Arlo Barnes wrote at 09/13/2013 08:38 PM:
Gary Schiltz wrote at 09/13/2013 05:41 PM:
Many people are quite willing to put up with a little less freedom
for a little more security. I'm not sure where I come down on the
issue of whether or not those who are so disposed deserve neither.
I think
The code for democratic capitalism was written at Bretton Woods in 1944.
It followed the initiation and rapid rise of consumer advertising and
public relations, which began in the '30s and picked up steam in the '40s.
I gave a TEDx talk in Albuquerque last weekend in which I put out a call
for a
The code for democratic capitalism was written at Bretton Woods in
1944. It followed the initiation and rapid rise of consumer
advertising and public relations, which began in the '30s and picked
up steam in the '40s. I gave a TEDx talk in Albuquerque last weekend
in which I put out a call
Marcus/Glen/et alii -
I just listened to Amy Goodman's interview with Robert Riech
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/13/inequality_for_all_robert_reich_warns
on his new film, Inequality for All. I was caught enough by the
following statement he made to look it up and consider it further
Proprietary Code (PC :-) has a place if people are willing to put up with it,
but then most people don't realize there are alternatives. That old Freedom vs.
Security thing seems apropos here. Many people are quite willing to put up with
a little less freedom for a little more security. I'm not
*Some Incomplete and Scattered Thoughts*
I missed some of the discussion and will have to catch up once I get the
number of unread emails I have at least less than the current year :P but I
don't see why true transparency wouldn't affect people becoming dominant
through a better understanding of
On 9/13/13 6:11 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Democracy itself is the act of writing code; the rules of execution of
everything from government itself (compilers, interpreters, system
libraries, OS) to economics to criminal justice (exception handling?)
Ok, criminal Justice is more like crude
Markus...
Democracy itself is the act of writing code; the rules of execution
of everything from government itself (compilers, interpreters, system
libraries, OS) to economics to criminal justice (exception handling?)
Ok, criminal Justice is more like crude block-device virus scanning
for
On 9/13/13 10:14 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
No... I still think it is like an exception detection/handling
process... enforcement is roughly detection and handling is roughly
courts and penal? Intelligence is more like virus-scanning...
Crimes are punished and criminals contained -- security
