And that hasn't been seen in any dictatorship in history: "Yes, I have supreme ultimate power, but if you, the puppet parliament, don't like something I've done and decide against it, I'll go with what you want."
The arbitration committee, akin to your example of a parliament, has already issued undying proclomations of fealty to Jimbo. So of course for him it is no big matter to proclaim that he will abide by their decisions.
Fair inasmuch as the consumer can choose the quality/filesize and is not forced to consume what's best for the industry like some cow chewing the cud. $0.10 per song is more inexpensive than $1.00 per song.
You talk about copyright, but what purpose does "copyright" serve in our society? Intended as a device to encourage artistic / engineering commercialization, it has been turned into the monopolizer's weapon of choice.
All Of MP3 offers MP3s ripped using LAME at a variety of bitrates, as well as Ogg, WMA and others. Pricing is very inexpensive and very fair, you pay according to the chosen file size.
For me, the most important issue next to sound fidelity is compatibility. I want to be listening to my MP3s in 20 years time, on a variety of devices. For backwards compatibility, I see the MP3 format as being the one format which will always be supported by every device.
Convergence between small, portable computing devices and small, portable telephones has been occurring for years. Much of the technology is the same, much of the manufacturing is the same, the consumers are the same.
The question is, how much control of our personal information, how much logging and protocolling, how centralized will this convergence become? I would really hate to see the day when most people are emailing, phoning, websurfing and otherwise communicating on a hardware and software platform which comes with user-distrust cryptographically enforced on a TPM module.
Will Wikipedia ever become comercialised?
Is a "Premium" Wikipedia planned for fee paying users? Will advertisements be shown on Wikipedia? Will "Paid Content" be introduced for marketeers?
If not, what steps will be taken to ensure that Wikipedia remains committed to the spirit and goals of free, community contributed copyleft publishing?
Are we talking ASP.Net? Are we talking SQL Server 2005 c# stored procedures gurus? Are we talking J# Nhibernate & Nant wizards? Could we possibly be talking about.NET Portable CLR professionals designing VOIP applications for Windows Mobile 2005?
Honestly, wihtout specifying the phrase ".NET Developers" more precisely the discussion will become meaningless.
My POV: a new college graduatre who can barely create encapsulated objects is not going to be pulling the same money as a Java turned C# enterprise framework analyst who writes the patterns published in those clever books.
Well, "Property is theft", a slogan by whom many regard as the father of anarchism, "Pierre Proudhon." Capitalism is based entirely upon the right of individuals to hold the kind of property which can be used to produce profit. Anarchism is a political ideology which rejects all hierarchy, even the hierarchy which the business owners exert on their workers. To reduce anarchism to "absence of government" is childish, it ignores much of the moral and economic foundation which the 150 year old tradition of modern anarchism is steeped in.
Without the state, capitalism would not, could not exist in any form. The state is required to enforce property laws, to keep the rich rich and the poor poor.
"nowhere has the system of 'non-intervention of the State' ever existed. Everywhere the State has been, and still is, the main pillar and the creator, direct and indirect, of Capitalism and its powers over the masses. Nowhere, since States have grown up, have the masses had the freedom of resisting the oppression by capitalists. . . The state has always interfered in the economic life in favour of the capitalist exploiter. It has always granted him protection in robbery, given aid and support for further enrichment. And it could not be otherwise. To do so was one of the functions -- the chief mission -- of the State." [Kropotkin, Evolution and Environment, pp. 97-8]
Nope.
Anarchism is absence of hierarchy, of rulers. By extension this means no government, and equally it means no capitalism. Try www.infoshop.org for more education.
2) Vodafone was notified by a Reseller, Q-Telecoms, about delays in text message delivery, after which they undertook an ad-hoc analysis. They found the software, supposedly a remotely activated Trojan (how the hell could a Trojan get onto an SMS gateway?), by sheer luck, and then disconnected the computer from the network.
3) The day after (2) the local security manager was discovered dead. "Suicide", don't you know.
4) Ta Nea (http://digital.tanea.gr/) are claiming it was the CIA, since the remote proxy used for collecting data appeared to lie in the vicinity of the American and / or British embassies. How amateurish is that? Their motive was "Anti-Terrorism" before, during and evidently also after the 2004 Olympics, which is no doubt why the list of mobiles being tracked also included those of some prominent, and very very active (if you follow the news about bombs and firebombs at Greek banks and ministries, you'll know what I mean) anarchists (not commies, much more left wing than those boy-scouts).
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Well, I guess we don't share the same concept of legality.
There is a German saying which sums up my point of view: Legal, illegal, scheissegal.
Roughly translated: legal, illegal, don't give a shit.
And that hasn't been seen in any dictatorship in history: "Yes, I have supreme ultimate power, but if you, the puppet parliament, don't like something I've done and decide against it, I'll go with what you want."
