I think that both words 'author' & 'authority' are related... Perhaps, initially. Someone that created something, was the only authority that could say if others used his invention correctly, or not. Or was responsible of any wrong use of his creation. Then, when she sold her creation to other, the authority should extend to the new owner. But, in reality, depending on the complexity of the creation, the last word should belong to the creator. Today, we might have missed the original point. And anyone that owns anything pretends to be as the creator. Extending eternally the rights of something that they might have bought but that they might not understand. But who cares? It is now, only money...
Studies of pot today should consider possible side effects of consuming transgenic marihuana. Who knows for sure that there is no side effects with it, compared with the pure and old herb?
Besides, today, use and consumption are not well differentiated words.
Antient cultures used to consider drugs as gods. They might have had less technical knowledge about science, but that should not diminish their knowledge. They used it on special occasions.
If today we use or consume drugs in a similar way as we 'use our actual gods' to get something back from them. If we consume drugs to patch other existential problems that we need to solve. Then the god part of the drugs might act against us...
Like using guns. Guns are not good or evil. But they might become so, with our use. The myth of drugs that started with inquisition should finally end. Drugs have been part of the human existence since the begining of time. And forbidden or not they shall allways be part of us.
There is no news that information is the enemy of any dictator on the earth. Information is the enemy of fear. And fear is power.
Big brother has no other ideology. And violence is the mother of ignorance and fear.
Shall we some day finally learn the lesson for good? Being well informed, we could let them fight until exhaustion, without narrowing our future. Should we return to that hell? Should we keep on loosing?
I used to work as a qualified data entry guy that had to collect all the household analyzed rating data and parse it into some excel sheets. After lots of graphs resulting from the data filtered by several customers targets, the result was one +200 hundred pages printed book personalized for each customer. Totaling near a thousand books every month.
The number of different results was so high that the algorithms should be heavily watched constantly. And I was never as sure as to not expect to find any possible mistake in any output. But from outside, my boss would only see a funny guy that was mostly always sitting down and doing nothing... The idea that such a heavy and responsible job would look as doing nothing made me laugh a lot.
So much so, that I created a very nice button at the starting page of the Excel sheet that would do all the job without any hesitation. Without human checking any results before hand! But it was so tempting! It was my boss's point of view of my job...
As I expected, later I got fired. But then, I found out that that nice button caused them the lost of a lot of customers, until they decided to start doing all my work again from scratch...
And finally new that mine was really a busy job...
I guess that the only way is just ignoring those who still wish to earn something from what is not a crime.
Laws used to say that there was crime when there was proffit involved. And humanly, every product belongs to all of us, not only to the one that stood over the others' shoulders to define it... There was even a pope that said that stealing to learn or to help others was not a crime...
But sharing something freely with others, is only saying that we aknowledge that todays cost of life is pretty unfair.
Should this be discussed? What is the proffit of discussion?
The solution is never going to be less humans (wars & genocide). That story never ends...
The solution is to really end poverty as soon as possible. Then, everybody should expect a better way of living. Thus, simplify their own lives. Then, even non violent cultures tend to birth control authomatically.
They are not explaining why they are now working there... The nuclear stuff is still boiling (sort of) and the concrete casting that surround what was the nuclear plant is expiring its license of security. So, they need to make a new box of cement that should surround the old one... (scientists don't know how to stop the boiling stuff!)
Besides, I saw a film of a guy who went there some years ago. And found a 'strange black fish' that was living inside the lake near the nuclear plant. There were also old people still living at the country near the town. The army had tried to move them to other places but they insisted in returning to their only home. And are still living there. And seem to survive for an unknown reason.
Local people have created a sort of myth associating the disaster with some parts of the bible. So, they believe that in part was god's will what had happened...
You should see the film!
What most ecologists mean about future dangers refer only to humans. Plants, animals and the complete ecosystem should surely endure anything. As has been happening since the begining of time.
At this time of the Klingon history, when receiving a message from planet Earth is like calling them to come and kill us all!
People should see more about the Klingon history before doing a Klingon opera and inviting them to Earth now at the XXI century! Knowing the future seems to be no way of avoiding it...
As in other communication media, in some countries, school teachers have a main interest in recommending certain powerful brands. But the interest is not related to the content, but to bonus that would pay them some extra cash.
It seems that some poliglot hackers succeded in finding where was the WW1 mortal german joke burried. The translator team is very worried about laughing at their part of the text...
# Picard was also Magneto (the head of the evil Mutants). # He only admited Kirk's beloved nurse to work as a computer voice;) in his shop (sorry) ship.
Thanks god we are now having all that SCI-Fi nonsense aside and working on what matters: The new army has arrived! These people are willing to bring peace to all their universe! Dump away all those hippies! And let's EXTERMINATE every terrorist that might still be daring to boldly go, where this new generation is!
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...They will suddenly become very interested and possessive, again, on this piece of rock.
Define radical...
I think that both words 'author' & 'authority' are related...
Perhaps, initially. Someone that created something, was the only authority that could say if others used his invention correctly, or not. Or was responsible of any wrong use of his creation.
Then, when she sold her creation to other, the authority should extend to the new owner. But, in reality, depending on the complexity of the creation, the last word should belong to the creator.
Today, we might have missed the original point. And anyone that owns anything pretends to be as the creator. Extending eternally the rights of something that they might have bought but that they might not understand.
