Archive for the 'Open Quotes' Category
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Another column of thousands of people are coming to their way to reinforce the peaceful demonstrators who are in confrontation with armed military troops.
A respectful old monk is in the vanguard of the column singing national anthem and holding flags of fighting peacock.
Despite peaceful demonstrators having been beaten to break up the crowd, the demonstrators [...]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
This, in my opinion, could be grounds enough for impeachment… given how fluffy the definition of those grounds seems to be.
The plan to standardize the libraries first became public in May (…) “Otisville had a very extensive library of Jewish religious books, many of them donated,” said David Zwiebel, executive vice president for government [...]
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Much like my thesis actually, only with more editorializing, and Singularity talk, and is pleasantly shorter. Comes to me from here but was written by this gent.
To put it bluntly, software, really like all technologies, is inherently political. Even the most disruptive technologies, the innovations and ideas that can utterly transform society, carry with them [...]
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
I got the call to action below from Pandora today – a cool web radio service that’s been infuriatingly tangled up and now quite choked by copyright decisions from Washington that are graspy and short sighted and patently unfair. They’re treating the internet like it’s property they own, instead of like a public communication space, [...]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
All the cool kids are doing it..
Cuba latest to endorse open source software
Cuba’s communist government has said that they are now considering adopting open source software to remove their reliance on the software giant Microsoft.
The government said that they are trying to wean state agencies from Microsoft’s proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating system.
Expert [...]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
hmmm…
Part video game, part real online community, Second Life is also getting attention from real-world companies that are beginning to stake out their own turf in Second Life communities. One U.S. House member, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), last week even joined the Second Life community to brief a group of invitees on the top priorities [...]
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