Re: [liberationtech] CIMA's Upcoming Digital Media Events

Can you pls change my mail to lmbconta...@yahoo.com. The volume is becoming too interfering! Gracias! Lisa On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: > *Internet Governance Forum: Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, > Economic and Social Development* > > *November 6-9, 2012* >

[liberationtech] CIMA's Upcoming Digital Media Events

*Internet Governance Forum: Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development* *November 6-9, 2012* List of workshops

[liberationtech] CFP: Mini track digital citizenship & activism at ECEG 2013, Como, Italy, June 13-14

From: Jakob Svensson The mini-track on Digital Activism and Citizenship at the 13th European Conference on eGovernment ECEG 2013 Como, Italy, June 13-14th might be of interest. Feel free to circulate it among your colleagues The long-raging debate over the potential of the Internet and new media

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty poster

thanks! On 3 November 2012 00:45, KheOps wrote: > Greetings everyone :) > > Just a quick message, we made a poster to announce the upcoming > CryptoParty in my city (Nantes, France) and I thougth it could be useful > to share the Gimp source file in case it could be of any use. You'll > find it

[liberationtech] CryptoParty poster

Greetings everyone :) Just a quick message, we made a poster to announce the upcoming CryptoParty in my city (Nantes, France) and I thougth it could be useful to share the Gimp source file in case it could be of any use. You'll find it here: https://resources.telecomix.ceops.eu/cryptoparty/ Note

[liberationtech] Fwd: 11/15 - Stopping SOPA: Copyright, Free Speech, and Popular Constitutionalism

From: Elaine Adolfo Yosem, The event will be recorded and posted on our Youtube channel. If people have more questions please tell them to email c...@law.stanford.edu and we'll respond right way. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/cis-speaker-series-stopping-sopa-copyright-free-speech-and-popu

[liberationtech] Presidential Election Prediction Site

From: Samuel Chiu It took longer than we thought, but it is now live! A group of students and I just put up a 2012 Presidential Election Prediction Site: http://predict.stanford.edu providing the distribution of electoral votes for the candidates. It uses simple probability model: from state-b

Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin and The Public Function of Money

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:51 PM, StealthMonger wrote: > Yes, Bitcoin liberates trade from "public" extortion ("taxation"). It does no such thing. Under US law, for example, Barter in Bitcoins is just as taxable as bartering with coal or cows and share many similar properties (also with cash). Ad

Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin and The Public Function of Money

..on Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 06:03:24PM +0200, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Julian Oliver wrote: > > Relatedly, I met a young woman in Abu Dhabi who said to me in a mall "You > > Westerners look around and see all these girls in full burkas and think > > they are > > trapp

Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin and The Public Function of Money

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Julian Oliver wrote: > Relatedly, I met a young woman in Abu Dhabi who said to me in a mall "You > Westerners look around and see all these girls in full burkas and think they > are > trapped, oppressed under Islam. In fact they are only wearing full burkas here >

Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin and The Public Function of Money

On 02.11.2012 14:19, StealthMonger wrote: My main quarrel would be that when he writes of doing things "as a society" he probably means single decisions applied to all and imposed on dissidents by force. Yes, sometimes single decisions are needed. Such as the descision that poluting the r

Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin and The Public Function of Money

..on Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 04:59:15AM +, dan jones wrote: > > If I may elucidate this thought by cut and pasting the words of David > Foster-Wallace, personal liberty is... > > "The freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at > the center of all creation. This kind of fr

[liberationtech] 12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries - less than one month before the submission deadline!

Final Call for Papers: WG 9.4: Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries 12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries Conference Theme: Into the Future: Themes, insights and agendas for ICT4D research and practice Ocho Rios Jamaica, 19-

Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin and The Public Function of Money

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jacob Appelbaum writes: > Care to address the externalities on our all of our lives that others, > such as you, impose by their mere existence? Maybe that can mostly be brought within the scope of "Relations among individuals should be by mutual con

Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin and The Public Function of Money

On 01.11.2012 21:04, StealthMonger wrote: Dmytri Kleiner writes: So you believe that we should provide nothing as a society ... I certainly don't. You are free to delegate your authority to your comrades in matters such as your own health care or the education of your own children. Just

Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin and The Public Function of Money

On 01.11.2012 21:04, StealthMonger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dmytri Kleiner writes: So you believe that we should provide nothing as a society ... I certainly don't. You are free to delegate your authority to your comrades in matters such as your own health car

Re: [liberationtech] Syria's Digital Proxy War | The Atlantic

I read the article but I have some problems with the Iran's part. I'm not expert in Syria issues, but I know the situation in Iran. I completely agree Iran has a sophisticated censorship system on the internet but I don't have one case that the Iran's regime tracks the user remotely. I mean there

Re: [liberationtech] Syria's Digital Proxy War | The Atlantic

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd be interested to hear the views of people on this list as to whether they see themselves as being involved in a proxy war. Cheers, Michael On 01/11/12 20:19, Rachel Fredman wrote: > Of interest to many on this list: > > > Syria's Digital Proxy