So, if all electronic voting systems were required to use Open Source software, the voters' right to vote would be returned. The U.S. would have electronic voting systems that enabled public scrutiny, and the ability to detect all but the most sophisticated undetectable manipulation of the vote count. Such a requirement would send those who might want to control our elections back to the drawing board. But, knowing that, one has to wonder why we chose to ignore the Australian approach, and instead, put a system in place that guarantees crude but undetectable manipulation of the vote count will be almost automatic. Not to mention the obscene costs to taxpayers to purchase proprietary voting machines.
We could add the topic of what Bush thinks about wiping out the borrowed debt that Social Security has now with the government. I think that money is due here, pretty soon, and Bush probably wants to get out of having to pay back. What better way, than to reform the system, and leave the taxpayers high and dry, eh?
Of course she does. The license is good unto perpetuity! Once the megacorps recognize this, we'll see a lot of embracing going on. We'll also see a lot of nonsense as they attempt to manipulate the license to suit their needs.
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HELLO! Anyone home, there? Haven't you heard about the 10,000 plus live concerts on www.archive.org? What about commoncontent.org, or our site, SONG STORM? What about using gnomoradio.org to get at a world of legal music? And, believe it or not, you get to do all of the above stuff you mentioned, right now, today. Those Independent Artists are all out there on the web. Go Get 'EM! . . .. and stop whining. Tom
Pipe Dream? I doubt it. Consider that if any government decided the time has come to stop perpetuating the myth that drug research can only be done by outsourcing R&D to private companies, it would take one low-cost Operations Control Center to monitor all the many tens of thousands of human clinical trials going on at any given moment. Remember, when the data speaks for itself, decisions come far easier, than the present system, which will not permit monitoring of trials by the FDA, or any other governmental agency. There's ample evidence that literally millions of lives are needlessly destroyed each year under the present system. The time has come, and Open Source/nonproprietary clinical research data collection systems should be the standard, not the myth. Tom
The premise for any proposal that promises musicians be paid for every download, seems missplaced. It's the Digital Age, stupid - - - - a mantra that must be repeated 1000 times anyone thinks BMI/ASCAP offer even a remotely legitimate role in our society.
Performance rights can easily be handled through Digital Age Fan Clubs, who better, right? Time for ASCAP/BMI/RIAA/MPAA to disappear. Musicians are doing just fine, thank you.
The Internet is the independent musicians' radio. Why take it away by imposing old business models on it? Tom
Well, maybe we need to remember, we're in the Digital Age. The default is, in reality, back to Public Domain, and you just add restrictions to that, rather than the other way around, like RIAA thinks.
Use Creative Commons, perpetual Public Domain with restrictions, load your works on the Internet, and go. No need to pay any attention to corporate interests. Just do your own thing. It's called getting a piece of the action that now goes to the corporate jerks.
2004 is the year every musician and artist gets introduced to their very own sub $400 high quality recording studio. That includes their very own high quality DVD recording studio. That includes Creative Commons licenses exploding across the Internet. That includes the RIAA taking one very big DUMP!
Look for audacity and cinelerra to rise to the killer app level in a few weeks. Now, that changes our lives a lot, doesn't it?
No more RIAA. Independent musicians that offer their music free. It's the new game in town. Good music, buy the deluxe CD's, support the independent artist by attending concerts, tours, purchase recording merchandise, help them police performance rights.
The money only goes to a handful of famous "singers".
I doubt it. In fact, I say flat out, they never see a penny. In fact, the singers are charged enormous sums of money to get on the "list" to receive money they'll never see a penny of. In fact, the singers are then tossed to the garbage if they complain that they're paying enormous sums of money to get on the "list" to receive money they'll never see a penny of.
Time to leave the world of RIAA/MPAA and move to independent artists, I say.
We're looking to January, 2004 launch: http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording /php/test homeplaylist.php SONG STORM, where artists, listeners and Internet Stations gather on the Commons.
If there are hundreds of thousands of independent artists, music that is original, and as good or lots better, why not move on?
A special event suggestion: Set a week or two, where every webcaster, college station, public radio station on the Internet, plays only those artists that do not demand royalties. Let's see if we don't have a huge pool of songs, artists, and stations that can come out of this event, with audiences that are bigger and more loyal than what is taking place with the RIAA nonsense.
I suggest we do it the second or third week of January, 2004, as SONG STORM is set to launch on January 15, 2004. hint. hint.
Anyone like this idea? Let me know, so I can help.tompoe@studioforrecording.org
My advice. Keep it simple. Election officials and voluntary groups will assure security. The key is public scrutiny. Just record the vote, and the checksum, and let the paper ballot do its' thing. Remember, the argument that the paper ballot is expensive, is a red herring.
Let us know when you have something. We'll help test out here in Reno. And, think about putting it on Sourceforge. Irritate the hell out of the crooks.
Or, better yet, give up the RIAA habit. Independent artists give you more for less, make it easy to listen, and leaves the RIAA sucking wind.
