Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> On 8/04/2015 12:08 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
>> At the meeting there was a mention of the fact that we now have a legal
>> precedent for film companies to force ISPs to divulge the names of customers
>> who might have torrented movies.
> This was bound to catch up with iiNet [and other] users....
>
>> Is there any good anonymous peer to peer software? Something that uses tor
>> hidden services for all communications?
> Much better to just keep to legal and proper downloads, don't you think?
Well of course that goes without saying !
the very idea of owning movies which I haven't paid for;
or even converting DVD's so they are playable outside of brain-dead DVD
players,
(which mostly also seem incapable of playing them);
is abhorrent to my higher moral self.!
I even believe there are some who have copies of that other OS what was
it called .....;
anyway they have not paid for it apparently.
There seems to exist a whole category of software ..shareware ?
where such behaviour is rife.
This software philosophy, what's it called 'open-source' ?;
why it's just encourages such an attitude !
Oh Andrew; how I concur with you regarding the wickedness of the world !
regards Rohan McLeod
Hi all,
Labor opposing East West Link - good news, at least for me.
There is no contract signed yet - so all uncertainty claims are quite
strange. It is up to the government in power to create certainty - by
waiting with the contracts until after the election.
The process is before the courts because the link did not go through a
proper planning, assessment and consultation process yet. The lack of
process created the uncertainty.
So the government can correct it by honouring process. This would make it
a decision made by a government which asked for a mandate from the
electorate.
Below my letter to Terry Mulder (terence.mulder(a)parliament.vic.gov.au).
Maybe you would like to contact him too?
Thanks
Peter
Dear Terry,
the Labor decision to dump the East West Link is a good one for us in
Melbourne.
Please cancel the project if you care for Victoria. It may save hundred of
millions or billions of dollars of claims when the project finally ends in
the bin, as it should.
The East West Link is not a properly planned project. I contacted you before
about my concerns. Some of the events and claims are truly bizarre if you
are familiar with the area as I am.
I work in Kensington. I frequently use the bike track along the Mooney Ponds
Creek you want to overshadow with another bunch of lanes. I also spend a lot
of time waiting for and in trains from and to Craigieburn and Upfield which
never go on time.
It is not a surprise that the whole case is before the courts. The rush to
lock it in resulted in a shoddy process which defies logic and did never
satisfy requirements of proper consulting with the public. Even now, the
design is still work in progress, and some of the "corrections" over time
looked as professional as me designing a model train with my son. How can
this being assessed? How can the community have a sufficient input in this
process?
How can you sign contracts with this uncertainty? It will be a liability for
any future government and all Victorians.
A tender process where you continue with one bidder only is another detail
not making sense. I never do that if I want a good deal.
You were elected with the Liberals claiming support for the Metro Rail Link.
You did not advance the project. Instead it became another train wreck of
"planning on the run".
Please bring that back into action instead of tinkering with the East West
Link if you want to do something for Victoria.
Thank you
Peter
[contact details]
Assembled cogniscenti:
I am not a huge fan of the Melbourne Herald-Sun and I believe the somewhat similar English Sun, is one of the Murdoch's
papers which seemed to have little regard for privacy. So I found the following link which a friend sent;
somewhat curious. But it did prompt the question suppose an ombudsman wanted to set up a secure
drop box for "IT-naive whistleblowers", is it feasible ? and how could the whistleblower be certain
of that anonymity ?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6429126/The-Sun-Whistleblower-Cha…
regards Rohan McLeod
Sorry this is less than 4 hours notice but I might as well still mention it since Peter Selwyo's name doesn't appear in a search of my Yahoo email,
The "Free Software Melbourne (Melbourne)" [yes, redundancy in name name] meetup is at 6pm on the third Thursday at VPAC Head Office Training Room, 110 Victoria st, Carlton South. (VERY SOUTH!)
Tonight it features Peter Serwylo, core developer of F-Droid free software app store "+ much Gnews." (I don't know if "Gnews" is a Stallman-esq pun re GNU, related to GODgle or what.)
http://www.meetup.com/Free-Software-Melbourne/events/221722267/?a=cr1_grp&r…
Dav*
BTW it's 11:20pm? on April 15th in San Francisco now, so still the 38th anniversary of the first day of the first "West Coast Computer Faire" April 15-17th 1977.
