The terrorists we are fighting are trying to take away, as I said, the freedom to not be muslim, to live under something other than the Islamic Caliphate, to choose something other than being Muslim, Dhimmi, or dead.
Except, the problem with that is that you're extrapolating the intentions of the Islamic Fundamentalist movement. They could give two shits about converting or ruling Christian, Jewish, or secular westerners. They don't want to create an Islamic theocracy in the U.S., Denmark, Russia, or Argentina.
They might be interested in taking away the freedoms of Iraqis, Afghanis, Pakistanis, etc., but they mostly just want the U.S. empire out of the Muslim world.
In other words, they actually don't hate our freedom to not be Muslim, and they don't hate our civil liberties either. They hate our presence. And so do a lot of Muslims, even though they may equally hate the Islamic fundamentalists.
That might be a good idea for the next SMB sequel, Princess Peach gets kidnapped and joins the Koopanese Liberation Army, executing bank robberies, terrorist attacks, and targetted assasinations, while the media circus surrouding the situation speculates on the nature of her involvement with the KBA.
Has anybody thought to add a feature to firefox (or maybe an extension) whereby if a user misspells a domain name, it gives the option to correct the spelling?
Word. Pizza delivery is one of the last good, honest working class jobs that you can make an okay living off of with a high school diploma or less. It's taken the place of the town factory from back in the day. I usually averaged about $16 an hour with tips and mileage, and about $14/hr after subtracting gas costs.
After the dot-com bust in 2000, I started delivering pizzas again off and on, along with working tech support. I made more money delivering pizzas, and it's much more enjoyable work. The only thing is, it's definitely more dangerous (you don't have to carry a weapon when you do tech support), and the wear and tear on your car can be pretty stressful.
Wealthy elites make bad environmentalists.
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People really need to differentiate between environmentalists (ie, people who have a sincere concern about the air we breath, the water we drink, the land we cultivate, and everything inbetween) and NIMBY rich people who don't want an eyesore in their costly scenic view.
Sure, NIMBY rich people might claim that what they want is to save the environment, but really, all they want is to maintain their property values.
You're misunderstanding Appleseed. Once one person sets up a website, it can handle multiple users.
All a user has to do is a similar sign-up process to MySpace or Friendster.
So while not everybody wants to be a webmaster, with Appleseed, not everybody has to be. But people who want to set up an Appleseed node can do so (relatively easily, actually).
If you're on Friendster now, and you decide to move to MySpace, you have to start re-adding all your friends, all over again. And chances are, the same friends who are on Friendster may not be on Myspace.
One of the reasons people stick with MySpace, despite the fact that it sucks so much, is because all their friends were on it. But if the social networking aspect was distributed, they could switch easily to another site, without having to worry about whether their friends are on that site or not.
To map it out using a distributed model:
You're on SITE A.
Your friend is on SITE B.
You can move to SITE C and still keep your network relationship with your friend on SITE B.
You know, I really dont mind a few ads. Especially the google-style, targetted text ads. But MySpace just goes crazy with ads.
Honestly, as long as social networking is monolithic, you're going to have to have a lot of ads. It's expensive to have one site with 50,000,000 users on it.
It's a lot easier to have 5,000 sites with 10,000 users on each of them, all of whom can interact seamlessly with each other. This is where social networking has to go, and this is what I'm trying to do with Appleseed. That way, if one site has too many ads, you can just move over to another site, and keep all of your same friends.
In other words, the system we have now, of a few monolithic, corporate controlled, proprietary and ad-bombarding sites, none of whom can interact with each other, is just not sustainable.
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Hit refresh. I'm not exactly sure why Sourceforge has a problem with includes like that, but the problem is random and disappears by refreshing the site.
To be honest, one of the reasons I started Appleseed is because of all of the ads that people are bombarded with on sites like MySpace. The whole experience just seems crass.
Right now, social networking is being approached as if the users involved are merely demographics, potential markets, or advertising recipients. And that's really kind of sad for a technology which has so much sociological, political, and even economic potential for change.
I really honestly think that we won't see real social networking until we have an network of open source websites which all work together using some kind of standard commication protocol. Would the web itself have worked if there had only been six or 7 places to host a website? Where would email be if you had a dozen different proprietary methods for sending and recieving?
