That's the plan...The authorities will always have "probable cause", making you subject to arbitrary search and seizure, and of course, arrest. Nice convenient end run around the 4th amendment, for those of you keeping score. That's what you and your neighbors vote for every two years. So it doesn't leave much room for complaint, does it? Democracy at work...Turn off American Idol, and think about it for ten seconds.
Can you feel me now??? HAHAHAHA!!! Bend over, you're mine, baby!
Nothing to be said that hasn't been said already. Depending who you are, the system works, or it doesn't. For those of you that are getting screwed, you should at least get dinner and a movie out of the deal...And I would expect a kiss, too.
Noooo, not at all. I'm all for the death penalty. Let's finish this once and for all. Oh, wait, the death penalty won't fill the prisons. Ok life is good enough. The economy needs all the help it can get.
YES! It was designed to inflame(engorge?) passion, and that other thing. After all, what's dirty, filthy sex without lots of hot, steamy passion? AND, as demonstrated by the powers that be, passion is what gets out the vote. You damn kids should be grateful for the flamebaiters of the world, otherwise you would still dragging ox carts behind you and throwing your poop out into the streets. And you'd like it! Works much better than those silly things like logic and reason. That stuff is boooring. If you want to win at all costs, you must fight fire with fire. You must provoke the instinct. You have to wake up the beast. Kick the dog until he bites back. No, wait, you must offer the nice doggy a treat, then whack him on the head until he submits.
And furthermore, we old farts don't want just landlines, we want our morse code and telegraph back, dagburnit!
You were modded unfairly. You've pretty much hit it. They can't handle the truth. I'm watching from the outside, and that's exactly the way I and many others see it also. Crumbling, extremely fragile infrastructure accompanied by corrupt government, getting more so by the week. Authoritarian airlines with deteriorating service and nasty "let them eat cake"* attitude. Any complaints will put you on the no fly list, or at the very least subject to more extensive frisking. And just wait to see what happens to cell phone prices when the landline option is gone. They don't seen to notice though and will be voting for more of the same in 08. I've been speculating over the last few months that they like the abuse. Serious sadomasochism action going on there. "Just relax and enjoy it" is what they tell the victim. Makes me feel all sexy an' stuff. Kinda like "sitting on a big hand".
...the fluoridated water & poisoned, nutrient-free food...
That could very well be it. I was thinking it was the soda pop with the associated sugar and caffeine overdose, but that stuff is consumed worldwide, so you might have something there.
Copyrights are protected internationally by the Berne Convention and other treaties...
Yes, well, I would also encourage Japan, and others, to take the same loose stance with the Berne Convention as the US takes with the Geneva Convention. They can make something up and declare MS to be an "enemy of the people" or some such thing. That should work. After all, if we allow governments to unilaterally ignore these treaties, as some so blatantly do, then to me, we have effectively nullified the treaty, and thus should force a renegotiation. And the Berne Convention should be nullified anyway. It is a business deal, a crooked one at that, a treaty amongst pirates with absolutely no input from those being subject to its conditions, and should be open to much more scrutiny than something that is supposed to protect actual human rights. The Geneva Convention is supposed to protect people from the government. The Berne Convention merely protects corporations from the people. It is virtually a unilateral dictate from the US. They could conceivably use nuclear weapons to protect copyright. And I wouldn't put it past them, when I consider the massive profits at stake. Especially if Li'l Miss Hollywood was to be elected.
To be honest so does Arizona, but it's still a couple of days from Chicago if your traveling less than double the limit. And to be even more honest, it's even better to travel by train. It's the only way to fly. Every bit as nice as a Caribbean cruise. That only thing that really stinks now is using the airlines. All the joy is gone. I never dreamed in all my days that anything could approach the horrors of Greyhound, but there you are. Oh well, as the old saying goes,...you don't know what you've got till its gone.
More so. Dealing with your own business and your own house is much more difficult than simply taking a job and renting an apartment. Self employed means you understand that only you can provide your own security. That's not to disparage the other guys though. They had every reason to expect what they were promised. They were under what was ultimately a mistaken impression that loyalty was a two way street. The new guys, I believe, now know that this just ain't so. So now everybody is hopping around like rabbits in search a better deal. The companies are the same way. An example, I worked at a company that changed owners four times, including a bankruptcy. With less than ten years on the job, I was the most senior guy there. That's includes everybody from the top down. Now, I never expected anything special from them, but I did get a bit upset when the last owners cut back on vacation time and various other benefits. We had to bring in a union to rectify the situation as best we cold. We did manage to grandfather in some of the bennies for me and ten other old timers. But realizing that the company put more value on a 400 dollar an hour lawyer who liked to waste time talking about the old days as a roadie than on providing easily affordable benefits helped set the tone.
