More sympathetic view of Marx.
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I'm not sure what it is about Jon Katz that would make him explicitly, or even implicitly, socialist or Marxist. Marx was a strong humanist who believed that matching people with meaningful work would free people's abilities to create art, music, and an overall joyful & just society, which is quite different from the assertion of the author of this book, to which Katz seems sympathetic, that people should spend more time at jobs which are only semi-meaningful.
Ayn Rand was certainly a prolific writer, but I'm not sure that reading what she wrote would save anyone's mind, even if she did advocate for personal responsibility, which is always healthy. Saving people's minds is more what professional psychological help is for, donch'a think? Dogma has never made me more sane.
Lookout! Records, which produce some of the best punk bands ever, 4AD, which does dead can dance, and On Her Own, which is Ani DiFranco's label, are not a part of RIAA, I don't think.
Support your local scene! Buy independent music!
Okay, my company has standardized on Debian for all servers and many desktop machines. We support the Debian project through time, through participation, and through use. Debian is good specifically for its good packaging system, and its emphasis on open source software. However, many of the packages I like are non-free. This includes especially Netscape and Pine. Without the advantages of having these packages available via apt , my company would probably stop using Debian and quite possibly move on to BSD. Debian fulfills this neat need for an intelligent and very configurable system with convenient package management. RPM based systems are inconvenient and kludgy by comparison, and Slackware is absolutely archaic. Debian should, for the sake of the open source community, keep non-free in order that more people might use Linux! This is how Debian can best serve the community.
The difference between print and the web are plenty. While the paralells are workable for a great many situations, and the legal standard is probably similar, there are practical real-world reasons why speech on the Internet is different than what goes into print.
For the sake of this discussion, which I appreciate, let's suppose that this kid had printed up a flyer with the same and made it freely available everywhere in town. I will do a brief comparison.
Here is my list of practical differences between the situations:
Few kids the age of this one have the money or the time to publish and distribute extensively a list of embarassing bullshit in print. Anyone can do this using the Internet.
People are pretty used to kids writing in print modestly brain-dead insults against each other and teachers. For some reason, however, when something gets put on the Internet, it's a big deal.
Putting things on the Internet has a certain novelty that garners attention. Uneducated Internet users (and that's most Internet users) tend to think that the Internet is really amazingly good (Ecommerce) or amazingly bad (Columbine); however, they do not imbue print media with the same inherent qualities. Print media is neither good nor bad, and people judge what they read carefully. No one cares about porn in print, but when it hit the Internet, they tried to pass the CDA.
Because more people have access to publication on the Internet, the communication is less formal than it is in the New York Times. It is more like an in-person conversation than it is print.
If this guy published this stuff in print, no one would have given it any credence. But because he put it on the web, people suddenly are unable to be reasonable adults who can sort good information from bullshit.
In short, I don't think this guy would have been bothered if he had done what he did in print, but it's obvious that what he did on the web got him in some deep shit. That's the difference: publishing moderately libelious statements on paper will not often be prosecuted, but publishing on the web will get you in deep shit.
print=okay web=panties in a wad
My college, Warren Wilson College, took away my web access because I wrote some mildly unsavory things about their institution. If I had merely written a parody of the school's admission materials and then printed it, no one would have cared.
"Another big problem is that the higher up on the "elite knowledge food chain" you are, the harder it seems to be to communicate with those in need of training. I have found that the commercial products like Microsoft and Allaire have better documentation and teaching tools than anything from the open source movement"
I'm sorry, but what you've said doesn't entirely jibe right with my experience. Microsoft and Allaire have documentation that makes it hard for administrators and educated users to get work done. Microsoft hides all of the information I need to help my desktop users, and Allaire refuses to answer questions about important things like how it stores encrypted strings. My company has lost a fruck load of money because of Allaire's poor documentation and unwillingness to make needed information available to its customers.
i think that the bsa is full of crap. they put out ads comparing copying software to shoplifting. the problem is that they are wrongly identifying the criminals.
the real crime is making a profit from leveraging shitty software onto people.
you can program almost any infared device to do th
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Almost any infared device can be programmed to act as a remote for any number of devices, including, but not limited to, cd players, lights, whatever.
