diary-2006

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DroppingKnowledge.org the global dialog platform "'ask, answer and discuss questions, download media, and use the searchable database to find social topics that matter most to you.'"

"'Audio Interview: Peter Brown of Defective By Design & The Free Software Foundation - June 29, 2006'" Archive.org/download/eHomeUpgradeInterviewwithPeterBrownoftheFreeSoftwareFoundationDefectiveByDesign_6/fsf_peter_brown_interview.ogg (00:44:11) EHomeUpgrade.com/entry/2740/interview_with_peter

"'Eben Moglen Key note at Red Hat Summit 2006'" -- http://www.redhat.com/v/ogg/060606_moglen.ogg transcript at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen_Keynote_at_Red_Hat_Summit_2006

"'Professor Moglen talks about the ongoing process of creating an updated GPL license.'" -- Twit.CacheFly.net/FLOSS-013.ogg transcript at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/FLOSS_Weekly_13:_Eben_Moglen_on_GPL_3.0

Trying to get Emacs to use some different fonts.

InDebtWeTrust.com "'America before the bubble bursts'"

AlternativeFreedom.org "'a documetary on the invisible war on culture'" reviewed at FilmThreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=8945 "'Some scruffy characters such as Richard Stillman (founder of the so-called Free Software Foundation and a proponent of open source software) and DJ Danger Mouse (who earned the wrath of EMI by his unauthorized sampling of Beatles' tunes) appear to babble incoherently that everyone has a right to help themselves to copyrighted material.'"

The new Devlog page shows some of my recent builds.

I've been listening to many RMS and Moglen audio interviews.

DigitalTippingPoint.com "'the culture of freedom in cyberspace'"

Reading DjVu of "'Consumers' Co-Operative Societies'", by Charles Gide at Fax.libs.UGA.edu/HD3271xG453

Considering Minix3.org or MenuetOS.org for a pentium 100 with 1.2 GIG HD and 16 MB RAM.

Running NetBSD 3.1 on old PII 300, 128 MB RAM, 4.3 Gig HD.

"'The primary goal of this lecture is to inspire people to join the drafting process though an introduction to the text.'" -- http://yrk.nfshost.com/docs/gplv3.pdf

"'In front of a standing-room-only crowd of over 350 Plone users and developers, Eben delivered an inspiring and wide-ranging talk that traced the connections between the free software movement, the One Laptop Per Child project, and the past three hundred years of modern industrial economic development, and placed our work into the larger context of the ongoing journey towards freedom and equality for all people.'" -- http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006/agenda/watch-eben-moglen-s-plone-conference-keynote-address

FSF.org/news/free-ryzom "'Boston, December 13th 2006 - Free Software Foundation announces that it will officially support the Free Ryzom campaign (www.ryzom.org) with a pledge of $60,000.'"

AnythingButiPod.com

gNewSense.org "'A GNU/Linux project, to take all the binary blobs out of a rather popular distribution and make it all free. In doing so we have also produced a set of scripts that allow anyone to create a GNU/Linux Distribution.'"

BadVista.org "'The BadVista campaign is an advocate for the freedom of computer users, opposing adoption of Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free (as in freedom) software alternatives.'"

binaryfreedom.INFO "'Free as in Freedom and we really mean it!'"

IATP.org "'The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.'"

FB.org "'Farm Bureau is an independent, non-governmental, voluntary organization governed by and representing farm and ranch families united for the purpose of analyzing their problems and formulating action to achieve educational improvement, economic opportunity and social advancement and, thereby, to promote the national well-being. Farm Bureau is local, county, state, national and international in its scope and influence and is non-partisan, non-sectarian and non-secret in character. Farm Bureau is the voice of agricultural producers at all levels.'"

AmLand.org "'
"every word of the Constitution decides a question between power and liberty." -- James Madison
Protecting your land and property rights is what we do.  The American Land Foundation began in 1993 because of the need to assist land owners and other private organizations fighting government regulations that take private property without compensation.'"

Freedom.org "'The Environmental Conservation Organization, Inc. was founded in 1988 when 17 national organizations met in Chicago to devise a strategy to protect private property rights from erosion by excessive environmental regulations. ECO was chartered in 1990 as a 501(C)(4) not-for-profit organization. The organization moved to Hollow Rock, Tennessee in 1993.'"