So sorry I jumped on your case like that. You are clearly under much better conditions than the US. We have a situation where the government is completely under the control of the industry, and the public is letting it all slide because they believe whatever these snake oil salesmen(or the pharma bimbos in a lab coat) are telling them. It makes everything very frustrating since trying to reason with them is like talking to a brick wall. They are deer in the headlights. Well, thanks for staying with me on this. Showed me a thing or two about keeping a civil tongue:-) BTW I did notice the sarcasm tag, but there are many people who actually believe it. I just felt the need to set the matter as straight as possible.
There's a fundamental tendency for patient to try to solve problems just by eating pills...
I had something similar in 1963. It was a media player that fit in my shirt pocket. Though it had no storage to speak of(none), it played streaming media quite well. And because it was not stereo, I only had to wear one earphone, leaving the other ear open to hear the horn of the car that was about to run me down. We all thought it was pretty nifty.
Will it be possible to defeat any DRM they have built into their cards? I thought they employed Macrovision or something, but can't remember the details.
Is there such a thing anymore in the US? Or did it all disappear with "trickle down"? Is it only in government where you can expect lifetime employment now? I had an Uncle who put in 40 years with the post office. Retired with 95% percent of his pay till he kicks the bucket. Does anybody know anybody who is still working a non government job with the same employer for over 20-25 years? Do they expect any retirement benefits? Will they be able to trust the company to come across with it?
Then it's bad that you didn't get a chance to live in Middle Age or any other place/moment before modern medicine arrived. You could have gotten a so much better life expectancy of...forty years.
If there was a decent sanitation system in place with clean drinking water, and if people would have understood the simple practice of washing their hands, had safe food, weren't breathing the poop thrown into the streets by animals and humans, weren't being assaulted every day by other people, you can bet they would have lived every bit as long as we do now. Big pharma likes to take the credit, and you seem to have fallen into that trap, but I can guarantee you it's a pack of lies. Yeah, the drugs could make it possible to live in filth for a longer time, but that's not why we live longer in general. Those short life spans carry on today in the countries without those basic needs being met, and they can't afford all those fancy drugs either. Now they've become a charity case. The short life spans carried all the way into the 19th century industrialized countries. Getting the animals off the streets and out of the crowded cities(which have always been crowded) by itself did more than any drug has ever done. A little clean up, and the drugs become unnecessary.
The doctors might be under pressure from the patient to give them more drugs. It's because the patient believes the ads he sees. Also the doctors are under intense pressure by the drug companies to push those drugs, so they can recoup their marketing expenses more quickly. There were quite a few stories about that little relationship not too long ago, and it's an old story going back many years. Google for yourself the link between the doctors and the drug companies. They are pushers, the same as heroin dealers. So please, the expenses incurred for lobbying and marketing are much greater than those of actual research. They want that money back, and they want it as quickly as possible. This is one place where people need accurate information, and they are not getting it, from the government, the indebted doctors, and least of all big pharma. To tell the truth, I won't take many of the newer drugs, like commercial software they are rushed to market for quick profit, and they are producing some pretty awful results. Didn't Merck just suffer a minor setback? And I've seeing a whole lot of stories about other drugs, such as the kind they push onto children with "behavioral problems". The patents must be taken away so that people will motivated to cure a disease, not simply to make fast money as the situation is now. It's all about the money. But hey, you got the majority on your side. So they must be right. All I can say is carry on. I'm dropping out. The nearby curanderos will do just fine. I won't put myself into debt just to squeeze out another day in this life, only to spend the rest of it paying off the obligation. That, to me, is slavery, and homey don't do that.
