my website suddenly got popular, and now I have to pay

2005-09-01 Thread J-D marston
[subject line changed from 'Subject: nettime-l-digest V1 #1340' @ nettime] I'm wondering if any folks have had experience with this, fighting this type of policy, or what rights - if any - I have in refusing to pay or this policy... I've included my letter below. Dear Rhizome- I signed up for y

Re: nettime-l-digest V1 #1395

2004-03-23 Thread J-D marston
Xenophobia is not a approach that even begins to untangle the Ideological questions we should be asking. Water rights in the Southwest might be a good start, or the vigilante migrant hunters of the Arizona Desert, or perhaps at heart, the issues concerning immigration writ-large. I dare Huntingto

Re: nettime What Causes Terrorism?

2004-08-23 Thread J-D marston
>Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:15:06 -0700 >From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: What Causes Terrorism? > >"What Causes Terrorism?" > >calls the fourth epoch of warfare. An epoc of asymetrical power -- >meaning it is not possible for a group/state to challenge with force >an established nucle

Re: William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" and Ethnomathematics (Re: nettime-l-digest V1 #1069)

2003-02-25 Thread J-D marston
> DJ Spooky - WHAT are you talking about??? > > >Gibson understands ADVERTISING as a kind of > > Situationist > > detournement > Wasn't it "Spooky that Sublimated Kid" who lent himself to the inspired GAP advertisements here in Manhattan a year or so ago? Its all posture, and it really is Spook

[Fw: [Nettime-ro] total fertility rate] Re: nettime-l-digest V1 #1089

2003-03-14 Thread J-D marston
I've always thought they should put the author credentials next to the by line, especially when the article appears in a newspaper. This is not informative journalism on recent UN statistics, but a seriously loaded piece, although well camouflaged as such. At least the Times had the insight to pla

Re: incoming! digest [valentine (x2), cantsin] (was Re: nettime-l-digest V1 #1109)

2003-03-27 Thread J-D marston
On 27 Mar 2003, nettime-l-digest wrote: > -- > > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:23:38 -0600 > From: Rick Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: incoming! digest [valentine (x2), cantsin] > > * david garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030326 16:20]: > > > My suggestion: Donate

Voting Machines and Fraud

2003-03-28 Thread J-D marston
The mechanisms of demockracy today. Can anyone illuminate the techological end of these machines? This article leaves alot to be desired on the material end, but interesting nonetheless. Those darned computers.-- Jd. New Voting Systems Assailed Computer Experts Cite Fraud Potential By Dan

Verizon Turns Over Names in Piracy Case [fwd]

2003-06-12 Thread J-D marston
Verizon Turns Over Names in Piracy Case By BRIAN BERGSTEIN The Associated Press Friday, June 6, 2003; 2:44 PM NEW YORK - Verizon Communications Inc. reluctantly surrendered to the music industry on Thursday the names of four Internet subscribers suspected of illegally offering free song download

Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

2003-06-20 Thread J-D marston
What do mean our 'leadership' in the US is out of touch? MediaDefender? Remote computer destruction? This is sincerely funny, if not Ned Luddian in character. Jd. Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading By TED BRIDIS The Associated Press Tuesday, June 17, 2003; 5:22 PM WASHINGTON - The c

Re: Pianos, torpedos and mobile phones

2003-07-01 Thread J-D marston
Recently finished William Gaddis's last book, a novella - Agape Agape. The narrator, on his death bed (Gaddis), is realing in one amazing extended monologue. What he had meant to do was write a history of the player piano.. which at times this book is, more so is it mediatations on a technocrati

Fwd: [CTHEORY] Article 136 - The Digital Death Rattle of the American Middle Class

2003-11-20 Thread J-D marston
Although predictably plagued with Deleuzean syntax, there is some exceedingly interesting data here. This seems to be the hot button on everyone’s favorites list. Fortune recently penned an article on outsourcing of traditionally protected jobs. Maybe this will be the fire that finally lights th

Court Finds Rwanda Media Executives Guilty of Genocide

2003-12-03 Thread J-D marston
An interesting verdict from a despicable moment in contemporary history. There is obviously no question in this case, but it is interesting the larger questions on when free speech moves into incitement. The defense lawyer made a glib remark "This is very, very dangerous. This case would have been

Re: net architecture nothingness

2003-12-20 Thread J-D marston
I'd think it much more "productive" too take a look at the relationship of the owner of the site Larry Silverstein and NY Governer Patakai with commercial lucifer of the NYC building world, Skidmore Owings & Merrill monster David Childs. The highjacking of consensus by a greedy landlord who is usi