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Sony PCG-C1XS

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:28:00 +0000

The Federal Reserve and Government.

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:46:00 +0000

Open Source Government ?

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:37:00 +0000

Andrew Lahde who earned 866% on his portfolio in the year before the financial crisis was quoted as saying in his farewell letter to the financial industry...

"On the issue of the U.S. Government, I would like to make a modest proposal. First, I point out the obvious flaws, whereby legislation was repeatedly brought forth to Congress over the past eight years, which would have reigned in the predatory lending practices of now mostly defunct institutions. These institutions regularly filled the coffers of both parties in return for voting down all of this legislation designed to protect the common citizen. This is an outrage, yet no one seems to know or care about it. Since Thomas Jefferson and Adam Smith passed, I would argue that there has been a dearth of worthy philosophers in this country, at least ones focused on improving government. Capitalism worked for two hundred years, but times change, and systems become corrupt. George Soros, a man of staggering wealth, has stated that he would like to be remembered as a philosopher. My suggestion is that this great man start and sponsor a forum for great minds to come together to create a new system of government that truly represents the common man’s interest, while at the same time creating rewards great enough to attract the best and brightest minds to serve in government roles without having to rely on corruption to further their interests or lifestyles. This forum could be similar to the one used to create the operating system, Linux, which competes with Microsoft’s near monopoly. I believe there is an answer, but for now the system is clearly broken."

http://www.portfolio.com/html/assets/AndrewLahdeFarewell.pdf

Fairness

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:40:00 +0000

The clear and present danger is the crossroads of law and money. The crossroads of government and constituent, and/or corruption and efficiency/effectiveness. The danger of losing the reality of who Joe the plumber really is. A fundamental of the US economy. Who makes money off the interest of every day life? Intereseting word interest. Who controls interest ? Are the banking and financial industry more corrupt than media?

Phase 3, One World dollar, one world government, one world law. It must be as simple as that.

Own the currency and you own the nation. Who owns yours?

Information/Thought/Knowledge/Ideas dare you say... Memory(Recording/Sharing), should be free, not money. A specific area the 'Feds' or Congress/'Representatives' turn a blind eye. Due strictly to Money. If We're to be a Socialist Nation, Why not be Socialist With these components?

Not sure what I was looking for but this is what I found.

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:08:00 +0000

Motivation
Illusion
Free Downloadable Books
Financial Mess
Google Tutor
Make Money Online
Iraq
I Love this SubNotebook
pierced
Water Walker
Time
Bullet Cubes
Food Chart
Made in China?
Photoshop in your web browser
Interesting Fonts
FunPics
Online Books
Creative Business Cards
Conversion
Tip Stiffer
Hooters
All Day I Dream About Sports
Free Applications
More
Girls, Money, Time
Low Cost Gym
SunSet
Grease Lightning
Like Floyd?
More Pix
Bill Gates
Good ole Pics
fotocommunity
Rock Music
Money
HDTV Myths
MP3s
BGs
Fire
Key
Not Google
Home
Monkey See
Love fish, but No Thanks
Mountain Top
Full Body Workout
Life
Database Stuff
Procrastination
Check is in the mail
OverClocked
Culture
Images
Illusion
NASA
Music using only sounds of MS Windows
Reset password, Reset administrator password, can't remember the password.
Movies (SurfTheChannel)
FanCast
Hulu
TV Duck
Bird Vs Dragonfly
I'm sorry, huge what ?
Caught a fish this big once
Bigger Pale
nice do
Confucius
ahhh the sweet benefits
Foul Language, You Love it !
Order!
How to Fix the internets
Ya see

New York Now and then

Reserve ? Federal ? Money?

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:18:00 +0000

"It's not my job to just echo people being mad. I'm going to choose the bad choice over the catastrophic choice," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

Baron M.A. Rothschild wrote, "Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws."

This is bad. The love of money is the root of all evil?
Then where is America's money?

The Art Of War

9:55 minutes of your time please?
If you do nothing else in your life please view this video.

