One campaign being run by adbusters is called the corporate crackdown.
My personal favorite bit is the Charter Revocation Notice.
Without a charter, a corporation ceases to exist as an entity. I'm not really sure what happens after that, but at the very least that corporation can no longer do any form of business.
Perhaps sending charter revocation emails to gracenote and the california attorney general describing this insane lawsuit might get some notice.
In principal a corporation exists because the people, through the government, have given it permission to exist. Prior to the 1886 Supreme Court case Sante Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad, corporations had a limited list of activities they could engage in and a limited life span.
After that court case the corporations have increasingly utilized their hordes of lawers and large financial resources to solidify their power base in our government and get ever more legislative benifits for them passed.
One of several possible ways to reclaim power for the people instead of the "corporate republic" is to reclaim the power of life and death over corporations.
Though needless to say revoking charter is really difficult at this point. A group has been working on taking out philip morris for some time. Petition to revoke Philip Morris' corporate charter in the state of New York.
diane
Who invented the SUV? Also many european cities actually have no car zones. So all though some of these countries might have these high performance cars they don't have any place to use them.
Also since the cities tend to be more compact you can get too more stuff by walking or taking public transit.
Also I've heard rumors that the germans tend to eat high fat foods, smoke quite a bit and still have lower death rates from lifestyle related illnesses. Most likely because they're willing to walk several kilometers in a day. Unlike americans who aren't willing to walk from the furtherest edge of a parking lot.
Well thanks to a nifty meter know as the watts up. I can athoritatively say that my computer eats as much as my refridgerator.
'fridge 5.03 KwH used over 43.4 hours, yielding an average watts used of 115.9.
AMD athlon based system with ultra 160 scsi drive on 24/7; 2.5 KwH used over 26.2 hours, yielding an average wattage of 95.4.
Tossing in my 21 inch monitor, 2.2 KwH is 150 hours yields 14.7 watts.
Of course I haven't gotten around to enabling power management because I want remote access to my system.
Also I haven't gotten around to measuring my ether switch or cable modem yet. So the computer equiment should be using a bit more. Also those measurements were for a particular usage pattern which might have changed when I moved.
diane
The lead article in the current issue of Home Power is about a guy who has managed to produce all the power he needs for his apartment completely independantly of the power grid.
From the article...
Pull the Plug Party
One day during the summer of 1999, I returned to my apartment to see a group of my neighbors gathered in the alley behind my garage, chatting with each other. I pushed the button to open the garage door. They were quite surprised. There was a power outage in my neighborhood, the first of many in Chicago that summer. None of them had power, nor would they for hours.
Well, some of the environmentalist literature that I've read suggest that european equipment tends to be about twice as efficient as the amazingly wasteful american stuff.
No I can't support that claim, other than perhaps americans just tend to waste too much by living in big houses, driving big cars, and just generally using stuff larger than they need.
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One campaign being run by adbusters is called the corporate crackdown. My personal favorite bit is the Charter Revocation Notice. Without a charter, a corporation ceases to exist as an entity. I'm not really sure what happens after that, but at the very least that corporation can no longer do any form of business. Perhaps sending charter revocation emails to gracenote and the california attorney general describing this insane lawsuit might get some notice. In principal a corporation exists because the people, through the government, have given it permission to exist. Prior to the 1886 Supreme Court case Sante Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad, corporations had a limited list of activities they could engage in and a limited life span. After that court case the corporations have increasingly utilized their hordes of lawers and large financial resources to solidify their power base in our government and get ever more legislative benifits for them passed. One of several possible ways to reclaim power for the people instead of the "corporate republic" is to reclaim the power of life and death over corporations. Though needless to say revoking charter is really difficult at this point. A group has been working on taking out philip morris for some time. Petition to revoke Philip Morris' corporate charter in the state of New York. diane
Who invented the SUV? Also many european cities actually have no car zones. So all though some of these countries might have these high performance cars they don't have any place to use them. Also since the cities tend to be more compact you can get too more stuff by walking or taking public transit. Also I've heard rumors that the germans tend to eat high fat foods, smoke quite a bit and still have lower death rates from lifestyle related illnesses. Most likely because they're willing to walk several kilometers in a day. Unlike americans who aren't willing to walk from the furtherest edge of a parking lot.
Of course I haven't gotten around to enabling power management because I want remote access to my system.
Also I haven't gotten around to measuring my ether switch or cable modem yet. So the computer equiment should be using a bit more. Also those measurements were for a particular usage pattern which might have changed when I moved. dianeAnd the amazing thing is someone's done it. Electro-Biking
Well, some of the environmentalist literature that I've read suggest that european equipment tends to be about twice as efficient as the amazingly wasteful american stuff. No I can't support that claim, other than perhaps americans just tend to waste too much by living in big houses, driving big cars, and just generally using stuff larger than they need.