.E. tee shirt that he likes to wear when he gets high.
I think people always have experimented with drugs and probably always will. I think just demonizing them doesn't really do anything but make kids curious... and that what we need to do just help kids make informed decisions about what drugs they're gonna take. For example, the people who would come to my school and tell me never to do anything would put pot and crack in the same boat, telling me they were both as bad, when we all know that a few joints won't kill you but crack will ruin your life.
Instead of just telling kids not to do anything, schools and D.A.R.E. people should discuss the short and long term effects and addictiveness of many drugs, so we won't be thrown out into the world knowing only what tv tells us when we grow up.
Between free speach and criminal collaberation? I liked that fact that this is one of the few MSNBC articles I have seen that acknowladge that true hacking is just figuing out how stuff works, but it raises a lot of scary points. Will I wake up one day to see the po-po's busting down my door because I was talking about 2600 magazine? Shall I be jumped by a flock of fuzz for walking down the street and singing the words to the DeCSS song? I really don't think that it's worth giving up free speach/press just so a few corporate goons can sleep a little easier at night knowing that the consumers are one step closer to being serfs.
In short, I think we outta be able to play with the products that we BUY and therefore OWN. Also, I outta be able to talk about H4X0R1NG the white house all I want as long as I don't do it! Does that really sound so absurd?
"We must crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to bid defiance to the laws of our country." --Thomas Jefferson, 1812
When I was protesting the unfair debates at wakeforrest University, there was this guy in a suit with a big "billionaires for bush or gore" sign asking for people to give him more money. Getting the message out there is fun.
Oh yea, on the same trip, I attented a seminar that the North Carolina Alliance for Democracy was doing, and they raised a lot of important points about campaign contributions... and even though most/.ers don't live in NC, they have a lot to say. Oh yea, Nader is the only candidate I know of who supports publicly funded elections.
In my school's c++ classes we use codewarrior on macs, and I also have it installed at home on a windoze box. It's worked fine for me, but if it crashes when you try and run a program, try compiling it (ctrl + F7) before you run it. That's the only problem I've ever experianced while using it, and I think it's actualy a pretty good compiler... it's also easy to distribute your programs that you make... when you run it, a file called noname.exe appears in the folder that the project is in (on macs it's a file called a.out [i think]), and you can just rename it and then upload your programs on the web:)
Damit, I'm so sick of all this decss crap. Everyone on/. knows how full of it the MPAA people are, and how right 2600 is. But all I ever see here is/. people telling other/. people about new developments that support pre-existing ideas. It doesn't matter what we say if we're just preaching to the choir, and I haven't seen any impact at all against the mpaa with all the "public awareness" we've supposed to have been raising for the past 9 months. We gotta quit just telling each other about it and start making a geater impact on other people's opinions. AARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!! Stupid Pescimism!
This really doesn't suprise me at all, the right wing politicans who suck more funds from education for defense and give tax cuts for the rich seem to be in the same boat as these corporate media goons. It would benift them to dumb down students and education (after all, doesn't corporate media frequently speak out on behalf of the "virtues" of censorship software in schools and libraries?
Call me paranoid a lot but I think this is just a sceme to make us illiterate unknowladgable drones in their business regime. Too bad you didn't get that diploma, but you can always flip burgers or take tickets or sweep floors.
I will vote Nader! Oh, wait a sec... I can't vote! I guess I'll just be sitting at home staring at the tube to see what happened on the what's-her-sexy-face's show, or maybe just take the SUV up to ambercomie and fitch to get some new gear to impress the honnies... Better make sure I get home in time for curfew, I'd hate to be out having fun when the people I didn't vote for say I shouldn't.
The reason that sound like crap is because it is. I'm 16, that's the world they give me, and I'll tell em where to shove it, or at least I would if I could vote. Don't follow the stereotype that all kids are morons who belive whatever channel 1 tells them to. I think the passive and active neglect/repression/discrimination of minors and the elderly (this is know as "Agism") is way out of control. Nader (and biafra) are going to try and make it so I can talk back to the people who keep telling me how to live.
We're all Americans, so why don't we all get to determine the decisions that affect America? People say he's a joke and will only undermine the democrats' percentage of the vote, letting bush in so it can be the 1950's all over again. That's the same thing as saying "I can't stop pollution all by myself, so i'll just chuck the beer can on the side of the road". Didja hear about seattle? Or washington? Or Philly? or soon to be LA? People can change things if they belive they can, and unity is key.