RON PAUL

Income Tax
Unlimited Debt
All our money is based on government debt.
reform our banking system
revolt, revolution
Federal Reserve
Private Bank, Private Stock Holders
1913
Difficulty getting out of the senate. It was passed by 3 members. One could have held it up.

Purely Profiteering group
Debt is slavery
By changing the interest rate, the feds can create financial conditions of drastic proportions. Up or down.

They know in advance when to create panics. And when to stop it. Inflation and deflation work to their advantage when few control finance.

The reserve/treasury owns the gold. Cornered the gold. Owning the real treasury, using usury as a way to promote economical conditions.
usury =
1. the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest.
2. an exorbitant amount or rate of interest, esp. in excess of the legal rate.
3. Obsolete. interest paid for the use of money.

This is world wide money.

Debt is a promise to pay.
One fattens the userer the other helps the person.

we are no longer the vote of a free will, but the slaves to a few dominant men.
So much power, so organized, so subtle, interlocked, watchful and complete, the control of money.
I have unwittingly ruined my government, Wilson.

A bond is a promise to pay from the government. Nothing more. So is currency today.

More Time
Below

Three Senators to vote in the Federal Reserve Act.
And then it was LAW.
No oversight.
Full control of money.
3 were there to vote.
Louis Thomas McFadden
In 1933, he introduced House Resolution No. 158, Articles of impeachment for the Secretary of the Treasury, two assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and the officers and directors of its twelve regional banks.
Elastic credit and money?
Seems like NOW is the perfect time to reform our banking system. Currently it is an abomination.

What we need is
A modern day robinhood that gamed the feds and the treasury and returned the money to the people. The massive amounts of profiteering, the fucks that screwed the people got gamed and lost it all to the people.

A game, showdown of skills and the stakes were over the trillions, far beyond. Figuring out the system, reverse engineering a mathematical equation, an algorythm to the benefit of the people. A new way to gain in downturn economical conditions, from those that have altered our expectations of the past. Previous Promises to pay.

NEW

In The NEW system people who contribute and participate, gain. No controling system. The system is engineered to help those that wish to contribute. Men die to participate in the system knowing it will help further generations. Tax is now savings for the future, not an expense.

Extract what they have been extracting. The profits and gains of others returned to the people.

Afterall we're only talking numbers here folks. When numbers shift people earn or lose. An American fund for all. People who contibute continually gain to the point where WE THE PEOPLE can gain the laws WE wish. Enslaving the very system that enslaves US. Those assumed servants, polluticians become our servants. Take control. The banking system. Take control of that and you take control of America.

Government is not law, it is money.

Not sure what I was looking for but this is what I found.

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:53:00 +0000

Being neighborly is good, but not That good!
BHO
Got one of these in your back yard ?
Very Cool Web Application
Military
When it says No Parking, it means NO PARKING !!
Hurricane Ike, High Res
9/11 from space
Kitty now hates owner
Cool 80's video site
International Space Station over Miami Florida
Sometimes ya just gotta go ?
Funny Ads
Is your salad feelin' froggy ?
landscape
Cool cloud formation
Alien ?
High Speed Photos
Very cool Waterfall
What's for dinner tonight ?
The first photograph EVER
Cool Google Earth Captures
Play with a spider
Street Performer
World Altering Photos
Niagra
Hilarious
True Love
Gettin' rid of the evidence
100 Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows
New York on Cannabis
Movies (awesome site)
----Main Site

Chrome Web Browser is Fast !!

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:34:00 +0000

I got wind of google's coming web browser a couple days before the launch. I downloaded the new open source web browser the day it came out. It's FAST ! I've used FireFox for years, and a friend of mine recently was astounded at how much faster it was when I told him to download it. Google Chrome is faster than FireFox. The page display (rendering engine) is incredibly quick. Pages render much faster than any browser I've ever used.

