It is *only* through these new forms of communication and mass organizing that modern governments can be opposed. Being more careful only serves to empower them. If twitter/etc become a problem we can find a replacement but as a whole, we should *embrace* rather than hide from the new tools at our disposal for collectively organizing.
People without a significant online record, including naked pictures of themselves online, should simply not be allowed near government anymore.
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techdirt has this picture, together with 2 other much more complete and accurate ones.
It's way, way more tangled than the Guardian picture would lead you to believe
(Disclaimer - I help develop and support software that controls hardware made by pretty much all those companies, but my opinions are my own and do not represent them or my customers/etc)
The problem is that the "global free market" is a multi-player version of the Prisoner's Dilemma game. It's been proven that in absence of communication between the players, the rational choice in this game is to always "defect".
The answer isn't tarrifs, trade or class war. The answer is more communication between the goddamn players. All of them. A technical solution exists for this problem.
The gutenberg press had a lot to do with it, freeing people from the church's grasp. The church was no longer the only entity that could reveal "god's truth" and people could come to their own conclusions on how the universe and society worked and should work. Up until that point the church was the focal point in western society, and since that point, its influenced has done nothing but waned. Yes there were mathematical breakthroughs coming from newton, barrow, descartes, the royal society/invisible college and the like, but there was a lot of progress from smart people being free to question the way the universe worked, and to affix their findings in a more or less public way via paper, in a way that just wasn't cheap/easy before gutenberg.
Why did the industrial revolution happen?
The liberalization that the Statute of Anne brought had a lot to do with it, freeing individuals from the book publishers and the massive power that they had up until that point.
There are many driving factors but one of the bigger ones is that certain groups tend to monopolize the use of technology and the spread of knowledge in society, and when power over knowledge and technology is wrestled from those groups, big leaps happen.
Another is that of brain drain, and international power. Right now part of the reason why countries like pakistan are such backwards places is that some of their best and the brightest do not stay in pakistan -- they migrate to the states or wherever else so that they can be richer. Although this hasn't been going on the past few years or so, china, canada and other countries still benefit from those who would drive progress flowing into their borders.
Why wasn't the enlightenment stopped?
Because by the time the authorities noticed anything, the horse was already out of the barn door -- the knowledge was diffused, there was no getting things back to the way things had been. And not only that, but those who would monopolize power in this way are almost always too slow to react, although the current chinese government and US military-industrialis kind of an exception to this
Now that people know that it is possible to set up a communications network that allows the communications world to be shrunk to a fraction of the size it used to be(you can call 3 billion people via a telephone line, communicate with a billion over the internet, and the combination of the internet and local methods will probably enable you to reach most people in the world within a few hours at most) -- even if somehow, some group figures a way to break this system, there are too many who remember that it *can* work, and we'll fight until it works again. The internet, and the kinds of societies that are *possible* which use it as a foundation, and which we haven't really seen yet, are now going to be a reoccurring theme in the history of humanity.
NDP are also notorious for running Ontario and Saskatchewan into the ground,
I think you mean Ontario and BC. The saskatchewan NDP saved us from bankruptcy the last time they were in power, and spent a decade cleaning up the mess the PCs left us in, only for the saskatchewan public to forget the whole thing and vote the PCs(oop, I mean Sask Party) back in again, who have proceeded to predictably start running the province into the ground again.
In general I think the federal NDP are kind of a mix, and what you can expect from them is only partially what you could expect at the provincial level on average.
Technological solution: Ubiquitous, mandatory Sousveillance equipment, and every word, every movement every keystroke of government, business, labour and corporate officials caught on some kind of video/playback storage mechanism that is then posted on the internet. Then add the open databases and some data mining/ai. Might not be feasible...but it's a HELL of a lot more feasible today than it was 20 years ago, we could keep going on this trend and remove ALL government corruption
Result: A society without privacy or corruption. Quite possibly the breakdown of the individual as a conceptual idea. Possibly the breakdown of western civilization and *certainly* the breakdown of totalitarian regiemes.