We're having a Farewell to the RIAA party at the Burning Man Festival in 2005. Why don't you sign the pledge? http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording /php/test homeplaylist.php and scroll down to the link.
Maybe filesharing can restrict RIAA to one channel, and non-RIAA to another channel? Maybe, just maybe, there will be a day, when independent artists are indexed on web sites, people begin to "discover" music that's as good or better than the RIAA stuff, and then, at some point, we'll see more people moving to fan clubs, and merchandise and supporting independent artists, and using p2p products that assure non-RIAA music. Don't write your Congressman, write your p2p company, and ask them for their non-RIAA music application.
I hope you realize that, unless the voter has a paper printout of their ballot, and places it in a box to be counted, there is absolutely no way to detect fraud. http://www.blackboxvoting.org for starters. I think EFF http://www.eff.org has some info as well.
Why do you think Bush and Gang are so excited about the 2004 elections? The Help America Vote Act is his free ticket. Who's free ticket is India's?
I give my money to DARPA's bookie, Poindexter, betting that terrorist act happens in six months. On month five, day 30, Poindexter throws a jar out the window with gasoline and a burning rag in it. Terrorist act complete. My money goes where? Whose pocket?
It's the only way to bring our Right To Vote into the Digital Age. Proprietary precludes voter verification, voting system subject to public scrutiny. Take away voter verification [ballot in a box] and hand-counted recount capability, and there's absolutely no reason, whatsoever, to bother going to the voting booth. Of course, Bush knew that when he rammed the Help America Vote Act of 2002 down our throats. Open Studios is using the local access tv station facilities to make a tv show about Our Right To Vote. Hope a lot of others do too, or at least get a copy of ours to show in their community.
Well, you said it. The studios sit in front of the U.S. Congress, and hype how the CBDTPA, CTEA, DMCA, are needed in order to stimulate creativity and innovation. The biggest of the Technology Industry think likewise, as it makes no difference to them whether creative and innovative products benefit the general public, or serve the whims of the Entertainment Industry Cartel. Oooops. We shouldn't be calling them a Cartel, otherwise the U.S. Congress would be guilty of contributing, of co-conspiracy, or is that co-con and piracy?
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So, if all electronic voting systems were required to use Open Source software, the voters' right to vote would be returned. The U.S. would have electronic voting systems that enabled public scrutiny, and the ability to detect all but the most sophisticated undetectable manipulation of the vote count. Such a requirement would send those who might want to control our elections back to the drawing board. But, knowing that, one has to wonder why we chose to ignore the Australian approach, and instead, put a system in place that guarantees crude but undetectable manipulation of the vote count will be almost automatic. Not to mention the obscene costs to taxpayers to purchase proprietary voting machines.
We could add the topic of what Bush thinks about wiping out the borrowed debt that Social Security has now with the government. I think that money is due here, pretty soon, and Bush probably wants to get out of having to pay back. What better way, than to reform the system, and leave the taxpayers high and dry, eh?
Of course she does. The license is good unto perpetuity! Once the megacorps recognize this, we'll see a lot of embracing going on. We'll also see a lot of nonsense as they attempt to manipulate the license to suit their needs.
HELLO! Anyone home, there? Haven't you heard about the 10,000 plus live concerts on www.archive.org? What about commoncontent.org, or our site, SONG STORM? What about using gnomoradio.org to get at a world of legal music? And, believe it or not, you get to do all of the above stuff you mentioned, right now, today. Those Independent Artists are all out there on the web. Go Get 'EM! . . . .
and stop whining.
Tom
Pipe Dream? I doubt it. Consider that if any government decided the time has come to stop perpetuating the myth that drug research can only be done by outsourcing R&D to private companies, it would take one low-cost Operations Control Center to monitor all the many tens of thousands of human clinical trials going on at any given moment. Remember, when the data speaks for itself, decisions come far easier, than the present system, which will not permit monitoring of trials by the FDA, or any other governmental agency. There's ample evidence that literally millions of lives are needlessly destroyed each year under the present system. The time has come, and Open Source/nonproprietary clinical research data collection systems should be the standard, not the myth.
Tom
The premise for any proposal that promises musicians be paid for every download, seems missplaced. It's the Digital Age, stupid - - - - a mantra that must be repeated 1000 times anyone thinks BMI/ASCAP offer even a remotely legitimate role in our society.
Performance rights can easily be handled through Digital Age Fan Clubs, who better, right? Time for ASCAP/BMI/RIAA/MPAA to disappear. Musicians are doing just fine, thank you.
The Internet is the independent musicians' radio. Why take it away by imposing old business models on it?
Tom
Well, maybe we need to remember, we're in the Digital Age. The default is, in reality, back to Public Domain, and you just add restrictions to that, rather than the other way around, like RIAA thinks.
Use Creative Commons, perpetual Public Domain with restrictions, load your works on the Internet, and go. No need to pay any attention to corporate interests. Just do your own thing. It's called getting a piece of the action that now goes to the corporate jerks.