Why is social networking any different? MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, as far as I'm concerned, these are all the proof-of-concepts, but they're not the way the future will look.
Social networking, by definition, can not be monolithic and centrally controlled.
I'm very glad Slashdot posted this. I've been looking for sources of funding for a little bit now, and I'm at a loss for where to go from here. We've had a trickle of individual donations, which are great and have really helped a lot. But what I'd like to be able to do is take a few months or even a half a year and focus exclusively on Appleseed, especially since it's really starting to come together as a project.
Most of the past two years have been creating an API. Although I probably could have already found the pieces I needed already built, the advantage was that I had a consistent and custom API to work with. And the API has served me pretty well, for instance, the messaging system was written in around 3 days worth of work. Other sections were similarly rapidly developed, but there's still a lot to be done. The final product will combine photo sharing, journals, messaging, and friends list into one package.
Somebody metioned imeem as another distributed social networking project, but I don't think we're particularly in competition, since imeem isn't open source. The purpose of appleseed is to create a network of websites that all work together, and open source is a big part of making sure that anybody who wants to set up an appleseed node (even if it's just for them and a dozen friends) can do so and still maintain full interaction with everybody in the appleseed network.
This is really a project I'm very excited about, and the possibilities are endless. At some point a module architecture is in the plans, which will add the possibility of IM, P2P/torrent filesharing, social bookmark (ala, del.icio.us), social calendars and more. For me, this is where I want the web to go, and at the same time it seems like it's more of a return back to the early days of the internet, when the focus was on distributed networks which inter-communicated, as opposed to a single, monolithic location where all interaction occurs.
Just so everybody knows, that reference in the V for Vendetta movie is a play on a quote by early 20th century anarchist Emma Goldman ("If I can't dance, it's not my revolution"), although there's speculation that she may not have actually said that. But it's attributed to her, anyways.
Since the screen adaption of the movie took out all reference to anarchism and anarchist philosophy, and instead made it a movie about a generic freedom fighter, I like to think that the above quote was a kind of a wink and a nod to the anarchists out there the screenwriters hadn't completely forgotten about the film's philosophical roots.
I've been working on a project called Appleseed, which is sort of a distributed version of MySpace/Friendster, but is turning out to be an amalgamation of gmail/flickr/myspace/livejournal. It's been slow going, but it's starting to pick up the pace, it's just been hard having to work full time and do this in my offtime.
That said, I'm disappointed that, with all of these social network oriented sites popping up, and all these new technologies being explored by commercial enterprises, that the open source community hasn't stepped up to the plate and offered free alternatives. Gmail? Flickr? Del.icio.us? Myspace?
I know the open source community can build reusable software that's as good or better than any of this, so why haven't we? Why are we still using SquirrelMail?
Sounds like another one of those -isms that people have adopted and modified from its true original meaning to make themselves feel different, like Satanism.
Except that anarchism, as a philosophy, has a serious theoretical basis in the works of Kropotkin, Bakunin, Proudhon, etc, which date back centuries.
Sorry, your Oxford dictionary is the definition that has been modified from its true original meaning.
Less than 10 people in all of US history have been murdered by moronic anti-abortionists. Over 200 people were hacked to death when muslims in Nigeria were "offended" by a remark by a reporter about a beauty contest. (it was something like "Muhammed may have chosen a wife from the contestants.")
If the US had the level of poverty and desperation that parts of Nigeria had, we'd definitely see Christians hacking non-believers to death with machetes.
Nothing creates a zealot like nothing to live for.
How about the idiots who, for example, think Bush is comparable to Hitler?
Drawing a corollary between disingenous, immature, or mostly just plain bad political analysis and a complete ideological rejection of modern biology and science doesn't do well to prove your point.
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The terrorists we are fighting are trying to take away, as I said, the freedom to not be muslim, to live under something other than the Islamic Caliphate, to choose something other than being Muslim, Dhimmi, or dead.
Except, the problem with that is that you're extrapolating the intentions of the Islamic Fundamentalist movement. They could give two shits about converting or ruling Christian, Jewish, or secular westerners. They don't want to create an Islamic theocracy in the U.S., Denmark, Russia, or Argentina.