Unfortunately, you may find it rather difficult to get people to agree on a candidate. Try it right here in Slashdot, and you'll see what I mean. What I'm ultimately aiming for is to show the futility of majority rule. I don't like it. It will always put 49% out into the cold. I have been saying this all along. It's perfectly okay for one to give up their own rights as they wish. They will run into big problems when they drag my rights along with them. I have plenty of arguments with folks here who believe everything is just fine because they care not a whit of the consequences they inflict on others. The problem is not the lack of candidates, it's the lack of cooperation amongst all of us. For instance, there are some rights I will never authorize anybody to take away, one of the big ones is the right to travel freely*, the borders must come down, completely, so I've already put what some might consider an unfair limit on available choices. And the fight begins again. However, your suggestion would be better than what we have now. A little more introspection can't hurt. It is necessary to turn our backs on the distractions the authorities create to keep our attention on them. And most people will simply vote reflexively, without a thought in their head, except the hope for some special favors. Ultimately, instinct and conditioning(indoctrination) shall rule the day. That's really what you're up against. You can't fool mother nature.
*one of the most beautiful things about traveling within the states is that you can drive for days without stopping at all except for gas. Nobody to stop you to check your papers. Granted it's been six years, so I don't know the present situation. But if you lose that, then you've lost one of the biggest advantages of being in the states.
Heh, It's a little like the upgrade cycle that software and hardware manufacturers are constantly foisting upon their users. Neat trick. The patent expires and the medicine no longer functions:-)
Also, I would hope that someone as concerned as you would take some steps to minimize their contribution to pollution and oil wars by using a vehicle with minimal oil usage, such as a bicycle.
Heh, I do better than that. I walk virtually everywhere I go. Carrying the bike across the highway is real pain. I actually do make an effort to live close to the source of what ever I need, including my intoxicants. I made a personal commitment never, ever to take a job that would require me to drive. And it has been successful for over 20 years, I'm proud to say. And I will not waver on that no matter what. My license has since expired, and I have no plans to renew. Mainly because I'll never be able to pass the eye test again, but I don't miss it a bit. So, I'm a bit ahead of of you in that department. Soon, the black tubing will go the roof to heat my water, a small windmill will pump it up from the cistern to the tank on the roof. And I will be redirecting the rain water into that cistern. I am walking the walk, okay? Baby step for now, because of limited fundage, but it is happening. Getting off the electrical grid will take a bit more time. But there is a lot of incentive due to the electric company's lack of reliability. All these things can also work on a big scale.
Solving the world's problems starts with each of us.
You never heard me say otherwise. In fact read my posts in the "Happy Wiretap Day, everybody" article. So, since you brought it up, may I assume that you are also making a small commitment? Or are you simply trying to discredit the ideas I brought up with silly comments about some kind of conspiracy which never entered my mind, but you seem to be reading into my post? Vivid imagination you got there. I'll leave the spooks to Tom Clancy and Hollywood.
By the way, I would venture to say that it would be much cheaper to simply pipe in the rainwater than it would be to build the plant. We have pipelines transporting poison all over the planet now. Water should be a piece of cake in comparison. And furthermore those people in the desert are suffering more due to dirty politics and their own corruption, in addition to those outsiders taking what they do have, than any kind of actual inability to do what's necessary to improve their condition. Solving their problems begin with them, not me. If they ask for help, I'll more than happy to do what I can. I make a point of showing the path of least resistance. It is their choice to take it or not. You know, the old "leading the horse to water" thing.
All this gives me plenty of doubt as to the true value of the subject in the article. It's all very nice of them to produce these things, but this one amounts to little more than rich boys and their toys. Us poor folk need not apply...until the rights expire anyway.
That right there will be the biggest single step to making this possible, and cannot be overstated enough. No secrets No licenses to clutter things up. Just put it out there for all to see. It will make many of the other steps easier to get through, like finding prior works and gathering the hard evidence. Very cool piece. Archived locally now. The subject could be applied to many things beyond software. Life in general, for instance.
Yeah, I ran across a few things that confirm that. I'm afraid these ideals have a way of spreading like a virus, and it's starting to show with the kind of people being elected into high office. Freedom is hardly a voting issue these days. It's all being overwhelmed by "I want my tax cut" and "We must hunt down the "terrorists", where ever they hide." They consider the collateral damage to be acceptable. None of this belies the fact that we are responsible for what's happening, and you can see the results on the TV every day. The government isn't putting Bill O'Reilly on a pedestal, we are. He feeds our fears and hate. That's what he's paid to do and the numbers speak volumes
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...think in their long-term best interest.
To mangle a famous phrase: Three months should be long enough for everybody.
...could have you thrown into jail at any moment.
That's the plan...The authorities will always have "probable cause", making you subject to arbitrary search and seizure, and of course, arrest. Nice convenient end run around the 4th amendment, for those of you keeping score. That's what you and your neighbors vote for every two years. So it doesn't leave much room for complaint, does it? Democracy at work...Turn off American Idol, and think about it for ten seconds.