2004 is the year every musician and artist gets introduced to their very own sub $400 high quality recording studio. That includes their very own high quality DVD recording studio. That includes Creative Commons licenses exploding across the Internet. That includes the RIAA taking one very big DUMP!
Look for audacity and cinelerra to rise to the killer app level in a few weeks. Now, that changes our lives a lot, doesn't it?
It's a bit late, but you might want to starting attacking.
Solution: Walk away. Just walk away.
No more RIAA. Independent musicians that offer their music free. It's the new game in town. Good music, buy the deluxe CD's, support the independent artist by attending concerts, tours, purchase recording merchandise, help them police performance rights.
Just walk away.
The money only goes to a handful of famous "singers".
I doubt it. In fact, I say flat out, they never see a penny. In fact, the singers are charged enormous sums of money to get on the "list" to receive money they'll never see a penny of. In fact, the singers are then tossed to the garbage if they complain that they're paying enormous sums of money to get on the "list" to receive money they'll never see a penny of.
Time to leave the world of RIAA/MPAA and move to independent artists, I say.
What was the question, again?
Do you think this might work?
g /php/test homeplaylist.php
We're looking to January, 2004 launch:
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecordin
SONG STORM, where artists, listeners and Internet Stations gather on the Commons.
If there are hundreds of thousands of independent artists, music that is original, and as good or lots better, why not move on?
A special event suggestion: Set a week or two, where every webcaster, college station, public radio station on the Internet, plays only those artists that do not demand royalties. Let's see if we don't have a huge pool of songs, artists, and stations that can come out of this event, with audiences that are bigger and more loyal than what is taking place with the RIAA nonsense.
I suggest we do it the second or third week of January, 2004, as SONG STORM is set to launch on January 15, 2004. hint. hint.
Anyone like this idea? Let me know, so I can help.tompoe@studioforrecording.org
My advice. Keep it simple. Election officials and voluntary groups will assure security. The key is public scrutiny. Just record the vote, and the checksum, and let the paper ballot do its' thing. Remember, the argument that the paper ballot is expensive, is a red herring.
Let us know when you have something. We'll help test out here in Reno. And, think about putting it on Sourceforge. Irritate the hell out of the crooks.
Diebold, as I understand it, is one of the major suppliers of ATM's in India.
Hi, how do you feel about webcasting?
Or, better yet, give up the RIAA habit. Independent artists give you more for less, make it easy to listen, and leaves the RIAA sucking wind.
g /php/test homeplaylist.php and scroll down to the link.
We're having a Farewell to the RIAA party at the Burning Man Festival in 2005. Why don't you sign the pledge?
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecordin
Maybe filesharing can restrict RIAA to one channel, and non-RIAA to another channel? Maybe, just maybe, there will be a day, when independent artists are indexed on web sites, people begin to "discover" music that's as good or better than the RIAA stuff, and then, at some point, we'll see more people moving to fan clubs, and merchandise and supporting independent artists, and using p2p products that assure non-RIAA music. Don't write your Congressman, write your p2p company, and ask them for their non-RIAA music application.
I hope you realize that, unless the voter has a paper printout of their ballot, and places it in a box to be counted, there is absolutely no way to detect fraud. http://www.blackboxvoting.org for starters. I think EFF http://www.eff.org has some info as well.
Why do you think Bush and Gang are so excited about the 2004 elections? The Help America Vote Act is his free ticket. Who's free ticket is India's?
Forgive my ignorance, or don't. . . . .
I give my money to DARPA's bookie, Poindexter, betting that terrorist act happens in six months. On month five, day 30, Poindexter throws a jar out the window with gasoline and a burning rag in it. Terrorist act complete. My money goes where? Whose pocket?
Are you saying I can phone my bet in, using Poindexter's phone number? Hmmmmm. Where's that see what Poindexter's doing site?
It's the only way to bring our Right To Vote into the Digital Age. Proprietary precludes voter verification, voting system subject to public scrutiny. Take away voter verification [ballot in a box] and hand-counted recount capability, and there's absolutely no reason, whatsoever, to bother going to the voting booth. Of course, Bush knew that when he rammed the Help America Vote Act of 2002 down our throats. Open Studios is using the local access tv station facilities to make a tv show about Our Right To Vote. Hope a lot of others do too, or at least get a copy of ours to show in their community.
Hi: Nope. His email is down. Won't permit receipt.
Are these guys idiots or what? Classless idiots.
Thanks,
Tom Poe
Reno, NV
Well, you said it. The studios sit in front of the U.S. Congress, and hype how the CBDTPA, CTEA, DMCA, are needed in order to stimulate creativity and innovation. The biggest of the Technology Industry think likewise, as it makes no difference to them whether creative and innovative products benefit the general public, or serve the whims of the Entertainment Industry Cartel. Oooops. We shouldn't be calling them a Cartel, otherwise the U.S. Congress would be guilty of contributing, of co-conspiracy, or is that co-con and piracy?
Thanks,
Tom Poe
Reno, NV
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
http://renotahoe.pm.org/