They might be interested in taking away the freedoms of Iraqis, Afghanis, Pakistanis, etc., but they mostly just want the U.S. empire out of the Muslim world.
In other words, they actually don't hate our freedom to not be Muslim, and they don't hate our civil liberties either. They hate our presence. And so do a lot of Muslims, even though they may equally hate the Islamic fundamentalists.
Possibly.
I'm sure a lot of women whose husbands only have sex in 15 minute increments a day would consider them to be "fuckers".
That might be a good idea for the next SMB sequel, Princess Peach gets kidnapped and joins the Koopanese Liberation Army, executing bank robberies, terrorist attacks, and targetted assasinations, while the media circus surrouding the situation speculates on the nature of her involvement with the KBA.
Who's with me on this one?
Has anybody thought to add a feature to firefox (or maybe an extension) whereby if a user misspells a domain name, it gives the option to correct the spelling?
Word. Pizza delivery is one of the last good, honest working class jobs that you can make an okay living off of with a high school diploma or less. It's taken the place of the town factory from back in the day. I usually averaged about $16 an hour with tips and mileage, and about $14/hr after subtracting gas costs.
After the dot-com bust in 2000, I started delivering pizzas again off and on, along with working tech support. I made more money delivering pizzas, and it's much more enjoyable work. The only thing is, it's definitely more dangerous (you don't have to carry a weapon when you do tech support), and the wear and tear on your car can be pretty stressful.
People really need to differentiate between environmentalists (ie, people who have a sincere concern about the air we breath, the water we drink, the land we cultivate, and everything inbetween) and NIMBY rich people who don't want an eyesore in their costly scenic view.
Sure, NIMBY rich people might claim that what they want is to save the environment, but really, all they want is to maintain their property values.
You're misunderstanding Appleseed. Once one person sets up a website, it can handle multiple users.
All a user has to do is a similar sign-up process to MySpace or Friendster.
So while not everybody wants to be a webmaster, with Appleseed, not everybody has to be. But people who want to set up an Appleseed node can do so (relatively easily, actually).
If you're on Friendster now, and you decide to move to MySpace, you have to start re-adding all your friends, all over again. And chances are, the same friends who are on Friendster may not be on Myspace.
One of the reasons people stick with MySpace, despite the fact that it sucks so much, is because all their friends were on it. But if the social networking aspect was distributed, they could switch easily to another site, without having to worry about whether their friends are on that site or not.
To map it out using a distributed model:
You're on SITE A.
Your friend is on SITE B.
You can move to SITE C and still keep your network relationship with your friend on SITE B.
You know, I really dont mind a few ads. Especially the google-style, targetted text ads. But MySpace just goes crazy with ads.
Honestly, as long as social networking is monolithic, you're going to have to have a lot of ads. It's expensive to have one site with 50,000,000 users on it.
It's a lot easier to have 5,000 sites with 10,000 users on each of them, all of whom can interact seamlessly with each other. This is where social networking has to go, and this is what I'm trying to do with Appleseed. That way, if one site has too many ads, you can just move over to another site, and keep all of your same friends.
In other words, the system we have now, of a few monolithic, corporate controlled, proprietary and ad-bombarding sites, none of whom can interact with each other, is just not sustainable.
You mean something openid?
/home/groups/a/ap/appleseed/htdocs/index.php on line 2
Yes. Appleseed will probably utilize openid.
Warning: main(inc/header.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
Hit refresh. I'm not exactly sure why Sourceforge has a problem with includes like that, but the problem is random and disappears by refreshing the site.
To be honest, one of the reasons I started Appleseed is because of all of the ads that people are bombarded with on sites like MySpace. The whole experience just seems crass.
Right now, social networking is being approached as if the users involved are merely demographics, potential markets, or advertising recipients. And that's really kind of sad for a technology which has so much sociological, political, and even economic potential for change.
I really honestly think that we won't see real social networking until we have an network of open source websites which all work together using some kind of standard commication protocol. Would the web itself have worked if there had only been six or 7 places to host a website? Where would email be if you had a dozen different proprietary methods for sending and recieving?
Why is social networking any different? MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, as far as I'm concerned, these are all the proof-of-concepts, but they're not the way the future will look.
Social networking, by definition, can not be monolithic and centrally controlled.
I know quite a bit about economics.