Can you feel me now??? HAHAHAHA!!! Bend over, you're mine, baby!
Nothing to be said that hasn't been said already. Depending who you are, the system works, or it doesn't. For those of you that are getting screwed, you should at least get dinner and a movie out of the deal...And I would expect a kiss, too.
Are you seeing double? :-) There is no "both" parties. There can be only one. Don't be fooled by the soap opera being presented on the screen.
It's about raw passion.
Noooo, not at all. I'm all for the death penalty. Let's finish this once and for all. Oh, wait, the death penalty won't fill the prisons. Ok life is good enough. The economy needs all the help it can get.
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YES! It was designed to inflame(engorge?) passion, and that other thing. After all, what's dirty, filthy sex without lots of hot, steamy passion? AND, as demonstrated by the powers that be, passion is what gets out the vote. You damn kids should be grateful for the flamebaiters of the world, otherwise you would still dragging ox carts behind you and throwing your poop out into the streets. And you'd like it! Works much better than those silly things like logic and reason. That stuff is boooring. If you want to win at all costs, you must fight fire with fire. You must provoke the instinct. You have to wake up the beast. Kick the dog until he bites back. No, wait, you must offer the nice doggy a treat, then whack him on the head until he submits.
And furthermore, we old farts don't want just landlines, we want our morse code and telegraph back, dagburnit!
Ingrates...
You were modded unfairly. You've pretty much hit it. They can't handle the truth. I'm watching from the outside, and that's exactly the way I and many others see it also. Crumbling, extremely fragile infrastructure accompanied by corrupt government, getting more so by the week. Authoritarian airlines with deteriorating service and nasty "let them eat cake"* attitude. Any complaints will put you on the no fly list, or at the very least subject to more extensive frisking. And just wait to see what happens to cell phone prices when the landline option is gone. They don't seen to notice though and will be voting for more of the same in 08. I've been speculating over the last few months that they like the abuse. Serious sadomasochism action going on there. "Just relax and enjoy it" is what they tell the victim. Makes me feel all sexy an' stuff. Kinda like "sitting on a big hand".
...the fluoridated water & poisoned, nutrient-free food...
That could very well be it. I was thinking it was the soda pop with the associated sugar and caffeine overdose, but that stuff is consumed worldwide, so you might have something there.
*If the SOBs would only serve some.
McCarthy holding up an envelope? You mean Carnac, don't you?
Copyrights are protected internationally by the Berne Convention and other treaties...
Yes, well, I would also encourage Japan, and others, to take the same loose stance with the Berne Convention as the US takes with the Geneva Convention. They can make something up and declare MS to be an "enemy of the people" or some such thing. That should work. After all, if we allow governments to unilaterally ignore these treaties, as some so blatantly do, then to me, we have effectively nullified the treaty, and thus should force a renegotiation. And the Berne Convention should be nullified anyway. It is a business deal, a crooked one at that, a treaty amongst pirates with absolutely no input from those being subject to its conditions, and should be open to much more scrutiny than something that is supposed to protect actual human rights. The Geneva Convention is supposed to protect people from the government. The Berne Convention merely protects corporations from the people. It is virtually a unilateral dictate from the US. They could conceivably use nuclear weapons to protect copyright. And I wouldn't put it past them, when I consider the massive profits at stake. Especially if Li'l Miss Hollywood was to be elected.
If Microsoft does try this patent stunt, I hope Japan simply claims eminent domain and puts a quick end to it.
To be honest so does Arizona, but it's still a couple of days from Chicago if your traveling less than double the limit. And to be even more honest, it's even better to travel by train. It's the only way to fly. Every bit as nice as a Caribbean cruise. That only thing that really stinks now is using the airlines. All the joy is gone. I never dreamed in all my days that anything could approach the horrors of Greyhound, but there you are. Oh well, as the old saying goes, ...you don't know what you've got till its gone.