First, turn down the volume a little dude, we're all passionate about this but really there's no need for your caps-lock words.
Second, while everything you said was true, there were other dimensions, other 'spirits' that eventually worked their way into copyright law, of which corporate-feudalism is one of the more recent. There are two huge schools of thought on copyright, and everything you just said is way more true in the american-british school than the european one(which is more concerned with the 'moral right' of the artist to control the nature, not the profit, but the nature of their work. The goal here is to make sure the work remains pure, so that the artist has maximum ability to make sure that the art which he creates is received in the way that he intends it to be).
In fact in US law, from what I understand(and IANAL or an american), the non-commercial nature of use of a work is one of the core ways of determining if a use is fair.
How would the secret treaty work in Canada? Change the laws secretly?
It'll be just like the WIPO Copyright Treaty -- we'll sign it, and then we'll argue for the next 10-20 years about whether or not we've ratified it and whether or not we need to institute draconian laws to ratify it. The first step, however is to not sign the damn treaty in the first place, because once we do the conservatives and liberals will use it as an excuse to create the law (because clearly large US media conglomerates matter a lot more than the voice of the canadian people).
I would have loved a higher interest, deeper loan. I could have finished my degree 4 years ago instead of fucking around with trying to balance work & school. I wound up getting student loans for one year...and that year saved my broke ass from being expelled due to low marks(hard to get good grades when you work 80 hours a week). Even if I wind up paying 9-10x the cost of my degree in interest it would still be worth it. I didn't qualify first because my parents made too much money. Then I qualified...but only for a year, the next year they decided that my paperwork wasn't good enough or something. And I've been paying off not only my university, but my student loan ever since. On the upside I'll be relatively debt free come graduation in a few months...but I've thrown away most of my best years on working shit jobs for nickles on the dollar of what some of my peers are making.
nevermind, it worked beautifully. Bread was a little crunchy, but otherwise DELICIOUS. I added too much butter, and by too much I mean a DELICIOUS amount of butter. A+ would eat again.
I must be doing it wrong. My flour didn't really mix with the beer all that much. I had to move the flour around a bit. Only after I did that did I get it down below maybe 2 cups of flour: 1 cup flour+beer foam. I tried not to stir---the end result was a doughy substance. Is this correct?
Hell, in many areas of the world copyright law is in the process of being updated. Whether through ACTA in much of the developed world or specifically in the US (with their super DMCA laws), or Canada(C-61) --- it isn't long term at all, the opinions will determine the law, short term.
Wait, you're saying that the price of oil going down (and hence, the amount of it used set to go up, as we no longer use it as even as responsibly as we were?) is a *good* thing!? If anything we should thank JPMorgan for doing the right thing and BUYing oil, keeping the price high, although not as high to consumers as its true cost.
I think this is starting to change. Just this week I found all of my debian boxes have been turned into zombies in the Linux.RST.b botnet. While my network's security may have been lax enough to cause it...I would venture it's probably more secure than your avg ubuntu user. Which means those hundreds of thousands of new ubuntu users are probably just waiting targets for the linux viruses of 2009, imho. Keep your systems patched, and your passwords secure, folks.
Can you step backwards in VisualStudio.NET? I find that to be the best invention since emacs in programming space.
I seem to remember developing in VS in 2005 and I didn't see that feature. Maybe eclipse has beaten VisualStudio.NET circa 2005---and is closing that gap?
The entire world felt that war and that's why we've tried so hard to avoid any major conflicts.
...by outspending most of the world on offensive military technology and conducting offensive military campaigns against small, defenceless countries every few years....
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It is *only* through these new forms of communication and mass organizing that modern governments can be opposed. Being more careful only serves to empower them. If twitter/etc become a problem we can find a replacement but as a whole, we should *embrace* rather than hide from the new tools at our disposal for collectively organizing.