ASABE.org "'The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers is an educational and scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems. Founded in 1907 and headquartered in St Joseph, Michigan, ASABE comprises 9,000 members in more than 100 countries.'"

Crops.in "'Agricultural Crops Industry'"

FarmFoundation.org "'Farm Foundation is a publicly supported nonprofit organization working to improve the economic health and social well-being of U.S. agriculture, the food system and rural people by helping private and public sector decision makers identify and understand forces that will shape the future.'"

LiberLab.net "'The Open Source project Liberlab aims to help democratize educational scientific experimentation through the creation and use of a  DIY digital lab at a very low price ( ~ 15 �/$). Liberlab can also be used to learn about robotics, automation, human-machine interface or interactive arts.'"

Reading "'Money; A Mirror Image Of The Economy'" by Dr. J.W. Smith at IED.info/books/money

Renamed Yenom to 'ENO' (also considering 'GNUro') and found Yenom.biz

Researching web-based content management systems...  Dislike Perl, have given up on PHP, am now considering Python, will probably finally just do it in c/c++.  I'm thinking much of the linking should occur at the client, and might be implemented as a Firefox extension ~ I think Mozile.MozDev.org or kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_Midas is

Researching distributed version control software, considering monotone and mercurial.

Looking for lossless MPEG editing tools.

Researching window/display/session managers.

Researching free machine translation software.

Follars.com "'Free, Open Source Dollars    Making Money from Free & Open Source Software'"

CATO.org/events/060426conf.html "'Copyright Controversies    Freedom, Property, Content Creation, and the DMCA'" video and audio.

Physical costs of building a virtual community:
Land and Shelter: to store the computer and net working hardware
Computer: including server load
Electricity: Somewhat tied to computing load
Storage: RAM, Hard drive and backups.
Transport: net work wires initially, but eventually wireless - with the routers owned as Free Hardware
Useful Organisms: computers and wires

Mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=27 "'Robert LeFevre Commentaries'"

GeneTraders.org "'Biotechnology, World Trade, and the Globalization of Hunger'"

TowardFreedom.com "'Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."

President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."
'"

UpsideDownWorld.org "'If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight? -- Eduardo Galeano'"

NLCnet.org "'If the American retailers paid only 25 cents more per garment, the total in Bangladesh would be $898 million- more than eight times current US aid'"

GRAIN.org/articles/?id=19 "'Two leading US private charitable foundations --- Rockefeller and Gates - have proclaimed a 'new' Green Revolution for Africa. $150 million are to be poured into the continent in the form of new seeds, and in efforts to get small farmers to grow them. Yet none of this is new. It is the same recipe, using the same ingredients, and pushed by the same agency that perpetrated the original Green Revolution starting in the 1950s. It failed in Africa then because it failed to listen to --- failed even to ask --- the indigenous farmers, who had worked their land for generations.'"

NYU.edu/projects/ollman/game.php "'Class Struggle Board Game'"

Yootopia.org and Yootles.com "'Mechanisms for Group Prediction and Decision Making'"

r23.cc radio

FreeCultureDay.org CompartiresBueno.net

proto.labbs.net

HCSoftware.sf.net/jason-rohrer games and software

IdeaWarz.com from CambrianHouse.com

NearlyFreeSpeech.net is ok, but not pass-through enough.  Try EPFarms.net or maybe OpenServing.com

Playing with GCC and GDB; fixed some fatal bugs in Glaxium.sf.net

SituatedTechnologies.net

OpenDNS.com Open Domain Name Servers

WantToKnow.info want to know

CapitalMissions.com Donorge.org BountySource.com Communiting.org

WeChange.org "'is about promoting and enabling this change, one human being at a time: changing ourselves and changing the way we relate to the world for our own benefit and for the benefit of the whole humanity.'"

MSTBrazil.org "'Brazil's Landless Worker's Movement'"

TerraMadre2006.org Land Mother

ASwarmOfAngels.com "'Remixing Cinema'"

nGuild.org "'The n'guild is a recent (August 2004) free cooperative project based on a net work of internet engineers and independant companies living in the Noosphere.'"

IBESI.org "'IBESI is a nonprofit that helps ordinary folks instigate R&D to improve their lives.'"