More so. Dealing with your own business and your own house is much more difficult than simply taking a job and renting an apartment. Self employed means you understand that only you can provide your own security. That's not to disparage the other guys though. They had every reason to expect what they were promised. They were under what was ultimately a mistaken impression that loyalty was a two way street. The new guys, I believe, now know that this just ain't so. So now everybody is hopping around like rabbits in search a better deal. The companies are the same way. An example, I worked at a company that changed owners four times, including a bankruptcy. With less than ten years on the job, I was the most senior guy there. That's includes everybody from the top down. Now, I never expected anything special from them, but I did get a bit upset when the last owners cut back on vacation time and various other benefits. We had to bring in a union to rectify the situation as best we cold. We did manage to grandfather in some of the bennies for me and ten other old timers. But realizing that the company put more value on a 400 dollar an hour lawyer who liked to waste time talking about the old days as a roadie than on providing easily affordable benefits helped set the tone.
So sorry I jumped on your case like that. You are clearly under much better conditions than the US. We have a situation where the government is completely under the control of the industry, and the public is letting it all slide because they believe whatever these snake oil salesmen(or the pharma bimbos in a lab coat) are telling them. It makes everything very frustrating since trying to reason with them is like talking to a brick wall. They are deer in the headlights. Well, thanks for staying with me on this. Showed me a thing or two about keeping a civil tongue :-) BTW I did notice the sarcasm tag, but there are many people who actually believe it. I just felt the need to set the matter as straight as possible.
There's a fundamental tendency for patient to try to solve problems just by eating pills...
"Mother's little helper"
TNX
We're gonna be nuked!
How popular was the iPod in 2002?
I had something similar in 1963. It was a media player that fit in my shirt pocket. Though it had no storage to speak of(none), it played streaming media quite well. And because it was not stereo, I only had to wear one earphone, leaving the other ear open to hear the horn of the car that was about to run me down. We all thought it was pretty nifty.
Will it be possible to defeat any DRM they have built into their cards? I thought they employed Macrovision or something, but can't remember the details.
Is there such a thing anymore in the US? Or did it all disappear with "trickle down"? Is it only in government where you can expect lifetime employment now? I had an Uncle who put in 40 years with the post office. Retired with 95% percent of his pay till he kicks the bucket. Does anybody know anybody who is still working a non government job with the same employer for over 20-25 years? Do they expect any retirement benefits? Will they be able to trust the company to come across with it?
Yeah the truth can get pretty ugly. Can't have you see any of that.
Then it's bad that you didn't get a chance to live in Middle Age or any other place/moment before modern medicine arrived. You could have gotten a so much better life expectancy of...forty years.
If there was a decent sanitation system in place with clean drinking water, and if people would have understood the simple practice of washing their hands, had safe food, weren't breathing the poop thrown into the streets by animals and humans, weren't being assaulted every day by other people, you can bet they would have lived every bit as long as we do now. Big pharma likes to take the credit, and you seem to have fallen into that trap, but I can guarantee you it's a pack of lies. Yeah, the drugs could make it possible to live in filth for a longer time, but that's not why we live longer in general. Those short life spans carry on today in the countries without those basic needs being met, and they can't afford all those fancy drugs either. Now they've become a charity case. The short life spans carried all the way into the 19th century industrialized countries. Getting the animals off the streets and out of the crowded cities(which have always been crowded) by itself did more than any drug has ever done. A little clean up, and the drugs become unnecessary.
The doctors might be under pressure from the patient to give them more drugs. It's because the patient believes the ads he sees. Also the doctors are under intense pressure by the drug companies to push those drugs, so they can recoup their marketing expenses more quickly. There were quite a few stories about that little relationship not too long ago, and it's an old story going back many years. Google for yourself the link between the doctors and the drug companies. They are pushers, the same as heroin dealers. So please, the expenses incurred for lobbying and marketing are much greater than those of actual research. They want that money back, and they want it as quickly as possible. This is one place where people need accurate information, and they are not getting it, from the government, the indebted doctors, and least of all big pharma. To tell the truth, I won't take many of the newer drugs, like commercial software they are rushed to market for quick profit, and they are producing some pretty awful results. Didn't Merck just suffer a minor setback? And I've seeing a whole lot of stories about other drugs, such as the kind they push onto children with "behavioral problems". The patents must be taken away so that people will motivated to cure a disease, not simply to make fast money as the situation is now. It's all about the money. But hey, you got the majority on your side. So they must be right. All I can say is carry on. I'm dropping out. The nearby curanderos will do just fine. I won't put myself into debt just to squeeze out another day in this life, only to spend the rest of it paying off the obligation. That, to me, is slavery, and homey don't do that.