A friend of mine programmed his graphing calculator to replace our remote control, and he also made it so that it would control a bunch of other devices.
(you can mail him: dsummers "at" warren-wilson.edu)
so if they use a radio telescope, that means that someone nearby could sit there, receive everything they transmit, and then put it online as another service.
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I'm not sure what it is about Jon Katz that would make him explicitly, or even implicitly, socialist or Marxist. Marx was a strong humanist who believed that matching people with meaningful work would free people's abilities to create art, music, and an overall joyful & just society, which is quite different from the assertion of the author of this book, to which Katz seems sympathetic, that people should spend more time at jobs which are only semi-meaningful.
Ayn Rand was certainly a prolific writer, but I'm not sure that reading what she wrote would save anyone's mind, even if she did advocate for personal responsibility, which is always healthy. Saving people's minds is more what professional psychological help is for, donch'a think? Dogma has never made me more sane.
Lookout! Records, which produce some of the best punk bands ever, 4AD, which does dead can dance, and On Her Own, which is Ani DiFranco's label, are not a part of RIAA, I don't think. Support your local scene! Buy independent music!
Okay, my company has standardized on Debian for all servers and many desktop machines. We support the Debian project through time, through participation, and through use. Debian is good specifically for its good packaging system, and its emphasis on open source software. However, many of the packages I like are non-free. This includes especially Netscape and Pine. Without the advantages of having these packages available via apt , my company would probably stop using Debian and quite possibly move on to BSD. Debian fulfills this neat need for an intelligent and very configurable system with convenient package management. RPM based systems are inconvenient and kludgy by comparison, and Slackware is absolutely archaic. Debian should, for the sake of the open source community, keep non-free in order that more people might use Linux! This is how Debian can best serve the community.
Without a State to "protect" you, do you fear that either amongst yourself or from some other state's armed forces?
Are you afraid y'all might get pissed off at each other and become physically abusive to each other?
Are you afraid you might be pushed off the island by the paramillitary forces of another nation? Will you arm yourself to prevent this?
Given the lack of legal remedies in Sealand, why do you think companies will trust you to make business contracts?
For the sake of this discussion, which I appreciate, let's suppose that this kid had printed up a flyer with the same and made it freely available everywhere in town. I will do a brief comparison.
Here is my list of practical differences between the situations:
In short, I don't think this guy would have been bothered if he had done what he did in print, but it's obvious that what he did on the web got him in some deep shit. That's the difference: publishing moderately libelious statements on paper will not often be prosecuted, but publishing on the web will get you in deep shit.
print=okay
web=panties in a wad
My college, Warren Wilson College, took away my web access because I wrote some mildly unsavory things about their institution. If I had merely written a parody of the school's admission materials and then printed it, no one would have cared.
"Another big problem is that the higher up on the "elite knowledge food chain" you are,
the harder it seems to be to communicate with those in need of training. I have found
that the commercial products like Microsoft and Allaire have better documentation
and teaching tools than anything from the open source movement"
I'm sorry, but what you've said doesn't entirely jibe right with my experience. Microsoft and Allaire have documentation that makes it hard for administrators and educated users to get work done. Microsoft hides all of the information I need to help my desktop users, and Allaire refuses to answer questions about important things like how it stores encrypted strings. My company has lost a fruck load of money because of Allaire's poor documentation and unwillingness to make needed information available to its customers.
i think that the bsa is full of crap.
they put out ads comparing copying software to shoplifting. the problem is that they are wrongly identifying the criminals.
the real crime is making a profit from leveraging shitty software onto people.
Almost any infared device can be programmed to act as a remote for any number of devices, including, but not limited to, cd players, lights, whatever.
A friend of mine programmed his graphing calculator to replace our remote control, and he also made it so that it would control a bunch of other devices.
(you can mail him: dsummers "at" warren-wilson.edu)
so if they use a radio telescope, that means that someone nearby could sit there, receive everything they transmit, and then put it online as another service.
anyone got friends in sacramento?
s/William/Bill A , but then I realized that he is God.