The interface is very clean with a thin frame and a lot of space devoted to the page you are rendering. The tabs are well thought out. It's a minimalist browser, but I can see it will be awesome, especially since it is open source. Google is a big player on the internet and has certainly upped the ante here for MicroSoft. It also has a feature called Incognito Mode, much like MS's porn mode, which hides personal information and deletes all files used when chrome closes.

The neatest feature I think is the new tab page that shows a panel of thumbnails of the sites you visit most often. The thumbnails are links, I just wish I could find a way of showing more pages in the results.

Searches are incredibly simple as well, just type in the address bar, your query, and voila ! The bar knows its a query not a site, and uses google as the search for results.

Grab a copy and give it a whirl.
DOWNLOAD GOOGLE CHROME

Extend Laptop Battery Time with an Inverter for your Vehicle

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:04:00 +0000

If you use your laptop a lot, in or near your car, you should have one of these.
They are power inverters and take a cigarette lighter socket and turn it into a 110 wall outlet, with varying amounts of wattage, the ones listed below are the low cost ones.

They won't run a refrigerator, but for a small unit, like a laptop, or phone charger they are perfect. This way while you are driving (well, not YOU driving), you can be recharging, or using And charging your laptop or whatever.

They sell these at Sears, Home Depot, Target, all over.
They have more expensive units that have increasing wattages, but for running small devices, they are perfect.

I like these because they have a cord, so they dont clutter the outlet area. you can also cut the cord and wire it into the vehicles electrical system to make it permanent. It also has good wattage 220W.
Wired

Compact
This one is compact and sits at the outlet level, a great choice to throw into the laptop bag so its always with ya.

Wireless drops connection reboot brings it back up security, WEP or WPA

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:22:00 +0000

I had a marvell wireless card today that would get on the wireless and stay online for a while. Then it would drop off the network connection. Two other laptops in the same office stayed on the entire time. I knew by that clue that it was something isolated to that PC.

Each time I rebooted, it connected right to the network, but after anywhere from a few minutes to about 2 hours, it would disconnect from the network again. Oddly it still had the ip address and gateway assigned via dhcp, but it could not ping the wireless access point or any other machine inside or outside the network. I tried to do the repair thing on the wireless adapter and that pretty much hung up the application. Log files did not reveal anything on the situation.

A little research showed that the type of drivers, NDIS i bleieve, would sometimes lose the SSID when using WEP security on a router. I tried getting the newest drivers but they were dated as of 2004. I know, just get a new wireless card for $10. No, I pushed on, I tried changing the type of encryption. An article I read said using WPA2 would stop the wireless card from dropping off the network. This card did not support WPA2 but did support WPA with TKIP. I tried that and it seemed to work, I will update after further testing.

So if your wireless adapter drops connection to the internet after some time, then try changing your security settings from WEP to another type, like WPA or WPA2 and see if it helps in your situation.

Regardless, seems it has to do with the driver for the card, and a new card replacement should do the trick.

Lottery Loss and Profit, balance sheet accounting.

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:51:00 +0000

You are a homeless person, your net worth is $0.00. You purchase a lottery ticket, and go home. You then go swimming (before or after the lottery announcement takes place) and your lottery ticket is ruined. On coming out of the water you discover the lottery ticket is destroyed. You cannot remember the time/date/location of your purchase of the ticket.

That night, the same numbers you always play are shown across the television. The prize is $1,000,000. As the last ball falls and you realize these are your numbers, you also realize the ticket has been destroyed and you will not be able to claim your winnings.

HAVE YOU LOST $1,000,000 ?

Facts:
The state still has the $1,000,000 even though you cannot collect.
You never had $1,000,000 to lose.
You cannot claim the loss on your tax filings.
You never had $1,000,000 to lose
If you did claim a loss of $1,000,000 and the state still has that money,
That would equal $2,000,000.

HAVE YOU LOST $1,000,000 ?
I would really like to know the reasoning.