But who cares? It is now, only money...
Studies of pot today should consider possible side effects of consuming transgenic marihuana. Who knows for sure that there is no side effects with it, compared with the pure and old herb?
Besides, today, use and consumption are not well differentiated words.
Antient cultures used to consider drugs as gods. They might have had less technical knowledge about science, but that should not diminish their knowledge. They used it on special occasions.
If today we use or consume drugs in a similar way as we 'use our actual gods' to get something back from them.
If we consume drugs to patch other existential problems that we need to solve. Then the god part of the drugs might act against us...
Like using guns. Guns are not good or evil. But they might become so, with our use.
The myth of drugs that started with inquisition should finally end.
Drugs have been part of the human existence since the begining of time. And forbidden or not they shall allways be part of us.
:) I enjoy the way that 'anonymous reader' writes this review.
Following Ray Bradbury's great story, there should be people that would remember by hard what the forbidden site was about... :>
To get out to space we first need to improve our human culture!
With our actual population rate, in 1000 years we would have exhausted the feeding resources of all our reachable universe...
There is no news that information is the enemy of any dictator on the earth. Information is the enemy of fear. And fear is power.
Big brother has no other ideology. And violence is the mother of ignorance and fear.
Shall we some day finally learn the lesson for good?
Being well informed, we could let them fight until exhaustion, without narrowing our future.
Should we return to that hell? Should we keep on loosing?
Anecdote:
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I used to work as a qualified data entry guy that had to collect all the household analyzed rating data and parse it into some excel sheets. After lots of graphs resulting from the data filtered by several customers targets, the result was one +200 hundred pages printed book personalized for each customer. Totaling near a thousand books every month.
The number of different results was so high that the algorithms should be heavily watched constantly. And I was never as sure as to not expect to find any possible mistake in any output. But from outside, my boss would only see a funny guy that was mostly always sitting down and doing nothing.
The idea that such a heavy and responsible job would look as doing nothing made me laugh a lot.
So much so, that I created a very nice button at the starting page of the Excel sheet that would do all the job without any hesitation. Without human checking any results before hand! But it was so tempting! It was my boss's point of view of my job...
As I expected, later I got fired. But then, I found out that that nice button caused them the lost of a lot of customers, until they decided to start doing all my work again from scratch...
And finally new that mine was really a busy job...
I love Stallman (Jesus) and hate the rest (hypocrite warlords) !
Same old (very old) story...
"Imagine more (because we have run out of stock!)..."
I guess that the only way is just ignoring those who still wish to earn something from what is not a crime.
Laws used to say that there was crime when there was proffit involved.
And humanly, every product belongs to all of us, not only to the one that stood over the others' shoulders to define it...
There was even a pope that said that stealing to learn or to help others was not a crime...
But sharing something freely with others, is only saying that we aknowledge that todays cost of life is pretty unfair.
Should this be discussed? What is the proffit of discussion?
The solution is never going to be less humans (wars & genocide). That story never ends...
The solution is to really end poverty as soon as possible.
Then, everybody should expect a better way of living. Thus, simplify their own lives.
Then, even non violent cultures tend to birth control authomatically.
End wars and poverty, now!
They are not explaining why they are now working there...
The nuclear stuff is still boiling (sort of) and the concrete casting that surround what was the nuclear plant is expiring its license of security. So, they need to make a new box of cement that should surround the old one... (scientists don't know how to stop the boiling stuff!)
Besides, I saw a film of a guy who went there some years ago.
And found a 'strange black fish' that was living inside the lake near the nuclear plant.
There were also old people still living at the country near the town.
The army had tried to move them to other places but they insisted in returning to their only home.
And are still living there. And seem to survive for an unknown reason.
Local people have created a sort of myth associating the disaster with some parts of the bible.
So, they believe that in part was god's will what had happened...
You should see the film!
What most ecologists mean about future dangers refer only to humans. Plants, animals and the complete ecosystem should surely endure anything. As has been happening since the begining of time.
I guess that instead of plastic, they use hemp
At this time of the Klingon history, when receiving a message from planet Earth is like calling them to come and kill us all!
People should see more about the Klingon history before doing a Klingon opera and inviting them to Earth now at the XXI century!
Knowing the future seems to be no way of avoiding it...
As in other communication media, in some countries, school teachers have a main interest in recommending certain powerful brands.
But the interest is not related to the content, but to bonus that would pay them some extra cash.
Who is Gartner?
Perhaps, you meant Garfield...
So, now they'll need another revolution to overcome porn.
(richer burocrats)
Yeah, Ubuntu should pay some reporters for speaking well of it...
It seems that some poliglot hackers succeded in finding where was the WW1 mortal german joke burried.
The translator team is very worried about laughing at their part of the text...
They surely got inspired with the animated film Matrix Renaisance. At least, there is now a reason to keep most of our race alive...
Do not loose hope!
There is still:
Stone Trek(fun)
# Picard was also Magneto (the head of the evil Mutants). ;) in his shop (sorry) ship.
# He only admited Kirk's beloved nurse to work as a computer voice
Thanks god we are now having all that SCI-Fi nonsense aside and working on what matters:
The new army has arrived!
These people are willing to bring peace to all their universe!
Dump away all those hippies!
And let's EXTERMINATE every terrorist that might still be daring to boldly go, where this new generation is!