western expats or the Saudi nationals. They are worried about the millions of Asian workers, maids, drivers, cleaners who are treated like slaves. You don't have effective control over slaves if you let them communicate with their family whenever they want.
Saudi Arabia is a hell hole for millions of people who have sold themselves into effective slavery, and the US government treats the place like its main ally in the region. Something about American history tells me it's a natural alliance.
they would turn them into surface to surface targeting rebel donkey carts transporting CIA supplied surface to air missiles come surface to surface missiles that in turn target government donkey carts.
In general the only things that will blow up are innocent Syrian kids and donkeys.
The notion that consumers will one day be able to customise 3D designs on their computer screen and print them at home is fanciful.
Anyone who has tried to teach/learn three dimensional geometry can tell you that 3D hurts the brain.
We don't even see in 3D. The retina is 2D and we have some vague conception of 3D.
Close your eyes and consider for example the intersection of two ice cream cones.
What does this look like? Is it ever an ice cream cone? Going beyond this, there are geometric phenomena in 3D that have
no analog in 2D, which we don't naturally perceive,
The problem is that we design in 2D, our mind's eye is 2D, our experiential perspective is 2D, and our design technology is 2D.
Our perception of 3D are essentially some sort of projections of 3D Objects. It took painters centuries to even conceive of this.
(Of course, you can train your 2D mind to design 3D objects , but basically you've got to be a specialist. For these designers, why would they choose 3D printing,
it looks like a lathe tool to me but you are restricted to the material you can use. )
they ask you about your religion and tell you that in any case Israel is able to access your gmail account without your password, because they 7h3y RUL3.
"This is the conversation I recall having with Chris Kain at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv by telephone:"
CK: Hello. I got your number from ___. You are being questioned by the Israeli authorities, I understand.
ST: They are threatening to deny me entry and to deport me.
CK: Are you Jewish?
ST: No
CK: Have you been in contact with the Israeli government or military in the past?
ST: No
CK: Have you been here before?
ST: Yes, several times. I am a Palestinian with family in the West Bank.
CK: Oh, you have family in the West Bank. Then there is nothing I can do to help you. In fact, if I interceded on your behalf, it will hurt your case with the Israelis.
ST: I don't understand. You are saying you can't speak with them. You have no influence. They are demanding to access my gmail account.
CK: If they have your gmail address, they can get in without your password.
ST: What do you mean? How?
CK: They're good!
ST: This is crazy. You mean you know about these requests to access emails and you have no problem with it.
CK: It is in our travel warning. They won't harm you. You will be sent home on the next flight out.I hope I have been of good service to you.
ST: Frankly, you have done nothing for me.
CK: Well at least you can say I did it kindly.
Take bitcoin for example. Why is it valued at all? It has built in incentives but also its value probably comes from its use for money laundering and other illegal activities.
Tor is totally decentrlized. But surely there has to be a decetralized system that incentives people to bridge in the network. Presently, we're asked to do this out of the goodness of our hearts, like a charity. "Think of the poor Iranian freedom lover's," meh, when we know fully well that much of the traffic is silkroad related and what ever other illegal crap has found a home in the Tor space.
Whoever is running the apparently lucrative silkroad can make small bitcoin donations to "bridging" volunteers. It's cheaper than paying their taxes to a real government. You wanna distribute the north east Iranian goodies? pay for the network!
I'm an Arab professor. I look like an Arab and have an accent. I travel to the US all the time. Aside from my experiences in 2002, I have never had a problem getting into the US for conferences. The TSA/border control people are always very nice and polite. Maybe I've been lucky.
Adobe may well have a legal right to protect its trade mark.
However, the way that Adobe (a rich multinational firm) is acting should not only be of concern to the Free Software community.
It is of concern to the whole community; we should all be interested in protecting volunteer organizations that do a great deal of good with very little resources.
Are they acting reasonably? They seem to be acting in a heavy handed way that is not reasonable or sensitive to the situation.
Killustartor is free software developed by a group of volunteers. No one is making a profit from the project. Adobe knows this and should
be sensitive to it.
Open source projects are like charities. They are grassroots charities.
Imagine if some large food manufacturing firm did the same thing to volunteer organization that distributes food to the poor.
With this analogy in mind, what should be done?
1) Change the name of KIlustrator. It was silly to call it that in the first place.
2) Boycott Adobe products, so that next time a multinational firm has a dispute with a not for profit organization it will attempt to resolve
the dispute in a more sensitive way.