I disagree:
Jimbo Wales has ultimate authority on Wikimedia projects, as a foundation issue that is beyond debate.
The arbitration committee, akin to your example of a parliament, has already issued undying proclomations of fealty to Jimbo. So of course for him it is no big matter to proclaim that he will abide by their decisions.
Actions by Jimbo Wales may not be overturned except by appeal to Jimbo.
I mean, is that not the very epitomy of dictatorship?
Fair inasmuch as the consumer can choose the quality/filesize and is not forced to consume what's best for the industry like some cow chewing the cud. $0.10 per song is more inexpensive than $1.00 per song.
You talk about copyright, but what purpose does "copyright" serve in our society? Intended as a device to encourage artistic / engineering commercialization, it has been turned into the monopolizer's weapon of choice.
All Of MP3 offers MP3s ripped using LAME at a variety of bitrates, as well as Ogg, WMA and others. Pricing is very inexpensive and very fair, you pay according to the chosen file size. For me, the most important issue next to sound fidelity is compatibility. I want to be listening to my MP3s in 20 years time, on a variety of devices. For backwards compatibility, I see the MP3 format as being the one format which will always be supported by every device.
Convergence between small, portable computing devices and small, portable telephones has been occurring for years. Much of the technology is the same, much of the manufacturing is the same, the consumers are the same.
The question is, how much control of our personal information, how much logging and protocolling, how centralized will this convergence become? I would really hate to see the day when most people are emailing, phoning, websurfing and otherwise communicating on a hardware and software platform which comes with user-distrust cryptographically enforced on a TPM module.
Will Wikipedia ever become comercialised? Is a "Premium" Wikipedia planned for fee paying users? Will advertisements be shown on Wikipedia? Will "Paid Content" be introduced for marketeers? If not, what steps will be taken to ensure that Wikipedia remains committed to the spirit and goals of free, community contributed copyleft publishing?
Thanks for graciously conceding the point.
Why not count MSIL? It's easy as pie.
Are we talking ASP.Net? Are we talking SQL Server 2005 c# stored procedures gurus? Are we talking J# Nhibernate & Nant wizards? Could we possibly be talking about .NET Portable CLR professionals designing VOIP applications for Windows Mobile 2005?
Honestly, wihtout specifying the phrase ".NET Developers" more precisely the discussion will become meaningless.
My POV: a new college graduatre who can barely create encapsulated objects is not going to be pulling the same money as a Java turned C# enterprise framework analyst who writes the patterns published in those clever books.
Please read this before deciding to continue or abandon the discussion:9 /27/
http://jla.anarchist-platform.org/content/view/22
Without the state, capitalism would not, could not exist in any form. The state is required to enforce property laws, to keep the rich rich and the poor poor.
"nowhere has the system of 'non-intervention of the State' ever existed. Everywhere the State has been, and still is, the main pillar and the creator, direct and indirect, of Capitalism and its powers over the masses. Nowhere, since States have grown up, have the masses had the freedom of resisting the oppression by capitalists. . . The state has always interfered in the economic life in favour of the capitalist exploiter. It has always granted him protection in robbery, given aid and support for further enrichment. And it could not be otherwise. To do so was one of the functions -- the chief mission -- of the State." [Kropotkin, Evolution and Environment, pp. 97-8]
Nope. Anarchism is absence of hierarchy, of rulers. By extension this means no government, and equally it means no capitalism. Try www.infoshop.org for more education.
Some more interesting details:
t ics_371_03/02/2006_172382
1) The software used was developed by Vodafone's major supplier,
Ericsson. It was installed although Vodafone does not own any licenses
to use it.
http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_poli
2) Vodafone was notified by a Reseller, Q-Telecoms, about delays in
text message delivery, after which they undertook an ad-hoc analysis.
They found the software, supposedly a remotely activated Trojan (how
the hell could a Trojan get onto an SMS gateway?), by sheer luck, and
then disconnected the computer from the network.
3) The day after (2) the local security manager was discovered dead.
"Suicide", don't you know.
4) Ta Nea (http://digital.tanea.gr/) are claiming it was the CIA,
since the remote proxy used for collecting data appeared to lie in the
vicinity of the American and / or British embassies. How amateurish is
that? Their motive was "Anti-Terrorism" before, during and evidently
also after the 2004 Olympics, which is no doubt why the list of
mobiles being tracked also included those of some prominent, and very
very active (if you follow the news about bombs and firebombs at Greek
banks and ministries, you'll know what I mean) anarchists (not
commies, much more left wing than those boy-scouts).
So long,
BartPE should do the trick nicely LOL.
...Using anti-copyright arguments to prevent the denunciators from recording the profs "UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton said the university planned to send Jones a letter warning him that faculty hold copyrights to all their course materials and that his campaign encouraged students to violate school policy." Sickening, when copyright law gets used to uphold freedom of speech.