PC Computer Hurricane, Tropical Storm

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:58:00 +0000

What should you do with your personal computer in case of a hurricane or tropical storm ? MAKE SURE you have a backup of all your data to some type of drive. Your PC should be backed up in multiple locations to insure data integrity. The best case would be to enclose the computer in plastic such as visqueen or garbage bags may suffice, make sure they are unplugged and shut down. 6 to 12 inches of the ground would be preferred.

The garbage bag or visqueen will protect your computer from flood or rain damage in a hurricane / tropical storm. Placing it inside a concrete area will help to insure against computer damage. Roof breaches due to wind or trees are the most common points of damage to technology equipment. Water is the enemy to information technology.

Nothing, however will come to the rescue like backup data. In a hurricane or tropical storm, having multiple locations with backup data is key. NEVER, be caught without a backup ! Backup data is critical in a hurricane and a tropical storm !

Random

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:20:00 +0000

If you followed a recipe precisely 100 times, would each outcome taste the same? It would, wouldn't it? Why? Every atom in the universe obeys a set of laws, the laws of physics. With law comes predeterminability. Everything in the universe is based on mathematics. Mathematics is a medium known to be predetermined. Pick a number, any number. Now pick and add another to it. As you calculate the sum realize what it is you are about to do. You discovered that which was already there, the sum. Like mathematics, invention/creativity works the same way. There is no invention, only the discovery of what was already there. Do you know what else this reveals? Random does not exist in the universe either!

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/thematrix/index.htm

The Myriad

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:21:00 +0000

Is it possible that humanity has reached the tipping point in the quest for an ideal government? A point where there is no longer, the ability to agree with one another in a public or social setting. More importantly, the inability to come to a common understanding of a 'myriad' of variables ? Myriad by definition is...

1. a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things.
2. ten thousand.
–adjective
3. of an indefinitely great number; innumerable: the myriad stars of a summer night.

When you think of the US, with it's "two views" on society, democratic, and republic. Can you not help but think of summing up millions of views into one of two classes ? Certainly it is impossible. I love Ron Paul and Ross Perot as leaders of the US. As a mostly republican, independent, I understand the importance of introducing a third party view. The libertarian party. Though I dislike having my opinions on the myriad of variables dwindled down and stereotyped into even one of three traditional views. There are far too many issues to be dealt with, and far to many arguments for each to place me neatly into any one of the three.

Is it possible that due to the complexity of social issues that the unintended consequences of the myriad of variables makes it impossible to come to an agreement with any traditional/stereotyped Group of thinking ? Is it possible that the two dominating parties like it this way? Where anyone you walk up to in America has to be summed up in one of X amount of views on an incredible complex issue ? It certainly does assure that half of Americans won't agree with the other half. It does that very well. But what if there are varying levels of disagreement about governments involvement with the many possibilities of a myriad of variables? Then things get exponential.

It might just be that the two party system has been a failure from the start and that much more work needs to be done to encapsulate the myriad views on the infinite variables on law, government, life, and their involvement within one another. There are far too many opinions in today's day and age to ignore that fall into neither category. This middle ground needs to be examined, and clarified to show that there are many considerations when issuing new laws, or revising established ones. I truly hope we innovate a new and more effective and efficient means of governing masses of humans.

Intellectual Property

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:03:00 +0000

Read all about it HERE

AVG by Grisoft on Vista and Side By Side Incorrect Configuration Error

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:31:00 +0000

AVG running on Windows Vista gave me an error today. Complained that my side by side configuration was incorrect or something and I had a strange thing happen. I could no longer download files in Mozilla Firefox nor Internet Explorer. I would click on a link, the download would progress but would never place the end file where I saved it to. This was happening in both browsers. I couldn't find data on this exact error, only on how side by side was supposed to provide a new level of software compatibility. Bravo Microsoft.

I found a lot of chatter on google about it, and tried some suggestions, but then started thinking. It's time I try another tool. My solution, uninstall AVG, and install Avast. I like it so far but haven't gotten into it enough to tell how Avast anti virus compares to Grisofts AVG. I've suggested AVG for years, but it looks like I may need to reassess All my security tools. Spybot and Adaware have gotten some negative press lately, perhaps it's time I move on from my favorite trio and consider others. Ive also heard Clam AV is good, but have never installed so can't comment.