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got nothing to hide, then China has nothing to worry about.
western expats or the Saudi nationals. They are worried about the millions of Asian workers, maids, drivers, cleaners who are treated like slaves. You don't have effective control over slaves if you let them communicate with their family whenever they want. Saudi Arabia is a hell hole for millions of people who have sold themselves into effective slavery, and the US government treats the place like its main ally in the region. Something about American history tells me it's a natural alliance.
they would turn them into surface to surface targeting rebel donkey carts transporting CIA supplied surface to air missiles come surface to surface missiles that in turn target government donkey carts. In general the only things that will blow up are innocent Syrian kids and donkeys.
The notion that consumers will one day be able to customise 3D designs on their computer screen and print them at home is fanciful. Anyone who has tried to teach/learn three dimensional geometry can tell you that 3D hurts the brain. We don't even see in 3D. The retina is 2D and we have some vague conception of 3D. Close your eyes and consider for example the intersection of two ice cream cones. What does this look like? Is it ever an ice cream cone? Going beyond this, there are geometric phenomena in 3D that have no analog in 2D, which we don't naturally perceive, The problem is that we design in 2D, our mind's eye is 2D, our experiential perspective is 2D, and our design technology is 2D. Our perception of 3D are essentially some sort of projections of 3D Objects. It took painters centuries to even conceive of this. (Of course, you can train your 2D mind to design 3D objects , but basically you've got to be a specialist. For these designers, why would they choose 3D printing, it looks like a lathe tool to me but you are restricted to the material you can use. )
See The U.S. Government Wanted to Know: Am I Jewish"
"This is the conversation I recall having with Chris Kain at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv by telephone:"
CK: Hello. I got your number from ___. You are being questioned by the Israeli authorities, I understand.
ST: They are threatening to deny me entry and to deport me.
CK: Are you Jewish?
ST: No
CK: Have you been in contact with the Israeli government or military in the past?
ST: No
CK: Have you been here before?
ST: Yes, several times. I am a Palestinian with family in the West Bank.
CK: Oh, you have family in the West Bank. Then there is nothing I can do to help you. In fact, if I interceded on your behalf, it will hurt your case with the Israelis.
ST: I don't understand. You are saying you can't speak with them. You have no influence. They are demanding to access my gmail account.
CK: If they have your gmail address, they can get in without your password.
ST: What do you mean? How?
CK: They're good!
ST: This is crazy. You mean you know about these requests to access emails and you have no problem with it.
CK: It is in our travel warning. They won't harm you. You will be sent home on the next flight out.I hope I have been of good service to you.
ST: Frankly, you have done nothing for me.
CK: Well at least you can say I did it kindly.
Isn't the whole idea of Tor-bitcoin is to make an anarchist-nirvana where there is no such thing as criminal and non-criminal.
Yes sure.
Take bitcoin for example. Why is it valued at all? It has built in incentives but also its value probably comes from its use for money laundering and other illegal activities.
Tor is totally decentrlized. But surely there has to be a decetralized system that incentives people to bridge in the network. Presently, we're asked to do this out of the goodness of our hearts, like a charity. "Think of the poor Iranian freedom lover's," meh, when we know fully well that much of the traffic is silkroad related and what ever other illegal crap has found a home in the Tor space.
Whoever is running the apparently lucrative silkroad can make small bitcoin donations to "bridging" volunteers. It's cheaper than paying their taxes to a real government. You wanna distribute the north east Iranian goodies? pay for the network!
I'm an Arab professor. I look like an Arab and have an accent. I travel to the US all the time. Aside from my experiences in 2002, I have never had a problem getting into the US for conferences. The TSA/border control people are always very nice and polite. Maybe I've been lucky.
Adobe may well have a legal right to protect its trade mark.
However, the way that Adobe (a rich multinational firm) is acting should not only be of concern to the Free Software community.
It is of concern to the whole community; we should all be interested in protecting volunteer organizations that do a great deal of good with very little resources.
Are they acting reasonably? They seem to be acting in a heavy handed way that is not reasonable or sensitive to the situation.
Killustartor is free software developed by a group of volunteers. No one is making a profit from the project. Adobe knows this and should
be sensitive to it.
Open source projects are like charities. They are grassroots charities.
Imagine if some large food manufacturing firm did the same thing to volunteer organization that distributes food to the poor.
With this analogy in mind, what should be done?
1) Change the name of KIlustrator. It was silly to call it that in the first place.
2) Boycott Adobe products, so that next time a multinational firm has a dispute with a not for profit organization it will attempt to resolve
the dispute in a more sensitive way.