Sorry if that's a little too rantish... i just wish I could vote, and I encourage you to vote for Nader and help stop agism
I like your post and I'd like to elaborate some more on that. True non violence, and civil disobediance, means being polite and kind to the policewomen and men, regardless of how outrageous they are being. Non violence means trying to overcome the evil not those who committed it. Exibit "A", a summery of Martin Luther King, Jr's definition of true non violence
(taken from the handbook for non-violent action )
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote that the philosophy and practice of nonviolence has six basic elements. First, nonviolence is resistance to evil and oppression. It is a human way to fight. Second, it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win hislher friendship and understanding. Third, the nonviolent method is an attack on the forces of evil rather than against persons doing the evil. It seeks to defeat the evil and not the persons doing the evil and injustice. Fourth, it is the willingness to accept suffering without retaliation. Fifth, a nonviolent resister avoids both external physical and internal spiritual violence - not only refuses to shoot, but also to hate, an opponent. The ethic of real love is at the center of nonviolence. Sixth, the believer in nonviolence has a deep faith in the future and the forces in the universe are seen to be on the side of justice.
Non violence does not mean simply not fighting with weapons or fists, it means treating your oppressors with kindness and respect, not lowering yourself to their level and corrupting your cause. Ever notice how the right way is always the hardest?
You know, I always hear about all these protests for causes I belive in happening all over the country, but I only hear about them on the news after they have happened. Does anyone know where I can find out about the organization of similar events so I can attend next time?
...release the code at the same time you release the finial 1.0 version. That way, it will already be on the shelves so the bugs will be fixed after you've had a chance to make the money, and the new and improved version will be out there for users to buy all over again!
Warning: If you do this, you might be sued by M$ for copying their distributation scemes
Alternative Tentacles was formed by Jello Biafra when he was in the Dead Kennedys, but the band and the label are not one and the same. They are non-RIAA though. Anyway, the other Dead Kennedys members have sort of drifted away from alternative tentacles after jello and them got into an argument over having Holiday in Cambodia being in a Levi's commercial... you can read about it at: http://www.alternativetenta cles.com/page.gsp?id=DKvsATR
... when I first read the title of the article. Gee Jon, I think it's cool what you say and all, be most of the readers at/. usualy feel the same way and/or have already come to those same conclusions about socioty themselves.
So why don't you try and write your articles for something like mainstream media (or at least pseudo-mainstream media, like those free newspaper things at news stands) so you can enlighten the masses with your articles?
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A distenction must be made: I don't know who defined it, but the views of a lot of people opposed to elite capitalist domination of the world (i.e. wto/imf/usa style) have been called "anti-globalization". This is, in my experiance, an incorrect labeling. These people are "counter-globalization". It's not about being against people from other countries (read: nationalism), it's about internationalism, working with, communicating with, and living with all peoples of all lands.
Counter globalization is about creating a world economy, and a world wide political structure to insure that everybody is treated with equality, justice, and respect. The only question is who is going to create and control this world? Corporate fat cats and their puppets in office- or the other 90 percent of the world's population? The answer to that last question is our generations' inheritence. These are very exciting times, ladies and gentlemen.
There are two schools of Anti-Globalization. The 50-60,000 in the streets of quebec, for the most part, favor the promotion of jobs around the world, and the ending of xenophobia. There is a great feeling of solidarity between the kids and union members in the streets and the repressed in the third world. The IMF/WTO/WB/FTAA school of "globalization" favors the lowering of labor standards, enviormental regulations, and is frighteningly anti-democratic. Globalization is a term synonomous with exploitation among the contemporary left.
The buchannan-ites' opposition to "globalization" has roots in racism and extreme nationalism, and buchannan gives us no reason to believe any of his positions have the welfare of the majority of the world's population in mind.
Contrary to how the pundits on tv would have us think, the overwhelming majority of anti-globaization activists are not just afraid of losing US jobs, but are fighting for jobs with justice and dignity for the third world. Maybe "anti-globalization" isn't the best word to use, but it's easier and farther reaching to use than "anti-neo-liberalism" and less alienating than "anti-total-corporate-destruction-of-the-world-ya- basta!-ism". I think that reactionaries are trying to lump the two together, which is visible in the mainstream media's failure to report upon 50,000 marching for fair jobs in Quebec City, and the bulk of their reporting being on the 1,000 black-clad anarchists (and disguised police adjitators) who were throwing stuff at the riot cops. Thus, the importance of independant media (like IMC) in the movement is paramount.