ViaCampesina.org "'International Peasant Movement'"

Open-Tuesday.com "'It's time to HACK!!!'"
Copycan.org "'Buy It For The Commons'"
OpenLife.cc "'Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source'"
mako.cc "'Benjamin Mako Hill'"
IED.info "'The Institute for Economic Democracy'"

commedia.org.uk "'community media association'" including TV

metageek.net kismetwireless.net

Found FreeSharing.org and BorrowMe.com which makes me think we need to take it a notch closer to reality.  Something like FreeRent.org or RentMe.com

Sam Rose pointed me to "'Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association. --- Leland Stanford'" -- dynamics.org/~altenber/PAPERS/BCLSFV

Trying to get communitywiki.org/PlainTextWiki going, and have been talking to sigi about starting a Free Wiki.

www.economicswebinstitute.org

Discovered the Famine Early Warning Systems Net work, known as FEWS Net.

Need to rewrite ./.runtime/axon.el in PHP or Python.

Working at progress.org/cgi-bin/webbbs/config.pl to express the problems we look for in EcoComics... and trying to care about the name Source War.

write a private namespace and a Priority Resolution LocalNamespace

odrl.net "'The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative  is an international effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standard for the Digital Rights Management expression language.'"

ithefilm.com is about indymedia.org and Argentina.

Flash comic/cartoon about Sustained Development: survival-international.org/thereyougoenter.php

Listening to RMS talk at http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/bangalore-rms-transcript about "distribution", "propagation" and "convey", patents, DRM, Tivo

Some chemicals used to spray for mosquitos (because of West Nile virus scare) are also killing bees.

Begin planning Source War game.

worldblu.com "'Organizational democracy is freedom within a business framework.'"

Need to permanently secure some water rights.

TheYesMen.org inspires me to present myself as a corporate/political vassal.  I'm thinking as posing as someone trying to raise support for 2995 and S517 weather modification bills in the name of stopping global warming and hurricanes.

"'My goal is to give people the freedom to cooperate.  This has nothing to do with "making them equal".'" -- RMS at linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/2063/1

opencafe.co.za "'Building Open Source Communities'"

google.com/search?q=%22economic+freedom%22+GPL

heritage.org

freetheworld.com mistakes 'power' for 'freedom':
"'Economic Freedom of the World Net work.  How much economic freedom exists in your country?'"

rtmark.com is "'appropriate measures for uncertain times'"

Trying to understand how the HPL and Affero GPL differ.

The North American Security Perimeter sounds similar to the SPP.

"' TiVo Wins Permanent Injunction Against EchoStar (And Cash)
Filed under: PVR / DVR, Industry, TiVo, Satellite TV � Dave Zatz @ 8:40 pm

The ruling is in: Within 30 days, all infringing Dish DVR functionality must be disabled and TiVo�s initial award comes to about ninety million big ones.'" -- http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-08/tivo-wins-permanent-injunction-against-echostar-and-cash

"'The Open Process Handbook Initiative (OPHI) is a group of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing an on-line collection of knowledge about business processes that is freely available to the general public under a form of "open source" licensing.'" -- ccs.mit.edu/ophi

"'Open Source Licenses are Obsolete'" -- radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/open_source_licenses_are_obsol.html

"'Policing Intellectual Property Across Borders'" -- onpointradio.org/shows/2005/07/20050725_b_main.asp

gatt.org is the best dead-pan comical approach to NWO I've seen.

Trying to understand the NWO.

mplayer -noframedrop -dumpstream -dumpfile "ip.wma" mms://realserver.bu.edu:554/w/b/wbur/onpoint/2005/07/op_0725b.wma

"'A major drug company is blocking access to a medicine that is cheaply and effectively saving thousands of people from going blind because it wants to launch a more expensive product on the market.

Ophthalmologists around the world, on their own initiative, are injecting tiny quantities of a colon cancer drug called Avastin into the eyes of patients with wet macular degeneration, a common condition of older age that can lead to severely impaired eyesight and blindness. They report remarkable success at very low cost because one phial can be split and used for dozens of patients.

But Genentech [ gene.com ] , the company that invented Avastin, does not want it used in this way.

Instead it is applying to license a fragment of Avastin, called Lucentis, which is packaged in the tiny quantities suitable for eyes at a higher cost. Speculation in the US suggests it could cost �1,000 per dose instead of less than �10.'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1799832,00.html

"'
flexible licensing

The case for a socially responsible business model based on the logic of free/libre and open source software.