UPDATE:
I have been using Avast more and more lately and it's an excellent anti-virus app. One thing I love is that when you install it, it will ask about a scan for viruses on the next startup. It does this really early in the boot process, about the point a chkdsk would start. The benefit is, if your computer is already infected with a virus, it will perform it's first scan with no services / viruses running. It also has real time file scanning and a lot of options for scanning. It includes an email scanning function. Has a voice option to speak to you when a potential virus is being accessed. The best part is it seems to be more compatible with Vista. Vista hasn't complained a bit since the install. Really nice App. The home addition of Avast is free antivirus, with free anti virus updates.

Hell Week

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0000

Well after a weekend spending hours setting things up, demonstrating how things work, things blew up in my face. Suddenly the application I was demonstrating to a user disappeared from their PC. Then Sunday, spent the entire day (til 7:30 PM) fighting a series of viruses, adware and malware on a house full of 3 PCs, just to have them all drag to their knees. Damn I'm in for the long haul correcting that one.

So I trudged forward on Monday just to have an odd amount of little crap go wrong for me. I know this will be like this for the next few days, as I have been here before. Not sure if it's karma, the sun, the moon or the stars, but life is dumping on me as I blog.

Last week, I was fortunate enough to inherit a great laptop, for free. An IBM ThinkPad (StinkPad), so today I endeavored to install XP and Ubuntu Linux as dual boot. I have a desktop PC at home that tri-boots, vista, xp and ubuntu. The laptop wasn't having it with regards to XP. The CD boots, as soon as it says starting Windows, it turns the whole laptop off. Tried bios settings and other fixes, older XP cds (w & w/o Service packs) to no avail. Then I tried Linux. Linux worked like the champ it is. Even Ultimate Boot CD worked, but not an installation. So forward I went with Linux.

I've used linux on my web servers for years, even accessing with a terminal (putty) and I'm pretty comfortable with working within Linux. My one failing point is hardware and troubleshooting. So today I get a nice taste of some raw Linux via ubuntu. Oddly enough a lot of the documentation begins with, OK now you've got ubuntu installed, lets begin working. Not sure of any other Network Administrators, but whenever I get a fresh install of an OS, the FIRST thing I do, is grab hardware drivers. The laptop has a built in WiFi card. Ubuntu found the sound card, all controllers, the video, I think it even found bluetooth. Not the WiFi card, It's an intel something or other.

The Forums tell me to find wlan-ng, I did, I popped it onto a usb stick, copied to the laptop, untarred, and there sits the driver. How the heck I install them, No Clue. The version of Ubuntu I have is a couple versions behind, so I started grabbing the latest. Perhaps it will have the drivers included, but that does not step me any closer to troubleshooting and installing new hardware. Oh well.

So now I'm checking out all the Open Source apps available, and I am impressed. Ubuntu will be far better than the other MS OS's (Vista or XP). The small setback? No MS Office, no Windows apps really. I will try Wine, to run them, but im not confident, Yet. So here I go, setting the example of Open Source operating systems, and the plethora of applications available. This DEFINITELY includes LAMP (Linux of course, Apache (webServer), MySQL (powerful database engine), PHP (programming language), and Perl (another Programming Language).

I plan to use the laptop as a development platform for rich web applications. I'm kinda glad XP didn't work like it does on thousands of other PCs. Sometimes a weekend from hell, can turn into a shining light at the end of a tunnel.

I will be posting code to my sourceforge project, well commented so that others may learn how to create web apps. I'll also include a list of tools I install from the open source repository, there's so many I want (30gb HD says I won't get em all). So until my next post, remember there is no good or evil, simply the yin and the yang.

A Proposal on What to do about Copyright, Balance is key.

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:44:00 +0000

Copyright and Intellectual Property laws have a chilling effect on content and media creators. Rather than providing incentive for content creation, in the digital age they provide incentives for the destruction of content and rights of citizens, subjecting them to lengthy and financially debilitating lawsuits. Balance is required.

