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Jan 19 2012
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Jan 19 2012
Sharing item that I think is cool…thinking of good lead in text for sharing item…remember to add hash tags to the sharing post…immediately ask wife to look at shared item…
link in case the embedding is not working: Every Presentation Ever: Communication FAIL
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Jan 18 2012
I don't agree with pirating software or online content. I personally think it's wrong and I have had to deal with people doing such things with content I have created over the years. Yes, it's annoying and bothersome, however, the laws that exist today have allowed myself and others to protect and share what we create.
What I don't agree with are laws that provide for "a ton of prevention for an ounce of cure". These proposed acts in their current form may have an impact on addressing software and content piracy, but they will also create problems when such tools would be abused. To think that these acts would not be abused by those who would wield such power is, I am afraid, rather naive. One only has to explore human history to see that such abuses, regardless of honorable intentions, always occur and cause great harm.
We can create better language and tools for enforcing protections for content, software, intellectual property, etc. We need not be so lazy and blind. There is a happy middle ground that can be found here. Many people, like myself, who create online content, have found that middle ground, now it's time for those in power to realize it too. The current legal framework has accountability and due process for a reason, to prevent abuse and that needs to be preserved.
Power exists to provide people with freedom and justice, not to provide those with the power to potentially silence those of differing opinions and ideals. It's high time that everyone accept that reality and work to preserve something that we are on course to loose, human decency. Without it, we are lost.
#StopSOPA #StopPIPA #Protest #freespeechisallwehave
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Jan 17 2012
My contribution to +Tree Tuesday curated by +Christina Lawrie.
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Jan 15 2012
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Ten Reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free.The Washington Post this morning has a sobering and courageous story: Ten Reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_print.html
"While each new national security power Washington has embraced was controversial when enacted, they are often discussed in isolation. But they don’t operate in isolation. They form a mosaic of powers under which our country could be considered, at least in part, authoritarian. Americans often proclaim our nation as a symbol of freedom to the world while dismissing nations such as Cuba and China as categorically unfree. Yet, objectively, we may be only half right. Those countries do lack basic individual rights such as due process, placing them outside any reasonable definition of “free,” but the United States now has much more in common with such regimes than anyone may like to admit.
"These countries also have constitutions that purport to guarantee freedoms and rights. But their governments have broad discretion in denying those rights and few real avenues for challenges by citizens — precisely the problem with the new laws in this country.
"The list of powers acquired by the U.S. government since 9/11 puts us in rather troubling company."
Here's a list of the issues discussed in the article:
Assassination of U.S. citizens
Indefinite detention
No right to a civilian trial
Warrantless searches
Secret Evidence
US officials have immunity from War Crimes prosecution
Secret courts with secret evidence
Immunity from Judicial review
Continuous monitoring of citizens
Extraordinary renditionIt was easy to blame Bush for introducing these new powers in the anti-terrorist mania after 9/11. What's inexcusable is the way that President Obama's administration has extended these powers. Change indeed. The first politician who really stands for restoring freedom would make me abandon Obama in a heartbeat. Give me a politician of any party who will make a serious commitment to restoring our nation's commitment to freedom, and he or she will have my vote.
The story ends with an appeal to our nation's storied history:
"The framers lived under autocratic rule and understood this danger better than we do. James Madison famously warned that we needed a system that did not depend on the good intentions or motivations of our rulers: 'If men were angels, no government would be necessary.'"
"Benjamin Franklin was more direct. In 1787, a Mrs. Powel confronted Franklin after the signing of the Constitution and asked, 'Well, Doctor, what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?' His response was a bit chilling: 'A republic, Madam, if you can keep it.'”
"Since 9/11, we have created the very government the framers feared: a government with sweeping and largely unchecked powers resting on the hope that they will be used wisely."
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10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free. By Jonathan Turley,. Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restricti…
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Jan 15 2012
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Jan 13 2012
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Nothing better to do? Go to the link, click on it. You know you want to.…………..
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Jan 13 2012
#Humor #ChuckAndBeans
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Jan 10 2012
My contribution +Tree Tuesday curated by +Christina Lawrie.
#Hiking #TreeTuesday #Davidson-ArabiaNaturePreserve
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Jan 09 2012
Yes, this is not a real product, it's a cool publicity stunt at CES, but this is a camera concept that can open the door for many applications.
#CES #Photography
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This is where it's headed, kids.Holy crap.
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