Mark Trickett wrote:
> Hello Rohan,
>
> On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:51 +1000, Rohan McLeod wrote:
>> Craig Sanders wrote:
>>> Rohan, just a request but would you mind formatting your paragraphs
>>> in a readable manner?
>>> Craig ;I will give some thought to your suggestion,
>>> but somehow I doubt things will change much.
> .............snip
>
> I see similar "issues" with your postings as does Craig. I suspect that
> the effects we see are related to the "editor" component settings. I do
> not use "Seamonkey", and do not know whether there is an internal
> editor, or whether you have set up an external editor. I suspect that
> changing the "window" width while replying may have something to do with
> what we see. There may also be a setting for where to set word wrap to
> happen,..............snip
SeaMonkey-email (the editor) is integral to the browser.
There seem to be two separate issues here
1/ the email is not appearing as I intended it to appear
2/ possibly the way I intend it to appear; is not as some might wish it.
An explanation for 2/; might go as follows:
I notice that I often have battles with my word processor;
which used to be Libre-write but now is mostly Abiword.
I suspect that my ' paragraph formatting ' style is somewhat eccentric;
and at odds with convention and what the developer had in mind.
In particular:
- it breaks sentences where I don't want them broken
- it stops me starting sentences on a new line
How can I put it ?;
unconventional layout others unhappy;
conventional layout me unhappy;
better others unhappy !
Regarding 1/ which is also happening;
I am going to try to stick to full screen editing and
will try sending it to myself first; to see what scrambling is occuring
...........................................................................
Well I have just recieved back this email;
it seems pretty much as I intended except the quoted stuff is now blue;
and the delimiter symbol has changed from | to >
regards Rohan McLeod
Craig Sanders wrote:
> Rohan, just a request but would you mind formatting your paragraphs
> in a readable manner?
I'm a pedant and an extremely evil, very annoying person who probably
twists his waxed moustache, and in general wishes to emulate Doctor Evil.
That background fact having been established, I would like to offer for
public benefit a useful English-language distinction:
Readable: Easy, interesting and enjoyable to read
Legible: Presented in a written physical format that facilitates
reading.
Text suffering from poor legibility can be fixed through better
typography, or in some cases turning on a reading lamp. Text suffering
from poor readability can be fixed by rewriting it to make the semantic
content more easy to discern.
Yr. welcome.
Hi all,
From: "Craig Sanders" <cas(a)taz.net.au>
> now, you're entitled to your opinion - everyone is entitled to be wrong
> if they please.
Recently I read an article about "Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt
Science?" in the National Geographic. I just found it online:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/science-doubters/achenbach-text
Have fun while reading
Peter
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:51:12PM +1000, Rohan McLeod wrote:
> Craig ;I will give some thought to your suggestion,
> but somehow I doubt things will change much.
fair enough. they're your words, you can write them however you
like....but you might find that more people will bother to read them
(and thus be worth the bother of writing in the first place) if you
format them for readability.
> Your email above is very clear and well formatted;
that's because i make the small effort to edit my messages and reformat
them with par until they're readable.
> but often discussions rapidly become, quite visually scrambled;
only if nobody bothers to edit their replies.
> But if there is something you particularly want to read; perhaps I
> could attach it as a pdf ?
PDF? now there's no need to be rude, just tell me to FOAD if you feel
that strongly about it :)
craig
--
craig sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au>
Whoops. In error I responded to Michael alone rather than the list..
---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Libertarianism (was Re: [luv-talk] torrent software)
From: "Lev Lafayette" <lev(a)levlafayette.com>
Date: Fri, April 10, 2015 9:56 am
To: "Michael Verrenkamp" <jabjabs(a)fastmail.com.au>
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On Thu, April 9, 2015 8:43 pm, Michael Verrenkamp wrote:
> " Not sure you can be "a bit" of a libertarian. Either you are, or you
>> aren't. If you support some regulation, then you're probably not a
>> libertarian. Essentially, what you're saying is that you only like the
>> laws that you like. "
>>
>
> Sounds like me :P I like the broad concept of libertarians but I don't
> actually think it would be a great overall system. We should limit
> governments powers but libertarians can go a little too far at times. I
> also could be talking total crap right now.
