I think that MORE money should go to public TV (and radio)
I think that maybe one fourth of all TV stations in this country should be owned and operated by the taxpayers. I think that the number of available channels for commercial use should be immediately frozen. Maybe if all of this were to happen we would have a real media system in this country. Maybe then petitioning the government to change things would be a viable idea.
The Catch 22 is that the only way to do that is to get people to realize what's going on so they support real public services,but without decent public media in place...they never will.......
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Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies-Isabelle Eberhardt
Masterpiece Theater is now Mobil Exxon Masterpiece Theater. Just as rush hour on NPR is brought to you by GE, so is PBS brought to you by the number one (after the merger) Fortune 500 company. These institutions have not been PUBLIC in a long damn time. They got annexed a long time ago by corporate interest for the sake of public relations.
Sometimes there is good programing available on cable channels (I like Annenberg stuff) but cable is not free therefore not public.
The U.S. Army created the internet (last I checked the Army was funded with tax dollars, actually the Pentagon is getting about 1/6th of the budget this year) but we all still pay for internet access.
Wake the hell up.
Corporations are a virus.
When attatched to a host body they infect white blood cell$.
The white blood cells then divert proteins from the red blood cells to the virus.
After a certain point the host organs are all under the effect of the infection and the host begins to seek other bodies to infect.
Is there a doctor in the house?
http://www.powerup.com.au/~vampire/thing/thing.h tm
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Criminal Law=victims with injury (Score:2, Interesting)
by ip4noman (ip4noman@ i p 4 n o m a n . o r g) on Saturday April 07, @11:52AM EST (#76)
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Implict in this case is a troubling concept. But if you follow the mental experiment, it could shake some fundamental principles of how the Western economy works.
(snip)
Now this brings up a question: What is the name of the victim? Is it Intel Corportation? Can a corporation be a crime victim? And the nature of the injury? Certainly a person can receive a broken arm, or loss of life, but how exactly can a corporation be injured?
You see, corporations are defined under the law as an "Artifical Person" for these reasons:
"persons" can own property,
"persons" have rights,
"persons" can engage in contracts,
"persons" can sue and be sued, and presumably
"persons" can be injured, "persons" can be crime victims
I personally question the notion that these "artifical persons", or "corpses" as Dave Ratcliffe calls them, these human constructions which own most of the property in America, which have more political clout than any natural person, which have more financial resources than any of us, I question whether these soulless abstractions without a moral consciousness can be considered an honorable creature (honor is requirement to being a party to a contract). I question what it means for a corporation to own land or TV stations, and wonder where the present system will take us. I especially question the notion that corporations can be injured, or can be crime victims.
(snip)
Slashdot Mirror
Zounds.
I must not be on the up and up. Does this mean that digital TVs can only recieve digital or something? I'm not sure I get this...
I think that MORE money should go to public TV (and radio) I think that maybe one fourth of all TV stations in this country should be owned and operated by the taxpayers. I think that the number of available channels for commercial use should be immediately frozen. Maybe if all of this were to happen we would have a real media system in this country. Maybe then petitioning the government to change things would be a viable idea. The Catch 22 is that the only way to do that is to get people to realize what's going on so they support real public services,but without decent public media in place...they never will....... ---- Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies-Isabelle Eberhardt
Masterpiece Theater is now Mobil Exxon Masterpiece Theater. Just as rush hour on NPR is brought to you by GE, so is PBS brought to you by the number one (after the merger) Fortune 500 company. These institutions have not been PUBLIC in a long damn time. They got annexed a long time ago by corporate interest for the sake of public relations. Sometimes there is good programing available on cable channels (I like Annenberg stuff) but cable is not free therefore not public. The U.S. Army created the internet (last I checked the Army was funded with tax dollars, actually the Pentagon is getting about 1/6th of the budget this year) but we all still pay for internet access. Wake the hell up.
Corporations are a virus.h tm
When attatched to a host body they infect white blood cell$.
The white blood cells then divert proteins from the red blood cells to the virus.
After a certain point the host organs are all under the effect of the infection and the host begins to seek other bodies to infect.
Is there a doctor in the house?
http://www.powerup.com.au/~vampire/thing/thing.
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Criminal Law=victims with injury (Score:2, Interesting)
by ip4noman (ip4noman@ i p 4 n o m a n . o r g) on Saturday April 07, @11:52AM EST (#76)
(User #263310 Info) http://www.ip4noman.org
Implict in this case is a troubling concept. But if you follow the mental experiment, it could shake some fundamental principles of how the Western economy works.
(snip)
Now this brings up a question: What is the name of the victim? Is it Intel Corportation? Can a corporation be a crime victim? And the nature of the injury? Certainly a person can receive a broken arm, or loss of life, but how exactly can a corporation be injured?
You see, corporations are defined under the law as an "Artifical Person" for these reasons:
"persons" can own property,
"persons" have rights,
"persons" can engage in contracts,
"persons" can sue and be sued, and presumably
"persons" can be injured, "persons" can be crime victims
I personally question the notion that these "artifical persons", or "corpses" as Dave Ratcliffe calls them, these human constructions which own most of the property in America, which have more political clout than any natural person, which have more financial resources than any of us, I question whether these soulless abstractions without a moral consciousness can be considered an honorable creature (honor is requirement to being a party to a contract). I question what it means for a corporation to own land or TV stations, and wonder where the present system will take us. I especially question the notion that corporations can be injured, or can be crime victims.
(snip)