What Is Wiki <http://wiki.org/search.cgi?search=WhatIsWiki>
Wiki is in Ward's original description:
/The simplest online database that could possibly work./
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create
and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports
hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and
crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
On 12/8/2010 1:16 PM, KRUB wrote:
Julian Assange is the creep behind, and the face of, Wikileaks.
The word "wiki," as it applies to web sites, has only been in
existence since 1995 and is a term used to on a site which,
"invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the
wiki Web site."
Prior to the emergence of Wikileaks (which does not fit the
definition) the Wiki-something with which most people were familiar
was Wikipedia (which does).
Assange is not a digital Robin Hood. He is a hacker, a thug, and an
accused rapist. That last is a charge leveled, not by the U.S.
Department of State, but by Sweden which has a pretty liberal view of
such things, so if they have asked INTERPOL to help hunt Assange down
to answer a rape charge it may well be legit.
Here's the thing about what Assange is doing: He has decided that he,
among the 6.7 billion humans on the Earth, is solely qualified to
decide what should be held secret and what should be made public.
News outlets worldwide have taken to describing Wikipedia as a
"whistleblower website." That's like saying the Central and South
American cocaine drug cartels are "entertainment entrepreneurs."
Anyone who has ever held any security clearance knows there are
documents which are classified which have no reason to be, other than
someone had the authority to have it classified, and so they did.
Anyone who has had a very high security clearance (of whom I am not
one) has seen documents which appear to have been classified at that
very high level only to avoid any potential embarrassment to the
writer.
Nevertheless, I have never run into any person who had access to
anything classified higher than the instruction booklet to the office
coffee-maker who thought they had the right - much less an obligation
- to decide what should be classified and what should be in the public
domain.
Forget about secret government cables covering sweeping international
events. Go back through your emails from the past 30 days. Do you want
some misfit from Sweden deciding which of them should be sent to the
Washington Post, your employer, or your spouse, and which should not?
Sweden? How about Toby Flenderson from H.R. making that decision?
I didn't think so.
Now that he is being hunted like the dog he is, Assange has made it
known that he has posted a file containing more than a gigabyte (one
billion characters, more or less) containing many secret documents not
previously released.
--
*I reserve the right to do as I please.*
*"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is exercised under cover
of law, and with the colors of justice ..."
- U.S. v. Jannotti, 673 F.2d 578, 614 (3d Cir. 1982)
"If Americans wish to be free of judicial tyranny, they must at least
develop basic knowledge of the judicial role in our republican
government. The present state of affairs is a direct result of our
collective ignorance."
- Ron Paul*
*Our courts will never be fair and just again until we force the courts
to follow their own rules. Do not allow yourself to be ruled by tyrants.
Learn how to control corrupt judges and crooked lawyers
<http://www.jurisdictionary.com?refercode=CG0004> so you can get
Justice! Learn to litigate: Buy and Study JURISDICTIONARY
<http://www.jurisdictionary.com?refercode=CG0004>. The best course
available for Pro Se and Pro Per litigants.*
*I Refuse To Comply
<http://constitutionpreservation.org/media-archive/i-will-not-comply>
With The Unconstitutional Demands Of The Federal Government*
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
*Government is only as strong as those who allow themselves to be
governed are weak.*
*"We have plenty of rights in this country, provided you don't get
caught exercising them."
- Terry Mitchell
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects something that
cannot be."
- Thomas Jefferson***
--
Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups.
For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
* Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/
* It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls.
* Read the latest breaking news, and more.