Of course one of the big political changes from the 1970s was the ability
of neoliberals to co-opt the word 'libertarian' which historically, and on
a continuing basis, was associated with anarcho-socialists.
a) The first person to identify as a libertarian in the political sense
was Joseph Dejacque, an anarcho-communist and signatory to the First
International.
b) The first periodical to identify with libertarian politics was "Le
Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement social" which was a hot-bed of anarchist,
socialist and communist thought.
c) To this day even in the United States, the first political organisation
to use the named is the Libertarian Book Club, which distributes
anarcho-syndalist and council communist texts.
d) In the UK, the avowedly socialist Common Wealth Party had the journal;
"The Libertarian"
and so it goes on. The Anarchist FAQ provides an interesting combination.
http://www.infoshop.org/AnarchistFAQ-PDF
>From the FAQ
While the Greek words anarchos and anarchia are often taken to mean
"having no government" or "being without a government," as can be seen,
the strict, original meaning of anarchism was not simply "no government."
"An-archy" means "without a ruler," or more generally, "without
authority," and it is in this sense that anarchists have continually used
the word. For example, we find Kropotkin arguing that anarchism "attacks
not only capital, but also the main sources of the power of capitalism:
law, authority, and the State." [Op. Cit., p. 150] For anarchists, anarchy
means "not necessarily absence of order, as is generally supposed, but an
absence of rule."
...
In such a [anarchist] society the whole conception of government would
change. The economic structure would come to replace the traditional
government apparatus. The need for government in the tradition sense would
disappear, to be replaced by the planning and administration of trade and
industry. The government of people would be replaced by the administration
of things. There would be no need for democracy. The administrators would
be appointed on the basis of their professional competence.
Considering definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary, we find:
LIBERTARIAN: one who believes in freedom of action and thought; one
who believes in free will.
SOCIALISM: a social system in which the producers possess both
political power and the means of producing and distributing goods.
Just taking those two first definitions and fusing them yields:
LIBERTARIAN SOCIALISM: a social system which believes in freedom of
action and thought and free will, in which the producers possess both
political power and the means of producing and distributing goods.
However, due to the creation of the Libertarian Party in the USA, many
people now consider the idea of "libertarian socialism" to be a
contradiction in terms. Indeed, many "Libertarians" think anarchists are
just attempting to associate the "anti-libertarian" ideas of "socialism"
(as Libertarians conceive it) with Libertarian ideology in order to make
those "socialist" ideas more "acceptable" -- in other words, trying to
steal the "libertarian" label from its rightful possessors.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Anarchists have been using the
term "libertarian" to describe themselves and their ideas since the
1850's. According to anarchist historian Max Nettlau, the revolutionary
anarchist Joseph Dejacque published Le Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement
Social in New York between 1858 and 1861 while the use of the term
"libertarian communism" dates from November, 1880 when a French anarchist
congress adopted it. [Max Nettlau, A Short History of Anarchism, p. 75 and
p. 145] The use of the term "Libertarian" by anarchists became more
popular from the 1890s onward after it was used in France in an attempt to
get round anti-anarchist laws and to avoid the negative associations of
the word "anarchy" in the popular mind (Sebastien Faure and Louise Michel
published the paper Le Libertaire -- The Libertarian -- in France in 1895,
for example). Since then, particularly outside America, it has always been
associated with anarchist ideas and movements. Taking a more recent
example, in the USA, anarchists organised "The Libertarian League" in July
1954, which had staunch anarcho-syndicalist principles and lasted until
1965. The US-based "Libertarian" Party, on the other hand has only existed
since the early 1970's, well over 100 years after anarchists first used
the term to describe their political ideas (and 90 years after the
expression "libertarian communism" was first adopted). It is that party,
not the anarchists, who have "stolen" the word. Later, in Section B, we
will discuss why the idea of a "libertarian" capitalism (as desired by the
Libertarian Party) is a contradiction in terms.
Hope this helps,
--
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Mngmnt) (Chifley)
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