Unfortunately, you may find it rather difficult to get people to agree on a candidate. Try it right here in Slashdot, and you'll see what I mean. What I'm ultimately aiming for is to show the futility of majority rule. I don't like it. It will always put 49% out into the cold. I have been saying this all along. It's perfectly okay for one to give up their own rights as they wish. They will run into big problems when they drag my rights along with them. I have plenty of arguments with folks here who believe everything is just fine because they care not a whit of the consequences they inflict on others. The problem is not the lack of candidates, it's the lack of cooperation amongst all of us. For instance, there are some rights I will never authorize anybody to take away, one of the big ones is the right to travel freely*, the borders must come down, completely, so I've already put what some might consider an unfair limit on available choices. And the fight begins again. However, your suggestion would be better than what we have now. A little more introspection can't hurt. It is necessary to turn our backs on the distractions the authorities create to keep our attention on them. And most people will simply vote reflexively, without a thought in their head, except the hope for some special favors. Ultimately, instinct and conditioning(indoctrination) shall rule the day. That's really what you're up against. You can't fool mother nature.
*one of the most beautiful things about traveling within the states is that you can drive for days without stopping at all except for gas. Nobody to stop you to check your papers. Granted it's been six years, so I don't know the present situation. But if you lose that, then you've lost one of the biggest advantages of being in the states.
Heh, It's a little like the upgrade cycle that software and hardware manufacturers are constantly foisting upon their users. Neat trick. The patent expires and the medicine no longer functions :-)
Also, I would hope that someone as concerned as you would take some steps to minimize their contribution to pollution and oil wars by using a vehicle with minimal oil usage, such as a bicycle.
Heh, I do better than that. I walk virtually everywhere I go. Carrying the bike across the highway is real pain. I actually do make an effort to live close to the source of what ever I need, including my intoxicants. I made a personal commitment never, ever to take a job that would require me to drive. And it has been successful for over 20 years, I'm proud to say. And I will not waver on that no matter what. My license has since expired, and I have no plans to renew. Mainly because I'll never be able to pass the eye test again, but I don't miss it a bit. So, I'm a bit ahead of of you in that department. Soon, the black tubing will go the roof to heat my water, a small windmill will pump it up from the cistern to the tank on the roof. And I will be redirecting the rain water into that cistern. I am walking the walk, okay? Baby step for now, because of limited fundage, but it is happening. Getting off the electrical grid will take a bit more time. But there is a lot of incentive due to the electric company's lack of reliability. All these things can also work on a big scale.
Solving the world's problems starts with each of us.
You never heard me say otherwise. In fact read my posts in the "Happy Wiretap Day, everybody" article. So, since you brought it up, may I assume that you are also making a small commitment? Or are you simply trying to discredit the ideas I brought up with silly comments about some kind of conspiracy which never entered my mind, but you seem to be reading into my post? Vivid imagination you got there. I'll leave the spooks to Tom Clancy and Hollywood.
By the way, I would venture to say that it would be much cheaper to simply pipe in the rainwater than it would be to build the plant. We have pipelines transporting poison all over the planet now. Water should be a piece of cake in comparison. And furthermore those people in the desert are suffering more due to dirty politics and their own corruption, in addition to those outsiders taking what they do have, than any kind of actual inability to do what's necessary to improve their condition. Solving their problems begin with them, not me. If they ask for help, I'll more than happy to do what I can. I make a point of showing the path of least resistance. It is their choice to take it or not. You know, the old "leading the horse to water" thing.
All this gives me plenty of doubt as to the true value of the subject in the article. It's all very nice of them to produce these things, but this one amounts to little more than rich boys and their toys. Us poor folk need not apply...until the rights expire anyway.
That right there will be the biggest single step to making this possible, and cannot be overstated enough. No secrets No licenses to clutter things up. Just put it out there for all to see. It will make many of the other steps easier to get through, like finding prior works and gathering the hard evidence. Very cool piece. Archived locally now. The subject could be applied to many things beyond software. Life in general, for instance.
Yeah, I ran across a few things that confirm that. I'm afraid these ideals have a way of spreading like a virus, and it's starting to show with the kind of people being elected into high office. Freedom is hardly a voting issue these days. It's all being overwhelmed by "I want my tax cut" and "We must hunt down the "terrorists", where ever they hide." They consider the collateral damage to be acceptable. None of this belies the fact that we are responsible for what's happening, and you can see the results on the TV every day. The government isn't putting Bill O'Reilly on a pedestal, we are. He feeds our fears and hate. That's what he's paid to do and the numbers speak volumes