A few months ago, indymedia tried a moderation system out, but shortly got rid of it, because it was making the site run too slow. Indymedia has only been around for about a year and a half, but I believe that in time it will grow and gain the resources to implement more advanced moderation devices. Sites grow and evolve, for example, check out /.'s turbulent history of moderation systems. There's some brillant people working IMC and I am sure that it is just a matter of time before an awsome moderation system exists.
Corporations have an innocent and noble aim, to make money.
A lot of Nigerians would beg to differ... Shell ain't all that innocent... The one million dead iraquis who have died due to US bombing of their water treatment facilites and scantions which deny food and medical equipment, for the sake of western oil profits, might say something about that too. Bush 1 was an oil man, and our puppet Saddam was getting too big for his britches. While we're on the topic of Iraq- I'm pretty sure it was a corporation, not a commune, that made the nerve gas and guns we sold Iraq for its war with Iran back in the 80's.
They have no interest in advancing political agendas
Hmm... I wonder how GUSH-BORE got all its money for its campaigns the past years? And I guess all those corporate lobbyists who bribe our leaders each day are just doing it for fun.
Secodndly, the government is completely different from this. It exists to advance a political agenda and control every detail of our lives.
Yea! Thank goodness we have the freedom to sit in gridlock for sevreal hours each day in the PRIVACY of our own cars... unlike those god-dammed commies in eurpoe who have gov't controlled trolleys and trains that get people where they need to go on time! ... I for one wouldn't mind political agendas that would improve our lives...
If the functions that government presently executes, such as defense of the realm and policing the streets, were carried out by private corporations at the behest of out citizens, everything would be much fairer
Yea, I'm sure a corporate police force would REALLY respect the human right to protest that all those progressives in the street who yell things like, "People over profit... Human need not corporate greed!" are exercising.
Corporations have a record of non-abuse, and are owned by the people
Yea... like the corporation that sued the Mexican gov't for preventing it to place a toxic waste dump in Mexico really gave a shit about the people who lived there... It's hard to get stock in a company and get listened to when you are Poor
Wipe the dust off your high school history textbook and flip back to the early 1900's... when kids worked 14 hour days in dangerous factories for next to nothing while their mothers were abused by sweatshop owners and their fathers were killed in steel plants. When coprorations were not regualated we saw much greater problems for the majority of the population than we do today. Not to say that our gov't now is worker friendly- but the point is, that even today, corporations have been consistant in their prioritizing of profits for the few over the protection of the enviorment and the health of the people.
Ending world hunger, getting rid of nukes, ending global warming, healing us for free when we are dying, and getting us efficently where we need to go ARE NOT PROFITABLE. They are, however, things that we need to work for or else we might not be around much longer. A world where compassion is more more imporant than greed would mean that less people would die, and more people would be happy. I find that helping people gives me a greater joy than drowing their screams to the trendy beat of top 40 hits. We can get more done if we work together, for each other, than if we work against ourselves at our own expense.
If they find one valuable clue in this that someone is doing something illegal, then I feel it was money well spent.
If we had the power to enfore every little law stuck on the books by fundie wackos that the majority of the people disagree with and ignore on a daily basis (curfews, sodomy, and happy smoke comes to mind), the world would be A LOT worse than most of us can imagine. Imagine if this kind of technology was availible way back when! Just think of all the stupid laws we've had in the past... legal segregation, jim crow, prohibition, being drafted b4 you can vote, science = herecy, etc....
For a law to be enforced... it requires the consent of the majority, not the attack dogs of the few in power.
Several hours in sysadmins' overtime- $500
Buying a new hard disk- $200
Teaching your employees common sense- Priceless
IANAL, but I was wondering- would the DMCA make it illegal for the NSA to circumvent my personal use of encryption? What if I copyrighted every one of my emails that I sent, and said that PGP was copy protection? Or if I was a ceo in canada and I said that my encrypted emails were vital to my us-canadien buisness and that if the goverment of either nation was decryting my email- it would cost me millions and therefore i could sue/extort that much money from the canadian/us goverments under the conditions of NAFTA. What do you know, america? :)
Microsoft AND starbucks, oh my! Hanging out at starbux using the net is where geek ends and yuppiedom takes over. Via Geek- creative, alternative, inginuity and fun! Evil Greedy trendy ass yuppies suck (methinks). Is /. losing it's geek roots?
