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"Your computer should listen to you, and not some coked up Hollywood fat cat thousands of miles away in Hollywood who decided what you can and can't do with a movie" - Cory Doctorow "The EFF exists, so that your decendents will have the right to know, regardless of where they are on this planet and that if one of them want to say something, he will be able to or she will be able to, and if somebody else wants to hear what that person said, they will be able to, its as simple as that. - John Perry Barlow "To take what is after all a government granted monoploy, that's intended to provide the minimum incentive necessary to produce the largest amount of work and bootstrap that into a right to control how devices are designed, how they're used, what you can do in the privacy of your own home, your own private use of and reuse of material, is bizarre and completely out of step with the historical contours of copyright law" - Cory Doctorow "DRM is technology that is used to make your computer take orders from someone other than you ....... The difference between a utopia and a distopia is whether we control the machines or the machines control us." - Cory Doctorow The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed. - William Gibson If you are not happy with the state of the world then ask yourself Whether in order to secure the future of your individual child or your grandchild, is it enough for you to just buy life insurance for your child or to take out a remainder trust or to pay your child's tuition at a good school, or ask yourself whether perhaps you had better also do something for your child's world as a whole, ask yourself am I wasting all my efforts on behalf of my ind. child, am I throwing away all that money on life ins. and tuition if I don't also invest to make sure that my kids end up in a world worth living in and if you think that something does have to be done for yoru child's world as whole then look yourself in the mirror tonite once again and ask yourself 2 question that italian/jewish partisen soldiers fighting behind nazi lines in ww2 used to ask themselves before taking important decisions ...... if I don't do this then who will do it and if I don't do this now, then when will I do it. - Jarod Diamond (Conservation International remarks - May 2007) The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane - Marcus Aurelius |
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso Technology is not neutral ...could be a force for putting us in more control of our lives and giving us more freedom or it could be a force for giving us less control of our lives and making it easier for people to take away our freedoms - Cory Doctorow (oscon2007) "... so you have the bizarre spectacle of for example, the recording industry, who for the last 50 some years have been giving us sex, drugs, rock and roll and gangster rap and so on, tell us that these terrible computers and the industrialist who created them are corrupting the youth, by teaching them to steal. The people who gave us gangsta' rap are suddenly concerned about the moral character of the people who listen to it" - Cory Doctorow, 2007-11-24, roboexotica 2007 "Santa is a very jolly fellow because he knows where the bad girls live." - Dennis Miller quoted in The Denver Post "....dedicated to smacking the quacks, debunking the bunk, and shedding the light of critical thought and reason into the dark and scary world that is our every day lives." - Swoopy Skepticality Podcast 2/12/2006 |
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