A Proposal for Balance

Revolution OS

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:44:00 +0000

Learn how the movement of Open Source gained massive expansion by people who shared their hard efforts with the public domain. Learn why someone would just "give away" their work. A fascinating view of the history of free, Open Source Software from the shoulders of giants.

Not sure what I was looking for but this is what I found

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:54:00 +0000

Cool Wallpapers For your PC
more

Redneck DeLorean

Hope he makes it home

Hey, he called shotgun

Seen Matts Girlfriend ?

Wrong Turn

I tired this, and it was true for me

Dating Sites in the middle east

Aurora Borealis From Space, Northern Lights

Is she supposed to do that

Failures

Can You canoe ?

Strange order

Do either of his shirts fit him ?

No thanx, I'll hold it.

Making more than a withdrawl

Animal Rights

Is that really a guy bending over and..... ?

And the crowd Goes Wild while he cries

Why so sad ?

Is that her shirt ?

Waste of a perfectly good Vette, maybe he should pass on the other side

Worlds Prison Populations on a map

At least its something to do

Lego my Dogo

Speech on boredom

Courtroom Drama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk6imkfZ79U&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbUa-x8eing&feature=related

Funny Commercial

TGIF

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:13:00 +0000

Visited 3 Sites today, resolved an email issue (which was a user issue). Inspected outlook situation where users were 'transposing' people into other folders. I think its a mistaken drag and drop situation, recommended setting up folders for each user, and securing the rest of the data away from the sales people. Wish they would move to a web based database instead of outlook, yukkk. Oh well it's Friday !!

The Long Tail

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:14:00 +0000

Just what is the long tail ?
The long tail is that elusive marketing component that says the big money is in letting something ride for a time (like an investment). The big money isn't in Britney Spears, it lies in the long tail of misspelled and uncharacteristic keywords. What's this got to do with a blogger or a community developer ?
Consider Google, they are in the heated battle of their lives. They have all the MPAA and RIAA execs at their door begging them not to go forward. Yet they will. Why?
Consider the mix differential. I can take a video off youtube, that has been designated Public Domain and do with it whatever I like. I can derive it to anything I like. I can mix it with other videos, I can include it in my own, unique production, I can use it for commercial purposes. Most of all, I can use it without fear of retribution. I can use it to make something new, and unique, I can stand on a shoulder of Giants !
Contrast that with something I cannot use, say Britney Spears Music. I can take a video off of youtube and mix it to something new, and re-release it as a new work of my own. You juat cannot do that with closed, copyrighted content.

A little something about you.

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:50:00 +0000

If you're a fellow digger, then I owe you a debt of gratitude. You see I am someone who does not appreciate the way Intellectual Property has been contorted by the entertainment industry giants the RIAA and the MPAA. These are the main proponents of stronger Intellectual Property laws as well as the plaintiffs in many cases against their very own customer base. These and others are pushing governments all over the world to adopt a more strict sense of Intellectual Property Laws (like patents, and copyrights) and sadly it seems they are winning. They want to criminalize it, and extend it's broad reach.

And then there is you. By commenting and posting things that you write into dig you expose things to the public domain. Don't believe me ? Read the bottom of diggs pages and you will see that all the hard work is clearly dedicated to the public domain. I understand that If I find an image or a song Through the Digg service, that it does not make the final media public domain, yet having the ranking and comments in the public is certainly nice, and the exposure and viral spreading is priceless.

Knowledge/Information is best shared, it is useless if it is locked up tight for the financial benefit of the few. Consider Thomas Jefferson's position as he was very concerned that these rights would become swords in the courtroom. Jefferson's famous comment....