Ok, jumping from star to star and exploring the vast unknown is all very well, but even in our own country, so many people live in horrible poverty without medicine or food or freedom from death, and I think we should try to up the standards of living on earth before we go muck up other planets' socioties. Sure starships are neat, but are they really more important than human life? Despite his wishy washy campaign promises, the clinton administration has really destroyed a lot of people's lives. That's why we had so many people hollering for the green party in the last election.
Think about all the good we could do with the money we spend on NASA (Which itself was only created in a frenzy of cold war paranoia and retaliation for sputnik) here at home.
NO MORE GENERALIZATIONS. I've been going to the International Socialist Organization meetings in my town for a while(a lot of socialists like nader more than the socialist party candidate), and a lot of minorites and the repressed do support Nader, not just 'rich white college kids'. He's the candidate for everyone opposed to globalization and coporate control of every aspect of our daily lives. And if you think that rich white college kids are the only ones opposed to globalization then you've been reading the corporate press too much!
Yea but is it running Linux? I don't think i'd trust a windows OS at that altitute?
There is no atmosphere up there
Actually, most scientists agree that "space" starts at 50 miles above the earth. Although it is very thin, there is still some helium/hydrogen and other trace gases up there.
At my school, the admins have given up on floppies, and encourage students to either email themselves what they are working on, put it on some sort of online data hosting thing, or just upload it onto a website if they have one. I think the net is so widespread that we don't really need floppies anymore. This year we got a new fleet of computers, which are the spiffy new imacs that don't have any floppy disk drives. The only problem is that sometimes it takes explaining to get people to actually email themselves their work instead of using disks.
In my youth, I was a victim of several just say no type programs at my school... they had the cop come and tell us not to do drugs and all that stuff. But regardless of what they say, what it comes down to is me making the choice to do that stuff. I personaly don't drink or do much drugs because I think it's a waste of money and kind of pathetic. However lots of my friends do all that stuff.... one of them has a D.A.R.E. tee shirt that he likes to wear when he gets high.
I think people always have experimented with drugs and probably always will. I think just demonizing them doesn't really do anything but make kids curious... and that what we need to do just help kids make informed decisions about what drugs they're gonna take. For example, the people who would come to my school and tell me never to do anything would put pot and crack in the same boat, telling me they were both as bad, when we all know that a few joints won't kill you but crack will ruin your life.
Instead of just telling kids not to do anything, schools and D.A.R.E. people should discuss the short and long term effects and addictiveness of many drugs, so we won't be thrown out into the world knowing only what tv tells us when we grow up.
In short, I think we outta be able to play with the products that we BUY and therefore OWN. Also, I outta be able to talk about H4X0R1NG the white house all I want as long as I don't do it! Does that really sound so absurd?
"We must crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to bid defiance to the laws of our country."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1812
When I was protesting the unfair debates at wakeforrest University, there was this guy in a suit with a big "billionaires for bush or gore" sign asking for people to give him more money. Getting the message out there is fun.
Oh yea, on the same trip, I attented a seminar that the North Carolina Alliance for Democracy was doing, and they raised a lot of important points about campaign contributions... and even though most /.ers don't live in NC, they have a lot to say. Oh yea, Nader is the only candidate I know of who supports publicly funded elections.
In my school's c++ classes we use codewarrior on macs, and I also have it installed at home on a windoze box. It's worked fine for me, but if it crashes when you try and run a program, try compiling it (ctrl + F7) before you run it. That's the only problem I've ever experianced while using it, and I think it's actualy a pretty good compiler... it's also easy to distribute your programs that you make... when you run it, a file called noname.exe appears in the folder that the project is in (on macs it's a file called a.out [i think]), and you can just rename it and then upload your programs on the web :)
Damit, I'm so sick of all this decss crap. Everyone on /. knows how full of it the MPAA people are, and how right 2600 is. But all I ever see here is /. people telling other /. people about new developments that support pre-existing ideas. It doesn't matter what we say if we're just preaching to the choir, and I haven't seen any impact at all against the mpaa with all the "public awareness" we've supposed to have been raising for the past 9 months. We gotta quit just telling each other about it and start making a geater impact on other people's opinions. AARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!! Stupid Pescimism!
