Re: [-empyre-] pirates and clapping

2011-07-19 Thread magnus
Hi Davin, Thinking on this point of being products of the Google and their famously banal motto, Don't be evil, I wonder if some of what we are experiencing a flattening out of ethics. Don't be evil sounds like a fine corporate motto, but I think it really speaks to an absence of what it is

Re: [-empyre-] pirates and clapping

2011-07-17 Thread davin heckman
Thinking on this point of being products of the Google and their famously banal motto, Don't be evil, I wonder if some of what we are experiencing a flattening out of ethics. Don't be evil sounds like a fine corporate motto, but I think it really speaks to an absence of what it is that we should

Re: [-empyre-] pirates and clapping

2011-07-16 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear all well, it seems we have moved beyond the metaphors of (artistic) pirates, and some of the recent postings (thanks for your response, Davin) help us perhaps to think further on the question of community politics or autonomy (versus individualism and futile gestures) and the pragmatism of

Re: [-empyre-] pirates and clapping

2011-07-16 Thread magnus
At the inauguration ceremony, the Google representative said that the company is looking forward to the research outcomes, and that they are glad to anticipate the outcomes, which will help us to make better products. Yes, it's worth extending our piratic probe to institutions, newly created