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

I read all sorts of articles across the web that pose threats to that very spirit. New laws are being pushed by lobbyists, and entertainment industry shills. These are big money players, using money to directly influence the politicians We elect. The energy and money behind this is staggering, and it is wrong. In a time when distribution costs are at an all time low. In a time when content creation is at an all time high, These individuals are looking to cripple that spirit with THEIR laws. They seek to lock down movies, video clips, audio clips, tv shows, songs, anything they can lock down and charge for licensing. They want to soak every penny they can.
There is an opposite. It is the public domain, and fair use. Whenever something is dedicated, or more importantly "Licensed" in such a way that it guarantees freedom for the consumer. Content is truly free. Imagine a world where we can get free music, free videos, and create off of them, a derivative work that is totally creative and new, and most importantly Legal.

I agree that sometimes content has a value, especially, I agree that their creation Sometimes carries a cost and a length of time to create. I don't push for the abolition of these laws, yet in the face of the strong push for stronger laws, at a time in history where they should be getting more relaxed. I have to fight fire with fire. My real view is that things need protections, but that they should be a little more lax than they are today, and certainly for not as long a term. Consider that snapping a picture with your cell phone, or recording yourself sing in the shower, is protected for the rest of your life plus 70 years or More for your ancestors. How ridiculous is that? Why lock things down so tightly ? Especially when they are so frivolously created. Corporations are milking classic content using these egregious terms and overbearing rights. They are making Billions and crying poor mouth at the same time, using their money to secure the welfare system they have created for themselves. NO ONE should be fooled by them. Their fear uncertainty and doubt is unfounded.

It is in this spirit I would like to make you aware of a tragic opposition to this wonderful way of thinking. I would like to point you to legislation that will further restrict our rights, and make sharing a criminal activity. Legislation that is being foisted upon foreign governments as well as the USA. This treaty will embolden the entertainment industry at the cost of materials in the public domain. It is called the ACTA Treaty. It is not a law rather a treaty (which will of course lead to laws that will follow and prop it up). The perils of this treaty passing include materials and media that are communicated on the internet as well as when we travel. The Supreme Court has already ruled that border patrol agents may search your laptop for media when traveling abroad, and that means US and Foreign Agents who accept the treaty. I don't know about you but I don't need them looking at my private data. Yet in a post 9/11 world, these are the rights that are being taken away by the very people we elect to represent US, er corporations, no US !!

Response to Mark Cubans Blog Post

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:52:00 +0000

They (Google) sure aren't hurting for money though, are they? I think their mission is far more noble than the posts I read here. Seems like many here think from the standpoint of what would benefit ME would be..... which seems to be all about MONEY ! so that is one perspective but there is another. That free content is better than locking it up and giving it to one soul/corporation for the rest of their lives. They will make more money off future videos and they know quantity is king there. Standing on the shoulders of Giants if you will. The boat these posts seem to miss is that, over the long term their collection of free content (especially if filtered) will continue feeding itself. People who make vids for the heck of it will continue do so, and they can release them under any license they choose. Releasing to the public domain allows them to be used in other more creative works and it's perpetual from there. People now have a creativecommons.org to go to and finds a huge amount of media to incorporate into their own, new, creative works. What happens as google makes pennies off their trillions of videos while others seek a $5 to view? Locking things up for the interests of few was nice while it worked, but we can benefit as a society and perhaps build a far more diverse representation of the human experience if we embrace freedom as well as capitalism. Perhaps watching a video is not a criminal activity because someone tells us so. Perhaps its a matter of respect and given the choice, many will involved in both sides. One thing is sure, with the ability to release my creative works to the public domain, I feel better as a human for sharing without a toll. I prefer to make money providing something with more value, such as a service or a trinket, perhaps a meal or some lodging. Placing a tax on every piece of media under the sun, I have no interest in that at all. Balance will prevail, and I believe ultimately Google (and others in the Open community) will trump the old ways of business I see here.

The Federal Reserve

noreply@blogger.com (John) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:17:00 +0000

This movie will shock many, others will have known it was so all along, and still others will appreciate the impending doom we face if we don't actively do something to take this nation back from our corporate shill politicians. We all know that money is power, let's begin a journey to track that money... I mean power.....

The Money Masters