This really doesn't suprise me at all, the right wing politicans who suck more funds from education for defense and give tax cuts for the rich seem to be in the same boat as these corporate media goons. It would benift them to dumb down students and education (after all, doesn't corporate media frequently speak out on behalf of the "virtues" of censorship software in schools and libraries?
Call me paranoid a lot but I think this is just a sceme to make us illiterate unknowladgable drones in their business regime. Too bad you didn't get that diploma, but you can always flip burgers or take tickets or sweep floors.
I will vote Nader! Oh, wait a sec... I can't vote! I guess I'll just be sitting at home staring at the tube to see what happened on the what's-her-sexy-face's show, or maybe just take the SUV up to ambercomie and fitch to get some new gear to impress the honnies... Better make sure I get home in time for curfew, I'd hate to be out having fun when the people I didn't vote for say I shouldn't.
The reason that sound like crap is because it is. I'm 16, that's the world they give me, and I'll tell em where to shove it, or at least I would if I could vote. Don't follow the stereotype that all kids are morons who belive whatever channel 1 tells them to. I think the passive and active neglect/repression/discrimination of minors and the elderly (this is know as "Agism") is way out of control. Nader (and biafra) are going to try and make it so I can talk back to the people who keep telling me how to live.
We're all Americans, so why don't we all get to determine the decisions that affect America? People say he's a joke and will only undermine the democrats' percentage of the vote, letting bush in so it can be the 1950's all over again. That's the same thing as saying "I can't stop pollution all by myself, so i'll just chuck the beer can on the side of the road". Didja hear about seattle? Or washington? Or Philly? or soon to be LA? People can change things if they belive they can, and unity is key.
Sorry if that's a little too rantish... i just wish I could vote, and I encourage you to vote for Nader and help stop agism
I like your post and I'd like to elaborate some more on that. True non violence, and civil disobediance, means being polite and kind to the policewomen and men, regardless of how outrageous they are being. Non violence means trying to overcome the evil not those who committed it. Exibit "A", a summery of Martin Luther King, Jr's definition of true non violence
(taken from the handbook for non-violent action )
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote that the philosophy and practice of nonviolence has six basic elements. First, nonviolence is resistance to evil and oppression. It is a human way to fight. Second, it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win hislher friendship and understanding. Third, the nonviolent method is an attack on the forces of evil rather than against persons doing the evil. It seeks to defeat the evil and not the persons doing the evil and injustice. Fourth, it is the willingness to accept suffering without retaliation. Fifth, a nonviolent resister avoids both external physical and internal spiritual violence - not only refuses to shoot, but also to hate, an opponent. The ethic of real love is at the center of nonviolence. Sixth, the believer in nonviolence has a deep faith in the future and the forces in the universe are seen to be on the side of justice.
Non violence does not mean simply not fighting with weapons or fists, it means treating your oppressors with kindness and respect, not lowering yourself to their level and corrupting your cause. Ever notice how the right way is always the hardest?
You know, I always hear about all these protests for causes I belive in happening all over the country, but I only hear about them on the news after they have happened. Does anyone know where I can find out about the organization of similar events so I can attend next time?
...release the code at the same time you release the finial 1.0 version. That way, it will already be on the shelves so the bugs will be fixed after you've had a chance to make the money, and the new and improved version will be out there for users to buy all over again!
Warning: If you do this, you might be sued by M$ for copying their distributation scemes
Alternative Tentacles was formed by Jello Biafra when he was in the Dead Kennedys, but the band and the label are not one and the same. They are non-RIAA though. Anyway, the other Dead Kennedys members have sort of drifted away from alternative tentacles after jello and them got into an argument over having Holiday in Cambodia being in a Levi's commercial... you can read about it at:
http://www.alternativetenta cles.com/page.gsp?id=DKvsATR
... when I first read the title of the article. Gee Jon, I think it's cool what you say and all, be most of the readers at /. usualy feel the same way and/or have already come to those same conclusions about socioty themselves.
So why don't you try and write your articles for something like mainstream media (or at least pseudo-mainstream media, like those free newspaper things at news stands) so you can enlighten the masses with your articles?