In essence, we propose a hybrid of existing licenses that captures most of their benefits while mitigating most of their costs.  It also permits both non-profits and for-profits to become self-sustaining.'" -- copyflex.org

wikimapia.org is fun.  Select view|hybrid to see streets when close up.

More NoonIX ideas.

Looking at CAMBIA licenses and their views on patents and the of a "Protected Commons"

Wondering about a Production Commons at wiki.laptop.org/Production_Commons

fighting with # exportfs on UBUNTU

General Public Lease now based on GPLv3

fon.com wireless handset should replace cell phones.

Fix pics with xaraxtreme.org and gimpshop.net

Posted a bit to en.wiki.oekonux.org but the General Public Lease is still too rough.

"'Elgg is a new breed of learning environment based around choice, flexibility and openness: a Personal Learning Landscape that firmly places individuals at the centre of their learning.'" -- elgg.org

War

Working on digesting and remixing "The Wealth Of Net works".

"'It's like Open Source, but with Money!'" -- cambrianhouse.com

networkcultures.org/geert/out-cooperating-the-empire-exchange-with-christoph-spehr

Some notes on an anarchist essay.

http://josephhall.org/nqb2/index.php/2006/04/27/yochaiboalt
http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/Yochai_Benkler_Boalt_27Apr2006.mp3

Trying to catch up on the Oekonux mood to prepare a post:
oekonux.org/introduction/blotter.html
oekonux.org/list-en/archive
en.wiki.oekonux.org

I pray to my GOD I might present in a pleasing manner - that those who read may see and hear without anger or boredom.

Studying CGI to add 'edit' and 'comment' features to ecocomics.org

"'Is GPL Evil?'" -- student.oulu.fi/~harriha/en/comp/is_gpl_evil.html

"'The GPL, Stallman, and the persistence of evil'" -- http://asay.blogspot.com/2006/06/gpl-stallman-and-persistence-of-evil.html

Posted to emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MovingTheCtrlKey about how to change keys on a virtual terminal.

"'We're mapping the open source world by collecting objective information on open source software.'" -- ohloh.net

I fear the progress.org/cgi-bin/webbbs/config.pl crowd grows weary of me.

Yochai Benkler
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Participation Revolution
http://www.itconversations.com/audio/download/ITConversations-776.mp3 from http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail776.html

Posted to http://www.communitywiki.org/odd/Ponderings?action=edit;id=Adoption%2c_Inheritance_and_Responsibility
"'
Very nice pondering.  I especially like the "responsibility deficit" term.

I agree with your words, yet I continue to purchase bread because we don't yet have a competetive alternative.

You say "the value of a resource is completely dependent on demand", but sometimes we forget that we have our own demands - even if we were to only consider the most bare of organic needs and disregard so-called wants.

These basic demands must be met or we cannot perpetuate our genes, but we are in an economic system that allows owners to take a portion of the value (labor) we peacefully exchange.  Corporate shareholders call this 'profit', but the Koran, the Holy Bible, and many other texts refer to it as usury.  This terrible disease causes humans to 'externalize' costs, which turns an otherwise efficient economy inside-out, so that many goals that would make sense on an island (such as abundance) become 'bad' for business.

I'll stop for now.  Thanks again for the careful thoughts.

-Ownut
'"

Added some new free games and organized a bit.

"'Knight's fee was a feudal term used in medieval England and Anglo-Norman Ireland to describe the value of land.'" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_fee

"'Private Property Rights versus Environmental Protection.
The answer is... BOTH.'" -- naturalprocess.net

More murderous Codex Alimentarius enforcements: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2006/07/05/codex_chairman_seeks_to_thwart_pro_health_initiative.htm

"The Institute for Economic Democracy"
"'The impoverishment of the developing world is understandable once one learns how �plunder by trade� locks the world into violence and war.'" -- ied.info

"Center for Economic and Social Justice" -- cesj.org

"'Proverbs 28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.'" -- Holy Bible

permaculture.wikia.org

"'Working together toward a financially intimate world
Who's your farmer? Who's your banker? Where's your money?'" -- solari.com

"'broad ownership of productive capital'" -- cog.kent.edu

"'Parasitic Delusions'" -- dpref.com

The international bankers are cooking up a Pan-American Union:  nascocorridor.com

"'The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was launched in March of 2005 as a trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the United States, Canada and Mexico through greater cooperation and information sharing.'" -- spp.gov

More about the spraying:
"'
December 13, 2005
To: The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison

This letter is in response to S. 517, "the Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005,"

Because small scale weather modification (e.g., cloud seeding) may promote rain in one area to the detriment of another, weather modification could result in inter-state (including Indian Tribes) litigation or private citizen litigation against the modification programs.