Anarcho-capitalism is an absurdity amongst economists.
Wait, spoke too soon. I didn't realize that it was only available to students.
Back to the drawing board...
I guess that answers my question.
For some reason I had heard that it wasn't happening this year. I'm excited that it is.
More probable than not, Appleseed will eventually support FOAF.
It's an open standard, and from what I know about it, there wouldn't be much reason not to.
I'm very glad Slashdot posted this. I've been looking for sources of funding for a little bit now, and I'm at a loss for where to go from here. We've had a trickle of individual donations, which are great and have really helped a lot. But what I'd like to be able to do is take a few months or even a half a year and focus exclusively on Appleseed, especially since it's really starting to come together as a project.
Most of the past two years have been creating an API. Although I probably could have already found the pieces I needed already built, the advantage was that I had a consistent and custom API to work with. And the API has served me pretty well, for instance, the messaging system was written in around 3 days worth of work. Other sections were similarly rapidly developed, but there's still a lot to be done. The final product will combine photo sharing, journals, messaging, and friends list into one package.
Somebody metioned imeem as another distributed social networking project, but I don't think we're particularly in competition, since imeem isn't open source. The purpose of appleseed is to create a network of websites that all work together, and open source is a big part of making sure that anybody who wants to set up an appleseed node (even if it's just for them and a dozen friends) can do so and still maintain full interaction with everybody in the appleseed network.
This is really a project I'm very excited about, and the possibilities are endless. At some point a module architecture is in the plans, which will add the possibility of IM, P2P/torrent filesharing, social bookmark (ala, del.icio.us), social calendars and more. For me, this is where I want the web to go, and at the same time it seems like it's more of a return back to the early days of the internet, when the focus was on distributed networks which inter-communicated, as opposed to a single, monolithic location where all interaction occurs.
Just so everybody knows, that reference in the V for Vendetta movie is a play on a quote by early 20th century anarchist Emma Goldman ("If I can't dance, it's not my revolution"), although there's speculation that she may not have actually said that. But it's attributed to her, anyways.
Since the screen adaption of the movie took out all reference to anarchism and anarchist philosophy, and instead made it a movie about a generic freedom fighter, I like to think that the above quote was a kind of a wink and a nod to the anarchists out there the screenwriters hadn't completely forgotten about the film's philosophical roots.
I just wanted to say to whoever donated:
You rock. Thank you.
The Appleseed Project could use funding. And a foot massage.
Mostly we'll just settle for a foot massage.
The appleseed site you're looking at was just the site explaining the project.
There's a test site at http://www.appleseedproject.org/ but that's currently down.
I've been working on a project called Appleseed, which is sort of a distributed version of MySpace/Friendster, but is turning out to be an amalgamation of gmail/flickr/myspace/livejournal. It's been slow going, but it's starting to pick up the pace, it's just been hard having to work full time and do this in my offtime.
That said, I'm disappointed that, with all of these social network oriented sites popping up, and all these new technologies being explored by commercial enterprises, that the open source community hasn't stepped up to the plate and offered free alternatives. Gmail? Flickr? Del.icio.us? Myspace?
I know the open source community can build reusable software that's as good or better than any of this, so why haven't we? Why are we still using SquirrelMail?
Sounds like another one of those -isms that people have adopted and modified from its true original meaning to make themselves feel different, like Satanism.
Except that anarchism, as a philosophy, has a serious theoretical basis in the works of Kropotkin, Bakunin, Proudhon, etc, which date back centuries.
Sorry, your Oxford dictionary is the definition that has been modified from its true original meaning.
Less than 10 people in all of US history have been murdered by moronic anti-abortionists. Over 200 people were hacked to death when muslims in Nigeria were "offended" by a remark by a reporter about a beauty contest. (it was something like "Muhammed may have chosen a wife from the contestants.")
If the US had the level of poverty and desperation that parts of Nigeria had, we'd definitely see Christians hacking non-believers to death with machetes.
Nothing creates a zealot like nothing to live for.
Maybe because you don't speak Arabic?
How about the idiots who, for example, think Bush is comparable to Hitler?
Drawing a corollary between disingenous, immature, or mostly just plain bad political analysis and a complete ideological rejection of modern biology and science doesn't do well to prove your point.