Re: Meatspace anonymity manual
"Faustine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: To make it clear, I'm not a member of the Black Blocs, associated with them in any way, nor do I think the tactic is effective. I was asking Sampo if he was being sarcastic in his association of this tactic with an anarchist ideology of any value. > Frankly, I don't see how any kind of "short-term tactic for possibly > illegal operations on the street in an environment full of police" > could be good for anything more than the symbolic. What did these > "illegal operations" really accomplish apart from getting out a > statement? Serious question. I'm just not seeing it. Symbolically, not much good except for recruiting young males with visions of being the storm-troopers of revolution or something. I had an off-list discussion with someone about wether these actions were purely symbolic or not, my position is that they are not. My argument is based on what these people are writing in their calls-to-arms or whatever you call them. They are actually trying to develop tactics for these situations, not present an image to others. I can respect the desire to develop tactics for operating in situations like that (breaking barricades, evacuating downed marchers etc...), if only because I imagine that such tactics will be neccesarry to provide sufficient symbolic victories. A WTO protest that has people in turtle suits running around outside the fenced off area is one thing, a WTO protest that results in the storming and/or burning down of the hotel the conference was being held is another. Oops, I just put myself on some Fed list. -- Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.red-bean.com/~craig "Indifference is the dead weight of history." -- Antonio Gramsci
Re: I created the "Al Gore created the Internet" story
Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>By 1986, numerous clones of the IBM PC and AT existed. > > > >Its quite simple. In 1995 MS released a version of Windoze which > >included a TCP/IP stack by default. Previously you had to acquire > >one and figure out how to install it. While fortunes were made > >on this, the collection of routers known as the Net was unavailable > >to Joe Sixpack until then. > > I don't buy this at all. Maybe there is some subtlety I am missing > completely. I don't buy it either. Prior to that release of Windows I was doing tech support for an ISP in Chicago using MacPPP for the mac and WinSock on Windows. We had several thousand subscribers prior to the time that TCP/IP came installed with Windows, and we had already hit the major upswing in our growth curve at that point. The explosion had more to do with Mosaic and Netscape than with the TCP/IP stack. The default stack in MS just allowed MS to strike deals with bigger ISPs, it didn't significantly streamline our installation process for new customers. The difference between installing from a cab file on your HD or CDROM, and installing from our CDROM, which came with a browser and the other applications that people were actually interested in, is trivial. I suppose one could say that the bundling of ISP services with the default Windows install increased the rate of new internet users significantly, but the explosive growth has already started by then. -- Craig Brozefsky<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "the sacrifice of real, immediate life is the price paid for the illusory freedom of an apparent life." Vaneigem
Re: Napster PI helpful
Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A very good analysis. > > And on a different tack, I expect/predict that Napster will reinvent > itself as a distributor of material with the permission of the record > companies and will then aggressively go after Gnutella, Freenet, and > Mojo types of sites. "Those who live by the sword..." At this point I am unable to imagine what vectors of attack would prove fruitful for them. That obviously does not mean there aren't any. Perhaps someone else has put some thought into this and has some ideas. The CNET coverage of the Napster debacle includes links to an article covering a survey which indicates that at least 60% of the Napster users would continue trading files regardless of what the courts have to say. On a similiar note, I have been using OpenNAP servers since I started using napster. They presently don't have the same density of users, but I imagine that will change quickly enough. They are located in several different countries, tho I am not sure what he chances of legal action being brought against them in their home realms are. -- Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lisp Web Dev List http://www.red-bean.com/lispweb --- The only good lisper is a coding lisper. ---
Re: Who to send back
"Marcel Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Read some Julian Simon. (BTW, if you look at the decaying ratio between the > prices of commodities and real salaries from the other side, it means that > the average price of labor *raises* compared to the price of commodities, so > we have an *under*supply of labor; underpopulation, not overpopulation, is > the problem. Yes, the Eastern world is not there yet, but their problem is > lack of private property and free trade, not overpopulation. All humans have > an infinite number of wants, not only those in the western countries.) Hmm, how is your theory about the under supply of labor reconciled with a global unemployment (just counting work force, not every single mouth) hovering around 33% for the last few years? My source is the International Labor Organization's annual report on unemployment around the globe. -- Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Scheme/Lisp Software http://www.red-bean.com/~craig "Hiding like thieves in the night from life, illusions of oasis making you look twice. -- Mos Def and Talib Kweli