People without a significant online record, including naked pictures of themselves online, should simply not be allowed near government anymore.
techdirt has this picture, together with 2 other much more complete and accurate ones.
It's way, way more tangled than the Guardian picture would lead you to believe
(Disclaimer - I help develop and support software that controls hardware made by pretty much all those companies, but my opinions are my own and do not represent them or my customers/etc)
The problem is that the "global free market" is a multi-player version of the Prisoner's Dilemma game. It's been proven that in absence of communication between the players, the rational choice in this game is to always "defect".
The answer isn't tarrifs, trade or class war. The answer is more communication between the goddamn players. All of them. A technical solution exists for this problem.
It has ALWAYS been gambling, it's just easier to see now.
Why did the enlightenment happen?
The gutenberg press had a lot to do with it, freeing people from the church's grasp. The church was no longer the only entity that could reveal "god's truth" and people could come to their own conclusions on how the universe and society worked and should work. Up until that point the church was the focal point in western society, and since that point, its influenced has done nothing but waned. Yes there were mathematical breakthroughs coming from newton, barrow, descartes, the royal society/invisible college and the like, but there was a lot of progress from smart people being free to question the way the universe worked, and to affix their findings in a more or less public way via paper, in a way that just wasn't cheap/easy before gutenberg.
Why did the industrial revolution happen?
The liberalization that the Statute of Anne brought had a lot to do with it, freeing individuals from the book publishers and the massive power that they had up until that point.
There are many driving factors but one of the bigger ones is that certain groups tend to monopolize the use of technology and the spread of knowledge in society, and when power over knowledge and technology is wrestled from those groups, big leaps happen.
Another is that of brain drain, and international power. Right now part of the reason why countries like pakistan are such backwards places is that some of their best and the brightest do not stay in pakistan -- they migrate to the states or wherever else so that they can be richer. Although this hasn't been going on the past few years or so, china, canada and other countries still benefit from those who would drive progress flowing into their borders.
Why wasn't the enlightenment stopped?
Because by the time the authorities noticed anything, the horse was already out of the barn door -- the knowledge was diffused, there was no getting things back to the way things had been. And not only that, but those who would monopolize power in this way are almost always too slow to react, although the current chinese government and US military-industrialis kind of an exception to this
Now that people know that it is possible to set up a communications network that allows the communications world to be shrunk to a fraction of the size it used to be(you can call 3 billion people via a telephone line, communicate with a billion over the internet, and the combination of the internet and local methods will probably enable you to reach most people in the world within a few hours at most) -- even if somehow, some group figures a way to break this system, there are too many who remember that it *can* work, and we'll fight until it works again. The internet, and the kinds of societies that are *possible* which use it as a foundation, and which we haven't really seen yet, are now going to be a reoccurring theme in the history of humanity.
Christian Heritage Party, you know the ones who were brought in by the human rights tribunal lately for thoughtcrimes?
NDP are also notorious for running Ontario and Saskatchewan into the ground,
I think you mean Ontario and BC. The saskatchewan NDP saved us from bankruptcy the last time they were in power, and spent a decade cleaning up the mess the PCs left us in, only for the saskatchewan public to forget the whole thing and vote the PCs(oop, I mean Sask Party) back in again, who have proceeded to predictably start running the province into the ground again.
In general I think the federal NDP are kind of a mix, and what you can expect from them is only partially what you could expect at the provincial level on average.
Social problem: Corrupt government
Technological solution: Ubiquitous, mandatory Sousveillance equipment, and every word, every movement every keystroke of government, business, labour and corporate officials caught on some kind of video/playback storage mechanism that is then posted on the internet. Then add the open databases and some data mining/ai. Might not be feasible...but it's a HELL of a lot more feasible today than it was 20 years ago, we could keep going on this trend and remove ALL government corruption
Result: A society without privacy or corruption. Quite possibly the breakdown of the individual as a conceptual idea. Possibly the breakdown of western civilization and *certainly* the breakdown of totalitarian regiemes.
No one's mentioned avocad-cad yet?