Small and large scale (e.g., hurricane) weather modification efforts could benefit the United States to the detriment of other countries (such as Canada or Mexico).

Given global weather patterns, whether one country "owns" its weather so as to assert intra-border control with extra-border consequences, must be considered under present international conventions.

In 1978, the United States became a party to an international treaty banning the use of weather modification for hostile purposes. While modification for peaceful purposes is allowed, whether well-intentioned programs could be considered "hostile" and perceived to violate this ban should be considered.

'" -- http://www.legislative.noaa.gov/viewsletters/marburgerweathermodviewsletter121305.pdf

"' The City Repair Project
...an all-volunteer grassroots organization helping people reclaim their urban spaces to create community-oriented places.'" -- cityrepair.org

The American Monetary Institute: monetary.org

Resources for THE LANDLORD'S GAME: tt.tf

CNUK.org "'A group dedicated to promoting group creativity and art that can be shared and built upon.'"

Dreaming of code (like a specialized chat program) for Remote Sacred Circle thetransitioner.org/circle communication.

benkler.org is changing

Thinking about Material and Virtual objects diffences across the actions of Consuming, Changing and Copying ...

Changed style sheet to a less gloomy (but harder on the eyes) bright look.

Still trying to ready the PSF GNU GPL for presentation.

Installed Ubuntu.com 6.06 LTS on my AMD Athlon upstairs.
LiveCD desktop icon runs 5 ~ 10 step install wizard.
Sound works!  Tray icon to adjust volume.
Menus to adjust screen resolution and refresh rates.
Fancy Add/Remove Programs GUI, Add/Remove printer.
Macromedia Flash doesn't work by default because it isn't Free. Trying libswf, libflash, Gnash, ...
Nvidia drivers are locked closed too.

Dreaming of using ZORK technology to parse OS input ifarchive.jmac.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/specification/zspec02/zmach06e.txt

Thinking about a post on progress.org about villagers in India eating wild grass seed because of poverty.

Trying to understand x.org config files makes me want to use xynth.org

Someone had me take a personality test which identified me as INTP.

The Emacs Debugger is very fun.  If you are in The One True Editor, just press:
    M-x edebug-defun
    M-x edebug-all-defuns

Considering installing Ubuntu because gentoo is still too hard for me.
http://www.atworkonline.it/~bibe/ubuntu/custom-livecd.htm
Want to use a USB drive, or even better, boot from ISO using gujin.sf.net

Ruined a partition table on my other computer while installing gentoo.org
Tried parted, gpart and testdisk, but they fail to repair it.
lde.sf.net shows the data is still there.
Is there nothing already written that will turn this mess of linked lists into a dir tree?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value

The labor theory of value (LTV) is a theory in classical economics concerning the value of an exchangeable good or service. It holds that the value of goods or services is equal to the amount of labor required to produce them, including the labor required to produce the raw materials and machinery used in the process.

Couldn't get Perl regexps to work as Emacs lisp, so reverting to axon.el for now.

Trying to get more irrigation going.

Planting some ground-cover herbs.

Bill and Hu would lock it all closed.

"'Why Researchers Should use a BSD-style License Instead of the GPL (and why you should use a BSD-style license for your Open Source Project)'" -- http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~brucem/open_source_license.htm

SimPol.org
Collaboration.wikia.com
AnarchoPedia.com
OnTheCommons.org

Benkler.org

Mutualist.BlogSpot.com/2005/12/toilet-paper-as-paradigm.html

CooperationCommons.com

OpenBusiness.cc business models

fon.com for Free communication

Economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5624944

"'trying to fix axon.el quoting...'"

Mutualist.org

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers looks too familiar.  isnt.autistics.org

EcoPlan.org/land
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_capture

Debunking-Economics.com

Working on resume for job.

Announcing: The NEW General Public Lease Version -0.5 (preview)

davidhirst.com
upp.sf.net
solutions.synearth.net
fontforge.sf.net
p2pmud
generosity.org
gp2x.com
xynth.org
qemacs.org
TI.com
lifehacker.com
makezine.com

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