First, turn down the volume a little dude, we're all passionate about this but really there's no need for your caps-lock words.
Second, while everything you said was true, there were other dimensions, other 'spirits' that eventually worked their way into copyright law, of which corporate-feudalism is one of the more recent. There are two huge schools of thought on copyright, and everything you just said is way more true in the american-british school than the european one(which is more concerned with the 'moral right' of the artist to control the nature, not the profit, but the nature of their work. The goal here is to make sure the work remains pure, so that the artist has maximum ability to make sure that the art which he creates is received in the way that he intends it to be).
In fact in US law, from what I understand(and IANAL or an american), the non-commercial nature of use of a work is one of the core ways of determining if a use is fair.
I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I'm still boycotting them.
How would the secret treaty work in Canada? Change the laws secretly?
It'll be just like the WIPO Copyright Treaty -- we'll sign it, and then we'll argue for the next 10-20 years about whether or not we've ratified it and whether or not we need to institute draconian laws to ratify it. The first step, however is to not sign the damn treaty in the first place, because once we do the conservatives and liberals will use it as an excuse to create the law (because clearly large US media conglomerates matter a lot more than the voice of the canadian people).
I would have loved a higher interest, deeper loan. I could have finished my degree 4 years ago instead of fucking around with trying to balance work & school. I wound up getting student loans for one year...and that year saved my broke ass from being expelled due to low marks(hard to get good grades when you work 80 hours a week). Even if I wind up paying 9-10x the cost of my degree in interest it would still be worth it. I didn't qualify first because my parents made too much money. Then I qualified...but only for a year, the next year they decided that my paperwork wasn't good enough or something. And I've been paying off not only my university, but my student loan ever since. On the upside I'll be relatively debt free come graduation in a few months...but I've thrown away most of my best years on working shit jobs for nickles on the dollar of what some of my peers are making.
Wouldn't that violate the DMCA?
nevermind, it worked beautifully. Bread was a little crunchy, but otherwise DELICIOUS. I added too much butter, and by too much I mean a DELICIOUS amount of butter. A+ would eat again.
I must be doing it wrong. My flour didn't really mix with the beer all that much. I had to move the flour around a bit. Only after I did that did I get it down below maybe 2 cups of flour: 1 cup flour+beer foam. I tried not to stir---the end result was a doughy substance. Is this correct?
Actually, WHO is at 4 now(Apr 27, 2009, 22:38 UTC)
Hell, in many areas of the world copyright law is in the process of being updated. Whether through ACTA in much of the developed world or specifically in the US (with their super DMCA laws), or Canada(C-61) --- it isn't long term at all, the opinions will determine the law, short term.
Wait, you're saying that the price of oil going down (and hence, the amount of it used set to go up, as we no longer use it as even as responsibly as we were?) is a *good* thing!? If anything we should thank JPMorgan for doing the right thing and BUYing oil, keeping the price high, although not as high to consumers as its true cost.
I think this is starting to change. Just this week I found all of my debian boxes have been turned into zombies in the Linux.RST.b botnet. While my network's security may have been lax enough to cause it...I would venture it's probably more secure than your avg ubuntu user. Which means those hundreds of thousands of new ubuntu users are probably just waiting targets for the linux viruses of 2009, imho. Keep your systems patched, and your passwords secure, folks.
Can you step backwards in VisualStudio.NET? I find that to be the best invention since emacs in programming space.
I seem to remember developing in VS in 2005 and I didn't see that feature. Maybe eclipse has beaten VisualStudio.NET circa 2005---and is closing that gap?
Does anyone know where a free (let's make clear: not realmedia 2 or whatever) online copy of the Big Demo may be found?
"Try browsing CNN"
Go no further, I think we may have spotted the flaw in your argument.
The entire world felt that war and that's why we've tried so hard to avoid any major conflicts.
...by outspending most of the world on offensive military technology and conducting offensive military campaigns against small, defenceless countries every few years....
quiet day?